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Unit 2Listening
Unit 2Listening
Write the American English words from the dialogue that have the same meaning as the British words listed below. lift pictures lorry underground sweets autumn
movietruck
subway
candy
fall
Listening on P48
elevator
American Amy: Oh, no! It’s rainy!
British Betty: Not exactly a lovely day, is
it?
Canadian Carl: Nope, not very nice.
British Betty: Let’s go to the pictures!
American Amy: OK. Which art museum?
Canadian Carl: No. She is saying that
we should go to see a
movie.
American Amy: Oh, I get it. Hey, I know
a good film that’s been
playing all fall. It’s
called Rush Hour 3.
British Betty: Playing where?
Canadian,Carl: She means that the
movie is playing this
autumn now.
British Betty: Oh, I see. Well, we’d
better hurry. It starts
soon. Let’s take my lorry.
American Amy: Who’s Lori?
Canadian Carl: Oh, no, Betty asked us
to take her truck.
American Amy: Why not go by
subway? It’s just as
fast.
British Betty: What? It will take too
long to walk.
Canadian Carl: Er, she asked us whether
we should take the
underground to the
theatre.
British Betty: Oh, right. Yes, let’s
get going.
Canadian Carl: Hey, I hope the
theatre has some
good sweets.
American Amy: YOU MEAN
CANDY,
British Betty DON’T YOU?
2.What does Zhao Li think will
improve her English?
CCTV9’s World Wide Watch.
Zhao Li thinks that listening to TV
program will improve her English.
Answer the following questions.
1.What TV programme is Zhao Li
watching?
3.What does Zhao Li think of Cao Ri? What kind of English does he use?
4.How will listening to a good speaker of English help you?
She thinks Cao Ri is a good speaker.He uses American English.
The more listening practice you have, the better your listening skill well get.
5.What should you do if you find it
difficult to understand a native speaker?
You should be patient and keep trying.
Soon you will understand more and
more.
Willie: What are you watching, Zhao Li? Zhao Li: CCTV9’s World Wide Watch.Willie: Why are you watching the news? That’s boring.Zhao Li: I’m listening to the English so that I can improve it.
Willie: Who’s talking now?
Zhao Li: That’s Cao Ri. I think he
is a good speaker.
Willie: What kind of English is
he using, American or British?
Zhao Li: He uses more American
English, I think.
Willie: Who else do you really like?
Zhao Li: Oh, I think Zhang Ling is also
a fine speaker.
Willie: I agree, and so is Wang Lu,
from the TV show Around
China. But still, wouldn't it be
better to listen to a native
speaker?
Zhao Li: Yes, sometimes you should try
to listen to news and shows
reported by native speaker.Yet
any good speaker of English
can help your listening skill.
Willie: Hmm.I think I’ll listen a
bit. What did he say just now?
Zhao Li: He said Professor Yang is
traveling around China to
speak to college students.
Willie: I still think it may be a little
difficult for me to understand
them.
Zhao Li: Well, sure, it might be hard at
first. But if you listen to CCTV9
often, you will begin to
understand more and more.
Willie: Thanks I think I will. My teacher
won’t believe it when I tell her
I’m practising my listening on the
weekend.
1.What do you think you will hear in their
introduction?
Location, climate, people, custom,
history, places of interest, and so on.
2.The name of each student’s country.
Student 1 is from .
Student 2 is from .
Student 3 is from .
Student 4 is from .
Student 5 is from .
Student 6 is from .
India
the USAJamaica
Ireland
Philippines
Singapore
S1: I live in South Asia.My country is
thousand of years old and now has
more than a billion people. Unlike
many other countries, our people
speak a lot of languages.So we use
English, which we got from British
rulers hundreds of years ago,to
understand our neighbours.
Listening text
Of course, we have our own way of
using English.
S2: One of my grandmothers speakers
French. Her grandmother came
from some place in Canada. I like to
listen to her talk, although I don’t
understand much of what she says.
Her English is also hard to
understand. She cooks
delicious food, so I spend a lot of time
in the kitchen with her whenever I visit
her. I plan to see her again for a special
holiday called Fat Tuesday. We will go
to New Orleans, Which is near the sea.
People will dance in the streets all day
and night.
S3: Well,I don’t live very far from the last
student who spoken to you. But I live
on a beautiful island where the sun
shines most of the year. It’s not the
biggest island in the sea but it’s not
the smallest island, either. We also got
English from British rulers a long
time age, and use it in a different way.
I think our English sounds a little like
our music. Some people say I speak a
dialect of English,but I don’t agree.
To us, it’s more like another language.
S4: I live on a huge green island in
western Europe. hundreds of years
age my people spoke a very
different language from English. Then
the British rulers came. Now the old
language is spoken in only a few
villages in the western part of my
country. Most of us speak a lovely kind
of English that also sounds a little like
our music.
S5: My country has more than 7,000islands.
Some of them are very large but most
of them are quite small. Hundreds of
years ago the Spanish rulers changed
the way we live. Much later the
American rulers taught their own kind
of English in our school. Nowadays, we
speak a kind of English but is mostly
our own.
S6:My country is very small. In fact, it’s
really a city. It is in southeast Asia and
is very rich. People come from all over
Asia to do business here. But our
English comes from worker on the
street. Some people in my country
don’t like the sound of this English.
They would rather speak British
English. Today, you can hear our
kind of English spoken everywhere
in the city and on many ships that
come here.