TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2013) -GRADE EIGHT- PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION SECTION A MINI-LECTURE

In this section you will hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the lecture ONCE ONLY. While listening, take notes on the important points. Your notes will not be marked, but you will need them to complete a gap-filling task after the mini-lecture.

When the lecture is over, you will be given two minutes to check your notes, and another ten minutes to complete the gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE, using no more than three words in each gap.

Make sure the word(s) you fill in is(are) both grammatically and semantically acceptable. You may refer to your notes while completing the task. Use the blank sheet for note-taking.

Now listen to the mini-lecture.

What Do Active Learners Do?

Good morning, today I will discuss what is active learning, and, ah, what do active learners do.

In order to define active learning, I will look at the differences between active learning and passive learning by examining six characteristics of active learners and contrasting them with those of passive learners.

OK, let's start.

With the first characteristic, active learners tend to read with the purpose of understanding and remembering.