Listening

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Listening
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Lead-in

• What do you usually do in your free time?

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Pre-listening

• 1. How do you spend your time after
• school?
• 2. Do you meet any people other than
• high school students, and where do
• you meet them?
• 3. Does anyone here have a part-time
• job? What are the advantages and

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• disadvantages of having a part-time
• job?
• Yes. I think having a part-time job has
  some advantages. First, doing a part-time job can
  give us useful experience of our world and
  enlarge our knowledge. Second, we can earn

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• some money to support ourselves and share the
  burden with our parents. We can use the money to
  buy what we want or pay a tuition fee. Third,
  during the work we can meet different kinds of
  people and communicate with them. We will get a
  lot of fun.

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• No. Because we are students now. The main
  task for us is studying hard to go to university.
  A part-time job will cost much of our time and
  energy.

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Listening

• Listen to the tape and fill in the most
  important percentages mentioned in the text in
  the chart below.

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Listening Text

• On 8th November 2004, a survey was
  conducted among 400 Chinese students at different
  universities in Auckland. The purpose of the
  survey was to discover what the students do in
  their free time, after school.

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• The survey was conducted by means of a
  questionnaire given to the students to complete.
  The first section of the questionnaire dealt with
  the students free time activities. The second
  part was concerned with the types of jobs
  students did, if any.

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• The most important results from the survey
  were as follows. In the first section, 81 of the
  students complained that school took up too muck
  time, and that they were given too much homework.
  44 of the students said they would like to have
  a part-time job, but simply did not

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• have the time. Another 40 of the students
  said they had part-time jobs. The following
  comments and observations can be made about the
  way students spend their time after school. They
  are based on answers given by the students on
  part one of the questionnaire. 75 said they

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• sometimes went shopping, while 69 sometimes
  go to the cinema, 62 said they spend most of
  their time doing homework, and 56 Sometimes
  spend time sleeping or doing nothing at all. A
  quarter of the students said they spend all their
  time on school and homework.

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• The second part of the questionnaire was
  only filled out by students who had a part-time
  job. Most of them (94) said that it had been
  easy to find a job, with 60 saying this was
  their first job. 81 said that their parents had
  protested, but give in on the condition that
  their school results

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• would not suffer. All students said that the
  greatest advantage of having a part-time job lay
  in having more money, though 23 of the students
  said working with and getting to know other
  people was something they enjoyed. Asked what
  they use the money for, students mentioned

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• various free-time occupations, as described in
  part one of the survey. Of all other things they
  spend their wages on, the most important were
  phone calls (40), followed closely by clothes
  and make (35) and going out (15). Only 10 of
  the students said they put away money in a
  savings account.

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• The results of the survey seem to suggest
  that Chinese students abroad have little time for
  part-time jobs. They spend most of their free
  time doing homework. However, an increasing
  number of students look for jobs. They seem to
  enjoy it, and

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• are able to combine it with their school work.
  While the majority of the students said the main
  motive to look for a job was money, about one
  fifth of the students enjoyed contacts and
  getting to know people in a different setting,
  away from school.

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Listening on P225
Dialogue 1
Dialogue 2
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Listening Text

• Dialogue 1
• Jeff is seeing one of his teachers to
• talk about his career choices.
• TTeacher JJeff
• T Take a seat, Jeff. What can I do for
• you?

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• J Well, Id like to have another talk
• with you about my career choices.
• T If I remember well, you are going to
• be a salesman, right?
• J Yeah, well. Ive changed my mind
• again. I want to become a vet. I
• really like working with animals.

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• T Oh, but thats quite a big change
• from what we talked about last
• time. Are you sure about this?
• J Yes. I think working as a vet I can
• earn much better wages.
• T But Jeff, look here. You arent that
• good at biology, and last time you

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• said going to college was not for you.
• How will you be able to do that?
• J I will work very hard.
• T Listen, Jeff. This may be a
• disappointment, but I think this is
• not a good idea. I know it sounds
• good, but it requires many years of

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• study to become a vet. Im not sure whether
  you can manage that. Think it over, will you?

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• Dialogue 2
• Lisa and Helen are chatting about their
  future.
• LLisa HHelen
• L Hi, Helen. How are you doing? Its
• only a few more months.
• H A few more months? What do you
• mean, Lisa?

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• L The exams, of course! Arent you
• getting nervous?
• H Nervous, why?
• L Well, dont you think theyre all
• important?
• H Theyre important, but why should
• I worry? I think Ive always been
• quite a good student, so I think I

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• have noting to fear.
• L Quite good is not good enough, you
• know. If you want to go to Beida,
• youve got to come out first.
• H I dont want to go to Beida. I want
• to go to a local university, here in
• our own province.
• L How can you say that? Youve got

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• to try your best.
• H I will, but Ive already made up my
• mind. I dont want to live in a big
• city far from home. Even if I get a
• top score, I will stay here. You
• know, studying at a local university
• youll have less competition and
• better chances.

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Homework

• 1. Make a questionnaire in our class
• about the habits of solving the
• problems students meet in study.
• Fox example, how many students
• would like to turn to teachers, how

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• many students will ask the
• classmates for help and how many
• students will give up the problems.
• Then make a summary with a chart.
• 2. Preview the Reading part.