UNIT 41 RADIO PROGRAMS (I) Lesson 81 Part I

UNIT 41  RADIO PROGRAMS (I)

Lesson 81

Part I Warming-up Exercises

Radio Station Signals

Training Focus:

Identifying radio station signals

This drill aims at developing the students' sensitivity to different radio signals and their awareness of the ways in which  the different nations announce their programs. Familiarity  with the openings of some prominent international broad casts will help prepare the students mentally for the incoming programs.

Directions: You are going to hear the openings of some inter national broadcasts from ten different countries. Listen carefully. Write down the cities and also the agencies presenting these programs.

Key:

1．This is London. (Time Signal) 23 hours Greenwich Mean Time. BBC World Service. The News, read by Ashley Hodgeson.

2．This is Radio Australia broadcasting from our studios in Melbourne. It's  9:30 hours, Greenwich Mean Time.

3．The Asian Service of the Voice of Germany presents Panorama, a programme  of news, views and reports.

4．This is Switzerland. Swiss Radio International presents Interaction, featuring  ICEM, the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration.

5．Next is a program from Radio Nederland, the Dutch World Broadcasting System. Good evening and welcome to another edition of Asia Special.

6．Good morning. I'm Larry James, bringing you greetings from the Voice of America in Washington.

7．Radio Moscow World Service presents Hobbyland.

8．From New Zealand, Around New Zealand! And here to introduce this week's  programme is Robert Taylor.

From the studios of Radio New Zealand in the capital city of Wellington to wherever you may be, welcome to this week's New Zealand Report.

9．Radio Japan, the Overseas Service of Japan's NHK, is heard next.

10．The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in co-operation with the Joint Programming Committee presents the first of three programmes entitled Colourful  Canadians.

Lesson 81 Part Ⅱ News

Lesson 81

Part Ⅱ News

Ex. Ⅰ

Directions: Study the summary for News Item 1.

Ex. Ⅱ

Directions: Fill in the blanks with the information you get from the news.

Key: (see tapescript)

Ex. Ⅲ

Directions: Complete the summary for News Item 2.

Key: a mechanical heart

Ex. Ⅳ

Directions: Give brief answers to the questions you hear on the tape.

1. Who was given a mechanical heart ? 

2. What is the result of the operation ?

3. What is the artificial heart made from ?

Key: (see tapescript)

Tapescript:

News    (1'47")

News Item 1

And This News

The National Academy of Sciences says that eating less salt, food rich in fat and smoked foods can reduce a person's chance of developing cancer. A study by the academy also said people should eat more fruits, vegetables and whole grains. The chairman of the study said that eating fatty foods could be the cause of about 40% of the cancers in men and 60% of the cancers in women. He said scientific evidence shows that most major cancers. are influenced by the kinds of food that people eat.

News Item 2 

Medical News

American doctors have successfully placed a mechanical heart in the body of a 61-year-old man. The man is reported doing well after doctors removed his diseased heart and replaced it with an artificial blood pump. Doctors at the University of Utah Medical Center said the operation had gone better than expected. They said the artificial heart is working well. The artificial device is made from plastic and aluminum and is connected to a machine outside the man's body.

Lesson 81 part Ⅲ Science Report ---- How Smoking Mothers AffectTheir Children

Lesson 81

part Ⅲ Science Report

---- How Smoking Mothers Affect Their Children

Ex.

Directions: Complete the report with the information you get from the tape.

Key: Ⅰ.  Project: How smoking mothers affect their children

Subjects: More than 1,100/five and nine

Test: once / five / the amount of air / blow out of their lungs

Findings: 1.7% less developed

2. colds, influenza and other respiratory infections

Ⅱ．Findings of another study:

1. developing lung cancer

2. only for sons and not for daughters

3. did not affect a person's chances of developing lung cancer

Tapescript:

Science Report (3'43 ")

----How Smoking Mothers Affect Their Children

American doctors say mothers who smoke cigarettes may slow the growth of their children's lungs. They said reduced lung growth could cause the children to suffer breathing problems and lung disease later in life. Doctors in Boston, Massachusetts studied more than 1,100 children between the ages of five and nine. The mothers of some of the children smoked; the other mothers did not. Doctors tested the children once a year for five years to see how fast their lungs were growing. The test measured the amount of air the children could blow out of their lungs in one second. Children should be able to blow out more air each year because their lung power increases as their lungs develop. But the doctors found that the lungs of the children whose mothers smoked had not developed as fast as they should. In fact they were 7% less developed than the lungs of children whose mothers did not smoke. Doctors are not sure when the mothers' smoking affected the children's lungs. They say it could have happened before birth because the mothers smoked during pregnancy, or it could have happened later when the children breathed smoke----filled air at home.  Doctors also are not sure if reduced lung growth will affect the  children's overall health when they are adults. But they do know that children whose mothers smoked developed 20% more  colds, influenza and other respiratory infections than other children. So doctors feel there is a greater danger that such  children will develop serious lung and breathing diseases later in life. The most common breathing diseases ---- bronchitis and emphysema cause more than 50,000 deaths each year in the United States. About 20% of the people who smoke heavily develop these breathing problems. Doctors will now try to learn if this is more likely to happen to a smoker if his or  her mother smoked. Another recent study found that smokers  have a greater chance of developing lung cancer if their mothers  smoked. That study found that the danger of lung cancer increased only for sons and not for daughters. And it found  that father's smoking did not affect a person's chances of developing lung cancer.