College Oral Communication

Marsha Chan

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Chapter 2 Nutrition and Human Health


Activity 2 Identifying Syllables and Stress in Words

Activity 4 Dictation

Activity 6 Pronouncing the Vocabulary of Academic Lectures

Activity 7 Listening to the Vocabulary of Academic Lectures in Context

Activity 8 Pronouncing and Listening to Numbers

Activity 9 Listening to Plural Noun Endings /s/, /z/, and /Iz/

Activity 10 Listening to Numbers in Context

Activities 11-13 Lecture: Introduction to Nutrition and Human Health

Activity 16 Comprehension: True or False

Activity 19 Asking for Confirmation and Clarification

Activity 20 Fourteen or Forty?

Activity 21 More Number Phrases

Activity 22 Practicing Number Phrases in a Paragraph

Activity 26 Understanding Nutrition Facts Labels

Look at an interactive version of the Nutrition Facts label on The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's web page The Food Label http://www.fda.gov/opacom/backgrounders/foodlabel/newlabel.html. You can select any part of the food label graphic to find the relevant sections of the explanatory document.
Guidance on How to Understand and Use the Nutrition Facts Panel on Food Labels presents information in text format and in video format at http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/foodlab.html
Global Institute for Alternative Medicine http://www.gifam.org/

Additional Speaking Topics

What a Pizza Delivers http://www.cspinet.org/nah/index (http://www.cspinet.org/nah/06_02/pizza_051702.pdf)
Obesity in America - Inevitable? http://www.cspinet.org/nah/3_00/cspinews.html
America: Drowning in Sugar http://www.cspinet.org/new/sugar.html
10 Foods You Should Never Eat http://www.cspinet.org/nah/10foods_bad.html
What Counts as a Serving? http://www.4girls.gov/eat/serving.htm

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