Listening comprehension
You are welcome for the reading comprehension online lectures, and I hope you get full benefit of them as well as our lectures in the classroom. Each lesson consists of a passage taken from your textbook, explanation of the meanings of a number of words as they are used in the passage, answering comprehension questions about the passage and linking the answers later on into a précis.
A noble gangster
There was a time when the owners of shops and businesses in Chicago had to pay large sums of money to gangsters in return for protection . If the money was not paid promptly, the gangsters would quickly put a man out of business by destroying his shop. Obtaining protection money is not a modern crime. As long ago as the fourteenth century, an Englishman, Sir John Hawkwood, made the remarkable discovery that people would rather pay large sums of money than have their life work destroyed by gangsters.
المادة المعروضة اعلاه هي مدخل الى المحاضرة المرفوعة بواسطة استاذ(ة) المادة . وقد تبدو لك غير متكاملة . حيث يضع استاذ المادة في بعض الاحيان فقط الجزء الاول من المحاضرة من اجل الاطلاع على ما ستقوم بتحميله لاحقا . في نظام التعليم الالكتروني نوفر هذه الخدمة لكي نبقيك على اطلاع حول محتوى الملف الذي ستقوم بتحميله .
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