Listening Practice Section-3(Woolly mammoths on St Paul's Island) — Transcript

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1. 0:00hello
2. 0:01students welcome to all West English
3. 0:04classes today we will practice I El's
4. 0:07listening part three questions it's a
5. 0:09conversation namely to woly mammoths on
6. 0:12St Paul's
7. 0:13Island listen carefully and answer all
8. 0:16the questions
9. 0:17correctly let's
10. 0:20start you will hear two environmental
11. 0:23science students called Rosie and Martin
12. 0:27discussing their presentation on an
13. 0:29extinct animal called The Woolly Mammoth
14. 0:32with their
15. 0:34tutor first you have some time to look
16. 0:37at questions 21 to
17. 0:5824
18. 1:10now listen carefully and answer
19. 1:13questions 21 to
20. 1:1824 so Rosie and Martin let's look at
21. 1:22what you've got for your presentation on
22. 1:24woolly
23. 1:25mammoths okay we've got a short outline
24. 1:28here
25. 1:30thanks uh so it's about a research
26. 1:34project in North America yes but we
27. 1:37thought we needed something general
28. 1:39about woolly mammoths in our
29. 1:41introduction to establish that they were
30. 1:43related to our modern elephant and they
31. 1:46lived thousands of years ago in the last
32. 1:49ice age maybe we could show a video clip
33. 1:53of a cartoon about mammoths but that
34. 1:56would be a bit childish or we could have
35. 1:59a diagram it could be a timeline to show
36. 2:02when they lived with illustrations or we
37. 2:05could just show a drawing of them
38. 2:07walking in the ice no let's go with your
39. 2:11last suggestion good then you're
40. 2:14describing the discovery of the Mammoth
41. 2:17tooth on St Paul's Island in Alaska and
42. 2:20why it was significant yes the tooth was
43. 2:24found by a man called Russell grahan he
44. 2:27picked it up from under a rock in a cave
45. 2:30he knew it was special for a start it
46. 2:34was in really good condition as if it
47. 2:36had been just extracted from the
48. 2:38animal's Jawbone anyway they found it
49. 2:42was
50. 2:436,500 years old so why was that
51. 2:48significant well the mammoth bones
52. 2:51previously found on the North American
53. 2:53Mainland were much less recent than that
54. 2:56so this was really amazing then we're
55. 2:59making making an animated diagram to
56. 3:01show the geography of the area in
57. 3:04prehistoric times so originally St
58. 3:07Paul's Island wasn't an island it was
59. 3:11connected to the mainland and mammoths
60. 3:14and other animals like bears were able
61. 3:16to roam around the whole area then the
62. 3:20climate warmed up and the sea level
63. 3:22began to rise and the island got cut off
64. 3:25from the mainland so those mammoths on
65. 3:28the island could could Escape they had
66. 3:31to stay on the island and in fact the
67. 3:34species survived there for thousands of
68. 3:36years after they'd become extinct on the
69. 3:39mainland so why do you think they died
70. 3:42out on the mainland no one's sure anyway
71. 3:47next we'll explain how Graham and his
72. 3:49team identified the date when the
73. 3:52mammoths became extinct on the island
74. 3:55they concluded that the extinction
75. 3:57happened 5,600 100 years ago which is a
76. 4:01very precise time for a prehistoric
77. 4:04Extinction it's based on samples they
78. 4:06took from mud at the bottom of a lake on
79. 4:09the island they analyzed it to find out
80. 4:12what had fallen in over time bits of
81. 4:15plants volcanic ash and even DNA from
82. 4:18the mammoth themselves it's standard
83. 4:21procedure but it took nearly two years
84. 4:24to
85. 4:27do before you hear the rest of the
86. 4:29discussion you have some time to look at
87. 4:32questions 25 to
88. 4:5830
89. 5:05now listen and answer questions 25 to
90. 5:1130 so why don't you quickly go through
91. 5:15the main sections of your presentation
92. 5:17and discuss what actions needed for each
93. 5:20part okay so for the introduction we're
94. 5:24using a visual so once we've prepared
95. 5:27that we're done I'm not sure
96. 5:30I think we need to write down all the
97. 5:32ideas we want to include here not just
98. 5:35fori on memory how we begin the
99. 5:37presentation is so important you're
100. 5:40right the discovery of the Mammoth tooth
101. 5:43is probably the most dramatic part but
102. 5:46we don't have that much information only
103. 5:49what we got from the online article I
104. 5:52thought maybe we could get in touch with
105. 5:54the researcher who led the team and ask
106. 5:57him to tell us a bit more great idea
107. 6:00what about the section with the initial
108. 6:02questions asked by the researchers we've
109. 6:05got a lot on that but we need to make it
110. 6:08interesting we could ask the audience to
111. 6:11suggest some questions about it and then
112. 6:13see how many of them we can answer I
113. 6:16don't think it would take too long yes
114. 6:19that would add a bit of variety then the
115. 6:22section on further research carried out
116. 6:24on the island analyzing the mud in the
117. 6:27lake I wonder if we've actually got too
118. 6:30much information here should we cut some
119. 6:33I don't think so but it's all a bit
120. 6:36muddled at present yes maybe it would be
121. 6:39better if it followed a chronological
122. 6:41pattern I think so the findings and
123. 6:45possible explanation section is just
124. 6:47about ready but we need to practice it
125. 6:50so we're sure it won't overrun I think
126. 6:52it should be okay but yes let's make
127. 6:55sure H in the last section relevance to
128. 6:59to the present day you've got some good
129. 7:02ideas but this is where you need to move
130. 7:04away from the ideas of others and give
131. 7:06your own Viewpoint okay we'll think
132. 7:09about that now shall we show you some
133. 7:14of that is the end of part
134. 7:17three you now have 30 seconds to check
135. 7:21your answers to part
136. 7:28three
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