教学PPT Chapter 6.ppt

1、Business English Reading Courseware,Book One,Chapter 6,Abstracts from Articles Relating to General Trade Mode 一般贸易方式文摘,Made by Zhang Guojian,单元教学目的,通过阅读归纳段落大意 (同第五章)。,Step One,First, read Material One under teachers instructions. Then teacher gives hints or tips for reading. Finally, teacher checks

2、the answers and gives explanations.,Asia is now exporting two-thirds of the worlds mobile phones, personal computers, digital televisions and other high-tech goods for information and communications, in a significant shift in world trade accentuated by the global financial crisis, the U.N. reported

3、Wednesday. The new U.N. data shows that China and Hong Kong exported $498 billion in such goods in 2009, more than four times the United States share of $113 billion. Also included in such trade were cameras, iPads, CD and DVD players and other consumer electronics.,Global exports of information and

4、 communication technology, known as ICT - key to developing economies - represented 12 percent of world merchandise traded last year, up about 1 percent from a year earlier, according to the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development figures. The striking thing is that Asia really has emerged as a ver

5、y dominant player, said Torbjorn Fredriksson, who heads the ICT analysis section at the U.N. trade organization known as UNCTAD. And you can also see that within just one year, their share increased by 2.5 percent, which is quite a large share globally, and we link that to the financial crisis.,Asia

6、s gain has come mostly at the expense of the U.S., Japan and Europe, he said, with the quick rebound of Asian economies also playing a role. Trade in ICT goods is increasingly dominated by Asia; seven of the top 10 exporters led by China and Hong Kong are Asian. The next closest is the U.S., which e

7、xports almost 11 percent of ICT goods. The U.S., China and Hong Kong are also the biggest importers of ICT goodspartly a reflection of the inter-Asian trade in components.,The latest data support recent findings that the global financial crisis has led to significant shifts in world trade of ICT goo

8、ds towards Asia, UNCTAD said. Most major exporters saw a decrease in ICT goods due the financial crisis, but the decline was sharper in Portugal and Finland, where the drop was more than 50 percent, and in Ireland, where it fell 36 percent. In Czech Republic, France, Germany and Sweden it decreased

9、20 percent. China, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Korea and Thailand also notched modest losses.,By contrast, Indias exports soared 244 percent and its imports of ICT goods also rose. Exports of those by Romania, Israel and Malaysia also rose sharply, UNCTAD reported. But imports of ICT goods declined

10、by more than 35 percent in Finland, Ireland, Portugal, Russia and Spain for a mixture of factors that include the financial crisis, Fredriksson said. UNCTAD says that mobile telephones and other ICT goods were helping blaze the way for new micro-enterprises that are mushrooming in developing countri

11、es sometimes creating new livelihoods for the poor.,For example, Kenya has more than 20,000 agents for the M-PESA mobile-based transaction service, Fredriksson said. Some 1 million people are now involved in Indias mobile phone sector, he said. UNCTAD, citing Grameenphone figures, said Bangladesh ha

12、s an estimated 350,000 village phone ladies who run mobile phone booths in remote places so others can call relatives or get health care.,Step Two,Students read Material Two themselves firstly. Then teacher checks the answers without giving explanations.,vocabulary,1. accentuate v. 使恶化，使严重 2. notch

13、vt. 赢得；用刻痕计算；在上刻凹痕 3. blaze vi. 燃烧；激发；照耀，发光 4. mushroom vi. 雨后春笋般涌现，迅速增加生长 5. rand n. 兰特（南非的货币单位）；边缘；垫皮，衬底（鞋后根与鞋底中间的）,6. curb vt. 抑制；约束： 7. disrupt vt. 使分裂；使瓦解；使中断 ； 使陷于混乱；破坏 8. cement n. 水泥 9. utilities n. 公共事业设备；公用事业 10. gigawatt n. 千兆瓦；十亿瓦特 11. premium a. 高级的；优质的,12. traction n. 牵引；机车辆 牵引力 13. me

14、dian a. 中值的；中央的 14. lull n. 暂停；间歇；暂时平静 15. bolster vt. 支持；支撑 16. peril n. 危险；冒险 17. erode vt. 腐蚀，侵蚀 18. affiliated a. 有关连的；附属的,单元注释,1. UNCTAD 联合国贸易暨发展会议，全 称为United Nations Conference on Trade And Development，简称贸发会 议，1964年成立于日内瓦，作为一个长期 性的政府间国际组织，其宗旨在于促进各 国，尤其是发展中国家的经济增长与发展。,2. Grameenphone 格莱珉电话公司（孟加

15、拉国最大移动运营商）3. thermal coal 热能煤 电煤4. coking coal 冶 焦煤；冶矿业 炼焦煤,5. blast furnace 炉窑 鼓风炉，冶 高 炉,6. Bloomberg 彭博通讯社，是由迈克卢本斯布隆伯格于1982年创立的经济性媒体集团，主要为一个经济资讯的平台。它提供经济资讯给公司群及组织，包括各地产经资讯，世界各地的使用者使用其来交换资讯；它也提供权威性的经济评论及观点。同时，彭博通讯社也提供资讯渠道给一般大众获得经济资讯，如其提供之各地电视台，主播会提供经济方面的新知及投资讯息，也会有各地金融产业与经济概况剖析。现今的彭博通讯社提供了许多方式来了解其资

16、讯，包括电视频道（如台湾中嘉互动TV；中华电信MOD；东森数位电视；彭博电视）、收音机、网路、刊物等。,7. Barclays 巴克莱银行（是英国最大的投资银行之一，拥有23,000名雇员，资产超过1.2万亿英镑）或巴克莱集团（财富500强公司之一，总部所在地英国，主要经营银行，全球主要的金融服务供应商，从事零售、商业银行、信用卡、投资银行和资产管理专业金融服务）,8. Nikkei 日经指数，即 Nikkei Index, 是最重要、最著名的日本股票指数，由日本东京证交所编制, 是投资人研究日本股市的一个重要参考指数。日经指数有不同系列, 最为人熟知的是 Nikkei 225。,9. Itochu 日本伊藤忠商社，是一家从事多行业贸易业务的公司，是仅次于三菱商社、三井商社和住友商事的日本第四大贸易集团。,练习答案,【材料一】 . 1. D 2. D 3. B 4. D 5. B . 1. C 2. D 3. B 4. A 5. D,【材料二】,（1）G （2）E （3）D （4）F （5）C,【材料三】,1. D 2. A 3. B 4. A 5. B 6. C 7. A,【材料四】,1. A 2. B 3. B 4. C 5. A,【单元弹性练