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I'm Jane Hanser and the ESL Help Desk
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Today we're going to focus on listening comprehension. Two weeks ago we listened to nine questions,
and today we're going to listen to the nine answers. However, we
will be leaving one word out of each answer: Your challenge is to choose
the correct word or phrase from the answers below for each "blank".
Below are the nine word or phrases, but they are
not in the correct order. Each one fits only once.
complicated
(to be) due
to cook
new
well
mind
relaxation
beautiful thing
obligations
We hope you really
enjoy these thought-provoking and creative questions and their thoughtful
and entertaining answers.
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Baseball Sounds by Jasinski, Permission of the FreeSound Project,
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