1. Unit Three Dreams and Thoughts （ Lesson 1 ）

2. 1. Listening Strategy 3: Listening for A rhetorical question -questions raised up by the questioner -answers are provided by the questioner immediately - to engage the attention of the audience and signal topics and main ideas

3. An example: What does one require of an airplane? -So if you’re going to invent the airplane…what does an airplane have to do? So …, why do we think there may be other intelligent life in the universe? -Well, it’s because there are many, many other galaxies （星 系） in the universe that could support life.

4. A rhetorical question -an effective device to help speakers introduce main ideas/arouse listeners’ attention/stimulate their thought via asking questions.

5. 2. Academic Listening: The Greater Mystery of Dreams (5m46s) Background Information Paul Bloom– a Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Yale University.

6. Before Listening Predicting some rhetorical questions.

7. Before Listening 1). What do you often dream about? What type of dreams do you mostly have? 2). Why do we dream and what functions do dreams serve?

8. While Listening A Check (√) the rhetorical questions in the talk. □ Are you dreaming now? □ Can we have sins in dreams? □ What do we know about dreams? □ Why do people have recurring dreams?

9. While Listening □ What do people dream about? □ What do people want to dream about? □ What’s the most common dream? □ Why do we have nightmares? □ What are dreams for?

10. Word Bank sin v. 犯罪 submarine n. 潜水艇 wrestle v. 摔跤，斗争 rumination n. 沉思 REM abbr. Rapid Eye Movement 快速眼动 aggressiveadj. 侵略的, 进攻性的

11. Word Bank disguise v. 假装, 假扮 tribal adj. 部落的 hormone adj. 荷尔蒙 hormonal 荷尔蒙的 blast n. 一阵 ( 强风 ) consolidate v. 巩固 back up a copy of (a data file) （资料）备份 Rene Descates 勒内 · 笛卡尔 ( 法国哲学家、数学家、物理学家 ) The Matrix 电影《黑客帝国》 Augustine 奥古斯丁 ( 西方基督教神学家 ) Freudian Theory 弗洛伊德理论

12. Background Information Freudian Theory -one of the most influential figures in the history of psychology. -He believed much of the psyche/the mind as a whole was unconscious; -He compared it to an iceberg, which was nine/tenths under water.

13. Background Information 1923 theory, Freud distinguished between the id (the primitive, animal-like part of the mind, supposedly the source of energy for the psyche), the ego (the "agent of adaptation" in the psyche, mostly conscious) the super-ego (the source of self-evaluation, guilt and pride, an internalization of parental values). -The id was totally unconscious The super-ego was partly unconscious The ego was mostly accessible to consciousness.

14. Before Listening 1). What do you often dream about? What type of dreams do you mostly have? 2). Why do we dream and what functions do dreams serve?

15. While Listening A Check (√) the rhetorical questions in the talk. □ Are you dreaming now? □ Can we have sins in dreams? □ What do we know about dreams? □ Why do people have recurring dreams?

16. While Listening □ What do people dream about? □ What do people want to dream about? □ What’s the most common dream? □ Why do we have nightmares? □ What are dreams for?

17. 3. Post Listening: Speaking Activities Group Discussion Dreams -a mystery to us since Adam and Eve first walked the earth -be described as that of a Fairy Tale world -have always, and always will fascinate mankind

18. Interesting facts about dreams. Try to memorize them as quickly as possible: 1). One third of our lives is spent sleeping. 2). Dreams have been here as long as mankind. Back in the Roman Era, striking and significant dreams were submitted to the Senate for analysis and interpretation.

19. Interesting facts about dreams. Try to memorize them as quickly as possible: 3). Everybody dreams. EVERYBODY! Simply because you do not remember your dream does not mean that you did not dream. 4). Dreams are indispensable(essential). A lack of dream activity can mean protein deficiency or a personality disorder.

20. Try to memorize them as quickly as possible: 5). We dream on average of one or two hours every night. And we often even have 4-7 dreams in one night. 6). Blind people do dream. Whether visual images will appear in their dream depends on whether they were blind at birth or became blind later in life. But vision is not the only sense that constitutes a dream. Sounds, tactility （触觉）, and smell become hypersensitive for the blind and their dreams are based on these senses.

21. 7). Five minutes after the end of the dream, half the content is forgotten. After ten minutes, 90% is lost. 8). Men tend to dream more about other men, while women dream equally about men and women. 9). If you are snoring, then you cannot be dreaming.

22. Homework Assignment 1. Top 5 dreams in the world and their interpretations; 2. An interesting/strange dream and its interpretations.