Unit 2 Campus Life
Unit 2
Campus Life
Warm-up
Watch the clip one and briefly describe your campus life.
Clip two
Talking about Roommates Exercises
1 Take notes as you watch and fill in the following table.
Reasons why having roommates is bad
1)_____________________________________________. 2)_____________________________________________. 3)_____________________________________________.
2 Oral Practice
Talk about how to get along well with their roommates in
college
Script (omitted) Key for Exercise
1) Having a roommate causes one to be dependent. 2) Having a roommate is a nuisance.
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3) Having a roommate means that you cannot be totally free to do what you want.
Clip three Campus hook-up (in textbook P7)
Exercises 1 Oral Practice
1 How should we act toward people close to us?
2 Should we ignore our friends and family for the sake of our own interests?
Key for references
Life can be very busy, and it is good to stop and think more about the importance of our close relationships. Of course we shouldn’t ignore our friends and family members. Even though we are caught up in wishes to change the world or something like that, we should all be careful how we act toward people close to us .The measures we should take are quite clear. Rather than world problems, we should focus on problems within ourselves. Are we kind enough? Are we generous enough ? These are the questions we should ask. Following this, we should then try to make improvements, making ourselves better people. If we become good, we will them have a good influences on others,
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most on our family members and friends. They, our friends and family, must come before our own interests. We must love them
whole-heartedly. We must find their needs and then work to satisfy those needs. By putting friends and family members before our interests, we can have the best possible lives.
Clip four
Attending a Lecture Culture tips
1.Tom Brokaw
American television journalist, the longtime anchor of the NBC Nightly News. Born in Webster, South Dakota, he had an interest in radio as a child and at the age of 15 took an after-school job as an announcer at a local station. He worked his way through college as a radio reporter, then in 1962 joined NBC(National Broadcasting Company), as a newscaster and morning news editor.
Brokaw began hosting NBC’s Today Show in 1976 and took an active part in its planning and production. One of the highlights of Brokaws’ tenure was his on-site report on the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. In 1998 he published The Greatest 3
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Generation, a book that looks at the generation of Americans
that came of age in the 1930’s and 1940’s, during the Great Depression and World War II.
New Words & Expressions
1) auditorium n. 礼堂；会堂 2）introductory remarks开场白 3) rousing adj. 令人振奋的； 4）idiom n. 习语 5)dumb adj. 愚笨的，笨的
6) Bump into: meet by chance
7) Northrup Auditorium: It is the auditorium where the University holds graduation ceremonies and gives concerts. 8) Beat me: 这可把我难倒了
9) A big cheese(American slang)an important or influential person 大人物 10) In the dark: do not know 一无所知
11) The extent of my world travels took me to Canada once for a day: I’ve only been to Canada once, not any other foreign country.
Exercises
1 True or False
1) Bill didn’t feel very well that day. □True □False
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2) Xin didn’t have to buy the ticket to the lecture since Bill already had one for her. □True □False 3) Mr. Brokaw was a famous statesman from New York.
□True □False
4) Bill thinks that when famous people give lectures, they may talk about any subject. □True □False 5) Xin couldn’t understand why other people laughed when Mr. Brokaw talked about the weather. □True □False 6) It can be concluded that in learning English, Xin must put more effort into American Culture rather than just words and grammar. □True □False
2 Fill in the blanks with appropriate sentences
according to the clip.
Bill met Xin on his way to class and invited1)________. The speaker was Tom Brokaw, a well known anchor from New York. They agreed to meet2)______, 15 minutes before the lecture. Tom Brokaw’s speech about his new bookThe Greatest Generation3)___________ by the audience. But when Bill
asked her afterwards, Xin admitted that she was lost in the speaker’s humor. She did not understand when Brokaw joked with the audience about Minnesota’s weather, and felt silly when
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