College English: Listening and Speaking Course 1

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College English Listening and Speaking Course 1
Unit 14 The Media
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Unit14 The Media

• Part A
• Part B
• Part C
• Part D

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Unit14 The Media
Communicative Function
Describing Things Listening Strategy
Filling in
Focus
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Unit14 The Media
Pre-listening Task Listening Task Text
Radio and TV Speaking Tasks
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Unit14 The Media
Additional Listening
The Benson Familys Decision
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Unit14 The Media
Home Listening (1)Different Types of
Media (2)An Emergency
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Part A
Communicative Function
Describing Things
In daily life we often describe things to
others. When we do this we have to tell the size,
shape, color and so on.

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Part A
Listen to the dialogue and write down answers to
the following questions
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Color ______________________________
___________ Shape
rectangular Composition ________________________
_________________ Usage
__________________________________________ The
present _______________________________________
Orange
wool
To keep warm
A woolen scarf
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Part A
Rose Hi, James. I hear that your birthday is
coming soon. James Yes. Its next Tuesday. Rose
Ive bought a present for you. James What is it?
Can you tell me? Rose No, its a surprise.
Youll see next Tuesday. James Let me guess.
What color is it? Rose Um its orange. James
And what about the shape? Rose
Rectangular James How big is it? Rose Oh, about
20 centimeters wide and 2 meters long. James
Really? Is it heavy? Rose Not really. James
Whats it made of? Rose Its made of wool James
Whats it used for? Rose To keep warm James Oh,
I know! Its a woolen scarf. Rose Thats it. See
you next Tuesday, James. Bye.
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Part A
Listening Strategy
Filling in Forms
In everyday life we often have to fill in
different kinds of forms. Knowing how to fill in
a form is a skill we must learn. Before filling
in a form it is important to find out what kind
of information is required and where to write
the relevant details. Now listen to the tape and
then complete the student information card and
the hotel reservation form below.
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Part A
Listening Strategy

• Betty Li graduated from No. 3 girls School in
  Shanghai in the summer of 2000
• She enrolled in the Department of Chinese at
  Northwest University on August 31st
• ,2000. Betty lives on campus. She lives in Room
  420 of No. 1 Residence Hall for
• students .Her phone number is 52137739
• Betty was born on August 19th, 1981. She is
  interested in writing, painting and
• music. She hopes to become a writer when she
  finishes college.

2.Mr. Henry David Ross has booked a single room
at the Hilton Hotel in Shanghai He will stay in
the hotel for three nights from October 17th to
20th. The room rate is 600 yuan per night, Mr.
Ross is going to pay by MasterCard.
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Part B
Radio and TV
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Part B
Exercise 1 Listening for general understanding
Listen to the tape once and choose the right
answers to the questions you hear.

• 1.What is the passage mainly about?
• The advantages of radio over television
• The difference between radio and television.
• The changes made to radio programs.
• The reasons for the unpopularity of TV program.
• 2. Which of the following reflects the speakers
  attitude?
• The invention of television is a failure.
• The invention of television has had a great
  impact on radio.
• Radio definitely has a larger audience than
  television does.
• Radio will not easily be replaced by television

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Part B
Exercise 2 Listening for details
Form pictures in your own mind Stay in the room
where the radio set is Do something else. Like
driving in the car, jogging or even just
walking Around Half-hour or hourly intervals
variety of topics Interactive the radio
station they are listening to opinions
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Part B
Radio and TV-1 The most obvious difference
between radio and television is that you listen
and look at the television, but just listen to
the radio. In this way, radio is more imaginative
because it forces you to form pictures in your
own mind rather than providing you with visual
information, which is what television does. In
addition, radio is more flexible than television,
since you don't have to be in the same room as
the radio set in order to listen to the programs,
but you do have to be in the same room as a
television in order to watch it.
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Radio and TV-2

• A radio is also far more portable than a
  television. You can listen to the radio while
  driving in the car, jogging or even just walking
  around. Although portable televisions do exist,
  you can't really watch one while you are jogging,
  for example.
• One of the main advantages of radio, however, is
  that it offers the listener more immediate access
  to information. Most radio stations broadcast
  news reports at regular half-hour or hourly
  intervals, but television news is only broadcast
  a few times each day. Also, the variety of topics
  you get on the radio is much greater than that on
  television.
• Radio is more personal than television. Many
  radio programmes are interactive in a way that
  television can never be. Listeners can call the
  radio station they are listening to and express
  their thoughts and opinions live on air. You
  can't ring up a television station and express
  your opinions, can you?

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Part B
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Part B
Pair Work
Listen to the dialogues and repeat
after the recording. Practice the dialogues with
your partner, playing the role of A or B.
Then work with your partner to create your own
dialogues by replacing the underlined parts with
your own
words.
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Part B
Dialogue 1
A When I was around sixteen years old, I liked
to lie in bed late at night and listen to the
radio. B What sort of programs did you listen
to? A I was a teenager then, so of course I
liked to listen to music. But I was also keen on
talk shows. B You could concentrate on
conversations in the middle of the night? A In a
way. You see, I like this feeling of being
connected to the outside world, yet at the same
time comfortable and safe at home in my bed. B I
prefer watching television. It's more exciting.
A Oh, of course I love television too, and
movies. But they are entirely different experience
s from listening to the radio. B Yes, they're
intensely visual. A And much more passive. You
just sit back and let the images happen to you.
B It maybe so, but I still prefer TV to the
radio.
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Part B
Dialogue 2
A You know, these days television has by far
become the dominant medium. B That's
understandable. Television has such a powerful
visual impact. A There's also that old saying
"One picture is worth a thousand words." B And
television is an endless sequence of "pictures",
isn't it? A Right. Radio used to be an important
source of news, but now everybody turns to
television for news. B And for entertainment
too.
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• A But radio will never be totally replaced by
  television, I think.
• B Yes, it's important to people who are busy
  doing other things, like cooking or driving.
• A That's right. You can't be driving and
  watching TV at the same time, can you?
• B Certainly not. But you can be cooking and
  listening to music at the same time.
• A And people like having something they can hold
  in their hands, something physical.
• B Like a portable radio or a newspaper. They can
  control it more easily.
• A Exactly. So newspapers will never disappear
  either.

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Part C
Additional Listening
The Benson Familys Decision
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Part C
1.F 2.T 3. F 4.T 5.F 6.T
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Part C
Have you ever spent a year without a television?
A year ago the Benson family decided that they
were spending too much time in front of the box.
So they got rid of it. And they have been living
without a television for most a year now. How
have they been spending their free time then? We
found it very hard for the first few weeks, says
Mrs. Benson. We didnt know what to do with our
free time. But since then it's been fine. We've
done so many things that we hadn't done for such
a long time. Last year, for example, we didn't go
out to the cinema or the theatre once, but this
year we've seen at least a dozen films and plays.
And I've even joined the local drama society."
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• Mr. Benson has taken up tennis. Daughter Emily
  has been learning to play the piano and son Mark
  has been going to judo classes. And they've all
  read more books. Mark said, "This year I've read
  about ten novels and five or six other books,
  too."
• So, haven't they missed the box at all? Emily
  says she has had a few problems "I don't like it
  when I go to school and all the kids are talking
  about a program that they've seen. Actually, I've
  just been watching a program at my friend's
  house."
• Nevertheless, according to Mr. Benson , "We've
  all started doing so many interesting things that
  we wouldn't have time to watch TV now."

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Part D
(1)Different Types of Media
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Part D
The key is Print magazines radio TV
show Host Hostess Disk jockey DJ
Anchor the size of audience attract
commercials money
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Part D
Different Types of Media There are different
types of media today. The news and entertainment
programs we read, watch or listen to are
communicated in a number of different ways, using
different media. It may be print media such as
newspapers and magazines, and electronic media
such as radio and television. The word media is
most often used to refer to the communication of
news, and in this context means the same as news
media.
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• Programs on radio and television may be referred
  to formally as broadcasts or informally as shows,
  especially in American English. The person who
  presents a program or a show on radio or TV is a
  host or hostess but the one who hosts a popular
  music program is called a disk jockey or DJ. News
  programs may be hosted by an anchor, both men or
  women, who are sometimes more famous than the
  people in the news. In more traditional news
  programs, the news is read by a newsreader.

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• There are many broadcasting organizations in a
  country and competition among them is serious.
  Most TV and radio networks want to increase the
  size of their audience, or their ratings. Good
  ratings are especially important during
  prime-time, the time of day when most people
  watch TV. This is not surprising as high audience
  figures attract more advertising or commercials
  to be shown in commercial breaks between
  programs. And the broadcasting organization that
  can attract most advertising makes most money.

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Part D
(2) An Emergency
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Part D
An Emergency

• 1. What does Barbara do?
• a. She is a teacher.
• b. She is a night duty nurse.
• c. She is a night duty doctor.
• She is a driver.
• 2. How were the weather and road conditions when
  the accident happened?
• a. It was raining and the ground was flooded.
• b. It was cold and windy and the road was dusty.
• c. It was snowing and the road was slippery.
• It was cold and stormy and the road was icy.

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• 3. What was the consequence of the accident?
• a. Two girls were killed.
• b. Two girls were killed and the driver was
  unconscious.
• c. One girl was killed and the driver was
  unconscious.
• d. Two girls were unconscious and the driver
  was killed.
• 4. What did Barbara do to deal with the
  emergency?
• a. She called for an ambulance.
• b. She applied pressure to the victim's wound to
  stop the bleeding.
• c. She shouted to the truck driver for help.
• d. She called for rescue workers on her
  mobile phone.

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Part D

• 5. What can we conclude from the story?
• a. Barbara saved the victim's life.
• No one would have died if the rescue workers
  arrived earlier.
• c. The truck driver was also present when the
  accident happened.
• d. Barbara knows how to deal with an emergency.

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Part D
An Emergency Barbara, a night duty nurse in the
local hospital, was driving home in stormy
weather. The road was icy and she had to drive
very carefully. Suddenly she noticed that the car
ahead of her had lost control on a patch of ice.
In a minute, the car moved wildly, rolled over
and then crashed sideways into a telephone
pole. It was an emergency, Barbara realized at
once. She stopped her car and threw open the
door. Thank goodness she was a nurseshe might be
able to help . Without delay, she ran towards the
crash site.
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• It was worse than she'd feared. Two girls of high
  school age were in the car. One, on the passenger
  seat, had been killed instantly. The driver,
  however, was still breathing. She was
  unconscious though. Barbara quickly applied
  pressure to the wound in the teenager's head
  while her nurse's eye took in the other
  injuriesa broken leg, maybe two, along with
  probable internal bleeding. But if help came
  soon the girl might remain alive.
• Meanwhile, a truck had pulled up and the driver
  was calling for help on his cell phone. Soon
  Barbara heard the ambulance coming. A few moments
  later, rescue workers arrived. "Good job," one
  said as he examined the girl's wounds. "You've
  probably saved her life."