What: The topic of the listening text is “Choose the best app”. Laura and Xiao Bo are talking about choosing apps and different functions. In the conversation, they express their predictions, guesses and beliefs for apps.
Why: The purpose of the listening text is to help students to understand the basic characteristics and kinds of apps through common oral communication forms in daily life situations, inspire students to explore different functions of apps, advocate students to deeper understand apps and choose the best app.
How: The text is presented in the form of a conversation. The language the speakers use to greet each other suggests they are familiar with each other. In the conversation, the two speakers use a lot of action verbs such as “suppose”, “believe”, “think”, “imagine” and modal verbs such as “might”, “could” and “would” to express predictions, guesses, and beliefs.
