Unit 1 - Parents

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Unit 1 - Parents
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Part A. Pre-listening Task

• Go through the discussion questions quickly as a
  whole class.
• Read aloud the sentences and structures in the
  Language Focus part.

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Part B. Dating with My Mother

• Language and Culture Notes
• In the United State many old people live by
  themselves either because they do not want to be
  a burden to their children or because they prefer
  to maintain their individual lifestyles. When
  they cannot take care of themselves, they are
  often sent to special nursing homes for the aged.
  They dont see their children on a regular basis.
  So for many people in America, old age can be a
  sad and lonely time. The text explores the
  loneliness of the old people and also the love
  between a son and daughter-in-law and their
  mother.
• dating American dating customs are somewhat
  different from those in our culture. Young people
  in America see dating as a time for fun, often
  without any romantic interest in mind. Only after
  some time when two people decide to have a steady
  relationship do they think of each other as
  boyfriend or girlfriend.

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Text 1

• Exercise 1 c, a, b
• Exercise 2
• 1. her husband spend more time with his mother.
• Life is too short, you need to spend time with
  the people you love. You probably wont believe
  me, but I know you love her and I think that if
  the two of you spend more time together, it will
  make us closer.
• 2. she was waiting by the door with her coat on
  and she had her hair curled.
• She had told her lady friends about this.

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Text 2

• Exercise 1 c, d, d
• Exercise 2
• 1. It can be inferred that the speakers mother
  often took him out to dinner when he was small.
  (F)
• 2. The mother has poor eyesight now. (T)
• 3. On their first date the speaker took his
  mother out to dinner and a movie. (F)
• 4. The speakers parents worked in the same
  factory during the Second World War. (T)
• 5. The speaker and his mother now meet once every
  month. (F)

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Speaking Task Debating

• Go through the sample quickly.
• Choose a Card/Topic, A or B, and divide your
  group into two parts, with different
  perspectives.
• List your reasons/points first, and then try to
  develop into a logical passage.

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Unit 2 - Coincidence
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Language and Culture Notes

• bank statement a written statement issued by a
  bank to a client every month showing money paid
  and received within the month and the balance of
  the clients account (??????). The bank statement
  mentioned in the text, however, belongs to a
  different kind. Andrews grandpa must have
  deposited the money for a period of fifteen
  years. He must have calculated that by the time
  it was mature (??), Andrew would be old enough
  for college. Thats why the bank statement was
  delivered on that particular day fifteen years
  after the money was deposited. It was to inform
  the client of the standing value of the original
  amount and how much interest it had earned over
  the years.

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Text 1

• Exercise 1 b, a, d, c
• Exercise 2
• 1984, son, medical school, tuition
• afford it, realize, newspaper ads
• extra business, advertisement
• succeeded, agent, changed, phone call
• put aside, doing, immediately, familiar
• his father-in-laws, visited, father-in-law,
  alive, coincidence

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Text 2

• Exercise 1
• 1. Several coincidences happened in this story.
  (T)
• 2. The coincidences made it possible for the
  owner to sell his house at a good price. (F)
• 3. No one actually benefited from the
  coincidences. (F)
• 4. It can be inferred that Mr. Stewart did not
  have to seek extra work from then on. (F)
• 5. With the extra money Mr. Stewart had earned,
  Andrews dream finally came true. (F)
• Exercise 2
• 1. He was intrigued.
• 2. A bank statement.
• 3. His father-in-law had put an amount of money
  in the bank for his grandchildrens education.
• 4. A little over 15,000.
• 5. He could use the money to cover the tuition of
  his first year at a medical college.
• 6. He is a doctor in Illinois.

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More listening
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Listening Skills News

• 1st listening Get a general idea and try to note
  down key words.
• 2nd listening Try to use the materials and your
  own understanding to develop these words into a
  passage.
• 3rd listening Check your answer and make
  revisions.
• Never ever try to write down the words you hear
  one by one!

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Relief Operations Races against Time

• From the BBC World Service in LondonThe NEWS at
  12 hours GMT for BBC news online
• The Indonesian government has appointed a single
  cabinet minister to coordinate the earthquake
  relief effort in the northwestern province of
  Aceh. Military cargo planes with supplies have
  been landing around the clock at this small
  airport at Banda Aceh. From there, RH reports.
• The noise of helicopters overhead used to be a
  characteristic of the conflict which has raged
  here between Indonesian security forces and
  separatist rebels for the past 18 months. Now it
  is a welcome sound of hope. Aid has started
  arriving here by air, road and sea, but there is
  a shortage of manpower on the ground to unload
  supplies when they arrive and the shortage of
  safe places in which to store them. The
  Indonesian minister for people's welfare Alwi
  Shihab has been put in charge of the situation. "
  At first we had no idea how bad this disaster
  was", he said, " then we panicked. The government
  must now make up for lost time and start
  coordinating what is
• likely to become a massive
  operation.

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Homework

• Finish the listening exercises in Unit 1 and 2.
• Practice speaking tasks in Unit 2.
• Practice the listening skill by listening to more
  BBC news Stella gives you.
• Preview Unit 2 in the Integrated Course by
  reading through the Culture Notes from Stella and
  trying to finish section 1 in the Vocabulary
  exercise.