新标准初中英语第二册--Module 6 The Olympic adventure

[00:00.00]Module 6 The Olympic adventure 1

[00:03.93]Unit 1Cycling is moredangerous than swimming.

[00:09.54]Vocabulary and listening1 Listen and number  the sports as you  hear them.

[01:13.27]4 Listen and read.Betty:Chinese people arevery good at gymnastics 2.Do you like gymnastics,Daming?

[01:24.86]Daming:Yes, I do. ButChinese people are goodat table tennis, too,and table tennis is morepopular than gymnastics.

[01:34.91]Betty:I love gymnastics.I think it's more excit-ing than table tennis.What Olympic sports doyou like?

[01:43.81]Daming:Basketball is myfavourite sport, but Ialso like running.

[01:48.69]Betty:Oh, no, running ismore boring than basket-ball.I also like cyclingCycling is more relaxingthan running.

[02:00.11]Daming:No, it isn't. Ithink cycling is moretiring than running. Anddo you like skiing 3?

[02:08.12]Betty:Yes, I do. Butit's more dangerous thanrunning and cycling.

[02:13.60]5 Listen again. Check  (√) the sports they  like.

[03:14.30]Pronunciation andspeaking6 Listen and repeat 4 the  sentences in Activit-  ies 2 and 3.

[04:17.39]Unit 2English for the OlympicGames

[04:22.23]Reading and vocabulary1 Read the passage and  choose a photo for it.

[04:25.22]1 a stadium 5 in Beijing2 an English class in  Dongsi, Beijing

[04:30.30]English for the OlympicGames

[04:33.57]It's Saturday morning,and Zhang Xiuyun fromDongsi NeighbourhoodCommittee in Beijingis leaving for school.

[04:41.76]“I have an Englishclass,”says Zhang,“It starts at 9:30 amevery Saturday,

[04:49.41]but at 8:30 there areusually lots of peoplein the classroom.”

[04:53.93]Zhu Guoming, 79, says,“I get here early andsit in front of theblackboard, so I can seeand hear the teacher.

[05:03.58]I don't arrive latebecause I don't likesitting behind the otherstudents.

[05:08.92]It's difficult to seeand hear at the back.

[05:12.51]However, the teacherspeaks slowly and loudlyto the older studentsso I can always hearclearly.”

[05:21.50]More than 200 peoplefrom Dongsi are learningEnglish.

[05:25.96]Lots of visitors to theOlympic Games will speakEnglish, so the peoplefrom Dongsi need tolearn English quickly.

[05:34.54]They want to speakit well. No one wantsto speak it badly orcarelessly.

[05:40.80]Wang Xiuqin, 65, says,“It's more difficultfor old people to learnEnglish,

[05:48.31]but I want to learnit better than youngpeople.”She works 6 hard.

[05:53.98]The Olympic visitors aregoing to do some sight-seeing and she's goingto take them around aBeijing siheyuan.

[06:02.16]Wang always carries herbook and her cassetteplayer in her bag.

[06:06.78]She checks her vocabu-lary carefully at homeand listens quietly toher lessons.

[06:12.91]These popular lessonswill continue until2008.

[06:18.26]Words and expressionsModule 6

[06:23.07]Olympic/╓'limpik/adj.奥林匹克的adventure/╓d'vent╞╓/n.激动人心的活动;冒险

[06:26.73]more/m╛:/adj.更多的/adv.更dangerous/'deind╜╓r╓s/adj.危险的

[06:30.01]gymnastics/d╜im'n╗stiks/n.体操ski/ski:/v.滑雪popular/'p╛pjul╓/adj.流行的;受欢迎的

[06:35.27]exciting/ik'saiti╕/adj.激动人心的tiring/'tairi╕/adj.累人的

[06:38.87]unpopular/╘n'p╛pjul╓/adj.不流行的;不受欢迎的boring/'b╛:ri╕/adj.令人厌烦的relax/ri'l╗ks/v.(使)放松

[06:44.36]relaxing/ri'l╗ksi╕/adj.放松的;轻松自在的safe/seif/adj.安全的be good at 擅长

[06:49.92]neighbourhood/'neib╓,hud/n.居住区;邻近地区;邻里关系committee/k╓'miti/n.委员会

[06:53.52]arrive/╓'raiv/v.到达late/leit/adv.迟;晚于规定时刻/adj.迟的;晚的

[06:57.13]back/b╗k/n.后面;后部however/hau'ev╓/adv.可是;然而slowly/'sl╓uli/adv.慢地

[07:01.86]loudly/'laudli/adv.大声地;吵闹地clearly/'kli╓li/adv.清楚地

[07:05.25]visitor/'vizit╓/n.游客;观光者need/ni:d/v.&modal v.需要quickly/'kwikli/adv.快地

[07:09.90]well/wel/adv.好地badly/'b╗dli/adv.坏地;糟糕地carelessly/'ke╓l╓sli/adv.粗心地;马虎地

[07:15.16]better/'bet╓/adj.&adv.更好hard/ha:d/adv.努力地take around领(某人)四处参观

[07:20.65]cassette/k╓'set/n.盒式磁带player/'plei╓/n.播放机vocabulary/v╓u'k╗bjul╓ri/n.词汇

[07:26.36]carefully/'ke╓fli/adv.认真地quietly/'kwai╓tli/adv.安静地

[07:29.81]continue/k╓n'tinju:/v.继续until/╓n'til/prep.直到……时;到……为止

[07:33.52]WorkbookModule 6The Olympic adventure

[07:38.85]Listening7 Listen and number the  words in the order you  hear them.

[08:16.23]Reading and speaking8 Read the passage and  correct the mistakes.

[08:24.40]Tony:I love football ...All my family like foot-ball.Football is populararound the world. It'sthe number one sport.

[08:36.34]Betty:Football is unpo-pular in the USA becauseit isn't very exciting.Football is boring.

[08:45.18]Americans like basket-ball. Americans likeAmerican football.

[08:51.77]It's more dangerous ...It's more difficult toplay well.

[08:56.56]Tony:But football ismore exciting to watch.Football is easier toplay.

[09:03.00]And football is cheaperto play. All you needis a ball.

[09:09.06]Pronunciation10 Listen to these words   and decide which   sound you hear.

[09:17.91]/p/or/b/?expensive sport speak/k/or/g/? skiing school/t/or/d/? student/tr/or/dr/? Australia

[09:30.93]Now say the words aloud.