LECTURE READING
I will read aloud the lecture below. Please listen and take notes.
講師が文章を音読しますので、よく聞いてメモを取りましょう。
READ
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Have you ever wondered why our voices change as we grow older? Over the years, a human body undergoes a lot of changes. One of them is the depth of voice. There are two reasons as to why human voice changes over time: the age of vocal cords and the size of larynx. Larynx or the voice box is a part of the respiratory system that is used to breathe, talk, and swallow. It is a system of different muscles that supports and moves the vocal cords inside it. |
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The age of a human’s vocal cords causes big changes. As a person ages, the vocal cords ages too. People experience the first major shift on their voices when starting to become an adult. That’s the time when our voices start to deepen. That is a sign that the vocal cords are aging. Most people’s voices stay almost the same for about 50 years after the start of becoming an adult. However, as people grow older, they experience signs relating to aging voice called presbyphonia.
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Next is the size of the larynx. The voice is produced through the sound waves of the vocal cords. The bigger the vocal cords, the deeper the voice is. Men have bigger larynges than women. This is the reason why men’s voices are bigger and deeper than that of women’s. When larynges and vocal cords grow, they create bigger sound waves which makes their voices bigger and deeper as they age.
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READING PRACTICE
Now, please read aloud the lecture above.
上の文章を音読してください。
COMPREHENSION CHECK 1
Please answer the questions using the information and examples from the lecture.
講師が講義について質問するので答えましょう。
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What is the professor talking about in the lecture?
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ANSWER 1
| The professor is talking about |
CHECK YOUR ANSWER 1
We will check the sample answer. Please repeat after me.
解答例を見ます。講師に続いて読みましょう。
SAMPLE ANSWER 1
| What is the professor talking about in the lecture? |
| The professor is talking about the reasons why the human voice changes as people grow old. |
COMPREHENSION CHECK 2
What is the main idea of the lecture?
ANSWER 2
| According to the professor, |
CHECK YOUR ANSWER 2
We will check the sample answer. Please repeat after me.
解答例を見ます。講師に続いて読みましょう。
SAMPLE ANSWER 2
| What is the main idea of the lecture? |
| According to the passage, a human body undergoes a lot of changes as people grow old and one of those changes is the depth of voice. |
COMPREHENSION CHECK 3
What are the two supporting ideas introduced in the lecture?
ANSWER 3
| The professor presents |
CHECK YOUR ANSWER 3
We will check the sample answer. Please repeat after me.
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SAMPLE ANSWER 3
| What are the two supporting ideas introduced in the lecture? |
| The professor presents the two reasons as to why human voices change over time: the age of the vocal cords and the size of larynx. |
COMPREHENSION CHECK 4
Please explain the first supporting idea using the example given.
ANSWER 4
| First, the professor |
CHECK YOUR ANSWER 4
We will check the sample answer. Please repeat after me.
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SAMPLE ANSWER 4
| Please explain the first supporting idea using the example given. |
| First, the professor uses the start of becoming an adult as an example. He says that the start of becoming an adult is the time when people experience the first major shift on their voices. And that it is a sign that the vocal cords are aging. |
COMPREHENSION CHECK 5
Please explain the second supporting idea using the example given.
ANSWER 5
| Second, the professor |
CHECK YOUR ANSWER 5
We will check the sample answer. Please repeat after me.
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SAMPLE ANSWER 5
| Please explain the second supporting idea using the example given. |
| Second, the professor differentiates the size of men and women’s larynges as an example. He explains that the larger size of men’s larynges is the reason why their voices are deeper than that of women’s. |
COMPREHENSION CHECK 6
Please explain what you learned through this lecture.
ANSWER 6
| Through this short lecture, I learned |
CHECK YOUR ANSWER 6
We will check the sample answer. Please repeat after me.
解答例を見ます。講師に続いて読みましょう。
SAMPLE ANSWER 6
| Please explain what you learned through this lecture. |
| Through this short lecture, I learned that there are two reasons as to why our voices change as we grow older. The age of our vocal cords deepens our voices and it starts before becoming an adult. I also learned that the depth of the voice depends on the size of the larynx. This is the reason why men have deeper voices than women. |