听说教程4 Unit1.ppt

听说教程4 ---- Listening and Speaking Foreign Language Department Tianhe College of Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University * Soapyshu How was your spring festival? Homework Checking Have you listened to BBC or VOA news this week? Can you share with us one piece of news which you think is most important and influential? Important news this week 1. Two sessions. NPC: National People’s Congress; CPPCC: Chinese Peoples Political Consultative Conference. China lowers growth target to 7% as it fights deep-seated economic problems. Li Keqiang warns ‘the difficulties we are to encounter in the year ahead may be even more formidable than those of last year.’ 2. Apple Watch release signals firm’s transformation into luxury brand . Apple Watch: available April 24 for between $349 and $17,000. 3. MH370 report offers no answers but Malaysia vows to continue search. On first anniversary of plane’s disappearance, report reveals nothing unusual except that locator beacon battery had already expired before MH370 vanished. 4. Merkel urges Japan to face wartime past. Germany’s post-WWII attitude ‘contributes to its achievement’ in EU. 5. HKs political figures condemn protesters against mainland shoppers and the latest chaos caused by a few protesters who harassed mainland shoppers in Hong Kongs Tuen Mun area on Sunday, where many retailer stores had to close in the middle of the day. VOA News Listen to the news item and decide whether the following statements are true or false. A Russian judge says a former Chechnya police commander admitted his involvement in the killing of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov. The commander and 4 other suspects shot Nemtsov to death on Feb. 27 last year. Nemtsov was a staunch(坚定的) foe（敌人） of Russian President Vladimir Putin. All the suspects say they are not guilty. Authorities say a sixth suspect