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Unit 5-Conversation
1
Mark
:
Have you got your tickets for the
play?
Kate
:
What
play?
Mark
: The
play which OUDS are producing. You know,
the
play I'm in at the
Oxford Playhouse.
Kate
:
Oh,
that play! Well, er ...
Mark
:
What about you, Janet?
Janet
:
What's the play called?
Mark
: Waiting for Godot, by
Samuel Beckett. You are
coming,
aren't
you?
Kate
:
Beckett?
Janet
:
Why
not?
Kate
:
Well, um, I'm
sure you'll be totally brilliant, Mark
...
but I wish I could
understand the play. It doesn't make sense.
Mark
: If only you were more
patient, Kate. Beckett's a
fascinating writer. You'll come though,
won't you, Janet? You
really ought to
see something like this at least once during your
stay in Oxford.
Janet
:
Well, I'm not
sure.
Mark:
Oh, come on!
Please!
Jan
et:
But if Kate doesn't understand the play, there's
no
way
I'll be
able to follow it.
Kate
:
Do
you want to go?
Janet
: Well, I love going to
the theatre, and I'd really like to
see
Mark
acting.
And
actually,
yes,
I
think
I
should
see
a
play by Samuel
Beckett.
M
a
rk: Good! So you're coming,
Janet. I wish you'd come, too,
Kate.
It's a really good performance.
Kate
: Well, OK, but I'm
only doing it because you're in it.
When is it on?
Mark
:
Next Tuesday to
Saturday.
Janet
:
How about going
Friday night?
Mark
: That's great. But you'd better get
your tickets soon,
because
we're expecting a full house.
Unit 5-Conversation
2
Kate
:
Well, what did you think?
Janet
:
It was ... very
interesting.
Kate
: Ididn't have a clue what was going
on. Absolutely
nothing
happened! I don't know why I bothered coming to
see
it
Janet
:
I thought Mark was
brilliant.
Kate
:
Yes, I did too,
of course ...
Janet
:
But I wish I had read the play before I
saw it. If only
I had known the story, it might have
been easier to follow it.
How long do you think Mark will
be?
Janet
: I
guess he needs to get changed first. He said
he'd
join
us as
soon as possible.
Kate
:
Here he is. Hi Mark!
Mark
:
Hi, what did
you think? How was I?
Janet
:
It was ... very challenging.
Kate:
It was so-
so.
Janet
:
But you were brilliant! Well
done.
Kate
:
You were
awesome, Mark.
Everyone adored
your
performance. Darling, you were to die
for!
Mark
:
OK,
OK,
don't
exaggerate. I
wasn't that
good!
Anyway, I've got some
great news!
Janet
:
Tell
us!
Mark
:
We've started
talking about next term's OUDS play.
Kate:
What's it
going to be?
Mark
:
Hamlet, by William
Shakespeare!
Janet
:
Great! And
who's going to play Hamlet?
Kate
:
Don't tell me, let me guess!
Mark
:
To be or not to
be, that is the question!
Janet
:
I don't believe
it. You're going to play Hamlet?
Kate
: Come on, let's
celebrate ... from Beckett to
Shakespeare.
Today Oxford,
tomorrow, Hollywood!
Unit 5-Outside
view
Part
1
Viewer
1
So, what do
you guys want to watch?
Viewer
2
Uh, I don't
know. What's on?
Viewer
3 How about a documentary on the
History
Channel? I
like watching history
programmes.
Viewer
2 I don't really like watching the
History Channel.
Viewer 1
How about a baseball game? From 1973
?
Viewer 3
No
thanks! How about a cooking show?
Viewer 1
Yeah, I love watching cooking
shows.
Viewer
2
What?
Viewer
1
I
do!
Viewer
2 Uh,
I don't like cooking shows. Uh, let's
watch
some music
videos.
Viewer 1
This is awful!
Vie
we
r 3
Can you see what's on another
channel?
Viewer 1
Yeah, sure. What
channel?
Viewer 3
Uh, anything but
this.
Voice-over
These television viewers are trying to
decide on
a
programme to watch, by clicking on
channels, and seeing
what's on. This
practice is known as channel surfing. In the
past, it was not difficult to decide
what to watch on TV. There
were only
three channels to choose from. Cable television
has
changed all that. There are so many
channels, and so many
different kinds
of programmes to watch, many viewers find it
difficult to decide what to watch, even
when they are watching
by themselves.
This business traveller doesn't like anything.
Many people like a particular type of
programme.
Speaker 1
TV
programmes I like watching are cooking
shows, um,
comedy
shows.
Speaker 2
I usually watch dramas, murder
mystery
programmes, quizzes,
comedies.
Speaker
3
I like
watching talk shows.
Speaker
4
I guess of all my favourite TV shows
I'd like
news
programmes.
Speaker
5
I
like to watch soap operas and news.
Speaker 6
I like to watch comedy
shows.
Speaker
7
Well, I like good drama, I like a lot of
the
cop
shows, um
... I like a lot of the science fiction shows and
good history.
1
Speaker 8
TV programmes I like to watch are
like
sports,
automotive. Discovery, that type of
thing.
Part
2
Voice-
over
Cartoons
have
always
been
popular.
This
brother and sister are watching
their favourite
DVD.
Mum
Turn that down!
Boy
OK, Mum.
Voice-over
He, he
turns it down. Now the volume is too
low. For couples, deciding what to
watch can require some very
careful
negotiation.
Woman
Oh, look! Pretty Woman is on! I love
watching
that
movie.
Joe
Pretty Woman! Oh, no, not Pretty
Woman!
Woman
Joe,
you know it's my favourite movie. It's
on in
five minutes. I'll be
right back. I'm just going to get some
coffee.
Joe
I
don't
like
watching
that
kind
of
movie.
Plus
I
don't
like
Julia
Roberts. Actually, I really hate that movie.
Voice-over
Joe
realizes that there's a basketball game
on
tomorrow night. He
wants to ask his friends over to watch
it.
Woman
You're
so sweet to watch this with me. I know
you
probably don't want to
see it again.
Joe
Oh, sure. I don't mind. There's nothing
else on
anyway.
Not tonight,
Viewer 1
Hey, look. Swordfish is on. John
Travolta and
Halle Berry?
Viewer 2
No, I've already seen that
twice.
Viewer 3
I hate that
movie.
Viewer 1
OK. How about The Matrix
?
Viewer 3
That's OK. But I've seen it
too many times.
Viewer
2
Yeah, me too.
But I love that movie.
Viewer 3
You guys, there's nothing
on.
Viewer
2
Yeah, you're
right.
Viewer
1
Hey, how about we go out
and get some pizza?
Viewer 3
That's a good idea.
Turn that off.
Mum
I told you to
turn it down. Now I'm going to turn
it off.
Woman
Oh, it's over. I just
love that movie! Thanks for
putting
up with it again. I
know it's not your favourite.
Joe
That's OK. But
tomorrow's my turn. I'm asking
the guys
over to watch the
basketball game.
Woman
Oh, that's fine. I won't be here anyway
remember?
I' m
going to visit my sister?
Joe
Oh, yeah.
That's right.
Voice-over
The
business
traveller
seems
to
have
found
what
he was
looking for, a programme that puts him to sleep.
And that's all for tonight, folks! Be
sure to tune in tomorrow!
Unit 5-Listening
in
News
Report
A new
craze is sweeping the city of Toronto, Canada.
More
and more board game cafes are
opening in different
neighborhoods.
In some of
cafes, customers pay an hourly rate to play
tabletop
games; in others a flat fee
allows them to play for an unlimited
time. On top of the fee, the cafes also
require customers to
purchase food and
drinks.
Most
cafes offer hundreds of games, varying from
classics
like
―
Monopoly
‖
and
―
Battleship
‖
to European strategy
games like
―
Settlers of
Catan
‖
and
―
Agricola
‖
. They also
have
staff members to teach customers the rules of the
game if
necessary. This means that
players are more comfortable
exploring
games that they haven
’t
played before.
People enjoy
going to these cafes because they can try out the
games. It is cheaper than buying the
games and then deciding
they don
’t
like them. Also, it
’s
like having a party with
your
friends
—
but
not at your own house!
1.
What do we learn about board game cafes
from the
news report?
2.
Why do people
enjoy going to board game cafes?
Passage 1
Announcer1
：
Thanks for the news update.
And it's Thursday
evening, time to
start planning the weekend,
and time to
hear from Jenny with our weekly
update, What's On in Town.
Announcer2
：
Thanks, Mark.
Announcer1
：
What
’
s it going to be Jenny? A
weekend in front
of the television, or out on the
town?
Announcer2
：
Definitely
out
on the town,
Mark.
It's
a
fun-filled
weekend,
with
something
for
everyone.
For
anyone
who
likes
classical
music,
there's Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in
the Westgate Concert Hall on Friday
evening.
Announcer1
：
That's the one
with that catchy tune
Announcer2
：
I
don't think the Southbank Choir will let you
join in with a voice like that! Tickets
are
￡
10,
with
concessions for students and senior
citizens, and it starts at 8
pm.
Announcer1
：
OK, and what's on at the
cinema?
Announcer2
：
I
’
ve
got a couple of suggestions. For those of
you who like Chinese movies, there's a
retrospective on Zhang Yimou's films
beginning
with The House of the Flying
Daggers at the
Arthouse Cinema in North
Street. If you haven't
seen, it
’
s amazing. It's on at 7 pm
on
Saturday night. And other films
showing next
week include Hero, and
Raise the Red Lantern.
Tickets are
￡
12, with the usual
concessions.
Announcer1
：
How about a Hollywood
blockbuster?
Announcer2
：
Not sure Td call it a
blockbuster, but the next part
of Lord
of the Rings is showing at Globe Cinema.
It's on Friday
and Saturday at 7.30 pm,
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