Listening Unit 8

HOMEWORK: UNIT 8: HUMAN RESOURCES
Member’s name:
1. Nguyễn Mai Hải Châu
2. Kiều Nữ Ha Bi
3. Nguyễn Ngọc Phương Thảo
4. Thạch Thị Hồng Diệu
CD2.6
1d, 2f, 3b, 4a, 5c, 6e
CD2.7
1. recommend
2. interview
3. advisement
4. appear
5. employ
6. clip
7. proof
8. demonstrate
CD2.8
C/ 1e, 2f, 3g, 4b, 5d, 6a, 7c
D/
totally - absolutely
at the same time - equally
in general - generally
all over the world - globally
it's likely that - probably
in the last few years - recently
really - truly
57. A TELEPHONING
1. afternoon
2. like M
3. leave M
4. calling M
5. moment R
6. on R
7. ask M
8. meeting R
9. wondering M
10. help R
58. DICTATING
/ei/ /i/ /e/ /ai/ /au/ /u/ /a:/

J P L s I O Q r
K T M x Y U
V N z w
59. SPELLING
1.ASCENTIS
2.SARAIVA
3.ZELENY PRUH
4. SEIYA
5. BARROQUINHA
6.ROPPONGI
7.RUIZ
8.URQUHART
E.USING STRESS TO CORRECT
1. Wellington ‘Road
2. twenty ‘third
3. B-U-‘B-N-O-V
4.’five years ago
60
A: So your office is at 36, Wellington Street.
B: No. It's Wellington Road, in fact.
A: The interview is on the twenty-first, is that right?
B: Sorry, no. It's on the twenty-third.
A: ... and your agent in St Petersburg is Konstantin Bupnov. B-U-P-N- ...
B: Sorry, that's spelt B-U-$.-N-0-V.
A: And you graduated from the University of Almeria four years ago.
B: Well, that was five years ago, actually.
HOW IT’S MADE: HONEY( KIỀU NỮ HA BI)
Honey is not only delicious on toast, it has a deep cultural and

religious meaning and for thousands of years was believed to have
magical and medicinal properties.
The ancient Egyptians were the first to document their honey-producing

endeavours around 2,400 BC. It was used as a sweetener in cakes, drinks
and offered as gifts to their deities. Indeed most major religions attach a
significance to honey and it was – and is still – used the world over as an
elixir of health.
So how is honey made step-by-step? Well, it all starts with the humble
honey bee.
If you’ve ever asked ‘how is honey made by bees’ you’ll know that the
answer is more complex than you might originally have thought.
The bee hierarchy is incredibly complex and sophisticated, and there are
different jobs for different ranks. However, it’s the worker bees that do
much of the heavy lifting. They suck nectar from flower blossoms, and
when their honey stomachs are full (after around 100 flowers which
results in a teaspoon of nectar), they go back to the hive.
On their return, the house bees extract the nectar from the workers,
chewing it to break down the complex sugars into simple sugars called
glucose and fructose. These sugars are then deposited into hexagonal
cavities in the wax honeycombs. Next, to evaporate the water content, the
bees will fan the cavity with their wings to dry it out, reducing it from
70% to between 15 and 20%. The honey-filled cell is then capped off
with beeswax.
This answers the question ‘how is honey made by bees’ but how does it
end up in jars on the world’s kitchen tables?
From Hive to Honey Pot
Once the bees have played their part, the beekeeper now removes the
wooden frames that hold the honeycomb from each hive.
Yet they can’t just open a hive straight away and take them out. If bees
get startled they will sting, so the beekeeper sprays the hive with smoke
from burnt pine needles to calm the thousands of bees inside. They can
then brush off the bees without agitating or stressing them too much.
Next, the frames can be removed and taken to the processing plant. This
is where we can answer the question ‘how is honey made in factories’?
The frames are inserted into what’s known as an uncapping machine,

which literally uncaps the individual cells by shaving the beeswax off.
Incidentally, the wax itself isn’t discarded, it’s used to make candles and
is a component part of products such as furniture polish and lipstick.
Once the individual frames are clean of wax, they are set into a machine
called an extractor. The honey-filled frames are laid next to each other in
the extractor and are spun. This starts slowly at first and gets faster. Using
centrifugal force, the honey is drawn out of the honeycomb and drips out
of the bottom of the extractor through two sieves. One sieve is coarse and
the other is fine. Their job is to filter out any remaining wax particles and
impurities.
Once the honey has been through the sieves, we are approaching the end
of the answer to the question ‘how is honey made step-by-step’, though
there are still a few more elements within the honey manufacturing
process.
From Bee to Bottle
After the sieving, one of two things happens. Either the honey is pumped
straight into bottles or jars, or – for the finest honey that money can buy –
it goes through a further process.
For this premium product, the honey is heated in large tanks to around
50°C and as it gets hot, any crystallised honey melts and impurities such
as pollen rise to the surface and are extracted. When it’s cool enough, it is
bottled, packed up and shipped out.
Around a quarter of the world’s honey comes from China, with the other
major producers including Ukraine, Argentina, Turkey and Iran.
Globally, annual honey production is usually somewhere between 1.5 and
2 million metric tons.
So this answers the question ‘how is honey made’. It’s amazing to think it
all starts with the simple honey bee, and that these tiny creatures have
been doing the same job for millions of years!

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HOMEWORK: UNIT 8: HUMAN RESOURCES

1d, 2f, 3b, 4a, 5c, 6e

C/ 1e, 2f, 3g, 4b, 5d, 6a, 7c

at the same time - equally

it's likely that - probably

in the last few years - recently

/ei/ /i/ /e/ /ai/ /au/ /u/ /a:/

4.’five years ago

A: So your office is at 36, Wellington Street.

B: No. It's Wellington Road, in fact.

A: The interview is on the twenty-first, is that right?

B: Sorry, no. It's on the twenty-third.

A: ... and your agent in St Petersburg is Konstantin Bupnov. B-U-P-N- ...

B: Sorry, that's spelt B-U-$.-N-0-V.

B: Well, that was five years ago, actually.

HOW IT’S MADE: HONEY( KIỀU NỮ HA BI)

Honey is not only delicious on toast, it has a deep cultural and

The ancient Egyptians were the first to document their honey-producing

The frames are inserted into what’s known as an uncapping machine,

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