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SPEAKING REVIEW EXERCISE (Skills 5-8): Read the passage. On a piece of paper, take notes on the main points of the reading passage.

The research paper is worth 40 percent of your grade. What you are to do is choose an event from history and research that event and then write a paper on the results of your research. However, I want you to do something a bit different from a typical research paper. I want you to write about the event from two perspectives, one positive and one negative. What you will find, in the study of history, is that a single event can be described in two very different ways. Thus, for your assignment, I want you to research a particular person or event from two perspectives, one positive and one negative.
 * Part of the syllabus in a history class**

SPEAKING REVIEW EXERCISE (Skills 5 through 8)

page 213 Listen to the passage here. On a piece of paper, take notes on the main points of the listening passage.

Do you understand the assignment for the research project in our history class? I think so. Well, I'm not quite sure what the assignment is. What do you think we're supposed to do? Well, we're supposed to choose one event or person and research that event or person and then write about it from positive and negative perspectives. That's what I thought the syllabus said, but it seems strange. Why do you think the professor wants us to do this? I don't know for sure, but I can think of two reasons why he might. What are they? Number one, I think he wants to get across to us that research involves a number of sources, not just one. Yeah, it seems easier to look at just one source, but I understand that we need to look in several sources. That makes sense. Now, what's your second reason? Number two, I think the professor wants to get across that a single event can be viewed in different ways. Think of someone like Columbus. In some accounts he's viewed as a hero, while in other accounts he's viewed as a villain. OK, that makes sense. Now all I need is a good topic. It sounds like maybe you already have yours.

Now answer the following question:


 * How does the information in the listening passage add to the information in the reading passage?**


 * The notice that is described in the reading passage is about professor who describe research paper in history class.The research is 40% of grade. He want they to do something a bit different from a typical research paper. He want they to write about the event from two perspectives, one positive and one negative.

They say have of two reasons why he might. Number one, They think he wants to get across to them that research involves a number of sources, not just one. Number two, They think the professor wants to get across that a single event can be viewed in different ways. Think of someone like Columbus. In some accounts he's viewed as a hero, while in other accounts he's viewed as a villain.
 * In the listening passage,the students discuss do they understand the assignment for the research project. They are not quite sure what the assignment is and why professor want they to do this.

The answer on question : The information from listening and reading passage are connected because in reading passage the professor describe research passage and in listening passage students discuss what professor says.