Listening and Speaking 5 Q: Skills for Success

Unit 1 Student Book Answer Key Second Edition

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Activity A., p. 2 Key Phrases Notes
Answers will vary. Possible answers: 1. Memories and a losing consciousness
1. An English speaker would have a hard time sense of identity of the language center
finding someone who understood English. = losing all the data
connected to self,
2. I think that people have different thoughts
losing memories and
because the way you construct thoughts in self-identity
different languages is different and may make 2. Stroke victims and can’t rely on language;
the actual thoughts different. English speakers in a dependent on having
3. The people are using hand gestures to foreign country a heightening of other
communicate. experiences; living in
Activity B., p. 2 the present moment
Activity B., p. 7
Answers will vary. Possible answers:
Answers will vary.
1. The language we use shows people who we
Activity C., p. 7
are. Language allows us to express our
1. Harvard
personalities. We use language to identify with
2. peace and tranquility
certain groups. The languages we speak
3. overall perception
influence how we interpret the world.
4. have to
2. For example, we may not use slangs such as
5. left
“cool” or “hot,” and we may use complete
6. lost consciousness
sentences instead of just phrases.
7. past and future
8. still saw herself
LISTENING 1
Activity D., p. 8
WORK WITH THE LISTENING
1. c
Activity A., p. 6
2. d
Answers will vary. Possible answers:
3. b
Introduction
Activity E., p. 8
Key Phrases Notes
1. left hemisphere – it has to do with language
1. The right softens the
hemisphere and the boundaries between and memories
big picture things so that you take 2. right hemisphere – it sees the big picture
in the bigger picture; with no details
gives you the overall 3. left hemisphere – memories relate to the
perception past
2. The left hemisphere starts picking out the
4. left hemisphere – understands memories and
and language details; works into
details
language to
communicate details; 5. right hemisphere – sees the big picture and
compares things to overall feelings
things we’ve learned Activity F., p. 9
in the past, and 1. fascinating
projects images into 2. insight
the future

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Unit 1 Student Book Answer Key Second Edition

3. structure - struggled to communicate

4. perception March 3rd, 1887:
5. function - guessed something would happen by
6. consciousness signs
7. external - touched objects
8. boundary - felt lost and angry
9. tranquil The morning after her teacher came:
10. recovery - was taught the word doll
11. regain - tried to imitate finger movement
12. overall - couldn’t understand meaning
- broke the doll
LISTENING SKILL The summer of 1887:
Activity A., p. 11 - learned finger movements
1. b - learned finger movements had meaning
2. a - learned many words and explored the
3. a world
4. b Activity B., p. 14
Chronological order of events
NOTE-TAKING SKILL 5, 1, 4, 6, 2, 3, 7
Activity A., p. 12 Activity C., p. 15
check box: 0–12 months, 18 months, 24, 1. b
months, 30 months 2. f
Activity B., p. 12 3. h
Answers will vary. Possible answers: 4. c
0–12 months: children learn words from 5. d
parents 6. a
18 months: a great deal of language learning 7. e
goes on; children know about 50 words 8. g
24 months: a great deal of language learning Activity D., pp. 15–16
goes on; children can use about 250–350 words 1. a
30 months: the number of words doubles; 2. b
children can use 500–600 words 3. b
Activity E., p. 16
LISTENING 2 1. F; She communicated with her family through
WORK WITH THE LISTENING crude signs and other observations.
Activity A., p. 14 2. T
Answers will vary. Possible answers: 3. T
Early childhood before her teacher came: 4. F; She still became frustrated sometimes
- realized people could talk after meeting Sullivan, but less frequently.
- touched their lips 5. T
- gesticulated frantically

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Activity F., pp. 16–17

1. a PRONUNCIATION
2. a Activity A., pp. 23-24
3. b Then I would have this wave of clarity that
4. a would bring me and reattach me back to
5. a normal reality, and I could pursue my plan, and
6. b my—the only plan that I had in my head was to
7. a call work and that somebody at work would get
8. b
me help. Um, but it—it took, uh, over 45
9. a
minutes for me to figure out what number to
10. b
dial and how to dial and by the time, um, I got
11. a
the information I could not see uh the, the
12. b
phone number on my business card. I couldn’t
SAY WHAT YOU THINK pick the numbers out from the background
VOCABULARY SKILL pixels, cause all I could see were pixels. Uh, and
Activity A., pp. 19–20 it’s a you know, it’s a, big drama. By the time
1. dis- my colleague, I’m very fortunate he was at his
2. un- desk. I spoke. I said “Woo Woo Woo Woo Er” I
3. ir- had no, no language and when he spoke to me
4. un- he sounded “Woo Woo Wer.” He sounded like
5. in- a golden retriever. So, uh, but he did recognize
6. im- that it was I and that I needed help and then
eventually he did get me help.
GRAMMAR
Activity A., p. 22 SPEAKING SKILL
1. P Activity A., p. 25
2. A 1. c
3. P 2. h
4. A 3. a
5. A 4. b
6. P 5. e
7. P 6. f
8. A 7. g
Activity B., p. 22 8. d
1. a; Active is more natural. Activity C., p. 26
2. b; Passive is more natural. Answers will vary. Sample answers:
3. Both a and b are natural, but the emphasis is 1. Metaphorical meaning: did not have any
different. memory; Literal meaning: not getting Internet
4. b; Passive is more natural. service
5. a; Active is more natural.

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2. Metaphorical meaning: the center; Literal

meaning: a vital organ of the body
3. Metaphorical meaning: expressing life; Literal
meaning: having life
4. Metaphorical meaning: removed; Literal
meaning: clean with a broom
5. Metaphorical meaning: show all its beauty;
Literal meaning: produce flowers

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