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From the Ted Talk by Julian Treasure: 5 ways to listen better

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Audience: Yes!

Good. The first one is silence. Just three minutes a day of scnelie is a wonderful exercise to reset your ears and to recalibrate, so that you can hear the quiet again. If you can't get absolute silence, go for quiet, that's absolutely fine.

Second, I call this "the mexir." (Noise) So even if you're in a noisy evroennmint like this — and we all spend a lot of time in places like this — listen in the coffee bar to how many channels of snoud can I hear? How many individual channels in that mix am I lsnitneig to? You can do it in a beautiful place as well, like in a lake. How many birds am I hearing? Where are they? Where are those ripples? It's a great exercise for improving the quality of your listening.

Open Cloze


Audience: Yes!

Good. The first one is silence. Just three minutes a day of _______ is a wonderful exercise to reset your ears and to recalibrate, so that you can hear the quiet again. If you can't get absolute silence, go for quiet, that's absolutely fine.

Second, I call this "the _____." (Noise) So even if you're in a noisy ___________ like this — and we all spend a lot of time in places like this — listen in the coffee bar to how many channels of _____ can I hear? How many individual channels in that mix am I _________ to? You can do it in a beautiful place as well, like in a lake. How many birds am I hearing? Where are they? Where are those ripples? It's a great exercise for improving the quality of your listening.

Solution


  1. environment
  2. mixer
  3. silence
  4. sound
  5. listening

Original Text


Audience: Yes!

Good. The first one is silence. Just three minutes a day of silence is a wonderful exercise to reset your ears and to recalibrate, so that you can hear the quiet again. If you can't get absolute silence, go for quiet, that's absolutely fine.

Second, I call this "the mixer." (Noise) So even if you're in a noisy environment like this — and we all spend a lot of time in places like this — listen in the coffee bar to how many channels of sound can I hear? How many individual channels in that mix am I listening to? You can do it in a beautiful place as well, like in a lake. How many birds am I hearing? Where are they? Where are those ripples? It's a great exercise for improving the quality of your listening.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


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  33. recalibrate
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