Final Listening test 20%

FINAL LISTENING EXAM: Blowin’ in the Wind /50 (20%)

1- What is Percy Schmeiser’s problem? /4

He had been in farming industry for fifty years and winds always been his worst enemy and now it has brought a new threat: Monsanto's DNA.

2- What is Roundup used for? /4

It's used to killed everything growing on a field, but they invent a special Canola that can resist to it.

3- How did the chemical company invent Roundup? /4

They invent it with special toxic products, but with their special Canola that can resist it, they assure themselves to have something to back them.

4- What has Monsanto accused Schmeiser of doing? /4

They accused him of stealing their special DNA because they found some in his seeds and he's not paying the rights for it.

5- Why are the farmers pissed off? /4

The farmers are pissed off because they don't think it's ethical to pay for this kind of things. they souldn't pay and change the way they've been doing agriculture for centuries and more.

6- How did Monsanto initially learn about Schmeiser? /4

Somebody told them and they trapped him.

7- Did the company respect its policy on dealing with the farmer? Yes or no. Give a reason. /4

No. Their playing the rough game and since their bigger than everything and everyone else, they don't let a tiny bit of chance to the others. Looking on the situation, Justice don't seem to be an option. The biggest win.

8- What tactics did the company use with another farmer? /4

They ask if they can have an excerpt of his plantation/seeds and since they've got it, they analyze it.

9- How did another farmer, Zilinski, get Monsanto’s DNA in his crops? /4

He trade his seeds with another farmer (something realy common) but sadly for him the seeds he got were having Monsanto's DNA. He was accused and penalized after.

10- How did the company treat Zilinski? /4

They shoot and spray their product on his fields with an helicopter to see if the Canola were resisting to te product, to finally discover that it was having nothing to do with it.

11- What is Schmeiser’s next step? /4

Continue fighting because he believe in what he's fighting for and he won't let them win so easily.

12- The narrator ends the segment with this question: “But the real question is this, can Monsanto or anybody put a patent on a piece of nature?” What do you think? /6

It goes along with the ultimate question: what about selling water? It's an hard question because yes of course those elements of nature are brought near us and supervised by people, but if it's to start a war or something violent or bad, I don't think it's the right solution. We need to know the borderline and not cross them, and actually it's always the question of power and human are good to exaggerate with it and abused of it too. But ultimately there's this idealized world really "Peace and Love" where everything belongs to everybody and we can all share and everything. Sadly the world is not like that and it's a question too elaborate in too much directions to really tell here. There's a lot of sides (good and bad) to it and it's all about circumstances. Really is a big opening question.

Pascua Lama Role Card

Title of special interest group: CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY

Your name: Yeng Li

Biographical information (CV)
Your Life and history : I was born in 1980

Your Personal Job and work experiences : I always been interested by news since my youth. But for

Your Schooling Information : Had studied International journalism in England at University College Falmouth.

Your achievements in life : Working at central news agency.

Your abilities and competencies : I can talk about anything that passionate me. I'm very voluble.

Position statement (for, against or neutral): state three reasons with specific facts or examples (see Persuasive Map).

As a news reporter my job is to state news and to tell everything we have to and everything we can say. I don,t want to put my own judgement in the mind of everyone and there's a lot of good and bad sides so I can't really divide myself.

GM foods

1. GM foods involve altering the appearance of food. -- True -> FALSE

2. The genetic modifications of food is not a new phenomenon. -- True

3. Technology exists to make plants resistant to insects. -- True

4. Health Canada has accepted or approved hundreds of GM food. -- True -> FALSE

5. Some approve GM food include bananas and oranges. -- True -> FALSE

6. Health Canada has a strict process for evaluating the safety of GM food. -- True

7. It takes over 10 years to approve GM food. -- True -> FALSE

8. Health Canada used many sciences to assess GM food including chemistry. -- True

9. GM food can cure allergies. -- True. -> FALSE

10. Critics of GM food are worried about superweeds. -- True.

Pascua lama

Who? Chile and Argentina

What? Pascua-Lama is an open pit mining proyect of gold, silver, copper and other minerals.

Where? Pascua Lama is located in the Andes mountains, south of Atacama, straddling the border between Chile and Argentina at an altitude of over 4,500 metres.

When? Since 1991

Why? Lots of controversy

How?

LEL #4 Reading Skills Diagnostic 1: Persuasive Text

1. Interest level: This course was really boring (great; okay; loosy; boring)
2. Difficulty level: It was dunno level

3. What I learned: It was really precise and all the questions were helpful about everythings. I was evaluate on many things such as:
Distinguish Fact from Opinion
Draw Conclusions
Draw Inferences
Identify Author's Purpose
Identify Main Idea
Identify Organizational Patterns
Identify Vocabulary in Context
Predict Meaning
Recognize Point of View
Recognize Supporting Details
But the problem was I didn't rely on te text and he really bored me more than interest me. So the persuasion wasn't really effective and it didn't catch my attention to answer with precision.

4. My score: 65%

5. Rating (on 10): 4/10

Bias

An opinion or point of view

It could be based on who you are or where you live or what you believe or value or what is your job.

- Bias in the media aims to persuade you that they are right.

- Examples: Includes or excluding information : By headline; by terms you use (ex. Terrorists vs Freedom fighters)

Summarizing

Putting a text in your own words in a shortened form in a shortened form (Table of contents / Index)

What to do first
1. Skim the text (table of contents / index)
2. Pick out the main ideas
3. Find Topic sentence (main idea of Paragraph)

Questions to ask yourself?
1. What happened? (Where?) (When?) (Why?)
2. What is involved?
3. What was the outcome / consequence?
4. Is the essential piece of information included?

LEL #3 Reading Comprehension Course 2: Structure

1. Interest level: This course was really boring. It was interesting or anything else to catch my attention.

2. Difficulty level: It was dunno level

3. What I learned: It was kind of weird and long, it was divided in four lessons and it wasn't on things that I didn't know. They were showing the differend kind of structure of a text such as

Lesson 1: Chronological order. Ideas are arranged in the order in which they occurred (or in the order in which they should occur).

Lesson 2: Order of importance. Ideas are arranged in order of increasing importance (least important idea to most important idea) or in order of decreasing importance (most important idea to least important idea).

Lesson 3: Compare and contrast. Ideas are arranged so that parallel aspects of item A and item B are compared and contrasted either in block style (AAAABBBB) or point-by-point style (ABABABAB).

Lesson 4: Cause and effect. Ideas are arranged so that readers can see what event or series of events caused something to take place or what effect an event or series of events had.

But well, I read a lot and I knoew thoses kinds of things and I didn,t found that the practise exercise was really helpful for me.
So I don't think it was really helpful.

4. My score: Hum well I didn't found it?

5. Rating (on 10): 4/10

Brand loyalty

- In how many stages is the brand loyalty measured? What are those stages?

- What is brand recognition?

- Can loyalty to a product fade?

- What can a brand offer to tempt their customers?

- What situation is considered as a marketer's dream?

- What is the task of the marketer?

- What are the four variables that are consisting the Brand quity?

- Are their Canadian Brands in the top 100 global brands?

- Is it more difficult to convert a new customer or to retain a current customer?