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Studying in the US: Four Kinds of Financial Aid

Part Ⅰ This week in our Foreign Student

Series, we return to a subject we have discussed before: financial aid.

___________________.

This time we are going to talk aboutfinancial aid in the form of assistantships, grants, scholarshipsand fellowships.

An assistantship at a university is a job that is paid with money or free classes.______. The assistants may teach, grade papers and tests, or do research in a laboratory.

These positions usually go to graduatestudents to assist a professor for about twenty hours a week

A grant is a gift of money. Unlike a loan, a grant does not have to be repaid. Grants can come from public or private organizations. Schools often receive donations for this purpose. ____________.

Some grants are for general purposes of paying for school, while others are offered in a subject area.

Scholarships and fellowships do not have to be repaid either. A scholarship is financial aid to undergraduates; a fellowship is for graduate students. _________.Some are based on financial need. Others may go to students who live in a certain area or meet other conditions.

Scholarships and fellowships are generally for students with specialabilities or interests.

Global Heritage Scholarship goes to _________________________. Global Tiger Scholarship goes to _________________________. Curators Grant-in-Aid Program goes

to _________________________.

Our example this week is the University of Missouri-Columbia, or Mizzou. That school has a number of financial aid programs for international students. One of them is the Global Heritage Scholarship. It pays up to about seven thousand five hundred dollars a year. But this scholarship goes only to foreign students whose mother or father graduated from Mizzou.

Another aid program is called the Global Tiger Scholarship. This one is supported by the Mizzou Alumni Association. International students can receive one thousand dollars. In return they agree to provide service to the association during the school year.

Still another program for international students at Mizzou is called the Curators-Grant-in-Aid Program. This is for undergraduate or graduate students who get good grades and take part in university activities. The program is especially for those who have unexpected or unusual financial needs that can affect their progress at school.

Long Conversations

1. Did You Hear the Weather Forecast?

2. A Thunderstorm

a) They are planning a picnic for the department.

b) They are having a picnic organized by the department.

c) They are discussing how to escape from the weather.

d) They are drinking and talking about the weather.

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What are Alan and Michelle doing?

Look at the sky! It’s starting to get

cloudy.

I thought it was going to be a

fine day today.

That’s certainly what the department was hoping for when they chose today as the date for the annual

picnic.

a) Michelle likes having a picnic on a sunny day.

b) Alan is expecting a gentle breeze to cool himself off.

c) They haven’t had much sunshine recently.

d) Much to their surprise, bad weather is setting in.

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What can you infer from their talk?

You can’t … without good

weather.

But not too much! Do you remember last

year?

Look for shade, look for ways to

escape…No one participated in planned

activities. Wanted cold drinks and

dozed off

If there had just been the tiniest breeze to cool

us off…

What happen to Alan and Michelle last year?

They went to department picnic but their fun was spoiled by the hot weather.

Why won’t Alan worry even if it rains?

We don’t have that problem this year,

apparently. Did you hear…Is it supposed

to rain?But maybe … it will

only be a short shower which cools

things off a little.

Because he thinks it’ll only be a short shower that cools things off a little.

What do you know about Alan?

a). He thinks the department has misjudged the weather situation for the day.

b).He dismisses the idea of having an annual picnic as silly.

c).He dislikes pre-arranged activities and would rather go somewhere on his own.

d).He prefers having a little doze after drinking.

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A Thunderstorm

1. Caught in the rain, Lily and Betty were wet through.

2. The American girl has become used to the summers in Shanghai.

3. Betty expects to meet her friends before it clears up.

4. Summer in New York is less humid than it is in Shanghai.

5. Betty likes the weather in Shanghai better than that in New York.

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Listening Task 1

Neutral

negative positive

sympathetic respectful

disrespectful

What is the attitude of the speaker towards Kofi Annan?

Kofi Annan

His critics agree that the United Nations Secretary - General, Kofi Annan, is a ____________ moral idealist.

But he is also tough. Elected to the post in 1996, thanks largely to the US’s displeasure with Boutros-Ghali, ______________________________________

As the host of 159 heads of state at this year’s millennium summit in New York September 6 to 8, _______________________________________.

dignified

Annan has proved to be energetic and willingto press Americans to accept greater international

responsibility.

He advocated intervention against war, disease and poverty.

Ghana

Kofi Annan, son of the headman of an African tribe

Boutros-Ghali, the sixth Secretary General of UN from Egypt. His term was from 1992 to 1996.

Talking about a Famous Person

Birthday

Birth Place

Family origin

Education

Career

Achievements/Major contributions

Popularity

Significance of … discovery/invention/job

chronologically

Jeffrey Zaslowa Famous Columnist

Listening Task 2

Philadelphia,Pennsylvania

Chicago,Illinois

Orlando,Florida

Carnegie Mellon,Pittsburg

Where?

When?

What?

suburban

ambition

Civil War

“Gone with the Wind”

earning …

in

… writing

at

Pittsburg, PA

afterhis degree

creative

made his mark with…roughendured byinside… costume

Mickey and Minnie

Walt Disney WorldWalt Disney World

became a staff writer for…

Ann Landers who??launched a nationwide contest why??Contestants How many??women outnumbered men ... What rate??reached the semifinalsEditors… ran a headline: Why He’ll Never Make it. Did he make it??

1988

Ann Landerslaunched a nationwide contestContestantswomen outnumbered men ... reached the semifinalsEditors… ran a headline: Why He’ll Never Make it.

1988

12,000

a famous columnistto find her replacement

9 to 1

He did make it in the finals.

Today“All that Zazz” What?? Where??His years in … left him with a deep appreciation for… ??He is moved by …, …and good nature of his readers.??

“… do outnumber …”??“I have much more …. than I had before.” ??“…back that up.”

He is moved by __________, ________ and good nature of his readers.

generosity

sincerity

in area

“I have much more _____________________ than I had before.”

faith in my fellow men

Today“All that Zazz”

ChicagoHis years in ______________ left him with a deep appreciation for ________________________________________

“…back that up.”

His column

advice businesspeople and their problems.

“_________________ do outnumber _______________”

Wonderful peopleterrible

people.

Birthday

Birth Place

Family origin

Education

Career

Achievements/Major contributions

Popularity

Significance of … discovery/invention/job

chronologically

Assignments

1. VOA Dictation

Study Warns of Heart Disease Danger From Dirty Air

2. Unit 11

Part B A Musican-turned Economist

Part C Edwin Hubble