Listening
Situation 1 Talking about Dressing
Task 1
Listen to a conversation and tick the questions the man asked.
□ 1.Do university students in Taiwan dress like the students you see here?
□ 2.What styles are popular in your country?And what colour?
□ 3.Why are you still surprised?
□ 4.Do you think I look fashionable in this dress?
□ 5.Why do you think clothing styles were even sloppier twenty years ago?
□ 6.Are clothing styles more conservative now?
□ 7.Did hippies dress in very casual ways?
□ 8.Would you like to come to Taipei for a visit?
Task 2
Listen to the conversation again and complete the following sentences.
Jonathan: So,do university students in Taiwan dress like the students you see here?
Sophie: Yes,it's similar.But I'm still surprised.
Jonathan: Why?
Sophie: It's even more 1 here.In Taiwan,clothing styles used to be more formal.But now people are dressing more like Americans,more 2.
Jonathan: Actually,now people dress a little better than before.
Sophie: Really?
Jonathan: Yes,twenty years ago,for example,clothing styles were even sloppier.
Sophie: Why do you think that was?
Jonathan: Well,you know about the 1960s in America,there was a kind of social 3. There were many hippies.
Sophie: Yes,I know about the hippies.It was a movement of people who 4 capitalist society.
Jonathan: The hippies dressed in very casual ways.And they 5 all the later generations,so clothes were more casual.If you look at clothing styles in the 1970s,1980s,and early 1990s,you will see they are 6 to the style of the hippies.But now,styles have changed a little.
Sophie: Maybe they are more conservative now.
Jonathan: I don't know if conservative is the right word.They are just different.
Sophie: Well,if you have a 7, I'd be happy to have you stay at our place in Taipei.
Jonathan: I'd like to go sometime.I'd like to see how women dress there.
Sophie: I think you'd have a good time there.
Jonathan: That's a very 8 offer.
Situation 2 Talking about the Importance of Clothes
Task 3
Listen to a passage and answer the following questions.
1.Why do clothes play a critical part in our life?
2.What can we infer from the clothes people wear?
3.What influences do conservative dresses have on newscasters?
4.How do college students view clothing on important social occasions?
5.Can clothing help people in a stressful situation?
Task 4
Listen to the passage with some blanks for you to fill in.
Clothes play a critical part in the conclusions we reach by providing clues to who people are,who they are not and who they would like to be.They tell us a good deal about the wearer's background,personality, 1, mood and social outlook.
People 2 to agree on what certain types of clothes mean.Adolescent girls can easily agree on the 3 of girls who wear certain outfits,including the number of boyfriends they likely have had and whether they smoke or drink.Newscasters,or the announcers who read the news on TV,are considered to be more convincing,honest and 4 when they are dressed 5. And college students who view themselves as taking an active role in their 6 relationships say they are 7 about the costumes they must wear to play these roles successfully.Moreover,many of us can relate 8 in which the clothing we wore changed the way we felt about ourselves and how we acted.Perhaps you have used clothing to gain 9 when you anticipated a stressful situation,such as a job 10, or a court appearance.