新闻英语2012 软新闻和特写.ppt

News English PLAY Questions: 1)What’s the program about ?what do you know about Rachel ‘s childhood? 2) what did she major in the Pennsylvania College for Women? 3) When did she become interested in the mysteries of the sea? 4) why did she begin her part-time work for a federal governent? 5) what was her first job at at the United States Bureau of Fisheries? 6) what was her first book about and for whom? 7) what do you know about her book “the Sea Around”? 8) What caused her to write “silent Spring”? 9) Why was her book titled as “Silent Spring?” 10) What can you get from Rachel Carson?” Exercises I: Watch the video and decide whether the following statements are true or false. Play 1. A young American man named Ben Schumaker creates portraits of children who are often forgotten in the world. 2. The orphans do not have pictures taken by their parents , so they are so thrilled to obtain their own portraits. 3) Those American high school arts students paint the orphans by imitating the pictures taken by Ben Schumaker. 4) Ben Schumaker calls his project “ Memory Project “ because he tries to help the orphans improve their poor memories. 5)Ben is vey happy to see there is a connection between the American high school art students and the orphans they paint. √ × √ √ × Part III: Watch the video and finish the following tasks: Part III: Watch the video and choose the best answer to the following questions: 1.What is the main point of this news item? A. A suggested lifestyle for family men and housewives. B. Best buy experiments with radical flex time program. C. A brief introduction to the giant retailer company Best Buy. D. The reasons why working moms and dads choose to work in Best Buy. Play Part III: Watch the video and choose the best answer to the following questions: 2..According to the news , what problem had upset Brian Lucas before the ROWE grogram was introduced? A. He just felt enormous pressure from his work. B. He could not afford