全新版大学英语听说教程1 Unit01

UNIT 1 STUDYING ENGLISH

PART A

Communicative Function

Greetings and Introductions

People greet each other when they meet. And in meeting new people it is common to introduce oneself and be introduced by others.This exercise focuses on different ways to greet people and to make introductions.

Listen to the tape and complete the dialogues.

1.

Bill : Hi,Mary.

Mary: Hi ,Bill.How are you doing?

Bill :Fine,thanks.And you?

Mary: Just fine. Bill,I’d like you to meet my classmate,Bob Smith.Bob,this is my friend,Bill Jones.

Bill :Hello.nice to meet you.

Bob: Nice to meet you,too.

2.

Linda:Exercise me ,are you Paul Johnson from London?I’m Linda Blake from Smith and Wells.

Paul:Yes,I am Paul Johnson.How do you do.Miss Blake?

Linda:How do you do ,Mr.Johnson?May I introduce Charles Green to you ?He’s our sales manager.

Paul:Pleased to meet you ,Mr. Green.

Mr.Green:I’ts a pleasure to meet you.

3.

Jack¹: Mum,I’ve brought one of my friends.

Mother:Ask him in,Jack.

Jack: Come and meet my family,Tom.Mum,this is Tom,my roommate.

Mother: Hello,Tom,it’s good to know you.

Tom: How do you do,Mrs.Brown?

Jack:And this is my sister,Jane.

Listening Strategy²:

Detecting³ Incomplete⁴ Plosion

In connected speech when a plosion consonant⁵ like /k/,/g/,/t/,/d/,/p/,/b/ is followed by another consonant,it is not fully⁶ pronounced.This is called incomplete plosion.

Listen to the tape and read after the recording⁷,paying attention to the letters in italics.

1.I like to sing pop songs.

2.basketball is my favorite sport.

3.I want to read science fiction in english .

4.Jack can speak good French.

5.Laura is one of the top student in Grade One.

6.Bob likes to play football after class.

7.Listening is not a big problen for me.

8.I’m sorry you don’t like New York very much.

Part B

Listening Tasks

Text:Talking about studying English

Exercise 1:

Listening for general understanding

Listen to this tape once choose the right answer to each question you hear.

At the gathering⁸ ,students in china and some countries.Yang Weiping ,Virginia Wang ,both first year college students are talking about their learing of English.

Hello, my neme is Yang Weiping. I’m a freshman⁹ at Peking University,and my major is Chemistry.At college we have to study a foreign language .I choose English because I like to listen to English programmes on the radio and TV. I also like British and American pop songs.Someday I hope to visit Britain and the United States. I started learning¹⁰ English several years ago and I’m getting better at it. My favorite activity is listening,especially listening to songs and stories .My big problem, is ,however,speaking. I feel nervous whenever I speak ,and I never seem to know what to say when people talk to me. But I’ve decided¹¹ to overcome my shyness,and learn to speak English by speaking as much as I can.

Hi,my name is virginia Wang. I’m a library science major at the National Univertity in Singapore.In our country, English is important. It is one of official languages and you have to be fluent in English to get a good job.Ive studied English at high school.I’m good at reading because I like learning about new things and new ideas.There are so many booke and articles written in English and our textbooks at university are written in English too.I know writing is also very important,but I find it really difficult. When I graduate from university ,I would like a job in the city library where I can read all kind new books.

Question1

Which of the following would be the best title for two talkers?

Question2

Who are the speakers?

Exercise 2

Listen again and then complete the table according to the information you get from the tape.

Hello, my neme is Yang Weiping. I’m a freshman at Peking University,and my major is Chemistry. At college we have to study a foreign language .I choose English because I like to listen to English programmes on the radio and TV. I also like British and American pop songs.Someday I hope to visit Britain and the United States. I started learning English several years ago and I’m getting better at it. My favorite activity is listening,especially listening to songs and stories .My big problem, is ,however,speaking. I feel nervous whenever I speak ,and I never seem to know what to say when people talk to me. But I’ve decided to overcome my shyness,and learn to speak English by speaking as much as I can.

Hi,my name is virginia Wang. I’m a library science major at the National Univertity in Singapore.In our country, English is important. It is one of official languages and you have to be fluent in English to get a good job.Ive studied English at high school.I’m good at reading because I like learning about new things and new ideas.There are so many booke and articles written in English .Our textbooks at university are written in English too.I know writing is also very important,but I find it really difficult. When I graduate from university ,I would like a job in the city library where I can read all kind new books.

Speaking Tasks

Pair work

Listen to the dialogues and repeat after the recording.Practise the dialogues with your parter ,playing the role of A or B,Then work with your parter to cteate your own dialogues by replacing the underlined parts with your own words.

Dialogue 1

A: Exercise me,may I sit here?

B:Sure.

A:Nice day,isn’t it ?

B:Yes,it’s warm and sunny .Just the kind of weather I like .

A:Me too,Are you from the English Department?

B:No,I’m a computer major.

A:Oh,really?You speak English very well.

B:Thank you.

Dialogue 2

A:How long have you been studying English?

B:About four years

A:Do you like it?

B:Very much.

A:Why’s that?

B:Well,I find it’s very useful.

Dialogue 3

A:Which English class do you like best?

B:Listening,of course.How about you?

A:To be honest,I find listening rather difficult.

B:You should listen to this tape.It’s really good.

A:Is it? Perhaos I should.

Leisure¹² Time

A SONG

Cotton Fields

When I was a little bitty baby

My mama would rock me in the cradle¹³,

In them old cotton fields back home.

It was down in Louisiana,

Just about a mile from Texakana,

In them ola cotton fields back home.

Oh,well,those cotton bolls get rotten¹⁴.

You can’t pick very much cotton

In them old cotton fields back home.

PART C

Additional¹⁵ Listening

Exercise

Listen and fill in

How to improve listening comprehension

Among the four skills of listening ,speaking ,reading and writing,I find listening most difficult,because worry about the words I don’t know .Now I’m trying to focus on the general idea,not worrying about the new words.This makes me feel good,cbecause I know I’ve understood something .Then ,I listen again carefully and if I have any problems I play the difficult parts again.In this way I come to understang better both the main idea and the details of the listening text.

PART D

Home Listening

Exercise

Listen and write down answers

English Pronunciation

I don’t think we have to sound like English person when we speak but it is important to pronounce well enough to make ourselves understood.

My own pronunciation in English isn’t terribly good and I need to work on it.As we are non-English major students ,our class is usually very big .That means our teacher doesn’t have much time for practice in pronunciation and intonation¹⁶ in class.So it’s necessary that we spend some time after class listening to tapes and practice reading and imitating.Sometimes ,when I’m alone ,I listen to text recording and read the words and read the words and sentences aloud.I find that makes my English sound better.

1 jack   

n.插座，千斤顶，男人；v.抬起，提醒，扛举；n.（Jake）杰克

参考例句：

• I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
• He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。

2 strategy   

n.方法，策略，战略

参考例句：

• The only way to take the enemy position is by strategy,not by forceful attack.只可智取，不可强攻。
• Tactics differs from strategy.战术有别于战略。

3 detecting   

n.探测，检定，检波v.发现，发觉，查明( detect的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• It's a bulb pressure tester for detecting battery leaks. 这是检测电瓶漏气用的胶球压力试验器。 来自辞典例句
• D'Artagnan could not help detecting a note of sadness in his voice. 达塔尼昂不由自主地发现他说话时所流露出的那种忧伤情感。 来自辞典例句

4 incomplete   

adj.不完全的，不完善的

参考例句：

• The building was left incomplete.那座楼没有完工就停下来了。
• His novel was incomplete when he died.他死的时候他的小说没有写完。

5 consonant   

n.辅音；adj.[音]符合的

参考例句：

• The quality of this suit isn't quite consonant with its price.这套衣服的质量和价钱不相称。
• These are common consonant clusters at the beginning of words.这些单词的开头有相同辅音组合。

6 fully   

adv.完全地，全部地，彻底地；充分地

参考例句：

• The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气，然后全部呼出。
• They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。

7 recording   

n.录音，记录

参考例句：

• How long will the recording of the song take?录下这首歌得花多少时间？
• I want to play you a recording of the rehearsal.我想给你放一下彩排的录像。

8 gathering   

n.集会，聚会，聚集

参考例句：

• He called on Mr. White to speak at the gathering.他请怀特先生在集会上讲话。
• He is on the wing gathering material for his novels.他正忙于为他的小说收集资料。

9 freshman   

n.大学一年级学生(可兼指男女)

参考例句：

• Jack decided to live in during his freshman year at college.杰克决定大一时住校。
• He is a freshman in the show business.他在演艺界是一名新手。

10 learning   

n.学问，学识，学习；动词learn的现在分词

参考例句：

• When you are learning to ride a bicycle,you often fall off.初学骑自行车时，常会从车上掉下来。
• Learning languages isn't just a matter of remembering words.学习语言不仅仅是记些单词的事。

11 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

12 leisure   

n.空闲时间，空暇；悠闲，安逸

参考例句：

• I am seldom at leisure.我很少有空。
• He read books at his leisure.他在空闲时读一些书。

13 cradle   

n.摇篮，策源地，支船架；vt.把...放在摇篮里

参考例句：

• The baby was rocked to sleep in a cradle.婴儿在摇篮里被摇得睡着了。
• Tokyo was the cradle of Japanese culture.东京是日本文化的发源地。

14 rotten   

adj.腐烂(朽)的；令人不愉快的；糟糕的

参考例句：

• The book was pretty rotten.这本书糟透了。
• Rotten eggs give off a bad smell.臭蛋散发出难闻的气味。

15 additional   

adj.添加的，额外的，另外的

参考例句：

• It is necessary to set down these additional rules.有必要制定这些补充规则。
• I think we can fit in an additional room.我想我们可以再加建一间房子。

16 intonation   

n.语调，声调；发声

参考例句：

• The teacher checks for pronunciation and intonation.老师在检查发音和语调。
• Questions are spoken with a rising intonation.疑问句是以升调说出来的。