Student Resources
Simplified Chinese Edition
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Audio Files
NOTE TO AUDIO FILES:
The audio files are not exact word-for-word renderings of printed lesson texts. Where the conventions of print journalism as observed in the lesson texts contradict practices required for broadcast production (e.g., use of parenthetical information and other visual cues), the script is altered so as to conform to broadcast conventions.
Video Links
1.1 Train Station Massacre
1.2 Gathering of World Leaders
1.3 Celebrity Fall from Grace
2.1 Housing Prices
2.2 Minimum Wage
2.3 Credit Card Debt
3.1 Rich Spoiled Brat
3.2 Stepping into the Elevator Shaft
4.1 Stolen Ideas
4.3 A Classical Education
5.1 Plummeting Birth Rates
5.2 Elderly Face Rental Discrimination
6.1 Celebrity Wedding
6.2 Celebrities on Drugs
6.3 Media Darling Disfigured
6.4 Linsanity
7.1 Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
7.2 Birth Tourism
Traditional Chinese Edition
Download All Audio (ZIP 77.65MB)
Download Transcripts (PDF 746KB)
Audio Files
NOTE TO AUDIO FILES:
The audio files are not exact word-for-word renderings of printed lesson texts. Where the conventions of print journalism as observed in the lesson texts contradict practices required for broadcast production (e.g., use of parenthetical information and other visual cues), the script is altered so as to conform to broadcast conventions.
Video Links
1.1 Train Station Massacre
1.2 Gathering of World Leaders
1.3 Celebrity Fall from Grace
2.1 Housing Prices
2.2 Minimum Wage
2.3 Credit Card Debt
3.1 Rich Spoiled Brat
3.2 Stepping into the Elevator Shaft