1-02 The Okie Dokie Swamp Thingie

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!

[00:00:00] Voiceover: The Okie Dokie Swamp Thingie.

[00:00:03] Female Speaker: Where are you?

[00:00:04] Male Speaker: I’m in a swamp.

[00:00:05] Female Speaker: What swamp?

[00:00:07] Male Speaker: The Okie Dokie. I ran out of gas.

[00:00:09] Female Speaker: Oh, what are you doing?

[00:00:11] Male Speaker: I’m rowing.

[00:00:12] Female Speaker: What?

[00:00:13] Male Speaker: I found a rowboat. I’m taking a shortcut.

[00:00:15] Female Speaker: But what about the- the Swamp Thingie?

[mysterious background music]

[00:00:19] Male Speaker: What’s that?

[00:00:20] Female Speaker: You know, that thing made out of smelly swamp stuff.

[00:00:23] Male Speaker: Never heard of it.

[00:00:24] Female Speaker: You’ve never heard the story?

[00:00:26] Male Speaker: Nah, I’m not from around here.

[00:00:28] Female Speaker: Well, there was this homely teenager who was invited to a party given by a bunch of frat boys but it was really a pig party, and all the homeliest girls in town were invited and she won.

[00:00:41] Male Speaker: [chuckles] That’s pretty funny.

[00:00:42] Female Speaker: [laughs] Then her date dumped her. I mean literally dumped her right out of the car and, plop, she fell into the swamp.

[00:00:49] Male Speaker: [laughs] Yeah? What-

[00:00:50] Female Speaker: [scoffs]

[00:00:50] Male Speaker: -happened to her?

[00:00:51] Female Speaker: No one knows, they think she sank.

[frogs croaking]

[00:00:54] Male Speaker: What’s that got to do with the Okie Dokie Swamp Thingie?

[00:00:56] Female Speaker: Well, they say that mold and fungi and decaying vegetation and other foul smelly things attached themselves to her body and she became alive.

[00:01:06] Male Speaker: Phew. I can believe it, this swamp is stinky.

[00:01:08] Female Speaker: Mm-hmm. They say her fingers are made of Spanish moss.

[00:01:11] Male Speaker: Oh yeah?

[00:01:12] Female Speaker: [chuckles] Yeah. And they say she reaches out of the dark and tickles her victims.

[00:01:16] Male Speaker: Yeah [chuckles], there’s things that do tickle here.

[laughter]

[00:01:20] Female Speaker: They say she uses vines to lasso her victims.

[ominous background sound]

[00:01:23] Male Speaker: [chokes]

[00:01:24] Female Speaker: Mm-hmm. Some say she’s looking for revenge-

[00:01:26] Male Speaker: [gags]

[00:01:27] Female Speaker: -others say she’s looking for a mate.

[00:01:30] Male Speaker: [gagging]

[00:01:31] Female Speaker: That’s why no man will ever go out there alone at night.

[00:01:34] Male Speaker: [muffled noises]

[00:01:36] Female Speaker: Well, call me-

[00:01:38] Male Speaker: [chokes]

[00:01:39] Female Speaker: –if you make it home.

[00:01:40] Male Speaker: [choked to death]

[00:01:41] Female Speaker: Night.

[water splash]

[00:01:53] [END OF AUDIO]

December 28, 2019

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