美英报刊 lecture 4 the 4th week!!.ppt

Lecture 4: Exercises for enhancement News Reading Practice British Food and Drinks The Economist I. Change the following news headlines to everyday English 1. Islamic Press to Sue UK TV firm 2. Cars, schools targets of new save-oil plan 3. Strike threat over pay claim refusal 4. Woman kills husband, self 5. Space research talks proposal 6. Liverpool supermarket bomb scare Keys II. Making it dramatic 1. The Islamic Press is to sue a UK TV firm 2. Cars and schools have become the targets of a new plan to save oil 3. There is a threat to go on strike due to the refusal of their claim for a rise in pay 4. A woman killed her husband and herself 5. (There is) A proposal to hold talks in the research of space 6. The scare was caused by a bomb in a supermarket in Liverpool Making it dramatic II. Supply a more dramatic word for each of the words below STRONG REQUEST:_____ LARGE GANG, UNCONTROLLED CROWD:_____ ACTION, INCIDENT:_____ SETBACK, DISAPPOINTMENT:_____ RESTRAINT, RESTRICTION:_____ OBSTACLE:_____ III. Blank-filling III. Supply dramatic words of your own to fill in the gaps in these sentences taken from articles about air pollution The huge___(飙升)in air travel is becoming one of the biggest causes of climate change. The____(急剧上升的)growth in CO2 emissions from aircraft will do terrible damage to the atmosphere. The clash of interests cannot be___(避而不谈)any more. Planes___(喷出)eight times more CO2 per passenger mile客英里than a train. The cut-price airline ticket is___(刺激)a boom that will make countering global warming impossible. IV.headline Writing IV. Now decide for yourself what the following mean and write headlines that include them to soar stormy to quit pledge cut To increase dramatically Soaring House Prices Fuel Inflation Violent disagreement Manager Quits after Stormy Confrontation with Fans To resign, leave CEO to Quit after Poor Quarterly Figures Promise PM Pledges New Deal for Unemployment reduction, lower Tax Cut Aims to Boost S