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Tuesday
Monday
Meeting Five
This meeting five is an exercise that you have the clue already, listen carefully and do the exercise.
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(adopted from www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/)
Follow the instruction on the page, I wish you luck.
Click here to get the exercise of listening!
and for listen to the tape click here
(adopted from www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/)
Wednesday
Meeting four
Please click here to watch a video and complete the text below;
Jot down new expression;
Prepare the similar topic to discuss at class.
enjoy the video here
Meet a man with plans for a new kind of food store.
LUISA SACCOTELLI: This is a new type of food store. It's organic but on a large-scale format, a bit like a supermarket. What it may become is a category killer - not that there's much of one yet - less than 20 cents out of every $100 spent in an Australian supermarket goes on organic food, but signs are that that could be about to change.
PIERS CODY: I like to watch 1)............................... I'm a 2)................................, I guess. I was looking for the next new thing and this came along.I was travelling quite a lot overseas and saw a company over there called Fresh And Wild. If you just walk in, the engagement with the shopping experience was much higher than you would see people like drones running around a supermarket.
LUISA SACCOTELLI: Before he turned to retail, Piers Cody was in media, having built up Cody Outdoor Signs into a big 3)................................
PIERS CODY: I would drive around with a dictaphone in my hand. As I would see the side of a building or a roof, I'd dictate, you know, "corner of whatever", get back and do a title search and away we go. We 4...................................to approximately 600-odd signs turning over about $60 million. It was a very nice business.
LUISA SACCOTELLI: Then Cody 5)............................................to O'Reilly's APN. Handsomely rewarded, he bought an organics shop in Bondi.The offering has been refined with a second Sydney store and days ago, a third in Melbourne.
PIERS CODY: So this is it, here we go, the stage is ready. The only mistakes that can be 6.............................................now are our own. We've got great friends here. Friends that I've had for many years...We are food retailing but we are not a supermarket. We don't ever want to feel like a supermarket. Our people are not supermarket employees, and we're taking it forward to a greater marketplace. We could see 30, 40, 50 stores, pretty good, large-size format. The cafe is the soft opener, it's the first point of contact with what we do, and then you go into the supermarket within the store. As well as then another key part of our offering is the naturopathy area. We have yoga and massage, Pilates, et cetera. It's quite an unusual offering.
LUISA SACCOTELLI: And expensive to set up. So far, Cody and his partner, Sydneysider Brett Blundy, have sunk $20 million into the Macro concept.7)........................ costs are also three times the percentage of turnover as a normal supermarket. But the 8).................................. on investment are also much higher - the two Sydney stores turn over a combined $20 million a year 10)..................................................................................higher than the few per cent managed by the supermarkets.
PIERS CODY: You have to spend to get the 11).......................................................set and the return on it is very good. Turnover per metre, if that's some guide, we do very nicely, but we have to work it hard.
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Jot down new expression;
Prepare the similar topic to discuss at class.
enjoy the video here
Meet a man with plans for a new kind of food store.
LUISA SACCOTELLI: This is a new type of food store. It's organic but on a large-scale format, a bit like a supermarket. What it may become is a category killer - not that there's much of one yet - less than 20 cents out of every $100 spent in an Australian supermarket goes on organic food, but signs are that that could be about to change.
PIERS CODY: I like to watch 1)............................... I'm a 2)................................, I guess. I was looking for the next new thing and this came along.I was travelling quite a lot overseas and saw a company over there called Fresh And Wild. If you just walk in, the engagement with the shopping experience was much higher than you would see people like drones running around a supermarket.
LUISA SACCOTELLI: Before he turned to retail, Piers Cody was in media, having built up Cody Outdoor Signs into a big 3)................................
PIERS CODY: I would drive around with a dictaphone in my hand. As I would see the side of a building or a roof, I'd dictate, you know, "corner of whatever", get back and do a title search and away we go. We 4...................................to approximately 600-odd signs turning over about $60 million. It was a very nice business.
LUISA SACCOTELLI: Then Cody 5)............................................to O'Reilly's APN. Handsomely rewarded, he bought an organics shop in Bondi.The offering has been refined with a second Sydney store and days ago, a third in Melbourne.
PIERS CODY: So this is it, here we go, the stage is ready. The only mistakes that can be 6.............................................now are our own. We've got great friends here. Friends that I've had for many years...We are food retailing but we are not a supermarket. We don't ever want to feel like a supermarket. Our people are not supermarket employees, and we're taking it forward to a greater marketplace. We could see 30, 40, 50 stores, pretty good, large-size format. The cafe is the soft opener, it's the first point of contact with what we do, and then you go into the supermarket within the store. As well as then another key part of our offering is the naturopathy area. We have yoga and massage, Pilates, et cetera. It's quite an unusual offering.
LUISA SACCOTELLI: And expensive to set up. So far, Cody and his partner, Sydneysider Brett Blundy, have sunk $20 million into the Macro concept.7)........................ costs are also three times the percentage of turnover as a normal supermarket. But the 8).................................. on investment are also much higher - the two Sydney stores turn over a combined $20 million a year 10)..................................................................................higher than the few per cent managed by the supermarkets.
PIERS CODY: You have to spend to get the 11).......................................................set and the return on it is very good. Turnover per metre, if that's some guide, we do very nicely, but we have to work it hard.
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Tuesday
Meeting three
Federal Government nominates nation-building projects
The World Today - Friday, 19 December , 2008 12:14:00
Reporter: David Mark
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The World Today - Friday, 19 December , 2008 12:14:00
Reporter: David Mark
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- How much money have they got from a freight rail corridor in North Sydney? How much have they got for a CBD metro in Sydney?
- How many list project do they look through?
- Where the money is going to appear at first glance?
- Did the Minister today express any concern about that private funding not flowing through, given the economic downturn?Why?
- Who is the chairman of Infrastructure Australia?
- What is hid opinion?
Meeting two
Watch the video;
Jot down some new expression for you;
Make sentence from the phrases that you've jotted down;
We'll discuss in the class;
enjoy and click on the video !!!
Jot down some new expression for you;
Make sentence from the phrases that you've jotted down;
We'll discuss in the class;
enjoy and click on the video !!!
Meeting one
I would like you to listen to "Graham Richardson facing Swiss bank account allegations" and respond to my mail after you can complete the text (copy to ms word, complete the text and send it). To listen to the recording just click here !!
Graham Richardson facing Swiss bank account allegations
The World Today - Friday, 19 December , 2008 12:10:00Reporter: Brigid Glanville
ELEANOR HALL: Revelations about a Swiss bank account have raised questions about whether Labor Party powerbroker and former federal minster Graham Richardson will face further investigation over his alleged links to the Offset Alpine scandal.
The Australian Financial Review says it has documents which show that Mr Richardson was instructing a Swiss finance company on the direction of large sums of money, despite his previous denials that he had any links to Swiss bank accounts.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is still investigating the role played by Mr Richardson, the late stockbroker Rene Rivkin and businessman Trevor Kennedy in the share scandal of the 1)................................
A criminal lawyer says this new evidence could see criminal charges being laid against the former politician.
Brigid Glanville has our report.
BRIGID GLANVILLE: The Australian Financial Review says it has documents that show that in 1994 Graham Richardson transferred 2)....................................into the account of an unknown man in Beirut.
It also says evidence shows that large sums of money passed through Mr Richardson's Zurich bank accounts.
This new evidence contradicts what Graham Richardson has told the Australian Securities and Investments Commission in the past. In a sworn testimony Mr Richardson denied having any links to Swiss bank accounts.
Neil Chenoweth is a reporter with The Financial Review who has seen the Swiss 3)...........................................................with Mr Richardson's name on it.
NEIL CHENOWETH: It looks like his role in the Swiss accounts was far more extensive than we had known. It looks like something like 4.5 to 4)..................................flowed through that the first account but also he had a much more active second account there as well.
And the most interesting thing seems to be this transfer that Graham Richardson signed in 1994 where a million dollars was transferred from this second Swiss bank account of his to an account in Beirut. The name on this account was Dennis Jamil Lattous. The real question is why is Graham Richardson in 5)...................................sending over a million dollars to someone in Beirut?
BRIGID GLANVILLE: Peter Faris QC is a Melbourne criminal lawyer who has been following the Offset Alpine printing company share scandal for many years. He says if ASIC chooses to investigate this new information it may lead to perjury charges.
PETER FARIS: I would imagine if they can get the evidence together they'd be looking at this with relation to a perjury charge for giving false evidence before ASIC when he denied he had Swiss bank accounts if they can prove it. Apparently they're already looking at the other bank account that everyone knew about so this would join it. So he'd be 6).................................at the moment I would have thought of an investigation into two perjuries.
BRIGID GLANVILLE: And perjury has maximum sentences does it?
PETER FARIS: Oh yes. Perjury for this would be regarded as being a very serious crime and he'd certainly be at risk of going to jail if convicted. But of course he's presumed to be innocent.
BRIGID GLANVILLE: Graham Richardson was also involved in a dispute with the Australian Tax Office over the share scandal.
It's reported Mr Richardson settled a $1.4-million dispute with the tax office two months ago - a figure much lower than the 7).....................................The Financial Review is now alleging it's linked to Mr Richardson.
Questions are now being asked over whether the Australian Tax Office may now have another look at Mr Richardson's business affairs. The ATO was unavailable for comment but a senior tax expert told The World Today it would have the discretion to re-open the case.
Melbourne lawyer Peter Faris QC:
PETER FARIS: It's the criminal aspect of it in that it may be a fraud on the taxation commissioner, depending on how it's all done and what you've declared, but they don't seem to be going down that route because they, I think 8)......................................recently settled their claims against Richardson with him for, I think it was more than a million dollars.
Now I think that ASIC have had these documents about the second Swiss bank account for a couple of years. One would have hoped the tax office knew about them when they settled up. I would have thought the settlement would be for all liabilities.
The tax office could look at prosecuting for fraud but I think that's unlikely as they've let the other one go.
BRIGID GLANVILLE: Graham Richardson didn't return any of The World Today's phone calls. ASIC was unavailable for comment but did say its investigations into Offset Alpine are continuing.
ELEANOR HALL: Brigid Glanville with that report.
Graham Richardson facing Swiss bank account allegations
The World Today - Friday, 19 December , 2008 12:10:00Reporter: Brigid Glanville
ELEANOR HALL: Revelations about a Swiss bank account have raised questions about whether Labor Party powerbroker and former federal minster Graham Richardson will face further investigation over his alleged links to the Offset Alpine scandal.
The Australian Financial Review says it has documents which show that Mr Richardson was instructing a Swiss finance company on the direction of large sums of money, despite his previous denials that he had any links to Swiss bank accounts.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is still investigating the role played by Mr Richardson, the late stockbroker Rene Rivkin and businessman Trevor Kennedy in the share scandal of the 1)................................
A criminal lawyer says this new evidence could see criminal charges being laid against the former politician.
Brigid Glanville has our report.
BRIGID GLANVILLE: The Australian Financial Review says it has documents that show that in 1994 Graham Richardson transferred 2)....................................into the account of an unknown man in Beirut.
It also says evidence shows that large sums of money passed through Mr Richardson's Zurich bank accounts.
This new evidence contradicts what Graham Richardson has told the Australian Securities and Investments Commission in the past. In a sworn testimony Mr Richardson denied having any links to Swiss bank accounts.
Neil Chenoweth is a reporter with The Financial Review who has seen the Swiss 3)...........................................................with Mr Richardson's name on it.
NEIL CHENOWETH: It looks like his role in the Swiss accounts was far more extensive than we had known. It looks like something like 4.5 to 4)..................................flowed through that the first account but also he had a much more active second account there as well.
And the most interesting thing seems to be this transfer that Graham Richardson signed in 1994 where a million dollars was transferred from this second Swiss bank account of his to an account in Beirut. The name on this account was Dennis Jamil Lattous. The real question is why is Graham Richardson in 5)...................................sending over a million dollars to someone in Beirut?
BRIGID GLANVILLE: Peter Faris QC is a Melbourne criminal lawyer who has been following the Offset Alpine printing company share scandal for many years. He says if ASIC chooses to investigate this new information it may lead to perjury charges.
PETER FARIS: I would imagine if they can get the evidence together they'd be looking at this with relation to a perjury charge for giving false evidence before ASIC when he denied he had Swiss bank accounts if they can prove it. Apparently they're already looking at the other bank account that everyone knew about so this would join it. So he'd be 6).................................at the moment I would have thought of an investigation into two perjuries.
BRIGID GLANVILLE: And perjury has maximum sentences does it?
PETER FARIS: Oh yes. Perjury for this would be regarded as being a very serious crime and he'd certainly be at risk of going to jail if convicted. But of course he's presumed to be innocent.
BRIGID GLANVILLE: Graham Richardson was also involved in a dispute with the Australian Tax Office over the share scandal.
It's reported Mr Richardson settled a $1.4-million dispute with the tax office two months ago - a figure much lower than the 7).....................................The Financial Review is now alleging it's linked to Mr Richardson.
Questions are now being asked over whether the Australian Tax Office may now have another look at Mr Richardson's business affairs. The ATO was unavailable for comment but a senior tax expert told The World Today it would have the discretion to re-open the case.
Melbourne lawyer Peter Faris QC:
PETER FARIS: It's the criminal aspect of it in that it may be a fraud on the taxation commissioner, depending on how it's all done and what you've declared, but they don't seem to be going down that route because they, I think 8)......................................recently settled their claims against Richardson with him for, I think it was more than a million dollars.
Now I think that ASIC have had these documents about the second Swiss bank account for a couple of years. One would have hoped the tax office knew about them when they settled up. I would have thought the settlement would be for all liabilities.
The tax office could look at prosecuting for fraud but I think that's unlikely as they've let the other one go.
BRIGID GLANVILLE: Graham Richardson didn't return any of The World Today's phone calls. ASIC was unavailable for comment but did say its investigations into Offset Alpine are continuing.
ELEANOR HALL: Brigid Glanville with that report.
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