Unit 9 Listening Course 2

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Unit 9Listening Course (2)
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• Section One
• Tactics for Listening

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• Part 1 Phonetics
• Focus
• Removing Redundancy

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• Question
• What do people utter when they hesitate?
• They use fillers such as well ermer, well,
  you know...
• These are redundant words which we should ignore
  when we listen.

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• Ex. Now you are going to listen to a conversation
  between a policeman and a group of people. The
  policeman is asking them about the accident.
  Write down what they want to say without fillers.
• 1. Woman ________________________________
• 2. Man _________________________________
• 3. Girl ______________________________
• 4. Boy ___________________________
• 5. Man _____________________________________
• 6. Woman ________________________________

I didnt really see anything.
I wasnt looking at the time.
It was the lorrys fault.
Can I go now? Im late.
If I can help in any way, Id be glad to do so.
Perhaps we can all go now.
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Part 2 Listen and Note-taking

• Can Light Affect Your Health?
• Focus
• Understanding how light affects ones health
• Selecting words
• Organizing the notes

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• Ex. A Listen and fill in the blanks with the
  missing words.
• 1. Many researchers now believe that it does
  affect both your physical and your mental state.
• 2. Old people especially need this vitamin to
  strengthen their bones.
• 3. These people find that they lack energy, have
  difficulty concentrating, and often gain weight
  in the winter months.
• 4. Full-spectrum lights reproduce more accurately
  the effects of natural sunlight.
• 5. If you spend a lot of time in artificial
  light or indoors, you should try to spend more
  time in the open air.

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• Discussion
• What words attract our attention when taking
  notes? Give examples to justify your ideas.

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• Ex. B Take notes and complete the following
  summary
• Many researchers believe that light can
  affect both your physical and your mental state.
  From daylight, our bodies absorb vitamin D
  through the skin, certain skin diseases also
  benefit from exposure to sunlight. Light absorbed
  through the eye can stimulate hormone production,
  which in turn affects our mood.
• Some people become depressed in winter, when
  the days are dark and most people spend less time
  in the open air. When spring comes, these
  symptoms disappear. Researchers have called this
  condition SADseasonal affective depression.

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• The condition can be treated by exposing
  patients to special lights, known as
  full-spectrum lights. This lighting has also been
  used to treat patients suffering from jet-lag, to
  improve learning in school-children in Russia and
  America, and the efficiency of Japanese factory
  workers.
• Young people need at least 15 minutes a day
  in real daylight in summer, 30 minutes in winter.
  Old people, who risk vitamin D deficiency, should
  spend even longer exposed to natural daylight.

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• Section Two
• Listening Comprehension

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Part 1 Dialogues

• Focus
• Recognize specific details
• Make inferences

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Dialogue 1 Brain

• Activities
• A Discussion Talk about the left and right
  brain functions

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• Ex. Listen and do the true or false questions
• 1. F. The left-hand side we use do calculations.
• 2. T. The left-hand side we use for language, we
  speak with that side
• 3. T The right-hand side is the imaginary side,
  for enjoying abstract things
• 4. T. The right-hand side is the imaginary side,
  the side we use for dreaming
• 5. F. What you must learn to be able to see like
  an artist is to shift from the left side to the
  right side, and that is something everybody can
  learn.

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• 6. T. We all used the right side when we were
  children, and everybody could draw without worry
  everything that they wanted to draw.
• 7. T. B What happens to them at that age to make
  them stop using both sides of their brain?
• A They go to secondary school, and they
  suddenly have to do lots of homework, lots of
  mathematical things.
• 8. T. their whole education is geared towards
  using the left side, and the right side is simply
  not considered important.

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Dialogue 2 Do You Believe It?

• Spaceman Vs. Superhero

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tooth fairy

• The tooth fairy is a character in modern Western
  culture said to give children a small amount of
  money (or sometimes a gift) in exchange for a
  deciduous tooth when it comes out of a child's
  mouth.

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• Ex. Listen to the conversation. Who believe in
  these things.? Put a tick or a cross in the right
  box and also put a note for the reasons.

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Part 2 Passages

• Focus
• Getting some ideas about 1) working women 2)a
  healthy diet.
• Recognizing specific information

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Passage 1 The Office Lady

• Activity 1 Background
• 1. JTB
• The 1 travel agency in Japan, JTB puts millions
  of people on the move each year. With more than
  400 offices in Japan and more than 60 locations
  in 22 other countries, the company offers
  corporate, consumer, and specialty travel
  services.
• JTB, standing initially for Japan Travel Bureau,
  was established in 1963.

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• 2. BMW
• Bavarian Motor Works
• an independent German company and manufacturer of
  automobiles and motorcycles.
• BMW is the parent company of the MINI and
  Rolls-Royce car brands, and formerly, Rover.

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• Chanel
• A Parisian fashion house in France founded by
  Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel (b.1883 -
  d.1971).

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• Cinderella Night
• Cinderella is a fictional young girl who is saved
  from her stepmother and stepsisters by her fairy
  godmother and a handsome prince
• Cinderella Night is used as a name of the hotel.

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• Activity 2 Pre-listening question
• Have you got any ideas about Office Lady in
  China and do you know how they work and live?
• Open to discussion
• These office ladies with good education usually
  have their own life-style. They prefer freedom
  and spontaneity, privacy and leisure. They aim
  high and work diligently. They are smart and
  intelligent with firm determination.

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• Activity 3 Choose the best answer for each of
  the questions.
• 1. B. 50
• 70 live with their parents. Only about half
  pay some rent.
• 2. D. comfortable
• The main reason for this phenomenon (living
  with parents) is that life at home is
  comfortable. They dont cook, do laundry or
  housework. Their mother take care of them.
• 3. C. less money and poorer life
• Getting married means less money and lower
  standard of living.

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• 4. A. But in Japan, if after marrying a woman
  then realizes there is something she wants to do,
  she has almost no chance to come back to it.
• 5. A. in their late twenties
• The number of women who are single into their
  late 20s has risen to 50.
• 6. B. striking
• According to JTB, in 1998 they held an
  impressive 11 share of the total outbound
  leisure travel market from Japan.

outstanding prominent
producing a strong effect
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• 7. C. 2,300 (monthly salary)
• She earns 28,000 a year.
• 8. D. shopping and living lavishly
• The JTB organized a shopping tour of Italy
  that attracted 800 Office Ladies in three
  months. The tour concentrated solely on shopping
  at Italian outlets, and featured none of Italys
  famous tourist attractions. They didnt even
  partake of Italys celebrated food, but grabbed
  snacks on the run.
• The Sheraton Grande Tokyo Bay Hotel offers the
  popular Cinderella Night that includes a deluxe
  room, aromatherapy session, used of the pool, gym
  and sauna, and room service breakfast for 225
  per person.

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• Activity 4 Post-listening questions
• 1. In accordance with content, how many single
  working women in Tokyo prefer to live with their
  parents?
• 70.
• 2. Why do they not intend to leave home?
• Because they were taken care of by their
  mother.
• 3. What was the percentage of share of total
  outbound market from Japan held by these office
  ladies?
• 11 share.

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• 4. How much did the purse cost a 26-year old
  office lady?
• 2,800.
• 5. Why did they grab only snacks in spite of
  Italian famous food?
• Because they were interested only in shopping
  in Italy.

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Passage 2 Simple Choice Can Boost Nutrition in
2004

• Activity 1 Background building
• nutrients
• Nutrients are those organic and inorganic
  compounds that a living organism must acquire
  from the environment to support essential life
  processes, including basal metabolism, growth and
  maintenance of body tissues, activity,
  reproduction, and maintenance of general health.
• Nutrients are normally obtained by the ingestion
  of foods. Organic nutrients include
  carbonhydrates, proteins, lipids, and vitamins.
  Inorganic nutrients include minerals. Water is
  sometimes included in a listing of nutrients.

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• Words related to food, substance and diseases
• diabetes ???
• gastrointestinal ????
• cholesterol ???
• fatty acid???
• carotenoid ?????
• saturated ????
• legumes ??
• lentil???

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• folic acid ?? a vitamin of the B complex, found
  in green vegetables, fruit, and liver
• carb a high-carbonhydrate food
• hummus????,????
• pretzel?????
• pasta ??
• tortilla ????????

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• Activity 2 Pre-listening question
• What can be put on the list of healthy food in
  our daily life?
• vegetables tomato, cucumber, pumpkin, carrot,
  onion, potato, cabbage, spinach, asparagus,
  lettuce, parsley, mushroom, leek, pea, bean,
  cauliflower
• meat chicken, beef, pork, duck, lamb, fish
• dairy products milk, yoghurt, cheese,
• fruit apple, pear, peach, pineapple, bananas

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• Activity 3 Listen and choose the best answer.
• 1. A. it is high in fiber
• by choosing whole wheat pasta, which is high
  in fiber
• a lower likelihood of having cancer and better
  gastrointestinal health because of more fiber.
• 2. D. avoiding the likelihood of having chronic
  disease.
• 3. B. Salmon.
• Another favorite food of 2004 has to be salmon.
• 4. C. stomachaches

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• 5. A. rich in nutrition
• Beans and other legumes are inexpensive to buy,
  but they are rich in protein, iron and folic acid
  and fiber.
• 6. B. heart disease and cancer
• Unlike other vegetables, they can step in for
  meant, poultry, eggs or other protein foods,
  cutting down on the risk for heart disease and
  cancers that some those meats might have.

substitute
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• 7. C. most nutritious
• The sweat potato has been ranked continuously as
  the most nutritious vegetable source around.
• 8. D. Sweat potato.
• Theyre loaded with four times the recommended
  daily allowance of beta carotene, which is
  critical for healthy vision, bone growth, tooth
  development and good skin and hair.

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• Activity 4 Post-listening Answer the questions
• 1. What does the writer suggest to do instead of
  making a New Years resolution?
• He suggests to make some simple eating choices
  that improve health in the long run.
• 2. Why does the writer advise us to choose the
  whole wheat pasta?
• Because choosing whole wheat pasta contributes
  to a lowered risk of heart disease, reduced
  complications linked to diabetes, a lower
  likelihood of having cancer and better
  gastrointestinal health because of more fiber.

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• 3. What does the writer think of salmon as?
• He thinks of salmon as the best food of 2004
  which contains some very healthy ingredients such
  as Omega-3 fatty acids, vitamin A and
  carotenoids.
• 4. Why does the writer recommend the sweet
  potatoes?
• Because they are loaded with four times the
  recommended daily allowance of beta carotene,
  which is critical for healthy vision, bone
  growth, tooth development and good skin and hair.
  
• 5. What picks does the writer give us in the
  passage?
• There are several pickswhole wheat pasta,
  salmon, beans and other legumes, a cup of chili,
  sweet potato, etc.

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Part 3 News

• Focus
• Violence in Middle East
• Recognizing facts
• Summary

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News Item 1
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• Activity 1 Pre-listening
• Vocabulary building
• coalition forces
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• insurgent
• a person who takes part in an armed rebellion
  against the government
• detain
• to force someone officially to stay in a place
• detention
• state of being confined (usually for a short
  time)
• flare
• intensify suddenly

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• Ex. A Summarize the news
• This news item is about a new security plan to be
  announced in Baghdad as violence flared in the
  capital.
• Ex. B Listen and decide whether the following
  statements are true or false.
• 1. T
• 2. F. Iraqi officials were to announce Wednesday
  a new security plan
• 3. T. the plan that would increase detention
  powers and allow the prime minister to mobilize
  the countrys armed forces to deal with the
  problem.

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• 4. F. Iraqi ministers will announce details of
  the measure later Wednesday
• 5. T. Word of the tighter security plan came as
  violence flared in the Iraqi capital

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News Item 2

• Activity 1 Background building
• Hamas ???, ???????????????
• a militant Islamic fundamentalist political
  movement that opposes peace with Israel and uses
  terrorism as a weapon
• seeks to create an Islamic state in place of
  Israel
• is opposed to the PLO and has become a leading
  perpetrator of terrorist activity in Israel
• pioneered suicide bombing???????

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• Islamic-Jihad
• Shiite terrorist organization with strong ties to
  Iran seeks to create an Iranian fundamentalist
  Islamic state in Lebanon car bombs are the
  signature weapon

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• Activity 2 Listen and summarize the news.
• This news item is about a bombing in Jerusalem
  and its influence.
• Activity 3. Listen and fill in the blanks with
  the missing information.
• The Palestinian authority has ordered
  security forces to find the militants responsible
  for the bombing in Jerusalem Tuesday.
• Earlier Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas ended
  communications with Hamas and Islamic Jihad. The
  two groups claimed the responsibility for the
  bombing. The officials said the bombing was to
  answer the killing of one of their members.

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• Mr. Abbas has cancelled the planned trip to
  Norway and Italy to deal with crisis.
• Israel has cancelled the talks with
  Palestinians and planned surrender of two
  Palestinian towns.

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News Item 3

Canal Hotel Bombing
www.answers.com
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• Activity 1 Background
• al-Qaida group
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• An international terrorist organization founded
  in the late 1980s, by Osama bin Laden and
  Muhammad Atef, al Qaeda calls for the use of
  violence and force in bringing about the end of
  non-Islamic governments and, in particular, a
  wish to drive the US armed forces out of Saudi
  Arabia and Somalia. Establishing training camps
  in areas such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kenya and
  Saudi Arabia, al Qaeda is responsible for the
  proliferating of terrorists throughout the world,
  and providing them with military equipment and
  financing.

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• Ansar al-Islam, is a Kurdish Sunni Islamist
  group, promoting a radical interpretation of
  Islam and holy war. At the beginning of the 2003
  invasion of Iraq it controlled about a dozen
  villages and a range of peaks in northern Iraq on
  the Iranian border. It has used tactics such as
  suicide bombers in its conflicts with the
  Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and other Kurdish
  groups.

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• Activity 2 Listen and summarize the news.
• This news item is about the bombing of the United
  Nations office in Baghdad.

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• Activity 3 Listen and decide whether the
  following statements are true or false.
• 1. T. killed 17, injured 100, at the UN
  Headquarters in Baghdad.
• 2. F. 300 people.
• 3. T.
• 4. F. He said there was no reason for such
  murderous violence.
• 5. T.

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• Section Three
• Oral Work

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• Activity 1 Warming-up
• rummage
• search haphazardly
• freight vessel
• a boat or a ship which carries goods
• provisions
• supplies of food

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• stumble
• miss a step and fall or nearly fall
• Genie
• an invisible spirit mentioned in the Koran and
  believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and
  influence mankind by appearing in the form of
  humans or animals

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• castaway
• a shipwrecked survivor
• blurt
• utter impulsively
• brew
• ??? (here) it refers to beer
• mortal
• a human being
• pee
• ??

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• Activity 2 Questions and answers
• 1. Where did the story take place?
• 2. What happened to the boat (the freight
  vessel?)
• 3. Where were the two survivors now?
• 4. What happened when one of the men was
  searching for the food?
• 5. Then what did he do?
• 6. Did the Genie come to them?

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• 7. What wish did they want the Genie to grant
  them?
• 8. Did it really happen?
• 9. Was the other man happy with the wish?
• 10. What did he say in the end of the story?
• Activity 3 Piece all the answers together and
  make an oral text of the story.