Module 4

A Social Survey—My Neighbourhood

Listening & Speaking

1. Practise students’ listening skills

2. Understand which words should be stressed.

Teaching aims

Look at these words which are all in the listening passage

that we will hear. Try to find out the meanings of them

and guess what the passage is about:

neighborhood committee organization join club

unemployed survey information household population

occupation professional manual worker

Pre-listening –Prediction

1. neighborhood 街坊；四邻 She lives in a rich neighborhood. 她住

在富裕的住宅区2. committee 委员会 the neighborhood Committee 居委会3. organization 组织4. join a club 参加俱乐部5.Unemployed 失业的 6.Survey 调查7.Household 家庭 There are 50 households here. 这里有 50

户人

8. occupation 职业9. Professional 专业的10. Manual 手工的 manual workers 体力劳动者Now try to guess what the passage is

about.

A. The passage is about a neighborhood group.

B. It is about a person who lives in the countryside.

I: Mr. Yang, you are from Nanchang , aren’t you? And a

m I right in thinking that you __________ here all your lif

e?

Y: Yes, I was born in this street.

I: Really! And you work for an ____________ called“ the

neighborhood committee”, is that right?

Y: Yes, I have worked for it for _____ years now. It’ s bee

n very interesting.

while-listening

Listen again and fill in the blanks

I: We don’t have such organizations in France. What kind

of work does the _________ do?

Y: A great many things . Our job is to ________ the

neighborhood.

I: Can you give us some _________?

Y: Yes… umm, for example, we’ve started a holiday club

for children . A lot of children have ______ it. It is done

very well.

I: Yes, we have that kind of thing in _______.

Y: And we __________ a neighborhood watch, where

people watch the houses and streets. It has been very

__________ so far. The streets are safer as a result.

I: _______________!

Check the answers

I: Mr. Yang, you are from Nanchang , aren’t you? And a

m I right in thinking that you __________ here all your lif

e?

Y: Yes, I was born in this street.

I: Really! And you work for an ____________ called“ the

neighborhood committee”, is that right?

Y: Yes, I have worked for it for _____ years now. It’ s bee

n very interesting.

have lived

organization

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I: We do not have these organizations in France. What

kind of work does the _________ do?

Y: A great many things . Our job is to ________ the

neighborhood.

I: Can you give us some _________?

Y: Yes… umm, for example, we have started a holiday

club for children . A lot of children have ______ it. It is

done very well.

I: Yes, we have that kind of thing in _______.

committee

look after

examples

joined

France

Y: And we __________ a neighborhood watch, where

people watch the houses and streets. It has been very

__________ so far. The streets are safer as a result.

I: _______________!

have begun

successful

Congratulations

Learning to learn

• At first you won’t understand much but don’t worry. Listen for names of people and places and soon you’ll understand more. It’s an excellent way to improve your listening skills.

• Now listen to another part of the listening passage and pay attention to the figures.（数字）

Number of households

850 Number of manual workers

Total population

Number of shop workers

183

Number of professional people

322 Number of adults in employment

④

Number of office workers

Number of students

280

2800

517

378

1400

Listen to Part 2 and complete the chart Listen to Part 2 and complete the chart

Post-listening

Talk about the neighbourhood committee in your

area. Answer the following questions.

1 what do you know about the committe?

2 How have they helped people?

3 Would you like to be on the commeettee when you are

older?

4 What have you done to help in your neighbourhood?

Group work

句子中比较重要的词应该得到重读，其他的词则可以读得轻些，这就是所谓的句子的重音。通常句子中比较重要的词有名词、动词（除 to be, to have, 助动词和情态动词外）、形容词、副词、数词、疑问代词和指示代词、疑问副词、名词性物主代词、反身代词等等。而冠词、连词、介词和人称代词等一般不重读。

Pronunciation

--stressed words in sentences

e.g. We want to go home at night. ‵ ‵ ‵ ‵

I: Mr. Yang, you are from Nanchang , aren’t you? And a

m I right in thinking that you have lived here all your life?

Y: Yes, I was born in this street.

I: Really! And you work for an organization called“ the n

eighborhood committee”, is that right?

Y: Yes, I have worked for it for four years now. It’ s been

very interesting.

Listen to this extract of the listening passage and underlined the stressed words in each sentence

I: Mr. Yang, you are from Nanchang , aren’t you? And a

m I right in thinking that you have lived here all your life?

Y: Yes, I was born in this street.

I: Really! And you work for an organization called“ the n

eighborhood committee”, is that right?

Y: Yes, I have worked for it for four years now. It’ s been

very interesting.

Listen to this extract of the listening passage and underlined the stressed words in each sentence

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Write a brief report of your neighborhood.

You’d better include the following points:

1)Where you live

2) the buildings

3)The number of households and the population

4) the neighbourhood committee if there is one

5) the intersting things you can do there

Homework

Thank you very much!