[00:01.00]Module 2 Developing and Developed Countries
[00:09.22]Vocabulary and Listening
[00:11.93]Activity 3 Check the meaning of these words
[00:16.06]Now listen to the conversation and tick the topics you hear.
[02:34.36]Activity 4 Listen again check your answer to Activity 2
[04:55.56]Culture Corner
[05:00.90]Read the passage and answer these questions
[05:04.01]1.What happened when two towns have a town twinning agreement?
[05:11.18]2.Does your hometown have a twin town?
[05:16.79]Do you think it is a good idea? Say why or why not.
[05:21.70]Town Twinning
[05:24.54]How are Oxford in the UK and Grenoble in France similar?
[05:30.96]Well,
[05:32.13]they're both medium- sized towns of between 100,000 and 200,000 inhabitants.
[05:38.72]They both have universities and industries.
[05:41.84]Tourism is important to both of them,
[05:45.00]and they are both close to some of the most beautiful countryside
[05:48.81]in the region.
[05:49.86]But they share something else:they have a town twinning agreement.
[05:56.24]Town twinning is not a new idea,
[05:59.72]but it has become more popular in recent years
[06:03.02]because it's now easier to find out about
[06:06.01]and visit other countries and towns.
[06:08.38]It's an agreement between towns or cities of similar size and age,
[06:15.06]and which have similar features such as tourism, industry,
[06:20.06]culture and entertainment.
[06:22.12]Town twinning agreements encourage people
[06:26.53]from the two towns to visit each other.
[06:28.98]There are visits and exchanges between schools,theatre groups
[06:34.74]and sports teams.
[06:36.31]Visitors from the foreign town
[06:39.08]usually stay in the private homes of the town they are visiting.
[06:42.86]There is usually a big party for the visitors.
[06:46.63]Town twinning agreements are perhaps most useful for students
[06:53.36]and people who want to practise speaking another language.
[06:56.81]This is because living with a foreign family for one or two weeks
[07:01.87]means that you have to speak their language,
[07:05.21]and as a result you improve fast.
[07:08.21]Module 2 Word List
[07:17.55]hunger n. 饥饿
[07:19.59]income n. 收入
[07:22.79]poverty n. 贫穷
[07:25.12]human n.(与动物等对比的)人
[07:28.55]development n.发展
[07:31.43]index n. 指数
[07:33.99]measure vt. 测定;测量;评估
[07:36.45]goal n. 目标
[07:39.29]expectancy n.(根据概率得出的)预期数额
[07:42.84]position n.位置
[07:45.29]educate vt.教育;培养; 训练
[07:48.58]figure n. 数字
[07:51.50]household n.一家人; 家庭
[07:54.25]homeless adj.无家可归的
[07:57.06]charity n. 慈善团体
[08:00.81]crowded adj.拥挤的
[08:03.26]freeway n.高速公路
[08:05.80]inhabitant n. 居民
[08:09.18]similarity n.类似;相似
[08:14.60]unfortunate adj.不幸的;遗憾的
[08:17.39]location n. 位置;所在地
[08:20.12]tourism n. 旅游业
[08:22.98]transport n.交通工具
[08:27.06]industrial adj.工业的
[08:29.53]polluted adj.受到污染的
[08:32.90]smart adj.漂亮的;整洁的; 时髦的
[08:35.49]vast adj.巨大的，庞大的，浩瀚的
[08:39.63]entertainment n.娱乐
[08:43.93]exchange n.交换
[08:46.52]Module 3 The Vilence of Nature
[08:56.88]Reading and Vocabulary
[08:59.38]Activity 1
[09:00.90]Read about the Gulf Stream and check the meaning of the words.
[09:05.57]The Gulf Stream is a warm ocean current which starts
[09:12.84]in the Gulf of Mexico and flows northeast across the Atlantic.
[09:17.82]It also travels past the east coast of the United States
[09:22.54]towards eastern Canada.
[09:24.61]It is one of the strongest currents anywhere in the world.
[09:29.28]Because of the Gulf Stream, the United Kingdom
[09:33.56]and other places in Europe are much warmer
[09:36.52]than parts of Canada on the same latitude.
[09:41.09]Activity 2
[09:47.02]Read the passages on page 23 and answer the questions.
[09:51.91]1.How strong are tornado winds?
[09:57.66]2.What can happen to furniture
[10:03.79]when a house is destroyed by a tornado?
[10:06.67]3.How many tornadoes are there in the US every year?
[10:14.68]4.How many people died in the worst tornado of all time?
[10:24.25]5.What happens at sea during a hurricane?
[10:32.28]6.When was the worst hurricane of all time?
[10:39.63]7.Was the actor Charges Coghlan killed in it?
[10:48.09]8.What happened to him after the hurricane?
[10:54.36]What is a Tornado?
[10:58.95]A tornado is a rotating column of air
[11:03.86]from a thunderstorm to the ground.
[11:05.92]The most violent have winds of more than 400 kilometres per hour.
[11:11.52]Almost all of them occur in the US,
[11:16.18]in the area from Texas in the southeast to South Dakota in the north.
[11:21.80]Tornadoes can pick up cars, trains and even houses
[11:28.17]and put them down in the next street- or even in the next town.
[11:33.29]They can take the fur off the back of a cat and the feather of a chicken
[11:39.81]They can destroy houses,
[11:42.47]but leave the furniture inside exactly where it was.
[11:46.16]On average,there are 800 tornadoes in the US each year,
[11:52.49]causing about 80 deaths and 1,500 injuries.
[11:58.34]The worst tornado of all time occurred in 1925,
[12:04.73]affecting three US states:Missouri, Illinois and Indiana.
[12:11.94]By the time it ended,
[12:14.39]more than 700 people had been killed and 2,700 had been injured.
[12:22.97]What is a Hurricane?
[12:25.55]Hurricanes are strong tropical storms,
[12:29.70]and they usually occur in the southern Atlantic Ocean,
[12:33.72]the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico.
[12:37.09]There are violent winds of 120 kilometres per hour or more,
[12:42.70]which cause huge waves, heavy rain and floods.
[12:47.06]There are on average six Atlantic hurricanes each year
[12:52.54]and they usually affect the east coast of the US from Texas to Maine.
[12:57.27]The worst hurricane disaster of all time
[13:00.87]occurred on the 8th September 1900 in Galveston, Texas.
[13:05.73]Winds of 200 kilometres per hour
[13:09.38]and five-metre high waves hit the city.
[13:12.85]The disaster killed 6,000 people in a population of 37,000
[13:19.26]and destroyed 3,600 buildings.
[13:23.21]An Extraordinary Event
[13:27.94]This is a story about the 1900 Galveston hurricane.
[13:34.27]Charles Coghlan was a nineteenth-century Irish actor
[13:39.54]who went to live in Canada.
[13:41.88]He then moved to New York, where he became famous.
[13:46.36]By the late 1890s, he had moved to Galveston,
[13:51.13]where he died in 1899, a year before the hurricane struck.
[13:57.90]The cemetery where Coghlan was buried was destroyed
[14:03.00]by the hurricane and Coghlan's coffin ended up in the sea.
[14:07.44]Eight years later, the coffin was found by fishermen in the sea
[14:13.97]near his home on Prince Edward Island in the east of Canada.
[14:18.95]The Gulf Stream had carried it 3,000 kilometres
[14:25.17]up the eastern US coast to Prince Edward Island.
[14:29.54]Coghlan travelled back to Canada-after he had been buried in Texas!
[14:36.41]Listening and Vocabulary
[14:44.41]Activity 4 Listen and answer these questions.
[17:16.76]Pronounciation
[17:23.39]Listen and underline the words which the speaker stresses.
[17:28.04]These key words contain the main ideas.
[17:31.85]And now, more information about the volcanic eruption
[17:38.20]on the island of Montserrat in the Caribbean Sea
[17:42.47]which took place at Sam on December 26th, one week ago.
[17:49.45]We spoke to local journalist
[17:53.34]and he told us that no one had been killed in the incident.
[17:58.59]According to the journalist,
[18:01.71]more than half the island's 11,000 residents
[18:06.28]had left the island four months earlier.
[18:09.93]Now read the passage aloud.
[18:14.76]Make sure you stress the key words.
[18:18.06]Culture Corner
[18:24.21]Activity 1 Read the aricle and answer these questions.
[18:30.32]1.Where was the worst Chinese earthquake?
[18:36.00]2. What was the most dangerous thing
[18:41.33]about the California Earthquake of 1906?
[18:45.90]3.Is it possible that there could be another earthquake there?
[18:51.79]Earthquake Surround the Pacific
[18:56.79]About 400 earthquakes occur worldwide every day,
[19:01.38]more than a hundred thousand in a year.
[19:04.80]China is situated in one of the most active earthquake regions
[19:09.77]in the world and there have been many terrible earthquakes.
[19:13.85]The most serious of these occurred in Hua County
[19:18.18]in Shaanxi Province in 1556.
[19:21.04]The earthquake affected eight provinces in Central China.
[19:25.93]It covered an area of 800 square kilometres.
[19:30.79]In some communities, 60 percent of the population were killed.
[19:36.13]In all, 830,000 people lost their lives.
[19:42.00]The California Earthquake of the 18th of April 1906
[19:48.04]is the worst earthquake that has ever happened in the United States.
[19:52.63]It took place at 5:15 a.m., and lasted for only a minute.
[19:58.50]However,
[20:00.08]it caused the worst natural disaster in the nation's history.
[20:04.29]Fires caused by the California Earthquake did the most damage.
[20:10.07]The fires burned for three days,
[20:13.21]destroying a total of 25,000 buildings.
[20:16.43]About 500 people were killed in the city of San Francisco
[20:21.44]and 250,000 were made homeless.
[20:25.04]In the whole of California,
[20:27.61]the earthquake and fires caused about 3,000 deaths.
[20:31.90]The 1906 earthquake was caused by movement on the San Andreas Fault.
[20:38.99]One hundred years later,
[20:40.81]movements on the San Andreas Fault continue to cause problems
[20:45.45]for the whole of California.
[20:47.56]Module 3 Word List
[20:55.77]disaster n.灾难
[20:57.20]flood n.洪水
[20:59.81]hurricane n. 飓风
[21:03.44]lightning n. 闪电
[21:06.13]thunderstorm n.雷暴
[21:09.25]tornado n. 龙卷风
[21:12.17]column n．柱状物，柱状体
[21:14.81]experience vt. 经历
[21:17.78]cause vt. 引起;导致
[21:20.40]current n.海流,潮流
[21:25.29]latitude n. 纬度
[21:27.72]furniture n. 家具
[21:30.90]bury n. 埋葬
[21:33.50]feather n.羽毛
[21:36.47]fur n. (动物的)毛皮
[21:39.56]occur vi. 发生
[21:42.72]tropical adj.热带的
[21:45.61]equator n. 赤道
[21:48.58]rotating adj.旋转的; 循环的
[21:52.09]violent adj.猛烈的,激烈的; 强烈的
[21:55.22]wave n.波浪
[21:58.15]strike vt&n.(雷电,暴风雨等) 袭击
[22:01.36]cemetery n．墓地;公墓
[22:05.63]coffin n. 棺材
[22:07.96]ruin vt. 毁坏
[22:11.05]ash n. 灰
[22:14.00]erupt vt.(火山的)爆发;喷发
[22:17.30]lava n. 熔岩; 岩浆
[22:20.87]tidal adj.受潮水影响的;有涨落的
[22:25.47]volcano n. 火山
[22:27.55]previous adj. 以前的
[22:29.89]eruption n.(火山的)爆发; 喷发
[22:32.84]possibility n.可能;可能性
[22:37.49]earthquake n. 地震
[22:40.06]terrifying adj.吓人的; 可怕的
[22:43.08]luckily adv.幸运地; 幸亏
[22:46.99]thankful adv.感激地，满怀感谢地
[22:50.15]hopefully adv.满怀希望地; 有希望地
[22:52.97]sadly adv. 伤心地;不幸地
[22:55.79]fortunately adv.幸运地;幸亏
[22:58.97]warning n. 警告
[23:01.69]worldwide adj.全世界的
[23:05.67]active adj.积极的; 活跃的
[23:09.55]damage n.&v.损失;损害
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