国际交流英语视听说B4U4.ppt

Listening 2 A: What do you do to help groups regain dying languages? B: We enable people to study their language by giving them recording devices. We make dictionaries, and we highlight how people can teach their language to others. In the future, we can grant access to the recordings, so people can learn the language and keep it alive. Listening 3 the Amish: a religious group in the U.S. that live in a traditional way, mainly by farming, and refuse to use modern technology 阿曼门诺派（美国的一个教派） An Amish man takes his horse-drawn carriage down a busy road. Dictation. Listen to a passage about the Amish people and write down what you hear. Altogether the passage will be read to you four times. During the first reading, which will be done at normal speed, listen and try to understand the meaning. For the second and third readings, the passage will be read sentence by sentence, or phrase by phrase, with intervals of 15 seconds. The last reading will be done at normal speed again and during this time you should check your work. Listening 3 The Amish people of the United States enjoy living simply. They stop attending school around the eighth grade, and they live without modern conveniences. The Amish resist using technologies such as electricity, automobiles, and computers. Many do not even like having their picture taken. Amish people are accustomed to riding in horse-drawn carriages. Most Amish people live in the states of Pennsylvania, Indiana, or Ohio. The average Amish family has five children. Listening 3 To be continued The population of Amish people keeps growing. A recent survey counted 230,000 Amish people. Sixteen years ago, there were only about 115,000 Amish people. Since older Amish communities no longer have enough land for their people, many Amish can no longer avoid going out into the modern world to find a place to live. Rather than risk living near people who are not Amish, some Amish have moved far from their traditional homes to isolated areas of the Uni