Today, we are doing a listening exercise and the subject is "living habits". So let's start.

So, first of all, we will look at some vocabulary...

and then I will give you the questions that you need to answer during the listening.

And then you will do the listening. So you will listen to the article...

and of course there will be no subtitles during the listening.

Then I will give you the answers to the questions.

And then I will show you the transcript or the text for the listening.

So you will get one last chance to listen to the article with the text on the screen.

So the vocabulary.

The first word is "to commute". Now this is a verb...

and it means "to travel a long distance to work every day."

So, for example, if I live in the town of Brighton, but I work in London,

then we can say that "I commute to London by train." Okay?

And another example would be:

"Jane commutes to Manchester by car."

So "to commute". It means to travel a long distance to work every day. So you live in one place, but you work in another place.

The second word is "approximately"

And this means: "not an exact number of something." So it is an estimation. Let me give you an example:

So, on this photograph, when we look at this photograph, we can say:

"There are approximately twenty people in the photograph." Alright?

So we use "approximately" when we are not sure or when we are not certain about the exact number.

We estimate the number okay?

So maybe there are twenty five people in the photograph. Maybe there are seventeen people in the photograph. We are not sure.

So we say: "There are approximately twenty people in the photograph."

And the last word, before I give you the questions, is the word "consequence"

This means: "the result or effect of something." (and often the result is a negative result or an unpleasant result.)

Example: "Smoking can have serious health consequences."

Ok? "Consequences." So the result or effect of something.

Okay, so now let's look at the questions.

Question one: "Approximately, what fraction of young people lived with their parents in 2013?"

Question two: "What proportion of the young people living with their parents were women?

Question three: "Complete the missing words (five words):

The ONS thinks that more young people are living at home because.....

And so I want you to find the five words which are missing in the middle of the sentence. Ok?

So it's important to understand that the words are in the middle of the sentence.

Okay so these five words here.

Question four:

"Give one consequence of this change in living habits." Alright?

So this is important. Just give me ONE consequence.

You will hear two consequences during the article and you can give me either the first consequence or the second consequence.

Alright? So that's important.

Okay, so get ready. You are now going to listen to the listening comprehension.

So get ready. I'm going to play it for you .... NOW!

Alright, so that is the end of the listening exercise. That is the end of the article.

If you would like to listen to that again...

If you need more time to answer the questions, then click here on the screen, on the left.

Or if you have finished and... are ready to see the answers, then just wait ten seconds okay?

Ok so we will now carry on and I will now show you the answers to the questions.

So, question one was: "Approximately what fraction of young people lived with their parents in 2013?"

And the answer is: "A quarter." "A quarter."

Question two: "What proportion of the young people living with their parents were women?"

And the answer is: "One in five".

And question three: I wanted you to find the missing 5 words in the sentence.

And the answer is: "The ONS thinks that more young people are living at home because of the current economic problems." Ok?

"because of the current economic problems."

And question four: I wanted you to give me one consequence of this change in living habits.

And so the answer is:

"Less young couples are living together."

or... "Birth rates are decreasing." So either of those answers is correct alright?

So those are the answers to the questions.

And now I will now play you the listening exercise one more time and this time I will show you the text on the screen.

Okay? So I'm going to play it for you...for you now:

Okay, so that is the the end of the listening with the transcript.

So...and that is the end of the lesson.

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