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The listening part of the exam has around 40 multiple-choice questions, and students have around 35 minutes to answer them. The test usually consists of short monologues, presentations, or dialogues between two speakers who discuss a variety of subjects. For the test, native speakers of standard North American English are recorded on cassette ...
For musical theatre, a standard audition consists of two 16-32 measures of selected songs, usually contrasting in some way (style, intention, characters, time period, or all of the above). When listed, there can also be a monologue portion where the actor is asked to perform a one-minute monologue. A headshot and résumé are almost always ...
Time-compressed speech refers to an audio recording of verbal text in which the text is presented in a much shorter time interval than it would through normally-paced real time speech. [1] The basic purpose is to make recorded speech contain more words in a given time, yet still be understandable.
3. Listening (approximately 40 minutes – 20% of total marks) The Listening paper has four parts. Part 1 has three short, unrelated recordings each lasting approximately 1 minute and six multiple-choice questions to complete. Part 2 has a monologue lasting 3–4 minutes and nine incomplete sentences.
Actor Christopher Walken performing a monologue in the 1984 stage play Hurlyburly. In theatre, a monologue (from Greek: μονόλογος, from μόνος mónos, "alone, solitary" and λόγος lógos, "speech") is a speech presented by a single character, most often to express their thoughts aloud, though sometimes also to directly address another character or the audience.
The test taker has about one minute to read each short, self-contained passage and answer a single question based on it. Because the time limit is relatively short and the passages cover a wide range of topics, it is not possible to answer the questions with rote memorization or test-wise strategies. This comprehension section contains three parts.
Gittes monologer (Gitte's Monologues) is a collection of poems by the Danish poet Per Højholt. Originally published in 1984, these satirical and political poems are construed as Gitte's monologues, addressed to her friend Susanne.
Talking Heads is a 1988 TV series of dramatic monologues written for BBC television by British playwright Alan Bennett.The first series was broadcast on BBC1 in 1988, and adapted for radio on BBC Radio 4 in 1991.