5. Now listen to the lecture again and take your own notes.

6. Now look at the Note-Taking Model from Exercise 4 and compare it to your notes. Which one is more convenient to use? Why?

7. In the following exercise, you will hear twelve questions about the information you heard in the lecture Each question will be spoken two times, but it will not be written out for you. After hearing the questions, you should look at your paper and select from the choices (a), (b), (c), or (d) the correct answer to the question you heard. Refer to your notes before making the choice.

1) a little less than:

1. 1,000,000

2. 1,500,000

3. 3,000,000

4. 9,000,000

2) in the

1. 5th century

2. 6th century

3. both (a) and (b)

4. neither (a) nor (b)

3) in the

1. 13th century

2. 14th century

3. 15th century

4. 16th century

4)

1. economic exploitation

2. political persecution

3. religious persecution

4. all of the above

5)

1. 1,000,000 people starved to death

2. 1,500,000 people left England for Ireland

3. 9,000,000 people left Ireland on floating coffins

4. none of the above

6) in

1. 1807

2. 1840

3. 1847

4. 1870

7) during the

1. first half of the 18th century

2. latter half of the 18th century

3. first half of the 19th century

4. latter half of the 19th century

8) in

1. 1922

2. 1927

3. 1942

4. 1949

9) …… it achieved self government.

1. the same year

2. seven years after

3. seventeen years after

4. twenty-seven years after

10)

1. the clergy

2. the teachers

3. the landlords

4. the politicians

11) since

1. 1903

2. 1913

3. 1930

4. 1933

12) for more than

1. 2 centuries

2. 10 centuries

3. 12 centuries

4. 20 centuries

8. Read the following statements and decide if they are true or false according to the information pre­sented in the lecture.

1. Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland occupy the same island, but they are two separate nations today.

2. Learning and culture flourished in Ireland between 400 and 500 A. D.

3. When England gained control of Ireland, the Irish fought at first, but then accepted English rule peacefully.

4. Throughout the eighteenth century, the Irish suffered from economic exploitation, but they did have religious and political freedom.

5. The failure of the potato crop brought starvation to the people who left Ireland in the eighteenth century.

6. The English language began to replace the Irish language because Englishmen, not Irishmen, held power in govern­ment, in the church, and on the economic front.

7. The people of the southern part of the island of Ireland elected to separate politically from England.

8. Before the mid-1940s, knowledge of the national language was not a requirement for teacher certification in Ireland.

9. Today the Irish government still prints all of its documents in English only.

10. The Irish people must understand the English language in order to read newspaper articles in their country today.

11. The Irish language has been spoken in Ireland for just a thousand years.

Check your answers.

(From Advanced Listening Comprehension: Developing Listening and Note-taking Skills by P.Dunkel, F.Pialorsi)