Please choose one of the following oral practice items to record your talk or discussion (two or more students upload the same recording you have done together) Each recording file must be named after your name. You are required to talk for more than 3 minutes and in discussion, each one of you should talk more than 3 minutes, too. 1. Giving a talk In recent years we’ve encountered quite a number of problems about the safety of food and drugs in our country, such as the Sanlu milk powder case, which has produced negative repercussions at home and abroad . The public have raised strong doubts about the professional ethics of some food and drug manufacturers . Give a talk to your class, voicing your opinions about problems of this kind. Probably you could begin your talk with “ You may find it hard to believe that the food we eat every day and the medicine we take are not entirely safe. They may even do harm to our health. But this is a fact. ” For Your reference: 1) You may use the following words or expressions in your talk: tainted, contamination, dangerous, unsafe, substandard, do harm to, damage, risk, hazard, wrongdoing, suffer, doubtful, loss of poverty, cause death, scandal, monitor, supervise, loophole, prevent, demand compensation for the damage, ensure the health 2) You may want to give the following reasons for such phenomenon: —Some food and drug manufacturers are so greedy for quick profits that they disregard the professional ethics. —Because of the ineffectiveness of security supervision, some food and drug manufacturers take the advantage of the loopholes in the law. 3) You may want to give the suggestions as follows: — Illegal individual or manufacturers should be severely punished. —The government should improve the laws and regulations for food and drug safety. — Security supervision should be reinforced. — Individuals should improve the awareness of risk prevention. 2. Having a discussion When Dr. Waitley says, “ ... integrity is in short supply today — and getting scarcer ,” he is referring to the American society. But do you think this is also true to some extent of the current Chinese society? Dishonesty in society in general is spreading to schools and colleges, corroding integrity in the academic field. Hold a discussion in groups of four or five on such phenomena as cheating and plagiarism, asserting your views on these forms of intellectual dishonesty. For your reference: 1) You may use the following words or expressions in your discussion: higher education, diploma-seekers, copy, cheating, plagiarism, dishonesty, deception, shame, a failing grade, face punishment, discipline, decay of moral standard, diplomas for sale, fake diploma, fake documents, depreciation of the certificates, counterfeiter, public opinion, doubt the effectiveness, academic integrity 2) You may want to express the following viewpoints: — Cheating is a shame. — Cheating is a denial of one’s moral standard and inner quality. 3) You may want to give some reasons for this phenomenon: — Students seek quick success and instant benefits. — Students have fluk y mind. — t he ineffectiveness of the current assessment system — t he ineffectiveness of supervision