北师大版高中英语模块4--Unit12Culture Shock warm-up1

[00:03.44]Unit 12 Culture Shock¹ Warm-up²
[00:07.67]Exercise 2 Listen to three people talking.
[00:12.70]Which country are they from?
[00:15.80]1 Our typical³ way of life?
[00:19.01]Well,we're a beach culture,you know.
[00:22.44]We spend a lot of time at the beach,
[00:25.68]surfing,swimming,eating,partying-
[00:30.33]we even have our Christmas dinner
[00:32.73]on the beach,you know!
[00:35.05]It's the weather,you see,
[00:37.16]always lots of sunshine.
[00:39.47]And as for free time,
[00:41.42]we're just crazy about sport--
[00:44.85]cricket, rugby,tennis.
[00:48.24]I guess most of us spend our holidays
[00:51.17]on the coast⁴ in our country-
[00:53.81]it's very expensive to go abroad, you know.
[00:57.09]Everywhere's just so far away!

[01:00.81]2 Well,it's a big,big country,
[01:04.87]so it's kind of hard to say what's typical.
[01:08.65]Like the weather
[01:10.15]we've got all kinds of different climates⁵.
[01:13.38]Our way of life,well,
[01:15.40]I guess it's fast,to the food is fast,too,
[01:18.45]lots of hamburgers and hot dogs.What else?
[01:23.90]Er, I guess we watch a lot of TV
[01:27.30]in our free time-three are hundreds of
[01:30.04]channels on 24 hours a day.
[01:33.75]Er, we go to the movies a lot,too.
[01:37.59]And sport is very big.
[01:40.05]Our basketball and football stars
[01:42.62]earn millions of dollars.
[01:45.69]Most of us go on holiday in our own country,
[01:50.08]it's so big and there are so many wonderful
[01:53.44]places to visit.You should come and visit us?
[01:57.19]

1 shock   

vt./vi.（使）震惊；震动；n.休克；打击；震惊

参考例句：

• The news gave us a shock.这消息使我们震惊。
• Her death was a shock to him.她的死对他是个打击。

2 warm-up   

n.准备动作，热身，预热，热身赛

参考例句：

• Warm-up exercises is necessary for competitors to start swimming.对游泳运动员来说，在开始之前做热身运动是非常必要的。
• I never bother to do warm-up exercises.我向来懒得做热身运动。

3 typical   

adj.典型的，象征的，有代表性的

参考例句：

• This is typical Chinese English.这是典型的中式英语。
• It is a typical Persian garden.这是个典型的波斯式花园。

4 coast   

n.海岸，海滨，滑坡；vt.沿海岸而行；vi.下滑

参考例句：

• They're holidaying on the west coast.他们正在西海岸度假。
• There are thousands of villages on the coast.在沿海有上千座村庄。

5 climates   

n.气候( climate的名词复数 )；气候区；倾向；思潮

参考例句：

• The sea tempers the climates. 海洋调节气候。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
• Most of them live in developing nations in tropical climates. 他们大部分人生活在热带的发展中国家。 来自辞典例句