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1
Talking about Famous People
  • Book 2 Page 114

2
Background Information
  • Alan Greenspan
  • the Federal Reserve Board
  • the Depression
  • Wall Street

3
Identifying the Organization
  • Process the description of a process usually
    follows a time order and is signaled by words and
    phrases like then/ later/ next/ after that.
  • Causal Analysis in a causal analysis,
    expressions like because/ there are reasons
    for/ as a result are often used.
  • Comparison in a comparison expressions such as
    for one thing,for another thing/unlike/contrary
    to.. appear more .

4
Now you are going to hear three short passages
and tell what organization they focus on .
Passage Way of Organization
1 a. Causal Analysis
2 b. Comparison
3 C. Process
C
B
A
5
Why Is Biodiversity Important?
  • Book 2 Page 149

6
Paris and Washington book 1 page 102
7
Assignments
8
Alan Greenspan
  • Dr. Greenspan was born on March 6, 1926, in New
    York City. The cautious chief of the Federal
    Reserve Board, was a child through the
    Depression, became President Gerald Fords top
    economic adviser during the economic woes of the
    mid-1970s. He has been designated Chairman of FRB
    by Presidents Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and Bush.
    He is the second most powerful man in America, is
    responsible for balancing the U.S. economy
    between boom and bust.

9
the Federal Reserve Board
  • A committee of seven governors appointed by the
    American President to supervise the Federal
    Reserve System, which is best known to the public
    for its influence on the interest rates by
    raising or cutting the amount of money available
    at any one time in the American financial system.
    Alan Greenspan is Chairman of the Federal Reserve
    Board.

10
The Great Depression
  • The Great Depression was an economic slump in
    North America, Europe, and other industrialized
    areas of the world that began in 1929 and lasted
    until about 1939. It was the longest and most
    severe depression ever experienced by the
    industrialized Western world. As for President
    Roosevelt, the U.S.A was about to enter a new era
    of economic and political change.

11
Unemployed men vying for jobs at the American
Legion Employment Bureau in Los Angeles during
the Great Depression
12
During the Great Depression, unemployment was
high. Many employers tried to get as much work as
possible from their employees for the lowest
possible wage. Workers were upset with the
speedup of assembly lines, working conditions and
the lack of job security.
13
Wall Street
  • located in lower Manhattan, NY. It is the site of
    stock exchanges and financial institutions
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