Unit 1-Conversation 1**（1）
Janet: So this is the Cherwell Boathouse — it's
lovely! And look at those people punting! It looks
quite easy.
Mark: I'm not so sure about that! Janet, there's
something Kate and I wanted to discuss with you.
Some people in college are organizing charity events
this term. We've decided to get involved.
Janet: Raising money for charity? Right. In China,
people raise money for charity but students don't
usually do that.
Mark: Students often do that here. Anyway, we're
thinking of doing sponsored punting.
Janet: Sponsored punting! What's that?
Kate: Sponsoring is when people pay you to do
something — like run a long distance. So people
would be sponsoring students to punt.
Janet: What a great idea! I'd love to join you!
Mark: That's why we're telling you about it. So
that's decided then. Let's make a list of things we
need to do.
Kate: I'll do that. One of the first things we should
do is choose the charity.
Mark: Yes. And choose a day for the event. And
we need to design the sponsorship form. I've got one
here.
Kate: That looks fine, but we must change the
wording. Who wants to do that?
Mark: I'll do that. What have we got so far?
Kate: Choose a charity. Also a day for the event.
Change the wording on the sponsorship form... Um ...
We have to decide where the punt will start from.
Mark: Cherwell Boathouse, no question! It's a
very beautiful route from here, apparently.
Kate: I'm with you on that.
Janet: Me too
Janet: I'm not used to boats — Woah!
Mark: Whoops!
Kate: Watch out! You nearly hit me with that
thing!
Mark: Sorry! I didn't mean to. ... OK, we're off!
Kate: Maybe I should do the punting.
Mark:It's 've got the hang of it now —give me a
chance.
Kate: Well, I'd like to have a go. Mark: Supposing I do the first hour. Then you can
take over for a while, if you want to.
Kate: Yes, great.
Janet: You're really good at it, Mark! This is
fantastic! It's exactly how I imagined life here! Look
over there —isn't it lovely!
Kate: Yes, it is.
Unit 1-Conversation 2
Janet: Kate, everything's organized, isn't it, for
collecting the sponsorship money?
Kate: Yes, I've arranged for people to get the money
to me by next Friday — if they haven't paid online.
I'll count it all up.
Janet: Good. We'd better have a meeting soon
after that, don't you think? How much have we
raised?
Kate: About 600.
Janet: Fantastic! I'm so enjoying this!
Mark: Hey guys, I've got a suggestion — how
about moving over to the bank and we can have our
picnic! Hey, look, there's Louise and Sophie!
Mark: Whoo ...
Girls: Mark!
Janet: Are you all right?
Mark: Er .Of course I'm all right. Kate, I think it's
your turn to punt!
Unit 1-Outside View
Voice-over Harvard University in Cambridge is one
of the best universities in the world. We spoke to
Alex Jude, the university's Head of Communications.
He explained that Harvard looks for the best and
most talented students from around the world.
Alex Harvard actually seeks students from
around the
world, the best students that we can find, to study
chemistry,
or study literature, or study government, or business.
Our
business school is particularly well-known around
the world,
as is the medical school and law school, so, um, and,
and the
Kennedy School of Government, or the John F
Kennedy School of Government, so, er, we do seek very, very
talented
students and we have open doors for them.
Voice-over We asked five students at Harvard to
tell us
what kind of social life they have.
Ashley Um, well relaxing is a little hard to do
around here, but basically, I mean, I still, I, I live
nearby anyway, so I see a lot of my friends, and ...
Um, there's a good social life here if you look for it. I
go to the gym, run. So that's what I do.
Adam It's, it's whatever you want it to be. It's
good. If
you wanna go out party, do anything you can. If you
wanna
sit in your room and study all night like my friend
over here,
you can also do that.
Brian Socially, like you said, it's, it's a lot of
what you
make it. Um, we don't have fraternities here, and so,
you
know, that's, it's obviously not as social. There's not
as many
parties as there would be on another campus. Um,
but on a
Friday or Saturday night, there, there, there will be a
party.
Usually we end up studying until about 10 o'clock.
And then
we, and then we'll go out and have fun maybe, or
just watch a
movie with friends, or, you know, whatever is going
on for
the night.
Jodie Not everyone would agree with me,
obviously, but it's, I think it's a fun place to be.
Interviewer Have you made a lot of friends?
Jodie Oh, definitely.
Interviewer Mm.
Jodie Many.
Interviewer What, what do you do with your
friends?
Jodie Um, well, I like to go to concerts. I'm in
three
music groups, so I have lots of rehearsals during the
week for that. Um, just do, you know, some fun things, on
the weekend.
Voice-over We asked the Harvard students if they
use the
Internet.
Ashley Um, I, I use it a fairly good amount.
Um, our
library system is online, so I use that a lot. And a lot
of my
classes, you know, have to do research papers. You
can find a
lot of information on there, so.
Interviewer So how often do you use it, a week, a
day?
Ashley Um, I use it probably on more of a
weekly basis. Maybe three or four times a week.
Brian Oh yes, definitely. We live through the
Internet
actually. Well, I do a lot of research through the
Internet,
follow my stocks on the Internet. Um, well, even
though
e-mail is not officially Internet, we, that's how we
communicate a lot at college, so, through the e-mail.
John Um, I use the internet mostly for, er,
I'd say,
sort of leisure purposes. I mean, I play, um, I use it
for a lot
of, I don't, we don't have TV in my room, so I use it,
uh, uh,
go to the CNN website, keep up on current events,
things like
that. Uh, I also, uh, you know, there's some little
games to
play over the Internet. Um, just um, I go to to see
what's happening, follow the Boston Red Sox, things
like
that. Um, I think a lot of courses use it to post things,
but I, I
don't usually use it that much for research, or things.
I tend to
use the libraries for such things, so.
Unit 1-Listening in
News report
Stanford University has recently changed its
financial aid policy for students to make the
