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Unit 3
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Part I
B
Sam: I won
?
t be
able to do the exam tomorrow. I just
don
?
t feel that
I
?
m ready.
Counselor: You say that you
don
?
t feel ready for
tomorrow
?
s exam ... what do
you feel like right
now?
Sam: Well, I
?
m
angry with myself because
I
?
m going to have to quit
the exam and, well, I guess
I
?
m anxious. Yes,
I feel very anxious.
Counselor: When
you think about this anxiety, what image do you
have of yourself?
Sam: Well, I see
myself trying to explain to my Dad why I
didn
?
t make the grade on
this course ...
and I see him getting
angry ... and, well, I start to feel
I
?
ve let him down again.
Counselor: You
don
?
t feel ready for your
exam, you feel anxious and you
don
?
t want to let your
Dad down again. Tell me about the last
time you let your Dad down.
Sam: Oh,
well, it was a year ago ...
He
?
d entered me for a chess
competition and I got knocked out
in
the first match ... he was angry because
he
?
d told all his friends
how good I was.
Counselor:
What did you tell him ... as an
explanation when you lost the chess game?
Sam:
I told him that I
wasn
?
t ready to play in that
league.
Counselor: And now you are
preparing to tell him that
you
?
re not ready to sit this
examination?
Sam:
Yes, I
suppose I am.
Counselor: O.K. Sam, so
what
you are saying to
me
is that
you
feel reluctant
to take the exam
tomorrow because you do not like the
thought of having to explain a poor grade or a
failure to
your father. Is that right,
Sam?
Sam:
Yes.
That
?
s exactly it.
C
1. A: When I read in
English, I always want to understand every single
word and so I spend a lot
of time
looking words up in my dictionary. This
makes reading difficult for
me because by the
time
I
?
ve looked up the word in
my dictionary, I
?
ve
forgotten what the rest of the sentence was
about. That
?
s my
trouble really
—
I rely too
much on my dictionary.
B: Well, why
don
?
t you try to read a text
without using your dictionary the first time you
read it?
You
?
ll
probably be able to understand most of it and
guess what some of the words mean.
2.
A:
I
have
to
read
a
lot
of
books
and articles
in
English
for
my
work
—
I
?
m
a
consultant
in
business
management.
What
I
find
most
difficult
is
finding
the
main
point
in
an
article
or
a
paragraph. I always try to take notes
when I
?
m reading and so
sometimes I find that I
?
m
almost
copying out the whole article
because I can
?
t decide what
the really important points are.
B: It might
help if you read through the book or article very
quickly first just to get an idea of
what it
?
s about.
I think it
?
s difficult to
read something for the first time and take notes
as well.
3. A: I like reading novels
and short stories in my own language and in
English, but there
?
s one
thing
I
find
very
difficult
in
English.
I
?
m
never
quite
sure
if
the
writer
is
being
serious
or
not.
Several
times I
?
ve read something I
thought was serious and later
I
?
ve found out it was
supposed
to be funny.
B:
I
have
exactly
the
same
problem.
I
suppose
the
only
thing
to
do
is
to
read
as
much
as
possible. Then one day perhaps
we
?
ll understand the British
sense of humor.
4. A:
I
have
to
read a
lot
in
English
in
my
studies
and
this
is
causing
me
problems.
I
read
too
slowly in English. Do
you think I can train myself to read quickly and
at the same time understand
what
I
?
m reading?
B:
Well,
there
are
special
courses
in
speed
reading,
I
think.
But
you
could
probably
help
yourself if you set yourself a time
limit and try to read as much as you can within
the time. I
?
ve
done that and
it
?
s helped me a lot.
Par
t
Ⅱ
(Part I)
Yes, the
teacher I remember best was a teacher I had for
French when I was at school ... er ...
er ... Many years ago - more years than
I care to remember, I
?
m
afraid. Yes, I studied French with
him
for, um, ooh, let me see, it must have been five
years, because I had him when I was in my
first year there, when I was thirteen,
and he was the main French teacher till I left. It
was mainly
because of him that I went
on to study languages
—
French and German
—
at
university. I mean,
French
was
really
the
first
language
I
ever
learned.
Well,
I
don
?
t
count
Latin,
because
I
never
managed to speak any Latin at all. Er,
well, this ... this teacher
didn
?
t make it easy ... he
didn
?
t
make it
easy at all, but I found that with him I really
learned a lot.
When I think
back, I ... don
?
t really
know why
I liked him so
much, because he was very
strict with us. He made us work very
hard
—
I mean, lots of
grammar exercises, vocabulary tests,
that sort of thing
—
er, and he
wasn
?
t very friendly either,
for the first two or three years. Oh, as
well
as
that,
he
didn
?
t
really
try
to
make
the
classes
interesting
—
I
mean,
no ...
no
video,
of
course, in those days, no cassettes ...
but, er, we had a few films in French every term.
No, in fact,
the only time we really
practiced trying to speak French was, er, was with
the wife of one of the
music teachers,
who was French, er, and she gave us an
hour
?
s conversation class
every week. But,
you know, because of
that man
—
some people might
say in spite of him ... no, that
wouldn
?
t be
fair,
no
—
but quite a lot of us
began to like France and the French a lot, and,
er, to visit France in
the summer
holidays to see it for ourselves.
(Part II)
Yes, I think with him I
learned that when you learn a foreign language ...
it
?
s, it ... well,
it
?
s
like opening
a door or a
ｗｉｎｄｏｗ
into a foreign country. And
that
?
s good for you, I
think,
because
you
begin
to
see
that
the
way
they
do
things
and
think
in
your
country
is,
um,
isn
?
t
necessarily the only way or, indeed,
the best way.
It
?
s funny, I
still have a very clear picture of that teacher.
He was English but he didn
?
t
look
English somehow,
?
cos he had very, very black
hair and very dark eyes, and he wore glasses with
black
frames,
but
you
could
see
his
eyes
very
well,
and
everyone
in
the
class
always
had
the
feeling that he was
looking at them. And he had very thick, bushy
eyebrows that made him look
very, er,
very serious.
Yes, I remember
he was very musical
—
played the piano very well and sang.
Now, he
was quite a good rugby and
tennis player. Great family man, too. He had three
children and a very
interesting wife. I
suppose he must have been in his thirties when I
knew him ...
Part
Ⅲ
Children of a
Decade
keep in touch
with
：保持联系
soak
：
浸泡
come to
：到达
;
共计
;
突然想起
put sb.
off
：使人离开、气馁
bring tears
to
：使落泪
emblazon
：颂扬，盛饰
decade
：十年
teddy
：妇女连衫衬裤
chap
：小伙子，小家伙，家伙
Lake District
：湖区
porridge
：
粥
;
麦片粥
;
稀饭
incident
：事件，事变
goody-goody
：会巴结的人
hym
n
：赞美诗
;
圣歌
homesick
：思乡病
favorite
：中意的
worst
：最坏的
mar
velous
：非凡的
;
神乎其神
shy
：害羞的
stupid
：笨
Presenter: In this edition
of our series
“
Children of a
Decade
”
I
?
ll be talking to Jack
Thompson,
who was born in 1940, and to
Shirley Sutton, who was born in 1930. First of
all, Jack, thanks for
joining us.
Perhaps ...
Jack: Not at
all.
Presenter: Perhaps
you
?
d tell us about your
memories of your first holiday away from home?
Jack: Oh ... yes ... um ...
at age ten I think it was, yes, I went to stay
with an aunt at the seaside.
Well, it
wasn
?
t a very happy
experience. I felt very homesick at first.
Presenter: Mmm. And what
about your first day at school, can you remember
that?
Jack: Yes, I can. Er
... er ... I was five years old and I wanted to
take all my toys with me but ...
er ...
they wouldn
?
t let me. In the
end it was agreed that I could take my teddy ...
er ... but only on
the first day.
Presenter: Oh, I see. Your
school days, were they happy ones?
Jack: Well ... er ... I
didn
?
t have a very good time
at school
—
I
wasn
?
t very bright, you see.
And
the teachers
didn
?
t seem to like me, but
... er ... I made a lot of friends and some of
them I still
keep in touch with. One of
them I married.
Presenter:
Oh, that
?
s wonderful. Well,
did you have a favorite teacher?
Jack:
Miss
Robinson
...
or
was
it
...
no,
it
was
Miss
Robson.
My
first
teacher,
that
?
s
right
yeah ...very kind.
Marvelous storyteller.
Presenter: And who was your worst
teacher?
Jack: Mr. Goodman,
that
?
s right. We used to
call him
“
Goody
”<
/p>
. Yeah, he pulled your ear if you
made a mistake or talked in class.
Yeah, my left ear is still bigger, look.
Presenter: Ha ha. Perhaps
you can tell us about your last day at school?
Jack: My last day, oh yeah,
that
?
s emblazoned on my
mind. Oh, I wanted to get my own back you
see on old Mr. Goodman
—
the chap we used to call
... er ...
“
Goody
”
—
so I put this
bucket of
water over the classroom door
but it fell on him and he got soaked, you see. Ha
ha. I
?
ve never seen
anyone so angry. Oh, it was a good one,
that.
Presenter: Thank you
very much, Jack. And now Shirley.
Shirley: Yes.
Presenter: Now, can you tell me about
your first holiday away from home?