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1 Review 2 Warming-Up Exercises 3 Exercises in Textbook 4 Summary and Assignments Unit 10: Tasks 英语高级视听说

Review • Translate the following sentences into English. • 下届总统的首要任务是改变我们调控金融机制的方式。 The next President’s top priority is to change the way we regulate our financial system. 英语高级视听说

Review • Translate the following sentences. • 十月七日的反政府集会过程中，泰国警方对聚集在议会外面的数千名抗议者使用了催泪瓦斯和燃烧弹，造成至少两人死亡，400人受伤。 An anti-government rally on October the 7th left at least two dead and 400 wounded when Thai border and local police opened fire with tear gas and incendiary devices on thousands of protesters outside parliament. 英语高级视听说

Warming-up Exercises • Listen to the news items and retell their main ideas. chantv. to repeat a word or phrase again and again 吟颂，单调地重复 dispersev. to go away in different directions 散开英语高级视听说

Be Sensitive to Semantic Markers • How to express illustration and explanation • for example/instance • take ... for example/instance • another example is… • such as • e.g. • (Let’s) suppose/say 英语高级视听说

Be Sensitive to Semantic Markers • How to express illustration and explanation • In other words, … • That is to say, … • What I really mean is, … • What I really want to say is, … • To put it this/another way, … 英语高级视听说

Note-taking Skills • Examples • Four civilians also died when their car hit Kostoyev's armored vehicle which police say was thrown about 20 meters by the explosion. 4平 die as 车 >< K’s 甲车飞 20m ← explsn 英语高级视听说

Note-taking Skills • Examples • A suicide bomber detonated a blast that caused a gasoline tank truck to explode south of Baghdad today, killing at least 54 people and wounding dozens of others. 自 bmbr blast → gas 车 expld @巴S 今死 ≥54 伤 dzns 英语高级视听说

Exercise 1: Mini-Lecture entrepreneurn. a person who organizes, operates, and assumes the risk for a business venture 企业家：组织、管理企业并承担商业风险的人 pseudo-pref. false, fake, deceptive 假的 contrivev. to arrange an event or situation cleverly, especially secretly or by deceiving people 设计、策划英语高级视听说

Exercise 1: Mini-Lecture supposedlyadv. used when saying what many people say or believe is true, especially when you disagree with them. 据推测、大概 • Anne is coming for a visit in March supposedly. unsolicitedadj. not asked for and often not wanted 主动提供的英语高级视听说

Exercise 1: Mini-Lecture credencen. the acceptance of something as true 信任 • give credence to sth. = to believe or accept something as true 英语高级视听说

Summary of the Lecture • Topic: advantages and disadvantages of PC • Advantages: • Symbolic significance • Reference for the measurement of subsequent policies • Efficiency 英语高级视听说

Summary of the Lecture • Disadvantages: • Format unfavorable • News provider in control • How to get worthwhile information? • Preparation: keep up-to-date • Competence of news provider • Nature of questions asked 英语高级视听说

Exercise 2: Talk concessionaryadj. specially reduced in price, for example for the old or the poor 特许的 affiliaten. a company, organization, etc., that is connected with or controlled by a larger one 分支机构 contraceptionn. the practice of preventing a woman from becoming pregnant 避孕英语高级视听说

Exercise 2: Talk fertilityn. the ability of a person, animal, or plant to produce babies, young animals, or seeds 生殖力 labor-intensiveadj. an industry or type of work that is labor-intensive needs a lot of workers 劳动力密集型 be taken to task be strongly criticized for something one has done, also “be brought to task, be called to task” 遭到批评英语高级视听说

Exercise 2: Talk The World Bank The World Bank is a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world. It is made up of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA). IBRD focuses on middle income and poor countries, while IDA focuses on the poorest countries in the world. Together they provide low-interest loans, interest-free credit and grants to developing countries for education, health, infrastructure and many other purposes. 英语高级视听说

Exercise 2: Talk trickle-down effect 点滴投资理论 The “trickle-down effect” is a now-discredited theory of distribution which holds that the concentration of wealth in a few hands benefits the poor as the wealth necessarily “trickles down” to them, mainly through employment generated by the demand for personal services and as a result of investments made by the wealthy. The term was coined by Ronald Reagan in a speech in January 1981 in which he announced huge tax-cuts for the wealthy, the benefits of which he claimed would “trickle-down” to the rest of the population. 英语高级视听说

Exercise 3: Conversation synagoguen. a building where Jewish people meet for religious worship 犹太会教堂英语高级视听说

Exercise 3: Conversation mausoleumn. a large stone building made specially to contain the body of a dead person, or the dead bodies of an important family 陵墓英语高级视听说

Exercise 4: News Broadcasting in the wake of immediately after 紧随其后 provisional adj. likely or able to be changed in the future, temporary 临时的 insolvency n. the condition of not having enough money to pay what you owe 无力偿还英语高级视听说

Exercise 4: News Broadcasting turn over to transfer to another 移交 secessionn. when a country or state officially stops being part of another country and becomes independent 脱离 retrenchmentn. a cutting down of expenses 缩减开支英语高级视听说

Summary and Assignments • News Copying: Week 10 英语高级视听说

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