外研新标准必修五 高二上

Module 4

Listening

Objective

能识别听力中新学的词汇、短语并正确理解其含义。能够听懂和捕捉到狂欢节的有关信息。

Listen to Interview 1.

(INT=Interview; CAI=Caitlin; CAM=Cameron; MAR=Maria; STE=Stefan)

INT: Could you tell us about carnival in New Orleans, Caitlin? CAI: Well, we call it Mardi Gras which is a ________ __________. It means Fat Tuesday, when you could eat and drink what you wanted, before ______ ___ meat before ______. INT: So is it still a _______ festival?

French expression

giving up Easterone-day

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CAI: Oh, no, it lasts about two months. From the beginning of January to the end of February, _____ ___ _____. INT: What are the ______ of Mardi Gras? CAI: It was brought to the States by the French, at the beginning of the 18th century, I think. INT: And what's the _____ _____ of the festival?

more or less

origins

high spot

CAI: The parades, and the music, New Orleans ___ ______ ___ jazz, of course ... INT: Do you eat any special food? CAI: Well, there's King Cake, which is a cake for the ________ ______. INT: Is it very special? CAI: Well, ______ _______, it isn't. It's a _____ ordinary cake, _____ _____ flour and eggs with a bit of sugar ___ ___. It's OK,

Carnival King

funnily enough

rather made from

on top

is famous for

but I don't ____ _____ about it. I'd rather have something with chocolate! But _______ inside the cake there's a plastic baby. INT: Which you can eat? CAI: No, no. The idea is, if you find the baby, then you have to ________ a party yourself and _____ everyone to it. INT: So the ____________ continue ... CAI: That's right.

organizeinvite

celebrations

go wild

hidden

Listen to Interview 2.

INT: Cameron, where is Notting Hill? CAM: It's a ______ of London, just west of Hyde Park. INT: And it's famous for its carnival? CAM: That's right. INT: When is it? CAM: It's the ____ ________ in August. INT: So it lasts for just two days? CAM: Yes. INT: Why isn't it in February, like a __________ carnival?

district

traditional

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last weekend

CAM: Well in Britain a lot of carnivals are held in the summer, I ________ because the weather's better. INT: What are the ______ of the carnival? CAM: It isn't very old. After the Second World War a lot of people from Jamaica and other countries in the Caribbean, which ____ ___ __ British colonies, came to London looking for work. But there wasn't a carnival in London, the only festival was _________. But in Jamaica carnival is the

suppose

used to be

Christmas

origins

most _________ festival. And Jamaicans

living here really felt ___ ____ ____ a

carnival. So in the _____ they had the

first one. My grandfather was there! It

was very small at first, but it grew, and

now there are usually _____ _____ a

million people.

INT: What about food? Is there a ______

dish people eat?

important

the need for

more than

1960s

special

CAM: Not really - there's lots of very

good Jamaican food, though, which you

can buy in the ______. The traditional

food is _______ with rice and peas,

Jamaican style - we eat a lot of that. I

______ it ___ more spicy food because

it's simple. 

chicken

prefer to

street

Listen to Interview 3.

INT: People always say Carnival in Rio is special. Maria, you're from Rio, can you tell us why? MAR: I think it's because carnival is in ____ _____! Brazilians ____ carnival. Everybody, I mean, everybody, _____ ____. INT: When is it? MAR: It's at the end of the summer, in February.

our blood lovetakes part

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INT: And it lasts for? MAR: It lasts for ____ _____, from Thursday to Tuesday. INT: What are the origins of Carnival in Rio? MAR: Well, carnival ___ ________ to Brazil by the Portuguese, but carnival as we know it today, with the street parades, _____ _____ to 1850. INT: What's the high spot of the festival?dates back

five days

was brought

MAR: I think it's got to be the samba

school parades. The samba, you know, is

the ______ Brazilian dance, whose

origins ___ ____ to Africa. There are a

lot of samba schools in the town, and

during carnival there is a __________

between them. It's really________.

INT: Is there a special carnival dish?

typical

go back

competition

exciting

MAR: The typical food is called Feijoad

a, which is ________ _____ with beans a

nd garlic. I really like it. It's rather rich

and very _____. You can _____ it _____

with beer, or an alcoholic fruit juice call

ed batidas, or beer, if you ______, and t

hen ...

INT: And then ...

tasty

wash down

basically pork

prefer

MAR: Well, then people often like to

_____ it ___ on the beach.

INT: Of course, I was forgetting, Rio is

a city built __________ a beach.

MAR: Yes, it's the most beautiful

beach in the world, and it's always

____ ___ people, day and night ...

especially at Carnival.

walk off

alongside

full of

Listen to Interview 4.

INT: Stefan, what is Oktoberfest? STE: Well, the name in German means October Festival. INT: And it's held in October? STE: Yes, that's right, or ___ ____ it starts at the end of September and then continues into October. INT: ____ ____ does it last? STE: For two weeks. INT: And what is the origin?

at least

How long

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STE: The origin is rather interesting. It

was a _____ _____, so it’s got _______ __

_ ___ ____ carnival, like the carnivals in

Venice or in Rio. The race was held to ce

lebrate a _____ ________, between Princ

e Leopold and Princess Theresa of Baver

ia, in 1810. But the main thing was alway

s the ______ and _______, not the horse

race.

to do with

royal wedding

horse race nothing

drinkfood

INT: So what do you eat at the Oktoberfest? STE: _________. Sausages, and sauerkraut, which is ________ and ______. It's typical German food. INT: Do you like sausages yourself? STE: Sure. I think sausages are the greatest ________ in the world. I just love them. And I quite like cabbage, too.

Sausagescabbage

onions

invention

INT: And what do people drink?

STE: Beer, of course. Lots of beer. I

read that about ____ ______ ________

are drunk every year, that's probably

about ten glasses ___ ______.

INT: It must be good beer.

STE: Oh, it is. Very good.

ten million glasses

per person