10 Things You Didn't Know About Orgasm - English Listening Lesson | TED Talk (Upper Intermediate Lesson)

This is a fun listening lesson for your adult classes.

The objective of this lesson is to test English comprehension through an engaging TED Talk that will keep their attention about a topic that almost all of us are interested in.

Listen to the talk and answer the comprehension questions below.

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Comprehension Questions

1. What are the 10 things speaker Mary Roach lists? (Try to catch at least 5)

2. What is "The Upsuck Theory"?
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3. In the 1950s, what did the scientists Masters and Johnson try to find out?

4. Why did pig farmers start to become more 'active' when inseminating pigs?
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True/False

1. Fetuses have been observed masturbating.
2. The woman who had an orgasm brushing her teeth had brilliantly white teeth.
3. Orgasms only come from genital stimulation.
4. Completely dead people can have orgasms.
5. Orgasms can stop hiccups. 
​6. In the 1950s, Masters and Johnson found validity in the Upsuck Theory.
7. Sperm that stays in the body for more than a week makes them stronger.
​8. People are the only species that experience pleasure during orgasm.
9. Men's semen can be shot at up to 8 feet (3.5 meters).

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You can find the answers in the PDF Worksheet