2P3L5 Listening B1

• Engels
• MBO
• Studiejaar 2

English Listening B1

13 March

Good Samaritan Day

Someone who helps out another person, doing a good deed for someone without expecting something in return.

What good deed did you do in the past weeks and how did it make you feel?

Popcorn lover's day

What is your favourite snack and why?

11 March 2020

The World Health Organization declared that the COVID-19 outbreak was a pandemic.

What is the difference between an epidemic and a pandemic?

What pandemics did we
encounter since 1850?

Pandemics

pan                     Disease                   Years                  Death toll           

3rd plague      Bubonic plague   1855-1960       12-15 million      

Spanish flu     Influenza                1918-1920        17-100 million    

HIV/AIDS          HIV                             1981- now        43 million           

COVID-19         COVID-19                 2020- now      7-35 million       

Today's lesson 

• Attendence
• Toets en oefenexamen
• Listening Practise How memories form and how we lose them
• FIX extra practice
• Homework

How memories form and how we lose them

Long term potentiation is a mechanism by which:

1. Memories are lost
2. Memories are stored
3. Memories are formed

Long term potentiation is a mechanism by which:

1. Memories are lost
2. Memories are stored
3. Memories are formed

Which two factors contribute to memory loss as we age:
a

1. Brain shrinkage and extra neuronal connections
2. Brain growth and a drop in neurotransmitter production
3. Brain shrinkage and a drop in neurotransmitter production
4. Brain growth and extra neuronal connections

Which two factors contribute to memory loss as we age:
a

1. Brain shrinkage and extra neuronal connections
2. Brain growth and a drop in neurotransmitter production
3. Brain shrinkage and a drop in neurotransmitter production
4. Brain growth and extra neuronal connections

You look up a friends phone number, however when you call the number, the line is busy. When you start to dial the number again at a later time, you no longer remember it. This experience probably occurred because the phone number was only temporarily stored in your:

1. Long-term memory
2. Short-term memory
3. Sensory memory
4. None of the above

You look up a friends phone number, however when you call the number, the line is busy. When you start to dial the number again at a later time, you no longer remember it. This experience probably occurred because the phone number was only temporarily stored in your:

1. Long-term memory
2. Short-term memory
3. Sensory memory
4. None of the above

The major factor that promotes our ability to retrieve information from long-term memory is:

1. Stress
2. Boredom
3. Paying attention to meaningful information
4. Depression

The major factor that promotes our ability to retrieve information from long-term memory is:

1. Stress
2. Boredom
3. Paying attention to meaningful information
4. Depression

We can do the following to preserve our memories EXCEPT:

1. Exercise
2. Eat healthily
3. Take drugs
4. Participate in mentally stimulating activities

We can do the following to preserve our memories EXCEPT:

1. Exercise
2. Eat healthily
3. Take drugs
4. Participate in mentally stimulating activities

FIX B1 Listening

Extra Practice: Tripple trouble

Homework

B1 Listening 3.1 and 3.2

What does it mean to be a refugee?

Listening B1

Difficult situations

See you next time!!!

11 March

Commonwealth Day

What is the Commonwealth?
(NL: Gemenebest)

Commonwealth

The Commonwealth is a voluntary association of 56 independent and equal countries, working together in different areas. 

The Commonwealth's roots go back to the British Empire. But today any country can join the modern Commonwealth. The last two countries to join the Commonwealth were Gabon and Togo in 2022.

12 March

1894 

The American pharmacist John Pemberton starts selling Coca-Cola, a a stimulating medicinal drink with leaves of the coca plant.

12 March

1968

Mauritius gains independence from the UK. 

Colonised by the Dutch, French and British from the 17e century. 

Mauritius stayed in the Commonwealth with Queen Elizabeth II as head of state. On this day in 1992 the country became a republic.

Where is Mauritius situated?

What is Mauritius known for?