Directions: Listen to the following passage about the importance of students’ extracurricular activities.Altogether the passage will be read to you four times. During the first reading, which will be done at nomal 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 done at normal speed again and during this time you should check your work.
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1. What clubs or sports do you join when you have spare time?
2. What benefits do they bring to you?
Over the years, people's hobbies have evolved—where we once collected stamps and model planes, we’re now surfing the Internet and playing “Angry Birds”. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ American Time Use Survey, or ATUS, the top ten leisure activities are Watching TV, Sports and Exercise, Reading, Computer Games, Social Networking,Playing or Listening to Music, Traveling, Going to the Movies, Shopping, Relaxing and Thinking. However, what kinds of activities help us feel good, and what kinds just don't?
Directions: Please watch the video“Ask the Therapists” and summarize the main idea of the video in one sentence .
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Directions: Read the following statements about the video. Decide true ( T) or false (F) for each statement.
(1)The researcher of this study arranges the type of activities in leisure time in a horizontal way.
[T] [F]
(2)Watching reruns of football games by oneself belongs to Level one.
[T] [F]
(3)Activities belong to Level one let us feel the most satisfaction about ourselves and our life.
[T] [F]
(4)It used to be regarded as a kind of flow if we lost track of our time.
[T] [F]
(5)People in the past didn't consider flow as an individual experience.
[T] [F]
(6)People nowadays have found out there are levels of flow.
[T] [F]
(7)It is a kind of coactive flow when we are both watching TV and talking with each other.
[T] [F]
(A) Directions: Pay attention to Dr. Marie's introduction to the division of leisure time and activities in Nash's research; fill in the blanks with the words and expressions you’ve heard.
(B) Directions: Pay attention to how to make people feel better and happier; fill in the blanks with the words and expressions you’ve heard .