牛津七年级英语听力UNIT2

[00:07.18]Why don't dogs go to school,Eddie?

[00:12.25]Because we're smarter than people.

[00:16.51]What is school like?

[00:20.17]It's like watching TV,but there are fewer advertisements 1.

[00:27.12]Reading 2  A School lives

[00:33.88]Mr Wu tells his students to visit the website 3 of an e-friendship club

[00:40.25]called 'Schools Around the World'.

[00:44.20]Two members of the club write about their school lives.

[00:49.55]Read what John and Nancy say about their schools.

[00:54.91]Life in a British school

[00:58.67]Hi everybody

[01:01.83]My name is John.I am in Year 8 at Woodland School near London.

[01:09.09]It is mixed school.Boys and girls have lessons together.

[01:15.65]My favourite subject is Home Economics 4.

[01:20.40]I like learning 5 learning how to cook and sew 6.

[01:25.16]I did not know how to do things for myself before I came to this school.

[01:31.22]Now,I know how to cook healthy and tasty 7 meals.

[01:37.07]Our school has a reading week every year.

[01:41.80]My classmates and I love it.

[01:45.77]We can read any books from the school library.

[01:50.73]We can even bring in books and magzines from home

[01:56.30]but we have to tell our English teacher what we are reading.

[02:02.46]Near the end of each class we can talk to our friends about our books.

[02:09.54]The reading week is always too short

[02:14.11]because we want to read all our friends'books as well.

[02:19.76]Life in an American school

[02:23.83]Hi guys

[02:26.99]I'm Nancy and I'm 14 years old.

[02:31.95]I'm in 9th grade at Rocky 8 Mountain Hight School in Denver.

[02:37.52]My brother's name is Jim.He is 17 years old.

[02:43.76]He had driving lessons in school last year.

[02:48.31]Now,he drives me to school every day.

[02:53.45]This is great because it's faster than taking the bus.

[02:58.89]Twice a week,I play softball 9 after school.

[03:03.85]I love this game and I spend a lot of time practicing.

[03:09.70]Every Monday,I go to a 'buddy 10 club'.

[03:14.17]At the buddy club,older students talk to new students about school life.

[03:21.01]I enjoy this a lot.My buddy is Julie.She is a senior 11 in 12th grade.

[03:29.37]She helps me learn all about my new school.

[03:34.02]She helps me with my homework and listens to my problems.

[03:40.19]Julie is my hero.

[03:43.71]During lunchtime,I meet my friends

[03:48.55]and we always have a great time talking to each other.

[03:53.38]Sometimes,we go to shopping malls after school.

[03:58.52]Integrated skills     A Comparing schools

[04:05.50]Daniel is writing an article about the different schools for the school newsletter.

[04:14.75]Sandy is helping 12 him collect information on the Internet.

[04:20.02]Listen to their conversation.Help Daniel complete teh table below.

[05:20.78]B Speak up:talking about different schools

[05:26.64]You are talking to your e-friend on the phone.

[05:32.98]Work in pairs.Use John and Daniel's conversation as a model.

[05:40.24]Replace the underlined 13 words with your own information.

[05:45.60]How far do you live from your school?

[05:49.86]About four kilometres.

[05:53.62]Do you walk to school?

[05:57.28]No,I usually take the school bus.And you?

[06:03.62]I usually walk to school because I like walking.

[06:09.19]What if it rains or snows?

[06:13.45]It doesn't snow very often here,and I don't mind the rain.

[06:19.79]Pronunciation Showing surprise

[06:26.06]A Amy and Sandy are talking about their classmate Laura.

[06:32.91]Listen to their conversation.

[06:36.56]Laura hurt her leg on Monday.     Oh,really!

[06:41.92]She has to stay in hospital for a month.      A month!

[06:47.98]Yes.She won't be able to play basketball for three months.  Three months!

[06:55.74]B Listen to the sentences.

[07:00.99]Put a rising arrow( )at the end of the sentence if you think the speaker is surprised.

[07:07.26]Put a falling arrow( ) if you think he/she is not.

[07:12.30]1 Look out the window.It's snowing!     Snowing!

[07:19.25]2 Mr Wu is going to be on TV tonight.    Mr Wu [07:26.30]3 Joe wants go get a pet monkey.    A monkey!

[07:32.96]4 I'm hungry.

[07:37.53]Hungry?You just ate four hamburgers.

[07:43.39]5 We'll have cakes for dinner tonight.     Cakes!

[07:49.66]6 Did you hear the news?Liu Mei is going to move to Canada.

[07:56.60]I don't believe it.

[08:00.26]Main task 14 B Ideal 15 school

[08:06.43]B1 Mr Wu asks his students to write to the Schools Around the World Club

[08:15.20]about their ideal schools.

[08:19.46]Here is Daniel's article.Read it with your partner.

[08:25.10]My ideal school

[08:28.97]I like to get up late,so my ideal school starts at 9 a.m.

[08:36.52]It finishes at 3 p.m.

[08:40.88]So we will have a lots of time for after-school activities.

[08:47.44]we have an hour for lunch.There is a big dining hall.

[08:53.92]We can eat lunch and chat there.

[08:58.78]We can also listen to pop music in the hall.

[09:03.63]We eat fruit and vegetables every day.

[09:08.78]We have Maths every day because I think Maths is very interesting.

[09:15.55]I love computers so we have Computer Studies every day before lunch.

[09:22.68]We wear school uniforms,but we do not wear ties.

[09:28.95]The classes are quite small.

[09:32.89]There are about 15 students in each class.

[09:38.66]My ideal school has a park on one side and a shopping mall on the other.

[09:46.92]We have a big library with lots of useful books.

[09:52.88]We also have a tennis court and a swimming pool.

[09:57.92]There are lots of clubs and after-school activities.

[10:03.35]We only have half an hour of homework every day,

[10:08.60]and we do not do homework at weekends.

[10:13.46]Every month,we go on a school trip to a museum or a theatre.