1. Read Aloud

Plant (1 April 2020, Brisbane)

Although it hails from a remote region of the western Himalayas, this plant now looks entirely at home on the banks of English rivers, and colonized riverbanks and damp woodlands. Brought to the UK in 1839, now it is spreading across Europe, New Zealand, Canada and the US. In the Himalayas, the plant is held in check by various pests, but take these a way and it grows and reproduces unhindered.

Pluto (26 March 2020, Brisbane)

Pluto lost its official status as a planet yesterday, when the International Astronomical Union downsized the solar system from nine to eight planets. Although there had been a passionate debate at the IAU General Assembly Meeting in Prague about the definition of a planet – and whether Pluto met the specifications – the audience greeted the decision to exclude it with applause.

Legal Writing (27 March 2020, Sydney)

Legal writing is usually less discursive than writing in other humanities subjects, and precision is more important than variety. Sentence structure should not be too complex; it is usually unnecessary to make extensive use of adjectives or adverbs, and consistency of terms is often required.

MBA Courses (31 Mar 2020, Sydney) 

Along with customary classes on subjects such as finance, accounting, and marketing, today’s MBA students are enrolling on courses for environmental policy and stewardship. Indeed, more than half of business schools require a course in environmental sustainability or corporate social responsibility, according to a survey of 91 US business schools, published in October 2005.

2. Describe Image

Trees (29 March 2020, Adelaide)

Sitting Posture (1 April 2020, Melbourne)

Temperature and Rainfall Guide for Beijing (3 April 2020, Melbourne)

3. Retell Lecture

Loggerhead Turtle (1 April 2020, Sydney)

In the past few years, researchers have made new discoveries about the longer heads’ migratory patterns on the east coast.

And so what happens is that turtles in the winter time will come south or sit right on the edge of the Gulf Stream. It’s a really strong current so they don’t want to get into it cause it can carry them away or they have to spend lot of energy stay in place. So then when summer comes, the north, say up around Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, when the water warms up everything blooms. There’s lot of crabs, lots of other organisms. And the turtles go up there and they take advantage of that. They fed up. And like it’s cold again they go down south. They just sort of hang out. They really, they literally chill out for the winter time.

The tagging process can’t start until the turtle comes up on the beach. And great care is taken to avoid frightening it. Bald Head Island has an ordinate against residential white lights on the beach. Researchers cover their lights with red cellophane.
Red is the color that turtle see the least stuff. Red is the first color you lose as you go deeper into the ocean so that’s the first color that most ocean creatures lose in the eye sight.

4. Summarize Spoken Text 

Ugly Building (29 March 2020, Sydney)

IT seems to me that architecture is very much something that causes us both pleasure and trouble. I live in the part of western London where I think many of the streets are, where I live are really really ugly, and this distresses me every time I walk to a supermarket or walk to a tube. I think why did they built that and with terribly without architecture. It last so long, and if you write a bad book or do a bad play, you know, I will be shocked when it be showed and then no one would suffer. A bad building has a serious impact for, could be hundreds of years on the people around it.

And suppose the book arose a little bit from the frustration, almost anger than there is so much bad architecture around. And then I realize if you talk about architecture, you will say why building are not more beautiful. Then you will say I can use such work as “beauty”, that’s really arrogant word. And no one knows what beautiful is. It’s all in the eye of beholder. I couldn’t help but think that actually. Well, you know that we all attempt to agree that Rome is nice than Milkykings, and  San Francisco has the edge of Frankfurt, so we can make that sort of generalization, surely they are somethings we can say about why a building work or why it doesn’t. So the books really attempt to suggest why architecture works when it does and what might going to be wrong when it doesn’t work.

A Female Novelist (28 March 2020, Melbourne)

I have been writing non-fiction for years actually, but secretly wanting to be a novelist.

When I first started writing at the age of 30, it was with the intention of writing fiction, but I took a little detour for 10 or 12 years, and write non-fiction which I absolutely have no regret about at all. I think it’s exactly the right thing for me to do. But there’s this dream tucked away inside of me to do this. Now I was remembering reading something that wrote, who is a great novelist from Mississippi who had a big influence on me actually. She said, “no art ever came out of not risking your neck.” And I think she’s absolutely right about that. It felt that way to me at the time; it actually feels that way every time I sit down to write something. Finally, in the early 90s, I took my deep breath and started writing fiction. It felt risky to me at the time to do that. And one of the very first things that I wrote was, what I thought was going to be the first chapter of a novel, called “The Secret Life of Bees.” I wrote it in 1992, and it is actually essentially the first chapter of the novel as it is now.

5. Summarize Written Text

Beauty Contest in Australia (30 March 2020, Sydney)

Since Australians Jennifer Hawkins and Lauryn Eagle were crowned Miss Universe and Miss Teen International respectively, there has been a dramatic increase in interest in beauty pageants in this country. These wins had also sparked a debate as to whether beauty pageants are just harmless reminders of old-fashioned values or a throwback to the days when women were respected for how good they looked. Opponents argue that beauty pageants, whether its Miss Universe or Miss Teen International, are demeaning to women and out of sync with the times. They say they are nothing more than symbols of decline. In the past few decades, Australia has taken more than a few faltering steps toward treating women with dignity and respect. Young women are being brought up knowing that they can do anything, as shown by inspiring role models in medicine such as 2003 Australian of the Year Professor Fiona Stanley. In the 1960s and 70s, one of the first acts of the feminist movement was to picket beauty pageants on the premise that the industry promoted the view that it was acceptable to judge women on their appearance. Today many young Australian women are still profoundly uncomfortable with their body image, feeling under all kinds of pressures because they are judged by how they look. Almost all of the pageant victors are wafer thin, reinforcing the message that thin equals beautiful. This ignores the fact that men and women come in all sizes and shapes. In a country where up to 60% of young women are on a diet at any one time, and 70% of school girls say they want to lose weight, despite the fact that most have a normal BMI, such messages are profoundly hazardous to the mental health of young Australians.

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