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Listening Task
This listening task has been created to help you or your students with
improving listening skills. To practice these skills, try downloading our pre-
listening, while listening and post-listening worksheets.

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This Listening Task has been created to help you improve your listening skills by
first linking you to a free listening text and then providing related activities to check
your skills progress. One of the best ways of improving any skill - particularly
academic listening skills - is through lots of authentic practice such as this.

To access this particular listening text (which is owned and licensed by TED
Talks and not Academic Marker) click on either the image or title above and you’ll
be redirected to the right webpage. However, before listening to this text, we
recommend that you first read and follow our listening-practice steps and advice:

• First unlock our Pre-Listening, While Listening and Post-Listening

Worksheets for this Listening Task for only a few Academic Marks.
• Before listening to the video, complete our Pre-Listening Worksheet.
• At the same time as listening, complete our While Listening Worksheet.
• Finally, after listening as many times as is necessary to complete the first two
worksheets, complete our Post-Listening Worksheet.

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