what is ‘non-verbal communication’?

Callum: Hello, today in Talk about English we have the fifth programme in our series on culture and communication. Today Marc Beeby looks at the topic of non-verbal communication communication without language. People from different cultures speak d

英语听力：2012-01-20 从南极到北极 From Pole To Pole—2

The penguins stay when all other creatures have fled because each guards a treasurea single egg rested on the top of its feet and kept warm beneath the downy bulge of its stomach. There is no food and no water for them. And they will not see the sun

VOA常速英语2007-Spanish Court Convicts 21 for Madrid Train Bombi

By Lisa Bryant Paris 31 October 2007 A Spanish court found 21 people guilty and acquitted seven others of involvement in 2004 train bombings in Madrid, closing a trial on the most deadly Islamist terrorist attack to date in Europe. Lisa Bryant has mo

Who on Earth are we 9

Callum: Hello and welcome to Talk about English and the tenth programme in our series on culture, Who on Earth are we? Today, with the help of Rebecca Fong, a teacher of inter-cultural communication at the University of the West of England, Marc Bee

Who on Earth are we 10

Callum: Hello and welcome to Talk about English and the tenth programme in our series on culture, Who on Earth are we? Today, with the help of Rebecca Fong, a teacher of inter-cultural communication at the University of the West of England, Marc Bee

Who on Earth are we 11

Callum: Hello and welcome to the last in our series about culture and inter-cultural communication Who on Earth are we? Over the course of this series, weve heard about some of the ways that we can explore cultural differences, weve come closer to u

Who on Earth are we 5

Callum:Hello. In recent programmes in this series, Who on Earth are we? Marc Beebys looked at some of the more obvious ways that cultures can be different from one another -the different ways we use language, or non-verbal communication, for example

Who on Earth are we 6

Callum: Hello and welcome to Talk about English. Today in our series Who on Earth are we? Marc Beeby examines the differences between individual and collective based cultures. If youre someone who likes privacy, your own space, making your own decis

Who on Earth are we 7

Callum: Hello and welcome to the eighth programme in our series Who on Earth are we. In the last programme Marc Beeby began an investigation into the differences between cultures where the individual is seen as central individualist cultures and tho

Who on Earth are we 8

Callum: Hello. Recently in our Talk about English series, Who on Earth are we? Marc Beebys looked at the differences between cultures that value the individual, and those that value the group, or the collective. Heres Marc to tell us about the work

Who on Earth are we 4

Callum: Hello. Culture and communication is the topic of this programme from the Talk about English series, Who on Earth are we? Communication's done so naturally by all of us that we take it for granted and we don't think very much about what happe

Who on Earth are we 3

Callum: Hello today we have the third programme in our series on culture and inter- cultural communication: Who on Earth are we? In this programme Marc Beeby looks at language and culture. Heres Marc Marc: Hello. Today we begin our look at the build

Who on Earth are we 2

Callum: Hello and welcome to Talk about English. Today we have the second in our series on culture, Who on Earth are we? In this programme presenter Marc Beeby tries to answer the difficult question: what is culture? Heres Mark. Marc:Culture is a di

Who on Earth are we?

Who on Earth are we? 我们到底是谁？ Who on Earth are we? is a series about culture and how it affects us. It explores some of the major differences between cultures and looks at what happens when people from different cultures meet and communicate.

英语听力：2012-01-22 从南极到北极 From Pole To Pole—3

But they are hungry and eager to reach their mother whos delayed feeding them on this special day. Now she lures them with the promise of milk, the only food the cubs have known since they were born, deaf and blind beneath the snow some two months ag

英语听力：2012-01-29 从南极到北极 From Pole To Pole—6

Midsummer on the tundra and the sun does not set. At these altitudes, the suns rays are glancing and not enough of their energy reaches the ground to enable trees to grow. Youll need to travel five hundred miles south from here before that is possibl

英语听力：2012-02-01 从南极到北极 From Pole To Pole—7

As we travel south, so the suns influence grows stronger. And at 50 degrees of latitude, a radical transformation begins. Summers here are long enough for broadleaf trees to replace conifers. Broadleaves are easier to eat and digest, so now animals c

英语听力：2012-02-05 从南极到北极 From Pole To Pole—9

The advance of the seasons brings constant change. As the suns influence diminishes in the north, so the deciduous forests of America begin to shut down, losing their leaves in preparation for the dark, cold months ahead. One season hands over to ano

英语听力：2012-02-03 从南极到北极 From Pole To Pole—8

Deer are frequent casulties of the harsh winter. And these leopards are not above scavenging from a corpse. African leopards could never survive here. But the Russian cats have thick fur to shied them from the cold. There are only 40 Amur leopards le

2006年VOA标准英语-Iraqis Ambivalent About US Study Group Report

By Margaret Besheer Irbil 04 December 2006 Former Secretary of State James Baker, co-chairman of Iraq Study Group, walks past with Vice President Dick Cheney, after meeting with President Bush, 13 Nov 2006 For weeks, the American media has been buzz