文档介绍：高等院校研究生英语系列教材
综合教程(下)
INTEGRATED COURSE
Unit 6
Transition
Content
Starting out
Reading Focus
Reading More
Practical Translation
Focused Writing
Final Project
Task 1
Group Discussion
The term “migrant worker” has different official meanings and connotations in different parts of the world. The United Nations’ definition is broad, essentially including anyone working outside their home country. It can also include those who migrate within a country, usually their own, in order to pursue work such as seasonal jobs.
In China, there are great numbers of such internal migrant workers in the big cities. Discuss the possible reasons why they leave their hometowns and seek jobs in the cities, and the possible consequences of this phenomenon.
Starting out
Task 2
Group Discussion
The United States is a nation on the move. People seldom live their entire life in one place or
remain where they were born. Tell your group members what the driving forces are behind this.
Starting out—Task 2
Listen to part of President Obama’s inaugural speech and fill in the blanks.
That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is at war, against a far-work of __________ and hatred. Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and _______________ on the part of some, but also our collective ___________ to make hard choices and __________ the nation for a new age. Homes have been lost; jobs shed; businesses shuttered. Our health care is too costly; our schools fail too many; and each day brings further _________ that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our .
Starting out
irresponsibility
violence
prepare
failure
evidence
These are the indicators of crisis, __________ subject to data and statistics. Less measurable but no less profound is a sapping of _____________ across our land -- a nagging fear that America's decline is _____________, and that the next generation must lower its sights. Today I say to you that