外教社听力教程 Unit2.pptVIP

Unit 2Listening Course 2 Section One Tactics for Listening Part I Phonetics--Stress, Intonation and Accent Directions: Sometimes a falling tone gives some new information and a rising tone is used for a subject that is already being talked about. Listen to some short dialogues and choose the right answer that is the new information. Key: 1. a 2. b 3. b 4. a 5. a Part 2 Listening and Note-taking Ralph Nader Focus: Selecting important words Background: Born: 27 February 1934 Best Known As: Author of Unsafe at Any Speed and perennial presidential candidate Ralph Nader gained national fame with his 1965 book Unsafe At Any Speed, which exposed the automobile industrys irresponsibility when it came to designing safe cars. Nader became the best-known consumer advocate in the U.S., lecturing widely and forming non-profit groups like Public Citizen, whose stated goal was to protect consumers against corporate carelessness and greed. His youthful followers became known as Naders Raiders. He ran for president in 1996 and 2000 as a candidate for the Green Party. Critics accused Nader of taking votes away from Democrat Al Gore in the 2000 elections, as Gore narrowly lost to Republican George W. Bush. Nader graduated from Princeton in 1955, and from Harvard Law School in 1958 Ex. A: Listen to some sentences and fill in the blanks with the missing words. 1. Ralph Nader is a man of few possessions. 2. He is paying back to America his debt as a citizen. 3. He said new laws were needed to make cars safer. 4. A law was passed to ensure that products like sausages and hamburgers contained the right amount of meat. 5. Ralph Nader has set a wonderful example of what determined men and women can do to improve the quality of life in their country. Ex. B: Listen to the talk about Ralph Nader. Take notes and complete the following outline. Ralph Nader I. Ralph Nader, a man of few possessions A. He owns ____________ and lives in a _______________