1、1UNIT 6Section One Tactics for ListeningListening and Translation1. Blogs are being used more and more by teachers.2. Many Internet services now offer free and easy ways to create personal Web pages.3. Educators did not become involved with blogging right away.4. Many were concerned with privacy iss
2、ues and security.5. But now, thousands of teacher blogs can be found on the Internet.ExerciseDirections: Listen to some sentences and translate them into Chinese. You will hear each sentence three times.1. 老师们对于博客的使用越来越多。2. 现在很多因特网服务商都提供免费、便捷的制作个人网页的方式。3. 教育工作者并不是从一开始就涉足博客的。4. 很多人担心隐私和安全问题。5. 但是现在在因
3、特网上可以找到成千上万个教师博客网页。Section Two Listening ComprehensionPart 1 Dialogue-FriendshipInterviewer: Catherine, you have quite a few long-distance friendships. How do you maintain them? 2Catherine: Yeah, well, friendship is very important to me. Um, I think friendships need tending. I . I put a big value on
4、 being current with my friends, and thats something thats hard to do long-distance. But there are friends I have that I dont live close to but I have managed to stay very close to. My friend Odette lives back East, and shes not much for writing letters, so we talk on the phone at least once a week,
5、usually for . oh an hour at a time, and we take turns calling. So I stay current with her, um, by talking.Interviewer: So, how are your phone bills? Catherine: My phone bills are high. But, um, I consider its just like one of my living expenses, you know, like rent. And then therere several friends
6、that I do write cause I love to write, and I love to get letters. And . and its . its a cool thing cause I have . its a concrete record of, um, you know, of what we were doing.Interviewer: You save.Catherine: Yeah, I save all my letters.Interviewer: Do you reread them? Catherine: You know, I dont. U
7、m, I dont on a regular basis, but something . theres something about throwing away a 3letter that I just cant do it. And Ive got quite a collection. My one friend Doug especially. He likes to write and Ive been writing to him for about 20 years now.Interviewer: Huh! Catherine: Yeah. We met when we w
8、ere working at the same place. And then he went to Singapore for two years and we wrote letters. We didnt know each other all that well, but we got to know each other through letters over the first two years and ever since then weve been good friends. Interviewer: Thats nice! Catherine: Yeah, its .
9、its cool. Although when I first . actually when I first saw him after writing him for two years, I was a little nervous that we wouldnt be able to function without a pen and paper between us, you know, because I didnt. I felt like my God, Ive never really . Ive never spent time with this person. Ive
10、 just said all these I things and, he . he knows all my secrets and I know all his secrets, but we havent I spent time together. But it was OK. Interviewer: So, some friends you telephone, and others you write 4to?Catherine: Oh, and e-mail! I had one friend who just wasnt . you know, just wasnt into
11、! writing letters, but she . she got on-line and e-mail is her thing, and since Ive gotten an e-mail address recently, Ive discovered . Ive heard from her like, ah, twice a I week for the past two months, which . which is unprecedented. Ive known her for I a long time since, oh, Id say, 1980,1 think
12、, and weve always considered ourselves I friends, but I havent . Ive kind of been in and out of touch with her and now Im . Im back in good touch with her cause shell sit down and write me a letter on I e-mail while she just couldnt do it on pen and paper. So thats great! I. Im all for | e-mail! I j
13、ust think its another way to keep in touch. Interviewer: Yeah. So, in your view what is it that good friends do for each other, Catherine?Catherine: Well, I think friends . I feel like one thing I want my friends to do is to call me on things, you know, to let me know if I do something that upsets t
14、hem for whatever I reason. I think thats one thing friends, you know, do for each other and thats why I sometimes friendship can get 5prickly and hard. Um, and you can fight, but Ive never | . Ive never felt fighting was bad. Its just showing that you care. But other things. I I think friends, um, p
15、rovide comfort and support and adventure and jokes, especially I with old friends. You share jokes that youve created together that youve understood and all you have to do is say one word, and the other person can go off into peals of laughter and thats, thats pretty, um . Interviewer: Its powerful.
16、Catherine: Yeah, yeah, it is. And its a great way to mark time, 1 think, to realize that youve actually accrued* this common . Interviewer: History!Catherine: Yeah! Yeah! I recently e-mailed my friend Corey back in Chicago about a problem I was having in my personal life and, um, he wrote back with
17、making reference to an | argument that he and I had had, like, 10 years ago. And he still remembered and I still! remembered and it was really funny. And, you know, I am sitting there, you know, and I am kind of depressed. And I read his answer and I just started laughing cause it was, you know, it
18、was a joke. You know, he made this joke that 6was only funny because . because weve known each other for so long, and we have this great history. Yeah. So its kind of like . I think of friends as the family that we get to choose and thats . thats why friendships such a wonderful thing.ExerciseDirect
19、ions: Listen to the dialogue and decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F).l.T 2. F 3. F 4. T 5. T 6. F 7. F 8. T 9. F 10. T 11. F 12. TPart 2 Passage-Successful Negotiation depends on RespectYoure probably negotiating at work sometimes when you dont even know youre doing it.
20、 Knowing how to negotiate well is a key component to successfully running a small or a large business. To some, negotiating at work means sitting down at a table and demanding or being told to make concessions hardball* stuff. Negotiating isnt always done with a hammer in hand. But you should become
21、 a better negotiator if you want to succeed in business.In the art of negotiating, facts and figures play a role, but what may tip the balance is the emotional factor the personal stuff everyone brings to the table.How you deal with emotions, your own and those on the other side, makes the differenc
22、e between success and failure. Good 7negotiations in business as well as in personal or family situations hinge* on respect for others, and respect for your own feelings. Too often, people enter into negotiations with the mistaken notion of a lack of power and self-respect, putting themselves at an
23、immediate disadvantage.There are often both positive and negative emotions in negotiations. Positive emotions elicit good feelings and often lead to good solutions. Negative ones cloud the brain and reduce our capacity to think, learn and remember.As youre negotiating, its easy to get distracted. If
24、 someone is getting angry at you, there can be all sorts of reasons for that. There are five ways to gain perspective on this:Appreciation. Understanding the other sides point of view, finding merit in their ideas and communicating your understanding. This must be sincere; faking it is not an option
25、.Affiliation. When youre feeling alone or left out, trouble arises. Try to build genuine connections with the other side as human beings, not merely as adversaries.Autonomy. The recognition that both you and the other side are free to affect or make decisions.Status. Competing over status is a dead
26、end. Appreciating the status of both sides leads to the mutual respect necessary for a 8successful negotiation: Appreciate the high status of others where relevant and deserved and feel proud of your own areas of expertise and achievement.Role. Dont needlessly limit yourself. The activities in your
27、work and negotiations can often be I expanded to be more fulfilling and meaningful: You can decide the extent to which you want to talk! or to listen, to argue or to work together, and to treat others with disrespect or with courtesy.Remember, too: Both sides have an ongoing relationship that can be
28、 damaged by a lopsided* I agreement.One of the best soothing methods is to ask yourself, “How important is this issue to me?“ Some i negotiators, just like some married couples, are at risk of making every issue a big issue. We can get worked up about issues that are of little importance. As Aristot
29、le* pointed out, “One can become I angry; that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose that is not easy.“Exercise A Pre-listening QuestionGood negotiating isnt about winning or someone else losing; it is about both sides leaving j
30、 feeling theyve got what they wanted, or at least better off than before.Unsuccessful negotiating is when either side thinks that theyve compromised too much, given way when they didnt want to, felt undue pressure or threatened, made sacrifices they didnt want to I make.In that case, one party may h
31、ave won the negotiation, but the other party will never trust them again and may not want to repeat the experience. As the saying goes, “They may have won the battle, but they 9wont win the war.“Good negotiating is counter-intuitive. What you want is a win-win. Bargaining hard is not always helpful.
32、 Thinking more about problem-solving will help both sides to make the deal.Exercise B Sentence DictationDirections: Listen to some sentences and write them down. You will hear each sentence three times.1. Negotiating isnt always done with a hammer in hand. But you should become a better negotiator i
33、f you want to succeed in business.2. In the art of negotiating, facts and figures play a role, but what may tip the balance is the emotional factor.3. Good negotiations in business as well as in personal or family situations hinge on respect for others, and respect for your own feelings.4. If someon
34、e is getting angry at you, there can be all sorts of reasons for that.5. Both sides have an ongoing relationship that can be damaged by a lopsided agreement.Exercise C Detailed ListeningDirections: Listen to the passage and do the following exercises.Exercise 1 Directions: Answer the following quest
35、ions.1) How you deal with emotions, your own and those on the other side, makes the difference between success and failure in a negotiation.102) The negotiator with this notion is often immediately put at an disadvantage.3) Positive emotions elicit good feelings and often lead to good solutions; neg
36、ative ones cloud the brain and reduce our capacity to think, learn and remember.Exercise 2 Directions: Explain the following terms.1) Appreciation: Understanding the other sides point of view, finding merit in their ideas and communicating your understanding.2) Affiliation: Try to build genuine conn
37、ections with the other side as human beings, not merely as adversaries.3) Autonomy: The recognition that both you and the other side are free to affect or make decisions.4) Status: Competing over status is a dead end. Appreciating the status of both sides leads to the mutual respect necessary for a
38、successful negotiation.5) Role: Dont needlessly limit yourself. The activities in your work and negotiations can often be expanded to be more fulfilling and meaningful.Exercise D After-listening DiscussionDirections: Listen to the passage again and discuss the following questions.1. One of the best
39、soothing methods is to ask yourself, “How important is this issue to me?“ Some 11negotiators, just like some married couples, are at risk of making every issue a big issue. We can get worked up about issues that are of little importance. As Aristotle pointed out, “One can become angry; that is easy.
40、 But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose that is not easy.“2. (Open)Section Three NewsNews item 1 Background information: The only two laboratories known to have successfully cloned dogs are both based in South Korea with two South Koreas
41、best-known cloning experts in the lead. One is Hwang Woo Suk, a disgraced scientist now being tried on allegations of fraud for having faked research saying he had created human embryonic stem cells through cloning. After Hwangs work on human stem-cell cloning was exposed as fraudulent*, he was expe
42、lled from the university. The other is his estranged protege, Lee Byeong Chun, who also has been indicted on fraud charges. In 2005, Hwang and Lee created the worlds first cloned dog, Snuppy. But since then they have split into rival laboratories, each vying to become the worlds top animal cloning c
43、enter. Cloning a dog now costs about $100,000. But the price will drop to $20,000 to $50,000 in three years. Tapescript and key 12Several years ago Edgar and Nina Otto froze the DNA of their dog, Lancelot. When he died last year, the couple were devastated and they decided to get a clone produced by
44、 a South Korean laboratory. The biotech firm Best Friends Again claim that Lancelot Encore, as theyve named the new puppy, is the worlds first commercially cloned dog. The laboratory in South Korea, BioArts, includes a scientist that lost his research professorship at Seoul University in 2004, after
45、 fraudulently* claiming hed cloned human ernbryos* and stem cells*. The new owners here in Florida say theyre happy with their new dog and dont plan to clone any others. Its thought that between three and four million unwanted dogs are killed at shelters across the US every year. A: Directions: List
46、en to the news and complete the summary. This news item is about the worlds first commercially cloned dog. B: Directions: Listen to the news again and decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F). 1. Edgar and Nina Otto froze the DNA of their dog, Lancelot last year. (Several ye
47、ars ago Edgar and Nina Otto froze the DNA of their dog, Lancelot.) F2. The couple were sad and they decided to get a clone produced 13by a South Korean laboratory. T 3. Lancelot Encore, the new puppy, is the worlds first cloned dog. (Lancelot Encore, the new puppy, is the worlds first commercially c
48、loned dog.) F 4. The new owners here say theyre happy with their new dog and may plan to clone more. (The new owners here in Florida say theyre happy with their new dog and dont plan to clone any others.) F 5. A great number of unwanted dogs are killed at shelters across the US every year. T News it
49、em 2Teaching tips: This is a news item about US future space program. Ask the students to listen carefully to the new words in the vocabulary. Pay attention to the colloquial expressions like “pie in the sky“ and “pull the plug”. Tapescript and key Five years ago President Bush set out his lofty vision of sending astronauts back to the Moon by the year 2020. It was meant to be the staging post* for the next frontier - a manned landing on Mars. Now a panel of spac
