新概念第三册分课答案7

Lesson 7 Mutilated ladies

Listening comprehension

1 Introduce the story

T : Today we'll talk about damaged bank notes.

2 Understand the situation

T : What do you think is happening in the picture?

3 Listening objective

T : Listen to the passage (or read it silently) and see if you can answer this question:

Why did Jane cook John 's wallet?

4 Play the tape or read the story or wait for the

students to finish reading silently

5 Answer the question

After the reading, ask the question again: Why did Jane cook John's wallet?

Train the students not to shout out the answer. Instead, ask one student, then ask the others to agree or disagree with a show

of hands.

Answer: She cooked a meal in the microwave oven without knowing

John had put his wallet there.

6 Intensive reading

Play the tape or read the text again, pausing after every sentence to check the students understand. Obtain brief explanations to difficulties in the text from the students themselves. Only use Chinese if confirmatory translation is necessary.

7 Play the tape or read the story again

8 Reading aloud

Ask one or two students to read the text aloud. Comprehension questions

1 Do clothes put into a washing machine sometimes contain money? (Yes, they do.)

2 What happens to bank notes put into a washing machine? (They

turn white.)

3 Do people in Britain despair if they make this mistake? (No, they don't.)

4 Why not? (Because the Bank of England has a team which deals

with claims.)

5 W hat's this team called? (‘Mutilated Ladies’.)

6 What does ‘lady’ refer to? (The Queen's head which appears

on British bank notes.)

7 What kind of business does John run? (A furniture business.)

8 What's the name of his fiancée? (Jane Butlin.)

9 What did John do with his wallet containing ￡3,000? (He put it in the microwave oven for safekeeping.)

10 Did his fiancée know about this? (No, she didn't.)

11 What did John and Jane do after John came home from work?

(They went horse-riding.)

12 What did Jane do when they returned home? (She cooked their

dinner in the microwave oven.)

13 What else did she cook? (John's wallet.)

14 What happened to the notes? (They turned to ash.)

15 How did they both feel about this? (Dismayed.)

16 Who did John go and see? (His bank manager.)

17 What did the bank manager do? (He sent the remains to the

Mutilated Ladies department in Newcastle.)

18 Did John get his money back? (Yes, he did.)

19 Why did the Mutilated Ladies pay the money back? (Because