Listening Skills Training Dictation

四级考试听写题型简介 在TEM4中， 采用的是录音式标准听写， 也就是要求考生在15分钟内在全面理解所听内容的基础上准确无误地逐字逐句写出全文。 目的是测试应试者的接收性（听）与产出性（写）语言技能， 其理解， 拼写， 标点等的能力。 所选材料广泛而不生辟， 体裁可以为叙述性， 描写性， 或说明性， 难度适中， 不超出与听力同等难度， 词汇以大纲要求的前四级为主， 也有一些五，六级词汇， 但不会出现太偏僻的人名， 地名等专有名词或词汇， 背景知识不需太复杂， 不会超出大部分学生应该掌握的常识。

Common mistakes 1. misunderstanding of the text; 2. lack of grammatical knowledge; 3. misperception of some words; 4. unfamiliarity with some idiomatic usages; 5. carelessness in spelling; 6. poor knowledge of punctuation; 7. slow speed of writing.

2011: British Holidaying Habits 2010: Freshmen's Week 2009: New Year’s Eve 2008: Choosing a Career 2007: Advertising 2006: The Internet 2005: The Wrist Watch 2004: Money 2003: Salmon 2002: Disappearing Forests 2001: Characteristics of a Good Reader 2000: What We Know about Language 1999: United Nations Day

四级考试听写的要求： Listen to the following passage. Altogether the passage will be read to you four times. During the first reading, which will be read at normal speed, listen and try to understand the meaning. For the second and third readings, the passage will be read sentence by sentence, or phrase by phrase, with intervals of 15 seconds. The last reading will be read at the normal speed again and during this time you should check your work. You will be given 2 minutes to check through your work once more.

听写部分共占时大约15分种， 计分15分， 比重15%。 全文大约150词左右，为一段或多段， 共分15个意群， 每个意群可能是词组， 分句或单句。 全文共朗读四遍。 第一遍为正常速度， 每分钟录音速度为大约120词， 要求考生此时从整体理解全文内容， 抓住中心大意， 而不要着急写； 第二， 三遍为慢读， 根据意群停顿， 停顿时间大约15秒， 要求考生准确写出所听内容； 第四遍跟第一遍一样， 仍为每分钟约120词， 考生可边听边校对。 全文听完后， 有两分钟的复查时间， 直到录音中听到“That's the end of dictation”， 表示这一部分结束， 该进行下一项听力内容了。

四级考试听写的评分标准（2003） 1、听写共分15小节：每节1分。 2、每节最多扣1分。 3、错误共分两类：小错误和大错误。 1）小错误：单词拼写错1-2个字母，标点符号，大小写等。 例：mouths-months; ocean-ocearn; streams--steams 小错误的扣分标准：小错误在一节中出现一次，留做总计；出现两次扣0.5分；出现三次扣0.5分留做总计；出现四次扣1分。

2）大错误：漏写、加词、造词、换词（冠词作小错计），每个错误扣0.5分。 例：circle-cycle; spread-thread; streams-strings 4、重复错误仅扣一次。 5、未扣分小错误的扣分标准： 累计2—4个：扣0.5分。 累计5—8个：扣1分。

四级考试听写的技巧 Do not write! 听第一遍时： 重点听主题思想， 重点词， 掌握全局概念，不要一听录音就写， 也许能写出前边的单词或句子， 却有可能不知全文的大意； Do not write!

第二遍:句子的前一半；第三遍：句子的后一半。 听第二、三遍时： 在第二遍朗读录音时， 要以意群为单位去理解， 因时间关系，不可能一字一字地全部写下， 所以要分清主次信息， 抓句型和关键词（主语， 谓语等），在听第三遍时， 再把其它如修饰语， 定冠词等遗漏内容补上， 若有些词还来不及写， 可用一些自己认识的缩略形式最后一遍或复查两分钟时再恢复原形。 第二遍:句子的前一半；第三遍：句子的后一半。

如果在听的过程中有个别词或词组一下反应不出来， 就不要苦苦纠缠单个的词， 要跟着录音进行下一意群的听写，因为阅卷是以15个意群分割成15分，每个意群最多扣一分， 所以个别词或句的错或漏不会影响其它的得分。 而对于听不懂的单词， 不妨写下音标， 等回头检查时可再想。

听第四遍时： 查缺补漏 检查时： 改正语法错误和拼写标点错误

How to prepare for the dictation? 1. improve listening accuracy --discriminating sounds --distinguishing between homonyms --identifying phonetic changes 2. avoid spelling mistakes 3. follow grammar rules 4. increase the writing speed

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Loss of explosion I. Write down the phrases you’ve heard. Take care what time Sit down bad cold Old friends get through Big tree good job At noon don’t know Good luck at last

postcard neglect reliable actually advance upmost electronic trust captain success breakdown big change good morning great hall at least work hard quite sure red nose help me first step

Liason I. Write down the phrases you’ve heard. 1. first of all 2. work it out 3. put it off 4. get out 5. post office 6. keep on 7. in an instant 8. there are 9. after all 10. better off 11. for example 12. do it 13. see off 14. here and there 15. the other 16. too often 17. try on 18. stay up 19. how old 20. how often

II. Complete the following sentences. 1. Have you ever _____________ in the Campus Daily? 2. Television ____________ too much of our time. 3. A book should teach us to enjoy it or to ___________. 4. But it wasn’t the life that she had ______________. 5. Necessity is the ________________. 6. Our hair _________________. 7. It’s better to _________ your feet than to ________ your knees. 8. I want to _______________. 9. A friend in need _____________________. 10. Preachers say, “________ I say, not as I do.” placed an ad takes up endure it dreamed of as a teenager mother of invention stands on end live on die on be alone is a friend indeed Do as

Sound Assimilation II. Listen to the tape and complete the following sentences. Each sentence will be read twice. 1. Having a pen can _________. 2. Where _________? 3. Did you still keep in touch with your family after all _________? 4. _________ your sister work? 5. It doesn’t _________. 6. _________ come into consciousness? 7. _________ like a cup of tea? 8. He has _________, hasn’t he? 9. Who _________that? 10. I wanted to _________, _________ were out.

1. limit your freedom 2. Did you spend your holiday 3.these years 4. Does you 5. fit you 6. Has your mother 7. would you 8. left you 9. told you 10. Connect you, but you

Sentences 1. The great difficulty in education is to get experiences out of ideas. 2. Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. 3. As long as I am alive, I shall go on studying. 4. The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer others. 5. Have an aim in life, or your energies will all be wasted.

6. A good surgeon must have an eagle’s eye, a lion’s heart, and a lady’s hand. 7. The past is not a package one can lay away. 8. In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends. 9. Like all other science, mathematics arose out of the needs of men. 10. Life without an aim is like sailing without a compass.

The Wrist Watch (2005) It is generally believed that wrist watches are an exception / to the normal sequence in the evolution of man's jewelry. / Reversing the usual order, they were first worn by women, / and then adopted by men. / In the old days, queens included wrist watches among their crown jewelry. / Later, they were worn by Swiss workers and farmers. / Until World War I, Americans associated the watch with fortune hunters.

/ Then army officers discovered that the wrist watch was most practical for active combat. / Race car drivers also loved to wear wrist watches, / and pilots found them most useful while flying. / Soon men dared to wear wrist watches without feeling self-conscious. / By 1924, some 30 percent of man's watches were worn on the wrist. / Today, the figure is 90 percent. / And they are now worn by both men and women / for practical purposes rather than for decoration.