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Unit Two
Section 1 Tactics for Listening
Part 1 Phonetics
Exercise: Complete the following short dialogue as you listen to the tape~ Pay special attention to the weak forms, link-ups and contractions. Woman: Good evening.
Man: Good evening. Can you ( 1 ) make up this prescription, please? Woman: Certainly. (2) Would you like to wait? Man: How long (3) will it take? Woman: (4)It'll be ready in twenty minutes. Man: Oh, (5) I'll come back later. Woman: All right, sir,
Man: (6) Shall I pay now or later? Woman: (7) Later'll be all right.
Part 2 Listening and Note-taking
Exercise A: Listen to the conversation and take notes.
Exercise B: Use the information from your notes to mark the places and streets
mentioned in the conversation on the sketch map.
Man: Excuse me. How can I get to the station please?
Woman: The station, the station, the station ...let me see. Ah, yes. You can go down ...
no. Go straight on until you come to a cinema. Let's see now-- that's the second turn on your right. The cinema's on the corner. Turn right at the cinema and you'll be in Bridge Street. I think it's Bridge Street. Go along Bridge Street for a few minutes and then take the second -- no, not the second, the first, that's fight, the first turning. On your left. The station is straight ahead, right in front of you.
Man: So that's second right and first left. Thank you very much. That's very kind
of you.
Woman: Don't mention it.
go up vs. go down
Go up上坡，往北，从小地方往大地方（如城市，尤其是首都） Go down下坡，往南，从大地方往小地方（如农村）
Go up: 1) go up to a place: go to college, go to the town/capital . He will go up to Cambridge next term. 2) go up to sb.向。。。走去/靠近
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Section 2 Listening Comprehension Part 1 Dialogue
Dialogue 1: Where are you living now? Exercise A:
F 1. The man lives in Hampstead now. (The man used to live in Hampstead.) T 2. The man has changed his job.
(He worked for an advertising agency five years ago but now he works for a newspaper.)
F 3. The place where the man lives now is about 15 miles away from London. (The
nearest station is rather far about 15 miles away, but the village is fairly close to London, about 40 miles.)
Exercise B:
1. Why did the man move out of London?
Because he finds that London is so dirty and there's so much stress. 或Because it is dirty and stressful.
2. Where does he live now?
He lives in a village in the country, about 40 miles away from London.
3. How did he use to go to work? He used to go to work by bicycle.
4. How does he go to work now? (inference, the last sentence)
Most likely he goes to work by car now because he said that it takes him less than an hour and a half, door to door, to get to work.
door-to-door ['d?:t?'d?:]
adj.[美国英语]
1) (为兜售、调查、募捐、拉选票等)挨家挨户的
2) 送货上门的；从门到门的，自发货点(或起点)至收货人(或终点)的，全程运输的 adv.
1) 挨家挨户地，挨户
2) 送货上门地；从门到门地，自起点至终点地，全程地
5. Where does he work now?
Teacher’s book: He works for a newspaper now. 或者He works in London.
Interviewer: You say you moved out of London five years ago? Alistair: Yes, I did. I lived in Hampstead*.
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Interviewer: That's very close to the centre, isn't it?
Alistair: Yes, quite close. I went to work by bicycle -- I worked in Oxford Street. It took
about half an hour.
Interviewer: And why did you move? Did you change jobs?
Alistair: Well, yes, I did. I worked for an advertising agency then. Now I work for a
newspaper. But that isn't the reason. I moved because London is so dirty and there's so much stress…
Interviewer: And now you live in ...
Alistair: Oh, right in the country. The nearest station is rather far, about 15 miles away,
but the village is fairly close to London, about 40 miles. I still work in London.
Interviewer: So how long does it take you to get to work? Alistair: Oh, less than an hour and a half, door to door.
Dialogue 2 Have you ever lived abroad
Interviewer: Have you ever lived abroad, Phyllis? Phyllis: Yes, I have actually. What about you? Interviewer: No, unfortunately I haven't. Phyllis: Oh, what a shame!
Interviewer: Where did you live when you were abroad? Phyllis: I lived in Australia.
Interviewer: Really? That's a long way away. Phyllis: Uhm, uhm, yes!
Interviewer: How long were you there for? Phyllis: I was there for twelve years Interviewer: Oh! What a long time! Phyllis: Yes. Rather,
Interviewer: Erin. So how long have you been back in the UK? Phyllis: I've been back about, erm. ten years now,
Interviewer: Uhm, uhm, When you were in Australia, did you think of it as your
home?
Phyllis: Well, it depends on what, you mean by home. When 1 was... home to me is
being near the people you're fond of.
Interviewer: Uhm. uhm. yeah. So does that mean that your family were with you in
Australia?
Phyllis: Yes, they were there with me.
Interviewer: And presumably they've ... they came back to the UK? Phyllis: Yes, they did. They came back with me,
Interviewer: Uhm, uhm. Erin, if you had a choice, where do you think you'd be living
now?
Phyllis: Oh. I would really like to go back to Australia Interviewer: Oh, yeah? Why's that?
Phyllis: Well. for one thing, it's the climate. Interviewer: Uhm
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Phyllis: And. er. secondly, it's ... very relaxed. Interviewer: Oh? In what way?
Phyllis: Well, you know. the wave of life, nobody hurries. Interviewer: Uhm. Is that at work as well as socially? Phyllis: That's right, everything
Exercise: Listen to the interview and complete the following questionnaire. Name: Phyllis
Nationality: British Being Abroad: Yes
Country: Australia, Length: 12years Where: They were with her.
Advantages: good climate; relaxed at work as well as socially Time: 10 years ago
Part 2 Passage
Welcome to London
Welcome to London! You and seven million other tourists will fill Britain's capital city this season, jostling each other along Oxford Street, getting lost on the Underground, staring at Buckingham Palace, and complaining about the food and the weather.
What can you do when you're here? There are the obvious tourist attractions of royal London, the London of pageantry and soldiers in fancy uniforms. There is historical London, with the ancient buildings and magnificent churches. A good introduction to all this can be found in the London Museum in the Barbican.
You can spend a lot of money, in shops from aristocratic Knightsbridge to democratic Marks and Spencer, all of them anxious to receive travellers' cheques in almost any currency. There are many hotels at your service, and your chambermaid may well be able to talk to you in your own language -- though probably not in English. Restaurants are here by the hundred. You can eat your way round the world in London, from China to Argentina, though you may have a bit of a job finding good English food.
Exercise: 1-4：A A D D 5-8：B C A B
Part 3 News News Item 1
New research says 35% of all child deaths worldwide are caused by under-nutrition---hunger. The Lancet, the British medical magazine, just published a series of five studies. The answer, they suggest, is greater investment in nutritional services and improvements to health system.
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The research involved poor to middle-income countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Robert Black from the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland was the lead author of the series. He says more than three and a half million mothers and children under 5 die in poor countries each year because of under-nutrition.
A: This news item is about a new research that says 35% of all child deaths worldwide are caused by under-nutrition -- hunger.
News Item 2
A: This news item is about the retirement of Bill Gates as the head of world's biggest computer software company, Microsoft. B:
1) Last week, Bill Gates retired from full-time work at the world’s biggest computer software company, Microsoft. He will remain chairman of the company 2) he established with Paul Allen in 1975.
Mr. Gates left Microsoft at a time of change in the computing industry. Early on, Microsoft understood the importance of the “network effect”. That is, 3)software is the kind of product that increases in value as more people buy and use it.
At 52 years old, Bill Gates is currently the third richest man in the world. He is worth about 58 billion dollars. 4) Mr. Gates will now spend most of his time working at his charity organization, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The foundation is the world’s largest charity with 5) over 37 billion dollars. It provides money for 6) health, education and other projects, mostly in developing countries.
Script:
Last week, Bill Gates retired from full-time work at the world’s biggest computer software company, Microsoft. He will remain chairman of the company he established with Paul Allen in 1975.
Mr. Gates left Microsoft at a time of change in the computing industry. Early on, Microsoft understood the importance of the “network effect”. That is, software is the kind of product that increases in value as more people buy and use it.
At 52 years old, Bill Gates is currently the third richest man in the world. He is worth about 58 billion dollars. Mr. Gates will now spend most of his time working at his charity organization, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The foundation is the world’s largest charity with over 37 billion dollars. It provides money for health, education and other projects, mostly in developing countries.
News Item 3
The competition between Microsoft and Google took a new turn on February first.
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