[00:03.17]The Power of Words
[00:06.52]Part Two
[00:09.54]Listening-Centered Activities
[00:13.46]Listening 1
[00:16.49]Exercise 1
[00:19.69]Directions:
[00:23.00]Listen to the story "You Can Do That".
[00:27.90]Then decide whether the following statements are true or false.
[00:33.37]Put "T" for true and "F" for flase in the space provided.You Can Do That
[00:41.62]My name is Atsuko Saeki.
[00:45.50]I work as a salesclerk in a big department store in Fuji, Japan.
[00:51.48]Six years ago when I was 21 years old, I went to California to attend college.
[00:58.97]Life in the United States was much more difficult than I ahd ever imagined.
[01:05.20]It wasn't like the descriptions I had read in my textbooks.
[01:10.09]People often seemed tense. I felt very alone.
[01:15.89]One of my hardest classes was physical education. We often played volleyball.
[01:22.73]All the other students were good at it, but I wasn't. One afternoon,
[01:29.64]the teacher asked me to hit the ball to my classmates.
[01:34.00]For most people,
[01:37.27]this would be easy but I was terrified that I would make a fool of myself.
[01:43.90]One of the boys on my team saw how nervous I was.
[01:48.72]He walked up to me and whispered, "Come on, you can do that."
[01:54.55]You can't imagine how those words of encouragement made me feel.
[02:00.02]I was so happy, I almost cried.
[02:04.74]I managed to hit the ball and I think I thanked the young man, but I'm not sure.
[02:11.65]I have never forgotten his kind words of encouragement.
[02:16.44]He probably doesn't even remember what he said to me
[02:21.12]or how much his kindness meant to me.
[02:25.22]Whenever things aren't going well,
[02:28.86]I think of those simple words of encouragement:"Come on, you can do that."
[02:35.05]We often forget that our words can have a powerful impact on other people.
[02:40.92]Even a simple word-good or bad-can have a lasting effect.
[02:47.65]Exercise 2
[02:50.96]Directions:
[02:53.95]Listen to the story again, and
[02:58.49]1)each member of the class contributes a sentence to retell the story;
[03:05.18]2)discuss with your partner what lesson you've learned from the story.
[03:11.56]Listening 2
[03:14.72]Exercise 1
[03:17.96]Direction:
[03:20.81]Kate is an Australian nurse
[03:24.80]and wrote an elderly lady a letter to thank her for mailing missionary packages.
[03:31.79]That letter was valuable to the elderly lady.
[03:36.18]Here is the reply the elderly lady sent to Kate.
[03:41.15]Listen carefully to the first part of the letter and then answer the questions.
[03:47.84]Check your answer with your partner.
[03:51.84]A Valuable Letter of Reply
[03:55.66]The first part
[03:59.26]Dear Miss Austen,
[04:02.14]I was so happy to receive your letter. It is a valuable letter of reply to me.
[04:09.34]I never expected such a detailed response. I am eighty years old and I am blind.
[04:17.87]There is little I can do except knit and that is why I knit so many caps,
[04:24.74]sweaters and scarves. Of course, I can't write,
[04:30.97]so my daughter-in-law is writing this letter for me.
[04:36.01]I know a little bit about the work you are doing.
[04:40.40]At the age of nineteen I married a man who was going to China to be a missionary.
[04:46.96]For 40 years, with an occasional year at home in America,
[04:52.75]we worked in China. We had two sons, only one of whom is still alive.
[05:01.64]After 40 years, my husband's health began to fail.
[05:07.01]We moved back to the States
[05:11.00]where he took charge of a settlement house in Brooklyn, New York.
[05:16.51]When my husband died, I came to Toronto to live with my son and daughter-in-law.
[05:23.64]1)How old is the American lady?
[05:28.86]2)What does she knit?
[05:33.68]3)Who wrote the letter?
[05:38.04]4)Why couldn't the old lady write the letter herself?
[05:44.95]5)How old was she when she got married?
[05:50.89]6)Where did the couple work for forty years?
[05:57.16]7)How many of her children are still alive now?
[06:03.53]8)Why did the couple return to America
[06:09.50]9)Where did the elderly lady go after her husband died?
[06:16.85]10)Who lives with her now?
[06:21.96]Exercise 2
[06:25.92]Direction:
[06:29.45]Listen to the second part of the letter.
[06:34.02]Then fill in the blanks according to what you have heard.
[06:39.42]Check your answer with your partner.
[06:44.46]The second part
[06:47.77]What I most wanted to say is this.
[06:52.60]For 60 years I have been making up missionary packages of clothing,
[06:58.97]food, medicine, or books.
[07:02.96]I have sent them to various parts of the world.
[07:08.00]Sometimes I have received a printed slip of acknowledgement, sometimes nothing.
[07:15.28]Never before in all these years have I had a personal letter describing the village
[07:22.58]and telling me who is wearing the clothing and what they said.
[07:28.45]I never thought that in my lifetime I would receive a letter like that.
[07:34.68]May God bless you.
[07:38.46]Exercise 3
[07:42.13]Directions:
[07:45.23]Listen to the whole story again and discuss in groups |