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nullnullListening PracticenullEnjoy This Land is Your Land.null---How do you define poverty? How do you quantify that? ---It's a great question. It's hard to quantify depends where you live, what your 1_____ is, how many kids you have, all that. It's a gray area. But we went out here in New York and ask some folks on the streets, just to get a sense of what they think a family of four has to make to fall below that poverty line. Take a listen to their wide 2______of answers. 1. Fill in blanks with what you hear. 2. Group discussion: How do you define poverty?nullI would say anything less than 60,000 dollars a year would be poverty for a family of four. Income probably 40,000, 45,000 dollars a year. I would say 15,000 to 20,000. 3___________________________________________________________________________ ----You see, all over the board there, the actual answer, Brook, this shocked me. 22,050 dollars a year for a family of four. That's according to the 2009 number when you look at medicate, 4_____, food stamps. nullThat is what goes into 5_______ what benefits people get that fall below the poverty line. The 6_______ hasn't changed in 40 years no matter how the economy has changed, no matter how the job picture has changed. I doesn't factor in critical 7______ like housing and your medical expenses until the Obama 8__________ has just announced their development in new way to look at poverty. And it's gonna include those essentials. Here's why they say it's so important. Take a listen. null----The administration has basically proposed to produce a 9__________ poverty measure that will be produced next to the official measure, and will not replace it anyway, but will give us a second lens, another way to look at some of these issues. ----And that's really important given this economy. Now, Brook, let's be clear here. This isn't gonna change how Federal dollars are 10_______ to people that fall below the poverty line. But it's gonna inform policy-makers, give them a clear picture of just what's going on in this country. We're gonna get the first numbers from the new calculation. It'll come on the fall, Brook. null1. situation 2. range 3. I think a family making 80,000 dollars for a family of four is below poverty line. 4. welfare 5. determining 6. formula 7. expenses 8. administration 9. supplementary 10. allocatednullJohn Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was an American politician and political philosopher and the second president of the United States (1797–1801), after being the first vice President of the United States(1789–1797) for two terms. He was one of the most influential Founding Fathers of the United States. Adams came to prominence in the early stages of the American Revolution. As a delegate from Massachusetts to the Continental Congress, he played a leading role in persuading Congress to declare independence, and assisted Thomas Jefferson in drafting the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776. As a representative of Congress in Europe, he was a major negotiator of the eventual peace treaty with Great Britain, and chiefly responsible for obtaining important loans from Amsterdam bankers. nullWatch the first part of the movie (11’38”) and answer the following questions. 1. Why did John Adams have to go to Europe? 2. What was his wife’s attitude towards his leaving? What do you think of his wife?nullPart II (11’38”– 18’20”) Who did their ship encounter? What was the result? nullPart III (20’—34’10’’) 1. How was John Adams’ performance at the beginning of the banquet? 2. What do you think of his overall performance? 3. What kind of person do you think John Adams was? 4. What do you think of Dr. Franklin’s selling national flags?nullPart IV (35’20’’—48’45”) 1. Why did the letter from Philadelphia say? 2. Discuss the different diplomatic styles of Dr. Franklin and John Adams. Which do you prefer?nullPart V (51’50”--) Why were the Dutch unwilling to lend America loans? nullnullWork behavior differences are due to: • personality • 22 _________ Effects of diversity on companies: Advantage: diversity develops 23 _______ Disadvantage: diversity can cause conflictnullnullnullnullnullThanks for your attention!