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Chapter 4: Practicing Your Critical Listening Skills

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Links

In order to hear messages on the Web, your computer will need software such as RealAudio. Here's the Website to download RealAudio:

http://www.realaudio.com/

Once you have RealAudio software or other software that permits you to tap sounds on the Web, check out the following sites which will permit you to hear both historic and contemporary speeches.

C-SPAN ONLINE
You will be able to listen to both U.S. House of Representatives and Senate speeches.

http://www.broadcast.com/television/c-span/

 

NOISE ON NETIZEN
Listen to speeches and interviews with notable newsmakers.

http://www.netizen.com/netizen/netizenaudio/

 

HISTORY CHANNEL ARCHIVE OF SPEAKERS
This site will permit you to hear classic speeches from the past.

http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/index.html

 

WHITE HOUSE AUDIO ARCHIVE
Hear the Saturday Radio Address by the President.

http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/search/radio-addresses.html

 

SUPREME COURT ORAL ARGUMENTS
From this page you will be able to hear voice recordings of oral arguments presented before the U.S. Supreme Court.

http://oyez.at.nwu.edu/

 

REAL VIDEO FILES FROM CONGRESS
Presents video and audio speeches from congress.

http://www.fednet.net

Activity

For additional practice of your listening skills, listen to Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" speech at the following web address:

http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/index.html

Follow the link for "Politics and Government" and then select "Martin Luther King Jr."

After listening to the speech, answer the following questions:

  1. What was the central idea of the speech?
  2. Was the central idea fully developed?
  3. What examples and illustrations held your attention?
  4. How did Dr. King adapt to his audience?

The speech is reprinted in the Appendix on page A-27. Read the speech and confirm your answers to the above questions.

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