EWP1Topic : LISTENING (Print your own copy and bring to class every meeting)

Listen to the speaker talking about listening. Read the sentences and check (/) the statements
that are true about listening.
Track2: Audio1:
____Listening is not a complex process
____Start talking and Pay attention
____ Clarify and ask questions
____ Effective listening is not just a combination of skills and desire to understand how another
person sees their world
Track3: Audio 2
____listening is such an easy process
____we speak 150 words/minute
____brain has the capacity to absorb 660 words/seconds
____use commonsense in listening

Track4: Listen to Steve Jobs Commencement Speech at the Stanford 2005 Commencement Exercise.
Listen for details and supply the missing word/words.
1. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation, means that Steve
Jobs___________________________________________________________.
2. The first story is about __________.

3. Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best ________in the country
4. Steve Jobs second story is about_____________.
5. According to Steve Jobs, Woz and he started Apple in his parents ________________________when
he was 20.
6. I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting ___________________was the best thing that could
have ever happened to me.
7. His third story is about ________________________.
8. Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by ___________.
9. The amazing publication called ________________, was one of the bibles of my generation.
10. As you graduate, to begin anew, Steve Jobs wish that for you____________________________.