Topic 2

The transcript of the lecture given by Ms.Katz



Taken from:

Espeseth,Miriam. Academic Encounters Listening, Note Taking and Discussion. Cambridge:CUP, 1999








Answer key to exercises


Part 1/Text 1

Matching words and meanings

1d; 2f; 3b; 4h; 5c; 6j; 7i; 8a; 9g; 10e

True/false/doesn’t say

1T; 2T; 3T; 4F; 5F; 6DS; 7DS

Scan … and answer the questions

1 A restricted environment can delay the motor development of the child.

2 In terms of anticipated rewards and punishment.

3 In terms of one’s ethical principles.

4 It is the tendency to view certain activities as appropriate for one sex.

5 With adults who are warm, nurturing, and powerful, and whom they view as similar to themselves in
some way.

Stages

A baby; a toddler; a child; a teenager; an adult; in your twenties ( 24 – 26 = mid twenties); in
your thirties 38 = late thirties); middle – aged, in middle age; retirement (people stop work, they
are retired); old age (elderly)


Part 2

A Fill each gap …..

dramatic, observe, important, challenging, opinions, own, to, they, still, of

B Jumbled paragraphs

The correct order of paragraphs: C, A, D, B

The best single-sentence summary: 1.

Paragraph organization

1a Sentences one and two

1b sentences three and four

1c Sentences five, six, and seven

2a Or

2b Additionally

3a When adolescence is viewed in biological terms

3b When adolescence is viewed from a psychological perspective

3c Looking at adolescence as a social stage


Part 3

A Match the terms …

1g; 2m; 3f; 4e; 5a; 6j; 7b; 8n; 9c; 10k; 11d; 12l; 13i; 14h

B Answer the questions

1 alcohol and drug abuse b) poor school performance

2 Most teenagers with severe alcohol and drug addictions are children who have either been
physically or sexually abused, or both.

C Complete the notes

Drug, alcohol, out, academic, truancy, addictions, abused, themselves, escape, necessary, coping,
feelings, permission, socially, unsure, consists


Vocabulary Practice – Key


Ages and Stages

1  1 born; 2 grew/was brought; 3 met/saw; 4 went out; 5 split up/broke up; 6 went; 7 met; 8 fell; 9
got;

    10 had; 11 born; 12 expecting

2  1 toddler; 2 child; 3 a teenager/an adolescent; 4 adult; 5 early twenties; 6 mid thirties; 7
late forties

3  1 childhood; 2 adolescence/your teens; 3 rows; 4 middle age; 5 retirement; 6 old age; 7
marriage; 8 pregnant


Stages of Life

1  1 birth; 2 childhood; 3 puberty; 4 adolescence; 5 marriage; 6 middle age; 7 retirement; 8 old
age

2  a teens, childhood, twenties; b child; teenager, student, kid; c growing up, at university,
young,

    single, at school

    1 spent; 2 brought up; 3 grew up; 4 had



3  1c; 2d; 3b; 4e; 5a

4  1e; 2d; 3b; 4c; 5f; 6a

    7 leave school; 8 get divorced; 9 change school; 10 losing his wife; 11 leave home; 12
moving

     house