Listening and Speaking 5
Unit 5 Student Book Answer Key
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Activity A., p. 114
Answers will vary.
Activity B., p. 115
1. Yuna covers her walls with photos of friends
and family. She does this because she likes
to have the faces of people she loves
around her.
2. It drives Marcus’ mother crazy when she
sees his books all over his room. Additional
answers will vary.
NOTE-TAKING SKILL
Activity A., p. 118
I. Proxemics – the study of personal space
A. Edward Hall – anthropologist
B. personal space bubble equals 2.5–4 feet
1. entering personal space = an invasion
II. Technology and personal space
A. RFID tags
1. information on price and manufacturer
2. RFID readers give information on
shopping habits
B. GPS devices
1. parents knowing where children are from
phones
2. police tracking a potential criminal
3. burglars robbing you while you're away
LISTENING 1
WORK WITH THE LISTENING
Activity A., pp. 120–121
I. Environmental psychology
A. Definition: studies the interrelationship
between human behavior and
environments
B. Areas the lecture will focus on:
1. Gender
2. Eye contact
3. Need for privacy
II. Male and female sitting behavior
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A. Feelings of invasion
1. Face-to face invasion (males)
2. Adjacent invasion (females)
B. Placement of belongings
1. The jacket study
2. Placement of belongings
C. Exploring territories on bikes
1. Smaller territories for girls
2. Larger territories for boys
D. Touching plates in restaurants
III. Eye contact: Post office experiment
A. Less likely to make eye contact in a city
B. Most likely to make eye contact in a rural
community
IV. Visual intrusion and privacy—stressful places
A. Visual intrusion—to see and be seen
1. Restaurants
2. Offices
B. Privacy—dorm rooms
Activity B., p. 121
Answers will vary. Possible answers:
1. Environmental psychology is a field of
research that studies how people behave as a
result of their environment.
2. Females respond to invasion of space to the
side, whereas men respond to space across
from them. Also, people tend to give more
respect to territory or property of males than to
that of females.
3. People use eye contact to convey how they
feel about personal space.
4. A perceived lack of privacy can cause people
to feel stressed.
Activity C., pp. 121–122
1. F; Men are more offended by face-to-face
encounters. / Women are more offended
by someone sitting adjacent to them.
2. T
3. T
4. F; Visitors are more likely to disturb items
belonging to a female than a male.
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6. F; Territorial behavior begins when we are WORK WITH THE LISTENING
children. Activity A., pp. 127–128
7. F; According to the lecture, males tend to Dr. Gosling’s work – professor of psychology;
explore a larger territory than females. writer of Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About
8. T You; snooping in peoples’ personal areas;
9. F; People in a large city tend to make less analyzing what people have and how objects
eye contact than people in smaller towns. are arranged; figuring out people’s personalities
Activity D., p. 122 Neil Conan’s stuff – a baseball; his FCC radio
1. b operator’s license; a double decker London bus;
2. e family pictures
3. a personal items and what they reveal – introvert
4. d or extrovert personality; caring about family;
5. c people’s Facebook pages help us know them
Activity F., pp. 123–124 using clues to build a picture – finding reasons
1. b why people have certain items; not jumping to
2. a conclusions like the handshake study; be a
3. a detective and read the clues; find out the
4. b meaning behind the stuff
5. c Activity B., p. 128
6. a Answers may vary. Sample answer:
7. c I. Dr. Gosling
8. c A. psychology professor
9. a 1. studies personalities based on their stuff
10. c B. author of Snoop: What Your Stuff Says
11. b About You
12. b 1. snoops around people’s stuff
2. analyzes stuff and the arrangement of
LISTENING SKILL items
Activity A., p. 126 II. Neil Conan’s stuff
List the following six cues, in any order: A. on the wall
in addition, for example, in fact, equally 1. pictures, his FCC operator’s license
important, that is, in short B. on his desk
Activity B., p. 126 1. a baseball
1. b 2. some toys
2. a III. What personal items reveal
3. a A. personality – introvert and extrovert
4. a B. relationships with family
5. a C. what is important to people – from
6. b Facebook pages
IV. Using clues to build a picture

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A. don’t jump to conclusions like the 9. extrovert

handshake study 10. domain
B. put together the pieces – not just one item 11. crucial
C. look at the clues like a detective 12. framework
Activity C., p. 128
1. his operator’s license; family pictures VOCABULARY SKILL
2. how the objects are arranged Activity A., pp. 131–132
3. offices, rooms in houses, Web sites 1. b
4. personal Web pages 2. a
5. extroverts and introverts 3. f
6. impressions people got from handshakes 4. d
7. come to the wrong conclusion because we 5. h
base our view on just one part of the 6. i
person, on one clue 7. k
8. sentimental 8. j
Activity D., p. 129 9. o
Answers will vary. Possible answers: 10. n
1. He looks at physical environments, aural
environments, and virtual environments. GRAMMAR
2. No. He believes we often “go beyond the Activity A., pp. 134–135
evidence,” that is, make too many conclusions 1. b
based on only one clue. 2. b
3. It’s important to know something about 3. b
various types of personalities in order to 4. b
correctly learn something about a person based 5. a
on their belongings. 6. b
Activity E., p. 129
1. unsigned PRONUNCIATION
2. away from Activity A., p. 136
3. we are all If you had a stuffed teddy on your bed / it
4. writer meant something / you know. But the world is
5. blogging and emailing more complicated / than that. So unfortunately
Activity F., pp. 129–130 / it doesn’t work like that / because there are
1. modify many reasons / why we might have / say / a
2. propose stuffed animal on our bed / or something like
3. introvert that. And so / really you can’t use a codebook
4. clues approach / where x means y. What you have to
5. clarify do is / you have to build up a picture / piece by
6. profile piece / and sometimes you only have / a very
7. tentatively little piece / and you have to hold your view
8. traits

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very tentatively. But that will / that will guide

your search / for more information.

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