Description
Now practice taking notes with your system. First, listen to each of the sentences and write your notes here. When you are finished taking notes for all ten sentences, try to write the original sentences using only your notes. Then compare your sentences with the sentences printed in the answer key. An example is shown using my system. Your answer is correct if you can read it and if the meaning is the same as the original sentence. The words do not have to be exactly the same.
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EXAMPLE
Friction between moving air and the ocean surface generates undulations of water called waves.
Short: Friction btw air + ocean surfaceàwaves
Very short: Fric btw air + O surfàwaves
Friction between air and the ocean surface causes waves
The Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gave women the right to vote, beginning with the elections of 1920.
In a suspension bridge, there are two towers with one or more flexible cables firmly attached at each end.
A perennial is any plant that continues to grow for more than two years, as for example, trees and shrubs.
Famous for innovations in punctuation, typography, and language, Edward Estlin Cummings, known to us as e.e. cummings, published his collected poems in 1954.
Absolute zero, the temperature at which all substances have zero thermal energy, and thus the lowest possible temperatures, is unattainable in practice.
Because Columbus, Ohio, is considered a typical metropolitan area, it is often used for market research to test new products.
The cacao bean was cultivated by the Aztecs not only to drink but also as currency in their society.
The blue whale is the largest known animal, reaching a length of more than one hundred feet, which is five times its size at birth.
Ontario is the heartland of Canada, both geographically, and, I would say, historically as well.
Nuclear particles called hadrons, which include the proton and neutron, are made from quarksvery odd particles that have a slight electrical charge but that cannot exist alone in nature.
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