Unit 1 Listening

1. Unit 1 Listening Listening & Listening Task SB & WB

2. Do you know “Father of China's Aerospace” & “King of Rockets” Qian XueSen (1911-)

3. Qian Xuesen (1911- ), a native of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, went to the United States to study in 1935. In 1955 he returned to China, and in 1958 he joined the Communist Party.

4. He served successively as Director of the Institute of Mechanics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Vice-Minister of the No. 7 Ministry of the Machine-building Industry, Vice-Minister of the State Commission on Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence and Chairman of the China Association for Science and Technology. He was also elected alternate member of the Ninth through Twelfth CPC Central Committees. Qian played a leading role in the research, manufacture and testing of carrier rockets, guided missiles and satellites, thus making outstanding contributions to the development of China's aerospace industry.

5. Unit 1 Great scientists Using Language Listening and speaking 1. Qian Xuesen is one of the bes-known scientists in China. His work has been very important for the development of China. Yu Ping is telling her friend Steve Smith about Qian Xuesen’s life. Listen to the tape and then answer the questions.

6. 1. What did Qian study first? • Qian Xuesen first studied to be an engineer.

7. 2. What experience did he get in America that was very useful for China? • In America he began to work on space rockets so that he was able to develop a space programme when he came back to China.

8. 3. What was Qian’s achievement when he return to China from America? • When Qian Xuesen returned to China he set up a Space Institute to begin training people in how to design and build rockets.

9. 4. How has he been honoured in China? • In China he has been honoured as “the father of the space programme”.

10. 5. How would Steve honour him? • Steve Smith suggested putting Qian Xuesen’s picture on Mars when the first Chinese astronaut lands there.

11. 2. Discuss.

12. Workbook • Listening. Robert Briggs is very interested in biology and especially in the study of plants. Today he is telling his friend Zhang Wei some exciting news. Read the questions before you listen to the tape. This will help you to understand the information.

13. 1. Choose which of the following statements most closely describes what this listening passage is about. • This is about a man who wants to name a flower. • This is about a man who finds a flower and wants to own it. • This is about a man who finds a flower and wants to know if it is a new species of flower. √

14. 2. Listen to the tape again and try to complete the following passage. To find the name of unknown flower, first you have to go to see a flower ________. He / She will look in a special ________, written by Carl Linnaeus. He lived in ________ from ________ to ________. He was very important because he solved a serious problem for ________. He saw all plants and animals produce _______________________________. specialist book Sweden 1707 1778 biology young plants and animals

15. babies Some animals produce ________ but others lay ________ while plants ________. He used these different ways of producing young to put plants and animals into ________. For example, the group called birds lay ________ to produce young and they all have ________. Linnaeus put the plants and animals into small groups or species. eggs produce seeds groups eggs feathers

16. He gave each one two names. One is for the large group, for example ________ and one is for the species, for example ________. So a parrot would be ________. He was the first person to successfully classify all plants and animals. bird parrot bird

17. Talking.

18. Listening Task 2. Listen to the tape again and fill in the chart on the importance of Euler ‘s work.

19. ∏, sin, cosin Revised and analysed all maths of his day topology introduced a lot of symbols into maths; wrote more books than anyone before

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