05 _5. The Secret Room

This is an audio for the Active Listening tasks (as directed by Sam).

There are a few things to remember about these audios: 

  1. Don’t do more than 30 seconds at a time
  2. Only listen to it once. In the parts you have trouble understanding, listen to them again and:
    1. Count the words in the sentencees
    2. Write down the words you hear and use your grammatical and lexical knowledge to guess the words that are missing 
    3. Make note of any words that have features of connected speech and identify what happened and why you didn’t understand
    4. Say those words out loud to yourself in the same way the audio said them: get used to hearing them 
  3. Make note of the parts you missed and bring them to class; try to figure out why you missed them or didn’t hear them correctly

First transcribe the audio as usual then use the transcript to check your work … or as Sam tells you. Good luck!

Transcript

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: I-I had a dream where I found a secret room in our house that I’d never seen before. Uh, it seemed like it was underground. It had a shiny floor that looked like it was made of Black Onyx. There were beautiful rugs on it. I think even the walls were like rock the-the, like it was a cave. There was a waterfall. There were plants coming in.

[00:00:26] Speaker 2: Growing up in the water?

[00:00:27] Speaker 1: Yeah, growing where the water came in.

[00:00:30] Speaker 2: Do you mean like bubbling up like a fountain?

[00:00:32] Speaker 1: No, no, um, a real waterfall. It had everything. There was a shaft of light where the water came in and beautiful art. There were beautiful paintings. I-I-I think Renaissance. So it was a combination of nature and very elegant.

[00:00:52] Speaker 2: Interesting.

[00:00:53] Speaker 1: And your desk was in a corner that was darker. Uh, a beautiful desk like a French probably 17th century or 18th century. Um, there was a- not much on it. Very waxy and shiny. And just a little notepad or a plain pad of paper and-and that’s where you wrote. And I asked you why you never showed me the room before. [laughs] And-and you got that mischievous look in your eyes like you do.

[00:01:26] Speaker 2: I didn’t say anything?

[00:01:27] Speaker 1: No, just a smirk like you don’t know everything about me.

[00:01:35] [END OF AUDIO]

December 28, 2019

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