Forming a Geology Study Syndicate

👂️ Audio and questions

Reasons for having study Syndicates:
- Teaching one another is a good way to learn.
- It gives the opportunity to 1.
            
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- Shared reading means fuller notes
- You can do 2.
            
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Date
Geology Topic
Name of Presenter
9th May
3
Bob
4
Glaciated areas
Andy
23rd May
Rock formation
Helen and John
5
Volcanoes
John

Date	Geology Topic	Name of Presenter
9th May	3	Bob
4	Glaciated areas	Andy
23rd May	Rock formation	Helen and John
5	Volcanoes	John

- Presentations should last for 6.
            
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(plus time for 7.
            
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- Sources of information
Bibliography
Library books
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- For the presentations, use:
Overahead projector
Whiteboard
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❓ Transcript

Forming a Geology Study Syndicate

Andy:

Right then, are we ready, Bob, Helen?

Bob:

Uh, yeah.

Andy:

And is someone taking notes for John?

Andy:

He's at a tutorial, isn't he?

Bob:

Yeah, I'll let him know what we agree.

Andy:

Good.

Andy:

Okay, well, first thing is, has anyone apart from me actually been in a study syndicate before?

Bob:

No.

Helen:

What does it actually involve, Andy?

Andy:

Well, the idea is that it's a way for us, for students to study together without a teacher.

Helen:

Oh yeah, right.

Andy:

When I did it last time, I found it helpful because, well, as I said, there's no teacher, so it means we're teaching one another.

Andy:

And I found I really learned a lot through having to teach it myself.

Andy:

It seemed a very good way to learn.

Helen:

And presumably it gives us the chance to share ideas as well.

Bob:

And you get fuller notes if you're all doing the reading.

Andy:

That's right.

Andy:

And as well as that, because of that, really, you can do, you know, much deeper research.

Andy:

So I thought we could try it to revise what we've done on the geology course.

Andy:

Because I know this is the one that most of us are worried about, the geology exam.

Bob:

So the idea is we all look at a different topic, a different topic from the geology course, and then give a presentation and talk about it?

Andy:

That's right.

Andy:

I've drawn up the framework of a table which might be useful.

Andy:

Here, I've made a copy.

Helen:

Thanks.

Andy:

For the first topic, I thought we could maybe do mountain building.

Andy:

Is that all right?

Bob:

Yeah, sure.

Bob:

Actually, would you mind if I did that?

Bob:

I'm quite interested in it.

Andy:

Right.

Andy:

So is May 9th OK for that?

Bob:

Yeah.

Andy:

I'll just write that down.

Andy:

And it's Bob for mountain building.

Andy:

And the following week, it can't be May 16th because of our tutorial.

Andy:

But what about the 17th?

Helen:

OK.

Bob:

And what about the next topic?

Bob:

What would be the next priority?

Helen:

Well, there's glaciated areas.

Helen:

But I don't want to do that.

Bob:

Fair enough.

Andy:

Actually, I don't mind having a bash.

Andy:

I did an assignment on them.

Andy:

Glaciated areas, Andy.

Andy:

Then we need someone to do rock formation. Helen?

Helen:

Yeah, OK.

Helen:

And John said he'd like to too.

Helen:

So you can put us both down for that.

Andy:

When?

Helen:

May 23rd would be best.

Andy:

Rock formation, Helen and John, right.

Andy:

That really only leaves one week before the exams.

Andy:

Shall we make it on the 30th?

Bob:

I can't make it, I'm afraid.

Andy:

29th of May?

Andy:

The exam's on June 3rd.

Bob:

Have to be.

Andy:

OK.

Andy:

Any ideas for a topic?

Bob:

John said he wouldn't mind doing something on volcanoes.

Andy:

Great.

Andy:

That's everyone then.

Bob:

And how long should these presentations be?

Andy:

Well, it's obviously up to us.

Andy:

In my experience, 30 minutes is about enough.

Helen:

Maybe a bit short.

Helen:

I'd have thought 40 minutes would be more like it.

Andy:

Well, shall we say 30 to 40 minutes?

Bob:

OK.

Bob:

And presumably time for questions.

Helen:

And discussion.

Andy:

Yes, together they usually take about 20 minutes.

Helen:

Where shall we get the information from?

Helen:

Is it mainly lecture notes?

Andy:

Well, actually I suggest we avoid those because we already have all that information.

Andy:

I think it's better to go more deeply.

Bob:

We could use the bibliography.

Andy:

And anything else we find in the library, any other books.

Helen:

And articles, you know, from the journals.

Bob:

And then of course there's lots of stuff on the internet.

Andy:

Yes, that's the sort of thing.

Bob:

And what about the presentations?

Bob:

Will we just be talking?

Bob:

Presumably we can't use slides.

Andy:

It'd be a bit difficult, but we can use the OHP.

Helen:

And the whiteboard, of course.

Bob:

And we can make photocopies of our notes so everyone can have a copy.

Andy:

Yes, great.

Andy:

So is there anything else?

🔥 Answer key (đáp án và giải thích)

share ideas

Giải thích chi tiết

❓ Câu hỏi: It gives the opportunity to ________.

🎯 Xác định loại từ cần điền:

Sau cụm gives the opportunity to cần một động từ nguyên mẫu (bare infinitive) để diễn tả hoạt động/lợi ích của study syndicate.
Nội dung xung quanh đang nói về lợi ích khi học nhóm không có giáo viên ⇒ dự đoán đáp án liên quan đến trao đổi/đóng góp giữa các thành viên.

✅ Đáp án đúng: share ideas

▶️ Bắt đầu nghe ở: đoạn Andy giải thích study syndicate là gì và nêu các lợi ích: "When I did it last time, I found it helpful because,..."

☺️ Giải thích đáp án:

Đọc câu hỏi và khoanh vùng từ khóa: gives us the chance to và as well ⇒ đang liệt kê thêm một lợi ích.
Nghe đoạn Helen nói về lợi ích bổ sung và bắt được cụm: “gives us the chance to share ideas as well”.
Cụm share ideas khớp trực tiếp với chỗ trống sau to ⇒ điền share ideas.

🧐 Lưu ý: ❌ (do) much deeper research / deeper research => ý này có trong bài nghe nhưng là lời của Andy ở đoạn trước: “you can do … much deeper research”, không phải câu Helen nói “gives us the chance to … as well” nên dễ điền nhầm nếu chỉ nghe thấy cụm “research”.

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