人教新课标高中英语必修1教学课件：U2 听力原文

Using Language
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Hey, y’all, this here is Buford. I come from a big oil town in Texas. Now, y’all need to understand that we ain’t really a state, but a whole ‘nother country. Now let me tell ya a story ‘bout when I was just a pup. One hot summer’s day I was swimmin’ with my cousins Little Lester and Big Billy Bob. We was jumpin’ in the water and feelin’ good. Then along comes this catfish ‘bout the size of a house. Well, alright, maybe a little smaller than that. Little Lester starts to thinkin’ it’s goin’ to eat him sure ‘nough. Man, you shoulda seen him! He got outta the water fast as lightning and climbed up a tree. Big Billy Bob and I just laughed and laughed. To this day, Lester won’t go near that place.
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Hello, everyone, I am Buford’s teacher, Jane, from Britain. Perhaps you didn’t quite understand everything Buford said. He said that he lived in Houston, a city in Texas. He wants everyone to kn ow that he doesn’t believe Texas is a state in the USA but a different country. Buford says that he would like to tell you a story about him when he was a small child. One hot summer’s day he was swimming with Big Billy Bob and Lester. They were jumping into the water, which felt good. Then he says that they saw a catfish almost the size of a house but, he adds, that the catfish was really smaller. Buford says that Lester thought he was going to be eaten by the catfish. He says, goodness, you should have seen Lester! He says that Lester got out of the water faster than lightning and climbed up a tree. Buford and Big Billy Bob just laughed a lot. To this day, he says, Lester won’t visit that place.
Workbook-Listening
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S1: I live in South Asia. My country is thousands of years old and now has more than a billion people. Unlike many other countries, our people speak a lot of languages. So we use English, which we got from British rulers hundreds of years ago. Of course, we have our own way of using English.
S2: Well, I live on a huge green island in western Europe. Hundreds of years ago my people spoke a very different language from English. Then the British rulers came. Now the old language is spoken in only a few villages in the western part of my country.
S3: My country has more than 7,000 islands. Some of them are very large but most of them are quite small. Hundreds of years ago, the Spanish rulers changed the way we live. Much later, the American rulers taught their own kind of English in our schools. Nowadays, we speak a kind of English that borrows words from American English but is mostly our own.
S4: My country is very small. In fact, it’s really a city. It is in southeast Asia and is very rich. People come from all over Asia to do business here. Today you can hear our kind of English spoken everywhere in the city and on many ships that come here. Workbook-Listening Task
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CP = Cheng Peng (male)
WT = Wang Ting
CP: What are you doing this weekend, Wang Ting?
WT: I’m going to buy some CDs to improve my English.
CP: What? Are you kidding?
WT: No. I often listen to English songs and learn them. It’s an easy way to learn some idiomatic English expressions. Sometimes I watch films too.
CP: No. Not me! I used to watch English films but I can’t understand them without the Chinese subtitles. I think English is too hard.
WT: You give up too easily. Why not watch CCTV 9 or listen to songs like me? CP: I sometimes do that. I like watching the news and the interviews on CCTV 9. They often have Chinese people talking and they give subtitles in English to explain what they are saying. I find that very useful.
WT: Yes, that’s a good way to practise your understanding of English. Why don’t you also listen to the native speakers and improve your listening skills?
CP: Yes, I think I’ll do that more regularly. My teacher always says that “little and often” is the way to learn. She’ll be proud of me!
WT: I’m sure she will.。