新人教版高中英语必修1Unit 2 English around the world--period 5 listening(ppt).pptVIP

* English around the world Listening Listening text on P14 Have you ever been to Texas? Now just imagine that you are in this American city and happened hearing an interesting story told in local dialect.Listen carefully and see how much you can understand that. Lester climbed a tree. Buford, Billy Bob and Lester went swimming. Lester thought the catfish would eat him. Buford and Billy Bob laughed. Lester saw a catfish. Now Lester is too afraid to visit the place. Put the sentences in the right sequence 1.What does Buford think of Texas? How do you know? 2. How large was the catfish? He believes it’s quite a different country from the US. The listening text tells it is so. The boys thought that the catfish was almost the size of a house. 3. Why did Lester get out of the water very quickly? 4.Why did Buford and Big Bob laugh? He though the catfish would eat him. They laughed because Lester believed the catfish would hurt him. Hey, y’all, this here is Buford. I come from a big oil town in Texas. Now, y’all need to understand that we ain’t really a state, but a whole ’nother country.Now let me tell ya a story about when I was just a pup. One hot summer’s day I was swimmin’ with my cousins Little Lester and Big Billy Bob. We was jumpin’in the water and feelin’ good. Listening text Then along comes this catfish ’bout the size of a house. Well, alright, maybe a little smaller than that. Little Lester starts to thinkin’ it’s goin’ to eat him sure ’nough. Man, you shoulda seen him! He got outta the water fast as lightning and climbed up a tree. Big Billy Bob and I just laughed and laughed. To this day, Lester won’t go near that place. Listening on P48 Look at the map showing some of the places in the world where English is spoken as an official language and guess what you will hear in the tape? Location, climate, people, custom, history, places of interest, and so on. The name of each speaker’s country Speaker 1 is from India. Speaker 2 is from the