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[00:02.00]Unit 4 Colorful Lands,Colorful People(I)
[00:07.18]Part I Warming up
[00:10.95]A:Key words:
[00:16.98]-est
[00:20.14]Vocabulary:
[00:26.20]peninsula altitude trench
[00:32.86]Greenland the Sahara Desert the Caspian Sea
[00:40.78]Lake Superior Mt.Qomolangma(Mt.Everest)
[00:50.23]Baykal Mariana Trench the Nile
[00:58.88]Here are some statements of some superlative world geographical statistice.
[01:05.96]Listen carefully and complete the following chart.
[01:11.71]Pay special attention to the numbers.
[03:51.11]B:Key words:
[03:58.37]earth water land area
[04:05.63]Vocabulary:
[04:11.79]bare gulf bay isthmus
[04:20.75]plateau canyon plain
[04:28.02]you are going to hear a passage about the blue planet-Earth.
[04:33.87]While listening,fill in the blanks with the missing words
[04:39.90]and get familiar with the different features of the land.
[04:45.15]Seen from space,our earth,with____covering____of its surface,
[04:53.02]appears as the beautiful "blue planet."
[04:58.19]The bare land areas appear___,dark green shows where there is___,
[05:05.63]and the white means___.
[05:09.19]Besides the seven major land areas,called___,there are thousands of___.
[05:16.84]Some of these are arranged in groups and some stand alone in the great oceans.
[05:23.40]Arms of land which reach out into the water are called peninsulas;
[05:29.85]seas,gulfs and bays are___which lie between islands and peninsulas.
[05:38.02]A narrow piece of land___two larger land areas is an isthmus;
[05:44.97]a narrow stretch of water between two land areas is called a strait or____.
[05:52.34]Water is constantly in motion on the earth.
[05:57.30]Rain water runs off the mountains into____;
[06:02.45]it collects in lakes and rivers which carry it back to the seas.
[06:08.72]From the high altitudes of mountain passes and plateaus
[06:14.05]to the canyons an low-lying____.
[06:18.59]the features of the land are wonderful to see.
[06:23.35]Part II
[06:31.60]In Brazil and France
[06:37.95]A:Key words:
[06:45.03]amusing confuse understand
[06:52.89]French canoe
[06:58.04]Vocabulary:
[07:03.99]squid deposit
[07:09.87]Now listen to two short stories.
[07:15.15]In each of the stories,there is one person who makes a fool of himself.
[07:21.99]Listen carefully and try to fill in the words in the charts below.
[08:35.47]B:Key words:
[08:42.24]trip Brazil street vendors unusual things
[08:51.91]fortune-teller eating France
[08:59.45]performer portrait
[09:04.89]Vocabulary:
[09:11.05]vendor fortune-teller specialty
[09:19.52]B1.In this part you are going to hear two people talking about Brazil and France.
[09:28.16]While listening,pay special attention to the interesting things
[09:34.72]they can see or do on the streets in both countries.
[09:40.47]Then complete the chart filling in the missing information.
[11:08.92]B2.Now listen to the dialogue again
[11:15.08]and answer the following questions with key words.