1-6单元 新通用大学英语视听说4-教师用书参考版

1 Unit 1 New Perspective

Part I Communication Skills

Task 1 Warm up

Teaching tips:

Encourage students to discuss the life attitudes they hold and the benefits of a good life attitude. Ask them whether they want to change their life attitudes.

Task 2 Listening

Exercise 1

Culture Tips:

Henry Ford He was the American founder of the Ford Motor Company and the father of modern assembly lines used in mass production. (From Wikipedia)

Keys:

See the audio script

Audio Script （无音频，需要录音）

Nicole : Hey, Nancy, have you heard Margaret got promoted?

Nancy : Yes, I have. The achievement is awesome considering of all the hardships she ‘s been through.

Nicole : Yeah, I really admire her. She is such an optimist.

Nancy : Me, too. It ‘s inspiring to see how much an optimist achieves. They are winners of life while pessimists are losers.

Nicole : I can ‘t agree with you more. When there are dark clouds in life, optimists search for the silver lining of opportunity while pessimists merely complain.

Nancy : Uh-huh. It ‘s amazing how one ‘s attitude affects his achievements. A positive attitude really makes a big difference.

Nicole : Do you know attitudes also affect one ‘s health?

Nancy : No. I don ‘t. Enlighten me.

Nicole : A certain group of researchers are said to have taken personality tests of some people, and they tracked their health status for 30 years. You can guess for the result.

Nancy

: The optimists turned out to be healthier?

Nicole: Yeah. The optimists are reported to have better physical and mental functioning. Meanwhile, they also lived longer on average than pessimists.

Nancy: Wow, that‘s so incredible. I think sometimes I am a little bit pessimistic. It‘s time for a change.

Nicole: Yes. Actually, it‘s not that difficult to change. Just remember, whenever you hold a negative thought, immediately replace it with a positive one. Keep training yourself like this, and then you will be an optimist.

Nancy: That‘s good news for all the pessimists. It‘s not too late to change.

Nicole: No, it‘s not. And remember Henry Ford once said, "You can believe you can, or you can believe you can‘t, either way you will be correct."

Useful Expressions

Teaching tips:

Draw students‘attention to the sentence patterns in comparing optimism and pessimism and encourage students to use these sentences to practice their communicational abilities in talking about life attitudes.

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Task 3 Speaking Up

Pair Work

Are you an optimist or a pessimist? Discuss it with your partner and use some concrete examples from your daily life to support your opinion.

(open)

Part II Topic-related Listening and Speaking

Task 1

Pre-listening Activity

Exercise 1

Culture Tips:

World Laughter Day takes place on the first Sunday in May. The first celebration was on January 11, 1998, in Mumbai, India, and was arranged by Dr. Madan Kataria.

Twitter is a social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read other user messages called tweets. Since its creation in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Twitter has gained notability and popularity worldwide.

Sarin Rothburg: an advocate of ―World Laughter Day‖.

Keys:

1. F

2. F

3. T

4. T

Exercise 2

Keys:

1) feel good 2) the illness of depression

3) really exercise 4) reaction 5) watching comedy

Oral Practice

Pair Discussion (Open)

Culture Tips:

EQ or Emotional Quotient is a measure of the ability to notice and then manage feelings and then control reactions. One‘s mood will always control his ability to resolve problems, making this an important skill to develop and use. Using a well developed EQ will help one manage emotions. IQ or Intelligence Quotient is a measure of intelligence. A way to rate this for any individual is by taking an IQ test. The majority of people rank in at about 90-110.

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World Laughter Day

Sarin Rothburg

It's like a spring cleaning for the mind, body and spirit. We all have to celebrate today. It is the official day of laughter. And around the world, there are at least 105 celebrations that I know of, Vienna, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Malaysia, the United States, Canada, where people are

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gathering for an hour of just pure laughter. So you guys do it there?

Anchorwoman

Yeah, of course, we laugh all of the time for all of our reasons perhaps. But what is it about the active laughter that makes it such a healthy thing to do?

Sarin Rothburg

Well, we all know from kids, it just makes you feel good. There are tremendous studies with compelling researchers around the world, Dr. Burke, Dr. Tan, Paul McGee, Henslin. They are doing incredible studies to show the connection that our laughter has to the body. There are incredible physiological reactions. The study just was released this week that talks about how it can stimulate appetite, particularly in people who are living with the illness of depression, who have lost the will to eat. It can also really exercise the cardio and pulmonary parts of the body. By their studies that show about the hormonal reaction, it helps suppress bad hormones and helps elevate good hormones, and allergy sufferers, after laughing and watching comedy, allergy sufferers actually experience less allergy symptoms.

And so today is the day where we just reach out across the world and say to everybody, ―Let's get our laugh on.‖ You know, we schedule time for everything, for facebook, for twitter, you know, to take the dry cleaning. But how many times do we …… 此处隐藏：28618字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……