A. You will hear a short lecture. Write a summary for a fellow student who was not present at the lecture. You should write 50 – 70 words.
You will have 10 minutes to finish this task. Your response will be judged on the quality of your writing and on how well your response presents the key points presented in the lecture.
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Solution
Model Answer
In the interview, a professor talks about psycho-geography, saying it is not an academic discipline. It is basica lly the study of the psychological effects of the environmenr on us, especially me urban environment, and its aim is to get us to be more attentive to and critical of our surroundings and the atmosphere and emotions they evoke.
B. You will hear a short lecture. Write a summary for a fellow student who was not present at the lecture. You should write 50 – 70 words.
You will have 10 minutes to finish this task. Your response will be judged on the quality of your writing and on how well your response presents the key points presented in the lecture.
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Solution
Model Answer
The speaker tells us how difficult it is to talk of the history of the novel if we don't have a definition of what the novel is and does. This is complicated by the various types of novels and their subject matter. He does say, though, that the English novel, as we understand novels today, began in the la te 17th century.
C. You will hear a short lecture. Write a summary for a fellow student who was not present at the lecture. You should write 50 – 70 words.
You will have 10 minutes to finish this task. Your response will be judged on the quality of your writing and on how well your response presents the key points presented in the lecture.
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Solution
Model Answer
This is about the problem of consciousness and the possibility - or impossibility -of knowing for certain how another person thinks or feels. We may, through our own experience and observing others, make rational and sometimes
accurate guesses, but we can never really know for sure.