Time: 80 min Material: Handouts, speaker, listening task's voice, laptop. Topic

HANDOUT 3. CORRECT THE SENTENCES: (WHILE LISTENING)
Lucía: Studying for this political science exam is driving me crazy!
Jana: Relax. Ajay and I were planning to take a study break, and we can help you study.
Ajay: Yeah, of course. What do you need to know for the exam?
Lucía: Well, on the moment, I’m learning that women leaders of countries are rare.
Ajay: I mean, I knew there were fewer female leaders of men, but how rare?
Lucía: Of all the elected heads of state in the world, less than 10 percent are women.
Jana: Less than 10 percent? It’s a terribly low percentage.
Ajay: I don’t understand how more women aren’t elected. Women have excellent leadership qualities.
Jana: Yeah, we do! For example, I can definitely multitask. And when I’m working on an engineering project, I must to collaborate. Those are both qualities that leaders should have.

HANDOUT 4. Definitions (POST LISTENING)
Ask students to look at the following list of words and phrases. Play the audio track and ask them to write the words that have the same meaning.
right now
very uncommon
do more than one thing at the same time
characteristics
persuade

HANDOUT 5. MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS: (POST LISTENING)
Ajay and Jana were planning to
a. vote. b. play soccer. c. take a study break
Less than ____ percent of elected heads of state are women.
a. 13. b. 10. c. 50
Jana worked on an ___________ project.
a. election. b. engineering. c. agricultural
Lucia plays ____________.
a. soccer. b. tennis. c. volleyball
Ajay thinks both Jana and Lucia _____________________.
a. should vote. b. need to study for the exam. c. would be great leaders

ANSWERS:
1. Answers: 1. political science 2. less than 10 percent 3. soccer 4. yes
2. Answers: understand, excellent, definitely, have to, field, believe, convince, fantastic
3. Answers: 1. so, not and 2. at, not on 3. that’s not it’s 4. why, not how 5. have, not must
4. Answers: at the moment, rare, multitask, qualities, convince
5. (Answers: c, b, b, a, c)