Listening Course
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Lesson 1 – Life As An Astronaut4 Activities
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Lesson 2 – Playing Musical Instruments4 Activities
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Lesson 3 – Internet Addiction5 Activities
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Lesson 4 – Exercise Habits & Mistakes4 Activities
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Lesson 5 – Animal Intelligence4 Activities
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Lesson 6 – Worst Job4 Activities
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Lesson 7 – A Brief History Of Jeans4 Activities
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Lesson 8 – College & Career4 Activities
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Lesson 9 – Urban Agriculture4 Activities
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Lesson 10 – Life In NYC7 Activities
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Lesson 11 – Stay-At-Home Dads4 Activities
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Lesson 12 – Embarrassing Moments4 Activities
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Lesson 13 – The Stanford Prison Experiment4 Activities
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Lesson 14 – About My Pets4 Activities
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Lesson 15 – The LEGO Story4 Activities
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Lesson 16 – Favorite Movie/Book4 Activities
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Lesson 17 – Tattoos In Different Cultures4 Activities
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Lesson 18 – Parents4 Activities
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Lesson 19 – Origin Of Santa Claus4 Activities
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Lesson 20 – Just In Time!4 Activities
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Lesson 21 – U.K. Vs. U.S. Business Culture4 Activities
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Lesson 22 – Broken Bone4 Activities
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Lesson 23 – The Amazing Human Body4 Activities
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Lesson 24 – American Football4 Activities
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Lesson 25 – Wedding Traditions4 Activities
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Lesson 26 – Study Abroad4 Activities
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Lesson 27 – The Tiny House Movement4 Activities
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Lesson 28 – What’s Your Pet Peeve?4 Activities
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Lesson 29 – The Jackie Robinson Story4 Activities
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Lesson 30 – Childhood Memories4 Activities
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Lesson 31 – A Fairy Tale5 Activities
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Lesson 32 – Grandparents4 Activities
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Lesson 33 – Urban Legends4 Activities
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Lesson 34 – Achieving Goals4 Activities
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Lesson 35 – Creative Work Environments4 Activities
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Lesson 36 – Mistakes4 Activities
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Lesson 37 – Best Pranks In History4 Activities
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Lesson 38 – Vacation4 Activities
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Lesson 39 – Junk Food4 Activities
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Lesson 40 – Abilities4 Activities
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Lesson 41 – World-Changing Mistakes4 Activities
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Lesson 42 – Volunteer Work4 Activities
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Lesson 43 – Utopia & Dystopia4 Activities
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Lesson 44 – If I Were President…4 Activities
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Lesson 45 – The Future Of Medicine4 Activities
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Your Feedback & Next Steps
Lesson 2 – Playing Musical Instruments
Warm-up:
A) How many musical instruments can you think of in English? Write their names.
B) Have you ever learned to play a musical instrument? How was the experience?
Or, if not: which instrument would you like to learn and why?
Pre-Learn Vocabulary
reed (n.) = a small strip located in the mouthpiece of certain musical instruments, which vibrates with the flow of air and helps make the sound.

marching band (n.) = a group of people playing musical instruments (“band”) that plays music together while walking in unison (“marching”). Marching bands often perform in parades and sometimes sports games.

pit band (n.) = Also called a “pit orchestra” – a band that plays music to accompany dance or theater performances. The musicians sit in a low area (“pit”) in front of the stage.

neat (adj.) = The word “neat” can mean something is well-organized (the opposite of “messy”). However, in this audio it is used to mean “good” or “interesting.”
Ex) My son has a really neat idea for a new website.
run into = This phrasal verb is used in two different ways in the audio. One is to “meet someone by chance” and the other is to “encounter” problems/difficulties.
Ex) At the mall, I ran into a friend from college who I hadn’t seen in years!
Ex) I tried to translate this document from French to English, but I ran into trouble with a couple of the more technical terms; I’m not sure what they mean.
on the spot (idiom) = to do something spontaneously at that moment, without previous planning
Ex) At the last minute, my co-worker said he couldn’t go to the meeting and asked if I could fill in for him – so I had to give his presentation on the spot.
chord (n.) = in music, a combination of 2 or more notes played together at the same time:
