UNIT 1 How long have you been collecting shells?
SECTION A
1b Listen. A reporter is talking to the participants in a skating marathon. Fill in the chart below.
2a Listen to the interview with the skating marathon winner and check (P) the questions you hear.
2b Listen again. Draw lines to match the questions with answers in activity 2a.
3a Read the passage and them complete the table.
I'm talking to you from the Hilltop School skating Marathon.
Here, students are skating to raise money for charity.
For every hour they skate, each student raises ten Yuan for charity.
The skating marathon has been going for five hours now, and several skaters are still skating.
Alison was the first one to star, and has been skating for the whole five hours.
Next is Sam, and he has been skating for four hours.
Lu Ning has been skating for four hours too, and Li Chen just started an hour ago.
SECTION B
2a Listen. What do Bob, Marcia, and Liam collect? Fill in the chart under "what".
2b Listen again. How long have they been collecting these things?How many do they have? Fill in the chart under "How long" and "How many".
3a Read the following message. Then draw lines to match the snow globes with their descriptions.
Dear Jack,
Thanks for sending me the snow globe of the monster I love it.
It fact I think it's probably my favorite.
I've been collecting snow globes for seven years, and now I have 226 of them.
My mom says I have to stop, because we've run out of room to store them.
hey're all around our apartment.
I even them in boxes under my bed.
The first one I ever got was a birthday cake snow globe on my seventh birthday.
I particularly love globes with animals.
I have a big one with bears in it, and another one with penguins.
If you know anyone else who collects them, please tell me.
I'll like to start a snow globe collectors' club.
By the way, what's your hobby？
Love,Ellen
While
I've been studying history in China.
My name is Leo.
I'm from Australia, and I've been teaching in China for two years.
I teach in harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang Province.
This is really an intersting city with a very colorful history.
There is some European influence in the city, and some of the old build-ings in harbin are in russian style.
Since I came to China, I've been learning a lot about my family history.
Although I'm Australian, my family is jewish.
SO it was very interesting for me to learn that a lot of jews came to live in Harbin many years ago.
My parents were so surprised when I told them about this in China.
In fact, the first Jews probably came to kaifeng more than a thousand years ago, and were welcomed by the Song Emperor.
When I lived in Australia, I studied history at school, but we usually studied Australian or western history.
However, when I heard that I was going to work in China I started studying Chinese history.
I've been studying for over two years now
My friends in Australia said that Chinese history was very hard to undertand, but I don't really agree.
I think if you study hard, you'll be able to understand and culture.
for a for-eigner like me, the more I learn about Chinese history, the more I enjoy living in China.
I really enjoy my time .
Although I live quite far from Beijing, I'm certain I will be here for the Olympic Games in 2008!