英语听力入门3000Unit1

Unit1.World News: International Relations Contents:

1. News reports

2. Anti-piracy mission

3. Speeches

Goals:

1. To train students to recognize key words and phrases in listening

2. To develop students’ ability to identify significant information in listening

3. To train students to summarize the materials through listening

Teaching methods:

Students’ listening; group discussion; teacher’s instruction

Duration:

90 minutes

I.Warming up

A.

Words:

radical----thorough or complete; drastic 彻底的; 完全的; 激烈的: radical reforms, changes, etc彻底的改革﹑改变等

guerrilla[guer·ril·la || gə'rɪlə]

n. soldier who engages in irregular warfare (usually a member of a loosely organized band of soldiers which utilizes hit-and-run methods to fight the enemy)

deplete---- reduce greatly the quantity, size, power or value of (sth) 大量削减（某物）的数量﹑能力或价值; 消耗: Our stock of food is greatly depleted. 我们的食物储备已消耗殆尽. * This expense has depleted our funds. 这笔花费已使我们的资金所剩无几. * a lake depleted of fish, ie with many of the fish gone 几乎无鱼的湖.

Uranium----- chemical element, a heavy grey radioactive metal used as a source of nuclear energy 铀.

allay ---- / əˈleɪ; əˋle/ v [Tn] (fml 文) make (sth) less; relieve 减轻; 缓和: allay trouble, fears, suffering, doubt, suspicion减轻烦恼﹑恐惧﹑苦难﹑疑惑﹑嫌疑.

disquiet: anxiety

The strength of the dollar is causing considerable disquiet on the Stock Exchange. 美元表现坚挺在证券交易所中引起很大的不安.

ammunition: supply of bullets, bombs, etc. fired from weapons 弹药

Kosovo科索沃---- 塞尔维亚国（Serbia）东南部的一个自治省，南部与阿尔巴尼亚（Albania）和马其顿（Macedonia）毗邻。

Serbia 和Macedonia属前南斯拉夫联邦成员国（Yugoslavia），后宣布独立,位于欧洲Kuwait State of Kuwait, monarchy in northeastern Arabia on the northwestern coast of the Persian Gulf

Listening. Listen to some news and fill in the missing words or phrases.

After-listening. Ask individual students to give the answers. Check the answers.

1. Defense Secretary , a radical change

2. mothers, gathered, gun control laws

3. fighting, forces, guerrillas

4. a bomb hit military observers

5. allay health risks

B.

Key words:

collision: instance of colliding; crashing

commitment:obligation, promise; act of committing

If you make a commitment to do something, you promise that you will do it. (FORMAL) We made a commitment to keep working together.

They made a commitment to peace.

eradicate: put an end to; destroy sth. completely根除, 消灭（某事物）; 结束（某事物）: Smallpox has almost been eradicated. 天花几乎已消灭. * attempts to eradicate crime力图根除罪恶的行动.

shrug off: dismiss something as being unimportant

denunciation: act of denouncing谴责; 斥责: her fierce denunciation(s) of her enemies