
Unit 1 Identity
Listening and Speaking / Lesson A
SCRIPT
1:
F: I really like the photo of the two girls. Are they sisters?
M: Yeah. The girl on the left is Eva. The one on the right is Ashley. They’re from the U.S.
F: How do you spell Ashley?
M: A-S-H-L-E-Y.
2:
F: Now what about this girl who’s climbing?
M: She’s from Iran. Her name is Maheen.
F: Naheem?
M: No, Maheen: M-A-H-E-E-N.
F: It’s a great photo.
3:
F: Now, where is this guy from?
M: London. In the U.K.
F: Cool. What’s his name?
M: Michael. M-I-C-H-A-E-L.
F: Okay.
4:
F: This picture is cool, too— the girl with the camera. Where’s she from?
M: Brazil. Her name’s Sofia.
F: S-O-P-H-I-A?
M: No, she spells it S-O-F-I-A.
F: Got it.
5:
F: And then this last photo? Is he from Japan?
M: Yep, that’s right. His name is Hiroshi.
F: Hiroshi: H-I-R-O-S-H-I. Is that right?
M: Yeah.
1. on the left: 在左边的
2. on the right: 在右边的
3. the girl with the camera: 拿(带)着相机的女孩
CONVERSATION
SCRIPT (无注释)
M: Hi, my name is Michael.
F: Hi, Michael. I’m Sofia.
M: Great to meet you, Sofia.
F: It’s nice to meet you, too. Where are you from?
M: I’m from the U.K. And you?
F: Brazil. / Me too.
Listening and Speaking /Lesson B Are You Typical?
Listening 1
SCRIPT
Are You Typical?
Today, there are over seven billion people on Earth in one hundred ninety-five countries. We speak over seven thousand languages. We are different, but in some ways we are similar, too. In a world of billions of people, there is a typical person.
●The typical person on Earth is male. (There are more men than women.)
●He is twenty-eight years old and is one hundred seventy-four centimeters (about five feet eight inches) tall.
●The most typical person lives in a city and has a cell phone.
●He also speaks Mandarin Chinese. (It’s the most spoken language in the world, with more than nine hundred million speakers.)
Today, there are over nine million “typical people” on Earth. Are you similar to them in any way? The answer is probably "yes."
1. in some ways: 在某些方面
2. similar to: 与……相似
Listening 2
SCRIPT
M: Are you ready to answer a few questions?
F: Sure.
M: Okay. What’s your name? Your full name, please.
F: It’s Lisa Kim.
M: How do you spell your first name?
F: L-I-S-A.
M: And your last name?
F: It’s Kim. K-I-M.
M: Great, thanks. Now, Lisa, where are you from?
F: I’m from Korea, but I live in the U.S. now.
M: Okay...And what do you do?
F: You mean my job?
M: Yes.
F: I’m a student. I don’t have a job right now.
M: Okay. And are you married or single?
F: I’m single.
M: Got it. Now, last question: How old are you?
F: I’m twenty-three.
M: Great, thanks very much.
1.full name: 全名
2.first name: 名,名字(西方人姓名中第一个词)
3.last name: 姓,姓氏(西方人姓名中姓氏在后)
4.be ready to: 预备,即将;甘于;乐意做……
Video
SCRIPT
Narrator:
In cities around the world, diversity is common today. But one neighborhood in the United States is one of the most diverse places in the world.
Welcome to Queens, New York.
Queens Resident:
“How are you doing? What’s happening?”
“We’re all immigrants! Who understands an immigrant better than an immigrant?”
Narrator:
To see how diverse a place is, a 2001 study used this idea: Choose two people randomly. Then, answer this question: How different is their language and their culture? The study learned that the most diverse place in the United States was Queens, New York.
Almost fifty percent of the people in Queens are from another country. They come from 100 different nations, and they speak almost 150 different languages!
No group is the majority here. Other neighborhoods might have more immigrants. But only in Queens are there so many different cultures and nationalities, all in one place.
Queens Resident:
“I know that I am from Madras, the southern part of India. My parents live there and my grandparents live there.”
Queens Resident:
“My mom’s from South Korea and on my father’s side I am German, Irish, English, and I think a little bit Native American but that part I’m not sure.”
Queens Resident:
“My great grandfather was Puerto Rican, and his parents were Puerto Rican and so on and so forth, so as far as I know, we’ve always been Puerto Rican.
Narrator:
Queens isn’t the most diverse place in the world. Other cities in Africa and India have as much or even more diversity.
But for now, Queens is the most diverse place in the U.S., and people in this community seem happy about that.
1.one of the most diverse places: 最多样化的地方之一
2.on my father’s side: 父亲这边的亲缘(来讲)
3.a little bit Native American: 有一点美洲本土人的血缘
4.and so on and so forth: 如此等等,诸如此类
5.as far as: 就……来说,在……看来
