1、Unit 3 UN Activities,Listen to News Lecturer:,Section A,1. A summit-level meeting of the UN Security Council has formally urged all member nations to outlaw incitement to terrorism. 2. The United Nations is setting up a special fund to help it deal with some of the biggest natural or man-made disast
2、ers as soon as possible after they happen. 3. Senior diplomats from the permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany gathered in New York today to map out a strategy to deal with Irans suspected nuclear weapons program. 4. The UN Security Council is expected to hold closed-door consulta
3、tions today on a British-US peacekeeping plan for Sudans Darfur region.,5. Hollywood movie star and UN Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie is appealing for international help in repatriating millions of Afghan refugees now living in Pakistan. 6. Meanwhile the UN Security Council is to hold an urgent
4、meeting at the request of Lebanon today on the crisis. 7. The UN General Assembly has opened in New York with forceful call for action in the Sudanese region of Darfur. 8. The UN is reporting signs of some progress in meeting global antipoverty goals set in 2000. 9. The UN Human Rights Committee has
5、 called on the American government to immediately close all secret detention facilities and grant access to the Red Cross to anybody detained in connection with an armed conflict. 10. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the UNs resolutions against North Korea leave Pyongyang no choice but to
6、 return to the negotiating table.,Section B,1. C The United Nations has released new data showing that rich countries have made little overall progress in reducing the output ot the gases blamed for climate change.2.BQatar has become the first Arab country to pledge troops for a UN peacekeeping miss
7、ion in Lebanon, offering to send up to 300 troops to monitor the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. 3. A In a speech to the 191-member General Assembly, Mr. Annan urged an enlargement of the Security Council by adding six new member.,4. C World leaders speaking on the second day of the United N
8、ations World Summit have called for reform of the international body and have urged it to play a key role in the fight against terrorism.5.BThe United Nations has launched its biggest annual appeal for humanitarian assistance, asking for 4.7 billion dollars to help the victims of war, famine and nat
9、ural disasters around the world.,Section C,Item 1 The United Nations childrens agency UNICEF is beginning a huge campaign in Pakistan today to immunize 800,000 children affected by the earthquake last month. The agency is sending 600 health teams into towns and mountain villages to vaccinate childre
10、n against measles, polio, diphtheria and tetanus. UNICEF staff say it would be a race against time to reach children scattered in remote mountain communities before winter snows arrive. The agency has already vaccinated 300,000 children.,Item 2 The UN relief agency says an attack on a displaced pers
11、ons camp in Sudans western Darfur region has reportedly left 29 people dead and 10 seriously injured. A spokeswoman for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees told VOA its the first time that a displaced persons camp has been attacked in more than two years of civil war. The spokesman says up to 300
12、armed Arab men on horses and camels attacked the camp on Wed.,Item 3 The United Nations World Food Program has appealed urgently for donations of more than 150 million dollars to prevent a food crisis in southern Africa. It warned that almost 10 million people across six countriesZambia, Zimbabwe, M
13、alawi, Mozambique, Lesotho and Swazilandurgently needed foof aid. The shortages are blamed on drought and the effects of HIV/AIDS and chronic poverty. A BBC correspondent in southern Africa says that in Zimbabwe, children in rural areas have already started to show signs of malnutrition. She says so
14、me eat only once a day.,Section D,Item 1 The South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon has won the support of all five permanent members of the UN Security Council in his bid to become the next Secretary General of the UN. Mr. Ban had been the favorite to succeed Kofi Annan in the post, and had come
15、 first in three previous informal ballots held by members of the Security Council. However, until this latest vote it had not been known whether his candidacy might be vetoed by one of the five permanent member, the US, China, Russia, France or Britain. Its expected that a formal vote will be held n
16、ext week. The US ambassador to the UN, John Bolton, said new candidates could come forward, but that was unlikely.,Item 2 Despite US objections, the UN General Assembly today overwhelmingly voted to create a new human rights council to improve the UNs ability to deal with human rights offenders. The
17、 council replaces the discredited UN Human Rights Commission based in Geneva. US ambassador to the UN john Bolton told the Assembly today that UN made some improvements but they are not enough. Bolton told the Assembly that rules for the new council are too weak to prevent human rights violators fro
18、m obtaining seats. Under the resolution adopted today, the old commission will be abolished June 16th, and the new council will convene three days later.,Item 3 The UN has welcomed new pledges by donor countries of nearly 600 million dollars to fund relief efforts after the South Asian earthquake. B
19、ut the UNs chief relief coordinator Jan England said it was not clear how much was for immediate emergency relief and how much for longer-term work. Pakistan says 79,000 people have died and Mr. England had early warned that hundreds of thousands more could die without an immediate big boost in fund
20、s. Winter snow is expected in earthquake zone within weeks. A top Pakistani relief official, General Farooq Ahmd, told BBC that an extra 30,000 troops were in the area to help.,Section E,The arrangement of main facts,Item 1 Sri Lankan officials say government forces have killed at least 40 Tamil Tig
21、ers and wounded 70 during a rebel attack on strategic areas in the countrys northeast. Military officials say five government troops were also killed in the fighting early today around the port of Trincomalee. The rebels say they overran four military outposts, but authorities in Colombo say the reb
22、els have made no territorial gains. Rebels also fired mortar shells into a civilian area in Muthur near Trincomalee, killing at least two civilians. Tamil Tigers:泰米尔猛虎组织、猛虎组织，是斯里兰卡泰米尔族的反政府武装组织。“自杀性爆炸袭击”是猛虎组织最常用的暴力手段。strategic areas 战略地区 Trincomalee亭可马里(斯里兰卡东北部港市) overrun 侵占 outpost 哨站 Colombo 科伦坡 （首
23、都） Muthu r穆图尔,Item2 Hundreds of thousands of people are still without electricity in western New York after a major snowstorm this week. It hit Thursday night and dropped as much as two feet of snow by the time it ended yesterday morning. It was the snowiest two days in October in Buffalo since the
24、National Weather Service began keeping track 137 years ago. Authorities say three people died of weather-related causes. 1. Buffalo布法罗(美国纽约州西部一城市) 2. keep track 注意动向，记录,Item 3 The American space agency NASA has awarded a multi-billion-dollar contract to a group led by Lockheed Martin and build the n
25、ext generation of manned spacecraft. The craft called the Orion is intended to replace the aging fleet of space shuttles. Orions shape resembles the command modules of the Apollo spaceship from the sixties and seventies. Unlike the shuttle, it has no wings and will parachute back to earth at the end
26、 of each mission. 1. fleet: 船队 2. space shuttle: 航天飞机 3. module 舱 4. parachute 降落,Listening tips -the inverted-pyramid structure,新闻的倒金字塔写作结构 The pyramid pattern: introductiondevelopmentclimaxconclusion The inverted-pyramid structure: arranging information and facts in descending order of importance.
27、 In the usual three components of a news story, namely, the lead, the middle and the tag line收尾语, the information presented declines in terms of omportance.,Event: Source: Reason: Election type: Date:,Lead sentence: most significant aspect of the story and essential information such as the what, whe
28、n and who.Middle: develop story with more information explaining the why and how. Direct or partial quotes are often adopted. Tag line: least essential information, such as background information on the people or institutions involved.,UN Activities,To facilitate comprehension, it is necessary for u
29、s to have a general idea of major UN agencies. http:/ http:/www.un.org/联合国总部 Headquarter: New York 联合国日内瓦办事处（欧洲总部）Geneve 联合国维也纳办事处 Vienna,主要机构,联合国大会 General Assembly 联合国安全理事会Security Council 联合国经济及社会理事会 ECOSOC=Economic and Social Council (United Nations) 联合国托管理事会United Nations Trusteeship Council 国际
30、法院International Court of Justice 联合国秘书处United Nations Secretariat 联合国秘书处科菲安南 Kofi Annan 潘基文 Ban Ki-moon,联合国下属的其他机构,联合国开发计划署（United Nations Development Programme - UNDP） 联合国环境规划署（United Nations Environment Programme - UNEP） 联合国贸易和发展会议（United Nations Conferenceon Tradeand Development - UNCTAD） 联合国人口基金
31、（United Nations Population Fund - UNFPA） 联合国儿童基金会（United Nations Childrens Fund - UNICEF） 联合国难民事务高级专员公署（Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees - UNHCR） 联合国欧洲经济委员会（United Nations Economic Commission for Europe - UNECE） 世界粮食计划署（World Food Programme - WFP） 亚洲及太平洋经济社会委员会（Economic an
32、d Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific - ESCAP） 和平利用外层空间委员会（The Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space - COPUOS,联合国专门机构,1. 国际劳工组织（International Labour Organization - ILO） 2. 联合国粮食及农业组织（Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - FAO） 3. 联合国教育、科学及文化组织（United Nations Educati
33、onal，Scientific and Cultural Organization - UNESCO） 4. 世界卫生组织（World Health Organization - WHO） 5. 国际货币基金组织（International Monetary Fund - IMF） 6. 国际开发协会（International Development Association - IDA） 7. 国际复兴开发银行（世界银行）（Intemational Bailk for Reconstruction and Development - JBRD）（World Bank） 8. 国际金融公司（I
34、nternational Finance Corporation - JFC） 9. 国际民用航空组织（International Civil Aviation Organization - ICAO） 10. 万国邮政联盟（Universal Postal Union - UPU） 11. 国际电信联盟（International Telecommunication Union - ITU） 12 .世界气象组织（World Meteorological Organization - WMO） 13. 国际海事组织（International Maritime Organization -
35、IMO） 14. 世界知识产权组织（World Intellectual Property Organization - WIPO） 15. 国际农业发展基金会（International Fund for Agricultural Development - IFAD） 16. 联合国工业发展组织（United Nations Industrial Development Organization - UNIDO） 17. 国际原子能机构（International Atomic Energy Agency - IAEA） 18. 世界贸易组织（World Trade Organizatio
36、n - WTO）,UN Activities,News reports in the current unit normally concern one of the following topics: 1. UN efforts to handle man-made disasters (peacekeeping, mediation) 2. UN efforts to handle natural disaster (humanitarian relief efforts) 3. UN reforms Ocassionally there are also reports about UN
37、 efforts to address health, education, human rights and environment issues.,News Pattern,Event: a UN relief, peacekeeping mission underway Cause: events leading up to the UN mission Further details: scale of the missionUN agency/countries/peacekeeping forces involvedbeneficiaries of the UN mission Commets: UN commets on the situation Appeal: UN appeal for peace/restraint/international assistance,
