Amazing Facts, listening B1 level
Exercises:
1:
D= cells a. Very tiny creatures that live on plants or animals.
C= bacteria b. The smallest part of a chemical element.
A=mites c. The simplest and smallest forms of life. They live in air, water, soil, as well as in humans and animals (dead or alive). They are often the cause of disease.
B=atom d. The smallest part of an animal or plant that can work independently. All plants and animals are made of these

2:
1. Only about one tenth of the cells in your body are B
a. alive. b. really you. c. bacteria.
2. Bacteria are mostly A
a. really helpful. b. bad for humans. c. neither good or bad.
3. Animals need bacteria to C
a. fight diseases. b. provide energy. c. digest food.
4. You have C cells in your body.
a. 7 million b. 7 trillion c. 7 octillion
5. Most of the atoms are C
a. tiny cubes. b. not used. C. empty space.
6. You probably have mites in your C
a. hair. b. ears. c. eyelashes.
7. Mites are very small creatures that are about B
a. 3 millimetres long. b. a third of a millimetre long. c. 0.03 millimetres long.
8. Mites eat A
a. dead skin. b. your eyelashes. c. tiny insects.

3-
1. Only one tenth of the cells in your body are really you. The rest are bacteria.
2. An experiment found that animals that did not have bacteria died or had to have a special diet.
3. There are 7 octillion cells in the human body.
4. Most of the atoms in the human body are just empty space.
5. Without the empty space, you could fit your body inside a box measuring 0,0002 of a centimetre either side.
6. You would be much too small to see.
7. Mites are really small creatures, like insects.
8. They live in eyelashes and eyebrows.
9. Only about 50 per cent of people have mites.
10. Mites eat dead skin

How to improve your memory,B2 level listening
Exercises,
1:
B= to tune in a. to be coming quickly, to seem very close
G= to visualise b. to listen to a live radio programme
F=familiar c. a small change
C=an adjustment d. necessary, of extreme importance
H=a knock-on effect e. the last exams in a university course
D=vital f. well known or easily recognised
A=to be looming g. to form a mental picture of something
finals h. something that happens as a result of something else happening

2:
T: We all use memory in the same way.
T: We learn to use our memory as soon as we are born.
T: There are two different forms of memorisation.
: We are taught how to improve our memory in history lessons.
T: Writing shopping lists can improve your memory.
T: Teaching helps us to memorise.
T: We can train our brains to be more effective.
: We can only use one image at a time as an aid to memorisation.

3:
1. The speaker explains how to make our memory (memorise) function better.
2. We can make (improve) in our ability to memorise.
3. We use a combination (combine) of long-term and short-term memory.
4. There are several things we can do to recall informations (inform).
5. We can use word association (associate) to remember a concept.
6. The term visualizing (visualise) means imagining a picture.
7. You can use different formulas (formulate) to remember historical facts.
8. Following the tips will improve your ability(be able to) to remember