Unit 2 Lectures and Reports
Thinking Ahead
1. Do you like studying English by yourlf or following some lectures? And why?john cusack
2. Have you ever made public speech or given a report to others? If yes, plea describe your feelings at that time.
Secrets of powerful speaking
1.do enough rearch on the subject/ knowledgeable enough about the subject
2.have passion for your speech
3.overcome the nervousness/fear of public speaking
4. Some techniques for effective speaking
a. speak from notes
b. keep it conversational
c. u stories to illustrate your points
d. u humor throughout your prentation
e. u props and involve the audience
f. prepare for a powerful closing
T ask 1
Exerci 1
Explain the following idioms in English according to the video.
< eat like a hor
T o eat a lot.
2.straight from the hor’s mouth
T o get some information directly from the person responsible for it.
< flog a dead hor
T o waste effort on something that we have no chance of succeeding at.
Exerci 2 Making Sentences
Make one ntence with each idiom.
< eat like a hor.
He eats like a hor.
He must be very hunger. He is eating like a hor now.
2.straight from the hor’s mouth
My boss is going to fire me. I heard it straight from the hor’s mouth.
I got the ne ws straight from the hor’s mouth.
3. to flog a dead hor
I sometimes feel like I’m flogging a dead hor when I’m teaching.
Don’t try to flog a dead hor.
Other idioms related to hor
isa hor of different color完全是另外一回事。
Last year the football team was a wor team among the league, but this year the situation is a hor of a different color, the team has beat all of others
back the wrong hor估计错误；支持失败的一方；赌马你押错了马
If you spend all your money in the stock market, you may back the wrong hor in your investments.
work like a hor辛勤工作，埋头苦干
The boss made his men work like a hor all day long and paid them little
put the cart before the hor本末倒置
To teach writing before reading is to put the cart before the hor.homework什么意思
get on the high hor趾高气扬
budgetingThe minute you start arguing, you get on your high hor. Y ou just can't help yourlf, can you?
change hors in midstream在危急时刻做出重大变动; 中途换将
It is very rious and important. Why do you change hors in midstream?
buy a white hor浪费金钱, 乱花钱
hold yours hors不要急，镇静
Hold your hors, you have done it too fast.
Task 2
Exerci 1
1.William Ehrman shows his admiration to the team which have
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participated in the debating from Sichuan province becau they are in the face of the terrible tragedy, the earthquake at that time.
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2.William Ehrman suggested a Chine debating competition in
Britain.
3.In his opinion, a great leader should have the ability to communicate
and debate.
4.The speaker mentioned two famous leaders in Britain, Churchill and
Thatcher, and he also mentioned another two in the United States,
President Lincoln and President Kennedy.
Exerci 2
维多利亚大学排名W atching for specific information
1) points 2) ring 3) admiration 4) participated
5) province 6) armed forces 7) tragedy 8) relief
A Speech by British Ambassadorven deadly sins
I am just going to make four, as it’s English speaking competition, I just going to make four points, becau if I make any more, Michael will ring the bell to nd me off the stage. The first point I would like to make, like professor Li, is to express admiration for the team which have participated in this competition from Sichuan province. We, the British people and the British government are full of admiration for the way in which the Chine government, Chine armed forces and the Chine people, have come together in the face of this terrible tragedy to bring relief to the people of Sichuan. Today, I think I can say that all British people feel as if they were Chine people.
Next, I would like to day what a huge pleasure it its being to be here this afternoon and what an immenly high standard of debating there has been. I think we should do something in Britain; we should start a Chine language debating competition. And indeed, there should be an international Chine debating competition. I was here two years ago, and the runner-up then Qinghua University went on to win the English as a foreign language, a ction of the world debating championships. I am not surprid; the standard was immenly high then, and it is being immenly high this afternoon. And I am quite confident that the winners, the runner-up, the mi-finalist, all of whom will go on the other international competition, from this competition, are likely to do very well indeed.
My third point is to do something which is a little bit unusual. We have had an excellent debate, and I would like to congratulate whoever the subject, becau it was obviously, a very topical subject, and everyone has a lot of views on the subject. But in the parliament of cour, after the debate, something el happens, which has not happened today. There is a vote, so could, in fact, since we have many eminent policy makers here with us this afternoon, maybe for a point of reference, could I invite everyone plea in this hall, first of all, if you support the proposition to rai your hands and vote. And then plea tho who support the opposition. There we are. This of cour, does not influence the competition in any way, becau the judges have already made their decision. So it would have been unfair to call for a vote before they made their decision. But after their decision, I can say that tho supporting the proposition have won the day, and I will pass that as a point of reference to many of the policy makers among us.
And my last point is to say what an excellent discipline and skill learning to debates is. All great leaders in the world have to be able to communicate. Y ou can have good policies, but if you cannot communicate them, you will probably never become a great leader. When I think of some of the leaders in my own country, Britain, or in the United States, they have all been great communicators and debaters. If you think of Churchill, or Mrs. Thatcher, or if you think of President Lincoln or Presid
ent Kennedy, they have all been people who spoke wonderfully well, and I think in learning this skill and learning developing critical thinking, they also learned how to put things concily and simply. Two of the greatest speeches that ever make were tho by Kennedy at the time of his inauguration, so I think learning to debate is a great thing, and I am absolutely confident that all of you who have taken part in this competition, and tho who reached the final, and tho who reached the mi-final will go on to be leaders in whatever field you choo for yourlves in life. So once again, thank you very much for inviting me. Thank you!
Part 2
TASK 1
Exerci 1
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Financial aids awarded in the university
This is VOA special English education report.
This week in our foreign student ries, we look at financial aid that comes in ships: scholarships, fellowships and assistantships.
But first we talk about financial aid of another kind: a grant, unlike a loan, does not have to be repaid.
One of our examples this week is the university of Missouri-Columbia, known as Mizzou (pronounced mah-zoo). Mizzou is a public university with more than one thousand five hundred international students this school year. The total student population is more than thirty thousand.
Mizzou has a grant program for international students. The curator’s grant-in-aid program is for tho who get good grades and take part in university activities. Graduate students who receive a grant get nine free credits to take cours. Undergraduates receive between one thousand and five thousand dollars in support. Students must have attended Mizzou for a year before they can receive a grant. And thy must reapply for the awards each mester.
Some grants are called scholarships or fellowships. Scholarships are foe undergraduates; fellowships are for graduate students. Awards may be bad on financial need or on grades, talents or other requirements. The Global Heritage Scholarship at Mizzou, for example, is only for international undergraduates who mother or father graduated from there. The scholarship pays ven thousand five hundred dollars a year for tuition. Full tuition is currently almost nineteen thousand dollars. Tuition is about the same at another public university, the University of Arizona in Tucson. It offers an undergraduate scholarship for international students who earned high marks in high school. The program is open to all foreign students who have been admitted to the university. Winners receive between two thousand and ten thousand dollars a year to help pay tuition.
Seventy international students are currently receiving the scholarship. The University of Arizona has more than two thousand international students this academic year. The school had clo to forty thousand students during the fall term.
Assistantships are jobs paid with money or free class. Graduate assistants help professors for about twenty hours a week. They may teach undergraduates, graduate papers and tests, and assist with rearch.
And that’s the VOA special English education report, written by Nancy Steinbach. The earlier reports in our Foreign Student ries are at I’m Steve Ember.believeme
TASK 2
1. Liz McCartney was named CNN hero of the Y ear 2008 for her work with Katrina victims.
2.According to her words, she will dedicate the award to everybody
i just wanna live
in the New Orleans area that was affected by the storm.
3. She was awarded 125,000 dollars. And she plans to rebuild
