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Unit 2 Fitness and Health

Section 1 Listening Strategies

Part II Consolidation

Listen and identify the difference between two words ineach pair and circle the word you hear

A. / s / vs. / θ/

1. thing

2. tense

3. think

4. path

5. sick

6. sank

B. /?/ vs. / i:/

1. he’s

2. each

3. sit

4. lead

5. it

6. live

7. seek

8. a pill

9. bit

10.teen

C. /?/ vs. /ɑ/ or /?/

1. hat

2. ad

3. box

4. racket

5. mop

6. pat

7.sock

8. cot

9. black

Section II Listening Comprehension

Part I Dialogues

Dialogue 1

Listening to a financial trader talking about the stress of his job and how he handles stress.

Listen to the dialogue and answer the following questions.

1. Stress is generally driven by the feelingof being out of control of a situation and the feeling of a situation controlling you.

2. The feeling of uncertainty, being out of control.

3. Cooking a meal.

4. Watching some TV before going to bed.

5. At least once a week.

Dialogue 2

1. Yes. Because of stress-related factors.

2.It can lead to a change in direction, success, and stimulate you to do something new.

3. It keeps him on his toes and makes him concentrated and focused.

4. Trading.

5. No. It remains constant.

Dialogue 3

A. Listen to the dialogue once and jot down the key words relating to the main idea.

obesity, diet, less active, more food, lose weight, fad diets

B. Listen again and decide whether each of the followingstatements is true [T] or false [F].

1.T

2. F

3. T

4. F

5. T

Part II Passages

Passage 1

1. F (A study found that only four percent of elementary schools provided

daily physical education all year for all grades. )

2. T

3. T

4. F (Yet many parents today still have bad memories of being chosen last

for teams because teachers favored the good athletes in class. )

5. T

6. F (Some parents like the idea of avoiding competitive sports in P.E. class. Yet others surely dislike that idea.) Passage 2

Our first word is “diet”. It has four l etters and four sounds: D-I-E-T. Diet. Diet can be a noun or a verb. There are some important (1) differences in meaning.

Firstly “diet” as a noun. This mean s the food and drink (2) taken by a person or group of people.

—Footballers have to eat a good diet in order to

stay healthy.

—The Japanese diet is (3) said to be very healthy. People live to an old age.

People often use an adjective before diet. For example you may hear the expression “ a (4) balanced diet”. It means eating a (5) range of all the food types necessary to keep healthy.

Secondly, we can use diet as a (6) countable noun—a diet. It means when someone eats less of certain foods so they can lose weight. It’s used in (7) combination with the words “to go on” or “to be on” a diet.

A: I’m getting really fat. I can’t (8) fit into my trousers! B: You should go on a diet.

Thirdly, we can use it as a verb—to diet. This is another, less (9) common way of saying “to go on a diet”. It means to eat (10) less in order to lose weight.

—So many people diet these days. I’m not really sure if it’s good for them.

Passage 3

1. Martina e

2. Rachel c

3. Romeshb

4. Mark a

5. John d

Part III News

News 1

Listen to the recording once to get the main ideas. Listen again and take notes to answer the following questions.

1. More than four hundred fifty.

2. The study looked at changes in genes that govern an important cell-signaling pathway.

3. The animals do not grow as big as others of their kind but they live longer.

4. Ashkenazi Jews are more genetically similar than most other groups, so any differences are easier to find.

5. No one had the mutations.

News 2

Listen to the news about vitamin D once to get the main ideas. Listen again and answer the following questions briefly.

1. From sunlight.

2. They worry about getting skin cancer or skin damage.

3. No. They produce more.

4. Oily fish such as salmon, tuna and mackerel, and fish liver oils.

5. Six hundred international units.

News 3

Listen to the news about obesity. Decide whether each of the following statements is true [T] or false [F]

1. T

2. F (At present, according to Professor Philip James, an expert on nutrition, obese children outnumber the malnourished by two to one.)

3. T

4. F (According to Professor James, there is no point in blaming individuals for being overweight.)

5. T

6. T

Part IV Dictation

A. Sentences

You will hear each sentences three times. First, listen and try to understand the meaning of the whole sentence. Second, listen and write. Third, listen and check.

1. It sounds like we’re both trying to raise our final

grades in this class.

2. You should see if there are any openings so you can enroll in it.

3. The new school year that begins this fall will cost fifty-two thousand dollars for undergraduates.

4. Students may also need to take SAT subject tests in areas like history.

5. Three million three hundred thirty thousand students are expected to graduate.

B. Paragraph

You will hear a paragraph three times. First, listen and try to understand the meaning of the whole paragraph. Second, listen and write. Third, listen and check.

Research in the last several years has shown that low levels of vitamin D may increase the risk of heart attacks in men and deaths from some cancers. Other studies have shown that people with rheumatic diseases often have low levels of Vitamin D. More doctors are now having their patients tested for their vitamin D levels. But as research continues, some experts worry that if people take too much vitamin D, it might act as a poison.

Part V Video Clip

Watch and write down the three idioms mentioned in the video and explain each of them.

Number Idioms Meanings

1 He’s a bad egg.

Someone is bad or dishonest.

2 Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.

You should never rely on only one plan—in case it goes wrong.

3 He got egg on his face.

Someone makes a mistake which makes him look stupid. Section IV

Supplementary Listening

Listen to each sentence and write down the words which contain phonemic sound /s/, /θ/, /?/, /i:/, /?/, /ɑ/ or /?/.

1. think, if, watch

2. it, is, really, see

3. what, departure

4. me, family

5.topic, is, not, money, handle, that, have Section V Story Series

Listen to Chapter 2 of Robinson Crusoe and answer the

following questions.

1. At first, he felt seasick because of the rain and the wind, and he thought it was the punishment form God. But later the storm ended and he slept deeply at night.

2. The second storm made the first storm look like a gentle wind. For days the storm went on with the terrible waves, lightening and thunders. Others agreed that they had never seen storms like this.

3. The captain lighted a firework and a boat came and rescued them.