〔施心远〕听力教程第二册Unit2.pptVIP

Unit 2Listening Course 2 Section One Tactics for Listening Part I Phonetics--Stress, Intonation and Accent Directions: The word in a sentence on which the fall or (or?fall-rise) begins is called?the?tonic?word. Sometimes the tonic word is also the prominent word in the sentence. Listen to some sentences. Which dialogue does each one best fit? Write the letter in the space provided. Key:1. f 2. c 3. e 4. b 5. a 6.d a. It’s on top of the bookcase. b. With milk, please. c. At five past one. d. At five past one. e. It’s on the top of the bookcase. f. With milk, please. Part 2 Listening and Note-taking Ralph Nader Focus: Selecting important words Background: Born: 27 February 1934 Best Known As: Author of Unsafe at Any Speed and perennial presidential candidate Ralph Nader gained national fame with his 1965 book Unsafe At Any Speed, which exposed the automobile industrys irresponsibility when it came to designing safe cars. Nader became the best-known consumer advocate in the U.S., lecturing widely and forming non-profit groups like Public Citizen, whose stated goal was to protect consumers against corporate carelessness and greed. His youthful followers became known as Naders Raiders. Nader is a five-time candidate for?President of the United States between 1992 and 2008. He ran for president in 1996 and 2000 as a candidate for the Green Party. Critics accused Nader of taking votes away from Democrat Albert Gore in the 2000 elections, as Gore narrowly lost to Republican George W. Bush. Nader graduated from Princeton in 1955, and from Harvard Law School in 1958 Ex. A: Listen to some sentences and fill in the blanks with the missing words. 1. Ralph Nader is a man of few possessions. 2. He is paying back to America his debt as a citizen. 3. He said new laws were needed to make cars safer. 4. A law was passed to ensure that products like sausages and hamburgers contained the right amount of meat. 5. Ralph Nader has set a wonderfu