Unit Ten Life,Section Listening and Speaking Section Intensive Reading Section Grammar Section Applied Writing Section Reading Practice Section Cultural Tips,Section Listening and Speaking Weather and Climate,Tune In Task 1 Directions: You will hear one word read from each group. Underline the letter beside the word you hear.,BACK,Task 2 Directions: In this part you will hear 10 sentences twice. Listen carefully and fill in the blanks.,Listen On,Task 1 Warming Up Patterns Learning 1. Whats the weather report? 2. Today will be cool and partly cloudy with a chance of rain this afternoon. 3.The predicted high for tomorrow is thirty-six degrees Fahrenheit. 4.How do you like the weather in Beijing? 5.The weather is expected to be terrible through the weekend. 6.It seems that it is going to rain tomorrow.,7.I prefer walking outdoors to staying home on a rainy day. 8.What a lovely/awful day! 9.In winter the roads are covered with snow and ice. 10.Whats twenty degrees Centigrade in degrees Fahrenheit? 11.The weather can be wet and rainy in Guangzhou while it is dry and dusty in Beijing. 12.It can be sunny in the morning but it may change into a foggy night. 13.The temperature is expected to drop slightly tomorrow.,Task 2 Directions: In this part you will hear a dialogue twice. Listen to the dialogue and fill in the blanks. Key Words wish /wiF/ n.愿望；祝愿 v.希望；但愿 stand /stAnd/ n.停止； 立场 v. 站； (使)竖立； 忍受 notice /5nEutis/ n. 通知； 布告 v.注意(到) unusual /Qn5ju:VuEl/ adj.不平常的； 稀少的 used to 表过去经常的习惯,Task 3 Directions: In this part you will hear a dialogue twice. After you have heard the dialogue, mark T (true), F (false) according to the dialogue.,Key Words occasionally/E5keVEnEl/ adv. 偶而 bet/bet/ n.赌； 赌钱 v.赌； 打赌 centigrade /5sentireid / adj.百分度的；摄氏温度的 Fahrenheit /5fArEnhait / adj. 华氏温度的, n.华氏温度计 predict /pri5dikt / v.预知； 预报 abundant /E5bQndEnt/ adj.丰富的； 盛产 typical/5tipikEl/ adj.典型的； 象征性的 forest/5fC:kB:st/ n.预测； 预报 vt. 预报 changeable /5tFeindVEbl / adj.可改变的 vary/5vZEri/ vt.改变； 使多样化 vi.变化,； 不同 average /5AvEridV / n. 平均水平；5 平均数 adj.平均的 breeze /bri:z / n.微风 vi.吹微风,Useful Expressions Whats the temperature? Its going to stay like this for some days. Whats the lowest degree? It never gets as cold as it does here. Its usually around 50F. You bet! Whats the weather like in your hometown? Well be able to go skating this weekend.,Task 4 Directions: In this part you will hear 10 short dialogues once. Listen to the dialogues carefully and decide on the correct answer from the four choices A), B) C) and D) given below.,Speak Out,Task 1 Listen and Repeat Directions: Listen carefully and complete the conversation orally by responding to what you have heard on the tape.,Task 2 Role-play Directions: Here are more situations, work with your partner and make more conversations. 1. Jack and Tom are schoolmates .It is spring now. Jack is inviting Miami to have a picnic next weekend. 2. Xiao Ming, a taxi driver, met an American tourist at the Beijing international Airport. They talked about weather in Beijing on their way to the hotel. 3. A weatherman is giving the weekend forecast on the TV evening news. Two students are talking about what is said in the weather forecast.,Section Intensive Reading A Payment Greater Than Money,Preview Money is necessary to ones life. People struggle to have more of it because more money means better life and success. Although people say money talks, money does not work in some situations, such as in the case of health, friendship and knowledge. It is true that money helps, but money is not everything.,BACK,Text,A Payment Greater Than Money When I was 14, I earned money in the summer by mowing lawns, and I got to know people by the flowers I had to remember not to cut down or by the things lost in the grass. I also learned something about my neighbors in Louisville, Ky., by their preferred method of payment: by the job, the monthor not at all. Mr. Ballou fell into the last category, and he always had a reason. One day he had nothing smaller than a fifty. On another he was flat-out of checks; on another he was simply not home when I knocked on his door. Still, except for the money, he was a nice enough old guy, always waving or tipping his hat when hed seen me from a distance. I figured him for a thin retirement check, maybe an injury that kept him from doing his own yardwork. I kept a running total, but didnt worry about the amount too much. Grass was grass, and the little that was Mr. Ballous didnt take long to trim.,Then one late afternoon in mid-July I was walking by his house, and he motioned me to come inside. The hall was cool, shaded, and it took my eyes a minute to adjust to the muted light. “I owe you,” Mr. Ballou began, “The bank made a mistake in my account. It will be cleared up in a day or two. In the meantime I thought perhaps you could choose one or two volumes for a down payment.” He gestured toward the walls, and I saw books sta