Unit 2 Coincidence 合Home Notation Pre-listening Task A Language Focus B Here are some sentences and structures that you may find useful in discussing the previous questions. D Coincidence refers to the phenomenon in which two or more events which are similar or related happen to take place at the same time or place. It's What a coincidence that . Coincidence is not rare.It happens around us every day. It so happened that three of our classmates were born on the same day. V上语外教36并⊙2010 全新版大学英语（第二版）听说教程3
Unit 2 Coincidence Pre-listening Task Language Focus Here are some sentences and structures that you may find useful in discussing the previous questions. • Coincidence refers to the phenomenon in which two or more events which are similar or related happen to take place at the same time or place. • It’s / What a coincidence that . • Coincidence is not rare. It happens around us every day. • It so happened that three of our classmates were born on the same day
Unit 2 Coincidence 合Home☑Notation PA A Pre-listening Task Language Focus B Compared with non-coincidental events,coincidences are rare. A D ● Coincidence is the result of pure chance our memories. The human mind tends to look for patterns in events remember events that match but forget events that don't match. Speak of the devil and he will appear the devil comes. No coincidences,no stories. Everything under the sun is possible. VW上语外计教法6北@2010 全新版大学英语（第二版）听说教程3
Unit 2 Coincidence Language Focus Compared with non-coincidental events, coincidences are rare. Coincidence is the result of pure chance / our memories. The human mind tends to look for patterns in events / remember events that match but forget events that don’t match. Speak of the devil and he will appear / the devil comes. No coincidences, no stories. Everything under the sun is possible. Pre-listening Task
Unit 2 Coincidence 合Home Notation PART Pre-listening Task A Language Focus PA B PART Coincidences make great stories very good topics for small talk. D ● Coincidences make life more interesting amusing colorful. Coincidences tend to stay in our memory longer. People remember coincidences and love to pass them around among friends. It's meaningless to try to explain coincidences. Some people try to find a cause-and-effect relationship between events that happen to share some similarities. VW上语#法教含浸名并@2010 全新版大学英语（第二版）听说教程3
Unit 2 Coincidence Language Focus Coincidences make great stories / very good topics for small talk. Coincidences make life more interesting / amusing / colorful. Coincidences tend to stay in our memory longer. People remember coincidences and love to pass them around among friends. It’s meaningless to try to explain coincidences. Some people try to find a cause-and-effect relationship between events that happen to share some similarities. Pre-listening Task
Unit 2 Coincidence aHome☑Notation PA A Pre-listening Task Language Focus PA Some people believe coincidences are the work of mysterious forces supernatural powers. A D Some people believe coincidences can reveal relationships between events,human beings and natural phenomena that are not obvious to them. Coincidences have nothing to do with good luck or bad luck/no power to predict future events. As the saying goes,"Good fortune seldom repeats itself but troubles never come singly." VW上语外计教%北@2010 全新版大学英语（第二版）听说教程3
Unit 2 Coincidence Language Focus Some people believe coincidences are the work of mysterious forces / supernatural powers. Some people believe coincidences can reveal relationships between events, human beings and natural phenomena that are not obvious to them. Coincidences have nothing to do with good luck or bad luck / no power to predict future events. As the saying goes, “Good fortune seldom repeats itself but troubles never come singly.” Pre-listening Task
Unit 2 Coincidence 合Home Notation A Listening Tasks Speaking Tasks Passage 1 Passage 2 PART B Word Bank☐ Language and Cultural Notes Exercise 1 Exercise 2 tuition n.payment for schooling学费 somehow ad.for some reason that is not D clear由于某种未知的原因 click V.to become suddenly clear or understandable突然变得明 白 real estate agent a person whose business is to buy,sell or look after houses or land for people 地产经纪人 V上语并法教36并©2010 全新版大学英语（第二版）听说教程3
Unit 2 Coincidence tuition somehow click real estate agent Listening Tasks Word Bank Language and Cultural Notes Exercise 1 Exercise 2 Passage 1 Passage 2 Speaking Tasks n. payment for schooling 学费 ad. for some reason that is not clear 由于某种未知的原因 v. to become suddenly clear or understandable 突然变得明 白 a person whose business is to buy, sell or look after houses or land for people 房 地产经纪人