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ALL ENGLISH 4U · B1 DICTATION · PART 2 OF 3

A Day on Planet Earth – Part 2

Listen for the different ways people experience everyday life, love, and fear.

20 questions · 10 listening gaps · 6 comprehension questions · 4 vocabulary questions

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1. Listen and complete

Questions 1–10. Write the exact word or number you hear. Capital letters do not affect your score.

To make the movie, Macdonald understood that what may be normal to one person may be (1) to another. For example, the movie shows (2) differences such as the (3) ways that people travel to (4). Macdonald explains, “What we might see as (5), living in our own culture, is not banal to somebody growing up in Dakar.”

Macdonald’s team also asked people the following questions: “What do you love most in the world, and what do you fear?” People speak of their love for family and friends, of football and fast cars, a pet cat, even a (6). Children speak of being scared of imaginary monsters and of real-life lions. Some Ukrainian farmers worry that (7) are going to eat their goats. People around the globe talk about their fear of (8), of (9), and of the loss of natural (10).

2. Understand the message

Choose one answer for each question.

11. What idea did Macdonald understand while making the movie?

12. Which example of cultural difference is mentioned?

13. What two things did the team ask people about?

14. Which pair is given as something people love?

15. What worries some Ukrainian farmers?

16. Which set contains fears mentioned in the transcript?

3. Use the vocabulary

Choose one answer for each question.

17. In Macdonald's quotation, “banal” is closest in meaning to:

18. Which word means “unusual and remarkable”?

19. If someone is “scared of” something, they:

20. In “People around the globe,” the phrase “around the globe” means:

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Your word toolkit

extraordinary
very unusual or remarkable
banal
ordinary and not especially interesting
imaginary
existing in the mind rather than in real life
globe
the world
Learning review: make your next attempt stronger
  • Compare the words people use for what they love and what they fear.
  • Notice how one person's normal experience may surprise another person.
  • Use examples nearby to infer unfamiliar words such as “banal.”

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