Unit1 Enjoy the colorful campus life! II. Basic Listening Practice Keys: 1.C 2.D 3. B 4.D 5.A III. Listening In Task 1:On the first day Keys: (1)the first day (2)changing (3)really good (4)hard workers (5)went over her head (6)explained (7)notes (8)Wednesday (9)participation (10)education Task 2:How to select elective courses? Keys: (1)extra training (2)chemistry (3)accounting (4)many fields of study (5)better potential (6)business degree (7)challenging (8)how to learn (9)better understanding (10)narrow-minded Task3: How to get straight A's? Keys:1.B 2.C 3. D 4.A 5.D IV. Speaking Out MODEL1 MODEL2 MODEL3 V. Let?ˉs Talk Task 1:Maintaining the quality or increasing the intake? Keys: (1)quality (2)young (3)25 (4)difficult (5)government (6)quality (7)cut (8)extra-cautious (9)afford (10)experience (11)more (12)blame (13)budget (14)puzzled (15)service Task 2:What's your answer? According to the interviewee, it's difficult to strike a balance between maintaining the educational quality and making sure as many people as possible receive university education. In the past years, China has been confronted with the same problem. The university enrollment has been on the increase and some institutions of higher learning do not have enough teachers and teaching facilities, thus affecting the educational quality. Task 3:Let's group work! VI. Further Listening and Speaking Listening Task: Task1: Problems with our educational system Script: Hi, everybody. My topic today is "Problems with our educational system". I disagree on a lot of the ways that things have happened for a long time in our educational system. It seems that educators just want to give standardized tests, which focus only on academic performance and neglect students'...
