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Unit 2 Lectures and Reports

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Part I Part II Part III

Contents

Part IV Information Box

Part III Additional Listening

Part II listening Activities

Part I Video time

Warming-ups

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Warming-ups

Have you ever made public speech or given a report to others? If yes, please describe your feelings at that time.

Can you name some great public speakers? Do you admire them? In what aspects?

Stage fright

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The four most common fears about public speaking or presentation

Fear of faintingFear of boring your audienceFear of your mind going blankFear of being judged

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Symptoms in your body

Your palms Your mouth your voice Your heart Your stomach Your knees

worries You may be, and judged

badly. You may feel like a fool. You might make

mistakes and lose your way

You'll be completely humiliated

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Great public speakers

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Listening ： I Have a Dream

I have a dream

What makes the speech so powerful?

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Rhetoric devices in I Have a Dream

“We refuse to believe that…”( 重复两次 ),“We have also come to…”( 重复两次 ),“We can never be satisfied…”( 重复六次 ),“I have a dream…”( 重复九次 ),“Let freedom ring…”( 重复十次 ),“One hundred years later…”( 重复四次 ),“Now is the time…”( 重复四次 ),“Free at last…”( 重复三次 )

头韵法 (Alliteration)

暗喻 (metaphor)

排比 (parallelism) & 重复 (repetition) 对照 (antithesis)

…will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

…the state of Mississippi, …will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; "and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

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Part I Video time

Task 1 Horse idioms

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Key to exercises

Exercise 1

To eat like a horse To eat a lot

Straight from the horse’s mouth

To get some information from the person responsible for it

To flog a dead horse To waste effort on something

that we have no chance of succeeding at

Exercise 2

He eats like a horse.

My boss is going to fire me. I heard it straight from the horse’s mouth.

I sometimes feel like I’m flogging a dead horse when I’m teaching.

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Words and Expressions for Task 2

比赛名次 Place in a competition

champion 冠军

runner-up/the 2nd place 亚军

third place/the 3rd place 季军

比赛性质 Quarterfinal Semifinal Final

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Inauguration An inauguration is a formal

ceremony to mark the beginning of a leader's term of office. An example is the ceremony in which the President of the United States officially takes the oath of office.

2009 Presidential Inauguration ofBarack Obama

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Task 2 A Speech by British Ambassador

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Key to exercises

1. At the beginning of his speech, who foes William Ehrman show his admiration to and why?

He shows his admiration to the team which have participated in the debating competition from Sichuan province because they are in the face of the terrible tragedy, earthquake.

2. what kind of competition did William Ehrman suggest to hold in Britain?

He suggested a Chinese language debating competition in Britain. 3. in the speaker’s opinion, what kind of ability should a great leader

possess? In his opinion, a great leader should have the ability to communicate

and debate. 4. the speaker mentioned some great leaders in Britain and the United

States. Please name some of them. He mentioned two famous leaders in Britain, Churchill and Thatcher;

and another two in the United States, President Lincoln and President Kennedy.

Exercise 1

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Exercise 2

I’m just going to make four, as it’s an English language speaking competition, I am just going to make four ______, because if I make any more, Michael will _____ the bell to send me off the stage. The first point I would like to make, like professor Li, is to express _________ for the team which have _________ in this competition from Sichuan ______. We, the British people, and the British government are fill of admiration for the way in which the Chinese government, Chinese ____________ and the Chinese people , have come together in the face of this terrible ______ to bring______ to the people of Sichuan. Today I think I can say that all British people feel ad of they were Chinese people.

points

ring

admirationparticipated province

tragedy relief

armed forces

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Part II listening Activities

Exercise 1 1. F 2. T 3. F 4. F 5. T

TASK 1 Financial Aids Awarded in the University

Mizzou 密苏里大学The Curator’s Grant-in-Aid 馆长补助金The global Heritage Scholarship at Mizzou 全球性继承奖学金Tucson 图森，美国亚利桑那州南部城市

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Questions for task 1

What is a grant? Can you give examples?A grant, unlike a loan, does not have to be repaid.The The Curator’s Grant-in-Aid in Mizzou.What is the difference between scholarships and fellowships?Scholarships are for undergraduates; fellowships are for graduate students.What is assistantships?Assistantships are jobs paid with money or free classes.

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Dictation Mizzou has a grant program for international students. The

Curator’s Grant-in-Aid program is for those who get good grades and take part in university activities. Graduate students who receive a grant get nine free credits to take courses. 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 they must reapply for the awards each semester.

Some grants are called scholarships or fellowships. Scholarships are for undergraduates; fellowships are for graduate students. Awards may be based on financial need or on grades, talents or other requirements.

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Task 2 CNN Hero of the Year: Liz McCartney

Liz McCartney Liz McCartney is dedicated

to helping Hurricane Katrina survivors in St. Bernard Parish, a community just outside New Orleans. Her nonprofit St. Bernard Project has rebuilt the homes of more than 120 families.

Katrina 卡特里娜CNN Hero of the yearSt. Bernard Parish is a parish located southeast of New Orleans in the U.S. state of Louisiana.

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Task 2 CNN Hero of the Year: Liz McCartney

Exercise 2 1. B 2. C 3. C

Exercise 11. What kind of hero was Liz McCartney

and why?She was named CNN hero of the Year

2008 for her work with Katrina victims ．2. Whom will she dedicate the award to

according to Liz McCartney‘ s words ？She will dedicate the award to everybody

in the New Orleans area that was affected by the storm.

3. How many dollars was she awarded? And how does she plan to do with it?

She was awarded 125,000 dollars. And she plans to rebuild another families’ homes with the money.

Key to exercises

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How many stories did he present to the audience?

Why did he drop out from university?

Why was he fired by his Mac? And how did he come back?

How do you think about his attitude towards death?

Steven Jobs’ speech in Stanford University in 2005

Additional listening 1

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Additional listening 2

President-Elect Barack Obama in Chicago

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Information box

Tips for making a public speech

a. Know the needs of your audience and match your contents to their needs.

f. Pause

g. Add humor whenever appropriate and possible

e. Maintain sincere eye contact

d. Do not read from notes

c. Speak with conviction

b. Using appropriate body language

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Some great words in President Kennedy’s inauguration address

My fellow Americans , ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country . My fellow citizens of the world ; ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man . ——John Kennedy , American President 美国同胞们，不要问国家能为你们做些什么，而要问你们能为国家做些什么。全世界的公民们，不要问美国将为你们做些什么，而要问我们共同能为人类的自由做些什么。——美国总统肯尼迪 . J.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.一个自由的社会假如不能帮助多数贫困的人，也就不能保全少数富有的人。

United there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided there is little we can do—for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder.

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Gettysburg Address

Abraham Lincoln was the second speaker on November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery at Gettysburg. Lincoln was preceded on the podium by the famed orator Edward Everett, who spoke to the crowd for two hours. Lincoln followed with his now immortal Gettysburg Address.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.

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