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Gary Sinise: I'm Gary Sinise. As the founders of The Gary Sinise Fondation we serve and honor the men and the women who defend our country. I suggest how much the world needs heroes. Now, I'm delighted to help introduce one of this year Top Ten CNN heroes.
Amy Stokes: In 2003, my husband and I went to Johannesburg and we adopted our son.
- Here you go. Vroo-o-o
AS: HIV-AIDS has really decimated some of these communities, seeing all of the children and so few adults to help them grow up.
- Hi!
- I can see you
- Tell me something new that happened at school this week
AS: I had to find the way to bring the carring nurturing effect of other adults for a child to invest in themselves.
- Who's next?
AS: I'm Amy Stokes. I use The Internet to create the Global Village where the mentors and the kids can interact face to face on a regular basis
- Hi, Joe, how are you?
- How's your day at school? Did you work in the garden?
AS: That mentor ... them every week and a relationship starts between one person here and one person there and then that relationship expands
- My mentor is so good. I like him very much.
AS: Because the want to connect with their special someone, they are going to learn keyboard skills. The skills that they will need to have jobs and to be able to do whatever they need in the future. It's a bite-sized opportunity to change the world and it's no .. ..
Comprehension Check
1. What does Gary Sinise’s Foundation do?
2. Who is this year’s top ten CNN hero? Why were they awarded this prize?
3. What’s their program about?
4. What’s the Global Village?
5. Why do the kids like it? How does it help them?
Gary Sinise Foundation
https://www.garysinisefoundation.org/
Lt. Dan Band: For The Common Good
330+ Concerts performed worldwide in support of our nation’s defenders & their families
145+ USO (United Service Organisation) concerts (The USO strengthens America’s military service members by keeping them connected to family, home and country, throughout their service to the nation).
185+ Fundraising & benefit concerts
“To Gary Sinise & the Lt. Dan Band thank you so much for being here today. Thanks for all you do for our military, service members and their families. You make me proud everyday.” Rear Admiral C. Forrest Faison, III
CNN HEROES
http://edition.cnn.com/specials/cnn-heroes/
Global village is a term closely associated with Canadian-born Marshall McLuhan, popularized in his books The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man (1962) and Understanding Media (1964). McLuhan described how the globe has been contracted into a village by electric technology and the instantaneous movement of information from every quarter to every point at the same time.
Marshall McLuhan predicted the Internet as an "extension of consciousness" in The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man thirty years before its commercialization.
The next medium, whatever it is—it may be the extension of consciousness—will include television as its content, not as its environment, and will transform television into an art form.
On the Internet, physical distance is even less of a hindrance to the real-time communicative activities of people, and therefore social spheres are greatly expanded by the openness of the web and the ease at which people can search for online communities and interact with others who share the same interests and concerns. Therefore, this technology fosters the idea of a conglomerate yet unified global community.
According to McLuhan, the enhanced "electric speed in bringing all social and political functions together in a sudden implosion has heightened human awareness of responsibility to an intense degree."
Increased speed of communication and the ability of people to read about, spread, and react to global news quickly, forces us to become more involved with one another from various social groups and countries around the world and to be more aware of our global responsibilities.
Similarly, web-connected computers enable people to link their web sites together. This new reality has implications for forming new sociological structures within the context of culture. Contemporary analysts question the causes of changes in community and its consequences some potentially new sociological structure. Most of them have pointed out the fact that the increased velocity of transactions has fostered interactional density, making social networks a technical catalyst for social change. Across the global village people have reached out and transcended their neighborhood. They are involved in complex community networks stretching across cities, nations, and oceans. Yet the ease with which telecommunications connect friends of friends may also increase the density of interconnections within already existing social clusters. Therefore, the global village's implications on sociological structures are yet to be found, whether it fosters cultural exchanges and openness or not.
see The Medium is the Message. BBC Radio 4.
Wordlist
delighted adjective BrE /dɪˈlaɪtɪd/ ; NAmE /dɪˈlaɪtɪd/ see glad vs. happy vs. pleased vs. delighted vs. proud vs. relieved vs. thrilled
very pleased
a delighted smile
delighted to do something I'd be absolutely delighted to come.
‘Can you stay for dinner?’ ‘I’d be delighted (to)!’
delighted that… I was delighted that you could stay.
delighted by/at something She was delighted by/at the news of the wedding.
delighted with something I was delighted with my presents.
adopt verb BrE /əˈdɒpt/ ; NAmE /əˈdɑːpt/
1. child
[intransitive, transitive] to take somebody else’s child into your family and become its legal parent(s)
a campaign to encourage childless couples to adopt
adopt somebody to adopt a child
She was forced to have her baby adopted.
compare foster
2. method
[transitive] adopt something to start to use a particular method or to show a particular attitude towards somebody/something
All three teams adopted different approaches to the problem.
3. suggestion
[transitive] adopt something to formally accept a suggestion or policy by voting
to adopt a resolution
The council is expected to adopt the new policy at its next meeting.
4. new name/country
[transitive] adopt something to choose a new name, a country, a custom, etc. and begin to use it as your own
to adopt a name/title/language
Early Christians in Europe adopted many of the practices of the older, pagan religions.
5. way of behaving
[transitive] adopt something (formal) to use a particular manner, way of speaking, expression, etc.
He adopted an air of indifference.
6. candidate
[transitive] adopt somebody (as something) (British English, politics) to choose somebody as a candidate in an election or as a representative
She was adopted as parliamentary candidate for Wood Green.
HIV a type of VIRUS (=a very small living thing that causes disease) that enters the body through blood or sexual activity, and can develop into AIDS
HIV noun BrE /ˌeɪtʃ aɪ ˈviː/ ; NAmE /ˌeɪtʃ aɪ ˈviː/ [uncountable]
the abbreviation for ‘human immunodeficiency virus’ (the virus that can cause AIDS )
to be infected with HIV
to be HIV-positive/HIV-negative (= to have had a medical test which shows that you are/are not infected with HIV)
AIDS Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome a very serious disease that stops your body from defending itself against infections, and usually causes death
AIDS noun (usually British English Aids)
BrE /eɪdz/ ; NAmE /eɪdz/ [uncountable]
the abbreviation for ‘Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome’ (an illness which attacks the body’s ability to resist infection and which usually causes death)
AIDS research/education/victims
He developed full-blown AIDS five years after contracting HIV.
syndrome noun BrE /ˈsɪndrəʊm/ ; NAmE /ˈsɪndroʊm/
To nurture to help a plan, idea, feeling etc to develop; to feed and take care of a child or a plant while it is growing
nurture verb BrE /ˈnɜːtʃə(r)/ ; NAmE /ˈnɜːrtʃər/ (formal)
1. nurture somebody/something to care for and protect somebody/something while they are growing and developing
These delicate plants need careful nurturing.
children nurtured by loving parents
2. nurture something to help somebody/something to develop and be successful
synonym foster
It's important to nurture a good working relationship.
My father nurtured a love of art in me.
Her teacher recognized and nurtured her musical talent from an early age.
3. nurture something to have a feeling, an idea, a plan, etc. for a long time and encourage it to develop
She secretly nurtured a hope of becoming famous.
He had long nurtured a deep hatred of his brother.
1. сущ.
1) воспитание; образование, обучение, тренировка
2) выращивание; заботы по воспитанию (кого-л.)
3) питание; пища
2. гл.
1) а) кормить, питать, насыщать б) вскармливать, воспитывать (детей)
2) учить, обучать
To interact - if people interact with each other, they talk to each other, work together etc
interact verb BrE /ˌɪntərˈækt/ ; NAmE /ˌɪntərˈækt/
1. [intransitive] interact (with somebody) to communicate with somebody, especially while you work, play or spend time with them
Teachers have a limited amount of time to interact with each child.
The only thing he interacts with is his computer!
2. [intransitive] interact (with something) if one thing interacts with another, or if two things interact, the two things have an effect on each other
Perfume interacts with the skin's natural chemicals.
Mentor an experienced person who advises and helps a less experienced person
mentor noun BrE /ˈmentɔː(r)/ ; NAmE /ˈmentɔːr/
an experienced person who advises and helps somebody with less experience over a period of time
She was a friend and mentor to many young actors.
His former coach had remained his mentor throughout his career.
Bite-sized small enough to put into your mouth to eat
bite-sized adjective BrE ; NAmE
(also bite-size)
[usually before noun]
1. small enough to put into the mouth and eat
Cut the meat into bite-sized pieces.
2. (informal) very small or short
The exams are taken in bite-size chunks over two years.
decimate verb BrE /ˈdesɪmeɪt/ ; NAmE /ˈdesɪmeɪt/
1. [usually passive] decimate something to kill large numbers of animals, plants or people in a particular area
The rabbit population was decimated by the disease.
2. decimate something (informal) to severely damage something or make something weaker
Cheap imports decimated the British cycle industry.
Orig: late Middle English: from Latin decimat- ‘taken as a tenth’, from the verb decimare, from decimus ‘tenth’. In Middle English the term decimation denoted the levying of a tithe, and later the tax imposed by the English statesman Cromwell on the Royalists (1655).
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