Obama英語簡介學(xué)習(xí)課程

1、Barack Hussein Obama was born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961第1頁/共27頁第一頁，編輯于星期六：十點 五十分。His parents met while attending the University of Hawaii, where his father was enrolled as a foreign student. His mother was from heartland-of-the-U.S. Kansas, and his father from Kenya.第2頁/共27頁第二頁，編輯于星期六：十點 五十分。His c

2、hildhood in Hawaii第3頁/共27頁第三頁，編輯于星期六：十點 五十分。elementary school of Indonesia第4頁/共27頁第四頁，編輯于星期六：十點 五十分。Baracks parents eventually divorced, and after his mother remarried, he lived in Indonesia for a time before returning to Hawaii to live with his grandparents.第5頁/共27頁第五頁，編輯于星期六：十點 五十分。He became a mem

3、ber of basketball term when he studying in the middle school of Honolulu.第6頁/共27頁第六頁，編輯于星期六：十點 五十分。 In 1979，he graduated from the middle school。第7頁/共27頁第七頁，編輯于星期六：十點 五十分。He later moved to New York, where he graduated from Columbia University in 1983.第8頁/共27頁第八頁，編輯于星期六：十點 五十分。第9頁/共27頁第九頁，編輯于星期六：十點 五十

4、分。Obama graduated with a B.A. from Columbia in 1983, then at the start of the following year worked for a year at the Business International Corporation and then at the New York Public Interest Research Group. After four years in New York City, Obama moved to Chicago, where he was hired as director

5、of the Developing Communities Project and worked there for three years from June 1985 to May 1988.第10頁/共27頁第十頁，編輯于星期六：十點 五十分。Obama entered Harvard Law School in late 1988. At the end of his first year, he was selected, based on his grades and a writing competition, as an editor of the Harvard Law Re

6、view.After graduating with a Juris Doctor (法學(xué)博士) magna cum laude（“極優(yōu)等”，拉丁文的學(xué)位榮譽） from Harvard in 1991, he returned to Chicago.第11頁/共27頁第十一頁，編輯于星期六：十點 五十分。He then returned to Chicago to practice as a civil rights lawyer and teach constitutional law第12頁/共27頁第十二頁，編輯于星期六：十點 五十分。Obama was elected to the

7、Illinois Senate（伊利諾斯州參議員） in 1996, In January 2003, Obama became chairman of the Illinois Senates Health and Human Services Committee. He resigned from the Illinois Senate in November 2004 following his election to the US Senate.第13頁/共27頁第十三頁，編輯于星期六：十點 五十分。In 2004, well into his U.S. Senate campaign

8、, Barack wrote and delivered the keynote address（政治性集會中的政策演講） at the 2004 Democratic National Convention（民主黨代表大會） in Boston, and became a rising star in U.S. politics.第14頁/共27頁第十四頁，編輯于星期六：十點 五十分。A few months later, he was elected to the U.S. Senate with a landslide 70% of the vote. Four months into

9、his senate career, Time magazine named him one of the worlds most influential people, calling him one of the most admired politicians in America. Barack formally announced his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election in Springfield, Illinois on February 10, 2007.第15頁/共27頁第十五頁，編輯于星期六：十點 五十分。第16頁/

10、共27頁第十六頁，編輯于星期六：十點 五十分。第17頁/共27頁第十七頁，編輯于星期六：十點 五十分。The main point of his speech is change. He says：“ 1、We are the change we are seeking.2、We are the ones we have been waiting for.3、The world has changed, and we must change with it.”第18頁/共27頁第十八頁，編輯于星期六：十點 五十分。His speech touched a lot of people第19頁/共

11、27頁第十九頁，編輯于星期六：十點 五十分。After the longest time-consuming presidential campaign in U.S. history ，he won the election and took the oath of office (宣誓就職)at January 20, 2009第20頁/共27頁第二十頁，編輯于星期六：十點 五十分。Barack is not only an excellent lecturer, but also an accomplished author. Dreams from My Father, is a memoir of his youth and early career. The first, The Audacity(大膽的) of Hope, was published in October 2006,had remained at or near the top of the New York Times Best Seller list since its publication.第21頁/共27頁第二十一頁，編輯于星期六：十點