Get two members of different groups to check up their prevision tasks.

Step 2 Listening

1. Before Listening Look at the picture on page 14 and discuss the following questions before you listen to the tape, which may be of some help to your listening.

(1) What are the three boys doing in the picture?

(2) Are they all very happy in the river?

(3) What is happening to the boy who is escaping from the water?

2. The First Listening Listen to the tape and find out the main idea of the listening material.

Main idea: a story about when Buford

3. The Second Listening Listen to the tape again and tell whether the following sentences True or False according to what you have heard.

(1) Buford lives in San Francisco, a city in Texas. ( )

(2) Buford's teacher is Big Billy Bob. ( )

(3) Buford believes Texas is a state in the USA. ( )

(4) Lester thought the catfish was going to eat him and then he got out of the water faster than lightning. ( )

(5) Since Lester has known that the catfish won't eat people, he dares to