留學英文 (Academic Study)

留學英文 (Academic Study)


 

Purpose:
Expressing interest in a field of study / 表達學習領域興趣

 

I. Pre-Listening Exercise [Top]

Check the meanings of the following words and expressions:

  • immersing
  • customer service-related issues
  • customer-oriented
  • administrative database systems
  • customer/supplier relations
  • further one’s knowledge
  • interactive marketing research
  • recently emerging
  • electronic communications media

Consult page 15 of Writing Effective Study Plans by Ted Knoy for some of these definitions.


II. Listening Exercise [Top]
1. Listen to the conversation by pressing the "Play" button and then answering the following questions. Press the "Final score" button to check your quiz results.


1. What has Ray studied since high school?
A. customer/supplier relations
B. Marketing
C. interactive marketing research

2. What does Ray want his graduate studies to focus on?
A. administrative database systems
B. electronic communications media
C. interactive marketing research

3. Other than customer-oriented administrative database systems, what is there an increasing number of that Ray is interested in?
A. customer/supplier relations
B. customer service-related issues
C. computers

4. What has Ray been immersing himself in?
A. interactive marketing research
B. electronic communications media
C. customer service-related issues

5. What is a timely topic for the recently emerging electronic communications media in Taiwan?
A. customer service-related issues
B. interactive marketing research
C. customer-oriented administrative database systems


Score =

2. Listen to the story again as you read the audiotranscript on page 170 of Writing Effective Study Plans by Ted Knoy.

III. Post-Listening Exercise [Top]
1. Read the audiotranscript with a partner or change some of the information to adapt it to your situation.

2. Write a paragraph describing your interest in a field of study. View the accompanying Power Point presentation on details of how to write this paragraph.

3. Write four questions beginning with "Why" to ask someone about their interest in a field of study and then answer them. The question does not have to come directly from the listening exercise.
Example: Why does Ray want his graduate studies to focus on interactive marketing research?
Answer: Because it is a timely topic for the recently emerging electronic communications media in Taiwan.
Example: Why did you decide to acquire a master's degree in Biochemistry?
Answer: Because I have been fascinated with this field since undergraduate school.

4. Ask a person two questions beginning with "Why" about his or her interest in a field of study. Write down each questions and its one or two sentence reply. You can select from among the following questions from the above listening exercise as models for the questions that you ask:
Why does Ray want to attend graduate school?
Why does Ray feel that studying interactive marketing research is important?
Why does Ray wish to further his knowledge of interactive marketing research?
Why did Ray select this university to acquire a master's degree in Interactive Marketing Research?
Why does Ray want his graduate studies to focus on interactive marketing research?
Why did Ray select this university to pursue a bachelor's degree?
Why has Ray studied Marketing since high school?
Why is Ray interested in the increasing number of customer-oriented administrative database systems and customer/supplier relations?
Why does Marketing interest Ray?
Why did Ray immerse himself in customer service-related issues early on?

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