Exercise 11: Listen to the following piece of news and complete each question with NO MORE THAN FIVE WORDS.

Here are a few things to keep in mind when you're 1.__________ that'll dramatically improve your shots. These are the few hours after sunrise and before sunset when the lighting is softness and 2.__________. It casts harsh shadows and 3.__________. That way you're retaining all the information from 4.__________. When you're taking pictures of people, frame them so you're cutting them off mid-shin or 5.__________.

It gives you 6.__________ over important camera features like ISO, aperture and even lets you control the 7.__________

A 8.__________ gives you an extremely wide field of view. Every time you go further into the image it just 9.__________ it and 10.__________ it more and more.

Your answers:

Source:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kVTpM3onRY&list=PLDt0J62yU45sN1rBmNiSRr12acZBnPAZy&index=56 (0:00 – 2:30 )

Exercise 12: Listen to the following piece of news and complete each question with NO MORE THAN FIVE WORDS.

What being a night owl does to our health? Scientists keep publishing all this grim research telling them they might die sooner than 1.______  _______. Lots of outside factors can affect your sleep habits, like your work schedule or your 2.______  ______  _______. But whether you're a morning person can also be more of a built-in genetic thing. This latest study, published this week in the journal Nature Communications,

discovered more than 300 new genes connected to 3.___________ From the participants’ genetic data, the researchers were able to identify 4._______ genetic markers associated with being an early or late riser, only 24 of which had been previously identified. These newly IDed genes were involved with everything from

5._______   ________ to the development of neurons to retinal tissue. The researchers think changes to the retina, for example, could affect how light 6. ________ your body clock, which could affect what time of day you get sleepy.

 Previous studies had suggested links between chronotype and things like 7._______, weight, and Type 2 diabetes risk, so the researchers chose to focus on those health risks in their analysis. Using 8.______ statistics, they were able to analyze more than just correlations, they could actually calculate whether one thing was likely to cause another. And they found that being an early bird strongly predicted a better overall sense of well-being, as well as a lower risk of 9._______  __________  _________.

So we still have a lot more to learn, but with the huge 10._________ of genetic data researchers are compiling, we’re starting to be able to answer questions we never could before.

Your answers:

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU0DyudkXLQ

Exercise 13: Listen to the following piece of news and complete each question with NO MORE THAN FIVE WORDS.

21 seconds seems to be the magic number thanks to a combination of 1._______ _______ _______ How fast you expel it that rate depends on the width of your 2._______— the pipe that delivers urine from the bladder to the outside world and the pressure pushing the pee out.  The overall pressure pushing the urine out also depends on both that and the urine’s 3._______ ________: Urine in a large animal is being pushed out more forcefully through a tube that’s 4.________ _________. Some researchers actually did the math in a 2014. They also filmed and watched a bunch of animals pee to 5.______ ______ _______. There are a few 6._______. The 21 second rule only counts for full bladders in mammals heavier than 3 kilograms.  Smaller animals urinate in a series of quick droplets because the thinness of their 7._______ and the friction created by the flowing fluid actually pushes up on the liquid, opposing the force of gravity. It also might not apply to 8._______ ________ because the water, especially at depth,applies pressure to the urethra and pushes the pee back up the pipe.  To be clear, none of this counts for reptiles or birds because they’ve got a whole 9._______ _______ ______.  It just goes to show that some 10._______ ________ can sometimes lead to useful results.

Your answers:

Source: https://youtu.be/R5lOGjHzNDU (0:00 - 3:32)

Exercise 14: Listen to the following piece of news and complete each question with NO MORE THAN FIVE WORDS.

The largest type of whale can measure about 1.___________ in length. 401 people could fit in its mouth is an important matter of whales’ 2.________ _________ one website tells us. Their sperm  might be smaller, but they are 3.________ __________. In 2015, Luigi Marquez  - 4._________  ________ was swallowed by a whale and lived in its belly for three days before emerging in one piece. 5._______  ________  ________, the tale was first reported by a dubious spiritual website.  Three days was the time Jonah had a 6.__________ inside the giant fish. The headline “Rescue of a Modern Jonah” was ran by a 7._______ _______while many. The scew dropped a couple of boats and armed with 8._________ went to hunt the whale. Mr. Bartley was the one 9._______  ________.  About a 10. _______  _______  _______ later the crew noticed something moving, a man curled in a ball, covered in whale stomach.

Your answers:

Exercise 15: Listen to the following piece of news and complete each question with NO MORE THAN FIVE WORDS.

This entire historic community 1.___________.   It was an 2.___________.   And almost 100 years later, the facts of what exactly happened that day are still 3.___________.   In 1921 — a neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma called the Greenwood District, was 4.___________  community of black-owned businesses. It was 5.___________it was a huge success. There needed to be a sort of match or 6.___________   on these embers and that event was, that trigger event, was an incident that involved two teenagers: Dick Rowland, 19-year-old black boy who 7.___________.  The local newspaper ran an article claiming Rowland 8.___________Page. A number of black men, several dozen, marched down to 9.___________   to protect him. Hundreds of white people 10.___________upon Black Wall Street.

Your answers:

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-ItsPBTFO0 (0:00 – 3:07)