Unit Two Life and Happiness（Lesson 1）Teaching Aims:Advanced Listening Strategy 2:
Identifying Main ideas
Teaching Steps:
1. Advanced Listening Strategy 2:
Identifying Main ideas
Three keys to identifying main ideas:
---through discour markers;
using certain phras to mark main ideas Examples:
The point I want to make/cover here is…
The important thing here is…
What I’m trying to show is…
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What I’m going to talk about today is…
The purpo of my remarks is …
This afternoon I’d like to explain/focus on…
In the next 50 minutes, I’m going to outline/trace/review…
A model lecture has three parts:
Introduction\body\conclusion.
1). Introduction
-general statement will be introduced by the lecturer at the beginning /informing the audience what he/she is going to discuss;
drive名词-discour markers(话语标记)signal a general statement is coming.
2). Body
-The main concepts are prented here
Using discour markers to be explicit about the order in which the main ideas will be discusd.
Examples：
3）Conclusion
- a summary of all the main ideas. Examples to identify the concluding part：
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When a lecture well-organized, with a clear-cut beginning, middle, and end, the main ideas are usually easy to pick out.
When a lecture not well organized, getting the gist （要点）can be challenging.
Some lecturers are “long-winded,” taking a long time to come to the point. Others ramble on（漫谈）and never em to come to the point at all.皮肤消毒
Another key to identifying main ideas--repetition, The third key is pace.
-the speed of speech
-Unimportant points are spoken more quickly
-Important points are spoken slowly and clearly. 2. Academic listening Practice
The Psychology of Happiness
Word Bank菜花炒肉
lottery noun. 彩票
assume v. 假设，假定
optimistic adj. 乐观的，积极的班长发言稿
personality n. 性格，个性
申字脸Before Listening
Predicting some possible reasons/personality factors that make people happier than others?
While Listening
A Listen for the main ideas of the lecture and
do the following practice. (4m41s)
Step 1 Listen to the lecture once all the way through.
把妹技巧Step 2 Listen to the lecture again. Rai your hand when the introduction ends and the body of the lecture begins.
Step 3 Discuss with your classmates how you know this.
Step 4 Continue listening. Rai your hand when the first main idea in the body ction ends and the cond main idea begins.
Step 5 Discuss how you know this.
Step 6 Listen to the audio file. Rai your hands when the cond main idea ends and the third main idea begins.
Step 7 Discuss how you know this.
Step 8 Continue listening. Rai your hands when the third main idea ends and the
conclusion begins.
Step 9 Discuss with your classmates how you know this and finish listening to the lecture.
B Decide whether the statements are True or
Fal. (4m41s)
____1. Many people think more money will make them happy.
____2. The lecture talks about the personality factors in happy people.
____3. To find out the personality factors in happy people psychologists had talked with
hundreds of happy people through lots of
questions.
____4. Psychologists also compare the different attitudes towards life between happy and
unhappy people.
____5. Happy people like everything about their lives and they don’t need any change in their
lives.
____6. Unhappy people need to change things so as to be happy.
____7. When happy people have problems, they tend to think things will get better.
____8. Unhappy people always look at the negative side of life.
____9. Having clo and loving relationship with other people is the most important factor for
achieving happiness.
____10. Unhappy people are not clo to their
friends or family members, which makes
