hello everyone this is Andrew at Crown
Academy of English today we are doing a
listening exercise and the subject is
living habits so let's start so first of
all we will look at some vocabulary and
then I will give you the questions that
you need to answer during the listening
and then you will do the listening so
you will listen to the article and of
course there will be no subtitles during
the listening then I will give you the
answers to the questions and then I will
show you the transcript or the text for
the listening so you will get one last
chance to listen to the article with the
text on the screen so the vocabulary the
first word is to commute now this is a
verb and it means to travel a long
distance to work everyday so for example
if I live in the town of Brighton but I
work in London then we can say that I
commute to London by train okay and
another example would be Jane commutes
to Manchester by car so to commute it
means to travel a long distance to work
everyday so you live in one place but
you work in
another place the second word is
approximately and this means not an
exact number of something so it is an
estimation let me give you an example so
on this photograph when we look at this
photograph we can say there are
approximately 20 people in the
photograph all right so we use
approximately when we are not sure or
when we are not certain about the exact
number we estimate the number okay so
maybe there are 25 people in the
photograph maybe there are 17 people in
the photograph we are not sure so we say
there are approximately 20 people in the
photograph and the last word before I
give you the questions is the word
consequence this means the result or
effect of something and often the result
is a negative result or an unpleasant
result example smoking can have serious
health consequences okay
consequences so the result or effect of
something okay so now let's look at the
questions question 1 approximately what
fraction of young people lived with
their parents in 2013 question 2 what
proportion of the young people living
with their parents were women question 3
complete the missing words five words
the ONS thinks that more young people
are living at home because and so I want
you to find the five words which are
missing in the middle of the sentence
okay so it's important to understand
that the words are in the middle of the
sentence okay so these five words here
question four give one consequence of
this change in living habits all right
so this is important just give me one
consequence you will hear two
consequences during the article and you
can give me either the first consequence
or the second consequence all right so
that's important okay so get ready you
are now going to listen to the listening
comprehension
so get ready I'm going to play it for
you now according to a recent survey by
the Office of National Statistics the
ONS approximately a quarter of young
people in the UK live with their parents
in 2013 the exact figures were 3.3
million adults between the ages of 20
and 34 were living with parents in 2013
which represents 26% of that age group
in 1996 there were 2.7 million 20 to 34
year-olds living in the family home
which was 21% of the age group at that
time the ONS also found young men were
more likely to live at home than women
one in three men lived with their
parents compared with one in five women
London has the lowest rate of 20 to 34
year-olds living with their parents with
the figure at 22% Northern Ireland has
the highest proportion of young adults
living with their families at 36% the
ONS says that a possible reason is that
Northern Ireland is smaller than other
parts of the UK and so it is easier to
commute to university or work the ons
thinks that more young people are living
at home because of the current economic
problems in particular the high cost of
buying a house the percentage of
unemployed young people living with
their parents was 13% compared to 6% of
unemployed young people not living with
their parents - consequences of this
change in living habits are one less
young couples are living together and
two birth rates are decreasing all right
so that is the end of the listening
exercise that is the end of the article
if you would like to listen to that
again if you need more time to answer
the questions then click here on the
screen on the left or if you have
finished and are ready to see the
answers then just wait 10 seconds ok
okay so we will now carry on and I will
now show you the answers to the
questions so question one was
approximately what fraction of young
people lived with their parents in 2013
and the answer is 1/4 1/4 question 2
what proportion of the young people
living with their parents were women and
the answer is one in five and question
three I wanted you to find the missing
five words in the sentence and the
answer is the ONS thinks that more young
people are living at home because of the
current economic problems okay because
of the current economic problems and
question four I wanted you to give me
one consequence of this change in living
habits and so the answer is less young
couples are living together or birth
rates are decreasing so either of those
answers is correct all right
so those are the answers to the
questions and now I will now play you
the listening exercise one more time and
this time I will show you the text on
the screen okay so I'm going to play it
for you for you now according to a
recent survey by the Office of National
Statistics the ons
approximately a quarter of young people
in the UK live with their parents in
2013 the exact figures were 3.3 million
adults between the ages of 20 and 34
were living with parents in 2013 which
represents 26% of that age group in 1996
there were 2.7 million 20 to 34
year-olds living in the family home
which was 21% of the age group at that
time the ONS also found young men were
more likely to live at home than women
one in three men lived with their
parents compared with one in five women
London has the lowest rate of 20 to 34
year-olds living with their parents with
the figure at 22 percent Northern
Ireland has the highest proportion of
young adults living with their families
at 36 percent the ONS says that a
possible reason is that Northern Ireland
is smaller than other parts of the UK
and so it is easier to commute to
University or work the ons thinks that
more young people are living at home
because of the current economic problems
in particular the high cost of buying a
house the percentage of unemployed young
people living with their parents was 13%
compared to 6% of unemployed young
people not living with their parents -
consequences of this change in living
habits are one less young couples are
living together and two birth rates are
decreasing okay so that is the the end
of the listening with the transcript so
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