[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 |