外研新标准 必修五 高二上

Module 4 Listening

Objective 能识别听力中新学的词汇、短语 并正确理解其含义。能够听懂和 捕捉到狂欢节的有关信息。

Listen to Interview 1. (INT=Interview; CAI=Caitlin; CAM=Cameron; MAR=Maria; STE=Stefan)

INT: Could you tell us about carnival in New Orleans, Caitlin? CAI: Well, we call it Mardi Gras which is a ________ __________. It means Fat Tuesday, when you could eat and drink what you wanted, before ______ ___ meat before ______. INT: So is it still a _______ festival? French expression giving up Easter one-day Listen again and fill in the blanks.

CAI: Oh, no, it lasts about two months. From the beginning of January to the end of February, _____ ___ _____. INT: What are the ______ of Mardi Gras? CAI: It was brought to the States by the French, at the beginning of the 18th century, I think. INT: And what's the _____ _____ of the festival? more or less origins high spot

CAI: The parades, and the music, New Orleans ___ ______ ___ jazz, of course... INT: Do you eat any special food? CAI: Well, there's King Cake, which is a cake for the ________ ______. INT: Is it very special? CAI: Well, ______ _______, it isn't. It's a _____ ordinary cake, _____ _____ flour and eggs with a bit of sugar ___ ___. It's OK, Carnival King funnily enough rather made from on top is famous for

but I don't ____ _____ about it. I'd rather have something with chocolate! But _______ inside the cake there's a plastic baby. INT: Which you can eat? CAI: No, no. The idea is, if you find the baby, then you have to ________ a party yourself and _____ everyone to it. INT: So the ____________ continue... CAI: That's right. organize invite celebrations go wild hidden

Listen to Interview 2.

INT: Cameron, where is Notting Hill? CAM: It's a ______ of London, just west of Hyde Park. INT: And it's famous for its carnival? CAM: That's right. INT: When is it? CAM: It's the ____ ________ in August. INT: So it lasts for just two days? CAM: Yes. INT: Why isn't it in February, like a __________ carnival? district traditional Listen again and fill in the blanks. last weekend

CAM: Well in Britain a lot of carnivals are held in the summer, I ________ because the weather's better. INT: What are the ______ of the carnival? CAM: It isn't very old. After the Second World War a lot of people from Jamaica and other countries in the Caribbean, which ____ ___ __ British colonies, came to London looking for work. But there wasn't a carnival in London, the only festival was _________. But in Jamaica carnival is the suppose used to be Christmas origins

most _________ festival. And Jamaicans living here really felt ___ ____ ____ a carnival. So in the _____ they had the first one. My grandfather was there! It was very small at first, but it grew, and now there are usually _____ _____ a million people. INT: What about food? Is there a ______ dish people eat? important the need for more than 1960s special

CAM: Not really - there's lots of very good Jamaican food, though, which you can buy in the ______. The traditional food is _______ with rice and peas, Jamaican style - we eat a lot of that. I ______ it ___ more spicy food because it's simple. chicken prefer to street

Listen to Interview 3.

INT: People always say Carnival in Rio is special. Maria, you're from Rio, can you tell us why? MAR: I think it's because carnival is in ____ _____! Brazilians ____ carnival. Everybody, I mean, everybody, _____ ____. INT: When is it? MAR: It's at the end of the summer, in February. our blood love takes part Listen again and fill in the blanks.

INT: And it lasts for? MAR: It lasts for ____ _____, from Thursday to Tuesday. INT: What are the origins of Carnival in Rio? MAR: Well, carnival ___ ________ to Brazil by the Portuguese, but carnival as we know it today, with the street parades, _____ _____ to INT: What's the high spot of the festival? dates back five days was brought

MAR: I think it's got to be the samba school parades. The samba, you know, is the ______ Brazilian dance, whose origins ___ ____ to Africa. There are a lot of samba schools in the town, and during carnival there is a __________ between them. It's really________. INT: Is there a special carnival dish? typical go back competition exciting

MAR: The typical food is called Feijoada, which is ________ _____ with beans and garlic. I really like it. It's rather rich and very _____. You can _____ it _____ with beer, or an alcoholic fruit juice called batidas, or beer, if you ______, and then... INT: And then... tasty washdown basically pork prefer

MAR: Well, then people often like to _____ it ___ on the beach. INT: Of course, I was forgetting, Rio is a city built __________ a beach. MAR: Yes, it's the most beautiful beach in the world, and it's always ____ ___ people, day and night... especially at Carnival. walkoff alongside full of

Listen to Interview 4.

INT: Stefan, what is Oktoberfest? STE: Well, the name in German means October Festival. INT: And it's held in October? STE: Yes, that's right, or ___ ____ it starts at the end of September and then continues into October. INT: ____ ____ does it last? STE: For two weeks. INT: And what is the origin? at least How long Listen again and fill in the blanks.

STE: The origin is rather interesting. It was a _____ _____, so it’s got _______ ___ ___ ____ carnival, like the carnivals in Venice or in Rio. The race was held to celebrate a _____ ________, between Prince Leopold and Princess Theresa of Baveria, in But the main thing was always the ______ and _______, not the horse race. to do with royal wedding horse race nothing drinkfood

INT: So what do you eat at the Oktoberfest? STE: _________. Sausages, and sauerkraut, which is ________ and ______. It's typical German food. INT: Do you like sausages yourself? STE: Sure. I think sausages are the greatest ________ in the world. I just love them. And I quite like cabbage, too. Sausages cabbage onions invention

INT: And what do people drink? STE: Beer, of course. Lots of beer. I read that about ____ ______ ________ are drunk every year, that's probably about ten glasses ___ ______. INT: It must be good beer. STE: Oh, it is. Very good. ten million glasses per person