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SPEAKING EXERCISE 10 Page 217 1. Listen to the passage. On a piece of paper, take notes on the main points of the listening passage. An interesting point that I'd like to add about the body of water called the Dead Sea is that it's not actually a sea but is instead a lake, a rather large lake, but a lake, not a sea. A sea refers to either a division of the ocean or to a large body of water that's partially, but not entirely, enclosed by land, one that opens into an ocean; a lake is a body of water that's entirely enclosed. The North Sea, for example, is a sea because it's a section of the north eastern part of the Atlantic Ocean, and the Mediterranean is a sea because it opens into the Atlantic. Because the Dead Sea is landlocked with no outlet, it's a lake rather than a sea. Topic : Professor's lecture about Interesting points of The Dead Sea Main points :Professor explains the difference between a sea and a lake.(definition) Dead Sea it's not a sea it's a lake.The Dead Sea is landlocked with no outlet, it's a lake rather than a sea.

Page 218 2. Listen to the passage. On a piece of paper, take notes on the main points of the listening passage.

Now I'd like to discuss one particular type of polling, a negative and unfair type of polling known as push polling. Push polling involves trying to plant negative information under the guise of conducting an opinion poll. By this, I mean that a pollster tells someone that he simply wants to ask the person's opinion and then, instead of merely finding out that person's opinion, tries to surreptitiously implant negative information in the person's mind. A pollster who uses the technique of push polling may call a potential voter who supports candidate X not to find out which candidate the voter supports but to implant negative information about candidate X in the voter's mind. The pollster might ask leading questions such as "Would you support candidate X if you knew that he spent time in prison?" or “Would you support candidate X if you knew he had a problem with alcohol?" The questions asked by a pollster who is push polling are designed more to implant negative information than to find out how the voter actually feels. Topic: Particular type of polling Main points: Page 218 3. Listen to the passage. On a piece of paper, take notes on the main points of the listening passage.
 * Negative and unfair type of polling known as push polling. Push polling involves trying to plant negative information under the guise of conducting an opinion poll.
 * Pollster tells someone that he simply wants to ask the person's opinion and then, instead of merely finding out that person's opinion, tries to surreptitiously implant negative information in the person's mind.

I'd like to talk about something that the Polynesians may have done in their travels. It seems quite possible that the Polynesians actually made it all the way to South America in their travels, and this seems quite astounding when you consider that they were traveling on outrigger canoes made of only two tree trunks and a platform. There are a number of indications that the Polynesians may have traveled all the way to South America. One important piece of information that leads historians to believe that the Polynesians made it to South America is that there were plants from South America in Hawaii when Europeans first arrived in Hawaii. How did these plants from South America get to Hawaii before the Europeans arrived there? Quite possibly it was the Polynesians who carried the plants from South America to the Hawaiian Islands in their outrigger canoes.