文档介绍：Unit 6 Listening
To listen to and understand a floor plan, you should do the following:
Take a look at the floor plan and understand the signs and symbols before you listen.
Pay attention to expressions like It’s straight that … Go down …, It’s opposite/ to the right/ left of …, etc.
A Understanding a floor plan
restaurant
waiting room
Jackie Smith’s office
Travel Quiz studio
B Are you a couch potato?
couch potato
A couch potato is a person who likes to spend a lot of time sitting or lying down while watching television.
The word “couch potato” was first created by Robert Armstrong, a USA artist in 1976.
A mouse potato is a person who spends
a lot of time puters.
Bob Jones is the health reporter on a local radio show. He is explaining why watching too much TV is bad for people. Listen to his report and plete the answers to the questions below.
Ask and Answer:
Why do many people watch TV?
It entertains them and ______________
_____________.
2. What do “couch potatoes” do?
They ____________ and spend hours and hours on the couch watching TV.
3. What are “couch potatoes” like?
They are more like __________than ________.
tells them all the latest news
hardly move
vegetables people
4. What is wrong with “couch potatoes”?
They don’t get _________________________. They ___________ easily. They don’t use ________________ either.
5. What are the homes of “couch potatoes” like?
They live in messy homes. They don’t like
_________________.
enough exercise
their brains
doing house work
more than 10 hours
6. How many hours should we spend watching TV each week?
Try not to watch TV for __________________
each week.
more than 10 hours
C. Discussion
Discuss the questions with
your partner :
1. How to avoid the habit of being a couch potato or a mouse potato?
2. Find out the healthy lifestyle you would like and give some facts.