创新国际英语教程 3 unit1 Talking about people

　　[00:00.00]Unit 1 Talking about people

[00:24.69]Who’s who?

[00:31.74]Listen to the descriptions of Jenny,Nick,Matt,and Kirsty.Decide who’s who.

[00:40.52]Kirsty?She’s really interesting.She’s quite sporty and musical as well.

[00:48.67]She plays the piano a lot.She’s actually quite good.

[00:53.73]She’s in her twenties and has got lovely shoulder-length blonde hair.

[01:00.08]You’d like Nick.He’s really nice.He’s very easy-going.

[01:07.06]He’s got a great sense of humour.He’s only thirty-five.

[01:13.01]He’s got really short hair-shaved,I think.

[01:18.16]He’s very interested in photography and arty things.

[01:23.44]Jenny is in her forties.She’s really energetic sort of person-always doing things.

[01:31.69]She’s got a very warm personality and enjoys helping 1 other people.

[01:37.15]She has short,dark hair and dark eyes.

[01:42.48]Matt is still at university.

[01:47.31]He’s really friendly and is one of the most popular I know.

[01:52.88]He’s very hard-working and serious,but he’s also a lot of fun.

[01:58.73]He’s got fair hair and he wears glasses.

[02:03.48]2 Pronunciation

[02:10.46]Listen to the stress s and intonation 2 of these examples.

[02:16.31]It’s quite expensive.

[02:21.56]It’s quite expensive.

[02:25.03]Listen to these examples.Each is said in two different ways.

[02:31.28]1.I live quite near the office.

[02:39.63]2.She’s quite nice.

[02:47.39]3.He’s quite a good cook.

[02:56.14]4.We’re quite happy with the colour.

[03:03.51]5.He’s quite friendly.

[03:11.97]6.I think they’re quite conservative 3.

[03:21.12]7.The weather was quite good.

[03:29.66]8.It’s quiet interesting.

[03:36.53]2 While you listen  The Brother from Hell!

[03:47.40]I can’t remember.Do you take mile?

[03:51.65]Please,but no sugar.Thanks.It’s weird 4,you know,

[03:57.51]but I’ve been to your house three times now,and I still haven’t met your parents.

[04:03.28]Yes,they’re out a lot.My dad works for the BBC and my mum’s a ,

[04:09.84]she does sort of temping work for a company,

[04:14.20]You know,like an advertising 5 agency.They’re both really busy.

[04:19.84]Oh,they sound really interesting.

[04:23.50]Do you think so?I find my dad a bit dull,to be honest.

[04:29.27]He works late every day,even works some weekends,doesn’t read,doesn’t go out.

[04:36.32]I mean,don’t get me wrong,he’s quite nice,but I don’t know,

[04:41.65]I just don’t have anything to say to him.

[04:45.81]I think the things is,we just don’t spend enough time together.

[04:50.66]How old is he,then?

[04:53.72]About fifty-five,I think.I can never really remember. Oh,yeah.

[04:59.89]But my mum’s lovely,She’s really nice,

[05:04.43]a bit too nice though,sometimes,always trying to look after me.

[05:10.49]She worries about me leaving home.

[05:14.33]She’s a bit over-protective,if you know what I mean.

[05:18.56]I’m an only child,so..Oh,I didn’t know that.

[05:23.29]What?You mean you can’t tell!

[05:27.26]I don’t know.I’ve never thought about it. I suppose.

[05:32.30]So,what about you?Have you got any brothers or sisters yourself?

[05:37.95]Yes,I’ve got one of each,actually.

[05:41.71]Oh right.Older or youger?

[05:45.55]My sister’s two or three years younger than me,but my brother’s quite a lot older.

[05:51.32]He’s about forty now.

[05:54.48]Do you get on with them all right?You haven’t really talked about them very much.

[06:00.33]Well,my brother,not that well,actually.

[06:05.90]He’s different from me,a bit old-fashioned,a bit traditional.

[06:11.83]Well,actually,he’s a bit,how can I put it,right-wing.

[06:17.89]You know-things aren’t what they used to be,more police,

[06:23.82]death penalty-that kind of thing.He’s a bit of a fool,actually.

[06:29.75]Oh,well,it takes all sorts,I suppose.But my sister,she’s great.We get on really well.

[06:37.32]We’ve got the same kind of sense of humour.

[06:41.37]Just a pity about the brother from hell,eh? Yes,Oh,but he’s not that bad.

[06:48.42]We get on all right,as long as you steer 6 clear of certain topics.

[06:53.88]Anyway,you were telling me about your parents.

[06:58.14]Oh,there’s not much to tell,actually.

[07:03.60]3 Emphasising Listen to the six sentences above,and practise saying them.

[07:14.86]It was really cold and really windy.

[07:20.03]She’s very nice,very interesting.

[07:25.28]It was extremely long and extremely boring.

[07:30.64]He’s a bit strange,a bit weird.

[07:35.92]He’s a bit old-fashioned,a bit traditional.

[07:41.87]It was really scary,really frightening.

[07:47.83]2 While you read FULL-TIME 7 JOB!

[07:58.17]Every English-speaking child knows the nursery rhyme about the old woman with lots of children:

[08:05.33]There was an old woman who lived in a shoe.

[08:10.48]She had so many children she didn’t know what to do.

[08:15.23]Nicola Pridam must understand the old woman’s predicament very well.

[08:22.00]She’s expecting her twentieth child and she’s only forty!

[08:28.26]She and her husband Kevin already have twelve sons and seven daughters.

[08:35.40]Kevin Pridham is a self-employed builder,

[08:40.96]but what he earns is not enough to feed and clothe their large family.

[08:46.60]Every week their grocery bill comes to $400.

[08:52.98]They go through thirty-five loaves of bread

[08:57.70]and twently-five boxes of breakfast cereal 8 per week.

[09:02.54]If you have a chird in Britain today,

[09:06.98]researchers have shown that it will cost you almost $100 per week

[09:13.53]when you take into consideration food,clothes,pocket money

[09:19.28]and all the other expenses involved in bringing up children.

[09:24.24]Before they are eighteen you will have spent almost $100,000 per child.

[09:32.19]This means that Nicola and Kevin will have to find two million pounds!

[09:39.55]You can be fairly sure that the Pridham children will be handing clothes down to each other

[09:46.40]and doing odd jobs to provide themselves with pocket money.