新编大学英语自主听力 4Unit 5

[22:40.19]I just had to contribute things as they came along and I wrote for magazines and I did quite a lot of broadcasting for the BBC.
[22:51.20]Well, I enjoyed it a lot but I found it very hard to earn enough money to live on.
[22:57.47]Um, and so I thought well I must do something which produces an income that I can be sure of.
[23:06.54]While I was working as a journalist I had done an article for a magazine about the English language teaching world and in fact I had come to the school where I now teach as a journalist and interviewed a lot of people.
[23:25.84]And I thought it seemed a very nice place and I thought that the classes I visited,
[23:32.32]had a very very nice feeling about them and so I thought well I'll see if they'll have me.
[23:41.42]Interviewer:Why do you prefer teaching?
[23:44.16]Anne Keller:Well, partly because in teaching you work regular hours.
[23:49.85]Erm in the past er I just had to stay at the office until the work was finished and it could be three o'clock in the morning.
[23:59.64]Er, also you were very often made to work at weekends. (347 words)
[24:05.47]Exercise 2:Directions:Listen to the dialogue again all fill in each blank with the information you get from the recording.
[24:18.68]Compare what the 2 interviewees say about teaching.
[24:23.90]Exercise 3:Directions:Listen to the dialogue again and decide whether the statements you hear are true (T) or false (F).
[24:39.31]1)Students learn all of their English in the classroom in England.
[24:47.09]2)In marketing one can always see quite clearly the results of his efforts.
[24:56.59]3)The second interviewee now teaches in a school where she did an interview as a journalist.
[25:06.71]4)The second interviewee could earn enough money to live on with the previous job, but she didn't like it.
[25:17.36]5)The second interviewee once wrote an article about the English language teaching world.
[25:28.20]6)As a journalist, one has an irregular schedule.
[25:35.40]Happy Minute
[25:37.02]Enjoy listening to the passage and answer the following question.
[25:42.35]Why did the passengers keep sitting until the aircraft came to a complete stop?
[25:49.26]As a flight attendant, I constantly struggle to keep people seated until the aircraft has come to a complete stop at the gate.
[25:58.58]So one day, after making the usual announcement,
[26:03.01]I added, "Those of you who would like to assist me in cleaning up the cabin,
[26:09.17]please volunteer by standing up before the seat-belt sign is turned off. "
[26:13.99]No one moved - and my solution has worked ever since.