Unit Fifteen Lifestyle (I)

1. Unit Fifteen Lifestyle (I) Part A Micro-listening Part B Macro-listening Part C Oral Practice Part D Home Listening

2. Listening for the Main Idea You’ll hear five proverbs about how to live a healthy life. Read after the recoding and learn the proverbs by heart. 1. Early to bed and early to rise makes you healthy, wealthy and wise. 早睡早起使你健康，富裕和聪明。 2. After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile. 午饭后歇歇,晚饭后走走。

3. 3. An apple a day keeps the doctor away. 每天吃苹果，医生不来找我。 4. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. 　只顾工作不玩耍，聪明孩子也变傻。 5. A little labor, much health. 　　适度劳动，没有病痛。

4. Conversation 1Our Lifestyles Are So Different Conversation 2 We’re Drifted Apart

5. Listen to the passage and choose the right answer to each of the questions you hear after the passage. 1. a. They went their separate ways. b. They got a job in the same company as production assistants for art exhibitions. c. They went back to their hometowns and lived with their parents. d. They kept in constant touch with each other. 2. a. She is teaching young people art. b. She is helping young people to develop an interest in the arts. c. She is working as a planner for art exhibitions. d. She is designing advertisements for art exhibitions.

6. 3. a. She likes it very much because she is earning a lot of money. b. She does not care for it because Bill doesn’t think it is a good job. c. She does not like it at all because the pay is low. d. She gets a lot of personal satisfaction from it despite a small salary. 4. a. Tina and Bill will get married despite their different lifestyles. b. Different lifestyles cannot prevent young people from loving each other. c. Different ways of living may result in the breaking up of a relationship. d. Tina wants to end her relationship with Bill.

7. Listen to the passage and decide whether the statements you hear are true about Bill. Put a tick in the brackets for a true statement. 1.( ) 2. ( ) 3. ( ) 4. ( ) 5. ( ) 6. ( ) 7. ( ) 8. ( )

8. Making Appropriate Responses Do you enjoy living with your roommate? ________________________________ Have you ever fallen out with your roommate? ____________________________________ What’s the biggest difference between you and your roommate? ___________________________________________________ Do you and your roommate like the same kind of music? ____________________________________________

9. Making Appropriate Responses Would you like your roommate to have a lot in common with you or not? ________________________________________________________ What topics do you discuss most often with your friends? ________________________________________________________ Are you still in touch with your friends from high school? _________________________________________________________ What is more important in ajob, a high salary or personal satisfaction?. _________________________________________________________

10. Back to the Simple Life Listen to the story and choose the right answers to the questions you hear after the story. 1. a. He wasn’t happy with his wife in Sydney. b. He wanted to get married. c. He failed to do his job well. d. He didn’t like his wealthy lifestyle there. 2. a. Fishing with his wife’s brother. b. Catching and selling fish with his wife.

11. c. Running a fishing business with his wife. d. Running a fishing business with his wife’s brother. 3. a. Money is important but it is not everything. b. A good relation between husband and wife is most important to a happy life. c. A simple life is the best thing in the world. d. Only when people are living a simple life can they be content.