大学全新版英语听说教程3unit.ppt

UNIT 2Coincidence,PartA_1_a,Language Focus,Questions for Discussion,What is coincidence?Give an example to illustrate it.Have you ever experienced or read about an amusing case of coincidence?If yes,what is it?How do people react to coincidences?How important are they in human life?Can coincidences be explained?Why or why not?What can coincidences do?Are they mostly beneficial or harmful?What do you think can be the causes of coincidences?Do you think coincidences are beyond chance?,Pre-listening Task,PartA_1_b,Additional Question for Discussion Do you think there is a cause-and-effect relationship between events that share some similarities?Why or why not?,Language Focus,Pre-listening Task,PartA_1_demo_a,6.What do you think can be the causes of coincidences?Do you think coincidences are beyond chance?I think coincidences can be caused by different things,but none of them would be supernatural.I think chance is probably the best word you can use when you talk about a coincidence.When you try to find out about the nature of a so-called coincidence,what you will learn often has less to do with what you look at than how you look at it.So coincidences are rare and beyond chance.,Language Focus,Pre-listening Task,PartA_1_demo_b,Language Focus,Pre-listening Task,PartA_2,Pre-listening Task,Language Focus,Here are some sentences and structures that you may find useful in discussing the previous questions.,Coincidence refers to the phenomenon in which two or more events which are similar or related happen to take place at the same time or place.Its/What a coincidence that Coincidence is not rare.It happens around us every day.It so happened that three of our classmates were born on the same day.,PartA_2,Language Focus,Compared with non-coincidental events,coincidences are rare.Coincidence is the result of pure chance/our memories.The human mind tends to look for patterns in events/remember events that match but forget events that dont match.Speak of the devil and he will appear/the devil comes.No coincidences,no stories.Everything under the sun is possible.,Pre-listening Task,PartA_2,Language Focus,Coincidences make great stories/very good topics for small talk.Coincidences make life more interesting/amusing/colorful.Coincidences tend to stay in our memory longer.People remember coincidences and love to pass them around among friends.Its meaningless to try to explain coincidences.Some people try to find a cause-and-effect relationship between events that happen to share some similarities.,Pre-listening Task,PartA_2,Language Focus,Some people believe coincidences are the work of mysterious forces/supernatural powers.Some people believe coincidences can reveal relationships between events,human beings and natural phenomena that are not obvious to them.Coincidences have nothing to do with good luck or bad luck/no power to predict future events.As the saying goes,“Good fortune seldom repeats itself but troubles never come singly.”,Pre-listening Task,PartB_1_a_1,tuition somehow click real estate agent,Listening Tasks,Exercise 1,Exercise 2,Word Bank,Language and Cultural Notes,Passage 1,Passage 2,Speaking Tasks,n.payment for schooling 学费ad.for some reason that is not clear 由于某种未知的原因 v.to become suddenly clear or understandable 突然变得明白 a person whose business is to buy,sell or look after houses or land for people 房地产经纪人,PartB_1_a_1,note down Andrew Stewart,Listening Tasks,Passage 1,to write down 记下（男子名）（姓）,Exercise 1,Exercise 2,Word Bank,Language and Cultural Notes,Passage 2,Speaking Tasks,1.Background information Coincidences occur in everyones life,but probably not so dramatic as those mentioned in the texts.Coincidences make great stories,as the old Chinese saying rightly points out,“No coincidences,no stories.”The performing world is very good at making use of their dramatic effects and many plays and movies are based on such happenings.In many cultures,people have tried to explain this phenomenon.Most regard coincidences as pure chance but some people believe they are beyond chance,and,PartB_1_a_2,Listening Tasks,Exercise 1,Exercise 2,Word Bank,Language and Cultural Notes,Passage 1,Passage 2,Speaking Tasks,PartB_1_a_2,are somehow connected to certain supernatural forces that they believe exist.Another explanation is that coincidences are the result of our own memories.The human mind tends to remember every single case of coincidence but forget hundreds of,even thousands of,cases where no coincidence occurs.In the Lincoln and Kennedy case(see Part C),for example,people list only what the two incidents have in common but ignore what they dont have in common,and,as a result,an amusing set of random connections are transformed into a mysterious,Listening Tasks,Passage 1,Exercise 1,Exercise 2,Word Bank,Language and Cultural Notes,Passage 2,Speaking Tasks,PartB_1_a_2,seemingly inexplicable pattern.And to understand the coincidences that happened to twins(also see Part C),we can probably turn to genetics for help.The same genes inherited from their parents,in a way,account for the similarities in certain behavior patterns of twins.Hopefully,with the further development of science,there will be more convincing answers to certain cases of coincidence.2.the tuition for a medical school,Listening Tasks,Passage 1,Exercise 1,Exercise 2,Word Bank,Language and Cultural Notes,Passage 2,Speaking Tasks,PartB_1_a_2,The tuition for a medical school is usually very high,higher than that for other kinds of colleges.The annual fee is now even higher,about$25,000 to$30,000 for a good medical college,such as the Harvard Medical School.3.searching the house-for-sale ads to find extra business Mr.Stewart hoped to make some extra money by finding more customers for his business as an agent for,Listening Tasks,Passage 1,Exercise 1,Exercise 2,Word Bank,Language and Cultural Notes,Passage 2,Speaking Tasks,PartB_1_a_2,people who want to sell their houses.A real estate agent can get a commission of about 5-6%of the actual price of the house sold.4.he would come to him he would ask Mr.Stewart to find him a buyer for his house5.And so it was.,Listening Tasks,Passage 1,Exercise 1,Exercise 2,Word Bank,Language and Cultural Notes,Passage 2,Speaking Tasks,PartB_1_a_2,The appointment time was changed again as Mr.Stewart expected.6.if he would come right then if he would come immediately,right after he hung up the telephone,Listening Tasks,Passage 1,Exercise 1,Exercise 2,Word Bank,Language and Cultural Notes,Passage 2,Speaking Tasks,PartB_1_a_3,Listen to the recording and choose the right answers to the questions you hear.,Listening Tasks,Exercise 1,Exercise 2,Word Bank,Language and Cultural Notes,Passage 1,1.a.Mr.Stewart and his son.b.Mr.Stewart and his client.c.Mr.Stewart and his father-in-law.d.Mr.Stewarts father-in-law and the owner of the house.,Passage 2,Speaking Tasks,PartB_1_a_3,Listening Tasks,Passage 1,Passage 2,2.a.From a house-for-sale advertisement in a newspaper put up by the owner.b.Through the introduction of Mr.Stewarts father-in-law.c.They attended the same medical school.d.They lived in the same neighborhood.,Exercise 1,Exercise 2,Word Bank,Language and Cultural Notes,Speaking Tasks,PartB_1_a_3,Listening Tasks,Passage 1,Passage 2,3.a.He had no house to live in.b.He had lost his job.c.He was disappointed with his son.d.He did not have enough funds for his sons college education.,Exercise 1,Exercise 2,Word Bank,Language and Cultural Notes,Speaking Tasks,PartB_1_a_3,Listening Tasks,Passage 1,Passage 2,4.a.His clients house was the one that once belonged to a friend of his.b.His clients house was the one his family once lived in.c.His clients house was the one his father-in-law once lived in.d.His clients house was the one he once wanted to buy.,Exercise 1,Exercise 2,Word Bank,Language and Cultural Notes,Speaking Tasks,PartB_1_a_4,Listen to the story again and fill in the blanks with the missing information.,Listening Tasks,Exercise 1,Exercise 2,Word Bank,Language and Cultural Notes,Passage 1,The story happened in 1984.Mr.Stewart,a real estate agent,had a son whose name was Andrew.The young man wanted to go to a medical school.But the tuition was so high that his father couldnt afford it.In order to help his son realize his dream,Mr.Stewart searched newspaper ads,hoping to find extra business.One advertisement caught his eye.It was for the sale of a house near where he lived.But although he succeeded,Passage 2,Speaking Tasks,_,_,_,_,_,_,_,_,_,_,PartB_1_a_4,Listening Tasks,Passage 1,in persuading the owner of the house to let him be his agent,the appointment time was changed again and again.At last,he received a phone call from the owner,asking him to go and discuss the matter with him right away.Mr.Stewart put aside everything he was doing and left immediately for the house.When he approached the area,he found everything there looked familiar to him.And when he saw the house,he realized it was his father-in-laws old house.He had visited it many times years ago when his father-in-law was still alive.What a coincidence！,_,Exercise 1,Exercise 2,Word Bank,Language and Cultural Notes,Passage 2,Speaking Tasks,_,_,_,_,_,_,_,_,_,_,_,PartB_1_a_script,Listening Tasks,Passage 1,Exercise 1,Exercise 2,Word Bank,Language and Cultural Notes,Passage 2,Speaking Tasks,PartB_1_b_1,latterintrigue mystifystanding,Listening Tasks,n.the second of two things or persons just mentioned 后者v.to fascinate;to appeal strongly to sb.激起极大的兴趣v.to fill with wonder;to completely puzzle 使困惑；使大为惊奇a.being at a particular level or amount（水平、量等）现有的，现在显示的,Word Bank,Language and Cultural Notes,Exercise 1,Exercise 2,Passage 1,Passage 2,Speaking Tasks,PartB_1_b_1,coverbearmiracleblessingbe in for,Listening Tasks,Word Bank,Language and Cultural Notes,v.to be enough to pay for sth.够支付v.to have or show 具有，带有n.a wonderful event 奇事，不可思议的事n.a lucky thing 幸事 to be going to experience sth.必定会经历,Exercise 1,Exercise 2,Passage 1,Passage 2,Speaking Tasks,PartB_1_b_1,receipt slip come to in sb.s place,Listening Tasks,Word Bank,Language and Cultural Notes,a written or printed statement acknowledging that sth.has been paid for or received 收条 to amount to 合计，总数为 instead of sb.代替某人,Exercise 1,Exercise 2,Passage 1,Passage 2,Speaking Tasks,PartB_1_b_2,1.Were it not for Mr.Stewarts presence there and then If Mr.Stewart had not been in that house at the time when the postman came to deliver the letter 2.bank statement a written statement issued by a bank to a client every month showing money paid and received within the month and the balance of the clients account(银行月结算单).The bank statement mentioned in the text,however,belongs to a different kind.Andrews,Listening Tasks,Exercise 1,Language and Cultural Notes,Exercise 2,Word Bank,Passage 1,Passage 2,Speaking Tasks,PartB_1_b_2,grandfather might have deposited the money for a period of more than fifteen years.He must have calculated that by the time it was mature(到期),Andrew would be old enough for college.Thats why the bank statement was delivered years after the money was deposited.It was to inform the client of the present value of the amount and how much interest it had earned over the years.3.standing value,Listening Tasks,Exercise 1,Language and Cultural Notes,Exercise 2,Word Bank,Passage 1,Passage 2,Speaking Tasks,PartB_1_b_2,the total amount of money available to a client at present4.called in sick telephoned to ask for sick leave,Listening Tasks,Exercise 1,Language and Cultural Notes,Exercise 2,Word Bank,Passage 1,Passage 2,Speaking Tasks,PartB_1_b_3,Listen to the recording and write down the coincidences mentioned in the text.,Listening Tasks,1.The house was decorated exactly the same as Mr.Stewart remembered it.2.Mr.Stewart happened to be in the house when a postman came to deliver a letter to his father-in-law who had died 15 years ago.,Exercise 2,Word Bank,Language and Cultural Notes,Passage 1,Passage 2,Exercise 1,Speaking Tasks,PartB_1_b_3,Listening Tasks,3.The old postman had called in sick that day,and the postman who came in his place was not familiar with the neighborhood.Otherwise the letter would have been returned to its sender.,Exercise 2,Word Bank,Language and Cultural Notes,Passage 1,Passage 2,Exercise 1,Speaking Tasks,PartB_1_b_4,Listen to the recording again and write down answers to the following questions.,Listening Tasks,1.How did the owner feel about the fact that Mr.Stewarts father-in-law once lived in the house?He was intrigued.2.What was inside the letter delivered by the postman?A bank statement.3.What did Mr.Stewart learn from the letter?His father-in-law had put an amount of money in the bank for his grandchildrens education.,_,_,Exercise 2,Exercise 1,Word Bank,Language and Cultural Notes,Passage 1,Passage 2,Speaking Tasks,PartB_1_b_4,Listening Tasks,4.What was the standing value of the amount of money fifteen years later?A little over$15,000.5.What could Andrew do with the money?He could use the money to cover the tuition of his first year at a medical college.6.What do you know about Andrew now?He is a doctor in Illinois.,_,Exercise 2,Exercise 1,Word Bank,Language and Cultural Notes,Passage 1,Passage 2,Speaking Tasks,_,PartB_1_b_script,Listening Tasks,Speaking Tasks,Exercise 1,Exercise 2,Word Bank,Language and Cultural Notes,Passage 1,Passage 2,PartB_2_a,Pair WorkDebating Arguments for or against believing in the supernaturalA Sample People hold different views toward coincidences.Some think that they are mere chance while those who believe in the supernatural search for some higher order behind them.Whats your view?Express and defend your view from the perspectives given in the card below.,Listening Tasks,Speaking Tasks,PartB_2_a,Listening Tasks,Speaking Tasks,PartB_2_b1,Listening Tasks,Speaking Tasks,Now use the above sample as a model and carry on similar activities with your partner.You can refer to the notes below for ideas and vocabulary.You are also welcome to contribute ideas of your own.,PartB_2_b2,Listening Tasks,Speaking Tasks,PartB_2_demo1,Listening Tasks,Speaking Tasks,PartB_2_demo1,Listening Tasks,Speaking Tasks,PartB_2_demo2,Listening Tasks,Speaking Tasks,PartC_T,Test Your Listening,A Compound DictationListen to the passage three times and supply the missing information.,PartC_q,One of the best-known 1)collections of parallels is between the careers of Abraham Lincoln and John F.Kennedy.Both were 2)shot on a Friday,in the 3)presence of their wives;both were succeeded by a Southerner named Johnson;both their killers were themselves killed before they could be brought to 4)justice.Lincoln had a secretary called Kennedy;Kennedy a secretary called Lincoln.Lincoln was killed in the Ford 5)Theater;Kennedy met his death while riding in a Lincoln convertible made by the Ford Motor Company and so on.,Test Your Listening,_,_,_,_,_,PartC_q,Similar coincidences often 6)occur between twins.A news story from Finland reported of two 70-year-old twin brothers dying two hours apart in separate accidents,with both being hit by truc