Preparing for the listening final exam

The listening test will have multiple components, all of which are related to chapter 6 in Leap. If you don't prepare properly for this test, you probably won't pass it. I'm assuming that you are familiar with listenings 1 and 2 from chapter 6.

Part I: You will hear a lecture in class on Monday and take notes. I will collect the notes. You will answer the questions on the test on Thursday based on your notes. Read the information below in order to be prepared for this lecture!

Part II: On Thursday, you will listen to something new, take notes, and answer questions.

Part III: Vocabulary from chapter 6.



For Monday's lecture:

Taken from: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/148945.php

 The word pandemic comes from the Greek pandemos meaning "pertaining to all people". The Greek word pan means "all" and the Greek word demos means "people".

A pandemic is an outbreak of global proportions. It happens when a novel virus emerges among humans - it causes serious illness and is easily human transmissible (spreads easily from person-to-person).

What is the difference between a pandemic and an epidemic?

A pandemic is different from an epidemic or seasonal outbreak.

• Put simply, a pandemic covers a much wider geographical area, often worldwide. A pandemic also infects many more people than an epidemic. An epidemic is specific to one city, region or country, while a pandemic goes much further than national borders.


• An epidemic is when the number of people who become infected rises well beyond what is expected within a country or a part of a country. When the infection takes place in several countries at the same time it then starts turning into a pandemic.


• A pandemic is usually caused by a new virus strain or subtype - a virus humans either have no immunity against, or very little immunity. If immunity is low or non-existent the virus is much more likely to spread around the world if it becomes easily human transmissible.


• In the case of influenza, seasonal outbreaks (epidemics) are generally caused by subtypes of a virus that is already circulating among people. Pandemics, on the other hand, are generally caused by novel subtypes - these subtypes have not circulated among people before. Pandemics can also be caused by viruses, in the case of influenza, that perhaps have not circulated among people for a very long time.


• Pandemics generally cause much higher numbers of deaths than epidemics. The social disruption, economic loss, and general hardship caused by a pandemic are much higher than what an epidemic can cause.

You need to review the vocabulary from Leap chapter 6 in order to be prepared for this lecture. In addition, here are a few more vocabulary words you'll need to understand the lecture:

1. Detection

2. Surveillance

3. Incentive

4. Deity

5. A SPIKE in the number of cases (it means a sharp increase)

6. Cataract