Listening exercise
TED: Technology, Entertainment, Design: Ideas Worth Spreading
Julian Treasure: Shh! Sound health in 8 steps
http://www.ted.com/talks/julian_treasure_shh_sound_health_in_8_steps.html

Vocabulary:
Hindus
Nada Brahma
translation
sound
in a way
to vibrate
(at a) frequency
individual
chord
definition
in harmony
amazing
octave
incidentally
"earlid"
trillion
perceive
eardrum
atomic diameter
trillion
active
skill
passive
to work at
to consider that
positions
reductive
relevant
expansive
typically
to get nothing else out of s.t.
to practice s.t.
to transform
to surround
according to
European Union
population
to reduce
population
to devastate
to stick your fingers in your ears
to hum
cooler
widespread
headphone
Murray Schafer
schizophonia
dislocation
to invite in
not present
abuse
compression
to squash
uncompressed
to fit s.t. in one's pocket
data
to remove
cost
to be tired and irritable
to make up data
in the long run
teenagers
deafness
noise-induced

hearing disorder
to suffer from
as a result of
college freshmen
to raise
generation
quick tips
to protect
protectors
to afford
quality
to move away from
to urge
to seek out
stochastic
random
events
to evolve to
silence
Elizabethans
decorated
intention
works of art
foreground
background
in proportion
to get into
design
professional
future
to run through
modalities
ultrasound
physiotherapy
lithotripsy
scalpel
to pulverize
stones (kidney stones)
high-intensity
sound healing
to explore
autism
dementia
conditions
generally
devotional
Mozart
to take action
to get involved
consciously
dimension
to get in touch with
voice
instrument
to get trained
musicians
antidote
style
a stewarding role
to speak up
to assail s.o. with
vision
path
sound health

Listening comprehension questions:
1. What does the speaker, Julian Treasure, mean when he says that "you are in fact a chord, each of you an individual chord. One definition of health may be that that chord is in complete harmony."?
2. What does Treasure mean when he says that "Ears are made not for hearing, but for listening."?
3. Explain the difference between "reductive" and "expansive" listening, and which is typical for which sex.
4. Describe the advice he gives the men in his audience, how it thinks it will benefit them, and why some people laughed.
5. Explain why listening to music that has been compressed makes people tired and irritable.
6. Explain how the answer to question number 5. also applies to language learning, especially as regards using correct pronunciation and grammar.
7. Treasure makes the same mistake twice, saying a different word than the one he meant. What is the mistake, and why you think it happened?
8. Why, according to Treasure, should you buy the best-quality earphones you can afford?
9. Give two examples of stochastic sound.
10. Explain the pun in the title.

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