Lesson 74 PartⅠ

Lesson  74

PartⅠWarming-up Exercises

sentence Structure

Training Focus:

Understanding the subjunctive mood

Directions: This drill is for practice in understanding the subjunctive mood. Listen carefully. Choose a, b, or c as the correct response to the sentence you hear on the tape.

Key:

1.Jack wishes he lived in a warm climate. (b)

2.I wish it were raining. (c)

3.It's a wonderful place for a picnic. We should've driven out this way earlier. (b)

4.Mary would have been caught in the rain if she had come back late. (b)

5.We would have gone for a picnic if the weather had been fine. (b)

6.Dick wished he had brought his raincoat to the school.(a)

7.The boys would have made a snow man if the snow had been heavy. (a)

8.I would buy an umbrella if I had some more money with me. (c)

Lesson 74 PartⅡ

Lesson  74

Ex.Ⅰ

Directions: Fill in the blanks with the words you hear on the tape.

Key: (see tapescript)

Ex.Ⅱ

Directions: Choose a, b, or c to complete each statement.

Key: 1.b             2.b         3.a

Ex.Ⅲ

Directions: Choose a, b, or c to complete each statement.

Key: 1.c                      2. b

Tapescript:

Short Dialogues  (38″)

(for practice in drawing inferences)

Monologue

Carol: Oh, I used to like that dress. I mean the first time I saw it. I was even going to ask my mother if I could buy it. But then I saw that snob Rosalie Parks, you know, the one with all the boy friends. She thinks all the girls will do everything she does. Well, I saw her wearing that dress at school, and I realized it's really an ugly dress. I wouldn't be caught dead in it now.

Dialogue

A: If you don't have an account here, I can't cash your check. I'm sorry, but that's the way it is.

B: Well, thanks a lot! You're a big help!

Lesson 74 Part Ⅲ

Lesson  74

Ex.Ⅰ

Directions: Draw lines to match Column B with Column A to illustrate Nick's comment on the British climate and the British weather.

Key: (see tapescript)

Ex.Ⅱ

Directions: Answer the questions according to what you hear on the tape.

Key: (see tapescript)

Tapescript:

British Weather  (1′52″)

Our friend, Nick, whose English gets better and better declared solemnly the other day that he thought that the British climate was wonderful, but the British weather was terrible. He went on to elucidate by pointing out that the British climate was atemperate one. “This meant,” he said, “that you could always be certain that the weather would never be extreme, at any rate not for any length of time, never very hot and never very cold.” He quite rightly pointed out that the rainfall in Britain, according to the statistics, was not very heavy. “Why then,” he asked, “has the British climate such a bad reputation?” He answered by saying it was because .of the extraordinary, unreliable weather. There was no part of the year at which you could be certain that the weather would be dry or wet, clear or dull, hot or cold. A bad day in July could be as cold as a mild day in January. Indeed you could feel cold at almost any time of the year. Nick blamed drafty British houses for this, but agreed that you could also blame the small amount of sunshine and a great amount of dampness. He admitted he had never experienced one of London's notorious fogs, “which,” he said, “were things of the past.” For the present he advised every student coming to Britain to bring an umbrella and to understand the meaning of that splendid word “drizzle.”