Task 1: Talk about a volunteer work you enjoy doing, explain why you enjoy it in details.
Sample
I would love to read to patients for the following reasons. First, this is an activity that’s perfect for patients since many of them can’t move easily. Reading can take them onto journeys they couldn’t possibly go even if they were perfectly healthy. I think the experience reading gives us can take away some pain. Second, reading bonds people like no other. I can’t even imagine how boring it must be to lie in a hospital bed for days, in some cases weeks. Reading can help patients heal by bringing someone closer to them through a shared experience.
Task 2: Some people prefer to work in an office, others prefer to work from home. Which do you prefer?
Sample
I prefer to work in an office for the following reasons. First, I’m more productive working with others. I get more done while collaborating with a team. I find it hard to stay focused working from home, because it’s easy to get lazy or put things off when I’m distracted by household chores. Second, working in an office means I’m always surrounded by lots of people. I think it’s fun to interact with others. When there’s something that I’m not sure of, I can get plenty of help and suggestions from my coworkers.
Task 3
Reading:
Notice: The university is going to cancel the poetry writing class
Reason 1: Few students enrolled in
Reason 2: The students can take a similar class in the nearby university
Listening:
The man disagrees
Reason 1: Fewer students means smaller classes, that’s a good thing for students because it offers students enough attention from the professors and that’s very important
Reason 2: It’s inconvenient, the other university is actually pretty far away like an hour by bus, most of students don’t have a car so it’s too difficult for them to commute
Task 4
Definition: Releasers are certain stimuli that can lead animals to do a corresponding behavior
Example 1: Toads love to eat worms. They eat anything that looks like a worm, so if you put a pencil around them and keep moving it at the same time, they will attack the pencil. So the pencils here are like a stimuli.
Example 2: Geese protect their eggs. If something is approaching, they use their beaks to throw things onto the nest to protect the baby geese. So round object to geese is like a releaser.
Task 5
Problem: She wants to take an economics class, but she has another 4 required classes to take, she’s worried she won’t be able to keep up.
Solution 1: Audit the economics class
Pro: No papers and stuff
Con: /
Solution 2: Sign up for this course later
Pro: /
Con: /
Task 6
Majority influence happens when an individual’s behavior is affected and altered by group thoughts.
Example 1: You’re driving friends to a restaurant and don’t know which way to go, the rest of people in the car think you should go straight and actually you want to turn right or left, but you are more likely to change your idea because the majority of the group thinks you should go straight.
Example 2: You’re going to a movie with some people you want to impress. After the movie, even though you didn’t like it at all, the rest of people think it was great, so you’re more likely to agree with them instead of speaking your own mind because you want to blend in.