00:08.99]Why don’t you get her a scarf?
[00:11.86]SECTION A
[00:13.90]1b Listen and number the comments in the order you hear them.
[00:52.27]2a Listen. In each conversation about gifts, who is the person shopping for? Put a check (P) in the correct column.
[02:15.26]2b Listen again and write the suggestions and comments in the chart below.
[03:32.92]SECTION B
[03:39.56]2a Listen and number the pets in the order you hear them. Write the numbers on the lines in the chart.
[04:54.69]2b Listen again and draw lines to match the pets with the comments.
[06:08.46]3a Read the article and answer these questions.
[06:15.12]The trendiest kind of pet these days is the pot-bellied pig.
[06:20.42]David smith of North London has a pot-bellied pig named Connie.
[06:25.65]“pot-bellied pigs make the best pets”, said David.
[06:30.09]“She watches TV on sofa with me every night.
[06:31.13]She’s my best friend.”
[06:32.78]However, life with a pig isn’t always perfect.
[06:36.75]“When I go my pig, she was small,” said David, “but she eats a lot.
[06:42.62]Now she’s too big to sleep in the house, so I made her a special pig house.
[06:48.87]Also, pigs need a lot of love.
[06:51.82]Sometimes I don’t have enough time to spend with her”.
[06:55.66]2 Read the passage and then write about the most popular gifts among your friends and family.
[07:12.67]Everyone likes gifts.
[07:16.01]Some little kids think they don’t get enough gifts.
[07:19.46]Some old people think they get too many gifts.
[07:22.96]Different people like different kinds of gifts.
[07:26.20]Some presents are never too small.
[07:29.15]A little child may give his mother a leaf a tree.
[07:33.17]It is enough to make her very happy.
[07:36.23]Gift giving is different in different countries.
[07:40.30]In Japan, people sometimes give special gifts.
[07:44.25]But they are not opened.
[07:43.25]Later, the same gift may be given away to someone else.
[07:47.51]Many people have enough thins and don’t want too many gifts themselves.
[07:52.94]In Canada, many people will not give big gifts go someone else.
[07:58.50]They will pay for a park bench or a tree to help remember a person.
[08:03.18]In the USA, some people ask their families and friends to give money to charity rather than buy them gifts.
[08:11.22]In Sweden, doing something for someone is the best gift.
[08:16.08]People don’t need to spend too much money.
[08:19.09]Instead, making a meal is enough.
[08:22.14]Why don't you learn to sing English songs?
[08:33.09]China will be the host for the 2008 Olympics, and so many Chinese people try to improve their English in different ways.
[08:42.96]For ex-ample, twenty-four young singers from across China entered a contest by singing popular English songs.
[08:51.79]Nearly all the singers sang very clearly, and looked comfortable on stage.
[08:58.32]Some of these singers were able to sing English songs just as well as native speakers.
[09:04.28]The singers really came from all age groups, and from Xi'an, and the winner of the women's competition was a 19-year-old girl from Dalian.
[09:20.53]Both winners were very modest, and said that they didn't think they were better than the other singers.
[09:27.37]Jiang Mei, the winner of the wormen's competition, said studying English helped her win the prize.
[09:34.58]Six months earlier, she felt her English was not good enough, so she had to study hard .
[09:41.43]She also said that singing English songs made her more interested in learning English.
[09:47.49]This kind of contest encourages people in China to speak English.
[09:53.05]"Chinese people should try to speak English more.
[09:56.86]We should try to make progress before the Olympics," said a spokesperson from the Olympic Committee.
[10:03.24]He agrees that it is a good idea to have fun with English.
[10:07.50]Have you ever heard of the Beijing speaks English program?
[10:12.46]If not, why don't you find out about it?
[10:15.93]It suggests ways for Beijingers to take an interst in learning English.
[10:21.26]Besides singing English songs, there are many other fun ways to learn English |