新编大学英语四小组对话

Talk about the power of humor and share the humorous story or typical joke with your classmates郑: Wow, you look so happy, what makes you laugh out of breath?胡: Q told a joke just now.周: It’s so funny.郑: Really? What’s that? I’m intrigued.黄: One day, two lawyers went into a restaurant, and ordered two drinks. Then they brought out two sandwiches from their briefcases and started to eat.胡: The owner marched over and told them. “You can’t eat your own sandwiches here!”周: The lawyers looked at each other, shrugged their shoulders and then exchanged sandwiches.郑: Oh, the joke is so funny! What I want to say is that the power of humor is magical.黄: Year, that’s right, a sense of humor can help you become a successful speaker. We can notice th at there is no great speaker in the world who is not humorous.郑: One or two humorous remarks can make the audiences laugh, making your lecture an enjoyable one. 周: A sense of humor can help you win a lot of friends. If you are humorous you will always attract a lot of people around you.胡:I can’t agree more, What’s more, a sense of humor can help you to ease the tension between people. When people are about to quarrel, a humorous remarks leading to laughter can help settle the problem. 黄: Year, humor really brings us a lot. Not only the laugh but the relax and the liberation of pressure, so I often find some humorous stories for relaxing.周: To be with humorous people, you will never feel bored. That’s why many people like to make friends with humorous people.郑: That really makes sense. Humor is essential in our life for that it makes our life more colorful and enjoyable. In a word it’s a language art, the achievement of human beings.What your favorite film, and why黄: Do you know what day it is today?郑: I do not know. What day is it?黄: Today is”7-7”. Chinese Valentine’s Day! So I’m going to see the film named Niulang (Cow Boy) and Zh nv (Weaving Lady). It’s my favorite film.胡：So do I, just because how romantic story it is!郑: Really? I know nothing about that, you know, why is it romantic?黄: It is a long story.胡: Everyone know that, I think, Simply speaking, according to legend there was a Queen Mother of the western heavens, who used the Milky Way galaxy to separate Niulang (Cow Boy) and Zhinv (Weaving Lady)from each other. They are only allowed to meet each other once a year on theevening of July 7 lunar calendar. This is the beginning of the Valentine’s Day.周: How do they meet each other?黄: During this evening, magpies will fly to the sky and create a bridge for them. They meet on the bridge as a result the bridge is called” magpie bridge".郑: Oh! What a romantic story! I know the reason that it is your favorite film.黄: Thereafter girls began to prepare various exquisite small itemsto beg for deftness in this festival in the hope of obtaining love and happiness.郑: I see. I am going home now because the Cow boy is waiting for me. Goodbye!黄: Hey! Do not forget to lead a good Festival!周:To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. They are all so lucky to have found the soulmate in their life. Including Nu Lang and Zhi Nv.Unit 2 aIs letter writing better than calling?郑:Hi，Carry! What are you doing now?黄:I am writing a letter to my friend to send my best wishes for her marriage.周:Why don’t you call your friend. Is letter writing better than calling?胡:Well, as the development of technology, telephone is used more often than letters. Because it’s more convenient to make a call than to write a letter.郑:Yeah, calling is very convenient .We don’t need to prepare the envelop paper or stamp. Instead, we only need to press few buttons to have a happy conversation whenever or wherever we want.周:But in the company calling may be better than writing ,It’s rather convenient for the manager to keep in touch with his or her coworkers and consumers. In contrast to the time-consuming writing it’s more efficient and directly. And for some people, they prefer to have a call to their friends or relatives to hear their familiar voices and have a close talk with them.黄:However, on many occasions, writing is better than calling .Writing provide us a much more romantic way express our deep feelings. What’s more,it’s a matter of record the words can be read more than once savered and treasured.郑:While in this modern society, with fast pace of life ,we need to write encouraging words to build strengthen our friendship love and other social relationships.黄:In addition ,when your friend is in trouble ,you can write a note to encourage him .Perhaps your note will be regarded as a motto ,whenever he feels upset, he could read it ,it will cheer him up.胡:So it is very hard to say which is better .The only thing we can do is to make a wise choice between writing and calling according to the situation .Thus ,if one’s advantages are made full use of and it’s disadvantages can be avoid, we can say it’s better than other in this situationTalk about the most dangerous sentence (words) and the most powerful sentence (words).Why?胡：Hello, everyone, as we know, word s have huge power to influence our lives, today let’s talk something about it. Will you? It’s you first, Amy . What do you think is the most dangerous sentence or words?周：Oh, let me see. In my opinion, I regard the sentence “You are the most stupid guy in the world” as the most dangerous sentence. When you hear it, you can’t help yourself being sad.郑：Yes, I agree with you. It was when I was young that my teacher always thought I was the most stupid student in our class. Because of that, I didn’t work ha rd on my class, even had no confidence in myself. What about you, Carry?黄.：Well, I think the word “dishonest” is the most dangerous word. I hate anyone describing me like that. On the opposite, I prefer the word ”sincere”.胡：I can’t agree more. I attach much importance to being a sincere person. So I’ll try my best to treat everyone sincerely.周：I also wish they treat me all the same. Well, let’s throw away the bad things, are there any words you will never forget?郑：En…The sentence ”You are one in a million!” has completely changed my life. It was told by my mum. She loved me so much and her words was so moving. From then on, I spare no effort to achieve high grades. Everyone can see your achievement.黄：Yes, When one is worried about tests, when one is misunderstood or criticized by others, or when things go against our expectations, the inspiring sentences give a pat on our back. They remain us never let go of our dreams.胡：As with you see, I think the following words give us great encouragement:” How can see the rainbow without a storm? No one can succeed without effort”.周：With each challenge we learn to get over our problems more easily. You see, it’s so powerful. I think we should be careful when talk with others, maybe the word will change ot hers’ hole lives.What are the characteristics of the ideal wife and the ideal husband?郑：Hello, come here. We are appreciating the pictures of wedding ceremony. It is so romantic. The beautiful girl with a handsome boy, so perfectly.胡：Oh, cool. That’s the most important moment for the new couple. From then on, they may start to struggle to be ideal wife and ideal husband. As for me, I expect my future husband to be responsible, reliable and diligent.黄：However, it is not an easy thing for them to be an ideal wife or an ideal husband. Like the people in the stories, they have to meet either difficulties which are unknown to all of us or exceptional set of circumstances calling for exercise of great courage and skill.周：Besides, it is the time that they begin to think for each other and give unconditional love and care to each other. They have been relatives, not only lovers. Couples should look on each other as their partner and friend, rather than their dependent.郑：Yes, that’s qui te true. Little girls and boys are so childish. They may regard beautiful appearance as the most important characteristic of ideal wife or ideal husband. But when they grow up, they may realize their mistakes. They all should have a strong sense of responsibility and endure hardships and failures.胡：Year, for an ideal wife, firstly, she should be warm-hearted , intelligent and have some similar interests with her husband. While an ideal husband should be capable of supporting a family, it is basic element. 黄：En…You are right. However, an ideal wife should also be virtuous and concentrate on her family especially her husband. As well, the husband should loyal to his wife.周：All of what you said are right.But maybe you forget a most important actor, it is either ideal wife or ideal husband should love their mate and their family.How to avoid gender bias in the classroom？胡: Oh, I really hope that I could become a boy. You can't imagine it. The teacher always calls on boys in class. And to be exaggerated, boys are just like his pets.黄: You've got a great point. I think teachers are often unaware of the subtle gender bias that often occurs in the classrooms.郑: I'm approved of your point of view in some degree. And no matter whose fault it is, it is essential to solve the problem. What's your opinion?周: As far as I’m concerned, when students are faced with prejudice from teacher, they'd better not arise a feeling of resentment and anxiety. Most importantly, I reckon(估计) that it is significant to communicate with teachers. In the meantime, teachers should attach great importance to students' performance in various aspects. Additionally, students ought to enhance their skills and work hard.胡: Students could be asked to discuss how they feel about the minimal coverage of girls in the curriculum or asked to research females' achievements that are just as valuable as males' but receive little recognition. Addressing the issue of gender bias within the classroom can help students understand why such biases exist and how they should be remedied.郑: I think gender bias may result from gender differences in a way. So I suppose if boys and girls could communicate more with each other. Just learn from others' strong points to offset(抵消) one's weakness, and finally make the best of the both worlds. Therefore, girls are more brave and active while boys can make a progress in reading and other aspects. And it may do good to eliminate the gender bias I think.黄: That would be great. Furthermore, I think In order to abandon this phenomenon, the efficient way is to improve the situation where boys and girls are not good at all the subjects, in other words, to solve the problem that girls are only interested in the liberal art and weak in the science while boys on the opposite. 周: All of your ideas make sense. And I believe that gender bias in the classroom are bound to be avoided through making joint(共同的) efforts.What are your favorite sports and how do you benefit from them?郑: As we all know that sport is an essential part of our life and it brings us a lot of benefits. What are your favorite sports and how do you benefit from them?胡: I prefer to stay at my dormitory the whole day and don’t want to move anymore. But I like skating v ery much.黄: Oh, why not go out to do some sports? Always staying at dormitory and do less exercise are easy to catch a cold.周: Yeah, I like to participate in many sports activities. Among them, basketball is my favorite. I fall in love with it the first time I touch it. I really enjoy the feeling when I shoot the ball right in the basket. It brings me much confidence not only in basketball but also in my real life.郑: wow, so cool! I also have my favorite sport—volleyball. I’ve chosen it as my sport selec tive course in this semester. It has a great attraction to me when I was still a little girl. I like running in the sunshine and enjoy the feeling of dripping with sweat. If it wasn’t so cold these days, I would play it outdoors every week!胡: Amazing! For me, I really enjoy skating. Most of you may think it is a very costly and dangerous sport. Yes, it is very expensive and you may break a leg doing it. But I really like it because it is very exciting. When you skate, you may fell you’re flying like a bird, that kind of feeling is very fantastic.黄: I agree with it. Physical exercises benefit people in many aspects. As regards basketball, if I can keep playing it everyday or just once a week, I can definitely improve my health condition.周: Yeah, sports are interesting. Volleyball always makes me feel better and keep fit.郑: so no matter what the weather look like, how cold it is, all of us had better spare in mind that don’t give up exercise.胡: maybe you’re right.黄: Maybe whatever sports you like most, its aims are all the same, being helpful with our friendship and health.周: Year, you are right, I think we can go out do some sports together and have fun.。