试听180秒2.2.1. Stating Facts and Giving Reasons 陈述事实和阐明理由-Learning & Practice

stating facts and giving reasons

Let‘s brainstorm!

Sometimes the information you have topresent in a meeting is not going to please

the other participants. What do you thinkis the best way of presenting unwelcome news?

You may like

You might hate

Begin with something positive and introduce the bad news later

Only introduce the bad news if you have a solution to offer

Be direct and start with the bad news

Inform you the news in front of all the  co-workers

Vocabulary list

Vocabulary

Pronunciation

Meaning

schedule

 [ˈskedʒʊl]

a plan of what someone is going to do and when they are going to do it

Specification

[,spesɪfɪ'keɪʃ(ə)n]

a detailed instruction about how a car, building, piece of equipment etc. should be made

Modify

['mɒdɪfaɪ] 

to make small changes to something in order to improve it 

Component

 [kəm'pəʊnənt]

one of several parts that together make up a whole machine, system etc

Client

['klaɪənt]

someone who gets services or advice from a professional person, company, or an organization

Account

[ə'kaʊnt]

a written or spoken description that says what happens in an event or a process

Progress

['prəʊgres]

the process of getting better at doing something

Presentation

Matt Wolfe works for an e-learning companyin Brighton, England, which produces online training packages for a majorclient with offices in the USA and Australia.

Matt is ringing Scott Myers in Chicago andMichael Oldman in Sydney to give them an account of the progress on a project.

Listen to the 1st part of the conferencecall. Choose the correct answers.

Matt says the project is/isn’t on schedule.

There is a problem with the picture/project.

Matt thinks/doesn’t think the specifications will need to be modified.

The client’s original brief asked/didn’t ask for a video component.

There is/isn’t enough money to keep to the original specifications.

The expected production costs were correct/incorrect.

考察点：

1/6相近发音的单词

5/6 同意反对态度

Listen and repeat the sentences above. Notice the pronunciation ofaffirmative(YES) or negative(NO).

What can you do here?

You can go to the zoo.

You can’t go on Mondays.

听力误区：

地道的英语表达会进行吞音，因此在实际语境中无法听到100%的can和can‘t的发音。

∴ 听力难点在于：需要根据语音语调判别说话者的语气。

∵ 肯定 降调；否定升调

∴ 态度判断完成

TEST

1.       What fun thing ___ you do inyour city? can

2.       What ______ you do? can’t

3.       You —— sit at outdoor cafes at night. can

4.       You _____ go to a showevery night. can’t

5.       You _____ spend a day at thebeach. can

6.       You_____ see live music at aclub can’t

7.       You _____ take a ferry to anisland can

8.       You _____ go up a tower. can

IntensiveListening

Listento the start of the call again and complete sentences.

When youlisten again, what do you focus on?

1.             Collocation 搭配

2.             Tense 时态

3.             Sentence structure 句子结构

4.             Language accumulation 语言积累

5.             Language sense 语感