【新编大学英语4】话题讨论汇总

Unit1-1 Talk about the power of humor and share the humorous story or typical joke with your classmates.A:Hello,do you like cross talk?C:Yes,I like it very much.I love it because of its humor.B,D:Yes,so do we.A:Then do you know the power of humor?Can you talk about it?B:Yes.Humor is very important in our dailly life,a humor person is always welcome, wherever he is.C:Yes,he is right.Do you know Mark twain? A humorous writer who is famous for his humorous writing style.D:I know him, Im his fan.As you know, I dont like reading books, but he is the only writer i like.I love him for his humor.A:Well,I see.Then does anyone want to share his humorous stories with us?B:OK.I want to be the first one.Oneday, arabbit was watching TV,suddenly someone knocked at the door.Then he opened the door,but nobody was found.Hello.can you give me some water?Then the rabbit found there was a snail.no.And the rabbit kicked the snail amay and went on watching TV.Year by year,after about 3 years the rabbit was just watching TV, too.And someone koncked at the door again.The rabbit opened the door,and it was snail again,he said:Why did you kicked me away just now?C:Haha,a very good story.Then let me say one. One day I was looking jinyongs story-the semi-gods and semi-devils.But the teacher knew then,and he expropriated it, shouting:Give me the other seven book. D:Heihei,its humorous.But its humorous,can I say next time?A:OK,then we are looking forword to the next discussion in the class.Unit1-2 What is your favorite film and why do you like it so much?A: Hello guys. Whats your favorite films?B: Since I heard the voice “You jump, I jump” in the film Titanic, I know that I just couldnt forget it any more. I firmly insist Titanic!C: What a coincidence! Every time I heard the theme song my heart will go on, I just cant help humming with it. D: This film is worthy of the name classic. It vividly showed the scaring catastrophe, sincere love , and the kindness and badness of humanity when the chance of living is limited.A: Titanic is a great film. But my favorite film is Three Idiots. It was shoot by India. Its very funny and the film(寓意) of the film is also very educated. Thats the reason why I like it so much.B：Its a story about three idiots. But I think it may be better to say its a profound think about national education system and creative ability.C: For me, my favorite film is The pursuit of happiness. Its a encouragement. And every time I lose my power in the world too often cold and unresponsive, I would live over this film and become lifted. D: I think every one have his or her own favorite film for different reasons. A: But it seems that these great films still have some common characteristics.B: They all about the goodness of human hearts.C :And they can all make us feel more wishful about the world in some way.D: Thats just the beauty of the film.Unit2-1 Is Letter Writing Better Than CallingA: Nowadays with the development of technology, more and more people use the mobile phone to connect with others. And letter writing is not as popular as before.B: I think the change is normal. Calling is much more convenient. We can connect with others at any time.C: I feel the same way. Letter writing not only takes more time but also the speed of information transmission is much lower.D: I want to agree with you, but I cant. The drawback with phone calls is that they wont last long. On the contrary, our words can be read over and over again.A: Yeah, Im on your side. One of my most treasured things is a rag-eared letter, which reserved from my mother three years ago. Every time I read it, the up-lifting words make me feel confident.D: I think that is the power of words. The letter makes you experience the power as many times as you like, but calling cant. B: But phone calls also have its advantages. Image you are in an emergency and you want to connect with parent immediately, which will be the first choice, letter writing or calling? C: There is no doubt that we will choice calling because its speed is much faster than letter writing.A: So both of them have strong points and weak points. We cant judge which is better without taking the specific situation into consideration.B: What I want to say is what you said just now. And the difference between letter writing and calling is just a matter of record. C: I cant agree more. Letter writing is something you can reread many times, savored and treasured. And calling is very convenient and fast-delivered.D: And we cant abandon the traditional habit of letter writing just because it may take more time. ABC: Of cause not.Unit 2-2 Talk about the most dangerous sentence (words) and the most powerful sentence (words).Why?A. Hello, guys. Last night, when I was reading a magazine, I found a topic about the most powerful sentences and the dangerous sentences. Do you know anything of them?B. Yes. As we all know, such sentences like ”Good luck ”, “Come on”, “Well done” and the like are very inspiring.C. And like “I am shamed on you”, “You are stupid”, “How come you are so dull”, are always heard depressing.D. Yes, once upon a time, I unknowingly said,” You are piggy” to one of my friends. She was very unhappy. You know I just was unconsciously, and it just was a joke. How come she took it seriously.E. It was a great pity. Maybe she was meeting something disturbing. In many times, the sentence,” You are piggy” can be understood as “You are cute”, isnt it?A. Yeah. In my opinion, many sentences mean different in different situations and the same sentence means different to different people. For example, if someone said to me,” Sophia, you are excellent for you have a beautiful mouth of oral English” after I succeeded in the English competition. I would feel very happy. But if someone says these sentences to a person whose oral English is poor, he will hurt him deeply.B. I cant agree more. And I believe that there are always some moving or sorrow stories behind those powerful or dangerous sentences.C. I once touched on one sentence, “Let me hold you”. Do you know why? At that time, I was badly hurt in my leg. And I hardly could move. So his words make me warm in my heart.D. Yeah. In general, the powerful sentences would make one feel good, at least, we couldnt be hurt by them. By contrast, we should be careful, when we want to say something dangerous words.E. In other words, we should be sensible in dealing with different situations. When we try to encourage someone, we must consider their feelings. When we are on an active, noisy occasion, we can talk various jokes.Unit 3-1 How to avoid gender bias in the classroom?A: Gender bias persists in many elementary school classroom. Boys used to be teachers pets, whatever the boys do, the teacher will forgive them.B: Yes, I think its unfair to girls, when it comes to girls, theyre often met with dissatisfaction and punishment.C: Youre really considerate. I think girls should be more confident when dealing with daily affairs.D: Of course, if they do so, it can be good for their personal development in the study.A: Whats more, theyd matter behave as actively as boys do and abandon the prejudice of gender roles in their mind.B: But children develop their own idea about gender at an early age.C: Such as the clothes they wear, their dramatic play, their playground talk and their classroom work,. All these have important something to do with them,D: So we must see this problem from every aspect. Parents must pay much attention to this. Certainly, teachers must do more efforts to avoid gender bias in classroom.A: First ,teachers must recognize and eliminate gender bias from their deep hearts, because it can limit students ambitions and accomplishments.B: Second, teachers must realize the fundamentally difference between girls and boys.C: So when they have done something wrong, teachers must take different measures to deal with them.D: Yes, I think if we all do our best, this problem can be avoided and the sexual equality will become reality. Unit 3-2 What are the characteristics of the ideal wife and the ideal husband?I hope my wife also have these advantages. And I hope she love me deeply. We will share happiness and unfortunate together .No matter how hard the problem we face. She wont give up. Also she should not be too foolish or too clever .And Ill try my best to be an ideal husband for her Unit 4-1 How can universities improve students scientific and technological abilities for innovation?A:Nowadays we have pay more attention to quality-oriented education. As a college students in the new century, what do you think should we learn at university?B:In my opinion ,its not what we learn important ,but the abilities we gain counts.C:I agree .quality-oriented education require creativities more than knowledge itself.D:So ,how can universities improve students scientific and technological abilities for innovatiton?A:Firstly,educator shouldnt sacrifice creativity for high scores and must attach more importance to application.B:Practice also counts. Students should learn to solve a problem all by themselves.C:Well, such self-reliance is a principal value in the learning process.D:In this way, students solve students on their own ,and even to discover new problems for which creative solutions are wanted.A:You mean the key to scientific and technological abilities is creativity. Right?B:Yeah, its important to create a place where wild ideas are honored and valued,never scored or dismissed.C:Actually,environment is extremely effective in the learning process.D:Ok,I think we students should change our mind too.Unit 4-2 Which should be emphasized in education,knowledge or creativity?A: I was busy as I participated in various community activities. Recently, Im trying to prepare the innovation projects, which makes me basically have no time to do home work. I feel helpless.B:Exactly! I am fond of our innovation projects (创新项目), I am eager to finish it .However, we have to accomplish our homework and attend the class first.C: Too terrible, which should be emphasized in education knowledge or creativity?Everyday I work as busy as a dog. But I still dont know what I learned in school.D : Its said that if knowledge is power, then creativity can be described as the ability to use the power. I think study should be prior to creativity. Only with massive knowledge, will we be able to do creativity.A: The enterprises we will work for must value our creativity more. If we only read, we will become bookworm. So we shall emphasize in creativity through which we can show our individuality and play to our potential.B:Yes, nowadays even primary schools pay more emphasis on creativity. Easpecilly in foreign countries. Creativity os raised to the vital position.C: Thats true. But in our our country ,Many educators piace strong emphasis on test scores.Our school creat an atmosphere in which there is no risk in being creative .D : But its known to everyone that knowledge is the base of everything. Maybe thinking excessively highly of creativity will not reach the purpose of education. And some graduates may not have a right job without professional knowledge.A: So I think we shall combine the two. Knowledge and creativity shall both be attached importance to.Unite 5-1 Should star athletes be role models, do they deserve so much?Unit 5-2 What are your favorite sports and how do you benefit from them?A: There are so many popular sports and star athletes around us. Do you have favorite one?B: As we know, basketball is popular all over the world and it has become a daily sport both men and women are all enjoy it.C: yes, it has been a famous activity since NBA came into our life. Yao Ming is my role models, He is a giant in China Team.D: yes, after watching the NBA games, I always go out and play basketball with my friends, I want to play as well as the star athleles. Meanwhile, I find that my body is becoming stronger.E: doing sports will help us keep in good condition, it can strengthen us, help us have a quality life.A: :To me, Kobe is my idol. I have always been dreaming of having a husband like him.B: But I heard that he was ever involved in sex scandal. I think he is lack of moral character. He didnt keep away from something that cant be accepted by public.C: Please remember that star athlete are also human beings. They will also make mistakes just like us. there are no perfect human beings in the world.D: Yeah, we should take tolerant and understanding attitude toward what they do. Besides, choosing their own lives is their rights, which shouldnt be deprived by us.E: kids and even some adults are watching them and looking for them to set an example such as show us the goodness of the sports and some attitude to confronted with life.A: to become a star athlete, you have to have to have an extremely competitive outlook and you have to be totally focused on the development of your own physical skills. Its difficult.B: yes, so dont expect too much for their performance ,what we really need to do is just to benefit from them.C: we can follow their lead to find our appropriate sports to benefit from them.D: of course, also we can also make some friends with some strangers. We can make a point to do sports at the next time and so on.E: so lets take action and try our best to benefit not only from the sports but also from the star athletes.Unit 6-1 Why would people like to take risks?Unit 6-2 Are environmental risks worth taking?Explain your answer.A:Nowadays,many young people love speed and the thrill of racing ,others are into extreme sports such as ice climbing ,and bungee jumping. B:Thats true.But I am wondering what makes a person take high risks and do dangerous ,even life threatening things?C:Maybe they just want to feel extremist ,take things to the edge and get their adrenaline up high.D:And they do these things because they are suffering from great psychological pressure. I guess they do dangerous things for the thrill of it.A:You mean they just take it as a new experience ,new emotions to conquer themselves?It can be that.Or they want to satisfy their curiosity.B:Now I have some ideas.It is a kind of need for somebody.It is a vice.They are addicted to dangerous sports or activities.C:Then young people are likely to take risks ,maybe because they want to look like a courageous guy or a strong person.D:It is nice to talk about their new experiences with friends ,So they usually dont think twice about the danger .E:however,guys,theenvironment risks are different.do you notice this phenomenon when we park our bikes on the campus,the sand will soon cover the saddle(车座)?I think we are really living in Xiasha.The environment here is so terrible. As we know, some hundred years ago, men live in harmon