Unit2 Listening Course 2 综合教程第一册教师 上海外语教育出版社培训资料.ppt

Ex. B: complete the outlines I. The United States has issued ____________________________________ 1. ______________ could be used in attacks similar to those on September 11th two years ago. 2. Officials also warned possible ______________________________. a new worldwide terrorism warning. Hijacked planes terrorist bombings or kidnappings 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 II. His early efforts to make car safer A. He talked about ______________________ and _________________________________________________ __________________ at parties. B. After he graduated from Harvard, he __________________________________________________