Listening Skills

• English
• Secondary Education

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How are you feeling today?

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Expected Learning Outcomes

Learners will be able to:

•  Identify the main idea of the passage 
• skim and scan for the details .
• make use of contextual clues to infer meanings of unfamiliar words from context
• listen to an audio by British Council and answer the questions based on the same.
  
• take short notes while audio is being played 

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                              India's Polluted River

"The Ganga is India's holiest river and considered as a source of spiritual purification."
Which option is closest in meaning to"purification"

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1. enter a region so as to occupy it
2. denoting a miniature version of something.
3. the removal of contaminants from something
4. of little value or importance

Find the word in the passage which means "striving to achieve or attain something in the face of difficulty "(Para 1)

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1. shallow
2. struggling
3. underneath
4. polyps

"This is our traditional place to wash clothes ,and there is nowhere else to go"
In the above sentence "this"refers to___

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1. coastlines
2. Godavari
3. coral
4. Ganga

Every year millions of Hindu Pilgrims come to Varanasi.
In the above sentence "Hindu" is used as a______

1. Noun
2. Pronoun
3. Adjective
4. Adverb

"It is extremely difficult as people also consider it as a scared space."
Choose the synonym of 'extremely' .

1. exceedingly
2. tremendously
3. immensely
4. All of the above

Hindus believe that if you die or are cremated in Varanasi you get__________________.
Fill in the blanks with correct/words or phrases

"Vijay Kumar and his family have been working on the river bank and washing clothes for generations."
Identify the tense for the above sentence.

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List a few measures that can be adopted to keep the Ganga clean.

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Instructions:

• Audio will be played twice.
• Make short notes as you        listen to the audio.
• Don't be in a hurry to submit your response .

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What are different activities you plan to do in your free time?

Success Criteria: I CAN

Identify the main idea of the passage .
make use of contextual clues to infer meanings of unfamiliar words from context.
listen to an audio by British Council and answer the questions based on the same.

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1. Strongly Agree
2. Agree
3. Not sure
4. Need help