Preview of Vocabulary

Before you listen to the lecture on the United Nations, it will be helpful to preview some of the vocabulary and sentences that are used in the lecture. You will first be given several vocabulary items in isola­tion. Below each group of items are sentence definitions for each. You are to fill in the blanks with the appropriate vocabulary items from the list. Use your dictionary if necessary to select the correct item for each sentence definition. After you have worked through the Preview of Vocabulary, you will be given the Preview of Sentences. The highlighted vocabulary words are presented in the same context in which they are used in the lecture.

Pledge headquarters charter

1. The main office of an organization is its _______________________ .
2. To promise sincerely is to ___________________.
3. The constitution of the United Nations Organization is known as its _____________.

Lend philanthropist nuclear weapons budget

1. To give money on the condition that it be repaid at a later date is to _____________ money.
2. A __________________ is a very rich person who gives money for good causes, such as education and medical research.
3. A __________________ is a list of income and expenses for a certain period of time.
4. Instruments of war that use atomic energy are known as __________________ .

Preview of Sentences

Here are some of the sentences you will encounter in the lecture.

1. The United Nations headquarters is in the United States, in New York City.
2. In 1944 twenty-six countries pledged to continue to fight against Germany and Italy in World War II.
3. The charter of the U.N. was formally signed by fifty countries in October of 1945 in San Francisco, California.
4. In 1950 John D. Rockefeller, Jr., the well-known oil millionaire and philanthropist, gave the United Nations Organization a section of land in New York City.
5. The United States government lent the U.N. $65 million to con­struct a building to house the international organization.
6. The United Nations budget now totals more than $450 million per year.
7. It is so vital, so really necessary, that countries settle disputes or disagreements in this day of world-wide nuclear weapons.

B. Listening Activities

Note-taking Model

Now you are going to listen to a lecture about the United Nations. While you listen, look at the Note-Taking Model. It is a model of the way you might want to organize your notes on the lecture if you were taking notes on it. Remember, this is just one way in which the notes can be organized and written down. You must develop your own method of taking notes on lectures in English. You must be sure, however, that you write down all the important words, numbers, dates, names, and so forth.

Notice that the model contains only the most important words, numbers, dates, and names in the lecture. The model also contains many abbreviations and several symbols.

After you have listened to the lecture once while looking at this model, you will have a chance to take notes on the information. Now, just listen and look at the model.

The United Nations: The Promise of Peace

Note: The + symbol, of course, meant and – “international peace and international cooperation.” The use of an apostrophe (’) before two numbers indi­cates a date, a twentieth-century date. ’44 is, therefore, 1944. The ditto sign (”) was used to indicate that the number above it was being repeated. Several other symbols were used. Circle three other symbols that were used in the model. What do the symbols mean? Did you also note the use of the dash (–) in the model? It can help you show a rela­tionship between words or groups of words. It indicates that certain words have been omitted, words such as prepositions, and so forth

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