Assignment Due 18-24 September 2007

Home Listening Assignment
Due 18-24 September 2007

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PART I
Listen to the attached audio file, then answer the following questions. Send your responses to Stella Chen at "lemon26"@ms26.url.com.tw

    1. How many people are being evacuated in Shanghai?
    2. Why did one worker die in Taiwan?
    3. What are authorities on the lookout for?
    4. Who is searching for victims?
    5. What are residents struggling to do?
    6. What's happening from "Taiwan to Japan"?
    7. When should the typhoon make landfall?
    8. It is estimated that this storm is the most destructive in a) ten years, b) twenty years,
c) five years.

PART II
Using the vocabulary below, be prepared to hold a two-way conversation with another student about this news report. Example:

    "Did you hear what happened in Shanghai?"
    "Yes, I understand there's a typhoon," etc.

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V O C A B U L A R Y

evacuating
braces
destructive
on the lookout
decade
typhoon
scaffolding
authorities
flash floods
landslides
landfall
blasted
submerged
acres
coping
coast guard
shelter

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