商务英语1 Unit3

Watch the game and give your answer.
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1. Who arrives first?
The man by car arrives first. But the cost is highest of the three. (Metro: $ 2.9; bike: zero)
Born in London in 1956, Shashi Tharoor was educated in India and the United States, completing a Ph.D. in 1978 at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. His political career began in 1978, when he joined the staff of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva, and included key responsibilities in peace-keeping after the Cold War and served as a senior adviser to the Secretary-General, as well as the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information.
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Look and Think
Look at the pictures , What do they depict? Think of a best solution to solve the transport problem in modern metropolises as New York, Paris, London, Tokyo, Berlin, Beijing, etc.
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Theme of the Unit
Video Game: Who Is to Arrive First?
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Name as many types of urban transport as you can.
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Video Game: Who Is to Arrive First?
Shashi Tharoor
One of the biggest surprises of my life in America is the New York City subway. I‘ve actually come to enjoy it. When I first moved here in 1989, well-meaning friends warned me away from the already 80-year-old underground railroad, notorious among both residents and visitors as the least pleasant and most dangerous means of getting around this City That Never Sleeps. Yet it was also the fastest and the most economical means of doing so.
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Graffiti is any type of public markings that may appear in the forms of simple written words to elaborate wall paintings. In most countries, defacing property with graffiti without the property owner's consent is considered vandalism, which is punishable by law. Sometimes graffiti is employed to communicate social and political messages. To some, it is an art form worthy of display in galleries and exhibitions; to others it is merely vandalism.
You are to watch three people setting off from the same starting point by three different means: bike, metro and car respectively. They are to arrive at the same destination. Who arrives first? How much does the trip cost for each?
Watch part of the earliest documentary about subway graffiti in New York City.
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Letter from America: Notes from the Underground
city, and was placed under control of the state-level Metropolitan Transportation Authority in 1968. The New York City Subway is one of the most extensive public transportation systems in the world, with 468 reported passenger stations. The subway is also notable for being among the few rapid transit systems in the world to run 24 hours a day, 365 days a yearReading
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About the Author
About the New York City Subway Graffiti
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About the Author
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Watch the video clip "Metro Service". What are the features of the New York subway? 24-hour service, convenient but bewildering
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On NY subway
Though it is known as "the subway", implying underground operations, about 40% of the system runs on above-ground right-of-way.
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
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Graffiti
Graffiti (singular: graffito; the plural is used as a mass noun) is the name for images or lettering scratched, scrawled, painted or marked in any manner on property.
NY subway entrance
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NY subway
The New York City Transit Authority, a public authority presided by New York City, was created in 1953 to take over subway, bus, and streetcar operations from the
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Questions for Discussion
Does your hometown have subway? If yes, what is it like? Does it make for comfortable traveling? If no, why is there no subway? Summarize your idea with additional markers like "first, second, and then …" to make your points clear. If there is no subway, the following elements are often considered: size of the city, passenger volume, traffic on the road, municipal revenues and expenditure (if the municipal government is to finance the construction), other means to finance the construction, geological conditions (whether fit to construct a subway), cultural relics underground (Rome is a case in point), etc.