人教版英语必修一
人教版必修一P14
【听力原文】
(Listening text)：
Part 2
Hello, everyone, I am Buford's teacher ,Jane, from Britain. Perhaps you didin't quite understand everything Buford said.
He said that he lives in Houston, a city in Texas. He wants everyone to know that he doesn't believe Texas is a state in the USA but a different country . Buford says that he would like to tell you a story about him when he was a small child.
One hot summer's day he was swimming with Big Billy Bob and Lester. They were jumping into the water, which felt good. Then he says that they saw a catfish almost the size of a house,but he adds that the catfish was really smaller.
Buford says that Lester thought he was going to be eaten by the catfish. He says ,goodness,you should have seen Lester ! He says that Lester got out of the water faster than lightning and climbed up a tree. Buford and Big Billy Bob just laughed a lot. To this day , he says ,Lester won't visit that place.
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Listening test P48
S1: I live in South Asia. My country is thousands of years old and now has more than a billion people. Unlike many other countries ,our
people speak a lot of language. So we use English, which we got
from British rulers hundreds of years ago. Of course, we have our
own way of using English.
S2: Well, I live on a huge green island in western Europe. Hundreds of years ago, my people spoke a very different language from English.
Then the British rulers came. Now the old language is spoken in only
a few village in the western part of my country.
S3: My country has more than 7,000 islands. Some of them are very large but most of them are quite small. Hundreds of years ago, the Spanish rules changed the way we live. Much later ,the American rulers taught their own kind of English in our schools. Nowadays, we speak a kind of English that borrows words from American English but is mostly our own.
S4:My country is very small. In fact, it's really a city. It is in southeast
Asia and is very rich. People come from all over Asia to do business here. Today , you can hear our kind of English spoken everywhere in the city and on many ships that come here.
Listening task P50
CP: What are you doing this weekend, Wang Ting ?
WT:I'm going to buy some CDs to improve my English.
CP: What? Are you kidding ?
WT: No. I often listen to English songs and learn them. It's an easy way to learn some idiomatic English expressions. Sometimes I watch
films too.
CP: No, not me ! I used to watch English films but I can't understand them without the Chinese subtitles. I think English is too hard. WT: You give up too easily. Why not watch CCTV 9 or listen to songs like me ?
CP: I sometimes do that. I like watching the news and the interviews on CCTV 9. They often have Chinese people talking and they
give subtitles in English to explain what they are saying. I find
that very useful.
WT: Yes, that's a good way to practise your understanding of English.
Why don't you also listen to the native speakers and improve
your listening skills?
CP: Yes, I think I'll do that more regularly. My teacher always says that "little and often " is the way to learn. She'll be proud of me ! Speaking task P52
S1: Now what helped us most to learn English?
S2: I remember extra reading helped me. Why don't they read newspapers?
S3: Yes, a good idea. I found they helped me increase my vocabulary, but
I found listening the most difficult.
S4: Perhaps they could listen to the radio. I like to listen to native speakers but they used to speak rather fast for me. Now I've been
listening every day for some time. I can understand the different
accents better. That has been very good practice.
S1: What about watching English films? Did that help you ?
S2: The action films are very good to watch. Sometimes the accents made it difficult , but it doesn't mater. You can follow the story and
understand some of the English through the action. Did you find that? S3 and S4: I did! I did!
S1: So we should say that we learned our English by listening to native speakers on the radio,by extra reading that was not too difficult and by watching films. That seems very clear. So let's fill in the chart.