课标人教实验版 高一 Module 4 Unit 3

Listening

Listening on P23 1. Which is best title for this story? A. John and the jam B. How to make jam C. The chickens and the jam D. The chickens were drunk

2. Why was Mary Smith frustrated? A. Her chickens were ill. B. John threw away her jam. C. John stayed away five days. D. The pan was broken.

3. What turned the jam into wine? A. The cold weather. B. The hot weather. C. The chickens. D. John.

1. Did you find this story funny? Why? Yes. It is funny. Because we often find people drunk, never find chickens will be drunk. Answer the following questions:

2. What do you think of John’s behavior? His behavior showed that he had wanted to do a good deed for his wife, but because of his carelessness, he at last made his chickens drunk, which made himself embarrassed and his wife confused.

Listening text Mary Smith looked at her basket of fruit. They were beautiful, ripe plums. There were far too many to eat but they would make lovely jam. She looked for her cookbook and began to take the stones out of the fruit. When she had finished the cooking, she filled all her

empty jam jars and left the rest of the jam in the pan. Then she began to make the lunch. Five days later her husband, John, came home from a visit to his parents. He had been travelling a whole day and felt like having a drink and a cake. As he came into the kitchen he saw a pan

with what looked like dark red porridge in it. What was it? As he picked it up he smelled it and it seemed to him that it was bad. Mary must have forgotten it. The food she had left in the pan would attract insects! He took the pan and poured all the jam into the chicken yard and cleaned it. Then, feeling

comfortable, he began to eat a piece of cake. Later when Mary came home she noticed the chickens were behaving very strangely. They were running around their yard as if they were sick. What was the matter? She went closer to find out. She saw the dark red porridge on the

ground and several chickens asleep beside it. As she looked closer at the food she saw a plum stone. She stood up quickly and went straight to the kitchen. Her husband was sitting at the table and the pan was hanging, clean and empty, on the wall. Mary rushed at her

husband and pulled him hard. “What’s the matter?” he asked. “It’s good thing I threw away that porridge.” “But that was my jam!” cried Mary. When they went into the yard, they realized that the hot weather had turned the jam into wine and the chickens were drunk!

“Oh,” Mary cried out, “I forgot to put the jam in the fridge. Now what shall we do with the drunken chickens? Does anyone know what to do with drunken chickens?”

Listening on P55 1. Where did Peter get the potatoes? Peter was given the potatoes by a friend. 2. Why didn’t Peter want to get up when the thief was in his house? He thought the thief might have a knife and he did not want to make him angry.

3. Why couldn’t the thief take away the potatoes? He did not have a bag to carry the potatoes in. 4. How did Peter stop the man stealing the potatoes ？ He removed the shirt that the thief had planned to put the potatoes in.

5. Why was the thief angry? He thought the husband had stolen his shirt so he could no longer steal the potatoes.

Listening text Long ago, there lived a poor couple, Peter and his wife. They had no money to buy food and lived a very hard life. One day they were given some potatoes by a friend and put them on the floor. When evening came, they went to bed. At midnight, a thief stole into their

house. It was very dark. The wife heard a noise and shouted: “Peter, Peter. Wake up. There is a thief in our house.” Peter was a clever man. Thinking that the thief might have a knife, he did not want to make the thief angry. He just wanted the thief to go away

with whatever he wanted. So he said, “Be quiet. There is no thief. Go back to sleep.” So his wife went back to sleep. The thief found the potatoes on the floor, but he could not carry them because there was no bag to hold them. He took off his shirt and spread

it on the floor. He wanted to pour the potatoes onto his shirt, but just when he turned back to get them, Peter quietly took away his shirt and hid it under the bed. The thief did not know his shirt was gone. He put the potatoes on what he thought was his “shirt”. But when he tried to pick it up he could not do so.

Just then Peter’s wife woke up and shouted again, “Peter, Peter! Wake up. There is a thief in our house.” Peter became very angry. He shouted, “Be quiet, please. There is no thief in our house. Listen, if I say there is no thief, then there is no thief.”

When he heard this, the thief became very angry and shouted, “Who said there is no thief? If there is no thief in this house, then who has taken my shirt?”

Listening task on P58 Choose the best picture that best describes what happened. A B C

Sample description: 1. The teacher sees some boys looking at a dog. 2. The dog is thin and he feels sorry for it. 3. He asks what they intend to do with it. 4. He finds they all want to look after it but only the person who tells the biggest lie can have it as a pet.

5. The teacher is angry and lectures the boys about telling lies and how honest he was at their age. 6. The boys decide to give him the dog.

Choose the best answer to each question. 1. Why did the children decide to give the dog to the teacher? A. Because none of them wanted to keep the dog. B. Because their teacher liked it. C. Because they could not decide which of them should own it. D. Because they thought the teacher had told them a lie.

2. What do you think of the children? A. They all like dogs. B. They all respect their teachers. C. They all work hard at their lessons. D. They are honest and lovely.

Answer the question. How do you think the teacher felt when he was offered the dog? I think the teacher felt embarrassed when he was offered the dog because he did not want it and had not expected to be offered it.

Discussion Discuss how you would solve these problems and help the teacher.

Help the teacherAdvice to refuse to take the dog politely Suggesting to the boys that you would love the dog but that it is impossible for you to take it for walks as you have so much work to do. Offer it back to them as you can now see how well they would care for it.

Help the teacher Advice to decide which boy should have the dog Suggesting that the boys explain to you how they would care for the dog. Note where they would keep it, what they would feed it on, how often they would take it for walks, whether their parents are happy to have a new dog. Then choose accordingly.

Listening text One day a teacher was walking along the road. It was a lovely sunny day. The sky was blue and the birds were singing in the trees. The teacher felt very happy until he saw five boys aged about 15 standing round an animal. As he went up to them, he saw that the animal

was a thin and hungry dog. It looked very frightened and the teacher felt very sorry for it. So he asked the boys what they were going to do with the dog. “Oh,” said one of the boys. “We were just deciding who should take the dog home and look after it. We all want to

look after the dog but only one of us can have it as a pet.” The teacher asked how they were going to choose the owner of the dog. “Well,” said the same boy, “We’ve decided that the one who told the biggest lie should have him.” At this the teacher became very angry. He started to explain to the boys

about truth and honesty. He continued for ten minutes while the boys listened carefully.Then he ended by saying, “And I never told a lie when I was your age.” When he finished there was a long silence. The boys looked at the teacher and they seemed to agree with what he had said. The teacher felt happy that

his words had impressed the boys. Then the same boy spoke again. “After what we heard, I think you should have the dog!”

Homework Please collect as many funny stories as you can. They will be useful in the next period. And try to find some interesting words in these stories.