[00:00.00] Unit 7

[00:02.84]Music

[00:05.65]part 1

[00:09.36]3 Sing along

[00:13.82]Directions:

[00:17.46]Listen to the songs and fill in the missing words.Then sing along

[00:24.66]1 Edelweis

[02:17.99]2 DO Re Me

[03:55.04]3 Moon River

[06:52.63]4 Country Roads

[10:08.51]5 Top of the Worid

[13:10.56]6 Yesterday Once More

[17:08.12]Part Two

[17:11.15]Listening-Centered Activities

[17:15.50]Listening I

[17:19.57]Exercise 1

[17:23.96]Directions: Bill, Howard, and Lisa are talking about background music

[17:32.35]Listen to the first part of the conversation and then fill in the blanks

[17:38.69]Then listen again to check your answers.

[17:43.94]On Background Music

[17:48.01]In this conversation, Bill, Howard, and Lisa are talking about background music.

[17:56.40]PART ONE

[17:59.53]Bill: What are you working on now?

[18:03.49]Howard: I've just finished a piece of background music.

[18:08.24]Lisa: Background music? Oh, like the music they're playing here now.

[18:15.05]Howard: Yes. You hear it everywhere--in restaurants, airports,

[18:21.78]supermarkets,department stores

[18:25.92]Bill: In banks, too. I noticed it while we were at the bank today.

[18:32.33]Lisa: Did you? I didn't.

[18:36.00]Howard: You are not supposed to notice it .It's just there, in the background

[18:42.55]It's supposed to influence your attitudes, put you in the right mood.

[18:49.10]Lisa: I'm not sure I like that idea.

[18:53.57]Howard: Well, it seems to work

[18:56.99]Companies pay millions of dollars every year for background music

[19:02.93]It's supposed to give you a better feeling about yourself and the people around you

[19:09.70]Factories use it a lot

[19:13.30]It makes the workers happy, and they work better that way

[19:19.09]In one factory, music increased production 4.5 percent.

[19:26.00]Bill: I should think they'd get tired of hearing music all day.

[19:30.76]Howard: They don't though

[19:33.92]One fellow in San Francisco told me, "If the music stops,

[19:40.58]somebody always runs to the telehone to complain."

[19:45.62]Lisa: Now that I think about it,

[19:49.55]I can't remember when there wasn't background music in restaurants and stores.

[19:55.92]Howard: That shows how young you are

[19:59.99]Actually, it all started during World War II

[20:05.10]when some factories had their own orchestras to keep workers happy and came

[20:12.26]Now, of course, the music is piped in by a machine,

[20:17.59]and different kinds of music are played at different times during the day

[20:24.25]They play faster music at ten in the morning than at eight

[20:29.90]for instance, because workers tend to be slower then.

[20:36.06]Exercise 2

[20:39.77]Directions:

[20:42.94]Listen to the second part of the conversation

[20:47.87]and decide whether the following statements are true or false

[20:55.03]Write "T" for true and "F" for false

[21:00.29]Then listen again to check your answers.

[21:05.00]PART TWO

[21:08.68]Bill: What about restaurants

[21:12.20]Do they play the same music for dinner and lunch?

[21:16.92]Howard: I don't know about that, but I do know that hamburger places play fast music

[21:24.44]When they started playing faster music,

[21:29.16]they found that a customer spent only seventeen minutes eating

[21:35.96]The time was twenty-two minutes before that.

[21:40.61]Lisa: So they have more people coming in and out to buy hamburgers.

[21:45.79]Howard: Exactly.And that's good for busines

[21:51.59]You can see why music has become so popular

[21:56.84]In Los Angeles,for instance,

[22:00.73]thirty different companies are selling background music sevices

[22:06.85]Lisa: I still think there's something about it that I don's quite like

[22:13.12]Howard: I know what you mean, but lots of people would't agree with you

[22:19.16]The Xerox Corporation in Rochester, N.Y.,

[22:24.96]spends more than $80,000 a year for background music.

[22:30.76]Prisons use it, and farmers use it to keep their cattle calm

[22:36.98]It's even supposed to have an effect on plants.

[22:42.35]Listening II

[22:45.73]Exercise 1

[22:50.48]Directions:

[22:54.23]Listen to the passage and fill in the blanks

[22:59.56]Listen again to check your answers.

[23:03.98]Music to Operate by

[23:07.76]More and more doctors are operating to music

[23:13.31]They say it eases their minds

[23:17.77]One doctor in Chicago says classical music

[23:23.86]is the only kind that does not interfere while he is operating

[23:29.83]But in another Chicago operating room, the British rock group Pink Floyd can be heard

[23:38.40]And in Washington, at least one doctor operates to the sound of the Beatles.

[23:46.07]Researchers from the State University of New York at Buffalo

[23:52.15]did a study that seems to confirm that music helps reduce tension in doctors

[24:00.43]They gave fifty male doctors difficult mathematical kinds of tests.

[24:07.88]The doctors did the test while listening to music they had chosen

[24:14.83]They did a similar test while listening to music that was chosen for them

[24:21.67]They were tested a third time with no music at all

[24:27.36]Each time, a machine measured their heart rate and blood pressure.

[24:34.13]The doctors worked most quickly and calmly

[24:39.53]when listening to the music they had chosen

[24:44.35]They did the worst with no music at all.

[24:49.57]What kinds of music did the doctors choose

[24:54.32]Mostly classical

[24:57.74]But some chose instrumental jazz pieces or Irish folk music.

[25:05.34]There probably is one piece of music

[25:09.69]that should never be played during an operation:

[25:14.88]Brahms' Lullab