Unit 9 To move is the great affair!
Vocabulary Task
Script and Answers
1. A: How was your trip?
B: Awful. My flight was delayed for 30 hours. It really makes my blood boil when this sort of thing happens.
A: Don’t be so angry. You had enough time for the trip.
B: What do you think I could have done otherwise?
2. A: I’m coming to the end of my patience.
B: Why’s that?
A: The travel agency charged me 20% higher than the others, and now the hotel room is filthy.
B: You must figure out a way to Make your trip more enjoyable.
3. A: Why are you so upset?
B: I’m falling to pieces. Everything seems to turn against me. First, I tripped over the step to the lobby, then after my visit to the Smithsonian Museum, I found my wallet lost.
A: I’m sorry to hear that.
B: Fortunately, I still have my passport and credit card.
4. A: Sally, did you see the alligators on your trip to Florida?
B: Well, they say that alligators live in the swamp over there, but I didn’t spot any even though I strained my eyes. Worse still, mosquitoes almost killed me. They were really getting on my nerves.
A: You know alligators are an endangered species.
B: Yes, that’s why people are curious to watch them.
5. A: How was your bus trip to New Orleans?
B: Terrible. The old lady sitting next to me kept babbling on when I wanted to catch up on some sleep so that I could had enough energy for Mardi Gras. I just couldn’t stand her.
A: I hope the parades saved your mood.
B: Yes, indeed. The parades were spectacular. People wearing costumes rode highly decorated floats into the crowds of spectators lining the streets. But I became so tired as not to be able to go to the bars in the evening.
Listening Task
2. Listening Activity
1) First Listening
Answers
1. At a friend’s home.
2. Drank beer in a bar with some friends.
2) Second Listening
Answers
1. Kenny called Jamie to say hello.
2. The third rule of college is to never refuse a free place to stay.
3. The speaker said he was moving to San Francisco because there were few crimes.
4. The happy coincidence was that the speaker traveled to Mill Valley and met the friends he saw every day.
Script and Answers to Self-study
To move is the great affair!
We reached the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco about nine hours after leaving Lompoc. After relaxing and taking some pictures Kenny went to a pay phone to call a girl he had met once through a mutual friend during his last co-op tour. He just called to say hi but when she found out we were going to stay in San Francisco for the night she insisted we stay at her place. The third rule of college is to never refuse a free place to stay if you’re away from home (the first and second are to never refuse free beer or free food, respectively) so we jumped back into the car and drove to her place.
Her name was Jamie. She was a steel-blue-eyed blonde with apple cheeks that lived in the top part of a house in the city of Mill Valley, an
extremely nice neighborhood just north of San Francisco. When we got there, she and her friend Wray were getting ready to leave because they had already told some other friends and they were going to meet them soon. Jamie told us of some cool places to go that night and said she'd just leave the door open for us. Kenny and I looked at each other then back at her and said, “Are you sure?” She assured us by replying, “Oh yeah, it’s a real safe neighborhood.”
“Safe neighborhood ? ” I thought. In L.A. safe neighborhood is an oxymoron. Imagine a clean city with great weather, air you can breathe, and safe neighborhoods-- I’m moving to San Francisco.
After they left, Kenny and I decided to stay in Mill Valley because there were some bars and coffee shops that were within walking distance from where we were. I called some of my co-op friends that were also in town staying with a cousin. Andy answered the phone and I asked him what they were going to do that night. He said, “Oh, we’re going to some place called Mill Valley.”
We met Andy, Mike, Andy’s cousin and her boyfriend and went to a bar called O’Leary’s. The bar had a high class Cheers kind of feel to it. The six of us sat around drinking great beers from micro-breweries until we got sick of the jokes about how we drove twelve hours to see friends we see every day.
On the way back home there was a tourist shop with a Robert Louis Stevenson quote engraved on it that read:
I travel not to reach any particular destination.
I travel for the sake of traveling.
To move is the great affair.
I like this Stevenson guy.
Real World Listening
1. Predict
Answers
□ Put the thumb upwards.
□ Hold a sign.
2. Get the Main Ideas
Answers
1. To travel and to meet people.
2. It depends where you are, what time it is and how many people are with you and whether they are men or women.
3. To have a sign, write on the card the place you want to go to and make the letters quite big.
Script
Try it!
Stacy: Welcome to Backpack Travel! I’m your host, Stacy Goodwin. Today our program is about hitchhiking. Hitchhiking is probably the cheapest method of traveling and it is very popular among young travelers. Many listeners of our program are interested in it. Today we have Dennis Hornyak here to share his hitchhiking experience. Thank you for joining us, Mr. Hornyak.
Dennis: Call me Dennis, please.
Stacy: Okay, Dennis. Do you hitchhike to save money or do you hitchhike for some other reason?
Dennis: I haven’t got any money to save! I’m a student. If I didn’t hitchhike I wouldn’t be able to travel. And I think it’s very important to travel. It’s particularly important for a young person. So really, the answer to your question is that I hitchhike in order to travel and, of course, to meet people.
Stacy: So you don’t feel you’re a beggar?
Dennis: No, certainly not. When I stand by the road I’m saying, I would like to travel with you, would
you like to travel with me?
Stacy: Is it easy to get a lift? Do people stop or do you have to wait a very long time?
Dennis: It depends where you are, what time it is and how many people are with you and whether they are men or women!
Stacy: Isn’t it dangerous for a woman to hitchhike by herself?
Dennis: Yes. On the other hand a lot of things are dangerous. It is very dangerous to travel in a car. And, in any case, most people in Britain will be respectful of her right to travel as she wants. But I agree it is a bit more dangerous and I prefer my girlfriend to hitchhike with me or with one of our friends.
Stacy: And is it faster for you if you travel with a woman?
Dennis: Yes, it’s certainly faster.
Stacy: How do you stop the cars?
Dennis: In Britain you just hold out your hand, usually you put your thumb upwards like this. Actually, the best system is to have a sign. You have a piece of white card or better still you have a piece of thin wood or plastic. Then you write on the card the place you want to go to. Or you could write the name of the nearest big town. Make the letters quite big. Experiment to see how big they should be.
Stacy: Any more tips?
Dennis: Well, you learn all kinds of things when you do it. The main advice is, try it! You’ll meet a lot of different people. And you’ll learn a lot about the country.
Real World Speaking
Answer for Reference
On the card was the name of the place he wanted to go to.
Self-study
Answers
1-i，2-d, 3-j, 4-b, 5-g, 6-h, 7-a, 8-f, 9-e, 10-c
Or refer to Script in the Listening Task section.
Unit 10 Too many to choose from
Vocabulary Task
Script and Answers
1. A: It’s hard to tell someone she’s wrong to her face.
B: Why are you so depressed?
A: It’s my friend, Joan. She was very rude to her boyfriend yesterday. I told her she was wrong and she got angry?
B: No, that won’t do. How could she be so narrow-minded? She’ll wind up losing her boyfriend.
2. A: A change of pace will probably do you good.
B: I’m thinking about it. But what can I do?
A: Oh, you have a wide diversity of choices. Variety is the spice of life.
B: You can say that again.
3. A: Junk emails are one of the fastest-growing problems on the Internet. The netizens are getting up in arms about it.
B: But I’m just wondering how they could get the email addresses of Internet users.
A: It’s most likely that the programs simply generate millions of random addresses, hoping for a match.
B: No wonder.
4. A: Are you all ready for Christmas?
B: Are you kidding? I haven’t even started. I’ve done zero shopping.
A: Well, you’d better get going. Christmas is only a week away.
B: I have to tell you that I’m one of those people who really gets stressed out by the Christmas rush. I hate cutting through the clutter.
5. A: I don’t like the romantic love stories churned out in Korean TV dramas. There are always three major characters in the same old eternal triangle.
B: Yo
u are right, usually the hero is either very successful or at the bottom of life.
A: The girls will be the same with one pure, innocent and another sophisticated.
B: I can always guess the endings.
Listening Task
2. Listening Activity
Answers
Junk emails message spam message / spammer
email account email user / address / program / box
internet connection connection cost
filter block
message board chat room
newest version of ... Microsoft Outlook
software robot
2) Second Listening
Answers
1. An average email account received 1 300 spam messages last year.
2. Marketing groups have collected consumers’ phone numbers and addresses for years.
3. Besides software robots, other programs simply generate millions of random personal email addresses.
4. Most new email programs include filters for blocking junk emails.
5. Many governments have passed laws that impose stiff fines on spammers.
Script
The war against spam
Make millions with no work! Lose 5kg overnight! Clear your credit history! The secrets to getting hot girls! Get out of debt!
Junk email messages like these, also known as spam, are familiar to anyone with an email account. On average, each email user received 1 300 spam messages last year, and that number is expected to increase to 3 900 by the year 2007.
Junk mail is nothing new. For years, marketing groups have collected consumer information, including addresses and phone numbers, and sold them as lists to interested advertisers. But with junk mail, the high cost of mailing packages to large groups of people kept it down to a manageable level. But with email, anyone with a computer and Internet connection can now send messages around the world for free.
But it’s the people who receive spam who wind up paying. It is estimated that spam costs companies millions of dollars every year due to wasted time, connection costs and lost emails.
Spammers spend much of their time collecting new email addresses. Software robots check message boards and chat-rooms for personal email addresses, while other programs simply generate millions of random addresses, hoping for a match. These email boxes are then stuffed with offers, some of them so bizarre that it’s hard to believe anyone would think they could be true.
Because of this, almost all the newest versions of email programs, such as Microsoft Outlook, include filters designed to block spam and many governments have passed laws that impose stiff fines on spammers. But spammers have fought back with more sophisticated methods to hide where their emails are coming from, making them almost impossible to track. So it seems the battle for control of your email is just beginning.
Real World Listening
1. Predict
Answer
They argue about what too many product variations bring to people.
2. Get the Main Ideas
Answers
1. Though it is hard to believe that the number of new consumer products introduced each year is dramatically increasing, it is a true fact
.
2. No one can forget the great loss of the Coca Cola Company in 1985 due to the new taste of coke they developed.
3. People usually feel lost when they stupidly stare at that many different kinds of Tylenol and have no idea how to choose which one they need.
4. It’s impossible to expect the situation to change.
5. Besides, people have much more trouble in making choices.
6. Variety is the extra interest and excitement of life.
Script and Answers to Self-study
Too many products
Masayuki: I can’t believe how many brands of cold (1) breakfast cereals there are in America.
Joe: It’s pretty amazing, isn’t it? I read that over 13 000 new (2) consumer products were introduced in 1992. And it is increasing each year. The average grocery store carries over 18 000 items, up from 7 800 in 1970.
Masayuki: No wonder I have such a hard time trying to decide what I want to buy.
Joe: I know what you mean. Look at all the different kinds of (3) Coke there are: Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola Classic, Caffeine Free Coca-Cola, Caffeine Free Coca-Cola Classic, Diet Coke, Caffeine Free Diet Coke, Cherry Coke, Diet Cherry Coke. Fifteen years ago, there was just one, regular Coca-Cola.
Masayuki: Who can forget the 1985 “New Coke disaster” Why do companies make so many (4) product variations?
Joe: Companies (5) churn out new products or new versions of products for the same reason they do most everything: to make money. That’s why coke (6) diversified. Once Tylenol became a hit, its maker, Johnson & Johnson, used the trusted, strong brand name to (7) spin out children’s (8) pain relievers, expanding sales and (9) grabbing up market share.
Masayuki: Yeah, but sometimes having so many choices is bad. It’s (10) frustrating to go to the drugstore and gawk at 41 sizes and varieties of Tylenol. It takes time and effort to (11) figure out what to buy.
Joe: That’s true. But don’t (12) look for things to change. Hard as it is to admit, consumers want it this way. A greater variety means shoppers can find exactly what they want. People who spend a lot of time choosing enjoy the process. People who don’t enjoy it find ways to (13) cut through the clutter.
Masayuki: Unfortunately, I’m in the latter category. I don’t like spending a lot of time shopping. Too many choices mean consumers have to work harder. And it doesn’t end there. There are too many (14) versions of cars, brands of prescription drugs, movies, CDs, and TV channels.
Joe: Come on, my friend. Variety is (15) the spice of life.
Masayuki: What really irks me is that despite all the thousands of products they carry, I’ll be damned if I can ever find my favorite brand of pretzels in this store!