1-03 Hotel Catatonia

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: Hotel catatonia.

[phone rings]

[00:00:04] Speaker 2: Hotel catatonia. Yes. No, I’m-I’m afraid no, no, he is, yeah, he’s-he’s strapped at the moment. Okay, well, okay thank you. Bye bye.

[phone rings]

[00:00:19] Speaker 2: Hotel catatonia. Yes, just a moment, I’ll put you right through.

[00:00:26] Speaker 3: Honey.

[00:00:27] Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.

[00:00:28] Speaker 3: Do they still have you in restraints?

[00:00:30] Speaker 4: Mm-mm.

[00:00:32] Speaker 3: Why not? Oh, you had another catatonic fit.

[00:00:37] Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.

[00:00:38] Speaker 3: Well, that’s nice. At least without your restraints, you’re free to move about, get it [laughs].

[00:00:46] Speaker 2: How can you hold a cell phone? Do they tape it to the side of your head? [laughs]. Oh, listen, I have good news and more good news. The good news is I found someone else. Ready four the next good news.

[00:01:01] Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.

[00:01:03] Speaker 2: I’m leaving you there.

[00:01:05] Speaker 4: Oh.

[00:01:06] Speaker 2: Oh, come on, Hotel catatonia is a wonderful Sanitarium four the incurably insane. They’ll take care of you in ways that I’d never bother to. Oh, you know, that’s what they’re paid to do and it is your money. Mm yeah. Listen, hun, I gotta run.

[00:01:27] Speaker 3: Thanks, have a nice day too. Okay? Ciao.

[phone rings]

[00:01:39] Speaker 2: Hotel catatonia.

[00:01:41] Speaker 3: Where they cheque you in, but you’ll never cheque out, not until you cheque out [laughs].

[00:01:55] [END OF AUDIO]

December 28, 2019

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