Personal Assignment 1 (Week 2 / Session 3) (120 Minutes) : A. Listening Skill 1 (8 Points)
Personal Assignment 1 (Week 2 / Session 3) (120 Minutes) : A. Listening Skill 1 (8 Points)
Personal Assignment 1 (Week 2 / Session 3) (120 Minutes) : A. Listening Skill 1 (8 Points)
(WEEK 2 / SESSION 3)
(120 minutes)
Resource: LN and PPT Week 1-2, Session 1-3
Name : Nurul Ain
NIM : 2440093242
Listen to each passage and the questions that follow. Then choose the best answers to the
questions.
Listen to each passage and the questions that follow. Then choose the best answers to the
questions.
Study the passage and choose the best answers to the questions that follow.
Coral Colonies
(2) The basic element in the development of coralline reef structures is a group of animals
from the Anthozoa class, called stony corals, that is closely related to jellyfish and sea anemones.
These small polyps (the individual animals that make up the coral reef), which are for the most
part only a fraction of an inch in length, live in colonies made up of an immeasurable number of
polyps clustered together. Each individual polyp obtains calcium from the seawater where it lives
to create a skeleton around the lower part of its body, and the polyps. Many polyps tend to retreat
inside of their skeletons during hours of daylight and then stretch partially outside of their
skeletons during hours of darkness to feed on minute plankton from the water around them. The
mouth at the top of each body is surrounded by rings of tentacles used to grab onto food, and
these rings of tentacles make the polyps look like flowers with rings of clustered petals; because
of this, biologists for years thought that corals were plants rather than animals.
(3) Once these coralline structures are established, they reproduce very quickly. They build
in upward and outward directions to create a fringe of living coral surrounding the skeletal
remnants of once-living coral. That coralline structures are commonplace in tropical waters
around the world is due to the fact that they reproduce so quickly rather than the fact that they
are hardy life-forms easily able to withstand external forces of nature. They cannot survive in
water that is too dirty, and they need water that is at least 720 F (or 220 C) to exist, so they are
formed only in waters ranging from 300 north to 300 souths of the equator. They need a
significant amount of sunlight, so they live only within an area between the surface of the ocean
and a few meters beneath it. In addition, they require specific types of microscopic algae for their
existence. They are also prey to other sea animals such as sponges and clams that bore into their
skeletal structures and weaken them.
(4) Coral colonies cannot build reef structures without considerable assistance. The many
openings in and among the skeletons must be filled in and cemented together by material from
around the colonies. The filling material often consists of fine sediments created either from the
borings and waste of other animals around the coral of from the skeletons, shells, and remnants
of dead plants and animals. The material that is used to cement the coral reefs comes from algae
and other microscopic forms of seaweed.
(5) An additional part of the process of reef formation is the ongoing compaction and
cementation that occurs throughout the process. Because of the soluble and delicate nature of the
material from which coral is created, the relatively unstable crystals of corals and shells break
down over time and are then rearranged as more stable form of limestone.
(6) The coralline structures that are created through these complicated processes are
extremely variable in form. They may, for example, be treelike and branching, or they may have
more rounded and compact shapes. What they share in common, however, is the extraordinary
variety of plants and animal life-forms that are a necessary part of the ongoing process of their
formation.
GLOSSARY
Questions
Please review your first video conference (VICON) for English Professional class. Find some
important points your lecturer discussed with you in the VICON.
https://youtu.be/801ZWeIOZBM
Notes:
1- This speaking assignment places the highest score in this assignment. Please be well
informed.
2- You have to make sure that your YouTube link is an open source (do not set as the
protected link)
Good Luck