Unit 1 A better me Pronunciation
Scripts
1
1 (h)ourglass
2 (h)onesty
3 c(h)aracter
4 ac(h)e
5 w(h)eel
6 w(h)ile
7 r(h)ino 8 ex(h)austed
2
1 heirloom
2 hourly
3 Christmas
4 chorus
5 whisper
6 wheat
7 ghastly 8 rhetoric
Answers
2
1 (h)eirloom
2 (h)ourly
3 C(h)ristmas
4 c(h)orus
5 w(h)isper
6 w(h)eat
7 g(h)astly 8 r(h)etoric
Listening to communicate
Conversation 1
Scripts
Li Ming: Hi, Anna. What have you been doing lately?
Anna: Hi, Li Ming. I am studying calligraphy, and I think I’ll do something in this field after I finish college.
Li Ming: Calligraphy. It’s interesting but difficult to learn, right?
Anna: Yeah, it is. When I write the Chine characters stroke by stroke, I find it so difficult. Li Ming: Yes, I can imagine. It is really hard for foreign beginners.
Anna: I have to sit there for a long time to write slowly and carefully. My arm aches and I ache all over.
Li Ming: So, why do you carry on?
Anna: I’ve come to learn that the characters are beautiful and show how rich Chine culture is. I love that. I’m considering teaching other international students to write,
so we can all know more about the beautiful art of Chine calligraphy!
Li Ming: That’s great!
Answers
1 1.D 2.D 3.B
2 1. characters
2. slowly
3. rich
4. art
Conversation 2
Scripts
M: Hi, Mom! I’m calling to tell you something exciting.
W: Oh, what is it, dear? I can’t wait to hear!
行开头的成语M: I just hosted our college talent show in front of all the students and teachers, and they liked it very much.
W: You spoke before all the students and teachers? Really? I remember you were too shy and nervous to even introduce yourlf in front of your classmates.
M: Yes, Mom. I ud to be like that. But I remember you encouraged me to be brave. My teachers ha
ve encouraged me too, and taught me some public speaking skills, especially the importance of practicing again and again. So I did i t and I’ve made it!
W: Oh, dear, you are so great! Congratulations! I’ve always believed you could do it! Keep going and keep making progress!
M: Thank you, Mom! I will!
Answers
1 1.C 2.B 3.A
22, 5
Act-out
Answers
Conversation
1)I’ve always believed you could do it well
2)don’t give up
3)Have a try
Listening to explore
蚂蚁搬家的作文
News report
Scripts
A new study shows that people’s personality may not only result from their biology, but change over time due to age, experiences and social environment, whether they are men or women.
江南大学排名People reached the findings after studying answers to an online survey completed by 132,000 Americans and Canadians between the ages of 21 and 60. The survey results show that personality sometimes changes with age. For example, being well-planned, especially at work, incread most strongly in the 20s for both men and women, and the personality changes
slowed by age 30 but didn’t stop. Being warm and helpful incread most in the 30s for both men and women and climbed more slowly in the 40s.
This study would be a uful tool in helping scientists learn more about personality.
Answers
1 1.A 2.D 3.C
2
发展对象评价1. between the ages of
2. in the 20s; by age 30
3. in the 40s
Passage 1南美白对虾
Scripts
Most people know Beethoven struggled hard with deafness, but many don’t realize how hard it was.
Beethoven started to learn music as a young boy, and he began to lo his hearing in his mid-20s. T
hough he felt very sad and hopeless, Beethoven didn’t give up and continued to compo. He put a pencil in his mouth, touching the other end of the pencil to the piano, to feel the vibration of the notes. He continued to write music in this way for over 30 years. The most famous four-note beginning to his Fifth Symphony was written during this time. It’s known as “fate knocking at the door”.
It ems fate really was knocking at the door throughout the musician’s life. How Beethoven dealt with his deafness has become one of the greatest stories in history and is encouraging tho who struggle.
Answers
1 1.B 2.D 3.D
2 D
Passage 2
宫斗剧大全Scripts
The coming-of-age ceremony is one of the most important events in ancient Chine culture. It dates back to the Zhou dynasty.
In ancient China, the ceremony was usually held for 20-year-old males and 15-year-old females. The date and place were chon after careful thought. An elder would put a special hat called guan on the head of a male, or tie up the hair of a female with a ji or zan. After the ceremony, one became an adult, ready to get married and take on responsibilities.
Nowadays, there are no longer traditional coming-of-age ceremonies in China, but some schools
hold modern versions of the ceremony for their students when they turn 18. Although the modern versions are different from the traditional ones, the basic meaning of the ceremony has never changed. It’s all about becoming an adult and being ready to take on new responsibilities. Answers
1 1.A 2.C 3.D
团队游戏室内活跃气氛
2 1.F 2.F 3.F 4.T
Sharing your ideas
Key for reference:
Step 1. Think about a story of yourlf or a story of others from a book or a movie, which influenced you strongly while growing up.
Key: The story from the Disney movie McFarland, USA
Step 2. Share your story within your group. Choo the one that is both meaningful and suitable for performance.
Key: The story from the Disney movie McFarland, USA goes like this: Jim White is a football coach at a high school program. Becau of a mistake in the opening quence, he is fired and has to move his family to one of the poorest cities in America: McFarland, California. There, Jim es a kid Thomas Valles running a sub-5-minute mile on his way to work in the produce fields with the rest of the population of minority workers in the area. There, he discovers the buried running potential in veral other high school boys. While overcoming various obstacles inside himlf and outside in the world, he makes ven disappointing students into one of the best cross-country teams in the region and slowly turns them into championship runners and brings them clor than anyone could ever imagine.
Step 3. Work in groups and rewrite the story into a mini play including a clear story line that runs for t
hree to five minutes. Discuss the following questions with your group members to get some ideas.
What message do you want the play to give?
Key: F ind your/students’ buried talent and help develop it
What are the main characters of your play?
Key: (Note: Students can choo either of the two scenes to play, or both of them.) Scene 1: Jim White, Thomas Valles
Scene 2: Jim White, Thomas Valles
When and where is the play t?
Key:
Scene 1: After school, on the way home
Scene 2: Around midnight, on a bridge on the road
What is the plot for the play, including the conflict, the climax and the ending?
Key:
Scene 1: Jim White drove home, following Thomas Valles who ran very fast.
Scene 2: Jim White encouraged Thomas Valles to keep running.
Step 4. Write the script for your play. You can refer to the movie script from McFarland, USA (2015).
Scene 1
Thomas: Why are you following me?
Jim: Do you know how fast you were going?
Thomas: What are you, a cop?
Jim: Look, I don’t know if this car’s speedometer is right,it’s an old car, but If it is, you’re running almost 12 miles an hour. Means you’d run a mile in five minutes.
Thomas: So?
Jim: You always run that fast?
Thomas: I don’t got a car, all right?
Jim: Can I give you a lift?
Thomas: No. But you can quit following me.
Scene 2
Jim: Thomas? What are you doing on the bridge, Thomas?
Thomas: I don’t know.
Jim: Who hit you?
Thomas: No one. All right, my dad. But it wasn't his fault. I don’t know about that. Yeah, well, you don’t know about a lot of things. Okay, White? You haven't got a clue. All right, Jim: Then explain it to me. Help me figure it out.
Thomas: Look, he’s a picker.He’s not a foreman like Seor Diaz.He doesn’t run a crew. He just tries to get whatever work he can find, Arizona, Texas, wherever. And he got back yesterday
and his baby girl is pregnant. And so he just started hitting the wall, all right? And I was
trying to get him to stop, and I just got in the way. Look, if he hurts his hands, he can’t
work. Do you get that? Okay?
Jim: Okay, Thomas, I get it. Do you want to know why I’m out here,middle of night, driving around by mylf?
Thomas: No.
Jim: Too bad. I’m gonna tell you anyway. I forgot to buy my daughter’s birthday cake.
That's bad, White. Look, you scared me today. You did. And you’re...You’re scaring me now, so you wanna come off of there?
Thomas: No.
Jim: Okay, then let me tell you the truth about what happens, how this ends. If you fall from here，if you go off this bridge tonight, and there’s every chance y ou might, you’ll probably live, all right? It’s not that high, but I promi you, Thomas, there’s no chance you'll ever run again.
None. And right now I’m guessing running’s the best thing you’ve got. Feels as if it might be the only thing you’ve got. Come on down. Okay?
苟子劝学Thomas: So
Jim: You wanna keep going with this cross country thing?
Thomas: Me, too.
