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<participant interlocutor=1 speaker=3> </participant>
<speaker sp1=female sp2=male sp3=female> </speaker>
<interlocutor interlocutor=female> </interlocutor> 
<interlocutor> Good afternoon, everyone. </interlocutor>
<spall> Good afternoon. </spall>
<interlocutor> Please tell me your name and the number of your admission ticket? </interlocutor>
<sp1> My name is *** and my admission ticket number is 0102 mm. </sp1>
<interlocutor> The last four numbers? </interlocutor>
<sp1> Mm 0451. </sp1>
<interlocutor> Your name please? </interlocutor>
<sp2> My name is ***. My number is 046 0. </sp2>
<sp3> Ok, my name is ***. Em, my number is 0462. </sp3>
<interlocutor> Ok, now would you please briefly introduce yourselves to each other? Please do not mention the name of your university. </interlocutor>
<sp1> Mm my name is ***. My major is accounting. Erm I study [Wu-a:] mm they I study [Wu-a:] accounting in my ? school. Er I take part in the folk music club [Wu-a:] in my er in my school, mm student union and playing pipa. Mm I come from Da Qing, Helongjiang province; it is very [We-er] cold there. Mm I am very [We-er] glad to see you, and I think mm we will have a nice conversation later. </sp1>
<sp2> My name is ***. Mm my my major is architecture. And my my my  my habit I'd have some habits  </sp2>
<interlocutor> Habits. </interlocutor>
<sp2> I'd have some habits; its like [Pe-er] drawing, reading novels, swimming, and playing basketball like this; that's that's all. </sp2>
<sp3> My name is ***, my major is Chinese, mm and I come from Zhenjiang province. Mm just now we have we already had very pleasant conversation. And I think we have already been very good friends. Mm and I have many different hobbits. I like swimming, and traveling, mm listening to music ? things; mm for me life is a wonderful thing. </sp3>
<interlocutor> Ok, now that we know each other; we can do some group work. First of all, I'd like to ask each of you to say something on festivals. Now Miss ***, erm is Christmas and foreign festival in China? </interlocutor>
<sp1> Mm I think it is becoming very [We-er] important. For example, our university students take it as as I think as important as the spring festival. Because  </sp1>
<interlocutor> Why why is it so important? </interlocutor>
<sp1> Mm first of all, it is a western festival and mm we students become very [We-er] mm familiar with the mm western cultures. And mm through the Christmas we can know a lot of the hobbit, and tradition mm and culture of foreign foreign especially western countries. </sp1>
<interlocutor> Now Mr ***, erm how do you usually celebrate the national day? </interlocutor>
<sp2> Mm traveling traveling around the country. I I I don't think it is it is a kind of festival we should celebrate what  </sp2>
<interlocutor> Please raise your voice  </interlocutor>
<sp2> Ok ok ok I I I just consider mm the the the s the festival like as as as a holiday as some some few days break. </sp2>
<interlocutor> The question is how do you usually celebrate national day? </interlocutor>
<sp2> National day, celebrate, I never celebrate national festival. </sp2>
<interlocutor> What do you do? </interlocutor>
<sp2> Just traveling, and eating and playing. </sp2>
<interlocutor> Well, ok, now, Miss ***, which is your favorite festival? </interlocutor>
<sp3> Mm my favorite of course is the spring festival. </sp3>
<interlocutor> Why? </interlocutor>
<sp3> Mm because it is the traditional holiday for family reunion and now I study mm I study in a school far from my hometown. It is a very good chance for me to get home, and have a good family union with my ? folks and my old friends. And also I can mm because mm the time in school is quite busy and mm I was forced to do somethings. But when I was my in my hometown I can just have a good rest mm and enjoy the lonely life, maybe. </sp3>
<interlocutor> Ok, now let's move on to something more specific. The topic for our discussion today is the eastern and the western festivals. Each of you will be given a ? a picture showing two festivals. I'd like you to talk about the two festivals and say something about how they are celebrate it. You will have one minute to prepare, and each of you will have one and a half minutes to give your presentation. Don't worry if I interrupt you if time is up, thank you. </interlocutor>
<interlocutor> Now, Miss ***, please begin  </interlocutor>
<sp3> Ok, you want me to mm talk about holidays mm according to those pictures. Ok, mm first mm the Chinese holiday is dragon boat festival. It is quite famous in mm in the mm in Chinese history. Mm it is in honor of the famous mm poet Qu Yuan, mm he died for his country. And mm people because people all admire him and didn't want mm the fish in the river to eat his corpus [Mu]. So they does mm did some mm stick rice mm they did some stick rice in the bamboo leaves mm and through them into the mm river. Mm so that the fish won't eat his corpus [Mu]. And on that day people also mm row a boat and run a race. Mm we call that mm because [Ws-s] their ship the ? take their ship of a dragon boat mm so mm we call that dragon [Wa-ei] boat festival. And the second one is a western holiday-mm April Fools day. Mm on that day people always play some practical jokes; mm for example, mm when you mm when when mm some of your friends tell will [Wi-e] tell you through the phone that you won the lottery. And you think that is true because you already mm buy the ticket the other day. So you mm dreamed a lot of wonderful [S3] things such as buying a car mm and buying a big house and enjoy yourself on holiday mm or whatever; mm then mm you easily went to the you eagerly went to the mm that place to check whether mm to went to that place to fetch your money, maybe. But you find the number is not the one mm that mm in your card. So you've been fooled about this. </sp3>
<interlocutor> Ok, Miss Ren, it is your turn. </interlocutor>
<sp1> In the left picture we can see that it is spring spring festival. Spring festival I think is the most important festival in our Chinese calendar. And mm mm during the seven days mm people busy shopping and visiting [Wv-w]. And its it is customary that mm family member come back home for family re u reunion dinner; mm mm on the on the New Years Eve, we will watching the mm programs such as CCTV1. And mm it is also cust-customary that we visit [Wv-w] our friends and relatives. I think the most mm happy people would be the children because mm they enjoy a lot a lot more. They we mm when I was young I the children will mm dress the new dress put on the new dress and even gi-get the gift and money lucky money from the my elderlies. Mm on the right it is described it is drawed Christmas day. I think it is just as our spring festival. People before Christmas Eve people busy mm buy all kinds of goods and [Pd-er] gifts for their for their friends and relatives. Mm they decora-? the decorate the Christmas tree with all kinds of small small mm small decorations. And mm they also mm eat the family re re reunion dinner. Mm the typical food would be the turkey I think. Mm children will will wish to get [We-ae] gifts from the center. Mm although its it is imaginary but mm mm mm their parents will send them mm gifts for them mm as they wished. </sp1>
<interlocutor> Ok Mr ***, it is your turn. </interlocutor>
<sp2> Good afternoon. The left picture is the local festival for Chinese people. On that day mm the people at one family should all around mm at the table and eat some moon [Mn] cook moon [Mn] moon [Mn] cake and watching the the moon watching the round round moon. And mm if someone is far away from home we should telephone [M2e] telephone [M2e] to your parents and your your relatives mm say say say hello say say something with your parents. The right picture is talking about New Yorks day New Years day New Years day and it is about 2000 years; I thought it is one hundred day. </sp2>
<interlocutor> Please speak louder. </interlocutor>
<sp2> It is talk about mm western festival and the people there should be outgoing and they dance to with each other and I think they don't know each other very [We-er] well and mm I I I don't know too much well about festival. </sp2>
<interlocutor> Ok, now we all ? some on different festivals. I'd like to discuss this topic further and see you can agree on which festivals are most popular for the young people in China and why? During the discussion you may argue with each other or ask each other questions to clarify your point. You have about four and a half minutes for the discussion. And the full score of judge is according to your conversation to the discussion. Remember during the discussion you should try to reach the agreement on which festivals are most popular for the young people in China and please  </interlocutor>
<sp1> I think mm spring festival is is still the most [Pt-er] important mm most [Pt-er] important festival in our young people. But there is a trend [We-ei] like the val valentines [Wa-o] day and [Pd-er] Christ Christmas day is back becoming very [We-er] very [We-er] important because [Ws-s] mm as university students becoming mm mm familiar with the foreign cultures. It is the fast way we know the foreign cultures, histories and mm traditions. I think so. </sp1>
<sp3> But I think nowadays in China as for the young people Christmas has already mm subsided [Wi-i] the mm spring festival mm or the other traditional days as become the most favorable mm favorite day for the young people. Mm the currency at one thing I think that mm you see the spring festival mm is during the winter vacation and the young people they don't have the chance to get together themselves only with family or something. So mm but the Christmas mm usually is during the school year and the young people they were get together and do a lot of ? ? things they desire for; and so that they enjoy themselves mm in the large ? with their friends mm and do a lot of people do a lot of things that are typical for the young. For for example they singing and dancing mm and maybe setting the fireworks or those things. </sp3>
<sp2> I thought the spring festival is the most popular in China and in in the mind of young people. But Christmas days are getting more and more important for for us young because  and China is getting more and more global and  </sp2>
<sp3> That's the world tradition. </sp3>
<sp2> Open open wider to to other other country so other religions. It is known for  they should know more about the western world. And the festivals is a important way to know the other the other country, I think. </sp2> 
<sp1> We we come to the mm agreement. I think since the  </sp1>
<sp3> But the point is that  </sp3>
<sp1> Yes, I said that spring [Mp] festival is the most important but the Christmas is getting more and more important. </sp1>
<sp3> But my point is that mm the Christmas is already subsided [Wi-i] the subsided [Wi-i] the mm spring festival. </sp3>
<sp1> I don't agree with you. Because you you can always see there are some students and I think [Wt-s] not a small part mm but a I think [Wt-s] a middle part the students still study in the reading room on the Christmas eve. </sp1>
<sp3> But there are still many students on spring festival. </sp3>     
<sp1> O we all [Wa-o] come back home and have the reunion with my family with our families. </sp1>
<sp3> Mm you can't say or mm erm now you can see from TV the many students study their GRE class [Pa-r] or they just stay in school and do some part time job. Mm in a way many students they want to mm stay stay away from their home [Wo-o] and do not mm really celebrate the spring festival. But mm as for Christmas mm I think most mm students they at least will realize that as they send cards and give different mm give different gifts to the friends and hold different kinds of parties mm and maybe with some foreign friends they were mm share that mm share that mm happy time. </sp3>
<interlocutor> Ok, well I think that's the end of the discussion. Now I'd like to ask you one last question on the topic of festivals of the eastern and the western. Now Mr Chen, can you say something on most unforgettable festival you have celebrated ? </interlocutor>
<sp2> I celebrated children's day. Children's day and my I my when I was when I was I in primary school. </sp2>
<interlocutor> What do you still remember about? </interlocutor>
<sp2> I remember I I take a ?? and I fall down and mm start star ? and mm my mum my mum I I cry and my mum brought me my mum brought me to the zoo to the zoo and buy some some some good to for me and as better as its its </sp2>
<interlocutor> How old are you? </interlocutor>
<sp2> About nine years old or eight. Its its not it is not so good but [Pt-er] I remember it is very [We-er] very [We-er] well. It is national festival I went to went to o o Ma Macao Macao traveling traveling. It is good. But it is not not not better than my my my young child mm  </sp2>
<interlocutor> Ok. Miss ***, mm do you think the celebration of the western festivals should be encouraged in ? ? </interlocutor>
<sp1> I think it will be encouraged. </sp1>
<interlocutor> Why ? </interlocutor>
<sp1> Because [Ws-s] mm since the since the reform and open door policy adapted mm in the late 1970s mm more and more mm foreign foreign companies and tourist flood in China and we have more opportunities to communicate with foreigners and help them to understand our ? cultures. But we have also have we should also encourage the western festival celebration for we can know the cultures and foreign people's tradition and history. Mm mm I think it is a good way to appreciate foreign culture. So I think it it should be mm encouraged. </sp1>
<interlocutor> Now Miss ***, would you feel offended or amused if your friends plays a joke as a trick on on April Fools day?  </interlocutor>
<sp3> I think I will be amused mm because I think I am aI won't easily I won't easily to take it offence because it is April Fools day; I accept it as a holiday. Now among the young people you see  I realize that they want to celebrate with us and give us mm good piece of joke; but that mm that has no harm in it and they want to mm share the pleasure with us. </sp3>
<interlocutor>Well, that's the end of the test. Thank you. </interlocutor>
<spall> Thank you. </spall>
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