大学长腿吧-教师节讲话
Unit 6
Houses and Homes
T
ask 1
Script
My dream house is not very big
but not very small
. It is very quiet
and it is near the centre of the city.
I
imagine
a
large
garden
with
pets
including
three
dogs
and
two
cats. I
dream of
a large kitchen and a comfortable
living room
with a big
sofa and big windows. I like brightly-
lit rooms.
There are only two
floors
, with two bedrooms and two bathrooms.
The furniture is modem and
not
dark
. I would like to have a
hobbies room
with plenty of
books and maps on the walls.
Finally,
I
would
like
to
have
a
small
swimming
pool
for
the
summer and a good sauna for the winter.
This is my dream house.
Key
Fill in the blanks with
what you hear on the tape.
See the
Script.
T
ask 2
Script
Rod
: Hello. Is that Oxford 40414?
Mary
: Y
es it is.
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Rod:
Erm... I'm enquiring about the flat which
was advertised in the
local paper.
Mary
: Oh yes?
Rod:
Wonder
if
you
could
tell
me,
how
much
is
the
rent
a
month,
please?
Mary:
It's
￡
112.
Rod:
I see. Is it fairly near the city centre?
Mary:
Y
es, it's only about a kilometre away.
Rod:
I see. Is it quite handy for the shops?
Mary
: Y
es, within a minute or two on foot.
Rod
: What about a garden?
Mary
: Well you have the use of the garden.
Rod
: I see. And central heating, is there?
Mary
: Y
es, yes. Gas central heating.
Rod
: I see. Erm... how many rooms are there, please?
Mary
:
Well,
there's
one
very
large
bed-sitting
room,
a
kitchen
and
bathroom and a small hall.
Rod:
I see. Erm... which floor is it on?
Mary
: On the first floor.
Rod
: Oh good. Erm... would it be possible for me to visit
it tomorrow,
say about 5
o'clock?
Mary
: Yes, certainly.
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Rod
: Oh good. That's fine. Could you just give me your name, please?
Mary:
Y
es. The name is Mary Jones [Y
es.] and the address is 41 North
Parade.
Rod
:
41
North
Parade.
Fine.
Thanks
ever
so
much.
I'll
see
you
tomorrow at 5
o'clock then.
Mary
: Y
es. [OK?] Good.
Rod
: Bye-bye.
Mary
: Goodbye.
Key
A. Fill in the following
chart.
Some features of the flat:
1) Including one
large bed- sitting room, a
kitchen and bathroom
and a small hall
2) Near the city centre and shops
3) With gas central heating
Rent per month: 112 pounds
Floor: first
Name of landlady: Mary Jones
Address: 41 North Parade
Telephone No.: 40414
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B.
Decide whether the statements are true (T) or
false (F) according to
the tape.
l) Rod has learnt something about the flat from an advertisement in a
local newspaper. [T]
2) Rod will have no access to the garden when he moves in. [F]
3) It's a two- bedroom flat. [F]
4) Rod says he will go and visit the landlady tomorrow morning. [F]
Task 3
Script
Mr. Henschel is
talking about his house.
Interviewer
: Mr. Henschel, you're from Germany, and you're now living
in Thailand.
Mr
. Henschel
: Y
es, that's right. I built this house eight years ago.
Interviewer
: Why did you choose a traditional Thai house?
Mr
. Hensche
l: Because I collect Thai antiques and I think they look best
in a
traditional house.
Interviewer
: It's really very beautiful. And very cool here in the garden.
What's above us?
Mr
. Hensche
: There's a large, open
verandah above us. See? There's an
opening here. Y
ou can see the sky.
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Interviewer
: And someone on the verandah can look into the garden.
Mr
.
Henschel
:
That's
right.
That's
the
living
room,
at
the
front
of
the
house, with the stairs next to it.
There's a toilet under the
stairs and
next to that is the study.
Interviewer
: What else is there on the ground floor?
Mr
.
Henschel
:
There's
a dining
room
at
the
back
of
the
house,
across
from the study.
Interviewer
: And upstairs?
Mr
.
Henschel
: The
bedrooms,
and
the
verandah.
The
main
bedroom
is
above the
living room. But I don't need a lot of bedrooms.
I just need room for my antiques.
Interviewer
: But where's the kitchen?
Mr
. Henschel
: The kitchen
is outside, there, in the other building. Thai
houses are often like
that. Then the heat and the cooking
smells aren't in the house.
Key
Choose
the best answer to each of the following
questions.
l) Mr. Henschel is from
(b)
a) England
b) Germany
c) Thailand
d) America
2) The word
(c)
a) a window through which one can look into the garden
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b) a special type of bedroom
c)
an open area with a floor and a roof that is built
on the side of a house
d) a kitchen
separate from the main building
3) Why
did Mr. Henschel choose a traditional Thai house?
(d)
a) The kitchen is outside the main building
b) He tries to look like a native Thai.
c) A Thai house is very beautiful and cool
d) The Thai antiques
he has collected will look best in such a house.
4) Which of the following statements is
NOT true?
(d)
a) There
are some stairs next to the living room.
b) The study is next to the toilet.
c) There is a dining room at
the back of the house.
d) The bedrooms
are on the ground floor.
T
ask 4
Script
Electricity comes through an underground cable. Then a thin cable
enters your
home through a special box, called
a fuse box, and a meter.
This
meter
counts
units
of
electricity,
and
at
the
end
of
a
month
or
a
quarter
your parents pay their electricity bill. Different
wires go from the
meter to all the
rooms in your house or flat. Y
ou cannot see these wires
because they are under the
floors or in the walls. Some wires are for the
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lights
in
the
ceiling,
and
others
are
for
all
our
machines.
We
use
electricity for refrigerators, cookers,
water heaters and washing machines.
What does your family use electricity
for?
Key
Answer
the following questions.
l) Describe
how electricity comes into home.
Key:
Electricity
comes
through
an
underground
cable.
Then
a
thin
cable enters our
home through a fuse box and a meter.
2)
What is the use of a meter?
Key: The
meter counts units of electricity.
3)
Can you normally see the wires? Why or why not?
Key: No. Because they are normally under the floors or in the walls.
4) What do we often use electricity
for?
Key:
Usually
for
refrigerators,
cookers,
water
heaters
and
washing
machines.
T
ask 5
Script
1) Something's
definitely wrong. It's not cooling properly. The
food that I
put in it yesterday was
spoiled by today.
2) It's been out of
order for several hours. I can
’
t get a dial tone. I'd like to
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get it fixed as soon as
possible because I have to make some important
business calls.
3) I wish
you could fix the central heating in there. When I
go to bed at
night it's so cold that I
can't get to sleep.
4) It hasn't been
heating right for some time. Sometimes
it gets too hot
and burns everything.
Other times it doesn't get hot enough, and things
don't get cooked.
5) It's
been driving me crazy all summer! It keeps
breaking down and it
doesn't keep the
room cool. It's so hot in this room most of the
time
that I can hardly breathe.
Key
What is
each speaker talking about? Choose the best
answer
.
1) a) stove
b) refrigerator
c) air conditioner
(b)
2) a)
radio
b) telephone
c) television
(b)
3)
a) bedroom
b) living room
c) kitchen
(a)
4) a) stove
b) dryer
c) central heating
(a)
5) a) central heating
b) lamp
c) air conditioner
c)
T
ask 6
Script
When Mrs. Kienast's quintuplets were born, they were too small to
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leave
the
hospital.
They
couldn't
leave
the
hospital
until
they
weighed
enough.
During
the
time
when
the
babies
were
in
the
hospital,
Mrs.
Kienast was busy at home.
After the
Kienasts' neighbors learned of the quintuplets' birth, they
decided to add
some extra rooms to the family's house. The house
was too
small for a big family. It had
only five rooms. The neighbors decided to
add seven
more.
They
are
giving
their
labor
without
pay
because
they
want to help.
Key
Answer the following
questions.
1) Give a title to the
story.
Key: The House Was Not Big
Enough/The Kienasts' Housing Problem
2)
Can
you
tell
us
what
the
word
probably
means
in
context?
Key: It
means five (or several) children born of the same mother at the
same time.
3) Why did Mrs. Kienast's babies have
to stay
in the hospital for some
days?
Key: They were too
small to leave the hospital.
4) What
did the neighbors decide to do when knowing the
babies' birth?
Key: They decided to add
some extra rooms to the Kienasts' house.
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5) How
many rooms would the house have after being
rebuilt?
Key: 12.
6) Will
the Kienasts pay their neighbors? Why or why not?
Key: No. The neighbours want to help
them.
T
ask 7
Script
Mary Fargo and Pete
Russell are talking about how they feel about
their house, now that they've finished
renovating it.
Mary:
Yes, yes. I really feel that
it was all
worth
it now. When
people
come
to
see
it,
they
always
say
they
love
it,
and
that we've done a
super job, and it's good to hear that.
Pete:
I
sometimes
walk
around
and
just
touch
various
things--
some
of
these
books
are
very
rare
and
they're
lovely to hold--here,
feel this leather cover. I think a house
should be all about the senses. I hear
Mary working out in
the
morning
on
her
exercise
bar, or playing
the
piano.
It
really sounds like a home as well.
Mary
: I think I have two favourite rooms--the music room is here.
We
had
the
carpet
specially
made.
Y
ou
can
feel
the
thickness of it, even in shoes. It's an
informal sitting room,
really.
A
lot
of
our
favourite
things
are
in
this
room.
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Sometimes,
after
a
heavy
day,
I
like
to
just
sit
here
and
look at the paintings, or
play the piano, or listen to music.
My
other
favourite
is
the
breakfast
room
because
it's so
bright
and
cheery,
and
in
the
summer
we
throw
the
windows
open
and
I
can
hear
the
birds,
or Pete
playing
with the
dog.
Pete:
Someone asked me the other day if I could bear to do it all
again.
Interviewer
: And what did you say?
Pete:
Well of course, it's all worthwhile in the end. But to tell you
the truth, I was almost sad
when it was finished. Well, you
know
that, I wondered what I was going to do next. I
loved
designing
the
curtains
for
example.
And
I
liked
doing
the
wallpaper.
And
it
was
especially
good
because
we
were
doing it for ourselves. I hated doing
some of the mundane
things, though.
Mary
: I think it's a question of degree, really. I like some types of
shopping.
I
love
shopping
for
antiques,
for
example.
And
choosing furniture and fabrics. I like
doing that. What I hate
doing is
ordinary day-to-day shopping. I love shopping for
a
dinner party, for example. Going into
all the small speciality
shops,
the cheese shop,
the
fishmonger's
and so on.
But
I
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hate shopping for washing powder, for
example. I don't like
doing the
ordinary boring things.
Key
Answer the
following questions:
1) Why does Mary
say,
Key: She and Pete have worked hard
for renovating their house. Now it's
finished, and looks nice. Others say
they have done a good job. So
she
thinks it's worthwhile.
2) Pete says
their house a good one by this
standard? Why or why not?
Key:
Y
es, he thinks so. In the house, he can touch various things (e.g. the
leather
cover
of
a
rare
book),
and
hear
Mary
working
out
in
the
morning, or playing the piano.
3) What are Mary's two favourite rooms?
Key: The music room and the breakfast
room.
4) Why was Pete almost sad when
the renovation was finished?
Key: He
loved doing those interesting things, such as
designing curtains,
but
hated
doing
ordinary,
uninteresting
things.
Perhaps,
after
the
renovation, there wouldn't
be so many interesting things.
5)
What's Mary's attitudes towards shopping?
Key: She
likes some kinds of shopping, like buying antiques, but hates
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