Today in class - Langue Orale

1.  Roll: First and Last

Announcement!  This is the last normal class.

Week 9	03/27/2013	Merc
Week 10	04/03/2013EXAM 1	Merc
Week 11	04/10/2013EXAM 2	Merc
Week 12	05/01/2013	No Class!

Exam reminder (from syllabus):

 Final Grade Rubric:

33%: Listening Comprehension

33%: Phonetic Transcription

33%: Pronunciation

2.  Correct IPA homework - Raising childcare costs
Say the sentences from last week:

Up to half-a-million people will be affected by these measures.

Last year, the inflation rate in Britain was 5.2%.

There are 190,000 single-father families in the nation.

The biggest difficulty for single parents is balancing work and home life.

A problem single fathers encounter is that childcare is typically seen as a women's issue.
3.  In class work: Micromorts (sound file here)

Micromorts

1. Fill in the blanks:

What ……….. be …………………………. ? or ………………..? Or ……………….. AND ……………….? Not much, ………………………………….. at this …………………. Edinburg Fringe, who ………………….to hear ………………….., the …………………. mathematician, to a ………………………………………. all about ……………………….and death with ………………………… Timandra Harkness. We felt that a well-reviewed ………………………………………….., should not ……………. unheeded, here, at ……………………………

2. What phrase does the journalist use to say “humourous approach”?

3. What does the figure 0.000003% correspond to?

4. Dictation:

Whenever……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. they call it a micromort.

5. What two things are said about canoeing?

6. What is said about everybody’s probability of dying on a “normal” day? (2 things, including the number “30”)

7. What happened in 2008?

8. Three sports are mentioned in the next part of the document: name them and explain what they have in common.

9. What does the figure “25” represent?

10. Correct the mistakes AND fill in the blanks.

If you took at what people send on ………………….. gear, such as ………………-helmets or ……………….. airbags …………………., it walks out that people ……………………………………. at approximately ……………………….. for every micromort they ………………….. The reason a unique like micromorts can be ……………….. is that, ……………………….., we have more real …………………………. sense of …………………….. and risk. We’re over-………………… about ………………….. and blasé about ………………………. that might be …………………………………...

11. What two examples does Matt Parker give to prove that our attitude towards risk is not always very rational?

12. What does he say is the real use of this sort of statistics?

13. Summarise his final joke.

14. Write a phonetic transcription of the dictation.