英語視聽 Book 4 Unit 6.ppt

1、,Welcome,Unit SixListening Course (4),Section One Tactics for Listening,Listening and Translation,Training Focus: Global understanding of simple and short sentences 1) Background information concerning Internet 2) Take notes if necessary Exercise Directions: Listen to some sentences and translate th

2、em into Chinese. You will hear each sentences three times.,Key to the exercise:,Blogs are being used more and more by teachers. 老師們對于博客的使用越來越多. 2. Many Internet services now offer free and easy ways to create personal Web pages. 現(xiàn)在很多因特網(wǎng)服務(wù)商都提供免費、便捷的制作個人網(wǎng)頁的方式.,3. Educators did not become involved with

3、 blogging right away. 教育工作者并不是從一開始就涉足博客的. 4. Many were concerned with privacy issues and security. 很多人擔(dān)心隱私和安全問題. 5. But now, thousands of teacher blogs can be found on the Internet. 但是現(xiàn)在在因特網(wǎng)上可以找到成千上萬個教師博客網(wǎng)頁.,Section Two Listening Comprehension,Part I Dialogue Friendship,Focus: Long-distance friendsh

4、ip,Vocabulary: accrue: accumulate over time 自然增加, 產(chǎn)生,Exercise: Listen to the dialogue and decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F).,_ 1. Catherine thinks it is very important to be current with her friends in order to keep long-distance friendships. _ 2. In order to stay ver

5、y close to her friend Odette, Catherine always calls her. _ 3. Catherine always sets apart some money for her phone bills. _ 4. Catherine keeps the letters from her friends because she couldnt throw away the letters.,T,F,T,T,_ 5. Catherine got to know her friend Doug through letters. _ 6. Catherine

6、met Doug for the first time after writing letters to him for two years. _ 7. After writing letters to her friend Doug for two years, Catherine felt at ease meeting face to face with him. _ 8. Catherine thinks it is e-mail that has made frequent contact with one of her friends possible.,T,F,F,T,_ 9.

7、Catherine thinks good friends should always provide each other with what she/he wants. _ 10. Catherine thinks good friends should be frank with each other. _ 11. Catherine thinks good friends should be both humorous and tolerant. _ 12. Old friends usually can understand each other without saying muc

8、h.,F,T,F,T,Part 2 Successful Negotiation Depends on Respect,Training focus: Emotional aspects during negotiation 1. Sentence dictation 2. Note-taking skills 3. Catch the general ideas,Background information,Aristotle: he is one of the “big three” in ancient Greek philosophy, along with Plato and Soc

9、rates. Actually, he was a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.He wrote on many different subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology and zoology.,Vocabulary: hardball: uncompromising and ruthless methods or

10、dealings, especially in politics 強硬的 hinge: depend entirely (on) 取決于 lopsided: sagging or leaning to one side 傾向一方的,不平衡的,Pre-listening Question Watch a video and try to tell what do you think is good or bad negotiating?,Exercise B: Sentence Dictation,Negotiating isnt always done with a hammer in han

11、d. But you should become a better negotiator if you want to succeed in business. In the art of negotiating, facts and figures play a role, but what may tip the balance is the emotional factor.,3. Good negotiatingin business as well as in personal or family situationshinge on respect for others, and

12、respect for your own feelings 4. If someone is getting angry at you, there can be all sorts of reasons for that. 5. Both sides have an ongoing relationship that can be damaged by a lopsided agreement.,Exercise C: Detailed Listening Exercise1: Answer the following questions. What makes the difference

13、 between success and failure in negotiation? How you deal with emotions, your own and those on the other side, makes the difference between success and failure in a negotiation.,2) Why does the notion of a lack of power and self-respect lead to in negotiation? The negotiation with this notion is oft

14、en immediately put an disadvantage. 3) What do positive emotions and negative emotions bring about in a negotiation? Positive emotions elicit good feelings and often lead to good solutions; negative ones cloud the brain and reduce our capacity to think, learn and remember.,Exercise 2: explain the fo

15、llowing terms,Appreciation: Understanding the other sides point of view, finding merit in their ideas and communicating your understanding. Affiliation: Try to build genuine connections with the other side as human beings, not merely as adversaries. Autonomy: The recognition that both you and the ot

16、her side are free to affect or make decisions.,4) Status: competing over status is a dead end. Appreciating the status of both sides leads to the mutual respect necessary for a successful negotiation. 5) Role: Dont needlessly limit yourself. The activities in your work and negotiations can often be

17、expanded to be more fulfilling and meaningful.,Exercise D: What is one of the best soothing methods? Why? To ask yourself, “How important is this issue to me?” Some negotiators, just like some married couples, are at risk of making every issue a big issue. We can get worked up about issues that are

18、of little importance. As Aristotle pointed out, “One can become angry; that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purposethat is not easy.”,Section Three News,Training Focus: 1. Understanding the organization of a n

19、ews story; 2. Summarizing news; 3. Selecting specific information.,News Item 1,Focus: Technology Background information: fraudulently: dishonestly, with the intention to deceive embryo: organisms in their earliest stages of development stem cell: undifferentiated cells that can give rise to other ce

20、lls of the same type,Exercise A. Directions: Listen to the news and complete the summary. This news item is about the worlds first commercially cloned dog.,Exercise B. Listen to the news and decide whether the following statements are true or false.,Edgar and Nina Otto froze the DNA of their dog, La

21、ncelot last year. The couple were sad and they decided to get a clone produced by a South Korean laboratory. Lancelor Encore, the new puppy, is the worlds first cloned dog. The new owners here say theyre happy with their new dog and may plan to clone more. A great number of unwanted dogs are killed

22、at shelters across the US every year.,1. F,2.T,3. F,4. F,5. T,News Item 2,Focus: Space Vocabulary: staging post: a place where stops are made on long journeys 中途停留站，補給站 pie in the sky: a prospect, often illusory, something that it is very unlikely to happen 渺茫的希望 trajectory: the curved path of an ob

23、ject that has been fired or thrown through the air 軌道,asteroid: one of many small planets that move around the sun, especially between Mars and Jupiter 小行星 pull the plug: to prevent a plan, business, etc. from being able to continue, especially by deciding not to give it any more money 結(jié)束，終止業(yè)務(wù),Exerc

24、ise A. Listen to the news and complete the summary. This news item is about US future space travel.,.,B: Listen to the news again and fill in the blanks with missing information,Five years ago President Bush set out his lofty vision of sending astronauts back to the Moon by the year 2020. Then the M

25、oon would be the staging post for the next frontiera manned landing on Mars. The plan now seems pretty much pie in the sky. The current US human spaceflight programme appears to be on an unsustainable trajectory. The only way forward is to increase the funding of NASA, or to cooperate with private c

26、ompanies now embarking on commercial space flights. The panel says visit to Near-Earth Objects such as asteroids are far more realistic too. The most realistic thing now is to keep the International Space Station going all 2020 instead of pulling the plug in six years time.,News Item 3,Focus: Diseas

27、e Vocabulary: Alzheimers: a disease that affects the brain, especially of old people, and that gradually makes it difficult to move, talk, or remember things老年癡呆癥 onset: the moment at which something unpleasant begins開始，著手；發(fā)作 dementia: an illness that affects the brain and memory, and makes you grad

28、ually lose the ability to think and behave normally癡呆,avert: to prevent something unpleasant from happening 避免，防止 silver lining: a benefit, hopeful or comforting prospect in the midst of difficulty 一線希望；烏云周圍的白光,Exercise A. Directions: Listen to the news and complete the summary. This news item is ab

29、out _ _,the research that shows working protects against dementia.,Exercise B: listen to the news again and answer the following questions. How did the study look at the men who developed Alzheimers disease? The study looked at nearly 400 men who developed Alzheimers disease. It assessed the time th

30、ey spent in full-time education, the type of work they did and the point at which they retired. 2. Did the researchers detect any link between the onset of dementia and education or occupation? No, the researchers detected no link between the onset of dementia and education or occupation.,3. What wa

31、s every extra year at work associated with? Every extra year at work was associated with a six week delay in Alzheimers. 4. “More people than ever retire later in life to avert financial hardship, but there may be a silver lining.” What is it? To lower dementia risk. 5. What is needed in order to un

32、derstand how to delay or prevent dementia? Much more research is needed in order to understand how to delay or prevent dementia.,Section Four Supplementary Exercises,Part 1 Feature Report Fireworks Pose Danger Key to A: The news report is about the potential danger caused by illegal fireworks.,Key to B:,1. T 2.F 3.F 4.T 5.T 6. F 7.T 8.T,Part 2 Passage Superstition,Key to B: 1. Superstition seems to run, a submerged river of crude religion, below the surface of human consciousness. 2. superstition, the theologians tell us, comes from a