College Oral Communication 1

Chapter 4 Are You Getting the Sleep You Need?

Marsha Chan, Mission College, Santa Clara, California, USA

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Activity 2 National Sleep Survey

A. Listen to the sentences and fill in the missing information in the charts.

Activity 3 Identifying Syllables and Stress in Words

A. Listen and mark the syllable-stress code

B. Clap and pronounce

Activity 4 Dictation

Listen to each sentence three times. First, listen and try to understand the meaning of the whole sentence. Second, listen and write. Third, listen and check. Finally, listen and pronounce the sentences with good pronunciation, phrasing, stress, rhythm, and intonation.
Items 5-8 of the dictation have not yet been edited properly. My apologies!

Activity 8 Pronouncing the Vocabulary of Academic Lectures

Activity 9 Listening to the Vocabulary of Academic Lectures in Context

Activities 11-16 Lecture: Are You Getting the Sleep You Need?

Activity 11 Lecture Part 1 (1st Listening): Understanding the Main Idea and Details

Activity 12 Lecture Part 1 (2nd Listening): Focus on Questions

Activity 13 Lecture Parts 2-6 (1st Listening): Main Ideas

Activity 14 Lecture Part 2 (2nd Listening): Understanding an Analogy

Activity 15 Lecture Part 3 (2nd Listening): Outlining Main Ideas and Supporting Details

Activity 16 Lecture Parts 4-6 (2nd Listening): Distinguishing Main Ideas from Details

Activity 21 Dialogs with phrasal verbs Interactive exercise

Activity 25 How to Get the Most Value From Your Sleep

Gap-filling 1 Gap-filling 2 Gap-filling 3 Interactive exercises

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