新编大学英语4口语话题

第一单元:

Discussion:

1.How do College Students Spend Their Leisure Time?

2.What are the most active and most passive activities people do?

3.My Favorite Pastime

Questions:

1.What is your favorite film?

2.What kind of role does humor play in our daily life?

3.How do people spend their holidays nowadays?

4.What’s your plan for the coming summer holiday?

5.Do you think humor is a key to getting along with others? Explain your answer.

6.Talk about the book you read recently.

第二单元：

Discussion:

1.Is writing better than calling? Give your reasons.

2.Words I will never forget. (Power of words)

Questions:

1.Talk about the sentence that moved you the most.

2.Talk about the sentence that encouraged you the most.

3.What is the function of dialect? Should dialect be replaced by Mandarin?

I think Mandarin is more useful. There are around 80 completely different dialects in China. If we don’t learn Mandarin, we may find it hard or even impossible to communicate with people from different parts of China. For example, last semester most of our classmates had a hard time in math class because the math teacher had so strong an accent that it prevented us from understanding his lecture. To some of us, his strong accent not only meant a lot of inconvenience but also led to our failure in the final.

4.Talk about the power of words of encouragement.

5.Do you think people need encouragement and praise? Why or why not?

6.Do you often send or receive from your friends letters or notes? How do you feel when you

send or receive them?

Sample 1：I usually send or receive letters to or from my parents once a month. I have many friends and classmates and we write each other letters. I am very happy when I receive their letters, and can’t wait to read them. Sometimes I can’t help laughing while reading because they tell me a joke or describe something interesting in the letter. After I send a letter, I will wait anxiously for a reply. I hope they enjoy my letters too, for I want to make them feel good.

Sample2：There is no doubt that people need encouragement and praise. All of us would like to feel needed and admired. If we didn’t hear any words of encouragement or praise, how could we know that we were valued by people close to us? Besides, when I fail to do something successfully, I’ll feel depressed. If someone can comfort or console me at this moment, and give

me encouragement, they’ll probably make a big difference in my life. On the other hand, if I can encourage or cheer my friend. I’ll feel good about myself. So encouragement actually benefits people on both sides.

第三单元：

讨论话题同网络课堂布置的

Questions:

1.Is it true with Chinese students that boys do better in math and science, while girls have

better verbal and reading skills? Expain your answer.

Sample 1

Yes, I think so. As far as I know, most boy students in China do better in math and science. It is fully demonstrated by the number of boy students who have won prizes in the Olympic Science Contests and by the ratio of boy students to girl students in science departments in colleges and universities.

Sample 2

I don’t think I can answer the question by a simple “yes”or “no”.

With more girls receiving higher education and going to graduate school, it won’t be difficult to find girls who are really good in math and science courses. As we can see in our university, there are quite a few female math professors and also female professors specialized in science and engineering. Besides, many boys are found to have developed excellent language and reading skills.

2.Can you think of any ways in which Chinese culture affects gender roles?

Chinese culture also has stereotyped gender roles. Boys and girls are taught and expected to behave differently from each other both at home and at school. If they don’t fit into traditional gender mold, girls are said to be like boys and boys like girls. The following are the ways that culture or education affects gender roles.

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Boys and girls are provided with different kinds of toys to play with: dolls and pretty things are for girls while toy cars and guns are for boys.

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Boys are expected to play outdoors and girls, in most cases, indoors.

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Girls are expected to be clean and neat, and well dressed and boys should be strong and tough, and can deal with difficulties

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Males, especially in the country, are expected to be better educated than females and they should be more career-oriented to support the family and females are expected to support their husbands. There’s an old saying “having no skills and intelligence is a good virtue of women.”

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Women are expected to be quiet and shy while men are expected to be powerful and more aggressive.

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