英語(yǔ)視聽(tīng) Book 4 Unit 3.ppt

1、,Welcome,Unit ThreeListening Course (4),Section One Tactics for Listening,Listening and Translation,Training Focus: Global understanding of simple and short sentences 1) Vocabulary and background information concerning differences between boys and girls 2) Master comparative sentence structure 3) Ta

2、ke notes if necessary Exercise Directions: Listen to some sentences and translate them into Chinese. You will hear each words three times.,Key to the exercise:,Girls score higher than boys in almost every country. 幾乎在所有的國(guó)家里, 女孩子都比男孩子得分高. 2. Differences between males and females are a continuing issu

3、e of fierce debate. 男女差異一直是激烈爭(zhēng)論的焦點(diǎn).,3. Cultural and economic influences play an important part. 文化和經(jīng)濟(jì)的影響起著重要作用. 4. But recent findings suggest that the answer may lie in differences between the male and female brain. 但是最新的發(fā)現(xiàn)提示, 答案也許在于男女大腦的差異. 5. These include differences in learning rates. 這些包括學(xué)習(xí)速度上

4、的差異.,Section Two Listening Comprehension,Part I Dialogue Unusual Occupation,Focus: Serenading Service,Background Information: Plcido Domingo: (1941-) a famous Spanish-Mexican opera singer.,Vocabulary: 1)serenade: 小夜曲 2)clientele: clients collectively 顧客,主顧 3)alfresco: in the open air 在戶(hù)外, 在露天 4)amor

5、ous: indicative of love 表示愛(ài)情的 5)gondola: 小劃船 6)discreet: careful and circumspect in ones speech or action, especially in order to avoid causing offence or to gain an advantage 小心的, 慎重的,Fill in the blanks with the missing information:,1. three years,2. desperate for romance,3. serenader,4. Renaissanc

6、e music,5. serenades,6.Turned the serenade into an art form for hire,7. men,8.women,9.men,10. theatre,11. love songs,12.white tie,13.tails,14. Italian songs,15. chocolate hearts,16. flowers,17. balcony,18. trees,19. fire escapes,20. whether a musician comes along or not,21. 450,22. a gondola and a g

7、roup of musicians,23. burst into tears,24. avoid unpleasant situation,25. completely misinterpreted,Part 2 Passage Memory Techniques,Training focus: 1. Sentence dictation 2. Test note-taking skills: a. to skim sentences before actual listening. b. to take notes while listening,Vocabulary: 1)mnemonic

8、: a device such as a pattern of letters, ideas, or associations which assists in remembering something記憶方法 2)mnemonics: the study and development of systems for improving and assisting the memory 記憶術(shù) 3)laden: heavily loaded or weighed down 裝滿的, 負(fù)荷的,4)potent: effective 有力的, 有效的 5)visualize: form a pi

9、cture of (something or somebody) in the mind 形象化 6) coherent: (especially of speech, writing or argument) naturally or reasonably connected and therefore easy to understand 連貫的,Pre-listening Question What memory strategies do you know that can help you remember things better?,Exercise B Sentence Dic

10、tationDirections: Listen to some sentences and write them down. You will hear each sentence three times.,Mnemonics are methods for remembering information that is otherwise quite difficult to recall. Our brains evolved to code and interpret complex stimuli such as images, colors, structures, sounds,

11、 smells, tastes, touch, positions, emotions and language.,3. While language is one of the most important aspects of human evolution, it is only one of the many skills and resources available to our minds. 4. Association is the method by which you link a thing to be remembered to a way of remembering

12、 it.,5. Location gives you two things: a coherent context into which you can place information, and a way of separating one mnemonic from another.,Exercise C Detailed ListeningDirections: Listen to the passage and decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F). Discuss with your c

13、lassmates why you think the statements is true or false.,_ 1. Mnemonics are tools which can help you to improve your memory. _ 2. The fundamental principle of mnemonics is to make full use of the best functions of the brain to store information. _ 3. Information we have to remember is almost always

14、presented in different ways. _ 4. We can do four things to form striking images, which will help to make our mnemonics more memorable. _ 5. There is one basic principle in the use of mnemonics. _ 6. Association is what we use to create and strengthen imagination.,T,T,F,T,F,F,_7. You can choose the i

15、magery in your mnemonics as you like. _ 8. You can create association by linking things using the same stimuli.,T,T,Exercise D: After-listening discussionDirections: Listen to the passage again and discuss the following questions.,1. What is the basic principle of mnemonics? Why can we improve our m

16、emory by following the principle? The basic principle of mnemonics is to use as many of the best functions of your brain as possible to store information. Our brains evolved to code and interpret complex stimuli such as images, colors, structures, sounds, smells, tastes, touch , positions, emotions

17、and language. We sue these to make sophisticated models of the would we live in. Our memories store all of these very effectively. Unfortunately information we have to remember is almost always presented in only one wayas words printed on a page. While language is one of the most important aspects o

18、f human evolution, it is only one of the many skills and resources available to our minds.,By coding language and number in striking images, you can reliably code both information and the structure of information. You can then easily recall these later.,2. Why is a good memory important to us?,Secti

19、on Three News,Training Focus: 1. Understanding the organization of a news story; 2. Summarizing news; 3. Selecting specific information.,News Item 1,Vocabulary: thwart: w:t挫敗；反對(duì)；阻礙；橫過(guò) mount: increase 增加,Exercise A. Directions: Listen to the news and complete the summary. This news item is about the

20、Somali pirates strike. Exercise B. Directions: Listen to the news again and answer the following questions.,Whether this latest attempted hijacking was the promised revenge for the killing of three Somali pirates by the US navy isnt clear.,1.Was this latest attempted hijacking the promised revenge f

21、or the killing of three Somalia pirates by the US navy?,2. Have the pirates been deterred? No, the pirates havent been deterred. 3. Why will piracy continue according to maritime security analysts? Because the financial rewards for a successful hijacking remain so great and Somalia remains so lawles

22、s.,4.How many warships are there in the area to police an expanse of sea covering more than a million square kilometers? At any time there are only fifteen to eighteen international warships in the area to police an expanse of sea covering more than a million square kilometers.,5. Why is it unlikely

23、 to mount a major international naval operation in the area? It may be because of the relatively small scale of the problem.,News Item 2,Vocabulary: dubious: dju:bjs無(wú)把握的；不確定的 Exercise A. Directions: Listen to the news and complete the summary. This item is about Obamas military plan in Afghanistan.,

24、.,Exercise B. Directions: Listen to the news again and decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F). _ 1.The President is considering leaving Afghanistan. _ 2. Obama wouldnt shrink the number of troops in Afghanistan, neither would he deploy more military troops. _ 3. President

25、Obama thought his assessment would be “rigorous and deliberate”. _ 4. Opinions against Obama are not heard _5. The conflict in Afghanistan seems to be over soon. _6. Afghanistan can be the second Vietnam.,F,T,T,F,F,T,News Item 3,Vocabulary: makeshift: 權(quán)宜之計(jì)；湊合；臨時(shí)措施 pitted with: 起凹點(diǎn)；使留下疤痕，留下麻點(diǎn) tank ro

26、unds: 槽輪 sniper:snaip 狙擊兵 sling: 投擲，懸掛 perimeter: primit 周長(zhǎng)；周界,Exercise A. Directions: Listen to the news and complete the summary. This news item is about,fragile peace that returns to Gaza.,Exercise B. Directions: Listen to the news again and fill in the blanks with the missing information. There

27、were traffic jams on the road north, families heading to Gaza City to reunite with friends and relatives. Long lines of cars backed up at the makeshift roadblocks the Israelis have left behind. But the tanks are gone, only the deep tracks remain. There were building pitted with Israeli tank rounds ;

28、 from the holes that have been punched in the walls it was clear that there had also been snipers waiting for them. North of Khan Younis we saw some of the Qassam fighters returning home, their rifles slung lazily around their shoulders. For three weeks the Israelis pounded the tunnels that run bene

29、ath the perimeter wall. But some of these tunnels are still open and still some fuel is being pumped from the Egyptian side. If the border crossing remain close, say the Palesstinians, these tunnels are their only link to the outside world.,Section Four Supplementary Exercises,Part 1 Feature Report

30、Dinosaur Discoveries Made possible Through Art, Technology, Modern Livestock A: This news item is about the recreation of the prehistoric world in Liaoning, China, based on the scientific findings on fossils discovered there.,B: Answer the following questions,1. 35 prehistoric animals were created.

31、2. They recreated the extinct beasts through the marriage of science, art and technology. 3. The exhibit is not behind the glass or otherwise enclosed, so visitors are eye to eye with extinct beasts. It is displayed in this way so that visitors will feel as if theyve stepped into a Chinese forest 13

32、0 million years in the past.,4. He says its accurate because every single plant, every insect, every organic feature in it actually represents something that has been found as a fossil in northeastern China. 5. The only thing scientists had to make up is what color some of the animals were. 6. Accor

33、ding to Michael Novacek, birds are living dinosaurs.,7. They study the movement of commonplace turkeys, chickens and ostriches to learn how similarly-built dinosaurs would stand or walk. 8. By using high-tech imagery, fossils, and knowledge gained from the biology of barnyard animals, scientists now

34、 estimate the giant T-Rex could reach speeds of 16 kilometers per hour, far slower than the more 70 kilometers per hour previously thought.,Part 2 PassageEye Contact,B: Sentence Dictation 1. The goal of this study was to determine what type of “gaze” is required to have this effect. 2. The Queens study showed that the total amount of gaze received during a group conversation is more important than when the eye contact occurs.,3. The eye contact experiment used computer-generated images from actors wh