全新版大学英语听说教程1 Unit01（在线收听）

UNIT 1 STUDYING ENGLISH

PART A

Communicative Function

Greetings and Introductions

People greet each other when they meet. And in meeting new people it is common to introduce oneself and be introduced by others.This exercise focuses on different ways to greet people and to make introductions.

Listen to the tape and complete the dialogues.

1.

Bill : Hi,Mary.

Mary: Hi ,Bill.How are you doing?

Bill :Fine,thanks.And you?

Mary: Just fine. Bill,I’d like you to meet my classmate,Bob Smith.Bob,this is my friend,Bill Jones.

Bill :Hello.nice to meet you.

Bob: Nice to meet you,too.

2.

Linda:Exercise me ,are you Paul Johnson from London?I’m Linda Blake from Smith and Wells.

Paul:Yes,I am Paul Johnson.How do you do.Miss Blake?

Linda:How do you do ,Mr.Johnson?May I introduce Charles Green to you ?He’s our sales manager.

Paul:Pleased to meet you ,Mr. Green.

Mr.Green:I’ts a pleasure to meet you.

3.

Jack: Mum,I’ve brought one of my friends.

Mother:Ask him in,Jack.

Jack: Come and meet my family,Tom.Mum,this is Tom,my roommate.

Mother: Hello,Tom,it’s good to know you.

Tom: How do you do,Mrs.Brown?

Jack:And this is my sister,Jane.

Listening Strategy:

Detecting Incomplete Plosion

In connected speech when a plosion consonant like /k/,/g/,/t/,/d/,/p/,/b/ is followed by another consonant,it is not fully pronounced.This is called incomplete plosion.

Listen to the tape and read after the recording,paying attention to the letters in italics.

1.I like to sing pop songs.

2.basketball is my favorite sport.

3.I want to read science fiction in english .

4.Jack can speak good French.

5.Laura is one of the top student in Grade One.

6.Bob likes to play football after class.

7.Listening is not a big problen for me.

8.I’m sorry you don’t like New York very much.

Part B

Listening Tasks

Text:Talking about studying English

Exercise 1:

Listening for general understanding

Listen to this tape once choose the right answer to each question you hear.

At the gathering ,students in china and some countries.Yang Weiping ,Virginia Wang ,both first year college students are talking about their learing of English.

Hello, my neme is Yang Weiping. I’m a freshman at Peking University,and my major is Chemistry.At college we have to study a foreign language .I choose English because I like to listen to English programmes on the radio and TV. I also like British and American pop songs.Someday I hope to visit Britain and the United States. I started learning English several years ago and I’m getting better at it. My favorite activity is listening,especially listening to songs and stories .My big problem, is ,however,speaking. I feel nervous whenever I speak ,and I never seem to know what to say when people talk to me. But I’ve decided to overcome my shyness,and learn to speak English by speaking as much as I can.

Hi,my name is virginia Wang. I’m a library science major at the National Univertity in Singapore.In our country, English is important. It is one of official languages and you have to be fluent in English to get a good job.Ive studied English at high school.I’m good at reading because I like learning about new things and new ideas.There are so many booke and articles written in English and our textbooks at university are written in English too.I know writing is also very important,but I find it really difficult. When I graduate from university ,I would like a job in the city library where I can read all kind new books.

Question1

Which of the following would be the best title for two talkers?

Question2

Who are the speakers?

Exercise 2

Listen again and then complete the table according to the information you get from the tape.

Hello, my neme is Yang Weiping. I’m a freshman at Peking University,and my major is Chemistry. At college we have to study a foreign language .I choose English because I like to listen to English programmes on the radio and TV. I also like British and American pop songs.Someday I hope to visit Britain and the United States. I started learning English several years ago and I’m getting better at it. My favorite activity is listening,especially listening to songs and stories .My big problem, is ,however,speaking. I feel nervous whenever I speak ,and I never seem to know what to say when people talk to me. But I’ve decided to overcome my shyness,and learn to speak English by speaking as much as I can.

Hi,my name is virginia Wang. I’m a library science major at the National Univertity in Singapore.In our country, English is important. It is one of official languages and you have to be fluent in English to get a good job.Ive studied English at high school.I’m good at reading because I like learning about new things and new ideas.There are so many booke and articles written in English .Our textbooks at university are written in English too.I know writing is also very important,but I find it really difficult. When I graduate from university ,I would like a job in the city library where I can read all kind new books.

Speaking Tasks

Pair work

Listen to the dialogues and repeat after the recording.Practise the dialogues with your parter ,playing the role of A or B,Then work with your parter to cteate your own dialogues by replacing the underlined parts with your own words.

Dialogue 1

A: Exercise me,may I sit here?

B:Sure.

A:Nice day,isn’t it ?

B:Yes,it’s warm and sunny .Just the kind of weather I like .

A:Me too,Are you from the English Department?

B:No,I’m a computer major.

A:Oh,really?You speak English very well.

B:Thank you.

Dialogue 2

A:How long have you been studying English?

B:About four years

A:Do you like it?

B:Very much.

A:Why’s that?

B:Well,I find it’s very useful.

Dialogue 3

A:Which English class do you like best?

B:Listening,of course.How about you?

A:To be honest,I find listening rather difficult.

B:You should listen to this tape.It’s really good.

A:Is it? Perhaos I should.

Leisure Time

A SONG

Cotton Fields

When I was a little bitty baby

My mama would rock me in the cradle,

In them old cotton fields back home.

It was down in Louisiana,

Just about a mile from Texakana,

In them ola cotton fields back home.

Oh,well,those cotton bolls get rotten.

You can’t pick very much cotton

In them old cotton fields back home.

PART C

Additional Listening

Exercise

Listen and fill in

How to improve listening comprehension

Among the four skills of listening ,speaking ,reading and writing,I find listening most difficult,because worry about the words I don’t know .Now I’m trying to focus on the general idea,not worrying about the new words.This makes me feel good,cbecause I know I’ve understood something .Then ,I listen again carefully and if I have any problems I play the difficult parts again.In this way I come to understang better both the main idea and the details of the listening text.

PART D

Home Listening

Exercise

Listen and write down answers

English Pronunciation

I don’t think we have to sound like English person when we speak but it is important to pronounce well enough to make ourselves understood.

My own pronunciation in English isn’t terribly good and I need to work on it.As we are non-English major students ,our class is usually very big .That means our teacher doesn’t have much time for practice in pronunciation and intonation in class.So it’s necessary that we spend some time after class listening to tapes and practice reading and imitating.Sometimes ,when I’m alone ,I listen to text recording and read the words and read the words and sentences aloud.I find that makes my English sound better.