Level II
Chapter 2
Listening Speaking
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IC3
IC3 | IT | TOEFL | Best Answer
English | Vietnamese
Assessment
Your life: does a river run through it?
Có dòng sông nào chảy qua cuôc đời của bạn không?
Skills:
In this chapter you will do these things:
Styles of Broadcasting
Intercultural Communicative Competence
In this chapter we have practiced listening and speaking using an American broadcasting news style. Reporting the news serves many different purposes and people from different cultures and different regions of the world use different styles of reporting. In this IC3 section, we are to explore the styles of reporting news in the U.S. and in Vietnam. Students participating in May Term are developing this idea further, so this section of the chapter will continue to evolve. For present purposes, discuss the following questions:
Take time to observe news broadcasts from Vietnamese networks and international networks like CNN, BBC, CNBC and others.
1. Observe the reporters. Are the reporters serving purposes other than reporting the news? Is the individual reporter important to the story--in other words, do we know the reporter’s name, do we see a great deal of the reporter during the report or is the focus on the story itself? Is the reporter’s appearance important?
2. Does the news broadcast have commercial breaks? How does that effect the broadcast? How does a news broadcast with commercials differ from a broadcast that is commercial free?
3. Can a news broadcast be entertaining? Should it be? Why or why not?
4. How much time is given to each story? Does Vietnamese news give more or less time to individual stories? What kinds of stories get the most attention?
5. News broadcasts often feature the weather report and sports. Why?
6. Name five ways in which a Vietnamese broadcast and an American broadcast are similar. Name five ways in which they are different.
Trong chương này chúng ta sẽ luyện nghe và nói theo phong cách báo chí Mỹ. Việc tường thuật lại tin tức phục vụ nhiều mục đích và các nền văn hoá khác nhau, các vùng khác nhau trên thế giới có các phong cách tường thuật khác nhau. Trong phần học liên văn hoá này, chúng ta sẽ khảo sát phong cách báo chí Mỹ và Việtnam. Các sinh viên tham gia kì học liên văn hoá Tháng Năm đã có nhiều đóng góp cho đề tài này, bây giờ chúng ta đi tiếp. Để phục vụ bài học chương này, hãy thảo luận các câu hỏi sau:
Hãy theo dõi chương trình thời sự của các kênh Việtnam và quốc tế như CNN, BBC, CNBC và các kênh khác.
1. Hãy quan sát phóng viên. Phóng viên có mục đích nào khác ngoài đưa tin không? Cá nhân phóng viên có quan trọng đối với thông tin không – hay nói cách khác, chúng ta có biết tên của phóng viên không? Phóng viên xuất hiện nhiều hay sự kiện mới là trọng tâm trong đoạn tin? Sự xuất hiện của phóng viên trong đoạn tin có quan trọng không?
2. Các chương trình thời sự có bị các đoạn quảng cáo ngắt quãng không? Quảng cáo xen vào giữa ảnh hưởng như thế nào đến chương trình. Các chương trình đưa tin có xen quảng cáo khác với các chương trình không xen quảng cáo như thế nào?
3. Các chương trình thời sự có thể để giải trí hay không? Có nên như thế không? Tại sao có/ hoặc không?
4. Mỗi một tin hay sự kiện chiếm bao nhiêu thời gian? Các chương trình tin của kênh Việtnam dành nhiều hay ít thời gian hơn cho các lời thoại cá nhân? Loại tin tức sự kiện nào được chú ý đến nhiều nhất?
5. Các chương trình tin tức thường đưa tin thời tiết và thể thao. Tại sao?
6. Hãy kể 5 đặc điểm giống và 5 đặc điểm khác nhau giữa phát thanh truyền hình Việt nam và Hoa Kỳ.
- Open the Internet and go to Google.com
- Search for “avian flu AND food security”
- Click on the first link on the list. This is the website for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Take a moment to read the information on the screen.
- This website has lots of valuable information about avian flu. Click on the word “Background” on the left-hand side of the page.
- Notice in the bottom right corner of the page, there is a map. Click on the words below the map to expand it. This map shows how much poultry there is across Asia. The darker the color the more birds there are in that area. Locate the general area of the Mekong Delta and notice how dark the color is there. When you are done, close the map.
- On the left-hand side of the page click on the words “AI Bulletin.” This opens a page with a box full of numbers. These numbers represent editions of the AI Bulletin published by the Food and Agriculture Organization. Click on the highest number to open the most recent edition of the Bulletin. It may take a moment to load and your computer will open a program called Adobe Acrobat Reader to display the Bulletin. Read over the Bulletin to see what it says about Viet Nam. When you are done close the window with the Bulletin and go back to the Food and Agriculture Organization website.
- On the right hand side of the page click on the words “WHO – Avian Influenza Factsheet.” This takes you to the World Health Organization’s website dedicated to the Avain Flu. The WHO is another global organization working to eradicate or minimize the effects of the Avian Flu.
- In the box where it says “Search” in the top right-hand corner of the page type “ Viet Nam” and click the on the “Search” button. On the next page click on the first link on the list.
- This the WHO’s homepage for Viet Nam click on the words “disease outbreaks” in the middle of the page to read some of the updates about the avian flu in Viet Nam.
- Avian flu is not just an issue in Asia, it has effected communities all around the world, including the area surrounding Eastern Mennonite University. In the last few years thousands of birds have been killed to prevent outbreaks of flu. Try searching on Google for information about the avian flu in the United States. If you get stuck here are some websites to try.
- www.usda.gov
- www.cdc.gov
- When you are done write a paragraph reflecting on what you think an appropriate global response to avian flu might be. Save it to your disk.
The vocabulary for these TOEFL exercises comes from a discussion among AGU and Bluffton students in May 2003, as the two groups of youth addressed river and water ecology concerns in the Mekong Delta and Northwest Ohio.
1. Mekong Delta farmers endanger water resources and rice product with their overuse of chemicals.
a. riskily
b. threaten
c. preserve
d. threatened
2. Small ferries and rice cargo boats ply the waters of the Mekong River.
a. use
b. rely upon
c. cut their way
d. apply
3. Dam construction and consequent erosion fill the rivers with silt that choke the aquatic life.
a. strangle
b. deprive of oxygen
c. attack
d. kill
4. Overpopulation along the banks of Vietnamese and Ohioan rivers adds to the waste borne by water resources.
a. industrial waste carried by
b. bad usage of
c. shortage of
d. pollutants within
5. Lake Erie’s falling water level is due to recurrent droughts in the Midwest.
a. lengthy
b. severe
c. severest
d. repeated
6. There is a growing gap in consciousness about proper levels of water usage by urban and rural dwellers.
a. knowledge
b. recognition
c. thoughtfulness
d. senses
7. There have been ten years of debate about whether to ditch and pave the Riley Creek or to clean and preserve its natural habitat.
a. the Riley Creek’s
b. the river bottom’s
c. the Riley Creeks
d. the ditch’s
8. Flooding of the Mekong Delta with rich alluvial soil from upstream is both a boon and a bust for rural families.
a. a benefit and a cost
b. a threat and a fear
c. a hazard and a cost
d. an advantage and a surprise
9. Both American and Vietnamese consumers need to recycle more and discard less.
a. citizens
b. farmers
c. purchasers
d. polluters
10. The illegal dumping of poultry products, hospital waste, petrol, and sewage into ributaries of the Mekong leaves villages without potable water.
a. tasty
b. drinkable
c. truly clean
d. bottled
11. Nuclear power plants discharge overheated water into the river system, thus altering the water ecology.
a. shoot
b. fire upon
c. place a premium on
d. dump
12. Urban sprawl leads not only to loss of agricultural land but also redirection of water resources.
a. breadth … alternative uses for
b. spreading … recycling
c. expansion … alternative use of
d. landscapes … envisioning of
13. For safety reasons, tourist barges are pulled over for docking at dusk.
a. docked
b. docking
c. harbored
d. harboring
14. If fully implemented, the dredging of the Mekong would more than double the annual shipping capacity of the entire Mekong river system.
a. cleaning of silt from the bottom
b. expansion
c. pollution control
d. enforcement of safety standards
15. Laos abandoned central planning of the Mekong a decade ago and has aggressively turned to market principles for development.
a. foreign capital
b. political leaders
c. market-based ideas
d. market-related tourism
16. The Maumee Bay is clogged with algae, which limits Ohioan’s recreational use of the water.
a. choked
b. blocked up
c. cleared
d. cleaned
17. The Ottawa River suffers on account of agricultural run off.
a. on the basis of
b. due to
c. for the sake of
d. because
18. The ba sa fish industry of the Mekong is profitable, yet a source of pollution.
a. though
b. and
c. also
d. despite
19. Experts of the Mekong hydrology state that the primary cause of contamination is the heightened use of economic activity.
a. leading
b. first
c. primordial
d. serious
20. The Mekong is third only to the Amazon and Congo rivers in biological diversity.
a. lacks species of
b. is related third of
c. lags only behind
d. placed third
Taking It Further
(Journal Writing, Extra Assignments, Special Explorations, Creative Endeavors):
Create our own news broadcast by forming a group with your classmates and collaborating on your news stories.
Best Answers to Guiding Question: This section will be the same in the Reading and Writing books chapter 2. This may be posting answers online and sharing answers cross-culturally.
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