新编大学英语自主听力 2Unit 3

[05:28.03]Curtis:That was a great day, though.
[05:29.87]Grace:Hey, you all remember our last day of college?
[05:33.36]Curtis:Graduation? What's to remember? None of us went to graduation.
[05:38.29]Martin:Do you regret that... that after all these years you skipped out on the ceremony?
[05:43.40]Grace:Not me. I don't think we missed anything that day.No.
[05:47.15]Curtis:nothing at all. And that picnic that the three of us had by the stream, remember?
[05:52.87](That was great.) Drinking wine, playing guitar, singing. Oh, that was worth more to me than any graduation ceremony.
[06:01.62]Martin:That was the best graduation ceremony there could have been.
[06:05.69]Curtis:Mm-hmm.
[06:07.56]1)Grace is very proud of her hair which is down to her waist.
[06:13.64]2)All of them got arrested once, and that was not very terrifying.
[06:19.22]3)They got arrested for something they believe in and were released because they gave up their belief.
[06:26.39]4)None of them regret that they skipped out on the graduation ceremony.
[06:32.90]5)Three main things have been mentioned in the conversation.
[06:38.30]Exercise 2:Directions:Listen to the conversation again and fill in the table.
[06:46.08]Exercise 3:Directions:Fill in the blank with the information you hear on the tape.
[06:54.79]Practice Three The Informality in American classes
[07:01.06]Word You Need to Know
[07:03.04]informality
[07:07.79]Exercise 1:Directions:Listen to the passage and give as many examples as you can about the informality in the American classroom. (There are six in the passage.)
[07:21.76]When students from other countries come to the United States,
[07:25.82]they are sometimes shocked at the informality in American college and university classes.
[07:32.56]For example, American professors do not dress up and they generally call students by their first names.
[07:41.48]Students can speak out in class, where they do not even need to raise their hands.
[07:47.93]In addition, in many schools, students can drink coffee, tea, juice, or soft drinks during classes.
[07:55.81]Foreign students can usually get used to these differences easily.
[08:00.46]However, two examples of American informality are very difficult for some foreign students to understand.
[08:08.70]First, students sometimes call their teachers by their first names. Instead of calling a teacher Mr Smith or Professor Johnson,
[08:20.69]they call them Tom or Barbara. In some countries, it is not possible for students to "first-name" their teachers.
[08:30.41]Second, American students sometimes criticize the ideas of their teachers.
[08:36.64]They might also give their teachers suggestions about changing something in the class.
[08:42.79]In many countries, students cannot openly criticize their teachers or classes.
[08:49.92]Thus, some foreign students feel shocked, embarrassed, and uncomfortable in American classrooms.
[08:57.91]They have two choices. One, they can imitate the behavior of the American students.
[09:05.15]But in this case, they might feel uncomfortable and disrespectful.
[09:10.33]Two, they can continue to follow the customs from their home countries.
[09:15.73]But in this case, the American teachers and students might think that the foreign students are too formal or too quite.
[09:24.77]What is the solution to this problem? There is no easy answer.
[09:31.18]However, time will help to solve the problem, because foreign students will become accustomed to the new behavior. (269 words)
[09:39.85]Exercise 2:Directions:Listen to the passage again and complete the following diagram.
[09:49.07]Exercise 3:Directions:Listen to the passage for the third time and decide which is the best answer to each of the questions.
[10:00.48]1)What is NOT the feeling of foreign students in American classrooms?
[10:07.03]2)What is Professor Edward Johnson sometimes called by his students?
[10:13.69]3)What is American students' attitude toward their teachers?
[10:19.88]4)How would a foreign student feel if he tried to imitate the behavior of American students?