WEEKLY ASSIGNMENT OF EXTENSIVE LISTENING

(Independent Listening)

1. Please fill in the information below:

Name : Rizki Aditya Parningotan Raga
NIM : 210511100088
Class :C
Listening Activity : Movies
Listening Topic/ Material : Jack Reacher
2. Regarding the independent listening activity that you’ve done (per week), report the
following things:
a. What do you thing the challenge in the current listening?
 The speaker's rapid speech, background noise, the absence of visual cues, and
difficulty to discern individual sounds are all contributing factors.
b. What can you learn from the listening activity?
 I learn many new things such as new vocabulary and some slang words in English.
c. What vocabulary do you think new for you? Mention them and find out the meaning!
 Cultivation: The act or process of preparing the soil for the raising of crops.
 Inherent: Existing in something as a permanent, essential, or characteristic
attribute.
 Constraints: A limitation or restriction.
d. Tell how the current listening improves your pronunciation!
 It improves my own pronunciation when we hear how words are delivered by
native speakers.
e. Tell briefly what the listening topic tells us about!
 Jack Reacher is the protagonist of a series of crime thriller novels by British author
Lee Child. In the stories, Jack Reacher was a major in the US Army's military
police. Having left the Army at age 36, Reacher roams the United States, taking
odd jobs and investigating suspicious and frequently dangerous situations.