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Extensive Listening Worksheet

Listen to an English language news report, TED talk, or podcast on the web and after listening to it
please complete the following worksheet with the required information.

A. About the video

1. Please complete the following general information.

Title: Length:

URL:

2. Category (circle one or use the other space if necessary).

Sports
Breaking news
Science and tech
World news
Entertainment
Other: ________________________________________________

3. Which rhetoric function do you think is dominant? (circle one or use the other space if
necessary).

Description/definition
Comparison and contrast
Process
Chronological order
Argument
Other: ________________________________________________

B. Listening for specific information

4. Complete the following with details from what you have listened to. If one of the questions is not
answered in the video write N/A.

Where?

When?

Who?

What?

Why?
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5. Write two or three additional details or pieces of information from this recording.

6. Write your opinion/reaction to this recording. Also, think of two discussion questions.

C. Your experience

7. Now rate your experience working with the video. In my opinion, this video was:

Extremely difficult to understand Extremely easy to understand

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8. To complete this worksheet, I had to watch the video...

Once Twice Three times Four times Five or more times

9. I think my comprehension of the video was:

Poor Excellent

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10. Would you recommend that your classmates watch this video?

I would not recommend it I would strongly recommend it

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