Unit14
Section One Tactics for Listening
Part1 Spot Dictation
Make Your Child a Winner Peak performances - moments when children (1) achieve the best that's in them - are the stuff of every parent's (2) dream. And yet most of us have seen a report card or heard a trumpet solo that (3) falls short of what our kids can (4) accomplish.
Why can some boys and girls repeatedly pull themselves to the (5) heights, while others of equal or (6) superior ability cannot? Many parents assume skill is pretty much determined by (7) natural ability; the student with the highest I.Q. will get the best grades, or the athlete with the most prowess will (8) surpass his teammates.
Genes count in determining performance, but they're not everything. The (9) edge comes from mental attitude, character and (10) strategy. There are some simple ways for parents to help their youngsters develop those (11) traits:
Find something to praise. A child who feels good about himself (12) succeeds.
Assess your child's (13) strengths. Encourage self-applause.
Knowing how to relax is key to (14) peak performance.
A good report card (15) posted near your daughter's mirror reminds her that she can do well and (16) reinforces the urge to repeat her success.
There are no (17) shortcuts to bringing your child to do his best. It's a (18) gradual process of support, encouragement and hard work. And those efforts (19) payoff not only in peak performance but also in (20) closer. winner relations between parent and child.
Part2 Listening for Gist
Elderly people deserve our care and respect. Too many of them are left in homes for the elderly, alone and often forgotten by their families. Or they live with their families, who then have no time to themselves.
The family placement scheme is currently providing many carers with a satisfying and important occupation. And more and more grandparents are being \
How does the scheme operate?
Families are interviewed and carefully matched to the elderly person or persons, taking into account such things as suitability of accommodation - special needs, children and pets, smoking, lifestyle, personality and interests. Matching is, of course, largely a matter of ensuring that the elderly person and the carer will enjoy each other's company.
After this the elderly person and the family are prepared for the placement: An introductory visit is arranged, usually in the carer's home. This means that when the placement begins the elderly person and family have met each other.
Carers are paid on a weekly basis to cover expenses.
Exercise
Directions: Listen to the passage and write down the gist and the key words that help you decide.
1. This passage is about the family placement scheme and how it operates.
2. The key words are elderly people, care, respect, scheme, adopted, caring families, interviewed, matched, suitability, matching, ensuring, enjoy company, introductory visit, caring home, paid, cover expenses.
Section Two Listening Comprehension
Part 1 Dialogue
Tree Climbers of Pompeii* Sara: Urn ... It's another one of my adventures as a tourist, urn ... finding out things
you really didn't expect to find out when you went to the place! I went to Pompeii and of course what you go to Pompeii for is er ... the archaeology. Liz: To see the ruins.
Sara: To see the ruins. And I was actually seeing the ruins but urn ... suddenly my
attention was caught by something else. I was just walking round the comer of a ruin, into a group of trees, pine trees, and I was just looking at them, admiring them and suddenly I saw a man halfway up this tree, and I was looking at him so all I could see was his hands and his feet and he was about 20 or 30 feet up. I thought, \
ladder or hasn't he?\just gone straight up the tree. Liz: He'd shinned up* the tree.
Sara: He'd shinned up the tree. Like a monkey, more or less, except he was a rather
middle-aged monkey ... He was er ... he was all of 50 and (Dh God), what's going on here? Anyway, I walked a bit further and saw other people either up trees or preparing to go up trees, and then I noticed a man standing there directing them. A sort of foreman, and began to wonder what on earth was going on, and then on the ground I saw there were all these polythene* buckets and they were full of pine cones* and of course what they were doing was collecting pine cones, and I thought, \collect pine cones to stop the ruins being urn ... made urn ... made untidy with all these things.\getting ridiculous ... They were really collecting them in a big way. So I urn ... asked the er ... foreman what was going on and he said, \you know urn ... pine nuts are extremely sought after and valuable in the food industry in Italy.\
Liz: For food (Yeah). Not fuel! I thought you were going to say they were going
to put (bum) them on a fire. Yes.
Sara: Well, they might bum the er ... cones when they've finished with them but inside
these cones are little white things like nuts and er ... I realized that they're used in Italian cooking quite a lot in er ... there's a particular sauce that goes with
spaghetti em ... from Geneva, I think, called \ground up and of course they they ... come in cakes and sweets and things like that.
Liz: So it’s quite a delicacy.
Sara: It's quite a delicacy. And of course I'd never thought of how they actually got
them 'cos you can't imagine having a pine nut farm. So what he said happens is that private firms like his buy a license off the Italian State for the right to go round places like Pompeii - archaeological sites and things - and systematically collect all the pine cones that come off the trees and similarly in the ... in the forests.
Liz: And of course they have to go up the tree because by the time it's fallen food isn't
any good.
Sara: That's right. They're pulling them down and he said they were very good at
urn ... recognizing which ones were ready and which ones were a bit hard and etc, and each of them had a sort of stick with a hook at the end which they were using to pull the pines off ... off the trees but clearly it wasn't enough to sit around and wait till they fell down. You ... you had to do something about it. There they were. So that was er ... the end of my looking at the ruins for about half an hour. I was too fascinated by this er .. , strange form of er ... agriculture. Liz: Well, what you don't intend to see is always the most
interesting.
Sara: Much more interesting.
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