Magister Práctico Express ANSWERS 29th March

http://www.ted.com/talks/candy_chang_before_i_die_i_want_to/transcript?langu
age=en

1.-Complete the following gaps:

The speaker argues that 1. _______________ and 2. ______________ need to

be better at communicating.
The first question they must answer is 3. __________________? In other
words, why is their science relevant to us?
They can help people understand their ideas by avoiding 4.
_________________.
A good example of this are the words 5. _____________________________
which can easily be expressed as space and time.
However, that doesn’t mean they need to 6. ____________________. Ideas
should be kept as simple as possible, but not made any simpler.

2.-Answer the following questions:

7. What does the speaker say about bullet points?

A. They are dangerous to humans.
B. They depend too much on language.
C. They should be banned from presentations.
8. Why does the speaker mention the Eiffel Tower?
A. It’s a useful analogy.
B. It has a unique design.
C. It prevents tourists from getting lost.
9. The purpose of the equation is to:
A. Define the relevance to your audience
B. Find your true passion
C. Improve your conversations
10. What do you think is the speaker’s occupation?
A. Scientist
B. Engineer
C. Neither of the above
TED x IELTS Listening Practice 1: Why Videos Go
Viral

http://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_allocca_why_videos_go_viral?language=en

Listening Part 2 Questions

1. Over 48 hours of video are _________________ to YouTube every minute.
2. Bear didn’t actually ______________________ make a viral video. He just wanted to share a rainbow.
3. And if you’re wondering about those other __________________ , those are also Fridays. (Laughter)
But what about this day, this one particular Friday?
4. Tosh.0 __________________ , a lot of blogs starting writing about. Michael J. Nelson from Mystery
Science Theaterwas one of the first people to post a joke about the video on Twitter.
5. But what’s important is that an individual or a group of tastemakers took a
______________________ and they shared that with a larger audience, accelerating the process.
6. An entire _________________________ community sprouted up that brought it from being just a
stupid joke to something that we can all actually be a part of. Because we don’t just enjoy now, we
participate.
7. When a friend of mine told me that I needed to see this great video about a guy
_______________________ bicycle fines in New York City, I admit I wasn’t very interested.
8. And we all now feel some ownership in our __________________________. And these are not
characteristics of old media, and they’re barely true of the media of today, but they will define the
entertainment of the future.

Listening Part 2 Answers

1. Over 48 hours of video are UPLOADED to YouTube every minute.
2. Bear didn’t actually SET OUT TO make a viral video. He just wanted to share a rainbow.
3. And if you’re wondering about those other SPIKES, those are also Fridays. (Laughter) But what about
this day, this one particular Friday?
4. Tosh.0 PICKED IT UP, a lot of blogs starting writing about. Michael J. Nelson from Mystery Science
Theater was one of the first people to post a joke about the video on Twitter.
5. But what’s important is that an individual or a group of tastemakers took a POINT OF VIEW and
they shared that with a larger audience, accelerating the process.
6. An entire REMIX community sprouted up that brought it from being just a stupid joke to something
that we can all actually be a part of. Because we don’t just enjoy now, we participate.
7. When a friend of mine told me that I needed to see this great video about a guy PROTESTING
bicycle fines in New York City, I admit I wasn’t very interested.
8. And we all now feel some ownership in our OWN POP CULTURE. And these are not characteristics
of old media, and they’re barely true of the media of today, but they will define the entertainment of the
future.

QUESTIONS 1-2 (Sentence completion) Write no more than three words

for each answer.
Web video now means that anyone can become famous very quickly.
Over 48 hours of video appear on YouTube 1. ________________________.
Only a tiny percentage of videos goes viral and becomes a cultural moment.
The key factors in creating a viral are tastemakers, 2.
________________________ and unexpectedness.

QUESTIONS 3-10 (Note completion) Write no more than three words for
each answer.
BEAR VASQUEZ
“Double rainbow” video viewed 3. ________________________ during 2010.
Video first became popular during the summer.
Creator didn’t intend to make a viral; he just wanted to 4.
________________________ a rainbow.
Video had actually been uploaded in 5. ________________________ but only
became popular after tastemaker Jimmy Kimmel posted a link on Twitter.
REBECCA BLACK
Song “Friday” has been viewed almost 200 million times.
Viewing peaks all occurred on 6. ________________________.
Its popularity may have begun with a joke about the video on Twitter.
7. ________________________ of “Friday” have been uploaded to YouTube.
Viral videos are born when online communities spread or do something new
with content.
“NYAN CAT”
Looped animation has been viewed nearly 50 million times.
YouTube users began creating different versions of the video.
Whole 8. ________________________ emerged that transformed “Nyan Cat”
from a simple joke to a participatory movement.
CASEY NIESTAT
Made a unique video to protest bicycle fines in New York.
Made his point using 9. ________________________ and
________________________.
Video has now been seen 10. ________________________.

TED x IELTS Listening Practice 2: The World’s

English Mania

Questions 1-4 (Short-answer questions) Write no more than three words

and/or a number for each answer.
1. What can be positive, worrying or life-threatening?
___________________________
2. How do Chinese students practice English?
___________________________
3. How many English learners are there in the world?
___________________________
4. Which country will have most speakers of English?
___________________________

Questions 5-7 (Multiple choice, multiple answer)

What THREE reasons for learning English in China are given by the lecturer?

 A. To belong in a single world

 B. To have a better career
 C. To pay for education
 D. To support children in the future
 E. To order food in restaurants
 F. To perform well in a test
 G. To live in another country

Questions 8-10 (Multiple choice, single answer)

8. What does the lecturer consider to be the main effect of the world learning
English?

 A. Other languages will become extinct.

 B. Discussions are possible at the global level.
 C. Global problems can easily be solved.
9. What does the lecturer say English will become?

 A. One of the world’s common languages

 B. The world’s universal language
 C. As important as mathematics or music

10. Why is the spread of English a positive development?

 A. It will help spread technological advances.

 B. It will help unite countries and cultures.
 C. It will help people resolve their disputes.

TED x IELTS: Why Videos Go Viral

1. every minute / 2. communities of participation / 3. 23 million times / 4. share /
5. January / 6. Fridays / 7. 10,000 parodies / 8. remix community / 9. surprise,
humour / 10. 5 million times
TED x IELTS: The World’s English Mania
1. manias / 2. (by) screaming (it) / 3. 2 billion / 4. China / 5-7. B, C, F / 8. B / 9. A
/ 10. C
TED x IELTS: Why Is ‘X’ the Unknown?
1. logical / 2. equation / 3. engineering / 4. Spain / 5. characters / 6. C / 7. C / 8.
D / 9. A / 10. B
TED x IELTS: Talk Nerdy to Me
1. scientists / 2. engineers / 3. So what / 4. jargon / 5. spacial and temporal / 6.
dumb it down / 7. B / 8. A / 9. C / 10. C

English Classes with TED: Sir Ken Robinson on

Changing Education
1. What are the two main reasons Sir Robinson says every country is trying
to reform education?
2. How has students’ perception of education changed in recent years?
3. During what period was the modern (European) education system
developed?
4. What does Sir Robinson say is “Deep in the gene pool of public
education?”
5. Where do people “start to lose interest” in the United States? What does
Sir Robinson mean by this?
 6. What adjective does Sir Robinson use to describe the ADHD epidemic?
7. According to Sir Robinson, what are we doing to children to get them
through education?
8. What does he compare the modern education system to?
9. What is “divergent thinking?”
10. What happens to our ability to use divergent thinking as we go to school?

English Classes with TED: How to Hold Your

Breath, in English
What two things does Blaine say he tries to do as a magician?

What did he do in April of 1999 in New York City for a week?

What did he see in his hallucinations during his 36-hour stunt in New York City?

What did they do to David to tempt him while he was in the box in London?

What was Blaine obsessed with from a young age?

As a magician, he thinks that __________ __ _______.

How did his doctor tell him to hold his breath for a long time?

Did it work?

What was the “craziest idea” of all Blaine’s plans for holding his breath?

What is “static apnea?”

What was his “critical mistake” at the Lincoln Center?

Where did he go to finally break the record?

What did he think was happening when he was under water, about to break the record?

What question did the kid ask him after he came out of the Apple store?

What does Blaine say magic is to him?

English Conversation Classes with TED: Brene

Brown on Vulnerablility
 1. Why didn’t the event planner want to call Brene a researcher?
2. What did she decide to call Brene instead?
3. What did Brene’s professor tell her?
4. Why was this important?
5. Why does Brene say we are here?
6. What, according to Brene, unravels connection?
7. What causes this condition?
8. What separated the people with a strong sense of love and belonging from the
others.
9. What did the people with a strong sense of belonging have in common?
10. Why was this upsetting to her as a researcher?
11. What happened to her next?
12. What does Brene say we do with vulerability?
13. What is the problem with this?
14. How else do we handle vulnerability?
15. What is blame?
16. What is the job of a parent?
17. What is her “other way” of handling vulnerability?

Creativity, Music and Language – English

Conversation Classes with TED
1. What is Charles’ joke about creativity and surgery?
2. What makes Keith Jarrett’s concerts unusual?
3. What does “off the top of his head” mean?
4. Use five adjectives to describe Keith Jarrett’s music.
5. What question did Charles ask himself about the music?
6. What is the difference between magic and magical?
7. How does the FMRI scanner measure brain activity?
8. What happens in the brain when someone is improvising music?
9. What was the hardest thing for jazz musician Mike Pope about playing music
inside the scanner?
10. What was the second experiment with the jazz musicians?
11. What did the second jazz experiment show?
12. What does Charles compare music to?
13. Use 5 adjectives to describe Charles’ rapping.
14. Will he ever rap again?
15. What happens when rappers improvise?
16. What question does Charles hope to answer some day?

English Conversation Classes: Language

Learning and Children
 1. What question does Kuhl use the Koro language to represent?
2. What are the best ages, according to Kuhl, for learning a language?
3. What special thing can babies do with sound?
4. Because of this, what does Kuhl call babies?
5. How long does this period last?
6. What does Kuhl say babies are doing when they listen to people talk?
7. What experiment did they do with the babies and Mandarin?
8. What was the result?
9. What does Kuhl hope her experiments will show us?
10. Do believe that it is possible to become fluent in a language as an adult?

English Conversation Classes: Talking about the

Rise of China
1. How does Jacques say the economic crisis has changed projections for the future
of China’s economy?
2. In what two ways does he say China will change the world?
3. What does he think is the problem with the way westerners understand China?
4. What does he say is the most important political value in China?
5. Why does he say the world will become increasingly unfamiliar to us?
6. What does he say about Europe and it’s future?
7. Where should you go, according to Martin, if you want to see the future?
8. What problem does China have the the U.S. does not have?
9. What does he say our attitude should be toward China’s future?
10. Why does he say that the rise of China and India represents the most important
democratization of the last 200 years?

English Classes with TED: Morgan Spurlock

What unusual thing did he try to do with his TED Talk?
What is your brand?
What is his movie about?
One of the men that Morgan presents the film idea to says that “When I first hear it,
it is the ________ _______ for an audience.”
Another ask him, “Do you sort of know how ____ __ _____ __ ____ ___?”
What happened when he turned the camera off after presenting the film to the men who
said they could help him?
What was the fatal flaw with his idea?
What are the three sides to every story according to Morgan?
What did he have to do?
What word do they finally decide on to define Ban deodorant?
What are each of the people’s brands?

1. “I like really ____ _______.”

 2. 80s _______ meets _____ ____.”
3. ______
4. Dark _______
5. A Classic ___________ Mercedes Benz
6. Casual ___
7. Part ______, part ____, part Brooklyn ____
8. The ___ guy
9. Fed __
10. Failed ______ _________
11. ______
12. (Morgan) At the intersection between ____ _______ and ______ ___.

What did he do next?

What does the company tell him his brand is?
What does this mean to you? “When you train your employees to be risk averse, then
you’re preparing your whole company to be reward challenged.”

English Listening Exercise: Freakonomics and

Car seats
1. What was the difference between the first and second cure for the disease?
2. What was the problem with the second cure?
3. Then ____ ____ a lowly economist. Who ___ children _______.
4. What was the disease?
5. What were the cures?
6. But ___ _____ are so _______ and _______ and they ____ ____ ___ ______ of
______.
7. What is the other line of reasoning people have against believing seatbelts are
better than carseats?
8. What happened when they called crash test centers?
9. Fundamentally, the car seats ______ _____ ____.
10. What did Levitt’s father give the first set of patients that came in to see him, if
he thought they weren’t sick?
11. What did he give them if they came in a second time, and he still didn’t believe
them? (use the specific word)
12. What were in the third jar?
13. What question does the person in the audience ask?

English Listening Exercises: 5 Ways to Listen

Better
We are ______ our _________.

How does Julian define listening?

So in a _______ _____ like this, if I say ____ ____ ___ ________, some of you just sat
up.

What is pink noise?

What did he promise his wife when they got married?

In this scenario _________is listening to ___________.

Name two synonyms for quiet that he says.

What reasons does he give for people losing their ability to listen?

What exercises does he suggest?

Why is “so” important in listening?

Every human being needs __ ______ consciously __ _____ to live fully.

Do you think listening should be taught in schools?

Do you spend any time listening carefully to something?

Are you ever required to listen carefully to something?

Do you think it is hard to listen sometimes? Has it gotten harder?

English Listening Exercise: iPods, Steve Jobs

and Magic
What type of magic does Marco like?
What does his application do?
What is his favorite subject?
He ___ this wonderful _____ where a rosebush would bloom _____ __ _____
of your ____.
Magic is the ____ honest profession, a magician _______ to deceive you and
he ____.
What do you think the context is when the man in the video says “It’s just what
I’ve always wanted.”
What was his joke about men and women and lying?
I didn’t deceive you, you ________ ________.
Have you ever deceived yourself?
What does it mean that art is a deception?
Do you think lying is a fundamental part of life?
Do you think men lie more than women?
Less Stuff = More Happiness? English Listening
Exercise with TED
What’s in the ___? ________ it is must be pretty important.

Why do you think the crowd laughs at his first sentence

There’s a new industry in ____.

What is the new industry?

What is the result of having all this new stuff?

What did he do with is apartment?

Immediately I saved ____ _____.

What does that mean? How did he save it?

We’ve ____ cut the extraneous from our lives, and we’ve _____ learn to ____ the
inflow.

How many people can eat in his home?

What is his response to his own question, “What’s in the box?”

Less ________equal ____________.

Do you believe the above statement? Why or why not?

English Listening Exercise: A Fast TED Talk

Where does Tony live?

Whose gun did they have?

What did they originally intend to do with the gun?

Punk. He took some money ____ ____ ___ _____, that’ll ___ ___.

Let’s __ ____.
Sorry, ___ it’s worse ___ ___ ____.

I want __ ___ what _ ____.

In that moment, ____ __ __ ____ by Tony’s name.

English Listening and Comprehension: Hacking

and Computer Viruses
How does Mikko think our generation will be remembered by historians hundreds of
years from now?

What are the problems with the internet?

What is the first virus ever?

Where did it come from?

Who opened the door at the home in Pakistan?

Who wrote the original viruses?

Who writes them now?

What is GangstaBucks?

What are key loggers?

We now have a whole _______ _____ ____ and business ecosystem _____ _____
online crime.

What grammar mistake does Mikko make at 8:36 (it’s a preposition error)?

What was unusual about the 20 year old blogger in St. Petersburg?

How did he catch the hacker?

What mistake does he make at 13:32?

Why is Stuxnet so dangerous?

What does he think we need to do now?

Questions no one knows the answers to (English
listening exercise)
I used to ______ _____ a lot of things as a boy.

What does the sentence above mean?

What were the first three questions he asked himself as a boy?

Is the future ___ to be ______?

What does the sentence above mean?

I mean, I ____ __ assumed that someday I _____ __ ____ the answers to all these
questions.

Why does he like working on these kinds of questions?

An iPod worth $8 billion? English Listening

Exercise
I think some _________ and ________ reasoning could really bring a great ____ to the
debate.

How does he show that the Motion Picture Association of America’s claim that the
economy loses $58 billion per year to piracy is ridiculous?

Music revenues are down by about $8 billion dollars a year since Napster ____ on the
____.

So this small missing _____ here is ________.

Why does the audience laugh when he says the above line and shows them the chart?

How does he mock the job numbers?

This is just one of the many ____ _______ statistics have to ___ ____ everyday.

What little _______ wouldn’t want a million and a half _____ worth of stolen _____ in
his pocket?

How many dollars worth of music can a iPod classic hold?

Is Success a Destination or a Journey? – English

Listening Exercise
1.We think success is a _____ way ______.
2. It doesn’t take long to go _______ hill.
3. What happened when he became successful?
4. I couldn’t ______ __ with any ideas.
5. Who was he talking to on the phone? Who should he have been talking to?
6. Is he a good manager?
7. How did he try to fix his depression?
8. What happened when he went on Prozac?
9. It didn’t take long for business to _____ like a _____.
10. How long did it take for him to become successful again?
Try the writing:
What are your goals in life? Are they destinations or part of your journey? Do
you think learning English is a destination or part of your journey? Is there
anything else in life that you are planning on learning for a lifetime?

A Changing Work Force: Listening Exercise

1. Think of the United States workforce as a _______ _____ _______.
2. How many people are in the workforce in the US?
3. But over the next two decades they will be leaving it in _______.
4. What percentage of the US workforce will immigrants account for?
5. Immigrants and their children helped _____ our railroads, _____ our cities, and
_____ our information age.
6. What business did Ricardo and Elizabeth start? Where are they from?

Writing Exercise: How is the workforce in your country changing? Where will people
be working over the next 20 years?

Listening Exercise: Do You Really Know How to

Tie Your Shoe?
1. How does he describe the TED audience?

2. I also have reason to believe that many, __ ___ most of you are tying your shoes
incorrectly.

3. What was different about his new shoes?

4. One of the life skills I had really _______was tying my shoes.

5. How do you tie the strong form of the knot?

6. It will let you _______less.

7. Live ______ and prosper.

Don´t instist on english

 1. How long has Patricia been living and teaching in the Gulf? :
- More than 30 years
- Fewer than 30 years
- 30 years exactly.

2. Regarding English teaching, which one has been the most important change observed
by this teacher along these years?

3.-Does Patricia Ryan agree with the fact of having to pass English exams? Why?

4. What does the speaker mean when she says that Einstein was considered “remedial” at
school?

5.-Why do people from Asia and other Eastern countries need a Western education?

6.-Why was the young Kenyan shepherd boy awarded?

7.-According to this context: What does “Mind your own language” mean?