Listening Basics part 2 (2) / New Listening Basics part 2

11. If you could put a flavor on stamps, what would you choose?

a. chili b. cheese c. banana d. another e. none

12. If someone said ―Never eat anything you can‘t pronounce‖ what

6. Try It – You’ll Like It

A. Words

Make sure you know the following words: hearty

chewy bland crayfish ostrich a skewer fennel caraway shrimp squid

antipasto tangy

bean sprout

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B. Look at the cards below. Choose one food card and one taste card (your teacher may distribute the cards herself). Walk around the classroom. Your goals are: 1) to give away your own food card to someone with a taste for that kind of food and 2) to get a food card to match your taste card.

Ask your classmates if they‘d like to try the food you have. They will see if the taste matches the one on their card. If it does, give them the food card.

Taste cards:

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Food cards:

7. Debate

A.Choose one of these topics for your debate, or think of one of your

own.

Topics

1.Should smoking be illegal in restaurants?

2.Should college entrance examinations be abolished?

3.Should voting in government elections be mandatory or voluntary?

4.Should army service be required for women if it is required for men?

B.Divide the class into teams. One team will argue in favor of the question. The other will argue against the question.

C.Work in pairs or small groups and make a list of arguments and facts you will use to support your position. If possible, find information and research to support your position. Note: Do not give your opinion. Remember that a debate is based on facts.

D.Each side should select one person as its speaker. These two speakers should then debate the topic. After the debate you may discuss your real

opinion about the topic.

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Below you will find a list of additional recordings to develop the topic of the chapter. Choose one, listen to it at home as many times as necessary and get ready to tell your group mates (or professor) about it.

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CHAPTER VIII

The Sky above Us

Part I. Getting started

1. Pronunciation

A.The –ed ending has three different pronunciations in English: in word ending with /t/ or /d/, it is pronounced as a separate syllable /id/, e.g. waitwaited; in words that end with a voiceless consonant, it is pronounced as /t/, e.g. step – stepped; in words that end with a voiced consonant or a vowel, it is pronounced as /d/, e.g. live – lived.

B. Listen to the following past tense verbs and check the pronunciation that you hear.

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2. Words

Make sure you know the following words from the dialog: Names: Columbus, Neil Armstrong

a porch pollution to benefit a benefit to consider a satellite gravity

solar energy living conditions a pioneer

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3. Listen to the dialog and fill in the blanks

Linda, Jeff and Anna are talking about space travel and exploration. Which one of the three might be the most adventurous? Can you think of the advantages/benefits of space exploration?

Jeff: Anna! Nancy! Come _____________ to the ______________!

You‘ve ________________ to see this ____________________!

Nancy: _____________ ! Look how _____________ and _____________

it is!

Anna: It _____________________ as if you could _________________

out and ___________________ it.

Jeff: Do you ______________ that it‘s been more than

______________ years since the first ________________ walked on the _____________? And would you _______________ their

_______________ are still there? Anna: Really? How ________________?

Jeff: There‘s no __________________ on the moon, so there‘s no

________________ to _____________ them

___________________.

Anna: That‘s _______________________. But you know, I‘ve always

___________________ why some ___________________ spend so much ________________ on space exploration. I

_____________, there are so many ________________ problems on _______________, like ________________, hunger,

_______________...

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Nancy: Well, you may be ________________ to know that the

____________ spends less than _______________ percent of its

_______________ budget on space _______________. And

_________________, you have to _____________________ the

___________________ and ________________________

benefits of space exploration. Anna: Like ___________________?

Jeff: Well, to give just one example, ________________________

were invented only about _______________ years ago, and now they‘re used for ___________________ prediction,

________________ phones, satellite TV…

Nancy: Also, a lot of _______________________ discoveries have come out of _____________________ research. _______________ it or not, that‘s how soft _________________ lenses were developed.

Also, some ___________________ can be produced more

_______________ and cheaply in space, where there‘s no

__________________.

Jeff: Just _____________________ - pretty soon we‘ll be able to buy

______________ labeled ―_______________ in

________________‖ instead of ―Made in Indonesia‖ or ―_______________ in the ________________‖.

Anna: OK, I _________________ that space research has a lot of

_________________. But tell me this: would you like to

_______________ in space?

Jeff: That ___________________. If the living _________________

are the same as on ______________, then why not?

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Nancy: Yeah, all Jeff __________________ are ________________

strings and an _______________ _____________ shop and he‘s perfectly happy. Right Jeff?

Jeff: Yeah … Actually, just the ____________ day I read an

____________ on space _________________, and …

Anna: _______________ what?

Jeff: Space _______________. Um, communities of

__________________ living in _____________ in big space

______________. Anna: Yeah?

Jeff: The _____________ said that, _________________, life in these

___________________ might be even ________________ than on earth because they‘ll be _____________, without the

______________ we have in big _______________ today. They‘ll use ______________ energy, for instance, so they won‘t have air

_______________.

Nancy: Anyway, Anna, don‘t you ________________ it would be

________________ to be a ________________? Anna: What‘s that?

Nancy: You _____________, someone who does something

______________. Like Columbus or Neil Armstrong when he

________________ on the ________________ back in 1969. Anna: You know ______________? You guys can be the

_______________. I‘m going to stay _______________ here on earth and _______________ college!

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