Serendipity

Unit 20, Activity 2

Index Activity 3

Listening: Cause and Effect

You will hear five short audio clips where causes and effects are discussed.

While you listen, read the sentences below. Identify any sentence which is not exactly what you hear:

1 One thing that we all seem to face in modern life is stress.
2 Stress will cause all kinds of health problems.
3 But what cause the people to turn to crime?
4 People from broken families are more like to become criminals.
5 Staff turnover is a major problem in the call center industry, but why?
6 Another thing is that the hours can be long and irregular.
7 The people who engage in office politics consume the company’s times and resource for their own gains.
8 It’s really quite difficult to measure the effects of office politics
9 Keeping a pet can have a great positive in fact on your life.
10 Pets have a calming effect on us and they keep us feeling lonely.