Step by Step 3000. Book Two.

Unit 7. Leisure time.

Part 1. Warming up.

A. Keywords. newspaper, circulation, copies, sells, daily.

Vocabulary. circulation, tribune, daily, quality.

Listen to some information about the circulation of some major British and American newspapers.

Write down the numbers as rapidly as you can.

1. The Boston Globe, a leading newspaper in the eastern part of the U.S has a circulation of 604,068 copies per day.

2. The Chicago Tribune sells 957,212 copies daily.

3. The Daily Mail in Britain sells 2,426,533 copies every day.

4. The Daily Mirror, a popular paper in Britain, has a daily circulation of 1,719,743 copies.

5. The Daily Telegraph in Britain has a daily circulation of 907,329 copies.

6. The Financial Times is famous for its business and stock exchange news, and has a small but steady circulation of 419,386 copies daily.

7. The Guardian is a daily newspaper published in Britain, and sells 366, 645 copies everyday.

8. The Los Angles Times, is a national daily, published in California, it reached 1,231,318 copies in circulation.

9. The New York Times in America is more than 100 years old and has a daily circulation of 1.683,855 copies.

10. The Observer is one of the quality Sunday newspapers in Britain, and sells 444,509 copies every Sunday.

11. The Sun, another popular daily in Britain, sells 3,273,116 copies everyday.

12. The Sunday Times, another national Sunday paper in Britain, has a circulation of 1,400,873 copies.

13. The Times is the most influential national newspaper in Britain, with a daily circulation of 679, 190 copies.

14. The USA Today is among the most popular daily newspapers in the America, with a daily circulation of 2,528, 437 copies.

15. The Wall Street Journal, published by Dow Jones and Company, Inc, is a financial daily in the America and it sells 2,058,342 copies daily.

16. The Washington Post, a daily newspaper published in Washington D.C, has a circulation of 960, 684 copies.

B. Keywords. books, classified, subject, Dewey Decimal System, main class, divisions, subdivided, sections.

Vocabulary. Dewey Decimal System, recreation, biography, correspond, landscape, sculpture, engraving, subdivide, horsemanship.

You are going to hear a brief account of the book classification in libraries.

Listen carefully, note down the subjects only.

In most libraries, books are classified according to their subjects on the Dewey Decimal System.

Under this system, knowledge is divided into ten main classes and named as followed:

000. General. 100. Philosophy. 200. Religion. 300. Social Science. 400. Language.

500. Science. 600. Applied Science. 700. Art and Recreation. 800. Literature. 900. History, Travel, Biography.

Each main class is divided into ten divisions, also numbered 0 to 9, giving the second figure of a book's classification number

and within the main classes, books are grouped on the shelves to correspond.

For instances, books on art and recreation are arranged in the following divisions. 700. Art and Recreation.

710. Landscape Art. 720. Architecture. 730. Sculpture. 740. Drawing and Design.

750. Painting. 760. Engraving. 770. Photography. 780. Music. 790. Amusements.

Each division of a main class is then subdivided into ten sections.

The first covering the subject in general, and the others numbered 0 to 9 dealing with its branches.

Here is an example, main class: 700 art and recreation. division: 790. amusements.

sections: 791. Public entertainment. 792. Theater, Stage. 793. Indoor Entertainment. 794. Games of Skill. 795. Games of Chance.

796. Outdoor Sports and Games. 797. Water Sports. 798. Horsemanship, Racing. 799. Fishing, Hunting, Shooting.

C. Keywords. composer, be born, die.

Vocabulary. composer, ingenious, renowned, celebrated, prominent.

You will hear the dates of birth and the dates of death of ten world famous composers.

Listen carefully, fill in the blanks with the dates you hear. Write as rapidly as you can.

You may use short forms for the months, for example, Jan for January, Feb for February.

Johann Bach, a famous German composer, was born on March 21st, 1685, March 21st, 1685, and died on January 28th, 1750.

George Handel, a well-known German born British composer, was born on February 23rd, 1685, February 23rd, 1685, and died on April 14th, 1759.

Wolfgang Mozart, was a brilliant Austrian composer, who was born on January 27th, 1756. January 27th, 1756, and died on December 5th, 1791.

Ludwig Beethoven, an ingenious German composer, was born on December 17th, 1770, December 17th, 1770, and died on March 26th, 1827.

As one of the outstanding Austrian composers, Franz Schubert was born on January 31st, 1797, and died on November 19th, 1828, November 19th, 1828.

Felix Mendelssohn, another famous German composer, was born on February 3rd, 1809, and died on November 4th, 1847, November 4th, 1847.

Poland also produced a well-known composer, Frederic Chopin, who was born on March 1st, 1810, March 1st, 1810, and died on October 17th, 1849.

Franz Liszt was a renowned Hungarian composer.

He was born on October 22nd, 1811, October 22nd, 1811, and died on July 31st, 1886.

Johann Strauss, another celebrated Austrian composer, was born on October 25th, 1825, and died on June 3rd, 1899, June 3rd, 1899.

As the most prominent Russian composer, Peter Tchaikovsky was born on May 7th, 1840, and died on December 6th, 1893, December 6th, 1893.