UNIT 34 NATURE ( Ⅰ ) ANIMAL WORLD Lesson 67 PartⅠ

UNIT 34 NATURE (Ⅰ)

ANIMAL WORLD

Lesson  67

PartⅠWarming-up Exercises

Spot Dictation: Animals

Training Focus:

Spot dictation

Directions: You are going to listen to a passage. Some words on the printed passage have been taken out. Listen carefully. Fill in the blanks with the words you hear on the tape.

Key:

Unlike most plants, animals are living beings that have the ability to move about in search of food.

Scientists divide animals into two groups. The animals in the first group are those with backbones and the second group includes those without backbones.

Birds, fish and mammals belong to the first group. Among them, mammals are considered the most complex animals. Mammals have hair or fur. They nurse their young. Most people use the word“animal” when they are talking about mammals such as the dog, cat, cow, horse, rabbit or monkey.

Most animals of the second group live in water because the pull of gravity makes it difficult for them to move about on land.

The largest animal on earth is the blue whale. A whale often grows more than 30 meters long and weighs more than 100 tons. The elephant is the largest land animal and the ostrich is the largest bird.

Lesson 67 PartⅡ

Lesson  67

Directions: You'll hear a verse read four times, each time with a different feeling. Listen.

Ex.Ⅰ

Directions: Write 1, 2, 3, or 4 to identify which feeling the reader tries to convey each time.

Key: 1 excitement 4 disbelief 3 joy 2 sadness

Ex.Ⅱ

Directions: Choose a, b, or c to complete each statement.

Key: 1. b           2. c             3. a

Ex. Ⅲ

Directions: Choose a, b, or c to complete each statement.

Key: 1.a                                 2.c

Tapescript

Short Dialogues  (1′22″)

(for practice in drawing inferences)

Verse-reading

“London Bridge is falling down,

Falling down, falling down.

London Bridge is failing down,

My fair lady.”

Dialogue 1

A: Good morning, sir.

B: Good morning.

A: Can I help you, sir ?

B: Yes, please. What is the air fare to Tokyo ?

A: Tokyo. Let me see. (pause) Five hundred and twenty pounds.

B: Five hundred and twenty pounds ?

A: Yes, sir.

B: Return ?

A: No. Single.

B: Single ?

A: Yes, sir. When are you going to travel ?

B: I was going to, but not now: I'm going to hitchhike.

Goodbye !

A: Goodbye !

Dialogue 2

A: This is the third time you've been late this week, Robert.

You'll have to do better than that, or I might find it necessary to let you go.

B: It won't happen again, I assure you.

Lesson  67

Ex.Ⅰ

Directions: Answer the questions you hear on the tape.

1 . What kind of dog is described in the first story ?

2. What does the dog like to do on Sunday afternoons ?

3 . Why did Jack become worried one Sunday afternoon ?

4 . What did Jack do to get the visitor's attention ?

5 . What did Jack return with a few minutes later ? Why did Jack do so ?

6 . What kind of dog is described in the second story ?

Why is it so named ?

7 . Where did the story take place ?

8. What did the dog do when one man got up and left his seat ?

9 . Why did the dog push the people ?

10. What did the dog do soon after the blind man sat down ?

11. Why did everyone on the bus smile ?

Key: (see tapescript)

Ex.Ⅱ

Directions: Retell the stories by using your own words.

Tapescript:

Man's Best Friend  (2′18″)

Almost everyone likes dogs, and almost everyone likes to read stories about dogs. Here are two stories about dogs.

I have a friend who has a large police dog named Jack. Police dogs are often very intelligent. Every Sunday afternoon my friend takes Jack for a long walk in the park. Jack likes these long walks in the park very much.

One Sunday afternoon a young man came to visit my friend. He stayed a long time. He talked and talked. Soon it was time for my friend to take Jack for his walk. But the visitor still stayed. Jack became very worried about his walk in the park. He walked around the room several times and then sat down directly in front of the visitor and looked at him. But the visitor paid no attention. He continued talking. Finally Jack could stand it no longer. He went out of the room and came back a few minutes later. He sat down again in front of the visitor but this time he held the visitor's hat in his mouth.

Here is another story about an intelligent dog, This dog was a seeing-eye dog. A seeing-eye dog is a special dog which helps blind people walk along the streets and do many other things. We call these dogs“seeing-eye” dogs because the dogs are the“eyes” of the blind man and they help him to“see.”These dogs generally go to special schools for several years to learn to help blind people.

One day a seeing-eye dog and a blind man got on a bus together. The bus was full of people and there were no seats. One man, however, soon got up and left his seat. The dog took the blind man to the seat, but there was very little space. The dog began to push the people on each side with his nose. He pushed and pushed until the people moved down and finally there was enough space for two people. The blind man then sat down and the dog got up on the seat at the side of the blind man. He lay down and put his head on the leg of the blind man. He was very comfortable and soon fell asleep. Everyone on the bus had to smile at the intelligence of the dog in making space for the blind man and, at the same time, making a place for himself.