Listening assessment - TED talk

Morning all.

Here’s the link to the second assessment for the FA1W 12 Unit, Listening.

I’d respectfully ask that you don’t provide any feedback in the comments section this time please, given that it’s an assessment.

All the information has been noted in the e mail of 14/11/22 and I’ve also popped the info on Moodle for you. 

The final date for this to be passed, by e mail to me, is 12:00 on Thursday 1st December 2022. I suggest you get your draft completed answers to me by around Thursday 24th November in case there is any remediation to attend to. 

I will mark the answers in good time (around my other commitments) to provide feedback to you. All submissions will be acknowledged with a rough marking turnaround time. 

Please use the PP slides I showed you in class in my teaching and any sample answers for the practise talks we looked at together. That will help you with how you might want to formulate your answers.

Only questions 1 and 5 have word counts attached to them. 

Ofer Levy: The new science of personalized vaccines
https://www.ted.com/talks/ofer_levy_the_new_science_of_personalized_vaccines

Good luck as always, of course you must work independently and once you have finished the assessment after any remediation, I will ask you to upload to Turnitin, but that isn't for some weeks yet. You’ll be advised of that date in due course.

All the very best,

Mark 🤞

Any questions about the Listening assessment?

Afternoon, troops.

If there are any questions that you would like me to clarify for the Listening assessment starting on Monday 14th November, just let me know and I will answer them in the comments section for you.

I will send you the assessment questions by e mail and via Moodle.

The link to the TED talk will be on the blog and within the assessment paper.

You are encouraged to use my PP notes, the sample answers to the two talks we analysed in class and to watch / listen to the presentation as many times as you like, how you like.

When I am putting sample answers together this is my strategy; it might work for you?

Watch the talk, no notes.

Listen again taking notes, observing the questions which are the same generic ones that we used in class.

Think about how helpful the transcript can be for you.

Take notes, stop the talk, make comments. Scribbles, whatever.

We all process things differently, and I have been fascinated and enthused with the way you have approached the two exemplar TED talks we looked at in class. Pretty good responses I would say.

But as Fleetwood Mac might say, go your own way on this one!

Cheers,

Mark