Session 10

30/3/2016

Listening: IELTS
Test 4

Practice listening 1: UK
Too many graduates, not enough jobs: In many
countries around the world, more and more young
people are graduating from universities and then
discovering that it isnt easy to find a job.
This News Report discusses the problem of graduate
unemployment in India and China, and its social effects.
This News Report includes some examples of the
comparative and superlative forms of adjectives.
http
://linkengpark.com/bbc-news-report-jan-2015-transcriptvideo
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Transcript
Among new university graduates in India and China, unemployment and underemployment
are rising fast. Some fear that large numbers of educated, underemployed young people could
cause social problems in these countries.
In India, five million students graduate from university each year. However, one in three
graduates up to the age of 29 is unemployed.
In China more than 7 million students will graduate from the countrys universities in 2014, and
the number is steadily increasing. Unemployment among new graduates is somewhere between
15% and 30%.
Chinese workers without degrees are more willing to take factory jobs. However, the payment for
factory jobs today is often higher than the payment for low-level office jobs.
Joseph Cheng, a professor at City University of Hong Kong, says that Chinas leadership is
extremely worried about graduate unemployment.
Craig Jeffrey, a professor at Oxford University, is an expert on Indias unemployed youth. He
describes a similar situation in India. Government reports, he says, often describe underemployed
graduates as hostile to the state.
There are more than 160,000 underemployed graduates in Beijing alone. Around one third of them
graduated from Chinas most prestigious universities.
But, surprisingly, researchers have found that these underemployed graduates in China and India
are generally not angry they are often calm and quite optimistic, because they still believe that

 graduate (noun)
a person who has a degree from a
university
unemployment
the situation of not having a job
underemployment
the situation of not having enough
work, or not having work which uses
your skills
social
related to society
graduate (verb)
to finish a university degree course
successfully
steadily
at a continuous rate, without stopping
willing
ready and enthusiastic to do
something

leadership
(here) the group of people who are
the leaders of an organisation
expert
a person with special knowledge on a
particular subject
hostile
unfriendly, and ready to fight
state
a country, and especially the
government
prestigious
admired and respected
calm
peaceful; not worried or excited
optimistic
believing that good things will happen
in the future

Practice listening 2: Australian

Children silent and forgotten victims of domestic
violence
http://
www.abc.net.au/news/2015-12-07/children-silent-and-fo
rgotten-victims-of-domestic/7005840

Transcript
MICHAEL BRISSENDEN: The national children's commissioner says too many children are being
traumatised by domestic violence.
In her latest report being released today Megan Mitchell has found that four to five children in every
classroom have experienced or witnessed violence.
Lindy Kerin reports.
LINDY KERIN: The national children's commissioner Megan Mitchell says this report is an important one.
MEGAN MITCHELL: People would be shocked at the statistics about how many victims of physical and
sexual violence there are of children.
LINDY KERIN: And these are some of the figures: One in every 12 people has been physically abused by a
family member as a child; one in every 28 people has also experienced sexual abuse as a child; and a
further 23 per cent of children have witnessed violence against their mother.
MEGAN MITCHELL: You can think about an average class of teenagers, you know, that's at least four or
five kids in every class that have either witnessed or experienced violence as direct victims.
LINDY KERIN: Megan Mitchell says family violence can have a devastating and long lasting impact.
MEGAN MITCHELL: We know that early exposure to family violence can have lifelong implications in terms
of physical and mental health, substance abuse, employment, capacity to form healthy relationships.

 But we also know that family violence can manifest itself negatively in child development, and has been directly
linked to a range of mood and personality disorders, impaired cognitive functioning and learning, anti-social and
aggressive behaviour.
These are not the conditions for children to thrive.
At the end of the day as adults I think we have to take accountability for our behaviour and its impact on children.
This, for me, must be a national priority.
LINDY KERIN: Among the recommendations is a call for pregnant women to be routinely asked by health
professionals whether they're experiencing domestic violence.
MEGAN MITCHELL: We know pregnancy is a time of heightened risk for violence and we really need to be
increasing the surveillance and support during that time.
LINDY KERIN: Commissioner Mitchell says family violence against young people is an issue that's not fully
understood or properly documented.
She says children are often neglected by the system.
MEGAN MITCHELL: Children kind of fall through the gaps and they're a bit lost. They're not the focus of the
domestic violence system primarily.
They tend to get lost in family court proceedings, or they might have a response from the child protection system
that, perversely, could remove them from the protecting parent.
And all of these systems struggle to talk to each other and intersect with each other in ways that are helpful for
the safety and wellbeing of the child.
So we really need a national focus on the needs of children, a national systemic focus on the needs of children
affected by family violence.
MICHAEL BRISSENDEN: The national children's commissioner Megan Mitchell ending that report from Lindy Kerin.

Speaking: How to talk like a

newscaster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mIEwXWUQs4
We communicate in three main ways (Kennedy vs. Nixon study,
1960s) but it depends on the purpose of speaking:
55% visually: body language
38% vocally: sound and tone of voice
(only) 7%: word use

For public speaking or news reporting, non-verbal language is

important!
For intimate or persuasive speaking, word choice is critical.

Speaking: How to talk like a

newscaster
Avoid monotone: alter your pitch
Use pauses for impact: BondJames Bond
Avoid using intensifiers: the event is really shocking and the survivors are
really in their darkest moment.
Public speaking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRgB8nkljo8
Pay attention to how Mrs. Clinton speak, her body language, her tone of
voice and stress of words.
News reporter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tW72tApmjw
Pay attention to their pitch, eye contact, stress of words and speed of
speaking.

Exercise: group presentation

Work in group of 4
Choose a newspaper or a news channel (English)
Introduce your newspaper, the columns included in the
paper, its values and orientation, its signature design
and the meaning of it, etc.