Unit Fifteen Lifestyle (I)

PartAMicro-listening

PartBMacro-listening

Part C Oral Practice

Part D Home Listening

Listening for the Main Idea

You’ll hear five proverbs about how to live a healthy life.

Read after the recoding and learn the proverbs by heart.

　 1. Early to bed and early to rise makes you healthy, wealthy and wise.

早睡早起使你健康，富裕和聪明。

2. After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile. 午饭后歇歇 , 晚饭后走走。

　 3. An apple a day keeps the doctor away.　　每天吃苹果，医生不来找我。

　 4. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.　　只顾工作不玩耍，聪明孩子也变傻。

5. A little labor, much health.　　适度劳动，没有病痛。

Conversation 1 Our Lifestyles Are So Different

Conversation 2

We’re Drifted Apart

Listen to the passage and choose the right answer to

each of the questions you hear after the passage.

1. a. They went their separate ways. b. They got a job in the same company as production

assistants for art exhibitions. c. They went back to their hometowns and lived with their

parents. d. They kept in constant touch with each other.

2. a. She is teaching young people art. b. She is helping young people to develop an interest in the

arts. c. She is working as a planner for art exhibitions. d. She is designing advertisements for art exhibitions.

3. a. She likes it very much because she is earning a lot of money.

b. She does not care for it because Bill doesn’t think it is a good job.

c. She does not like it at all because the pay is low. d. She gets a lot of personal satisfaction from it despite a

small salary.

4. a. Tina and Bill will get married despite their different lifestyles.

b. Different lifestyles cannot prevent young people from loving each other.

c. Different ways of living may result in the breaking up of a relationship.

d. Tina wants to end her relationship with Bill.

Listen to the passage and decide whether the statements you hear are true about Bill. Put a tick in the brackets

for a true statement.

1.( ) 2. ( )

3. ( ) 4. ( )

5. ( ) 6. ( )

7. ( ) 8. ( )

Making Appropriate Responses

Do you enjoy living with your roommate?

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Have you ever fallen out with your roommate?

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What’s the biggest difference between you and your roommate?

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Do you and your roommate like the same kind of music?

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Making Appropriate Responses

Would you like your roommate to have a lot in common with you or not?

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What topics do you discuss most often with your friends?

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Are you still in touch with your friends from high school?

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What is more important in ajob, a high salary or personal satisfaction?.

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Back to the Simple Life

Listen to the story and choose the right answers to the questions you hear after the story.

1. a. He wasn’t happy with his wife in Sydney. b. He wanted to get married. c. He failed to do his job well. d. He didn’t like his wealthy lifestyle there.

2. a. Fishing with his wife’s brother. b. Catching and selling fish with his wife.

c. Running a fishing business with his wife. d. Running a fishing business with his wife’s

brother.

3. a. Money is important but it is not everything. b. A good relation between husband and wife is most

important to a happy life. c. A simple life is the best thing in the world. d. Only when people are living a simple life can they

be content.