LISTENING COMPREHENSION

Listening to announcements and instructions (B1) – Track 1

 Can understand instructions well enough to be able to follow them successfully.

 Can follow much of everyday conversation and discussion, provided it takes place in
standard speech and is clearly articulated in a familiar accent.

Listening to audio recordings (B2-C2) – Track 2

 Can understand recordings in the standard form of the language likely to be encountered in
social, professional or academic life and identify speaker viewpoints and attitudes as well
as the information content.
 Can understand nuances and implied meaning, provided these are delivered in the
standard language.

Exercise 1 LISTENING
Listen to the recording First day of class (Track 1) and fill in the blanks in the sentences below:
(0,5 x 8 = 4p)

This is Philosophy 420: Busines Ethics.

You are all in the right place ?

First, I’d like to introduce myself.

My office is room 822 in the humanities building.

My office hours are from 3 to 4 every afternoon.

If you need to talk to me at another time, please make an appointment with me.

The textbook we’ll be using in this course is Business Ethics for Today.

The university bookstore has plenty of copies.

Exercise 2
Listen to the first part of Conducting Business (Track 2: min. 0.00 - min. 8.19) and answer the
following questions. Please give detailed answers using YOUR OWN WORDS. (5p)

a. When K. Scott Warren conducts a choral piece whose performance involves people of all religious
backgrounds what does he encourage the singers and orchestra members to do?

When K. Scott Warren conducts a choral piece whose performance involves people of all religious
backgrounds, he encouraged the singers and orchestra members to connect the deepest meaning in the
text with the feelings that people experience every day, because we all have common experiences as
human beings. They are focused on the feeling and because of that they don't go specifically into a lot of
theology or dogma.

b. How did Scott feel when, prior to being a conductor, he played music that belonged to a different
religious tradition than his own?

He grew up in Texas in the evangelical tradition and he constantly playing in those churches. After that,
he was playing music at a synagogue. Prior to being a conductor, when he played music that belonged to a
different religious tradition than his own, Scott experienced music in ways he had never heard before.
This thing helped him to find out who is he, where he belongs in the Universe.

c. How did Mark Shapiro feel when, prior to being a conductor, he sang choral music that belonged to a
different religious tradition than his own?

Prior to being a conductor, when he sang music that belonged to a different religious tradition than his
own, Mark Shapiro believed, just like he still does, that music has its own energy. He thinks there's
something in the music itself, their energies in all music that we all respond to if we're musically
sensitive. That can help us to be one with the message with the song.

d. How does Mark encourage choral singers to relate to sacred music?

Mark encourage chiral singers to relate the passing of time and seasons, Christmas especially, to sacred
music. He thinks a lot of religious experience has to do with our response to the season. He considers
Christmas a very complicated holiday to understand, but a season full of hope and faith.
e. How do Scott and Mark react when they have to conduct sacred music in a worship environment as
opposed to a concert hall?

For Scott, when he has to conduct sacred music in a worship environment, it is important for the choir
members to feel what they are singing. If the choir receives it and they understand what it is trying to
communicate to the audience, the auditor will miss it. For Mark when he has to conduct sacred music in a
different environment than the concert hall is more of a challenge. He doesn't do nearly as much
conducting in worship environments as Scott does. But when he does it, he finds one of the difficulties
can be that the singers, because of the formality of the worship environment, can feel a little close in.
They want to be able to have the feeling of flexibility and freedom and translate that into the worship
environment.

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Evaluation grid & scoring

Exercise 1

0.5p x 8 items = 4p

Exercise 2

5p

Ability to select relevant points = 1,5p

Ability to identify detailed information = 1,5p
Ability to transfer information = 1p
Use of relevant vocabulary = 0,5p
Grammatical accuracy = 0,5p