Step by Step 3000 第1册 Unit4:Approaching Culture(2)

Part 2. Places to enjoy.

A. Keywords. museum, visit, reproduction, audience, appearance, guided tour, educational service, children's department,

Vocabulary. privileged, vacationer, metropolitan, reproduction, stegosaurus, architecture, represent, lifestyle, Stockholm.

A1. Listen to some statements taken from a passage on the changes in today's museums.

Supply the missing information.

Museums have changed.

They are no longer places for the privileged few or for bored vacationers to visit on rainy days.

More and more museum directors are realizing people learn best when they can somehow become part of what they are seeing.

The purpose is not only to provide fun but also to help people feel at home in the world of science.

A2. Now listen to the whole passage, while listening, pay special attention to the specific museums mentioned in the passage.

Complete the following chart with key words.

Museums have changed.

They are no longer places for the privileged few or for bored vacationers to visit on rainy days.

At science museum on Ontario Canada, you can feel your hair stand on end as harmless electricity passes through your body.

At metropolitan museum of art in New York city, you can look at 17th century instruments while listening to their music.

At modern museum in Sweden, you can put on costumes provided by the Stockholm Opera.

At New York's American museum of natural history recently, you could helped make a bone-by-bone reproduction of the museum's stegosaurus, a beast that lived 200 million years ago.

As these examples show, museum are reaching out to new audiences, particularly the young, the poor and the less educated members of the population.

As a result, attendance is increasing.

Many museums are changed on appearance.

Some of the old, gray museums have been rebuilt, and the newer ones are open and modern in their architecture.

Inside, there is modern light, color and sound.

Instead of display everything they own, museum directors show fewer objects and leave open spaces where visitors can gather and sit down.

They also bring together in one display a group of objects drawn from various parts of the museum in an effort to represent the whole lifestyle of a region or a historical period.

In one room, for instance, you may find materials, clothing, tools, cooking pots, furniture and art works of particular place in time.

More and more museum directors are realizing the people learn best when they can somehow become part of what they are seeing.

In many science museums, for example, there are no guided tours.

The visitor is encouraged to touch, listen, operate and experiment so as to discover scientific principles for himself.

He can have the experience of operating a spaceship or a computer.

He can experiment with glass blowing and paper making.

The purpose is not only to provide fun, but also to help people feel at home in the world of science.

The theory is that people who do not understand science, will probably fear it, and those who fear science will not use it to best advantage.

Many museums not provide educational services and children's departments.

In addition to the usual displays, they also offer firm showings and dance programs.

Instead of being places that one should visit, they are places to enjoy.

A3. Now listen again, and complete the outline according to the information given on the tape.

B. Keywords. amusing, confuse, understand, French,canoe.

Vocabulary. squid, deposit.

Now listen to two short stories. In each of the stories, there is one person who makes a fool of himself.

Listen carefully and try to fill in the words in the charts below.

Well, I had quite an amusing time in Greece on one holiday because I confused the word for "Good morning" which is "Kalimera",

and "squid" is "Kalamari".

So foe few several days, I was going around smiling broadly at people, saying "squid" to them.

And I couldn't understand why they look at me as if I was totally crazy until someone pointed out.

I was in France on holiday, staying in a friend's cottage.

And one day, we decided to go for a trip on the river, so we went along to a place on the river where you could hire canoes.

And a friend, who prided himself on being rather good at speaking French, went in to hire the canoes.

We decided we needed three, so he asked for "trois canneurs", which he thought was the French for "three canoes".

We got our canoes ; we spent the afternoon on the river ; we came back.

And Stephen went in to return canoes and collect the deposit he'd paid on them.

And as he walked in the door, they said, "Ah, hello, Mr Troiscanneurs...".

C. Keywords. trip, Brazil, street vendors, unusual things, fortune teller, eating, France, performer, portrait.

Vocabulary, vendor, fortune-teller, specialty.

C1. In this part, you are going to hear two people talking about Brazil and France.

While listening, pay special attention to the interesting things they can see or do on streets in both countries.

Then complete the chart by filling in the missing information.

Hi, Cathy. Welcome back.

How is your trip to Brazil?

Oh, I loved it every minute of it.

Brazil is so different from any place I've been ever to.

And there are so much to see there.

Yeah, well, how is it different?

Well, you can find all sorts of street vendors in this cities.

I went to some street markets where they sold really unusual things like special powders that attract men or objects to cure snake bite. Wow.

And in one city I went to, I got my fortune told on the street.

Oh, yeah? Yeah, the fortune-tellers use shells to tell you fortune.

They throw the shells on a cloth and the way they land tells about your future.

Huh. I have never heard of that before.

Mmm, but my favorite street activity was eating.

In Bahia, you can buy these round cakes made of bean flours and filled with hot spices.

they are fried and they are delicious. Hum.

They are a speciality there.

Well, that sounds great.

You know, I remember that when I went to France two years ago, I saw some pretty unusual things on the street, too.

Really, like what?

Well, in Paris, you could watch all kinds of street performers.

There were folk singers with guitars, classic musician. Oh, wow!

Sometimes you could even see actors performing in plays. That sounds like a lot of fun. Oh, it is.

You really see all sorts of things on the street of Paris.

In fact, you can even have your portrait painted right on the street. Wow.

Yeah, the art students do them to practice drawing and painting.

Did you have your portrait down there? Yeah, I did.

In fact, I had done it twice.

C2. Now listen to the dialogue again and answer the following questions with keywords.