Lesson 108 Part I

Lesson 108

Part Ⅰ Warming-up Exercises

Note-taking: Telephone Numbers, Names and Addresses

Training Focus:

Identifying telephone numbers, names and addresses

Directions: You are going to hear some telephone numbers and five short telephone conversations. Listen carefully. Note down the telephone numbers, names and addresses.

Key:

1． Brisbane, Australia 072----56----1091

2． Birmingham, England 021----51551

3． Antwerp, Belgium 031----40----13----98

4． Brighton, England 0273----61721

5． Toronto, Canada 416----466----3858

6． Manchester, England 061----79821

7． Edinburgh, Scotland 031----21672

8． A: May I help you? B: Will you please tell me the telephone number of the Medical Center on Broadway?

A: One moment, please. B: I'll wait. A: 458----4111.

B: Thank you. A: You are welcome.

9． A: Operator. May I help you? B: Yes, I'd like the number for Directory Assistance for Santa Rosa, California. A: Yes, dial 1----707----555----1212. B: Thank you.

10． A: Directory Assistance for west city. please. B: Santa Rosa. A: Yes. B: I'd like the number of Greg Ever hart. The address is 200 Alma Avenue. A: Greg Ever hart, the number is 527----0841. B: Thank you.

11． A: Operator. B: Hello. I'd like to place a station-to-station call to Tokyo, Japan. Would you go ahead and place the call for me? The number is 451----4565, and the area code is 03. A: May I have your name and telephone number? B: Yes. My name is Hidale Miyahara and my number is 259----0841.

12． A: Directory Enquiries. For which town? B: London. A: Name? B: Brown. A: Initial? B: R. S. A: Address? B: 12 the Leeds, S. E. 10. A: 854----1126.

Lesson 108 Part Ⅱ Why Watch Television?

Lesson 108

Part Ⅱ Why Watch Television?

Ex.

Directions: Give brief answers to the questions according to what you hear on the tape.

Key: 1． She reads the programmes and chooses the ones that interest her.

2． In her opinion, it can be a time-waster but it is not necessarily so. It depends on how people watch TV.

3． It has something to do with a person's life style. If a person has other outside interests, he would be more careful about which programmes to watch and use time for his interests instead of watching TV.

4． Yes. She thinks there is such a danger, especially for those who don't have other outside interests. Those people will regard TV as their only field of amusement at home and TV occupies all their attention.

5． She has a policy of restriction of viewing for her children. She lets her children watch only Playschool and a couple of other programmes.

Tapescript:

Why Watch Television? (3′5″)

Matthew: Television is undoubtedly a great invention, but one of the main criticisms of it is that people just aren't selective enough. Lesley, you've got a television; how do you pick out the sorts of programmes you want to watch?

Lesley: I try and look at the programmes that are on to decide which particular ones that interest me, rather than you turning it on at seven o'clock and you leaving it on until halfpast eleven when the programmes finish.

Matthew: Do you think of television though as a great timewaster?

Lesley: Um … I think it can be a time-waster and it depends on how particular people are about … what …, you knowing what they want to see … Mm, it can just be a sort of total amusement for someone and totally consuming without really considering what it is they're watching.

Matthew: Aha, but how do you prevent it coming into your life and taking over your evenings and at the same time perhaps get … get out of the television some of the sort of best things … best programmes that … that undoubtedly are on television?

Lesley: Well, I suppose one of the problems is … will depend on what a person's life style is, and that if he has other outside interests which arc equallyimportant to him as television, he will then, you know, um … be more careful about which programmes he wants to watch because he has time which he use … wants to use for other things.

Matthew: Do you think though that … that in … in a sense television has killed people's own er … sort of, creativity or their ability to entertain themselves because if they're bored all they do is just turn on the television?

Lesley: Yes, I think that is a danger, and I think that's … in fact is what is happening to a lot of people who use it as their … their main … um field of amusement and … because they don't have other outside interests and even when people come round they'll leave the television on and not be, you know, particularly interested in talking to them, you know the television will be the main thing in the room.

Matthew: Henrietta, would you let your children spend many afternoons and evenings watching television or would you encourage them to go out and play?

Henrietta: Well, it's interesting this; in fact we really have had a policy of um … almost total restriction of viewing. I mean, my children are very small, they're four-and-a-half and two-and-a-half, and it's only very recently that we have even got into the habit of watching Playschool. I do tend to … um … I do try to in fact I succeed in restricting their viewing solely to that and a couple of programmesthat follow it, but I don't like to see a child sit with an open mouth in front of a television set hour after hour after hour, but I'm not anti-television at all.I myself watch quite a lot; I watch some comedy, I watch um … serials … um the recent serialisation of ‘Jane Eyre’ was beautifully done and very interesting. I watch the news avidly.

Lesson 108 Part Ⅲ Quiz Programme

Lesson 108

Part Ⅲ  Quiz Programme

Ex. Ⅰ

Directions: Write down the important points in note form. Then answer the questions you hear on the tape by using your notes.

1． What are members of the public invited to do in a quiz programme?

2． How is a quiz programme organized?

3． What were the three questions put to the young contestant?

4． What was the result?

Key: (see tapescript)

Ex. Ⅱ

Directions: Supply relevant information about the quiz programme.

Key: Your Choice / 9:00 / ITV / fully automatic washing-machine, fortnight's holiday for two in Spain, Treasure Chest ￡300, old sock, cracked plate, family saloon car / Mrs Jenkins / 1． How many days are there in March? 2． Where were the last Olympic Games held? / a pound consolation prize

Tapescript:

Quiz Programme (6′48″)

One evening, Arthur was sitting in Mrs Harrison's sittingroom and watching a quiz programme on the television. In a quiz programme members of the public are invited to answer questions on various subjects. In this particular programme, the quizmaster asks three questions. If the contestants answer the three questions correctly, then the contestant chooses a number between one and ten. For each number there is a different prize. Sometimes the prizes are worth a lot of money and sometimes they are something worthless like an empty matchbox or an old shoe.

Arthur, Mrs Harrison and Mr Smithers were watching a young man answer some questions. First of all he was asked what the capital of Scotland was. This was a very easy question, of course, and the contestant answered that it was Edinburgh. Next, the quizmaster asked him where Mt. Everest was and the young man answered this question correctly too. Finally he was asked which was heavier----a pound of lead or a pound of feathers and again he gave the correct answer that they were both the same. Then the quizmaster asked the contestant which number he wanted and he chose number seven. He said that this was his lucky number. The quizmaster opened the envelope marked No. 7, and told him that he had won the Treasure Chest, which contained ￡200.

Mrs Harrison then asked Arthur why he didn't go in for one of these quizzes. Arthur thought it was a good idea.

Mrs Harrison: Mr Smithers! It's three minutes to nine.Arthur'll be on in a minute. You'll miss him if you don't come now.

Mr Smithers: All right, Mrs H. I'm coming.

Mrs Harrison: If you sit on that chair, Mr Smithers, you'll see the screen better. You've got your glasses, haven't you?

Mr Smithers: Yes, thank you. Now which channel is it on? It's ITV, isn't it?

Mrs Harrison: Yes, that's right.

Television When you wash your husband's shirts in

Voice: Sparkol, you'll really see the difference. Sparkol washes whiter and brighter.

Announcer: Good evening, everybody. When you hear thesignature tune, it'll be time for Your Choice.

Quizmaster: Good evening, friends, Welcome to another edition of Your Choice. We've got another lot of wonderful contestants here tonight and some fantastic prizes. Don't forget, ladies and gentlemen, that I don't know what's in the envelopes. Now here's Jimmy Green to tell you what the prizes are. Carry on, Jimmy.

Jimmy: First of all we've got this fully automatic washing-machine. Then we've got a fortnight's holiday for two in sunny Spain. Then tonight's Treasure Chest containing ￡300, an old sock, a cracked plate and tonight's all star prize----this wonderful family saloon car.

Mrs Harrison: Ooh, there are some lovely prizes, aren't there?

Mr Smithers: Yes, indeed.

Quizmaster: Now let's meet our first contestant who wants to play Your Choice. Good evening, madam. Now would you like to tell us what your name is?

Contestant: Mrs Jenkins.

Quizmaster: Mrs Jenkins. Now if you stand a little nearer to the microphone, the viewers'll hear you a little bit better. Now your first question is: can you tell me how many days there are in March?

Contestant: Oh now let me see. Thirty days hath September… Er, 31.

Quizmaster: That is the correct answer, Mrs Jenkins. That wasn't difficult, was it? Now your second question: can you tell me where the last Olympic Games were held? Now take your time: there's no hurry.

Contestant: Oh dear, er, er … It was Tokyo, wasn't it?

Quizmaster: I'm sorry, Mrs Jenkins. I'm afraid that's the wrong answer. Never mind. Here's a pound consolation prize. Better luck next time.Now let's bring on the next contestant. Your name, sir?

Arthur: Newton, Arthur Newton.

Quizmaster: Now, can you tell me, for your first question, what …?

Mrs Harrison: Oh no! The telly's gone wrong again. Oh what a pity! Now we shan't know what he's won until he comes home.