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UNIT 14
Section one Tactics for
Listening
Part 1 Phonetics
Exercise: Complete the following short
dialogue as you listen to the
tape.
Pay
special
attention
to
the
weak
forms,
link-
ups
and
contractions.
Mr Trimm: Now that the (1)
reather's better, I'd like to weed the garden
and paint the fence white.
Mrs Trimm:(2) That's a good idea. It
looks terrible at moment. I'm sure
the
boys will help you, Dick. You could all (3) o
together.
Pedro:
Uh
…
When are you going to do
this, Mr Trimm?
Mr Trimm:
This Saturday.
Niko:
Oh,
then
I'm
afraid
I
(4)
can't
help
you.
I'm
taking
Jenny
out
to
lunch and then to (5) an
afternoon concert.
Mr
Trimm: Maybe you could (6) put it off until next
weekend.
Niko: I'm so sorry, I can't.
(7) I've already bought the tickets.
Mr Trimm: Oh, well. (8) what about you,
Andrew? (9) You're not doing
anything
special, are you?
Andrew: (10)
As a matter of fact, I have to play in
the game against the
Panthers, because
Jim sprained (11)
and
cant
’
t play.
Mr
Trimm: I've always thought football (12) was a
dangerous game.
Pedro: And I have to
study for my final exams which start next week.
Mr Trimm: All right. (15)
I
’
ll do it alone.
Part 2 Listening and Note-
taking
Husband: Have you seen this ad
in the paper?
Wife: No. which one?
Husband: Coconut Isla
nd…
Wife: But you have an island. Husband:
yes, but listen to this : A hundred
acres
with
excellent
sandy
beaches,
good
fishing
and
forty
acres
of
coconut
palms.
Wife: sounds nice, but how much
does it cost? Husband: $$ 800,000. It's a
good buy.
Wife: Yes, I guess
so.
Husband: If I buy it,
I'll build a luxury hotel there.
Wife:
What's the weather like? Husband: Beautiful all
year round.
Wife: How do
you know?
Husband: Well,
it's in the Pacific.
Wife: Seems like a
perfect place for tourists.
Husband: Yes. And I'll al
so
have a yacht club…
mm, and golf course.
Wife: Uh huh. That's a good idea.
Husband: There'll be fresh
fish and coconuts. I might start a coconut oil
industry.
Wife: That sounds
very ambitious. Husband: I think I'll call up the
real
estate agent right now.
Wife: Why don't you think about it for
a day or two? You may change
your mind.
Husband: No. I've made up my mind.
Exercise A: Listen to the
conversation and take notes.
Exercise B: complete the advertisement.
Coconut Island
A
beautiful island in the (1) Pacific
(2)
A hundred acres with excellent (3) sandy beaches,
(4) good fishing and (5) forty acres of
coconut palms
For
Only (6) $$
800,000
A perfect investment for both
(7) tourism and (8) coconut oil Industry
Interested? Contact your local (9) real
estate agent
At
800-123-4567
Section two Listening
Comprehension
Part 1 Dialogues
Dialogue 1 Magic Tricks and Illusions
Ken Brown, the taxi driver, loves magic
tricks and illusions. He is talking
to
another driver while they are waiting for
passengers.
Ken: Did you see the Joe
Daniel show last night?
Driver: No, I didn't. Why? Was it good?
Ken: Fantastic. There was an Indian on,
called the Great Supremo.
Driver: what did he do?
Ken:
He rolled up a sort of spiral* track in a ball.
Driver: What do you mean,
in a ball?
Ken: He came on, took off
his cloak and shoes, got into a
silver
ball
and
curled
up*.
Then
his
assistant
fastened
it
and
pushed
it
onto
the
track.
Driver: There was
probably a moving chain or something.
Ken:
No,
it
looked
just
like
a
helter-
skelter*
－
about
four
meters
high.
Driver: But how can a ball roll up a
slope*?
Ken: It must be
something to do with the centre of gravity*.
Driver: And what happened
when it go to the top?
Ken: It came
back down again. I suppose he turned round inside
to keep
control.
Driver: Did
it come down quickly?
Ken:
Not
at
all.
It
came
down
as
slowly
as
it
went
up,
but
it
always
looked as if it might fall off the
track.
Exercise
A:
Listen
to
the
dialogue
and
complete
the
following
summary.
An Indian rolled up a spiral track in a
ball.
Exercise B: Listen to the
dialogue
again and complete the
following
description of the show in
detail..
The performancer came on, took
off his cloak and shoes, got into
a
silver
ball
and
curled
up*.
Then
his
assistant
fastened
it
and
pushed
it
onto
the track, which looked just like a helter-
skelter
－
about four meters
high. The ball rolled up the slope
slowly. When it got to the top, it came
back
down
again.
It
came
down
as
slowly
as
it
went
up,
but
it
always
looked as if it might fall off the
track.
Dialogue
2 Ancient Mysterious
Ann is having
coffee with her two flatmates, Jane and Sheila.
Jane: You re very quiet, Ann. What are
you thinking about?
Ann: This book
about Stonehenge. It reminds me of another book I
once
read about mysterious objects and
places.
Sheila: It sounds interesting.
What sort of things do you mean?
Ann: I
don't remember the name of the writer, but he
found some quartz
bead in Peru that had
tiny holes drilled in them
Jane: What's
strange about that?
Ann:
They've
only
just
developed
a
commercial
drill
that
could
make
such holes.
Sheila: Do you
remember any other examples?
Ann: Yes,
there's an iron tower in Indian. It's at least
1500 years old, but it
never rusts*.
Sheila:
Wait
a
minute!
I
remember
reading
about
lots
of
lines
on
the
ground
dating
from
about
A.D.500.
It
was
somewhere
in
Peru
again,
I
think…
Jane:
I don't see
anything
strange
about that!
Sheila:
I haven't
finished.
You can see what
the lines represent from high in the air.
Ann: And there were no airplanes in
those days-or were there? Jane: Oh,
stop it. Of course, there weren't!
Ann:
I
think
it's
the
same
book.
It's
got
a
lot
of
photos
in
it
of
cave*
drawings
showing people who look like astronauts.
Jane: And why do you think
they look like astronauts?
Ann:
Because
they
have
helmets
and
clothes
that
look
like
modern
spacesuits.
Jane: Well, it
all sounds rather far-fetched* to me.
Exercise:
Listen
to
the
dialogue
and
decide
whether
the
following
statements
are
true
or
false.
Write
T
or
F
in
the
space
provided.
Discuss with your
classmates why you think the statement is true or
false.
F 1, The
ancient mysterious events mentioned in the
conversation all took
place
in
Pure.
(The
ancient
mysterious
events
mentioned
in
the
conversation did not all take place in
Peru Some took place in Indian.)
T 2. Ancient people used drills to make
holes on quartz beads. ( Ancient
people
may have developed a kind of drill to make holes
on quartz beads.)
F
3.
There
is
stainless
steel
tower
in
India.
(The
tower
is
not
made
of
stainless steel but iron that never
rusts.)
F 4. People can see what the
lines represent on the ground. (People can
see what the lines represent only in
the sky not
F
5.
Cave
drawings
show
that
astronauts
from
outer
space
visited
the
Earth
long
ago.
(Cave
drawings
just
show
people
who
look
like
astronauts.)
F
6. It seems that the speakers are all interested
in ancient mysteries. (The
ancient
mysteries sound interesting to Ann but rather far-
fetched to Jane.)
Part 2
passage
Passage 1 the Problems of the
Third World
Er,
one
of
our
main
arguments
is
that
we
in
Western
countries
actually have a
part to play in causing the problems of the Third
world. Er,
many Third World countries
are saddled* by immense debt burdens, for
example. They were lent money at low
interest rates in the 1970s, when
money
flooded into Western banks from the oil-producing
countries and
was, was lent out to the
Third World. The interest rates have then risen
dramatically. So you have a situation
where a country in many cases can't
even repay the intere let alone* the
capital*, on th-, on the debt. And I, I
suppose
the
best
example
of
that
that
I've
come
across
is
a
country
in
West
Africa where the consumption, the local
consumption of, of peanuts
was banned,
er, because peanuts w-,if, if they're im-,
exported can bring
in
dea-,
bring
in
a
great
deal
of,
of
foreign
income.
Er,
the
peanut
is
a
major source of protein* in this
country. So you had people going hungry
as a result of that.
The
peanuts were exported to Great Britain and the
United States to
feed our cattle. Er,
those cattle then produced a surplus of milk which
we
don't know what to do with. We have
enough er, milk, more milk that we
can,
than we can cope with in, in the Western World.
And so that milk
was
transformed
into
dried
milk
power
and
then
taken
back
to
this
country to help feed children who were
suffering from
malnutrition. So
that,
that's
the
kind
of
insane
economic
relationship
that
w-,
we've
got
ourselves into with,
with the Third World.
Exercise:
Listen
to
the
passage
and
choose
the
best
answer
to
complete each of the following
sentences.
1. B
2.D
3.A
4.C
5.A
6.D
7.B
8.B
Part 3 News
New stem 1
The United Nations Security Counsel has
opened a conference on the war
in
the
Democratic
Republic
of
Congo.
Diplomats
attending
the
conference say the Counsel is ready for
a limited deployment of military
observers and troops to Congo. The
Counsel expects to send about 3,000
troops to Congo.
This is
less than half the size of a peacekeeping force
approved earlier. France's ambassador
to the UN said the reduced force
will
be
enough
to
observe
peace
promised
by
warring
sides.
But
Zimbabwe foreign
minister said the reduced force shows that UN is
not
really serious about establishing
peace in Congo.
Exercise
A:
Listen
to
the
news
item
and
complete
the
following
summary.
The United Nations Security Counsel has
opened a conference on the war
in the
Democratic Republic of Congo.
Exercise
B:
Listen
to
the
news
item
again
and
decide
whether
the
following
statements
are
true
or
false.
Write
T
or
F
in
the
space
provide. Discuss with your classmates
why you think the statement is
true or
false.
T 1.
Military observers and troops will be sent to
Congo by the Counsel.
F 2. As approved
earlier, about 3,000troops will go to keep peace
there.
(The Counsel expects to send
about 3,000 troops to Congo. That is less
than half the size of a peacekeeping
force approved earlier.)
F
3. Officials from France and Zimbabwe think the
force will be enough
to observe peace.
(But Zimbabwe foreign minister said the reduced
force
shows that UN is not really
serious about establishing peace in Congo.)
New stem 2
Forty
African leaders attending a meeting of the
Organization of African
Unity have
promised to create a continental trade group. The
organization
would be similar to the
European Union. It would have a parliament, a
central bank and a court of law. At
least 44 members of the organization
of
African
Unity
have
signed
the
documents
supporting
the
proposal.
OAU
officials say
they
expect
the
resolution to be approved within the
month. Thirty-six nations must support
it.
Exercise
A:
Listen
to
the
news
item
and
complete
the
following
summary.
Forty
African
leaders
attending
a
meeting
have
promised
to
create
a
continental trade group.
Exercise B: Listen to the news item
again and fill in the blanks with
the
information you get.
The proposed
organization, similar to the European Union, would
have a
parliament, central bank and a
court of law. At least 44 members of the
Organization of African Unity support
the proposal. The resolution will
be
approved if 36 nations support it.
New stem 3
The
Internet search engine company called Google has
announced it
will give more than
twenty-five million dollars in money and
investments
to help the poor. The money
will be spent over the next five to ten years