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Lecture 10 Listen to this 10以及专四新闻与听写技巧
教学目标及基本要求 To help the students to get farmiliar with skills of comprehending VOA news and completing dictation required by band-4 examination
To help the students to comprehend the general meaning of dalogues, conversations and monologues
To introduce some background culture points of some related listening material
To help the students to master some listening skills and make full preparation for futher study
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重点 Native news and dictation of a short passage
Comprehension of the listening materials and finish different tasks
教学
难点 To distinguish some similar phonetics
News comprehension
Quick noting
教学内容与时间分配 Brief introduction to requirements (5 minutes)
VOA news (25munites)
dictation(15 minutes)
Materials from lesson 1(45 minutes)
习题 Step by step book 3, news in standard English
湖南科技大学课程教案
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Lecture Ten
I. Checking homework
II. Listening to news items and complete some tasks
News 1
U.S. President Barack Obama has made his third trip this week to build public support for his plan to stimulate the nation's economy. Mr. Obama visited a road construction project near Washington to make his case for spending more federal funds to rebuild infrastructure. President Obama stood near a road being built, in an area long known for traffic congestion, and said building new infrastructure is a big part of his plan for reviving the economy.Mr. Obama is proposing what he says is the largest increase ]in infrastructure spending since President Dwight Eisenhower created the Interstate Highway System in the 1950s. The president said funding infrastructure projects will also help create jobs in other areas of the economy. He specifically mentioned the Caterpillar Company, which makes much of the heavy equipment used in road projects. Caterpillar recently announced more than 20,000 layoffs.
News 2
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert went on trial on corruption charges that prompted him to resign last year. He spoke to reporters at the courthouse here in Jerusalem. He says he came here as an innocent person and believes his innocence will be proven. Mr. Olmert is accused of fraud, breach of trust and failing to report income. This allegedly occurred when he served as mayor of Jerusalem and a Cabinet minister, but the allegations only surfaced after he became prime minister in 2006.Mr. Olmert's centrist Kadima party
forced him to resign a year ago, after an American Jewish businessman testified that he gave him envelopes stuffed with cash to support a lavish lifestyle, including fancy hotels, expensive cigars and first-class travel. The former prime minister is also accused of double-billing Israeli an
d Jewish institutions for public trips abroad and pocketing the difference. Mr. Olmert denies it.
News 3
Search efforts are continuing in southeastern Turkey for survivors of Sunday's powerful 7.2 magnitude earthquake. Officials say the death toll in Van province has risen to more than 260 with at least to 1,000 people injured. Dorian Jones reports from Istanbul, Turkey.
Rescue workers are racing against time to find the hundreds of people believed to be trapped under the rubble of buildings that fell after the the quake. Authorities say the 7.2 magnitude quake collapsed or severely damaged thousands of buildings. Despite battling against the numerous aftershocks, rescue efforts have so far been successful. A woman is dug out of her collapsed apartment block after being trapped for 10 hours. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Van. He warned that there may still be worse news to come.
News 4
The United Nations humanitarian chief is calling for the international community to put aside political concerns and increase funding to feed North Koreans. Steve Herman reports.
Valerie Amos, the U.N. under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, told government officials and aid groups in Seoul Monday her five-day visit to North Korea reinforced her view of chronic malnutrition there.
She called for increased aid for the North saying six million people in the impoverished communist state are surviving mainly on maize, cabbage and rice. She said food assistance is urgently needed this year amid a continuing annual gap of one million metric tons.
News 5
Ten little fingers, ten little toes. But little JaMichael is anything but little.
"They call him 'Moose' up there."
Michael Brown says he's okay with his son's new nick name.
"Well, doctor told us he's going to be about 12, but when he pulled him out, it was a different story."
JaMichael came into the world with a head full of hair, he weighed at 16 pounds0.454*16?=?7.264 24 inches long with a 17-inch chest. The biggest baby born at Good Shepherd Hospital in Longview.
"I'm just excited that he's here."
Mom Janet tells us this is her fourth child. Her largest weighted in at 8 pounds, that was until this morning when JaMichael arrived after a scheduled cesarean section.
"'So this is it, no more now."
"Wow, this is really going to be big. All we can see was big cheeks."
The nurses are cautiously excited about the newest addition to the maternity ward. They are trying to get little JaMichael's blood sugar levels up. He's also not breathing on his own,right now. His parents say they are grateful for everyone's prayers and support.
"Just hoping he'll be healthy."
Dad says he sees football in his son's future.
IV.lesson 10 of listen to this
Part one
Task 1: News Summary 1
1. True or False Questions.
The purpose of demonstration was to protest against the town's major employer.
The demand on hospital service has increased by a quarter in the last year in the sou
th of England.
Kent County Council has been doing very well in rabies controls.
The last news item is about the damage a derailed coal train has done.
2. Fill in the blanks.
(1) The marchers demonstrated outside where union leaders are talking about with the management.
(2) While the number of , and other have increased, the demand on the service has .
(3) The EEC is to give another pounds to Britain's . The aid from the includes pounds for Northern Ireland and pounds for and in the north of England.
(4) Kent County Council has said that dogs, cats, rabbits and hamsters have been landed illegally at Channel port in the first this year. This was than in the same period last year.
(5) A at Thirsk in North Yorkshire has between Newcastle and the south of England.
Task 2: News Summary 2
1. Choose the best answer (a, b or c) for each of the following statements.
1) __________ armed with a shotgun held up __________ at a secondary school this morning.
a. Sixteen girls; a class of children
b. A girl of 16; a class of children
c. A girl of 16; sixteen children
(2) Surgeons at Cambridge have successfully completed transplantations in _________ patients who suffer from __________.
a. two; liver cancer a. two; liver cancer c. two; diabetes
(3) The stately home owner was fined because _____________.
a. he let a rock band play overtime in his grounds.
b. he let a rock band play in his grounds.
c. he played rock music overtime.
2. Fill in the blanks to complete the following statements.
(1) In news item one, a girl armed with a shotgun belonging to , went into one of the classrooms and threatened the teacher and students there. A shot was fired into as she was by the police officers.
(2) The two patients mentioned in news item two were a and a . Both of them are .
(3) In news item three, the concert was held ago; the home owner was fined ￡ with ￡ costs.
(4) In news item four, was killed when and were killed when on a country road.
Part two
Task 1: British Newspapers
1. True or False Questions.
Professor Hill does not think that many British newspapers are real newspapers because they don't contain news at all.
The real newspapers are more serious than the popular papers but the latter have a larger circulation.
Professor Hill thinks highly of the newspapers he buys every day.
Professor Hill thinks that his favourite newspaper is much better than the popular papers and that others should read this paper, too.
2. Choose the best answer(a, b or c) to complete each of the following statements.
(1) In Britain the popular papers are to do the following except __________ people.
a. to shock b. to instruct c. to amuse
(2) Facts show that the vast majority of British readers want __________.
a. no proper papers at all b. a proper paper c. more than a few papers of entertainment
(3) If an intelligent person finds a copy of Professor Hill's favourite paper 50 y
ears from now, he will still find it __________.
a. entertaining and amusing b. interesting and instructive c. shocking and surprising
3. Fill in the blanks with information about Professor Hill's favourite paper.
News:
? ? (1) Political matters are covered .
? ? (2) The editorial column may government policy on one issue and it on another.
Book Reviews: a page for it
Art: a page for the happenings in the , the and the
Economics:
? ? (1) prices are quoted daily.
? ? (2) are reported daily.
Sports: The correspondents are among the in the country.
Readers' Letters: The standard is absolutely .
Task 2: Eccentricity
1. Fill in the blanks to complete the following statements.
1) According to Dr. Jones, an eccentric is someone who ___________
2) The Victorian surgeon is a typical eccentric—he used to ______________
3) As for the eccentric, Dr. Jones is most interested in the __________________
2.True or False Questions.
Only an eccentric has particular habits which others find irritating or amusing
Eccentricity has a direct connection with matters of appearance
The Victorian surgeon lived at Buckland.
Visitors to the Victorian surgeon's house used to get bitten or even attacked by the animals that he kept there. However, the guests still liked to go back.
A hermit is a person who cuts himself off from the world.
Howard Hughes was not a hermit all his life.
Howard Hughes became a recluse because he was tired of high living.
Task 3: Learning to Rephrase
Listen to the following sentences. Write the words you think are most important in the space given below.
1. In the United States we are using more and more oil every day, and the future supply is very limited.
2. It is estimated that at the current rate of use, oil may not be a major source of energy after only 25 more years.
3. We have a lot of coal under the ground, but there are many problems with mining it, transporting it, and developing a way to burn it without polluting the air.
4. Production of new nuclear power plants has slowed down because of public concern over the safety of nuclear energy.
5. The government once thought that we would be getting 20 percent of our electricity from nuclear energy by the 1970's, but nuclear energy still produced only about 12 percent of our power as of 1979.
6. There is no need to purchase fuel to operate a solar heating system because sunshine is free to everyone.
7. Because solar systems depend on sunshine, they can't always provide 100% of your heat.
8. Solar heating can be used in most areas of the United States, but it is most practical in areas where there is a lot of winter sunshine, where heat is necessary, and where fuel is expensive.
9. A hot-liquid system operates in basically the same way except the hot-liquid system contains water instead of air; and the storage unit is a large hot water tank instead of a container of hot rocks.
10. Then energy from the sun may provide the answer
to our need for a new, cheap, clean source of energy