1、必修1Unit 2 English around the world注:另附 word 文档。点击此处链接Listen to Part 1.Hey,yall,this here is Buford.I come from a big _ town in Texas.Now,yall need to _ that we aint really a _,but a whole nother country.Now let me tell ya a _ bout when I was just a pup.One hot _ day I was swimmin with my _ Little Le
2、ster and Big Billy Bob.Listen again and fill in the blanks.oilunderstandstatesummerscousinsstoryWe was jumpin in the _ and feelin good.Then _ comes this catfish bout the size of a house.Well,alright,maybe a little _ than that.Little Lester starts to thinkin its goin to _ him sure nough.Man,you shoul
3、da seen him!He got outta the water fast as _ and climbed up a tree.Big Billy Bob and I _ laughed and laughed.To this day,Lester wont go _ that place.wateralongsmallereatlightningnearjustListen to Part 2.Hello,everyone,I am Bufords _,Jane,from _.Perhaps you didnt quite understand _ Buford said.He sai
4、d that he _ in Houston,a city in Texas.He wants everyone to know that he doesnt believe Texas is a _ in the USA but a different _.Buford says that he would like to tell you a story about him when he was a small _.Listen again and fill in the blanks.teacherBritaineverythinglivedstatechildcountryOne h
5、ot summers day he was _ with Big Billy Bob and Lester.They were _ into the water,which felt good.Then he says that they saw a _ almost the size of a house but,he _,that the catfish was really smaller.Buford says that Lester _ he was going to be eaten by the catfish.swimmingjumpingcatfishaddsthoughtH
6、e says,goodness,you should have seen Lester!He says that Lester got _ of the water _ than lightning and climbed up a tree.Buford and Big Billy Bob just _ a lot.To this day,he says,Lester wont _ that place.outfasterlaughedvisitListen to the text.S1:I live in _ Asia.My country is _ of years old and no
7、w has more than a _ people.Unlike many other countries,our people speak a lot of _.So we use English,which we got from British _ hundreds of years ago.Of course,we have our own way of _ English.Listen again and fill in the blanks.SouththousandsbillionlanguagesrulersusingS2:Well,I live on a huge gree
8、n _ in western Europe.Hundreds of years _ my people spoke a _ different language from English.Then the _ rulers came.Now the old language is spoken in only a few _ in the western part of my country.islandagoveryBritishvillagesS3:My country has more than _ islands.Some of them are very _ but most of
9、them are _ small.Hundreds of years ago,the _ rulers changed the way we live.Much _,the American rulers _ their own kind of English in our schools.Nowadays,we speak a kind of English that _ words from American English but is _ our own.7,000largeSpanishlatertaughtborrowsmostlyquiteS4:My country is ver
10、y _.In fact,its really a city.It is in _ Asia and is very _.People come from all over Asia to do _ here.Today you can hear our kind of English spoken _ in the city and on many _ that come here.smallsoutheastrichbusinessshipseverywhereListen to the text.CP=Cheng Peng(male)WT=Wang TingListen again and
11、 fill in the blanks.CP:What are you doing this _,Wang Ting?WT:Im going to buy some CDs to _ my English.CP:What?Are you _?weekendimprovekiddingWT:No.I often listen to English _ and learn them.Its an easy way to learn some _ English expressions.Sometimes I watch _ too.CP:No.Not me!I _ to watch English
12、 films but I cant understand them without the Chinese _.I think English is too hard.songs idiomaticfilmssubtitlesusedWT:You give _ too easily.Why not watch CCTV 9 _ listen to songs like me?CP:I sometimes do that.I like watching the news and the _ on CCTV 9.They often have Chinese people _ and they g
13、ive subtitles in English to _ what they are saying.I find that very _.uporinterviewstalkingexplainusefulWT:Yes,thats a good way to _ your understanding of English.Why dont you also listen to the _ speakers and improve your listening _?CP:Yes,I think Ill do that more _.My teacher always says that“little and often”is the way to learn.Shell be _ of me!WT:Im sure she will.practisenativeskills regularlyproud
