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1 Review 2 Warming-Up Exercises 3 Exercises in Textbook 4 Summary and Assignments Unit 13: Tasks 英语高级视听说

Review • Explain the following sentences. • India’s Finance Minister is deriding the “gloom and doom” enveloping the domestic economic mood, contending Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s government is working “24-7” to take steps to fend off the ill effects of a global slowdown. • The finance minister cautions action should not be taken based on the daily gyrations of the Mumbai stock market. 英语高级视听说

Warming-up Exercises • Listen to the news items and retell their main ideas. deflationn. a reduction in the amount of money in a country’s economy, so that prices fall or stop rising 通货紧缩 stagnantadj. not changing or making progress, and continuing to be in a bad condition 停滞的英语高级视听说

Be Sensitive to Semantic Markers • How to express summary and conclusion • In a word; to sum (it) up; to summarize; in summary; to conclude; in conclusion; all in all; in short; briefly; on the whole; finally • The whole thing can be reduced to one statement … • What I have been saying is ... • Therefore/Thus/On this basis/Given this, it can be concluded/deduced/inferred that … 英语高级视听说

Exercise 1: Mini-Lecture pensionn. an amount of money paid regularly by the government or company to someone who does not work any more, for example because they have reached the age when people stop working or because they are ill 养老金，抚恤金 esteemn. a feeling of respect for someone, or a good opinion of someone 尊敬 • hold somebody in high/great esteem 英语高级视听说

Exercise 1: Mini-Lecture precedingadj. happening or coming before the time, place, or part mentioned 之前的、先前的英语高级视听说

Exercise 1: Mini-Lecture Abraham Harold Maslow (1908-1970) A famous US psychologist. One of the many interesting things Maslow noticed while he worked with monkeys early in his career was that some needs take precedence over others. For example, if you are hungry and thirsty, you will tend to take care of the thirst first. After all, you can do without food for weeks, but you can only do without water for a couple of days! 英语高级视听说

Exercise 1: Mini-Lecture Abraham Harold Maslow (1908-1970) Likewise, if you are very very thirsty, but someone has put a choke hold on you and you can’t breath, which is more important? The need to breathe, of course. On the other hand, sex is less powerful than any of these. Let’s face it, you won’t die if you don’t get it! Maslow took this idea and created his now famous hierarchy of needs. 英语高级视听说

Summary of the Lecture • Topic: Maslow’s hierarchy of needs • Physiological needs • Requirements for survival • Include food, water, etc • Satisfied through wages • Safety needs • Physical security • Emotional security • Satisfied through job security, etc 英语高级视听说

Summary of the Lecture • Social needs • Needs for love and sense of belonging • Satisfied through social relationships • Esteem needs • Self-esteem and esteem of others • Satisfied through personal achievements • Self-realization needs • Needs to grow and develop • Means of satisfying vary with individuals 英语高级视听说

Exercise 2: Talk conduciveadj. tending to cause or bring about 有助于 • an environment conducive to learning arbitrationn. the process by which the parties to a dispute submit their differences to the judgment of an impartial person or group appointed by mutual consent or statutory provision 仲裁 • The dispute is going to arbitration 英语高级视听说

Exercise 2: Talk picketv.to stand or march in front of a shop, factory, government building etc to protest about something or to stop people from going in during a strike 抗议示威英语高级视听说

Exercise 2: Talk collective bargaining the discussions held between employers and a union in order to reach agreement on wages, working conditions etc 劳资双方就工资等问题进行谈判 industrial action an action such as a strike taken by workers involved in a disagreement with their employer 解决劳资纠纷的行动英语高级视听说

Exercise 3: Conversation paranormaladj. beyond the range of normal experience or scientific explanation 超常的，超自然的 credibilityn. the quality, capability, or power to elicit belief 可信度 got bitten by the bug to develop a very strong interest in something 狂热地迷恋上某物英语高级视听说

Exercise 3: Conversation far-fetchedadj. not readily believable because of improbable elements therein 牵强的 moodyadj. sullen or gloomy 忧郁的，阴沉的英语高级视听说

Exercise 3: Conversation X-Files An American Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning science fiction television series (1993-2002). The show was a major hit for the American FOX network, and its main characters and slogans (e.g., “The Truth Is Out There”, “Trust No One”, “I Want to Believe”) became pop culture touchstones. The X-Files is seen as a defining series of the 1990s, coinciding with the era’s widespread mistrust of governments, interest in conspiracy theories and spirituality, and the belief in the existence of extraterrestrial life. 英语高级视听说

Exercise 3: Conversation David Duchovny & Mulder David Duchovny is a two-time Golden Globe Award-winning American actor, best known for his roles as FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder on The X-Files. Special Agent Fox Mulder believes in UFOs and a government conspiracy to hide or deny the truth of their existence. With his FBI partner Dana Scully, the two work in the X-Files office, which is concerned with cases with particularly mysterious or possibly supernatural circumstances. 英语高级视听说

Exercise 4: News Broadcasting run-offn. the final round of election 决胜选举英语高级视听说

Summary and Assignments • News Copying: Week 13 英语高级视听说

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