Practice Tasks in Listening Comprehensions
4. Listen to the tape script read our played on an audio device and then questions will be
displayed on the blackboard. The passage will be read out/played a second time again.
Then, write the answers on the answer script. (4x 1= 4 Marks)
1. Desirable Basic Human Qualities
Character is a person’s moral and intellectual traits. Character make a man. Kids need more than a
decent education and employment. They must also learn morality. They can be ideal citizens. Health is
both mental and physical, according to the WHO. Healthy youth can build a healthy Nation. Join NSS,
NCC, and blood donation camps. They should eat well and be good. Avoid drinking and drugs.
Adolescents are unprepared for social issues. They may be unprepared indeed. Academic pressure May
crush them. They may struggle with peer pressure. They may become depressed or engage in anti-
social behavior. teens need discipline, commitment, and self-confidence. Choosing a role model from
family or society can help create values. Biographies of famous leaders, social reformers,
revolutionaries, scientists, and educators can inspire kids. They can develop decent morals over time.
Ragging and Eve-teasing can be replaced by social work
1.What makes a man?
2.Kids need________ beyond education and
unemployment.
3.According to________ health is both physical
and mental.
4.Adolescents are unprepared for _______
issues.
2. Mistakes Can Make Miracles
They are instances when blunders become advantageous. The Nobel Prize, the most
prestigious honor in the world, was created due to one such mistake. When Alfred Nobel’s
brother, Ludwig, passed away in 1888, a French newspaper published an article incorrectly
identifying the deceased man as Alfred Nobel, the Dynamite creator who made him incredibly
wealthy. This led to the publication of a particularly critical obituary entitled ” The Merchant
of Death is Dead”. This meant that Alfred had a unique chance to read his obituary. Is this
how future generations remember me?” He wondered guiltily. No, I have to take action. The
vast sum of money I’ve amassed must be used to help bring about Global harmony. We all
know what happened next. The Nobel prizes in physics, chemistry, biology/medicine, and
literature were thus established.
1.What is the most prestigious honour in
the world?
A]
2.When did Noble’s brother passed
away?
A]
3.How do we understand the news
caption ” The Merchant of Death is
Dead”?
A]
3. Charlie Chaplin
In 1915, Charlie Chaplin accidentally created the Little Tramp. He grabbed clothes left in the changing
room while racing to a California film production. He emerged with a beloved personality. A small person
with a bowler hat, a close-fitting jacket, a cane, big shoes, and a brush-like mustache! Chaplin became
famous quickly. He was a bashful British music hall comic, so that confused him. He was America’s
silent comedy king Global crowds followed. Chaplin’s life wasn’t always funny. His parents, music hall
performers, divorced when Charlie was young. His upbringing was miserable since his mother never
made enough to support Charlie and Sydney. Chaplin often slept on the streets and ate garbage. Charlie
took his first bow after his mother left the stage. Her voice broke while singing. Her son sang a hit
onstage. A star exploded. Charlie remembered his hard beginnings throughout his accomplishments.
After his mother’s death, he was refused two oranges and a bag of sweets at Christmas for disobeying a
regulation at the orphanage. It would have devastated his heart if the other kids hadn’t shared. The
adult Chaplin spontaneously gave the orphanage a movie machine and insisted that each youngster
have as many oranges and candies as they wanted.
1.Name the unforgettable character Chaplin
invented.
2. Describe the unique appearance of Charlie
Chaplin.
3. How did Charlie emerge as America’s silent
comedy
5. What king?
did the adult Chaplin contribute to
the orphanage?
4. No Stops Barred
‘Go’ is the smallest single-word statement. So, what might be the longest sentence? How
many words are there? Make an educated guess. The longest phrase contains over four
million words. Lucy Elman created and composed Ducks, Newburyport, a thousand-page
novel. This 1,000-page novel won this year’s (2020) Goldsmith’s Prize for breaking the norm
and stretching the novel’s structure. “It’s a massive achievement,” one judge cried. Another
judge gushed. “This gripping, hypnotic novel remakes the novel.” The novel’s ambitious form
initially attracted rejections until Galley Beggar eventually published it. The novel is an
interior monologue of a mother baking pies in her kitchen in Ohio. According to the author,
this long, run-on-sentence novel floats readers around, absorbed in one woman’s idea.
1.What is the smallest single-word statement?
2.How many words does the longest phrase contain?
3.Name the novel which won Goldsmith’s prize.
4.What is the novel about?
5.Mention the author’s final statement.
5. Strange Lawyer
After the death of a lawyer named Strange, his friend approached the person who made tombstones
and requested an inscription for the deceased. Right before you lie. Strange a truthful man who worked
as a lawyer. The person who wrote the inscription was adamant that such an inscription would not be
appropriate since it would mistakenly lead anyone passing by to believe that three people were interred
beneath the stone. On the other hand, he offered a different suggestion. He would write, “Here lies an
honest and upright guy who was a lawyer”. In that manner, anytime someone passed by the
gravestone and read what was written on it, they would exclaim, “That’s strange!
1.What is the name of the lawyer?
A]
2.Who approached the tombstone maker and for whom?
A]
3.Why was the inscription writer adamant?
A]
4.What was the inscription text?
A]
5.What do people exclaim, passing by the gravestone?
6. National Service Scheme (NSS)
Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of India, enlisted students in national service. He suggested that students
do “something positive so that the lives of the villagers might be raised on higher material and moral
level” instead of academic research on economic and social disability. Dr VKRV Rao, Union Education
Minister, introduced NSS in 37 universities across all states on September 24 th, 1969. The programme
began during the Gandhi Century Year because Gandhi motivated Indian youth to join the independence
and social uplift of our nation’s oppressed people. Students organise the programme, and through
social service, students and teachers feel involved in national progress. Work experience may also
assist students in locating self-employment or employment after graduation
1._____________ began enlisting students in national service.
Answer: __________
2. According to Gandhi, the lives of villagers might be raised to a higher material and moral level by
students doing something____________.
Answer:___________
3. Dr VKRV Rao was a _______
Answer:__________
4. NSS was introduced on___________.
Answer:____________
5. Social service helps both teachers and students to feel involved in __________.
Answer:____________
7. A News Item: Swatch Badi – Clean Telangana – Second Only to One!
Finance Minister T. Harish Rao recently opened the second Swatch Badi in Siddipeta; the first was in
Bengaluru. The course instructors will instruct students on trash collection, waste sorting (into dry,
moist, and dangerous categories), public health awareness, plastic reduction, and home composting. Dr.
Prashanti of Bengaluru will manage this educational hub. Anyone of any age is welcome to sign up for
this class. The DWCRA Development of Women and Children in Rural Areas] women and leaders, as well
as the students, are the primary targets of this initiative. Instruction here is conducted digitally through
live demonstrations and PowerPoint presentations for teaching. For example, the resulting compost can
be used as fertiliser. Now more than ever is the time to get the word out about this idea
1. ___________was inaugurated by ___________
2. The first Swatch Badi is found in ______________ in India.
3. What is taught in Swachabadi? Answer:__________
4. This programme benefits ____________ women and children.
5. The instruction is done face-to-face mode. True/False
6. Mention an idea, for example, promoted by DWCRA.
