RETELL LECTURE

SPEAKING

Direction: You will hear a lecture. After listening to the lecture, in 10 seconds, please speak into the microphone and retell what you have just heard from the lecture in your own words. You will have 40 seconds to give your response.

 

Q1.

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The moon could be a good base to launch spacecraft that would explore the solar system further. Although some of the same issues would apply as when launching a spacecraft from Earth, it would be easier from the moon because of less gravity. It would be cheaper, because less fuel would be needed, and all the materials required to build the necessary infrastructure are already on the moon naturally.

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The world’s first artist did cave paintings. They may be as long as 40,000 years ago. Instead of people they paying it animals. Animals were important, because they use them for food and clothes. They also made him prints on cave walls by painting around their hands. Research on paintings in a French cave showed that both men and women did them. People used to think the artists were usually men, but women have smaller hands than men and most handprints in that cave or smaller ones. This is important because we now have to think again about who those early orders were.

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The bystander effect is when people who witness something that they could and should prevent, end up taking no action at all. Research suggests that the higher the number of witnesses, the lower the probability that someone will try to intervene. Psychologist attribute this to diffusion of responsibility, because in such situations everyone is waiting for another person to take action. There are ways that we can reduce the influence of the bystander effect. The key principle is to encourage people to imagine that they are the only person who can take action in a situation.

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The lecture tells new students at university what they should do. The speaker says that students should go to lectures. But if they can't go to one, they can see a video of it online. It's better to go to lectures and take notes though. Because taking note, can help students remember important things from the lectures.

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Salt has always been important throughout history. There are three main ways to extract salt. Solar evaporation is a traditional method. In this method, sun and wind dry out seawater, which has been collected in pools. The salt that remains can then be collected and processed. Solution mining uses liquid to extract, and transport salt from underground rocks. Similarly, deep shaft mining collect salt from rocks, but my drilling and removing pieces of rock which can then be processed.

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Students who wish to continue their education after finishing school, have two main options. Namely higher or further education. Higher education involves studying for an academic degree. Students develop various skills that can be applied to many different professional context. So degrees are valued by employers. However, they are time-consuming and expensive. By contrast, further education train students for a specific vocation. Students get practical work experience and learn the skills they need for a specific job. Although they might not be able to transfer these skills into other professions later.

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Paper marbling is a form of art which is thought to have originated in China and Japan. It later spread to Turkey where unique Turkish dance of paper marbling became popular. Turkish marbling designs became very popular across Europe in the 17th century, and especially in England where they were used extensively in the publishing industry. Marbled paper was used in books to cover up any slight damage to a book. Nowadays this traditional art is for less common but there are attempts to revive it by encouraging people to take special classes and by promoting it via social media.

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Typography is about how you organize letters and text on a page, and the aim is to do this so that it's easy to read and looks nice. Typography is important because we're very good at looking at the style and appearance of a document, and making judgements about it's purpose. A research has provided proof of this. People were given pages written using invented words. Although they couldn't understand the content, they were still able to make judgements about the quality of the information, from how it was presented in the document.

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Canned laughter is a sound recording of people's laughter which is added to make it appear as if a live audience is responding directly to the scene. As studio audiences can behave in unexpected ways, canned laughter is a way of getting Laughter in the right places, and is also used when a scene this shot away from a studio. Research has shown that canned laughter can also make a program seem funnier to viewers. People are more likely to laugh when they hear canned laughter during a program. Use of canned laughter is becoming less common, but it's still an important element of TV comedy in many countries.

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The lecture is about babies, and how they learn. When a baby is born, its brain is already relatively large, and the baby immediately starts learning. It has to learn many skills, such as talking, walking and playing. It can't do these things until it has watched and listen to someone doing the many times. There are important moments for parents of young babies like the first smile, at about 6 weeks, and starting to walk, after about 9 months.

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