[00:00.00] Unit 1

[00:25.60]The Education I Received

[00:30.77]Integrated Skills Development

[00:36.02]Dialogues

[00:39.89]A.I Went to yale University

[00:46.05]Dick Dylon is a new foreign teacher of English.

[00:52.40]Liu Lin,one of his Chinese students,

[00:58.04]is interested to know about the education he received.

[01:04.10]Liu: Could you tell me what university you went to,Mr.Dylon?

[01:10.27]Dylon: I went to Yate University.

[01:14.95]Liu: Did you? What courses did you take there?

[01:20.80]Dylon: I did an M.A. in philosophy.

[01:25.34]Liu: How long did you study there?

[01:29.70]Dylon: Four years.

[01:32.97]Liu: When did you graduate?

[01:36.81]Dylon: I graduated in 1995.

[01:42.87]Liu: What did you do after that?

[01:47.23]Dylon: I went to Germany.

[01:51.20]Liu: Germany? What did you do there?

[01:55.64]Dylon: I taught English to a group of German college students.

[02:01.70]Liu: How long did you stay there?

[02:05.54]Dylon: Only one year.

[02:08.99]B. I Enjoyed My Time in North University

[02:17.53]Now Liu Lin is telling Dick Dylon about the education he received.

[02:26.00]Dylon: Would you like to tell me what university you graduated from,Liu Lin?

[02:32.95]Liu: I graduated from North University in 1997.

[02:39.29]Dylon: How old is the university?

[02:43.94]Liu: It was founded in 1947.

[02:49.22]Dylon: How many students were there in the university?

[02:54.26]Liu: There were over 9000 students.

[02:59.62]Dylon: Did you have any foreign students?

[03:04.48]Liu: Yes.

[03:07.53]Some came to do their first degree and we had a lot of graduate students too.

[03:14.61]Dylon: Did most of the students live in the university?

[03:20.36]Liu: Yes,we had dormitories for all our students.

[03:26.11]The college provided meals.

[03:29.95]Dylon: Did you enjoy your time in the university?

[03:34.70]Liu: Yes,I did.

[03:38.07]Passage Caroline as a Teacher

[03:45.93]Caroline's favorite subject at school was math.

[03:52.99]She enjoyed solving prob-lems,and was intereted in the teaching methods.

[04:00.35]But most of her friends tended to find math very difficult,

[04:06.31]and because they thought it was a useless subject,

[04:11.17]they saw no point working at it.

[04:16.13]Math was,in fact,the least popular subject in Caroline's class.

[04:24.18]During Caroline's last year at school,

[04:29.53]the teachers went on strike for two months

[04:34.89]to protest against the size of their classes(30-35 was typical).

[04:43.25]Each morning,Caroline gave private math lessons to three of her friends,

[04:51.29]so that they would have a chance of passing their examination.

[04:57.25]She's patient,and good at explaining things to people,

[05:03.49]and the lessons went well. Caroline and her three friends all passed.

[05:11.22]They offered to pay her for the lessons,but she refused.

[05:17.47]She felt sympathy for the teachers'strike,

[05:22.61]and did not think it would be fair if she took money for doing their job.