1. Departure
   1. The Call to Adventure
      The call to adventure is the point in a person's life when they are first given notice that everything is going to change, whether they know it or not.
   2. Refusal of the Call
      Often when the call is given, the future hero refuses to heed it. This may be from a sense of duty or obligation, fear, insecurity, a sense of inadequacy, or any of a range of reasons that work to hold the person in his or her current circumstances.
   3. Supernatural Aid
      Once the hero has committed to the quest, consciously or unconsciously, his or her guide and magical helper appears, or becomes known.
   4. The Crossing of the First Threshold
      This is the point where the person actually crosses into the field of adventure, leaving the known limits of his or her world and venturing into an unknown and dangerous realm where the rules and limits are not known.
   5. The Belly of the Whale
      The belly of the whale represents the final separation from the hero's known world and self. It is sometimes described as the person's lowest point, but it is actually the point when the person is between or transitioning between worlds and selves. The separation has been made, or is being made, or being fully recognized between the old world and old self and the potential for a new world/self. The experiences that will shape the new world and self will begin shortly, or may be beginning with this experience which is often symbolized by something dark, unknown and frightening. By entering this stage, the person shows their willingness to undergo a metamorphosis, to die to him or herself.

UNIT 2 A Listening


Implication for Instruction: One of the obvious implication for instruction is to bring students to an understanding that listening is not a passive skill, but an active receptive skill which needs special attention in language study. This goal can be accomplished gradually as a part of listening skill-building activities. Learners can be guided to realize that achieving skill in listening requires as much work as does becoming skilled in reading, writing, and speaking in a second language. (p.72)


Principle: In order to get learners' attention, to keep them actually and purposefully engaged in the task at hand, and to maximize the effectiveness of listening/ language-learning experience, three materials development principles are suggested: (1) relevance, (2) transferability/ applicability, (3) task orientation These three principles are important in making choices about both language content (i.e., the information presented) and language outcome(s) (i.e., the way the information is put to use)

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作者：張漢宜 　出處：天下雜誌 418期 2009/03