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ESP COURSEBOOK OF
EXTERNAL INFORMATION, SEMESTER IV READING AND WRITING NEWS
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Chủ nhiệm đề tài: Nguyễn Thị Việt Nga Cộng tác viên: Võ Thị Huệ
Trang 2This ESP coursebook is compiled for the 2" year students in their fourth semester They are majored at External Information, belonging to the Faculty of International Affairs These students are supposed to have reached the intermediate level according to Vietnamese standard
The materials in the textbook are taken from both printed newspapers and online newspapers
There are two main parts in this coursebook The first part READING SKILL focuses on READING NEWS and consists of 15 units In each unit there 1S news and some reading tasks The aim of this part is to help students practise their reading skill, understand the structure of news and learn standard vocabulary used for news
The other: part: WRITING SKILL, is aimed at LEARNING TO WRITE NEWS This part also consists of 15 units, in which there are guidelines to write a news item and guided practice to familiarize students with news writing The aim of this part is to provide students with basic knowledge of news writing and step-by-step enable them to write their own news
Trang 3READING NEWS
PART 1: LOCAL NEWS
Unit 1: VN, US close in on “win-win” trade pact Unit 2: WTO votes to accept Vietnam
Unit 3: Red river residents to benefit from safe water supply project Unit 4: Tourism demand to grow
Unit 5: April inflation to outstrip predictions
PART II: REGIONAL NEWS
Unit 6: North Korea reaffirms sanctions position
Unit 7: Malaysia requests Indonesian cooperation in piracy fight Unit 8: ASEAN armies agree to anti-terror cooperation
Unit 9: Chinese will flood cities by 2020
Unit 10: Indonesia firm on bird flu virus dispute
PART II: WORLD NEWS
Unit 11; NATO prepares to lead Afghan security forces Unit 12: Countries discuss tax to fight poverty
Unit 13: UN panel issues stark climate change warning,
Unit 14: US Navy starts war games in Gulf
Unit 15: Shiites try to break deadlock over PM
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LEARNING TO WRITE NEWS
PART I: IDENTIFY NEWS
Unit 1: What’s news?
Unit 2: Features of news writing Unit 3: News writing style
Trang 4PART II: GET THINGS READY
Unit 6: Gathering information
Unit 7: Structure of news
Unit 8: Writing the headline Unit 9: Writing the lead- 5W & H Unit 10: Writing the lead (cont.)
PART III: GET GOING |
Unit 11: Writing the body- inverted pyramid structure Unit 12: Quotation
Unit 13: Transition
Trang 6PART I: LOCAL NEWS
_UNTT 1: VN, US CLOSE IN ON ‘WIN-WIN’ TRADE PACT
nveiling key aspects of the US-Vietnam agreement in principle that paves the way for Vietnam’s entry into the World Trade Organization,
US Trade Representative Rob Portman said last week that the US has
agreed to 1 |when Viet Nam’s accedes to the WTO in exchange for the ~ removal of trade barriers on US exports entering
the country Portman hailed the agreement as “a
historic step in our bilateral relationship.”
While American and Vietnamese business - welcomed the ‘win-win’ bilateral agreement,
textile lobbyists in Washington said the pact was “a victory for Vietnam at the expense of US textile workers.”
Jim Chesnutt, president and CEO of New York City-based National Spinning Company Inc and chairman of the National Council of Textile Organizations, a major flood of imports from Vietnam as the US moves quotas on 2 garment imports following Vietnam’s entry into the WTO
Perhaps the American textile manufacturers are over-reacting, | 3: account
for just 3.7 percent of the US mar ket while Vietnam is ranked as its seventh-largest
| supplier of garments and apparel /
Trang 7Laura E Jones, executive director of the New York City-based United States Association of Importers of Textiles and Apparel, said the pact had “tremendous benefits on two fronts.”
(VNS, 3/2006)
EXERCISES
Questions 1-5: The following phrases have been taken out of the news Find their proper places
a despite the uncompetitive nature of the sector b government support can be expected
c remove all import quotas
d given that Vietnamese-made textile and garments e said that he predicted
Questions 6-11: Base on the context and use your own words to explain the following words and phrases (printed bold in the news)
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Questions 12-16: Answer the following questions ~
12 What is the condition that US demands to agree to remove all import quotas when Vietnam accedes to the WTO?
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14 What did Mr Jim Chesnutt predict about imports from Vietnam to US as the US removes quotas of garment imports? Cee ä ¬———— ŸŸ 4ä Questions 17-20: Match the suitable person with his/her words 17 | Rob Portman | There will be more imported products from Vietnam in US
18 | Jim Chesnutt This pact is beneficial
19 | Bui Xuan Khu | This is a very important event of the two countries
20 | Laura E Jones | Local business has to save themselves
FOLLOW UP
1 Translate the news into Vietnamese
2 Comment on the current relationship between Vietnam and the US
3 What do Vietnamese businesses have to face when importing their products into
American market?
4 Extra reading: Translate the following news into Vietnamese
VIET NAM TO BOOST TIES WITH YUNNAN
HA NOI— Plans for developing economic corridors between northern Viet Nam
and China’s Yunnan Province and ways t
Yunnan were discussed at a meeting between Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung
o boost ties between Viet Nam and
Trang 9At a meeting with Guangrong in Ha Noi yesterday, Dung said the two sides would initially focus on building an economic corridor connecting Kunming in China with Viet Nam’s Lao Cai, Ha Noi and Hai Phong as part of a co-operation plan called
Two Corridors, One Economic Belt
The Prime Minister requested authorities in Yunnan and four border provinces in Viet Nam to soon establish a working committee between the provinces of Lao Cai, Ha Giang, Lai Chau and Dien Bien with Yunnan Province in an attempt to strengthen co-operation He also expressed his thanks to Yunnan Province for donating 50 lorries to Viet Nam on the occasion of the meeting
Governor Qin Guangrong put forward some proposals to further strengthen relations and co-operation between Yunnan with other cities and provinces in Viet Nam, especially in the areas of infrastructure facilities, transportation, post, finance and tourism The governor said he wanted the two sides to speed up the implementation of major economic co-operation projects to accelerate the building of the Kunming-Ha Noi economic corridor
Qin Guangrong also held talks with Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Gia Khiem on the same day Khiem told Guangrong that the development of ties between Viet Nam and China had seen substantial progress in recent years Potential for economic co-operation between the two sides remained huge, said Khiem He said the two sides should complete demarcation and installation of
markers in the border area between Viet Nam and Yunnan Province
During his stay in Viet Nam, Qin Guangrong also held working sessions with the Ministry of Planning and Investment, the Ha Noi People’s Committee and Quang Ninh Province People’s Committee
Also on this occasion, Yunnan Province organised a workshop on investment and trade between Yunnan with other provinces and businesses in Viet Nam
Trang 10UNIT 2: WTO VOTES TO ACCEPT VIETNAM
The World Trade Organization has voted to accept Vietnam as a member WTO accession is a long sought goal of Vietnam's government which needs it to compete on.an equal footing with other export-oriented economies
Vietnam’s journey toward World Trade Organization membership has taken more than decade of negotiations But the effort paid off Tuesday, when the WTO accepted the Asian nation as its 150" member
Vietnam will officially join the WTO 30 days after its national assembly ratifies the accession agreements
WTO membership will give the surging Vietnamese economy increased access to foreign markets In return, the country will have to drop high tariffs on foreign Imports ¢ and eliminate subsidies for state-owned companies
Adam Sitkoff is the head of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hanoi He says WTO membership will also help bring more foreign investment to Vietnam
“We're going to see lower tariffs, better
market access, better rule of law, and
ẳ generally just international standards of doing business in Vietnam, which is going to improve the investment and economic
_climate here,” Sitkoff said
Not all Vietnamese businesses will benefit from the increased openness of the economy Robert McNown is a lecturer at the National Economic University in Hanoi He says some local companies may lose out to more efficient foreign rivals
“If we look at the particular sectors where Vietnam is most vulnerable, I
think one of them, a very important one, is in banking and financial services,” McNown said
Trang 11Oxfam’s Vietnam country representative, Steve Price-Thomas, also thinks WTO accession will be positive for Vietnam, but he worries about its effects on poor farmers
“For example, people who grow maize will have to compete with subsidized imports from the United States And U.S maize farmers currently receive subsidies of up to $10 billion a year Although of course, people who grow other agricultural products will probably benefit,” Price-Thomas said
Vietnam’s WTO accession comes just before the country hosts the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Hanoi next week President George Bush’s is among the leaders expected to attend
One trade hurdle remains The United States has not yet granted Vietnam
permanent normal trading relations, or PNTR
But, Sitkoff explains, that is chiefly a problem for American businesses “All members of WTO are required to give other members non- discriminatory treatment,” Sitkoff said “So if it wants to participate in the benefits
of Vietnam’s WTO accession, the U.S is required to grant PNTR to Vietnam.” If the U.S fails to grant Vietnam PNTR, WTO rules allow the country to discriminate against American businesses A bill to grant Vietnam PNTR is
currently stalled in the U.S Congress
VNS (11/2006)
EXERCISES
Questions 1-6 : Choose the most suitable meanings for the following words and phrases (printed bold in the news))
1 long sought goal —
a the target that has been postponed for long time
b the target that has been tried to achieve for long time
c the target that has been mentioned for long time
Trang 12a was meaningful b paid a high price c brought good results d was useless
3 lose out to
a win b become so interested in
c be defeated : d not get business because others have taken it
4 trade hurdle |
a trade agreement b trade dispute
c trade problem d credit
5 discriminate against American businesses
a punish American businesses
treated American businesses worse than another in an unfair way
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c be interested in American businesses
d be different from American businesses 6 stalled
a stopped b stick
c ratified d argued |
Questions 7-12: Match English phrases in column A with suitable Vietnamese phrases in column B (phrases printed underlined in the news)
| A B
7 export-oriented economies ¬ / a hiép dinh khong phan biét đối xử
8 surging Vietnamese economy | | Lbz các công ty thuộc sở hữu nhà nước
Z2
9 state-owned companies _*% \ hà wb, le hàng xuất khâu được trợ lá , “ee Kd nén kinh té Viét Nam dang noi len
10 subsidized imports —~ | Zs Sok
Trang 13Questions 13-16: Answer the following questions
13 Why does Vietnam need WTO accession?
Questions 17-20: Decide whether the following sentences are True (I) or False (F) Correct the false ones
17 Vietnam’s banking and financial service is one of the most vulnerable sector of the country
18 According to Steve Price-Thomas, WTO accession will be completely positive for Vietnam
19 U.S maize farmers currently receive subsidies of more than $10 billion a year
-20 Just after hosting the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Hanoi next week, Vietnam will join WTO
FOLLOW UP
_ 1 Discuss the opportunities and challenges when Vietnam becomes a WTO
member
2 Translate the news into Vietnamese
3 Extra reading: Translate the following news into Vietnamese
SERVICE SECTOR TO SEE HUGE GROWTH POTENTIAL IN NEW WTO ERA
Trang 14Addressing the conference, Pham Chi
Lan, a consultant for the ministry’s
project to support trade promotion and export development, said that the nation’s services sector accounted for only 38.1 per cent of GDP in 2006, at US$23.2 million, far lower than that of other developing countries
Domestic business have yet to attached enough importance to marketing services to foreign customers, Lan said, noting that national trade promotion efforts have focused on building up the export of goods while ignoring markets for
services
Lan pinpointed weakness in quality
control, professional skills, and
marketing strategies as difficulties facing domestic service providers WTO entry has brought Viet Nam services providers a lot of opportunities, said Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO) senior
adviser Ken Arakawa
~ The economy was expected to grow at
high speed, resulting in increasing
Services, from demand for
transportation and logistics to banking
and legal services The increasing of
trade in goods would drive a growing
trade in services, he said
Domestic companies could learn from foreign ones more professional ways of providing services, Arakawa noted Harsh competition would be a motive force to push Vietnamese service providers to move forward or be left behind
He suggested that Vietnamese service providers should focus on human
resources, service diversification and technological innovation in order to
of burgeoning take advantage
opportunities
He: recommended that Viet Nam
develop its service sector by enhancing competitiveness at the national level and within each industry, opening the market to various types of services, and training and retraining professional staff in order to meet the demands of international economic integration
Trang 15UNIT 3: RED RIVER RESIDENTS TO BENEFIT FROM SAFE WATER SUPPLY PROJECT
HANOI — More than 800,000 people living in rural areas in four northern provinces will benefit from the World Bank-funded Red River Delta Water Supply and Sanitation Project
The first phase of the project for the 2005-2010 periods is funded by US$45 million
Chairman of Irrigation Department at the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Nguyen Dinh Ninh, announced yesterday at the project’s launch that it would be the first to use international preferential loans and apply a mechanism of decentralization across 120 communes
The World Bank’s interest-free loan covers $45 million of the expenditure for the project’s first phase of $46.7million |
The project will build a water supply system that includes water treatment facilities and the installation of water-meters at private households It will also develop public and household sanitation in the provinces of Nam Dinh, Ninh Binh,
Hai Duong and Thai Binh Shiny
Director of the Ministry’s Rural }
Sanitation and Safe Water Centre, Le Van |
Can, said the goal of the project was to satisfy the demand for safe drinking water - and the improvement of plumping at
households moe ene Us pe RS
The project also aimed to raise public awareness on the importance of
sanitation in water supplies
Trang 16The second phase of the project, which is expected to cost $93.4 million, will
_be carried out at 240 communes of eight provinces in the Red River Delta
The National Program on Safe Water and Rural Sanitation, which was launched in 1999, has so far brought clean water to more than 40 million rural residents, says the director of the Rural Sanitation and Safe Water Centre
Due to the program, half of all households in the country now have standard
toilets In rural areas across the nation, 70 percent of schools and kindergartens, 60
percent of health Stations, and 20 percent of markets now have safe water supplies and sanitation works
Authorities at most provinces have applied methods on pollution prevention
and water resource protection
VNS(1 1/2006)
EXERCISES
Questions 1-5: Base on the context and use your own words to explain the following words and phrases (printed bold in the news)
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Questions 6-10: Answer the following questions
6 What are four northern provinces that will benefit from the World Bank-funded Red River Delta Water Supply and Sanitation Project?
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Trang 1711 The World Bank a, Sponsors all expenditure for the project b, sponsors part of expenditure for the project c, sponsors enough money for the project
d, sponsors more money than the project needed 12 This project
a, is the first to implement across the nation b, is the first to succeed in northern provinces c, is the first to carry out in Red River Delta
d, is the first to use international loans
13 c provinces will benefit from the project
a, four b, eight
c, twelve d, ten
14 What is the situation in those provinces?
a, their plumping system does not work well b, they have no safe drinking water
c, they suffer from water shortage
d, their water-meters are broken
15 Ittakes - to complete the project
a, three years b, four years
Trang 18a, 30% b, 40%
c, 50% — " d, 80%
FOLLOW UP
1 Translate the news into Vietnamese
2 Discuss the water situation in your area
3, Put the paragraphs of the following news in the correct order:
PARTY GENERAL SECRETARY VISITS FAMILIES OF TYPHOON VICTIMS
| Para A On behalf of Party and State leaders, Manh offered his deep
condolences to the families of victims
Para B He called on local people and Party cadres to continue helping the families of the victims in returning their lives to normal
Para C
He also asked local Party committees and authorities to ensure fairness and cate for prioritized families and families who have
devoted their services to the revolution
Para D DA NANG — Party General Secretary Nong Duc Manh has visited families effected by Typhoon Chanchu on the central coast and encouraged them to overcome the challenges they are facing
Para E The Party leader discussed long-term measures to stabilize the lives
of families members, including creating jobs for women, diversify employment, reorganizing offshore fishing, upgrading information equipment and improving weather forecasting and rescuing activities to mitigate damages caused by calamities VNS
Para G He praised the navy, border guard, search and rescue teams and ordinary citizens for pitching in with the relief efforts, and said he appreciated the support provided to those effected ——]
Para.H
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UNTT 4: TOURISM DEMAND TO GROW
HA NOI — Viet Nam will need 1.4 million a labourers for the tourism sector by 2010,
according to the nation’s tourism authority
According to the forecast, those numbers will spark heavy demand for labour; direct
employment is expected to reach 333,400 in `
2010 thanks to an annual inerease of 9 per cent The sector 1S expected to produce nearly 1.1 million indirect jobs By 2015, the sector will need 503,200 workers About 19,000 trained workers will be needed each year
Though most graduates receive training in the tourism sector before they begin work — particularly in the hotel industry — many still aren’t proficient in important areas like English
Travel companies also have trouble finding tour guides who can speak in other tongues; out of 5000 licensed guides, only 5 to 12 per cent speak a foreign
language fluently
i
The vice director of VNAT’s organising department, Ha Van Sieu, said educatid should meet market demands "Let the market evaluate the quality of education through the rate of graduates who can find jobs."
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According to the VNAT the sector centres across the country VNS(4/2007 EXERCISES Questions 1-5: Choose the suitable sentence from the list A-E for each gap of th news
A- According to Sieu, the Government should consult with employers befor setting out course outlines and building training facilities
B- The tourism authority has warned, though, that workers’ skills have not key pace with increased demand
C- Many companies bring in foreign guides to deal with tourists
D The country is expected to receive 5-6 million foreign visitors and see arour 46 million domestic tourists annually by the beginning of the next decade, sé projections from the Viet Nam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT)
E At present, there are four tourism training schools in Ha Noi, Hue, Hai Phor
and Vung Tau
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Questions 16-20: Are the following sentences true (T) or false (F) Correct the false ones
lỒ There are many foreign tourists guides working in Vietnam
17 People who are trained tourism at the university are proficient in English 18 Currently there are 4 tourism training schools and 10 training centres across Vietnam - 19 ee The tourism labour force needs to improve not only in number but also in ' working skills 20 Even tourist guides who are licensed cannot speak a foreign language fluently FOLLOW UP
1, Discuss things that attract foreign tourists to visit Vietnam Uns 1® What do you introduce to foreigners about our country?
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3 Translate the news into Vietnamese
4 Extra reading: Read and translate the news below into Vietnamese _
EASIER N ON-CASH PAYMENTS FOR PHONE USERS
HA NOI — Paynet Incorporation Paynet will also help mobile phone on Tuesday released details on its service providers cut costs by reducing
Paynet service that allows mobile the number of prepaid cards that they "phone users to purchase credit for have to print and limits the amount of
prepaid accounts via electronic time it takes to collect cash from dealers
payments "Paynet is designed to meet the increasing
The new service will officially be consumer demand for a convenient and
Trang 22safe non-cash payment method,"
says company Chairman Ngo |
Thanh Son
Customers using one of the country’s five leading mobile
operators - Viettel, S-Fone, EVN Telecom, Vinaphone, MobiFone -
will be able to take advantage of the Paynet service
The company also signed co- operation agreements with
ABbank, Navibank, Viet Nam
Technological and Commercial
1s
Joint-stock Bank (Techcombank) and Viet
Nam Joint Stock Commercial Bank for
Private Enterprises (VPBank) to handle
the payment system
Paynet also plans to connect with VIB Bank, the Military Bank and the Maritime
Bank
Paynet executives said points of sale will
be established nationwide to help
popularise the service
Trang 23HA NOI — The increase in the consumer price index (CPI) this month may exceed earlier predictions of 0.2 per cent, according to the _ Ministry of Trade
The ministry said that inflation in April would be affected by both domestic and international factors Global oil prices have risen by 7.4 per cent The price of food and other basic
commodities like rice, coffee, rubber,
and steel were also following fuel’s upward trend, placing strong pressures
on the domestic market
Severe weather conditions have affected agricultural production, and electricity shortages have affected the productivity and quality of some
industries These and other factors
were likely to drive-up the prices of — some products on the domestic market
“last year, -
including rice, food products and building materials
Looking at CPI trends for the year, experts have expressed diverging opinions
Some believe that inflation will be stabilised by the lower prices of many imported goods brought about by the
nation’s accession to the WTO
Others believe that CPI will continue to go up as raw materials’ prices
increase
The emerging facts have tended to support the latter view While the import duty on many imported goods, including cosmetics, garments, household goods and confectionery has been reduced 20-30 per cent, the costs of energy and raw materials on the international market have been
outstripping any savings to
consumers
Trang 24Costs of housing and building The first quarter saw the CPI in urban
_ materials in the first quarter increased areas fall O:St while the CPI in rural
4.89 per cent, while food costs rose areas rose 0.02 per cent
4.56 per cent Other categories of VNS(4/2007)
goods increased from 0.45 per cent to 3.46 per cent
EXERCISES
Questions 1-5: Read the news and answer the following questions 1 What are consequences of global oil rise?
3 What happens to thé costs of energy and raw materials on the international
market?
4 What is the difference between inflation in the first quarter of this year and last year?
5 What is the difference between CPI in urban areas and that in rural areas in the ©
first quarter this year?
Questions 6-10: Decide whether the following statements are True (T) or False (F)
based on the news
Trang 25Tú Increase in the oil price leads to the price rise of rubber
6 The price of building materials is driven up because of the severe weather conditions
9 When Vietnam becomes a WTO member, the price of many imported goods will be lowered
10 In the first quarter of this year, food costs rise faster than the costs of
housing and building materials
Questions 11-15: Use one of the words from the news to fill the gaps in these
sentences
11 My two sons have interests, one likes staying alone while the other enjoys going out
-12.He the other runners and finished the marathon at the first place 13 The problem of our company is how to increase workers’
15.The good weather this year results in high sete for farmers They are satisfied with their harvest
FOLLOW UP
1 Discuss the impact of inflation on the national economy 2 Translate the news into Vietnamese
3 Extra reading: Read and translate the following news into Vietnamese NATION PLANS TO HONE RICE SECTOR
HA NOI —Viet Nam is strongly apply modern production methods to raise investing in irrigation technologies 7 rice output and increase the rice, growing |
Trang 26The Ministry of Agriculture and
Rural Development (MARD) has
built up a range of programmes to increase Vietnamese rice”S competitiveness as part of Viet Nam’s rice development strategy
for the 21st century
From now to 2010, Viet Nam will
strive to maintain a stable output
of 36 million tonnes of rice,
including 4 million tonnes of rice for export per ‘year Other key targets include building two
special areas for growing rice for export, including Ì million ha in Cuu Long Delta and 300,000ha in Hong (Red) River Delta; and ‘raising processing ability and business skills to conquer the
international market
The Government has worked on improving rice warehouses to preserve rice for longer periods and helped rice exporting enterprises popularise their
trademarks, sayS 4a MARD official
According to MARD, Viet Nam’s total rice export in the first quarter
this year will gain 610,000 tonnes, with
an export turnover of US$198 million Compared to the first quarter Jast year, the rice export amount reduced by 46 per cent while export turnover reduced by 35 per
cent In March 2007, the amount of rice
-'for export was 350,000- tonnes, with
export turnover at more than $114
million, falling 51 per cent in amount when compared to March 2006
According to the ministry, as Viet Nam decided to reduce exports of rice to assure domestic food security, the amount of rice for export was strongly reduced The Prime Minister has assigned the Ministry of Trade to control rice for export in each quarter of the year
It is expected that rice output this year
will be 36 million tonnes, and the Cuu
Long (Mekong) Delta will harvest 18.2 million tones The Delta provinces are expected to harvest 4 million tonnes in April alone
According to MARD, rice export enterprises face difficulties, as rice quality is not stable However, rice exporting enterprises said rice quality has been increased during the past three years
Trang 27PART Il: REGIONAL NEWS
UNIT 6: NORTH KOREA REAFFIRMS SANCTIONS POSITION
SEOUL - A North Korea renewed its demand yesterday that the United States lift financial sanctions imposed over its alleged counterfeiting and other wrong doing, calling it an obstacle for the resumption of six-way talks on its nuclear program
“There is no reason not to lift the financial sanctions if the United States truly wants the six-way talks,” the North’s official Korean Central News Agency said in a commentary, adding that North Korea WONDERFUL - ACCORDING TO THE
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can not expect the resolution of the nuclear THE WORLD'S NOW A SAFER PLACE! issue without a change of the US policy.”
B North Korea’s top nuclear envoy, Kim
Kye Gwan, said early this month that his country will return to the nuclear talks only if the US |
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Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill said Washington will continue to closely scrutinize the North’s finances unless it gives up its pursuit of nuclear arms Washington says the sanctions are unrelated to the nuclear talks and will stay in
place |
Officials from the six nations involved in the nuclear negotiations — the US,
China, Japan, Russia and the two Koreas —held talks early this month in Tokyo but failed to win a commitment -from North Korea to return to the negotiating table
C South Korea yesterday agreed to offer an additional 200,000 tons of fertilizer to North Korea but put on hold food aid to its neighbor
The decision followed Pyongyang’s request at inter-Korean talks for:
Trang 28“We decided to offer 200,000 tons of fertilizer, with the (provision of the)
remaining 100,000 tons to be under review,” Unification Minister Lee JongSeok
was quoted as saying after the talks in Pyongyang
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The two Koreas wrapped up the latest round of cabinet-level talks yesterday with little progress reported in South Korean efforts.to bring North
Korea back to six-way nuclear disarmament talks
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EXERCISES
Questions 1-5 : Base on the context and use your own words to explain the following words and phrases (printed bold in the news) 1 six-way talks 2 lift the financial sanctions 3 stay in place 4 put on hold (food aid to its neighbor) 5 inter-Korean talks
Questions 6-10: Which part of the news (A, B or C) mentions the following ideas 6 North Korea demands a change in the US policy
7 North Korean assets in a Macau bank are disputed
8 The two countries have reached no agreement on the rice aid 9 North Korea considers the US financial sanctions an obstacle
for the talks on its nuclear program
10 Talks in Tokyo early this month was not successful
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15 What is the problem between South Korea and North Korea after the talks in Pyongyang?
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Questions 16-20: Decide whether the following questions are True (T) or False (F) Correct the false ones
16 The United States has applied financial method to punish North Korea 17 This is not the first time North Korea demands the US to lift its financial sanctions 18 South Korea agreed to meet Pyongyang’s request for fertilizer and food aid 19 In the talks early this month, North Korea promised to return to negotiating table 20 South Korea doesn’t want North Korea to come back to the six-way talks | FOLLOW UP
1 What are the current problems between the two Koreas? 2 Summarize the news using from 50 to 100 words
3 Translate the news into Vietnamese
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Asian diplomats have expressed doubts North Korea will meet a 14 April deadline to shut down a key nuclear plant, as agreed under a landmark deal
The timetable has been in doubt since
a dispute between the North and the US over frozen North Korean funds disrupted six-nation nuclear talks China's nuclear negotiator Wu Dawei said the deadline was unlikely to be met because of the two side's dispute
"There is a gap of a certain size," he
said, according to Kyodo News
South Korea's Foreign Minister Song Min-soon also said the money issue
might not be sorted out in time
"T basically do believe that the (bank) issue can be resolved by the
timeframe," he said, according to
South Korea's Yonhap news agency
The dispute over some $25m (£13m)
of funds held in a Macau bank has already led to March's round of SIX- nation talks ending without progress
The US said on 14 March that it, bad
completed an investigation.” into
money-laundering allegations against the bank, allowing for the money to be transferred to a North Korean account
in China
But the transfer has still not taken place, amid reports Chinese banks do not want to receive the money in case
it damages their credit ratings
- Under a landmark 13 February deal,
the US, China, South Korea, Japan
and Russia jointly agreed to supply energy aid and other incentives to North Korea if it "shut down and sealed" its main nuclear reactor at Yongbyon
It was designed as the first step in a wider deal that would lead eventually to North Korea giving up its nuclear
activities
Trang 31UNIT 7: MALAYSIA REQUESTS INDONESIAN COOPERATION IN PIRACY FIGHT a - °° Vantage MapPoint angan + “ey x ø `
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in this matter,” Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak was quoted as saying by the New Sunday Times newspaper
Najib, 2 , warned that Malaysia and Indonesia could face international pressure if they failed to tackle the piracy problem
“If we fail to act, then I believe the international community will have more reasons to pressure us on the issue of security in the Malacca Strait,” he said
The narrow 960km Malacca Strait, bordered by Malaysia, Singapore and
Indonesia, is used by about 50,000 ships a year carrying | 3
The three nations last year began coordinated patrols in the strait, which is one of the world’s top piracy black-spots The pirate attacks | 4 in Japan and the West that terrorists could hijack a tanker to use as a floating bomb or to block the vital channel and disrupt world trade
Malaysia has, ‘however, rejected suggestions that the United States or other foreign navies be allowed to help patrol the strait
“We are worried about the escalating piracy in the straits and have instructed our police and navy to increase their operations against the pirates,” Najib said
A Japanese-owned bulk carrier was boarded last Friday | 5, in the
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Questions 1-5: The following phrases have been taken out of the news Find their proper places
a a third of world trade and half its oil supplies b in the fourth pirate attack
c has requested closer cooperation d have given rise to concerns
e who is defence minister
Questions 6-10: Choose the best answer which has similar meaning with the
underlined words and phrases
6 in the fight against growing pirate attacks on merchant ships in the Malacca Strait |
a ships transporting goods | b large ships c ships transporting machines d foreign ships 7 if they failed to tackle the piracy problem
a attack b deal with
c concern d take over
8 The narrow 960km Malacca Strait
a big sea b water
c channel d border
9 The three nations last year began coordinated patrols in the Strait
a exploration b production
c the act of going around d the act of going around for security
and supervision | for entertainment
10 AJ apanese-owned bulk carrier was boarded last Friday a
Cc
bought —b.goton
Trang 33Questions 11-15: Answer the following questions 11 What has Malaysia requested? Why?
12 What may be the international pressure on the issue of security in the Malacca Strait that Malaysia and Indonesia could face if they failed to deal with the piracy problem?
Questions 16-20: Decide whether the following sentences are True (T) or False
(F) Correct the false ones
16 Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia has never cooperated in dealing with piracy problem
17 Malaysia has done nothing to deal with piracy problem
18 The Malacca Strait is one of the hottest places of pirate attacks in the
world |
19 Only merchant ships owned by three nations: Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia were attacked by pirates in the Malacca Strait
20 Malaysia does not want any foreign navies to heÌp
FOLLOW UP
1 Summarize the news using from 50 to 100 words
Trang 343 Extra reading: Read and translate the following news into Vietnamese
CAMBODIA’S PRINCE NORODOM RANARIDDH CHARGED WITH
ADULTERY
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia —
Prince Norodom Ranariddh has been charged with adultery for having a mistress while still being legally married to his wife, a Cambodian court official said Monday
The prince, a former prime minister now living in France, faces up to a year in prison and fines of up to $245 if convicted, said Sok Kalyan, a prosecutor at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, adding that the charge was filed
last month
Muth Chantha, a spokesman for Ranariddh, said the charge is politically motivated The prince's opponents want to prevent him
from returning to take part in political activity in Cambodia, Chantha said
The adultery charge is the latest legal
trouble facing Ranariddh, who was
sentenced in absentia to 18 months in prison last week after being sued for embezzlement by members of the royalist Funcinpec party he once led
Funcinpec ousted Ranariddh as its leader in October, citing his alleged incompetence and frequent absences from the country
Ranariddh is the son of Norodom Sihanouk, the country's retired but still- revered king who founded Funcinpec and whose name helped the party win a U.N.- organized 1993 election
Trang 35UNIT 8: ‘ASEAN ARMIES AGREE TO ANTI-TERROR CO-OPERATION
MANILA — Senior military officials from the 10-member Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) agreed yesterday to step up co-operation to fight terrorism and other emerging security threats such as the spread of bird flu
Seven of the 10 heads of ASEAN defense forces exchanged data and experiences in dealing with regional security threats during the two-day annual meeting, said the Philippine military’s chief of staff, General Generoso Senga
“We must have faster and easier co-ordination especially for matters that needed quick response,” he told reporters after the region’s military chiefs signed an agreement to strengthen and widen
co-operation in dealing with regional A
security problems OO
Copies of the agreement were not
circulated and the sessions at a Manila A \
hotel were closed to news media Con,
Among the security issues raised
during the meeting were terrorism,
internal conflicts, overlapping territorial claims in the East Sea and non-traditional military threats such as, drugs and human trafficking, piracy, disasters and bird flu
Senga said ASEAN military chiefs consider bird flu as serious a threat as cross-border terrorism, noting that co-operation in this field has brought successes, like the killing of a senior Jemaah Islamiah bomb-maker in Indonesia
Southeast Asia has been a major target for extremists, including the Al Qaeda-linked regional Jemaah Islamiah network and blamed for deadly bombings in Indonesia and the Philippines
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Questions 1-6: Find English equivalents to the following phrases _
1 thúc đây hợp tác nhằm chống lại chủ nghĩa khủng bố cece beeseeseseeecaes 2.các vẫn đề an ninh khu vực ¬
3 phản ứng nhanh eee eens
4 các văn bản hiệp định chưa duoc thong 0 — ÔỎÔỐ
5, xung đột nội bộ ¬_ -
6 mục tiêu chính của những phần tử cực đoan ¬—
Questions 7-12: Base on the news, match the beginnings in column A with the suitable endings in column B
A B
7 News media a is a bomb-maker and has been killed 8 The region’s military chiefs b is Philippine military’s chief of staff 9 Drug and human trafficking c are not allowed at the sessions in Manila
10 Jemaah Islamiah d is one of the issues discussed in the meeting
11 Bird flu e signed an agreement related to
~ regional security problems
12 General Generoso f, is a serious threat
Questions 13-17: Answer the following questions 13 How long does the meeting last?
Trang 3716 What field did ASEAN co-operate successfully?
Questions 18-21: Complete the following sentences with words taken from the news Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer
18.ASEAN have a meeting in Manila yesterday 19 The spread of bird flu 1s one of the region”s -
20 Heads of ASEAN defense forces exchanged in dealing with regional security threats
21.Drugs and human trafficking, piracy, disasters and bird flu are called
FOLLOW UP
1 Translate the news into Vietnamese
2 Extra reading: Read the following news and answer questions below: a, Which country will hold the two summits in January?
b, Why were they postponed?
c, When were the summits originally scheduled? And when will they take place in reality?
d, In term of participations, what is the difference between the Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit and the East Asia summit?
FIFTEEN LEADERS TO JOIN DELAYED SUMMIT
MANILA — Fifteen leaders have and the East Asia summits in January, officially confirmed participation in organizers from the Philippine the postponed Association of government said yesterday
Trang 38_ The Philippines was grateful
that the participating _ countries
understood the need to postpone the summits originally scheduled on December 10 to 14 due to a typhoon, Secretary General Marciano Paynor of the Philippines’ ASEAN National Organizing Committee told reporters
Leaders from 10 ASEAN
countries, China, Japan, South Korea,
Australia and New Zealand would be in Cebu for the postponed summit meetings, according to Paynor, only India has yet to confirm the
attendance
Leaders will be meeting on
January 13 to 15, Paynor said
The ASEAN summit involves 10 heads of states within the organization while the East Asia summit will be attended by the ASEAN leaders plus its dialogue partners China, Japan,
South Korea, Australia, New Zealand
and India, Paynor said
ASEAN groups Brunei,
Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia,
Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam
Trang 39UNIT 9: CHINESE WILL FLOOD CITIES BY 2020
Beijing — More than 300 million Chinese will move from the countryside to the cities by 2020, changing the face of the world’s most populous nation forever, state media said yesterday
The trend is culminating right now as millions leave their rural homes every year to seek employment and new lives in big urban areas, the Xinhua news agency reported
_ “Economic growth and the drive towards industrialization are causing cities to expand, “said Li Si Ming, an expert on urban development in mainland China at the Hong Kong Baptist University
“Once the momentum is established, it’s very hard to stop again.”
The migration taking place in China is ****~ AONE unprecedented in the history of the world,
and may only be matched by India as its Son L (WANT S eee THERAPY: NE XT THREE ERTS population outgrows the Chinese in the 2
coming decades, according to Li
As many as 180 million Chinese rural -
dwellers will move to cities between Ay 2
2001 to 2010, Xinhua reported, citing Ce Mes
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In the following decade, from 2011 to 2020, this trend will slow down somewhat,
because smaller populations in rural areas will improve job prospects there | The average age will also rise, resulting in less mobility, as young people are more likely to move than older ones
Even if the rate of change gradually slows down, the massive movement of people will go on, and the cities will be boosted by another 130 to 140 million in the next
decade
Trang 40EXERCISES |
Questions 1-5: Match the words in column A with their meanings in column B (printed underlined in the news) A B 1 culminating a.large 2 dwellers b, moving 3 unprecedented c increasing 4, mobility d residents 5 massive “| e having no previous case
Questions 6-10: Answer the following questions
6 Which country is the most populous in the world now?
8 Who is Li Si Ming? According to him, what are causing the expansion of the cities?
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