Priscilla Pan

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English in Current Affairs
Priscilla Pan
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Warm Up
What s current affairs?
Current affairs is events and information that
are related to our present lives.
Whats the ways of finding out about current
affairs?
Newspapers, magazines, the radio, TV,
computer networks, etc.
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Unit One
The Madia
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Performance Objectives

• At the end of this unit, you should be able to
• talk/ask about different media
• find your way around newspapers
• distinguish fact from conjecture
• interpret news headlines
• summarise news articles
• appreciate newspaper style
• give/ask for news

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How much do you know about the famous newspapers
in the world?
UK
?????? ???? Times?????
The Daily Telegraph??
The Guardian???? The
Financial Times?????? Sunday
Dispatch???? The
Observer??????? The Sunday Times
???????????? The Daily
Express???? The Daily
Mail???? Daily Mirror?????
The Sunday Express?????
The News of the World?????? The
Sunday People
Newspapers
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Newspapers
1?????????The Los Angeles Times?????The New
York Times????Washington Post????? The Wall
Street Journal?????The New York Daily News
??????Chicago Daily Tribune??????USA Today
????New York Post????
3?????????Herald Journal ????American
Express ????Journal of Commerce ????
Tribune ???American News ????News Weekly
????The World Report ????
2?????????The Christian Science Monitor
????????International Herald Tribune
???????Washington News ?????? Washington
Daily News ???????Baltimore Sun ???????
USA
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• ????? (Copley Newspapers)
• ???M????? (James M. Cox Newspapers)
• ????? (Hearst Newspapers)
• ??????(Knight- Ridder Newspapers)
• ?????(Dow-Jones Corp. )
• ??????(New York Times Corp. )
• ?????(Thomson Newspapers)
• ??????(Times-Mirror Corp. )
• ?????????? (Scripps-Howard Newspapers)??
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??????????(The Economist) ???(The
Spectator) ????(The New Statesman)???(The
Womans Own)????????(The Times Literary
Supplement, The TLS) ???????????1??? (Weeklies)
2??? (Scientific
periodicals) ?? (Now)
?? (Discovery)?? (Private Eye)
?? (Nature)?? (Punch)
???? (Science
News)?? (The Listener)
???? (Scientific World)??? (New Society)
?? (Future)?? (Time Our)
???? (New Scientist)

???? (Science Progress)

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(The Geographical Magazine)
Magazine
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????(The Economist) 1843???,???????????????
?????(The Spectator) ???1828?,????????????????
?????(The New Statesman)???1934?,?????????????
???????????????????(The Womans
Own)1932???,???????????????(Womans
Realm)???1958?,???????????????????(The Times
Literary Supplement, The TLS)?????,??????????????
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Magazine
???????????? (TIME)???? (NEWS WEEK)
????????? (U.S. NEWS WORLD REPORT)????
(READERS DIGEST) ???? (Business Week)??
(Fortune)
???? Readers Digest ????American Television
Magazine ????Life ?? People
??Cosmopolitan ????American Home
????American Child ????American Literature
???? Scientific American ????Playboy
????Beautify Home and Garden
???????Homes Circle ???Good Manager
???Magus ???
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China

• Beijing ReviewNational news magazine.
• Beijing SceneLifestyle magazine featuring arts,
  culture, and sports.
• China BusinessArticles on foreign economic trade
  policies and business opportunities by Government
  representatives.
• China DailyLeading Chinese English-language
  newspaper.
• China InformedDaily digest of news on China,
  Taiwan and Hong Kong.
• China TodayGeneral interest monthly.
• China Top NewsNews from various sources.
• ChinanewsEnglish language news wire, the only
  national news agency independent from Xinhua.
• People's DailyCommunist party newspaper offering
  selective news and comment on national and
  international relations.
• South China Morning PostHong Kong's premier
  English-language daily newspaper.
• Xinhua News Agency State news service.

Newspapers
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• ??????(BBC)www.bbc.com ??????(NHK)www.nhk.or.j
  p ????? www.tv-asahi.co.jp ?????(FNN)
  www.fujitv.co.jp/index.html http//www.fujitv.co.j
  p/en/index.html) ?????(Al Jazeera)
  www.aljazeera.net (english.aljazeera.net/HomePage)
  ??????? (Euronews) www.euronews.net ??????(Sky
  News)www.sky.com (www.sky.com/skynews/home)
  ??????(TF1)www.tf1.fr ??????(Al Arabiya)
  www.alarabiya.net

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???????(CBC)www.cbc.ca ??????(CTV)www.ctv.ca
????????(ITV) www.itv.com ???????
www.lacinquieme.fr ??????(ARD) www.ard.de
??????(ZDF)www.zdf.de ??????? www.dw-world.de
??Sat1??? www.prosiebensat1.com
???????(RAI)www.rai.it ???Canale5???
www.mediaset.it ????????(ABC)www.abc.net.au
????????(PTP)en.rtr-planeta.com
????????(HTB)www.ntvplus.ru ??????
(TBS)www.tbs.co.jp ??kbs???(KBS)www.kbs.co.kr(eng
lish.kbs.co.kr) ??sbs???(SBS)www.sbs.co.kr
????????(MBC) www.mbc.co.kr
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?????????? ????The Times ?????The Daily
Telegraph ????The Financial Times ??The
Guardians ???The Sun ???? The New York
Times ?????The Washington Post ?????Los
Angeles Times ???????International Herald
Tribune ?????The Wall Street Journal
????USA Today ??Time ??Fortune
????News Week ????Business Week
??????Singtao Daily of Hong Kong
????China Daily ??ABC ????? www.geabc.com
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Components of Newspapers
Headline Caption Review Editorial Cartoon Adver
tisement Crossword Contents list Announcement wha
ts on column
World Opinion Sports Business Entertainment Lifest
yle Culture Focus Weather Sci-edu Health photo
Politics Sports Law Finance Business Arts science
Medicine Society Culture Education
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WHO DID WHAT
WHEN WHERE
WHY ? A bomb exploded in a
market place 50 miles south of Baghdad Sunday
afternoon, killed three and wounded five
civilians. (?????,????????????????????,?????,???.)

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Unit Two
Cultural Differences Similarities
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Warm Up
What s culture?
Culture refers to the total pattern of beliefs,
customs, institutions, objects, and techniques
that characterize the life of a human community.
Culture consists of all the shared products of
human Society. (Robertson, 1981) Simply, culture
refers to the entire way of life of a society,
the ways of a people.
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When in Rome, do as the Romans do. English
proverb

• A. greetings and farewells
• B. ways of address
• C. comlpiments and praise
• Americans tend to accept the compliment
  while Chinese generally murmur some relpy about
  not being worthy of the praise.
• D. miscellaneous social amenities
• E. body language

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Unit Three
Education
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Unit Four
Development
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Expressing Development

• When we talk about development, we usually talk
  about the following aspects
• Society
• Culture
• Politics
• Economics (finance)
• Health and care
• Race
• Geography
• Violence and war
• Mind and thought
• Transports
• Etc.

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Describing Changes

• The present perfect tense
• Using comparative forms
• Using figures and facts
• Using contrasting ideas positive and negative
  (advantages and disadvantages)

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Discourse Markers

• but
• yet
• though
• however
• nevertheless
• nonetheless
• On the one hand,on the other hand,

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Unit Six
Social Problems
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Hot social problems

• homeless
• health
• education
• corruption
• crime
• discrimination racism
• drug abuse/addiction
• poverty
• housing
• unemployment /laid-off workers
• Job problems for graduates
• environment protection

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Unit Seven
Equality
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• The definition of equality
• Equality can mean lots of things.
• One meaning is fairness. To be treated
  fairly.
• Another meaning is the same in size,
  amount, number, degree value, etc.

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