GROUP ASSIGNMENT 1

(WEEK 5 / SESSION 7)
(120 minutes)
Resource: LN and PPT Week 5 Session 6, 7

A. Listening Skill 5 (9 Points)

Listen to each passage and the questions that follow. Then choose the best answers to the
questions.

PASSAGE ONE (Questions 1-3)

Listen to a lecture in a biology class.

1. How is the information in the passage organized?

A. Various types of plants are explained.
B. Various ways that plants respond to stimuli are classified.
C. Various plants that survive in different environments are described.
D. Various areas where plants grow best are outlined.
The Answer is B.

2. Is each of these kinds of tropism described in the passage?

For each item, choose YES or NO column.
YES NO
The way plants respond to water √
The way plants respond to cold √
The way plants respond to geography √
The way plants respond to gravity √
The way plants respond to height √
The way plants respond to light √

3. What is each of these types of tropism?

For each item, choose the correct column.
Phototropism Geotropism Hydrotropism
A response to light √
A response to water √
A response to gravity √

B. Listening Skill 6 (4 Points)

Listen to each passage and the questions that follow. Then choose the best answers to the
questions.

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PASSAGE ONE (Questions 1-2)
Listen as a student asks her advisor about a placement test.
1. What is implied about the math placement test?
A. It is really difficult.
B. It is required for all students.
C. The advisor does not recommend it.
D. Not all students take it.
The Answer is D.

2. What is the student most likely going to do?

A. Try to score well on the test
B. Take the beginning math class
C. Speak to a different advisor
D. Skip the placement test
The Answer is A.

PASSAGE TWO (Questions 3-4)

Listen as a student meets with his professor to discuss a term paper he is writing.

3. How was this meeting most likely initiated?

A. The student requested the meeting.
B. The student stopped by the office for an unscheduled meeting.
C. The meeting happened by chance.
D. The professor asked the student to come.
The Answer is D.

4. What is the professor’s overall assessment of the outline?

A. There is no room for improvement.
B. It is not as good as it could be.
C. Nothing about it is right.
D. It is too organized.
The Answer is B.

C. Listening Skill 5-6 (16 Points)

Listen to the passage and the questions that follow. Then choose the best answers to the
questions.

Questions 1-7

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Listen a discussion about a history course.
1. What does the discussion focus on?
A. Historical events at three locations
B. A century-by-century history of an area
C. Various ways the Wright brothers proved influential
D. Three different study questions
The Answer is A.

2. How are the locations presented?

A. In spatial order from south to north
B. In order of importance
C. In the order suggested by the professor
D. In chronological order
The Answer is D.

3. When did these people live?

For each person of people, choose the correct column.
16th century 18th century 20th century
Blackbeard √
Wright brothers √
Lost colonists √

4. With what people are these locations asociated?

For each person of people, choose the correct column.
Blackbeard Wright brothers Lost colonists
Roanoke Island √
Ocracoke Island √
Kitty Hawk √

5. Do the students discuss these places?

For each place, choose YES or NO column.
YES NO
A place where a ship was lost √
A place where a colony was established √
A place used as a pirate’s hideout √
A place that was attacked by pirates √
A place where there is an airport √
A place where an event in aviation history took place √

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6. What can be inferred from the passage about the events selected by the students?
A. They all involved famous people.
B. They were not all positive events.
C. They all took place within the last century.
D. They all occurred in different states.
The Answer is A.

7. What will the students most likely do next?

A. Visit the Outer Banks
B. Take the history exam
C. Finish the last question
D. Discuss the Outer Banks further
The Answer is C.

D. Speaking and Writing: business meeting and minute of meeting (71 Points)

In your group, chairing a business meeting in order to create a new business or company.
Inside of the meeting, discuss everything you need to open the business such as the name of the
company, name of product and service, strength, price, location, promotion, competitors etc.
During the discussion create a minute of meeting (MoM), attach your first draft of your MoM
and also the edited MoM to be reported to the director.

Assumption : ABC Mining is one of mining company at Jakarta win tender by Adaro Coal
to export coal to Vietnam. would involve one of top 5 national logistics company and
cooperation with XYZ Logistics for the implementation of the tender. ABC Mining invite
Meeting XYZ Logistic at ABC Headoffice. And here’s the minutes of meeting

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 Minutes of Meeting

TOPIC : ABC Mining and XYZ Logitics – (Coal Export Project)

DATE : Saturday, 11 January 2020
LOCATION : ABC Meeting Room Head Office
ATTENDED BY :

 Alga Mehdi – ABC Mining

 Suryadi – ABC Mining
 Muhammad Ridjal Fathoni – XYZ Logistics
 Dwi Arif Rahman Akhsin – XYZ Logistics
 Valencia Fortuna – XYZ Logistics

Minutes of Meetings

1. Objective of the meeting: Clarification of rate submission for Tender Coal Export Project
2. ABC Mining will take a tender Coal Export by Adaro (main client) cooperate with XYZ Logistics as
logistics partner
3. The projects is transporting Coal from Kendari to Vietnam (transit in Jakarta for stock pile) and
the projects estimated to begin in March 2020
4. ABC Mining to check required certifications for this project and will share XYZ Logistics to
provide
5. Multimoda Transport, customs brokerage and Warehouses in Jakarta, to be provided by XYZ
Logistics.
6. Warehouses represent with M2 area for both Temporary Yard and Warehouse.
7. Multimoda transport and customs brokerage rate by IDR per Metercubic Coal.
8. Warehouse Management System module to be integrated with ABC Mining and ABC Mining
with Adaro (main client)
9. ABC Mining advised that Rate request is per unit rate or cubic meter rate, therefore we cannot
put as at cost basis. XYZ Logistics need to provide with all in rate.
10. XYZ Logistics to provide limitation, Transport Envelope to access facility/entry gate, road acces
to the nominated yard/warehouse
11. XYZ Logistics to provide Organisation structure for this project (for Jakarta Operations)
12. XYZ Logistics to calculate manpower and overheads to be build into XYZ Logistics unit rate
propose to ABC Mining.
13. XYZ Logistics to provide CV for the Resume of Senior Person (Account Manager, Warehouse
Manager, Yard Manager, Transport Planner) – due date: 19 Jan 2020

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14. ABC Mining will put 1 PIC for Coordinator , 2 CS/Data Entry at the location. All cost to be
calculated and included into the unit rate.
15. ABC Mining will share insurance coverage required for this project together with tempalte of
agreement as this will be as back to back basis between ABC Mining and XYZ Logistics.
16. Validity of the rate: 16 months starting from commencement date February – March 2020
17. XYZ Logistics to revert back for all the above by: 19 January 2020

*** end of meeting ***

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