1. Module 4 A Social Survey—My Neighbourhood Listening & Speaking

2. 1.Practise students’ listening skills 2. Understand which words should be stressed. Teaching aims

3. Look at these words which are all in the listening passage that we will hear. Try to find out the meanings of them and guess what the passage is about: neighborhood committee organization join club unemployed survey information household population occupation professional manual worker Pre-listening –Prediction

4. 1. neighborhood 街坊；四邻 She lives in a rich neighborhood. 她住在 富裕的住宅区 2. committee 委员会 the neighborhood Committee 居委会 3. organization 组织 4. join a club 参加俱乐部 5.Unemployed 失业的 6.Survey 调查 7.Household 家庭 There are 50 households here. 这里有 50 户人

5. 8. occupation 职业 9. Professional 专业的 10. Manual 手工的 manual workers 体力劳动者 Now try to guess what the passage is about. A. The passage is about a neighborhood group. B. It is about a person who lives in the countryside.

6. I: Mr. Yang, you are from Nanchang, aren’t you? And am I right in thinking that you __________ here all your life? Y: Yes, I was born in this street. I: Really! And you work for an ____________ called“ the neighborhood committee”, is that right? Y: Yes, I have worked for it for _____ years now. It’ s been very interesting. while-listening Listen again and fill in the blanks

7. I: We don’t have such organizations in France. What kind of work does the _________ do? Y: A great many things. Our job is to ________ the neighborhood. I: Can you give us some _________? Y: Yes… umm, for example, we’ve started a holiday club for children. A lot of children have ______ it. It is done very well. I: Yes, we have that kind of thing in _______.

8. Y: And we __________ a neighborhood watch, where people watch the houses and streets. It has been very __________ so far. The streets are safer as a result. I: _______________! Check the answers

9. I: Mr. Yang, you are from Nanchang, aren’t you? And am I right in thinking that you __________ here all your life? Y: Yes, I was born in this street. I: Really! And you work for an ____________ called“ the neighborhood committee”, is that right? Y: Yes, I have worked for it for _____ years now. It’ s been very interesting. have lived organization four

10. I: We do not have these organizations in France. What kind of work does the _________ do? Y: A great many things. Our job is to ________ the neighborhood. I: Can you give us some _________? Y: Yes… umm, for example, we have started a holiday club for children. A lot of children have ______ it. It is done very well. I: Yes, we have that kind of thing in _______. committee look after examples joined France

11. Y: And we __________ a neighborhood watch, where people watch the houses and streets. It has been very __________ so far. The streets are safer as a result. I: _______________! have begun successful Congratulations

12. Learning to learn At first you won’t understand much but don’t worry. Listen for names of people and places and soon you’ll understand more. It’s an excellent way to improve your listening skills. Now listen to another part of the listening passage and pay attention to the figures. （数字）

13. Number of households 850 Number of manual workers  Total population  Number of shop workers 183 Number of professional people 322 Number of adults in employment ④ Number of office workers  Number of students 280 2800 517 378 1400 Listen to Part 2 and complete the chart

14. Post-listening Talk about the neighbourhood committee in your area. Answer the following questions. 1 what do you know about the committe? 2 How have they helped people? 3 Would you like to be on the commeettee when you are older? 4 What have you done to help in your neighbourhood? Group work

15. 句子中比较重要的词应该得到重读，其他的词则可以 读得轻些，这就是所谓的句子的重音。通常句子中比较重 要的词有名词、动词（除 to be, to have, 助动词和情态动词 外）、形容词、副词、数词、疑问代词和指示代词、疑问 副词、名词性物主代词、反身代词等等。而冠词、连词、 介词和人称代词等一般不重读。 Pronunciation --stressed words in sentences e.g. We ‵ want to ‵ go ‵ home at ‵ night.

16. I: Mr. Yang, you are from Nanchang, aren’t you? And am I right in thinking that you have lived here all your life? Y: Yes, I was born in this street. I: Really! And you work for an organization called“ the neighborhood committee”, is that right? Y: Yes, I have worked for it for four years now. It’ s been very interesting. Listen to this extract of the listening passage and underlined the stressed words in each sentence

17. I: Mr. Yang, you are from Nanchang, aren’t you? And am I right in thinking that you have lived here all your life? Y: Yes, I was born in this street. I: Really! And you work for an organization called“ the neighborhood committee”, is that right? Y: Yes, I have worked for it for four years now. It’ s been very interesting. Listen to this extract of the listening passage and underlined the stressed words in each sentence wb

18. Write a brief report of your neighborhood. You’d better include the following points: 1)Where you live 2) the buildings 3)The number of households and the population 4) the neighbourhood committee if there is one 5) the intersting things you can do there Homework

19. Thank you very much!