[00:00.00]Beijing has changed rapidly [00:03.35]in the last twenty years or so. [00:05.34]Travellers of the 1920s remember it [00:07.84]mainly as a city of busy lanes [00:09.76]with homes built around courtyards, [00:12.29]but these have given way to...
[00:00.19]Speaking: [00:02.04]Exercise 3 Listen to three people [00:05.83]on a survival course.Which of the problems [00:08.76]in Exercise 2 are mentioned? [00:12.88]OK, so here we are. It's freezing. [00:16.20]It's not what you'd call tropical. [00:...
[00:01.07]Not everybody has benefited though [00:03.46]and there are much greater inequalities [00:05.59]than twenty years ago. [00:06.87]The top 20% are much richer- [00:09.59]they now have 46% for the nation's wealth [00:12.08]compared with around...
[00:03.05]Unit 24 Society [00:06.28]3 A Changing World [00:09.71]A Every year thousands of tourists flock [00:13.37]to China to wander along the majestic Great [00:16.00]Wall and gaze in awe at the Forbidden City. [00:19.28]They come to see these gra...
[00:00.34]There are very few laws in Utopia, [00:03.06]because there is no need for them. [00:04.77]So there are no lawyers-just imagine that. [00:07.83]But if someone behaves badly then can [00:10.27]be made into slaves- [00:12.18]the slaves in Utop...
[00:00.00]Everything is well organized [00:02.85]and people only have to work six hours a day. [00:05.97]They usually have all of their meals [00:07.77]in a large communal dining room, [00:09.53]but can have them at home if they want. [00:12.22]At su...
[00:02.86]Unit 22 Environmental Protection Warm-up [00:08.03]Exercises 2 Listen to the news report. [00:11.71]Which of the statements are true [00:13.72]and which are false? [00:15.30]Write T for true and F for false. [00:19.26]Now over to Jim Wilson...
[00:00.86]Another endangered species, [00:02.83]the Yangtze Dolphin,is China's only fresh-water [00:06.53]dolphin and is sometimes called' the panda [00:09.35]of the Yangtze River'because it is so rare. [00:13.11]its numbers are decreasing for severa...
[00:02.31]Forests [00:03.63]The world's forests are the natural habitats [00:05.99]for millions of species of plants, [00:08.33]insects, birds, reptiles and mammals. [00:11.68]They also help produce clean oxygen. [00:14.47]Because of illegal logging,...
[00:02.58]Pronunciation [00:03.94]Exercise 4 Listen to three sentences. [00:08.37]Choose the correct meaning,a, b or c, [00:12.26]according to the way each sentence is stressed. [00:15.50]1 The man at the back in the blue jacket. [00:20.25]2 There's...
