WELCOME TO OUR LISTENING CLASS
What is it?
1.It is a means of communication.
2.Nowadays, most of the families have got one.
3.It begins with the letter “T”
It’s a telephone
1.What is a telephone used for?
2.Is it convenient?
3.Does it cause any troubles when used?
Friday, September 25th, 2009
Unit 3: WAYS OF SOCIALISING
PERIOD 15 : LISTENING
I/ New words:
Marvelous (adj) :
Argument (n):
Regulation (n):
Absolute (adj)
Maximum (adj) :
(to) object :
(to) startle :
 Startling (adj)
= wonderful
Cuộc tranh luận/ bàn cãi
Nội quy/ điều lệ
= complete
# minimum
Phản đối
Giật mình/ giật thót
Checking
Marvelous (adj) :
Argument (n):
Regulation (n):
Absolute (adj)
Maximum (adj) :
(to) object :
(to) startle :
 Startling (adj)
= wonderful
Cuộc tranh luận/ bàn cãi
Nội quy/ điều lệ
= complete
# minimum
Phản đối
Giật mình/ giật thót

II.True/ False Prediction:
1.     The telephone seldom causes arguments between members of the family.
2.     A reasonable length of time for a call is the main problem.
3.     Ten minutes is an unreasonable length of time for a call.
4.     Young people cannot receive a phone call while they are having dinner.
5.     You should tell your friends to call at night.
6.You cannot call your friends at any time when you have a separate telephone.
II/ True/ False Prediction:
1.     The telephone seldom causes arguments between members of the family.
2.     A reasonable length of time for a call is the main problem.
3.     Ten minutes is an unreasonable length of time for a call.
4.     Young people cannot receive a phone call while they are having dinner.
5.     You should tell your friends to call at night.
6.You cannot call your friends at any time when you have a separate telephone.
T
F
F
F
F
T
III/ Listen and fill:
Hello, everyone. In today’s talk I’m going to give you some pieces of advice on how to use the telephone in the most (1)………. way so as to avoid unnecessary disagreements between you and members of your family.
The telephone, as you know, is a marvelous instrument, but it may cause (2)………… between you and your parents - arguments that could be easily avoided if you would sit down, talk it over, and agree to a few simple regulations.
The most obvious problem, of course, is what everyone considers a (3)………… length of time for a call. The exact duration must be worked out with your parents, but (4)…………should be absolute maximum. That’s certainly long enough to say almost anything in five different ways, and yet it isn’t so long that other members of the family will become angry. Even when your parents are out, the length of your call should be limited, because they, or someone else, may be trying to reach your home for a very important reason.
Calling hours should be (5)………… upon. If your parents object to your leaving the dinner table to take calls, tell your friends to avoid calling at that hour; if someone does phone, ask him to call back, or offer to call him when dinner’s over.
A serious calling problem is calling very late at night, or very early in the morning. This (6)………… mistake is made mostly by young people who consider 10 or 11 p.m., when a lot of tired adults are happily sleeping, the shank of the evening. So please tell your friends not to call after ten o’clock. The (7)………… of waking out of a sound sleep and the fright of that instant thought - “There’s an accident”- are enough to give your parents a heart attack. (8)…………calls aren’t so starling, but it’s the one time your parents can sleep late.
If your mother and father, out of (9)…………, have installed a separate phone for you, remember that you’re still a member of a family. So try to stick to your family’s (10)………….
That’s all for my talk today. Thank you for listening.
IV/ Homework:
Summarize Ms. Linda Cupple’s talk.
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