Part I Listening and Reading
I Listen and read along.
a_e—name, lake, chase, take
e_e—these, theme, gene, scheme
i_e—bike, kite, time, revise
o_e—those, close, hole, bone
u_e—use, tune, cute, excuse
II Listen to the sentences and underline the monograms mentioned above.
1. The cute girl named Kate is sitting by the lake.
2. He rode a bike to chase the flying kite.
3. He used a knife to dig a hole in the wall of the cave.
4. He often takes notes with the white pen.
5. The theme of the meeting is how to save the boy’s life.
Listening Skills
Identifying Different Ways of Addressing People
The salutation of people is often the best clue for us to better understand the relationship among speakers. It indicates the identity of the speakers and the situations. Knowing more cultural differences also helps us understand some specific addresses. Generally speaking,in western social places, honorifics are used to address each other according to their gender and marital status. The general forms of honorifics are “Mr.” “Mrs.” “Miss” “Sir”“Madam” and so on. For example, “Mrs.” is used to refer to married women. In western social places (including workplace), people seldom use “title appellation” to address each other, such as “manager” “director” “headmaster”, etc. In addition, employees can call their superior (or boss) by his first name. This way of addressing is not considered impolite.On the contrary, it shows the equal and harmonious working relationship between the boss and the employees. In the west, the objects of title appellation are mostly limited to the royal family, the upper government, religious circles, military circles or legal circles, and so on. Mr. President and priest Father Paul are good examples of this kind.