LISTENING 2

1. An introduction toDowsing. Listen to the introduction and answer the following questions:

· What are you listening to?

· What do you think the woman will talk about?

· Do you think everyone at this workshop believes dowsing works? Why or why not?

1. Listen to the workshop. These sentences are wrong. Cross out the wrong information and correct the sentences.

· Dowsing is very new.

· Dowsing can be explained scientifically.

· Map dowsing is a way to lose things.

· People use dowsing to ask about important people.

· The man in the audience believes in dowsing.

1. Listen again. Circle the best answer to complete each sentence.

· The woman thinks everyone at the workshop ___ to dowse.

a. knows how b. wants to learn c. likes

· The oldest pictures of dowsing are ___ years old.

a. 18,000 b. 80,000 c. 8,000

· The diving rod ___.

a. shakes b. swings c. holds water

· Dowsers believe everything has ___.

a. a diving rod b. an energy c. a feeling

· A map dowser holds a ___.

a. diving rod b. location c. pendulum

· One woman hired a map dowser to find ___.

a. water b. an instrument c. a pendulum

· To get answers with dowsing, you must ask a ___ question.

a. yes/no b. past c. future

· The pendulum will ___ one way for ‘yes’ and another way for ‘no’.

a. shake b. feel c. swing

1. Listen to the excerpts from the listening. Discuss these questions in a small group.

Excerpt One

How old is dowsing? Why does the man ask about the age of dowsing?

Do you think old methods are better than new methods? Why?

Excerpt Two

Why will the man look at a map?

Do you think the man believes dowsing works? Why or why not?

Do you think something scientific is better than something unscientific? Why?

Excerpt Three

What question does the man ask?

Why doesn’the let the woman finish?

Do you think the woman could get the correct answer? Why or why not?

LISTENING 3

1. OtherUnexpected Phenomena. Listen to people talking about other unexplained phenomena – things that happen but can’t be explained. You will listen two times. Circle the main idea, then all the details you hear.

	Main ideas	Details
	Fire walking is … · learning to make fires. · learning about fires. · learning to walk on fires.	The man says … his feet didn’t burn. he knows how it works. fire walking teaches concentration. the mind is powerful.
	Psychokinesis means … moving things. moving things with your mind. thinking about moving.	The woman says … psyho means ‘move.’ a man bent a spoon with his hands. a man bent a spoon with his mind. she knows how it works.

VIDEO

1. Watch the report on Chinese Medicine.

2.What are the main principles of Chinese Medicine?

1. How well can the remedies help?
2. Is anything of the kind practiced in your country?
3. Do you believe in remedies and alternative medicine?

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