+3.1: Listening This unit is all about analyzing speeches, so we're going to begin with
leaming how to really listen. Before we do, here's a quick exercise to give
you an idea of how attentive a listener you are at the moment. Look up
"Gordon Brown Speeches online (or something similar). Your task is to
listen to just ten minutes of a speech by the previous UK prime minister
and try to note where your attention first wanders. Then answer the
following questions:
1. What is the Internet address of the speech you listed to?
2. At what point did you notice yourself first thinking of something
else or "zoning out"?
3. What is Gordon Brown saying in the first ten minutes of his speech
and how much of it do you remember?
4. Why do you think your attention wandered?

It's to know your purpose before you read something because a purpose can:

Which of the following characters from a midsummer night's dream is used as an allusion to earlier english poetry

Select the correct answer. read this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich: her attitude towards him and his diseases is still the same. just as the doctor had adopted a certain relation to his patient which he could not abandon, so had she formed one towards him—that he was not doing something he ought to do and was himself to blame, and that she reproached him lovingly for this—and she could not now change that attitude. "you see he doesn't listen to me and doesn't take his medicine at the proper time. and above all he lies in a position that is no doubt bad for him—with his legs up." she described how he made gerasim hold his legs up. the doctor smiled with a contemptuous affability that said: "what's to be done? these sick people do have foolish fancies of that kind, but we must forgive them. . " they all rose, said good-night, and went away. when they had gone it seemed to ivan ilyich that he felt better; the falsity had gone with them. but the pain remained—that same pain and that same fear that made everything monotonously alike, nothing harder and nothing easier. everything was worse. again minute followed minute and hour followed hour. everything remained the same and there was no cessation. and the inevitable end of it all became more and more terrible. based on the excerpt, how is praskovya fedorovna a character foil to ivan ilyich? a. she is kind and takes care of ivan, which is why he feels guilty about how he treated her for most of their married life. b. she is vindictive toward ivan while pretending to be worried about him, thus reminding him of how his family has never forgiven him. c. she plays the part of the worried wife without any real feeling, symbolizing the false propriety ivan upheld but now hates. d. she is young, healthy, and beautiful—everything ivan can never be again and wishes he could return to. reset next