Part I Warming Up
Section A Words & Phrases
Here are some statements of some superlative world geographical
statistics,Listen carefully and complete the following chart,Pay special attention to
the numbers
Geographical feature Location Size
biggest continent Asian _____________________
largest ocean Pacific _____________________
biggest island Greenland _____________________
largest peninsula Arabic _____________________
largest desert Sahara _____________________
biggest saltwater lake Caspian Sea _____________________
biggest fresh water lake Superior _____________________
smallest continent Oceania _____________________
smallest ocean Arctic _____________________
highest peak Qomolangma _____________________
lowest altitude Dead Sea _____________________
deepest lake Baykal _____________________
deepest oceanic trench Mariana _____________________
longest river Nile _____________________
16,998,000 sq,mi,
64,186,300 sq,mi,
840,000 sq,mi,
1,000,000 sq,mi,
3,320,000 sq,mi,
143,244 sq,mi,
32,483 sq,mi,
2,966,000 sq,mi,
5,105,700 sq,mi,
29,028 feet
-1,312 feet
5,315 feet
36,198 feet
4,145 miles
Section A Tape Script
The biggest continent in the world is Asia,It covers 16,998,000 square miles,
The Pacific Ocean is the largest ocean with 64,189,300 square miles,
Which is the biggest island? It’s Greenland,It occupied an area of 840,000 square miles,
The Arabic Peninsula is the largest peninsula and has an area of 1,000,000 square miles,
Do you know which is the largest desert? Yes,it’s the Sahara Desert in North Africa,It covers
3,320,000 square miles
The biggest saltwater lake is the Caspian Sea,Which is 143,244 square miles large,
Lake Superior is the biggest fresh water lake and it covers a total area of 32,483 square miles,
The smallest continent is Oceania,with an area of 2,966,000 square miles,and the smallest
ocean is the Arctic Ocean with 5,105,700 square miles,
You all know the world’s highest peak,don’t you? Mt,Qomolangma (or Mt,Everest) is 29,028
feet above the sea level,In contrast,the lowest altitude in the world is the Dead Sea,1,312 feet
below sea level,or you can say -1,312 feet,
The deepest lake is Baykal in Russia,The depth is 5,315 feet,
Section A Tape Script
Mariana Trench near the Philippines is the deepest oceanic trench,with a
depth of 36,198 feet,
The longest river in the world is the Nile in Africa,It is 4,145 miles long,
Seen from space,our earth,with __________ covering ______ of its surface,appears
as the beautiful,blue planet”,The bare land areas appear _______________,dark green shows
Where there is __________________,and the white means ____________,Besides the seven
major land areas,called _________________,there are thousands of _________,Some of these
are arranged in groups and some stand alone in the great oceans,
Arms of land which reach out into the water are called peninsula; seas,gulfs and
Section B Words & Phrases
water 70%
red and brown
Plant cover snow
continents islands
Section B
bays are _______________________ which lie between islands and
peninsulas,A narrow piece of land __________________ two larger land areas is an isthmus; a
narrow stretch of water between two land is called a strait or __________________,
Water is constantly in motion on the earth,Rain water runs off the mountains into
___________; it collects in lakes and rivers which carry it back to the seas,From the high
altitudes of mountain passes and plateaus to the canyons and low-lying ________,the features
of the land are wonderful to see,
arms of the ocean
connecting
a channel
valleys
plains
Part II In Brazil and France
Section A Words & Phrases
Now listen to two short stories,In each of the stories,there is one person
who makes a fool of himself,Listen carefully and try to fill in the words in the charts below,
English Greek for the phrase What the person says What Greeks think it means
Good Morning Kalimera Kalamari Squid
English What Stephen says in France What Frenchmen think it means
Three canos Trio canneurs His Name
Part II In Brazil and France
Section A Tape Script
● Well,I had quite an amusing time in Greece on one holiday because I
confused the words for,Good morning”,which is,Kalimera” and,Squid”,which is
“Kalamari.” So for several days I was going around smiling broadly at people,saying,squid”
to them,and I couldn’t understand why they looked at me as if I was totally crazy until
someone pointed it out,
● I was in France on holiday,staying in a friend’s cottage and one day we
decided to go for a trip on the river,So we went along to a place on the river where
you could hire canoes,And a friend,who prided himself on being rather good at
speaking French,went in to hire the canoes,We decided we needed three,so he
asked for,trio canneurs” which he thought was the French for,three canoes”,We
Part II In Brazil and France
Section A Tape Script
got our canoes; we spent the afternoon on the river; we came bake,And
Stephen went in to return the canoes and collect the deposit he’d paid on them,And as he
walked in the door,they said,Ah,hello Mr,Troiscanneurs,,,”
Part II In Brazil and France
Section B Words & Phrases
Interesting things one can see or do
On the street in Brazil
a,Street _____________
b,Telling ____________
c,___________________
On the street in France a,Watching _____________________ b,______________________________
Vendor
fortune
eating
street performers
portrait painting
Part III Life Here and There
Section A
Words and Phrases
Pre-listening Questions
1,Do you know something about the geographical and climatic conditions in Japan and
Britain?
2,Guess the way the two speakers may compare the life as they see in Japan and Britain?
Section B
John say about Etsuko say about
1.,,, the people in Japan? _______________than the British work form ___________
through _____________
2.,,, the summer in Japan? horrible,______________________
3.,,, the summer in England? Cooler
Much busier Monday
Saturday
humid and hot
Part III Life Here and There
Section B John say about Etsuko say about
4.,,, the winter in Japan? In the north,_______________
than England,______℃
5.,,, the countryside in England? _______________ than in Japan ____________________
6.,,, the countryside in Japan? More _____________ than Britain
7.,,, the mountains in Japan? Much _____________ and Much more
_______________,more beautiful
8.,,, the towns,villages and ________________________
cities in Japan?
9.,,, the houses in Japan? ______________________ Very compact,not a lot of space
10.,,, the buildings in Japan a lot of _________ buildings now,
much colder
-30
much flatter beautiful
mountainous
higher
rocky
More crowded
smaller
taller
Part IV Short Talks on Listening skills
Be Careful with Numbers
Quick and accurate response to numbers is very important in
____________________,Telephone numbers,addresses,prices,temperatures,time
and dates are all closely linked with the use of numbers,Besides,numbers also play
a very important part in ______________________ such as scientific stories,statistics
update,and reports about ongoing events of various kinds,
Although identification of numbers _____________ is usually easy,number
identification through ___________ proves to be a big problem for many people,In
actual listening,we are often required to get the numbers immediately after we hear
them,And ____________ to get a correct number,sometimes a mere mistake in _____,
can seriously affect the understanding of the whole story and therefore cause severe
__________,The differences between million and billion,“-teen’s” and,-ty’s” are so
daily communication
broadcast programs
in print
listening
failure digit
losses
Part IV Short Talks on Listening skills
Be Careful with Numbers
great that no one can simply afford to ___________ them,
Numbers are sometimes __________ in different ways,For example,“seventeen point
five million” or,seventeen million five hundred thousand” can also be read as,seventeen and
one half million.” _____________________ in numbers can help us get familiar with these
different yet still ___________ ways of number presentation,
For easy reading and writing,numbers of more than four digits are often separated
by ________ into group of three digits each,For example,1,234,567 is one million,two hundred
and thirty-four thousand,and five hundred and sixty-seven,Saying numbers over to
yourselves after you hear them can increase our ___________________________,
Numbers are all around us,Let us practice with numbers and learn to be good at
numbers
ignore
read
Intensive training
regular
commas
Sensitivity to numbers