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.