- PAUL: That’s sounds great.. - It’s the holiday season, after all.. - PAUL: Well, it’s not very important to me. - We’re a big family – there are six of us – children – so it’s always a lot of fun.. - That’s also fun.. - TOURIST GUIDE: Well, wedding is very important to the Vietnamese, not only to the couple involved, but also for the both families. - The wedding day is usually chosen carefully by the groom’s parents.. - TOURIST: What does the groom’s family usually do on the wedding day?. - TOURIST GUIDE: On the wedding day, the groom’s family and relatives go to the bride’s house bringing gifts wrapped in red paper. - TOURIST: Do you have someone in charge of the ceremony? And what does he do during the wedding ceremony?. - TOURIST GUIDE: Yes, we have Master of Ceremonies who introduces the groom, the bride, the parents, the relatives and guests of the two families. - The wedding ceremony starts in front of the altar. - The bride and the groom would pray, asking their ancestors’ permission to get married. - The groom and the bride then exchange their wedding rings.. - TOURIST: Where is the wedding banquet held?. - Often the wedding banquet is held at the groom and bride’s home or at the hotel or a restaurant and all close relatives, friends, and neighbours are invited.. - The guests in return, will give envelopes containing wedding cards and money to the newly wedded couples along with their blessing.. - That’s very interesting. - In today’s talk I’m going to give you some pieces of advice on how to use the telephone in the most decent way so as to avoid unnecessary disagreements between you and members of your family.. - That’s certainly long enough to say almost anything in five different ways, and yet it isn’t so long that other members of the family will become angry. - A serious calling problem is calling very late at night, or very early in the morning. - This particular mistake is made mostly by young people who consider 10 or 11 p.m., when a lot of tired adults are happily sleeping, the shank of the evening. - Weekend morning calls aren’t startling, but it’s the one time your parents can sleep late.. - So try to stick to your family’s regulations.. - That’s all for my talk today. - GAVIN: Well I certainly worked pretty hard at the subjects I enjoyed. - Now let’s come to the next question.. - GAVIN: Well I think I did listen to the teachers certainly when I got to the level where I was doing the subjects I enjoyed.. - Well, I think I was pretty well-behaved on the whole, so I’d say yes, yeah.. - No, they weren’t the best days of my life.. - JOHN: Now, David, can I get this right: You’ve just completed a Msc course on which a large proportion of the students were international students? Is that right?. - DAVID: That’s it. - Yes, I was in AERD – that’s the department of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development.. - DAVID: I think the most basic thing is to make use, full use, of the tutors and lecturers. - Maybe some of the overseas students are a bit shy to take questions or problems to tutors.. - JOHN: What do you think they should do?. - DAVID: I think they should find out at the beginning of the course the times at which the tutor is going to be available for tutorial appointments, and then make full use of them.. - Don’t think that students have to read everything that’s listed. - Try to find out which are the most important items on the list – ask the lecturer or tutor if necessary, and then, if your time is limited, spend it reading those books thoroughly.. - JOHN: OK, that’s very helpful, David. - Let’s look at some of the recent changes in the US job market and see if we can make some predictions for future jobs.. - A good way to begin is to look at the American workforce and how it is changing. - The most important change has been the shift from manufacturing jobs to service jobs.. - The inhabitants of Tango, a small island in the Atlantic Ocean, discovered a plant which contained a powerful drug. - At the same time, it made it much easier for them to relax and enjoy themselves. - And because of the drug, the whole population of the island stopped working and spent all their time singing and dancing and looking at the sea.. - Unfortunately this had very bad effects on the country's economy. - The Prime Minister made speeches on the TV warning them about the drug, but nobody took any notice, and before long the economy of the country was in ruins. - On the contrary, the fact that the drug was illegal encouraged people to take it more. - This saved the islanders from having to work more than one day a week and allowed them to spend the rest of their time sitting in the sun without any care in the world.. - Unit 8: LIFE IN THE FUTURE. - Interviewer: Many scientists predict that in the 21 st century people will be living into the incredible age of 130.. - What do you think about this?. - Davis: In fact, their prediction is based on research and on the fact that the centenarian population is mushrooming as our general health improves.. - But the most important factor is the development in medical science.. - Interviewer: What do you mean?. - The sand and the rocks are hard, and many of the plants, such as the cactus, have hard needles instead of leaves.. - The size and location of the world's deserts are always changing. - In the 19 th century some people living in English colonies in Australia got rabbits from England. - Farming first began in the Tigris-Euphrates, but today the land there is a desert. - When there are one or two very dry years, the plants die, and the land becomes desert.. - In developing countries, 90 percent of the people use wood for cooking and heat. - When the trees are gone, the smaller plants die, and the land becomes desert.. - Algeria planted a green wall of trees across the edge of the Sahara to stop the desert sand from spreading. - Other countries build long canals to bring water to the desert areas.. - The heavier ones may nest in grasses on the ground. - They are endangered and threatened by civil wars in the smaller parts of Africa. - It is a fascinating story that describes some of the incredible things animals can do.. - The central theme of the book, a problem the animals must resolve, is how to survive life in the wilderness in order to arrive home. - The most impressive of them is the old dog. - The great Australian swimmer, Annette Kellerman, student at the University of Wisconsin, planted the first seed of what was to become synchronized swimming when she performed a water ballet in a glass tank in New York in 1907.. - So she tried to get synchronized swimming added to the physical education programme for female students. - In 1923 she founded a water ballet club at the University of Chicago and sixty swimmers of the club attracted national and international publicity.. - Curtis developed the competition rules, based essentially on the scoring methods used in gymnastics and diving.. - Shortly afterwards, the Central Association of the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) staged the first multi- team competition on March 1, 1940. - Synchronized swimming became an Olympic event at the Los Angeles Games in 1984.. - Only Amnat won a gold in the Southeast Asian Games Pole Vaulting yesterday. - While he was the only one who stood alone on the podium, Amnat was among the Thai athletes who won 10 gold medals in early events yesterday. - He won the gold in the Pole Vaulting Final after clearing 4.80 m. - Meanwhile four other pole-vaulters missed their attempts at the heights ranging from 4.40m to 4.80m.. - The Vietnamese Milk Company (Vinamilk) has offered jobs to the 27 members of Vietnam's Women's Football Team after they won the Games' second title. - It is not an odd proposal because the majority of the footballers will become unemployed when the Games are over. - At the moment, she is short of money, so the Vinamilk offer looks tempting to her.. - Today almost every country in the world is a member of the UN. - Fifty percent of the world's population are women, but nearly two-thirds of all working hours are done by women. - They do most of the domestic work like cooking and washing clothes. - In developing countries, where three-fourths of the world's population lives, women produce more than half of the food In Africa, 80 percent of all agricultural work is done by women.. - It takes her half an hour to walk to the fields, and she works there until 3.00 pm. - Hung: What are you doing? It’s so late. - Nga: I’m trying to finish my essay about the culture and religions of the ASEAN countries. - mostly in the Philippines.. - It's the religion of the Muslims.. - Hung: Other main religions of the various countries in the region include large numbers of Buddhists, and Catholics in the Philippines.
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