Unit 1 Sports
Part A
Listening Strategy: Identifying Numbers
Part B
Pre-listening Task
Listening Tasks
Text: Why Dont You Join Me at the Gym S~~netime?
Speaking Tasks
Communicative Function: Inquiring about Future Activities
Leisure Time: A Poem
Part C
Additional Listening: Watching a Game
Part D
Home Listening: NBA Fans Worldwide
Unit 2 Weather
Part A
Listening Strategy: Listening for Important Details
Part B
Pre-listening Task
Listening Tasks
Text: Did You Hear the Weather Forecast?
Speaking Tasks
Communicative Function: Expressing Hope
Part C
Additional Listening: A Thunderstorm
Part D
Home Listening (1) : Weather Forecasting
Home Listening (2): Ideas about Education
Unit 3 Food and Drinks
Part A
Listening Strategy: Listening "between the Lines"
Part B
Pre-listening Task
Listening Tasks
Text. What about Dining Out ?
Speaking Tasks
Communicative Function: Ordering a Meal at a Restaurant / Buying a Meal at
a School Canteen or a Fast Food Restaurant
Leisure Time. Proverbs
Part C
Additional Listening. Eating Out
Part D
Home Listening: Chocolate——Friend or Foe ?
Unit 4 Health
Part A
Listening Strategy: Identifying the Relationship between the Speakers
Part B
Pre-listening Task
Listening Tasks
Text. Going to See the Doctor
Speaking Tasks
Communicative Function: Seeing the Doctor
Part C
Additional Listening: Eating Apples
Part D
Home Listening (1) : Anorexia
Home Listening (2) ~~ Bill Gates
Unit 5 Music
Part A
Listening Strategy: Listening for Signal Words
Part B
Pre-listening Task
Listening Tasks
Text: Background Music
Speaking Tasks
Communicative Function: Talking about Preferences
Leisure Time: A Song
Part C
Additional Listening: Celine Dion
Part D
Home Listening: Music Style
Unit 6 Business
Part A .
Listening Strategy: IdentiJying the Major Event in a Conversation
Part B
Pre-listening Task
Listening Tasks
Text: Who Is to Be Promoted?
Speaking Tasks
Communicative Function: Talking about ()nes Occupation
Part C
Additional Listening: A Good Salesman
Part D
Home Listening (1) : Working in a Big Corporation
Home Listening (2) : I Had a Much Nicer Father Than Youll Ever Have
Unit 7 Fashion
Part A
I.istening Strategy: Summarizing ( 1 )
Part B
Prc-listening Task
Listening Tasks
Text: Fashion Image or Reality?
Speaking Tasks
Communicative Function: Giving Compliments
Leisure Time: Jokes
Part C
Additional I.istening: Platform Shoes
Part D
Home Listening: Vera Wang
Unit 8 Society
Part A
Listening Strategy: Summarizing (2)
Part B
Pre-listening Task
Listening Tasks
Text: Lottery Winners
Speaking Tasks
Communicative Function: Asking about Peoples ()pinion /
Giving Opinion
Part C
Additional Listening: An Abandoned Newborn Baby
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Unit 9 Unusual Happenings
Unit 10 Disasters
Unit 11 Famous People
Unit 12 Invention
Unit 13 Human Virtues
Unit 14 Biodiversity
Unit 15 Environment
Unit 16 The Internet
Test1
Test 2
Appendix Tapescripts and Key to the Exercises of Home Listening