[00:00.00] Unit 2

[00:03.13]Psychology in Our Daily Life

[00:07.63]Part Two

[00:10.51]Listening-Centered Activities

[00:14.90]Listening 1

[00:18.22]Exercise 1

[00:21.71]Directions:

[00:25.38]Listen to the story and decide whether the following statements

[00:31.46]are true or false. Writer "T" for true and "F" for false.

[00:41.26]A potato farmer was sent to prison just at the time

[00:49.43]when he should have been digging the ground for planting the new crop of potatoes.

[00:58.43]He knew that his wife would not be strong enough to do the digging by herself,

[01:06.92]but that she could manage to do the planting;

[01:12.50]and he also knew that he did not have any friends or neighbors

[01:20.06]who would be willing to do the digging for him.

[01:25.90]" Please do not dig the potato field. I hid the money and the gun there."

[01:35.65]Ten days later he got a letter from his wife. It said,

[01:43.93]" I think somebody is reading your letters before they go out of the prison.

[01:52.54]Some policemen arrived here two days ago and dug up the whole potato field.

[02:01.86]What shall I do now?"The prisoner wrote back at once,

[02:08.81]" Plant the potatoes, of course."

[02:14.39]Exercise 2

[02:18.10]Directions:

[02:21.52]Listen to the story again and note down what the husband said in his first letter

[02:29.65]and the wife's reply.

[02:33.58]Then work in groups to complete the two letters. Read them to the class.

[02:42.47]A potato farmer was sent to prison just at the time

[02:50.82]when he should have been digging the ground for planting the new crop of potatoes.

[02:59.93]He knew that his wife would not be strong enough to do the digging by herself,

[03:08.50]but that she could manage to do the planting;

[03:14.18]and he also knew that he did not have any friends or neighbors

[03:21.89]who would be willing to do the digging for him.

[03:27.68]So he wrote a letter to his wife which said,

[03:33.84]" Please do not dig the potato field. I hid the money and the gun there."

[03:44.42]Ten days later he got a letter from his wife. It said,

[03:53.21]" I think somebody is reading your letters before they go out of the prison.

[04:01.60]Some policemen arrived here two days ago and dug up the whole potato field.

[04:11.21]What shall I do now?"The prisoner wrote back at once,

[04:18.84]" Plant the potatoes, of course."

[04:24.31]Listening 2

[04:28.02]Exercise 1

[04:32.30]Directions:

[04:35.62]Listen to the passage

[04:38.82]and fill in the table with the information you get from the tape.

[04:45.12]The manager of a large office building

[04:50.05]received many complaints about the lift service in the building.

[04:56.50]He hired a group of engineers to study the situation.

[05:02.18]They suggested two solutions:

[05:07.19]1. adding more lifts of the same type;

[05:14.03]2. replacing the lifts with faster ones.

[05:20.18]The manager decided that both suggestions were too expensive.

[05:27.10]So he asked a psychologist to study the problem.

[05:33.18]The psychologist noticed that many people felt

[05:39.01]angry and impatient because they thought they had to wait too long for the lift.

[05:47.65]However,the psychologist found that they only had to wait a relatively short time.

[05:56.94]It occurred to him that the reason they felt angry and impatient

[06:04.28]was that they had nothing to do while they were waiting for the lifts.

[06:11.09]He suggested a simple,inexpensive solution to the manager.

[06:18.00]This was adopted and complaints stopped immediately.

[06:25.27]The solution was to place a large mirror next to the lifts.

[06:33.16]Exercise 2

[06:37.30]Directions:

[06:40.75]Listen to the passage again and then discuss in groups to find out:

[06:48.78]1)the reasons why complaints stopped immediately after the solution was adopted;

[06:58.03]2)other possible solutions to the problem.

[07:04.19]The manager of a large office building

[07:09.26]received many complaints about the lift service in the building.

[07:16.28]He hired a group of engineers to study the situation.

[07:22.22]They suggested two solutions:

[07:27.26]1.adding more lifts of the same type;

[07:33.92]2.replacing the lifts with faster ones.

[07:40.58]The manager decided that both suggestions were too expensive.

[07:47.42]So he asked a psychologist to study the problem.

[07:53.40]The psychologist noticed that many people felt angry and impatient

[08:01.64]because they thought they had to wait too long for the lift.

[08:07.94]However,the psychologist found that they only had to wait a relatively short time.

[08:16.76]It occurred to him that the reason they felt angry and impatient

[08:23.86]was that they had nothing to do while they were waiting for the lifts.

[08:30.30]He suggested a simple,inexpensive solution to the manager.