4. Memory Exercise Listen to the following short speech. Pay special attention to the main ideas, the development of the ideas and the logic connections between them Good morning. Since I took office I've done everything in my power to protect our children from harm We've worked to make their street and their schools safer. to give them something po sitive to do after school and before their parents get home We've worked to teach our child ren that drugs are dangerous, illegal and wrong. This week, we took a major step to protect our children, indeed, all Americans from the dangers of drunk driving by proposing bipartisan legislation to lower the le gal limit too. 8 in every state [Questions: What is the theme of the speech? What has the speaker done to protect children since he took office? Today I want to talk to you about the historic opportunity we now have to protect our nation's children from an even more deadly threat: smoking. Smoking kills more people every day than AIDS S. alcohol. car accidents. murders. suicides, drugs and fires combined. Nearly 90 percent of those smokers lit their first cigarette before they turn 18 Today, the epidemic of teen smoking is raging throughout our nation as, one by one our children are lured by multimillion dollar marketing schemes designed to do exactly that. Consider this: 3,000 children start to smoke every day illegally, and 1. 000 of them will die sooner because of it [Questions: What is the main topic? What harm does smoking do to children? What causes children to smoke? Can you remember the statistics? This is a national tragedy that every american should be honor-bound to help prevent. For more than five years we've worked to stop our children from smoking before they start, launching a nationwide campaign with the FDa to educate them about the dangers of smoking, to reduce their access to tobacco products, and to severely restrict tobacco companies from advertising to young people [Question: What measures has the government taken to prevent children from smoking? But even this is not enough to fully protect our children. To put an end to the epidemic, Congress must act. Last fall, I called on Congress to put aside politics and pass comprehensive bipartisan leg is lation to reduce teen smoking by impos ing8 4. Memory Exercise Listen to the following short speech. Pay special attention to the main ideas, the development of the ideas and the logic connections between them. Good morning. Since I took office I’ve done everything in my power to protect our children from harm. We’ve worked to make their street and their schools safer, to give them something positive to do after school and before their parents get home. We’ve worked to teach our child ren that drugs are dangerous, illegal and wrong. This week, we took a major step to protect our children, indeed, all Americans from the dangers of drunk driving by proposing bipartisan legislation to lower the legal limit to 0.8 in every state. [Questions: What is the theme of the speech? What has the speaker done to protect children since he took office?] Today I want to talk to you about the historic opportunity we now have to protect our nation’s children from an even more deadly threat: smoking. Smoking kills more people every day than AIDS, alcohol, car accidents, murders, suicides, drugs and fires combined. Nearly 90 percent of those smokers lit their first cigarette before they turn 18. Today, the epidemic of teen smoking is raging throughout our nation as, one by one, our children are lured by multimillion dollar marketing schemes designed to do exactly that. Consider this: 3,000 children start to smoke every day illegally, and 1,000 of them will die sooner because of it. [Questions: What is the main topic? What harm does smoking do to children? What causes children to smoke? Can you remember the statistics?] This is a national tragedy that every American should be honor-bound to help prevent. For more than five years we’ve worked to stop our children from smoking before they start, launching a nationwide campaign with the FDA to educate them about the dangers of smoking, to reduce their access to tobacco products, and to severely restrict tobacco companies from advertising to young people. [Question: What measures has the government taken to prevent children from smoking?] But even this is not enough to fully protect our children. To put an end to the epidemic, Congress must act. Last fall, I called on Congress to put aside politics and pass comprehensive bipartisan legislation to reduce teen smoking by imposing