Unit 9 To move is the great affair!
Vocabulary Task
Script and Answers
1. A: How was your trip?
B: Awful. My flight was delayed for 30 hours. It really makes my blood boil when this sort of thing happens.
A: Don’t be so angry. You had enough time for the trip.
B: What do you think I could have done otherwise?
2. A: I’m coming to the end of my patience.
B: Why’s that?
A: The travel agency charged me 20% higher than the others, and now the hotel room is filthy.
B: You must figure out a way to Make your trip more enjoyable.
3. A: Why are you so upset?
B: I’m falling to pieces. Everything seems to turn against me. First, I tripped over the step to the lobby, then after my visit to the Smithsonian Museum, I found my wallet lost.
A: I’m sorry to hear that.
B: Fortunately, I still have my passport and credit card.
4. A: Sally, did you see the alligators on your trip to Florida?
B: Well, they say that alligators live in the swamp over there, but I didn’t spot any even though I strained my eyes. Worse still, mosquitoes almost killed me. They were really getting on my nerves.
A: You know alligators are an endangered species.
B: Yes, that’s why people are curious to watch them.
5. A: How was your bus trip to New Orleans?
B: Terrible. The old lady sitting next to me kept babbling on when I wanted to catch up on some sleep so that I could had enough energy for Mardi Gras. I just couldn’t stand her.
A: I hope the parades saved your mood.
B: Yes, indeed. The parades were spectacular. People wearing costumes rode highly decorated floats into the crowds of spectators lining the streets. But I became so tired as not to be able to go to the bars in the evening.
Listening Task
2. Listening Activity
1) First Listening
Answers
1. At a friend’s home.
2. Drank beer in a bar with some friends.
2) Second Listening
Answers
1. Kenny called Jamie to say hello.
2. The third rule of college is to never refuse a free place to stay.
3. The speaker said he was moving to San Francisco because there were few crimes.
4. The happy coincidence was that the speaker traveled to Mill Valley and met the friends he saw every day.
Script and Answers to Self-study
To move is the great affair!
We reached the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco about nine hours after leaving Lompoc. After relaxing and taking some pictures Kenny went to a pay phone to call a girl he had met once through a mutual friend during his last co-op tour. He just called to say hi but when she found out we were going to stay in San Francisco for the night she insisted we stay at her place. The third rule of college is to never refuse a free place to stay if you’re away from home (the first and second are to never refuse free beer or free food, respectively) so we jumped back into the car and drove to her place.
Her name was Jamie. She was a steel-blue-eyed blonde with apple cheeks that lived in the top part of a house in the city of Mill Valley, an extremely nice neighborhood just north of San Francisco. When we got there, she and her friend Wray were getting ready to leave because they had already told some other friends and they were going to meet them soon. Jamie told us of some cool places to go that night and said she'd just leave the door open for us. Kenny and I looked at each other then back at her and said, “Are you sure?” She assured us by replying, “Oh yeah, it’s a real safe neighborhood.”
“Safe neighborhood ? ” I thought. In L.A. safe neighborhood is an oxymoron. Imagine a clean city with great weather, air you can breathe, and safe neighborhoods-- I’m moving to San Francisco.
After they left, Kenny and I decided to stay in Mill Valley because there were some bars and coffee shops that were within walking distance from where we were. I called some of my co-op friends that were also in town staying with a cousin. Andy answered the phone and I asked him what they were going to do that night. He said, “Oh, we’re going to some place called Mill Valley.”
We met Andy, Mike, Andy’s cousin and her boyfriend and went to a bar called O’Leary’s. The bar had a high class Cheers kind of feel to it. The six of us sat around drinking great beers from micro-breweries until we got sick of the jokes about how we drove twelve hours to see friends we see every day.
On the way back home there was a tourist shop with a Robert Louis Stevenson quote engraved on it that read:
I travel not to reach any particular destination.
I travel for the sake of traveling.
To move is the great affair.
I like this Stevenson guy.
Real World Listening
1. Predict
Answers
□ Put the thumb upwards.
□ Hold a sign.
2. Get the Main Ideas
Answers
1. To travel and to meet people.
2. It depends where you are, what time it is and how many people are with you and whether they are men or women.
3. To have a sign, write on the card the place you want to go to and make the letters quite big.
Script
Try it!
Stacy: Welcome to Backpack Travel! I’m your host, Stacy Goodwin. Today our program is about hitchhiking. Hitchhiking is probably the cheapest method of traveling and it is very popular among young travelers. Many listeners of our program are interested in it. Today we have Dennis Hornyak here to share his hitchhiking experience. Thank you for joining us, Mr. Hornyak.
Dennis: Call me Dennis, please.
Stacy: Okay, Dennis. Do you hitchhike to save money or do you hitchhike for some other reason?
Dennis: I haven’t got any money to save! I’m a student. If I didn’t hitchhike I wouldn’t be able to travel. And I think it’s very important to travel. It’s particularly important for a young person. So really, the answer to your question is that I hitchhike in order to travel and, of course, to meet people.
Stacy: So you don’t feel you’re a beggar?
Dennis: No, certainly not. When I stand by the road I’m saying, I would like to travel with you, would you like to travel with me?
Stacy: Is it easy to get a lift? Do people stop or do you have to wait a very long time?
Dennis: It depends where you are, what time it is and how many people are with you and whether they are men or women!
Stacy: Isn’t it dangerous for a woman to hitchhike by herself?
Dennis: Yes. On the other hand a lot of things are dangerous. It is very dangerous to travel in a car. And, in any case, most people in Britain will be respectful of her right to travel as she wants. But I agree it is a bit more dangerous and I prefer my girlfriend to hitchhike with me or with one of our friends.
Stacy: And is it faster for you if you travel with a woman?
Dennis: Yes, it’s certainly faster.
Stacy: How do you stop the cars?
Dennis: In Britain you just hold out your hand, usually you put your thumb upwards like this. Actually, the best system is to have a sign. You have a piece of white card or better still you have a piece of thin wood or plastic. Then you write on the card the place you want to go to. Or you could write the name of the nearest big town. Make the letters quite big. Experiment to see how big they should be.
Stacy: Any more tips?
Dennis: Well, you learn all kinds of things when you do it. The main advice is, try it! You’ll meet a lot of different people. And you’ll learn a lot about the country.
Real World Speaking
Answer for Reference
On the card was the name of the place he wanted to go to.
Self-study
Answers
1-i，2-d, 3-j, 4-b, 5-g, 6-h, 7-a, 8-f, 9-e, 10-c
Or refer to Script in the Listening Task section. |