课件16张PPT。Unit 2 English around the worldListening 2 1 注意3 Listen and put these sentences in the right sequence4
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64 Answer the following questions after listening1 He believes it’s almost a different country from the USA. The listening tells us.
2 The boy thought the catfish was almost the size of a house.
3 He thought the catfish would eat him.
4 They laughed because Lester believed the catfish would hurt him.( …they thought Lester was a craven 懦夫, 胆小鬼,) Hello, everyone, I am Buford’s teacher, Jane, from Britain. Perhaps you didn’t quite understand everything Buford said. He said that he lives in Houston, a city in Texas, He wants everyone to know that he doesn’t believe Texas is a state in the USA but a different country. Buford says that he would like to tell you a story about him when he was a small child. One hot summer’s day he was swimming with Big Billy Bob and Lester. They were jumping into the water, which felt good. Then he says that he saw a catfish almost the size of a house but, he adds, that the catfish was really smaller. Buford says that Lester thought he was going to be eaten by the catfish. He says, goodness, you should have seen Lester! He says that Lester got out of the water faster than lightning and climbed up a tree. Buford and Big Billy Bob just laughed a lot. To this day( 至今 ), he says, Lester won’t visit that place.Part Two Listening on page 482 Listen to the tape again work out the name of each student’s country and find the hints that help you identify themIndiaSouth Asia
1 billion people
British rulersIreland PhilippinesHong KongWestern Europe
Green island
British rulersMore than 7000 islands
Spanish / American rulers
Southeast Asia
City
Rich
Many shipsListening Text
S1: I live in South Asia. My country is thousands 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 Britain rulers hundreds of years ago. Of course, we have our own way of using English.
S2: Well, I live on a huge green island in western Europe. Hundreds of years ago, my people spoke a very different language from English, Then the British rules came. Now the old language is spoken in only a few villages in the western part of my country.
S3: My country has more than 7,000 islands. 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 schools. Nowadays, we speak a kind of English that borrows words from American English but is mostly our own.
S4: 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. Today, you can hear our kind of English spoken everywhere in the city and on many ships that come here.Page 48
Answers to EX 2
Wang Ting and Chen Peng are discussing how they improve their English listening outside class.Listening on Page 51 Answers to EX 3
1 Wang Ting is going to buy some CDs to improve her English.
2 She likes to listen to English songs to learn idiomatic English expressions.
3 No, he used to watch English films. He doesn’t watch them now as he thinks they are too hard without Chinese subtitles.
4 He likes listening to Chinese people and reading English subtitles.
5 She asks him to listen to native speakers more often
6 The teacher asks him to learn “ little and often ” .She means that he should do a little extra listening every day to make the best improvement.Answers to EX 4
1 Listening to English songs is an easy way to learn some idiomatic expressions.
2 Watching the news and the interviews on CCTV 9 is a good way to practice your understanding of English.
3 Listening to the native speakers can improve your listening skills.Listening on Page 51
CP= Chen Peng( male ) WT= Wang Tong
CP: What are you doing this weekend, Wang Ting?
WT: I’m going to buy some CDs to improve my English.
CP: What? Are you kidding?
WT: No. I often listen to English songs and learn them. It’s an easy way to learn some idiomatic English expressions. Sometimes I watch films too.
CP: No, not me! I used to watch English films but I can’t understand them without the Chinese subtitles. I think English is too hard.
WT: You give up too easily. Why not watch CCTV 9. They often have Chinese people talking and they give subtitles in English to explain what they are saying. I find that very useful.
CP: I sometimes do that. I like watching the news and the interviews on CCTV 9. They often have Chinese people talking and they give subtitles in English to explain what they give subtitles in English to explain what they are saying. I find that very useful.
WT: Yes, that’s a good way to practice your understanding of ‘English. Why don’t you also listen to the native speakers and improve your listening skills?
CP: Yes. I think I’ll do that more regularly. My teacher always says that “little and often ” is the way to learn. She’ll be proud of me!Goodbye
