目录

  • WEEK 1 (Prelude)
    • ● Course Plan (大纲)
    • ● 教案
    • ● Quick response: Events performed by cultural relics team
    • ● Report: Wildfires in Maui
    • ● Focus: Discharge of nuclear-contaminated water into the ocean
    • ● Report: China's responses to discharge the contaminated water
  • WEEK 2
    • ● Home listening: Assignment I (Words and Their Stories)
    • ● Report: Japanese Prime Minister ate sashimi sourced from Fukushima prefecture
    • ● Special numbers I
    • ● Special numbers II
  • WEEK 3
    • ● Home listening: Assignment II (Wizarding World of Harry Potter)
    • ● Report 1: No More Bets, the black horse in summer box office season
    • ● Report 2: Moroccan earthquake
    • ● Report 3: Color and Mood
    • ● Review: Assignment I
  • WEEK 4
    • ● Home listening: Assignment III (Capital Cities)
    • ● Report 1: Top 10 cities to live in
  • WEEK 5
    • ● Home listening: Assignment IV (Blank-filling & Summary)
    • ● Video: Traditional Mid-Autumn Festival
    • ● Quick response: Hangzhou & Hangzhou 2022
    • ● Report: Opening Ceremony of Hangzhou 2022 & The First Gold
    • ● Report: Global Livability Index 2023
    • ● Review: Assignment III (Capital Cities)
  • WEEK 6 (Golden Week)
    • ● Quick response training: Travel Advertisement
    • ● Report: Travel boom during  the Golden Week
  • WEEK 7 (Festivals)
    • ● Report 1: Christmas Day in the U.S.
    • ● Report 2: Christmas in China
  • WEEK 8
    • ● Home listening: Assignment VI (TEM-4 Conversations)
    • ● Critical listening: Mid-Autumn Festival in the UK
    • ● Review: Assignment IV (Mid- Autumn Festival in Hong Kong)
    • ● Conversation 1: How to order the round?
    • ● Conversation 2: Job interview
  • WEEK 9
    • ● Home listening: Assignment VII (The Tallest Man)
    • ● Model Test: Conversations (2023/10/22)
    • ● Report: Polar bears affected by the climate change
    • ● Model Test: Dictation (Climate Change)
    • ● Model Test: Talk (How to Be Effective Readers)
    • ● Interview: Daniel Radcliffe / Harry Potter
  • WEEK 10
    • ● Home listening: Assignment VIII (Today in History I)
    • ● Review: Assignment II (Wizarding World of Harry Potter)
    • ● Listening method training: How to identify main idea?
  • WEEK 11
    • ● Home listening: Assignment IX (Today in History II)
    • ● Review: Assignment VI (Conversations)
    • ● Quick response training: Abbreviation & Acronym
  • WEEK 12
    • ● Home listening: Assignment X (Marine Life Census)
    • ● Listening method training: Shadowing
    • ● TEM-4 Conversations (TEST 2)
    • ● Review: Assignment VII (The Tallest Man)
    • ● Review: Assignment VIII (Today in History I)
  • WEEK 13
    • ● Flipped video: Strategies for TEM-4 Talk
    • ● Home listening: Assignment XI (TEM-4 Talk)
    • ● Report:Talks on China-U.S. Relations at APEC Meeting
    • ● Note-taking: Task 1
    • ● Note-taking: Task 2
  • WEEK 14
    • ● Home listening: Assignment XII (TEM-4 Dictation)
    • ● TEM-4 Talk: Online Shopping
    • ● Note-taking: Drawing
    • ● Review: Assignment IX (Today in History - November 17th)
    • ● Review: Assignment X (Census of Marine Life)
    • ● Model Test 2: Dictation (A Midlife Career Change)
    • ● Model Test 2: Talk (How to Create a Positive Mindset)
    • ● Model Test 2: Conversations
  • WEEK 15
    • ● 《英语视听说-1》课程论文说明
    • ● 《英语视听说-1》期末考试说明
    • ● Preview: Strategies for TEM-4 Dictation
    • ● Information tracking & mapping: The University Layout
    • ● Review: Assignment XI (TEM-4 Talk)
  • WEEK 16
    • ● Review: Person of the Year
    • ● Information tracking & mapping: Tour Guide Presentation
    • ● TEM-4 Dictation
    • ● TEM-4 Talk: Using a Library
    • ● Review: Assignment XII (Dictation - Counting Species)
    • ● 专四听写练习小贴士
Home listening: Assignment VII (The Tallest Man)

Please listen to this news report carefully, and try to answer the 10 questions with details.


Here are two persons’ names involved in this report:

Sultan Kosen   /   Leonid Stadnyk


 Difficulties: 



QUESTIONS:

1. Who is officially crowned as the tallest man in the world?

2. What's Sultan Kosen's height according to the Guinness Book of Records?

3. What is he doing now?

4. Why does he have to use crutches to get round?

5. What do the Guinness officials claim about the history of human growing?

6. What causes the Kosen's height?

7. What are the sizes of his feet and hands now?

8. What are the great things according to what Kosen said?

9. What did he tell the reporters about his plan?

10. Who is believed to be the taller man? And what's the reported height?