Unit 1 Women of achievement
第一课时教学设计
一、教学内容
人教版新课标高中英语必修4 第一单元（Unit 1 Women of achievement)
第一课时阅读课“非洲野生动物保护者”A PROTECTOR OF AFRICAN WILDLIFE
二、教材分析
本单元的话题是“取得成就的优秀女性”，通过介绍几位不同国度、不同时代、不同职业、不同理想与追求、不同经历的杰出女性，探讨女性对社会、对人类的价值和贡献，展示女性的风采和她们在社会各个领域的成就。学习本单元有助于提高对妇女社会角色的认识，了解成功女性的奋斗经历和勇于斗争的精神，培养学生（尤其是女生）的事业心和社会责任感，建立正确的性别观和自信心。本课时是本单元的第一课时,内容包括热身(Warming up),读前（Pre-reading)，阅读(Reading)和理解(Comprehending) 四个部分。其中阅读部分以“非洲野生动物保护者”为题，分别从研究工作的内容、困难和取得的成就等方面介绍了Jane Goodall在非洲原始森林中工作的情况，赞扬了她为保护野生动物所做出的贡献。此部分提供了本单元的主要阅读语篇，载有本单元话题“取得成就的女性”的重要信息，且呈现了本单元的大部分的词汇和主要语法结构。
三、学情分析
１．学生个性和英语水平差异大，教学设计要有梯度，由浅入深，注意层次性。教师要抓住学生的心理，激发学生的学习兴趣，让他们在学习中学会参与，在参与中学会学习。
２．根据学生的心理特征，采用视、听、说的教学方法，从感性认识入手，逐渐上升到理性认识，培养学生运用英语进行表达的能力。
四、教学目标设计
1. 知识目标：
①学生通过阅读Jane Goodall与她的同事们在非洲原始森林观察黑猩猩的一个片
断，了解她在动物保护方面所付出的艰辛和所取得的成就。
②使学生了解黑猩猩的生活习性以及与人类的相似之处，获取保护野生动物的知识。
2. 能力目标：
①学生学会快速阅读的方法、培养筛选局部和整体信息的能力及独立阅读的能力和
合作学习的能力；训练阅读技巧，同时加强听，说，写等能力训练，提高获取信息和处理信息的能力。
②培养学生的质疑意识，提高学生分析问题和解决问题的能力；充分利用多媒体技
术，培养学生组织语言、运用语言的能力。
3. 情感价值观：
通过本节课的学习, 认识Jane Goodall从事这项工作的重要性，唤起学生理解动物、尊重动物和保护动物的意识。通过学习主人公的“遇到困难不退却、知难而进、独立解决、勇于冒险、探索大自然”等乐观的人生态度，使学生受到鞭策和鼓舞，培养学生（尤其是女学生）的自信心、事业心和社会责任感，建立正确的性别观和社会观。
五. 教学重点、难点
教学重点：阅读能力的培养和阅读技巧的训练，如快速阅读找出主旨大意和精读课文获取有关黑猩猩生活习性和动物行动学博士Jane Goodall研究黑猩猩的过程、付出
的艰辛和取得的成就等信息，培养学生的获取信息、处理信息、分析问题和解决问题的能力。
教学难点：培养学生使用相关语言口头阐明有关动物保护的观点，提出有效的保护措施、合理的建议的能力。
六. 教学方法
1．演示法：相关的图片、视频等显示给学生看，便于学生对微观知识和背景知识的把握，并从旧知识中获得启迪，从而达到解决问题的目的。
2．任务驱动教学法：将所要学习的新知识隐含在一个或几个问题和小组活动之中，学生通过对所提的任务进行分析、讨论，并在老师的指导和帮助下找出解决问题的方法，最后通过任务的完成而实现对所学知识的意义建构。
3．多媒体辅助教学法：把有关黑猩猩和Jane Goodall的文本、图片、声音和视频等信息融合在课件中，可以增加课堂信息量的输入并发挥学生的多种感官的作用，激发学生学习兴趣，提高教学效率。
七、学习方法
《高中英语新课程标准》明确指出：“高中英语课程要有利于学生优化英语学习方法，使他们通过观察、体验、探究等积极主动的学习方法，充分发挥自己的学习潜能，形成有效的学习策略，提高自主学习的能力。”
根据《高中英语新课程标准》要求，结合我班学生英语基础与能力较弱的实际，本课时我把阅读课文作为整体处理的同时，把每个教学环节所设计的问题和任务区分出高低不同的层次，由浅入深，循序渐进，使每个教学环节尽量符合多数学生的认知水平，力争全班绝大多数同学都能积极参与课堂活动。通过“任务型”活动，引导学生自主学习，培养学生“跳读”、“寻读”、“定位”、“推理归纳”等阅读方法；通过描述、讨论和采访等活动，进行合作学习。
八、教学过程设计
将Warming Up部分与Pre-reading, Reading, Comprehending部分放在同一课时教学设计成一节阅读课。
Step 1 Warming-up and Lead-in （热身与导入）
Step 2 Pre-reading (读前活动)
Step 3 Reading for information（信息阅读）
Step 4 Reading for comprehension （深层次阅读）
Step 5 Consolidation （巩固运用）
Step 6 Homework（作业）
具体教学步骤：
Step 1 Warming up and Lead-in
1．学生观看一副邰丽华在《千手观音》中的剧照，教师问：Who is the lady in the front of the team? Have you seen any performance given by her? What is it? Let’s watch the video. Later, I’d like you to talk about her. 教师随后点击图片链接到视频《千手观音》，让学生观看视频。
2、激发学生讨论成功女性的事迹。教师问学生：What do you think of the dance “The Thousand-handed Goddess of Mercy”? Do you think it is easy for these dancers to give such an amazing performance? Why is it difficult?如果学生对这些舞蹈演员的残疾情况不了解，教师则做简要介绍，引导学生讨论：What do you think of Tai Lihua? Is she a woman of achievement? Was it hard for her to learn to dance? Why? Do you know any other women of achievement? 学生讨论后，教师介入：On page one of your textbook, there are some introductions to six women（见下图幻灯片1）and I’d like you to read them quickly, work in pairs and then tell me which of these women you think is
great. Give your reasons for your choice.此时教师巡视班级，并给予阅读有困难的学生必要的帮助。
3．学生讨论并概括有成就的女性的优秀品质。学生浏览完教材Warming Up中六位杰出女性的简介后，教师引导学生讨论并概括有伟大成就的女性的优秀品质。学生概括好后，教师引导学生小结描述有成就的女性的一些形容词（见幻灯片2）。
【设计说明】使学生通过观看舞蹈《千手观音》、讨论著名舞蹈演员邰丽华的事迹和快速阅读教材第一页六位女伟人的简介，讨论概括出“有成就的女性所有的优秀品质”，提高学生对女性的社会角色的正确认识，培养学生勇于战胜学习和生活中的困难的自信心。
Step2 Pre-reading
课件展示幻灯片3，再次让学生学习Jane Goodall的简介文本信息，通过教师设问过渡到观看第2个视频，使学生从视频资源中获取
有关Jane Goodall的研究活动和有关黑猩猩的信息，进入课文预读。在播放视频前教师设问：Do you know anything about the life of chimps? Will you go to the forests to study it instead of going to university?
【设计说明】使学生通过再次学习Jane Goodall的简介和观看她在非洲森林里研究黑猩猩的视频的活动，培养学生从文本资源和视听资源获取有关信息的能力，并为进入课文阅读输入相关的背景知识。
Step3 Reading for information
1. Skimming for the main idea. (略读)
略读就是以尽可能快的速度进行阅读。让学生快速浏览文章，回答以下3个问题：
1 ) Who is the protector?
2 ) What animals’ life was she studying?
3) Where was she studying it, in the forest, or in a university?
2. Scanning for details (寻读)
在学生细读完阅读材料后，让学生寻找有关Jane Goodall和她研究黑猩猩所发现的细节内容。此教学过程通过学生个体细读后，采用小组合作、学生互问互答的方式填满两个表格。
【设计说明】通过略读学生初步掌握文章整体后，学生再进行寻读，捕捉具体信息细节，加深对文章的理解。寻读是快速阅读的另外一种方式，它要求教师设计好需要查找的信息和具体的事实。利用小组互问互答的方式培养学生的获取信息、发现问题、分析问题、解决问题、用英语交流和与人合作的能力。
Step 4 Reading for comprehension
本过程主要采用回答问题的形式，让学生带着问题去浏览文本信息，从阅读文本材料中迅速找到这些特定的信息和具体的事实。在这教学环节中，本人设计了6个问题（详见左幻灯片图示）。
【设计说明】阅读理解能力的素质主要体现在两个方面:一是快速阅读,二是准确理解。两者缺一不可。因此，在此过程中，教师设计一些帮助学生深刻把握课文要旨（message）的问题。
Step 5 Consolidation
在这个教学环节中，本人设计了讨论、采访和辩论一共3个任务活动。
活动1：深化阅读的2个问题的讨论。
1)What problems might she have while working in the forest?
2)What do you think of her? Give examples to support what you think.
活动2：学生扮演Jane Goodall展开面对面的访谈。课件显示下列关键词：
born in London in 1934
study chimps at Gombe, East Africa
get help from mother, teammates...
study by observing, recording
have a hard life for many years
understand, respect, discover…, achieve…
活动3：利用所学课文信息内容的辩论活动。
教师把学生分成男女生两组围绕Women are able to do more than men.和Women aren’t able to do more than men.展开辩论。此过程是教材内容的升华，预计为课堂的高潮部分。
【设计说明】学生通过阅读获得了信息的输入，而运用所输入的信息来完成某项有实际意义的任务是巩固其阅读效果，内化其学习内容，进行德育渗透，学生通过讨论、采访和辩论，进一步理解Jane Goodall的工作重要性及其优秀的品质，唤起同学们理解动物、尊重动物和保护动物的意识，进而增强学生们，尤其是女学生们克服学习和生活上面对困难的勇气和信心,以鼓励和激发他们的创造性。
课堂讨论和复述课文是训练学生运用所输入的信息进行信息加工和信息输出的一个重要环节，采用讨论、辩论、采访等小组合作学习的方法对学生进行复述课文和延伸课文的训练，既能帮助学生深入理解课文，掌握课文的要点，又能提高学生的口头表达能力和合作能力，同时为提高学生英语书写的能力打下基础。
Step 6 Homework
Watch a video and write a letter to those parents who prefer boys to treat girls equally by telling them some stories of some women of achievement.
【设计说明】由于中国传统观念的影响，有一部分世代居住在农村的父母有抛弃或虐待女婴的现象，要求学生看完视频新闻报道后，写一封信给这些不喜欢女孩的家长，劝说他们公平对待女孩，信中要有成功女性的事例描述，使家长们看了这些成功女性的事迹改变他们的落后的观念，公平地对待女孩。
九、教学反思
反思之一：抓住时机渗透德育
随着国际互联网的普及，人类彼此间的交往越来越方便，越来越频繁。不同的国家、不同的民族之间的文化交流、科技交流和信息交流已成为人类生活的一个重要方面。外语学习、外语教学特别是英语教学越来越受到人们的普遍重视。语言既是思想和文化的载体，同时又有思想模具的作用。从这个意义上说，英语教学要使学生多一双看世界的眼睛、多一对听天下事的耳朵和多一条与外国人交流的舌头，更重要的是要培养学生的事业心和社会责任感，建立正确的性别观和自信心，使学生拥有正确的人生观、世界观和价值观。
在当前人们津津乐道于素质教育的话题时，我们更应当看到，英语教学对学生世界观、人生观的形成必然产生重大影响。通过本课人物Jane Goodall对黑猩猩的研究工作片断的学习,如果能在教学过程中抓住一切时机对人物进行分析,挖掘人物个性特点,以及促使她成功的因素,将有助于提高学生透过现象看本质的能力，此教学步骤中的第
五步巩固性课堂活动和第六步课外作业两个环节就是为了渗透思想教育而设计的，如果在这两个教学环节中教师能适时地介入给予引导，思想教育就可滋润学生的心田。
反思之二：转变观念提高实效
在新课程教学实施过程中，不少的教师为了学生的考试成绩，出现穿新鞋走老路的现象，课堂上知识点讲授、机械性的应试训练仍然占据大量时间，学生互动学习时间相对较少，学生能力的培养还未得到重视。社会快速地发展，我们要更新教育观念、不断改进教学方法、提高教学能力与外语水平才能跟上社会发展的需要，要加强对外语教育教学理论的学习和研究；摈弃“以传授知识为本、注重讲解传授”的封闭型传统的教学模式。教学中我们要重视教学情景的创设，用贴进学生生活的语言取代枯燥乏味的机械重复。在本课的细节寻读环节，本人利用教材资源创设交互情境，让学生以互问互答的方式进行，就改变了教师问学生答的单调的交互模式。总之，教师要做好自己的角色定位，引导学生合作学习、快乐学习，注重学生的主动发展、学习兴趣和个性的培养；在教学评价上重视学生各方面的差异性，使学生的积极性得到发挥，只有这样英语教学才能满足社会的需要。
反思之三：不可忽视“情感因素”
英语教师应将教学注重点转移到学生的性格、兴趣、情绪等方面的培养和控制。事实证明，认为自己“民主、开放、平静、友好、体贴、乐于助人、聪明、富于逻辑性和快乐”的人，一般来说，其学习英语成功的可能性要大于与上述性格相反或相差极大的学习者。另外，在英语学习过程中，由于外界因素的影响，学习者会出现焦虑沮丧烦躁不安等情况，英语教师作为教学活动的组织者，应注意对英语学习者情感因素的培养和控制。
学习者对学习材料是否有兴趣、对教学活动的组织形式是否有兴趣，这些都会影响学习者的情绪和学习效果，由于学生对Warming Up中的宋庆龄比较熟悉，谈论时话语较多，学习兴趣相对较浓厚，而对其余的几位女性在头脑中缺少原有的图式，很难达到新知建构前的热身作用，这就需要教师灵活处理教材，采用学生所熟悉的成功女性的实例来激发兴趣提高参与率。除了邰丽华成功的事例之外，如果用任长霞、居里夫人等学生喜闻乐见的成功女性的事例来使学生课前热身效果会理想一些。
课后反思
在Step 1中通过观看能复习所学句型，既能抓住学生的兴奋点，又使学生对上节课有一个清晰的回顾，为下一个教学环节作好铺垫。在Step 2的教学中教师从已学的单词和句型入手，激活学生已有的知识，并在此基础上生成新的知识，教给学生生词，然后，让学生利用图片，利用句型进行操练，充分体现了师生都是课程资源的开发者的课程理念，最后，让学生看图、识图、听音、小组合作，归纳整理所学的水果和蔬菜的单词，多角度培养学生的英语听说读写的能力，并通过小组讨论合作的方式培养学生合作探究、收集和整理信息的能力。在Step 3教学中，有一般疑问句转向陈述句的教学，是让学生在已有的句型基础上先听说、再模仿，然后固化，自然习得新的句型，体现了学习过程是学生自我建构、自我生成，知识由内而外的生长，而不是由外而内灌输的教学理念。在Step 4 中，利用句型互相交流信息，谈论自己或别人的饮食爱好和习惯，发言者、倾听者、记录者转述者四种角色不断更换，所出示的多媒体课件，让学生看图说话，利用常识，判断饮食，然后虚拟野炊情景，让小组讨论并制定出合理的食品购物单，小组上台展示本组购物单，这一环节的安排，既要学生灵活运用所学知识进行自由表达，达到学以致用的目的，又要学生在小组交流中正确审视自我和他人的饮食习惯，从而学会自我认识、自我反馈的积极的生活态度，其中小组讨论的购物单的设计，具有一定的开放性和挑战性，有机地渗透了生物、体育等学科知识，同时，又培养了学生友好相处、关心他人、为他人着想的意识。教师的热情的鼓励和赞扬拉近了师生关系，与学生建立了民主、平等、和谐的师生关系，促使课堂教学收到良好的效果。在Step 5中根据所学的词汇和句型，要求学生课后写出自己的饮食好恶，使课堂教学延伸到课外。
人教版高中英语必修四课文翻译 第一单元：非洲野生动物研究者 清晨5点45分，太阳刚从东非的贡贝国家公园的上空升起，我们一行人准备按照简研究黑猩猩的方法去森林里拜访它们。简研究这些黑猩猩家族已经很多年了，她帮助人们了解黑猩猩跟人类的行为是多么的相似。我们当天的首项任务就是观察黑猩猩一家是如何醒来的。这意味着我们要返回前一天晚上我们离开黑猩猩一家睡觉的大树旁。大家坐在树荫下等待着，这时候猩猩们睡醒了，准备离开。然后这群黑猩猩向森林深处漫步而去，我们尾随其后。在大部分时间里，黑猩猩或相互喂食，或彼此擦身，这在它们的家庭里是表示爱的方式。简预先提醒我们，到下午的时候我们就会又脏又累。她说对了。不过到傍晚时分我们觉得这一切都是值得的。我们看到黑猩猩妈妈跟她的幼子们在树上玩耍，后来看见它们晚上一切回窝里睡觉了。我明白了猩猩家庭成员之间的联系像人类家庭一样紧密。 在简之前没有人完全了解黑猩猩的行为。她花了多年的时间来观察并记录黑猩猩的日常生活。从孩提时代起，简就想在动物生活的环境中研究它们。但是，这不是一件简单的事。当她1960年最初来到贡贝时，对女性来说，住进大森林还是很稀罕的事情。她母亲头几个月来帮过她的忙，这才使她得以开始自己的计划。她的工作改变了人们对黑猩猩的看法。比方说，她的一个重要发现是黑猩猩猎食动物。而在此之前，人们一直认为黑猩猩只吃水果和坚果。她曾经亲眼看到过一群黑猩猩捕杀一只猴子，然后把它吃掉。她还发现了黑猩猩之间是如何交流的，而她对黑猩猩肢体语言的研究帮助她勾勒出黑猩猩的社会体系。 40年来，简古道尔一直在呼吁世人了解并尊重这些动物的生活。她主张应该让野生动物留在野外生活，而不能用于娱乐或广告。她还为黑猩猩建起了可以安全生活的保护区。她的生活是忙忙碌碌的，然而，正如她所说的：“我一旦停下来，所有的一切都会涌上心头。我就会想起实验室的黑猩猩，太可怕了。每当我看着野生黑猩猩时，这个念头总是萦绕着我。我会对自己说：‘难道它们不幸运吗？’然后我就想起那些没有任何过错却被关在笼子里的小黑猩猩。一旦你看到这些，你就永远不会忘记……” 简已经得到了她想要得到的一切：在动物的栖息地工作；获得博士学位；还向世人证明女人和男人一样也能在森林里生活。她激励着人们为妇女们的成就而欢呼喝彩。
必修4 Unit 1 A STUDENT OF AFRICAN WILDLIFE It is 5:45 am and the sun is just rising over Gombe National Park in East Afri ca. Following Jane's way of studying chimps, our group are all going to visit them in the forest. Jane has studied these families of chimps for many years and helped people understand how much they behave like humans. Watching a family of chi mps wake up is our first activity of the day. This means going back to the place where we left the family sleeping in a tree the night before. Everybody sits and wa its in the shade of the trees while the family begins to wake up and move off. Th en we follow as they wander into the forest. Most of the time, chimps either feed or clean each other as a way of showing love in their family. Jane warns us that our group is going to be very tired and dirty by the afternoon and she is right. Ho wever, the evening makes it all worthwhile. We watch the mother chimp and her b abies play in the tree. Then we see them go to sleep together in their nest for the night. We realize that the bond between members of a chimp family is as strong as in a human family. Nobody before Jane fully understood chimp behaviour. She spent years observi ng and recording their daily activities. Since her childhood she had wanted to work with animals in their own environment. However, this was not easy. When she firs t arrived in Gombe in 1960, it was unusual for a woman to live in the forest. Only after her mother came to help her for the first few months was she allowed to be gin her project. Her work changed the way people think about chimps. For exampl e, one important thing she discovered was that chimps hunt and eat meat. Until th en everyone had thought chimps ate only fruit and nuts. She actually observed chi mps as a group hunting a monkey and then eating it. She also discovered how ch
高中英语黄金阅读(高一版) 习俗类 (1) In the US, people prefer waiting for a table to sitting with people they don’t know. This means a hostess may not seat a small group until a small table is available, even if a large one is. If you are sitting at a table with people you don’t know, it is impolite to light up a cigarette without asking if it will disturb them. At American restaurants and coffee shops you are usually served tap water before you order. You may find the bread and butter is free, and if you order coffee, you may get a free refill. Most cities and towns have no rules about opening and closing time for stores or restaurants, though they usually do make rules for bars. Especially in large cities, stores may be open 24 hours a day. Serving in restaurants is often large; too large for many people. If you can’t finish your meal but would like to enjoy the food later, ask your waitress or waiter for a “doggie bag”. It may have a picture of a dog on it, but everybody knows you’re taking the food for yourself. Supper and dinner are both words for the evening meal. Some people have “Sunday dinner”. This is an especially big noon meal. Tips are not usually added to the check. They are not included in the price of the meal, either. A tip of about 15% is expected and you should leave it on the table when you leave. In some restaurants, a check is brought on a plate and you put your money there. Then the waiter or waitress brings you your change. 1. Which statement is true? A. American people like sitting with people they don’t know. B. A hostess always seats a small group at a large table. C. American people never sit with people they don’t know. D. American people would not light a cigarette if the people who sit at the same table mind their smoking. 2. What is served before you order? A. bread B. butter C. coffee D. cold water 3. What do American people always do when servings are too large for them? A. They take the food home with a doggie bag for their dogs. B. They leave the food on the table and go away. C. They take the food home with a doggie bag and enjoy the food later. D. They ask the waitress or waiter to keep the food for them. 4. Sunday dinner is_______. A. a dinner in the evening B. A big noon meal C. a big lunch on Sunday D. A supper on Sunday 【答案解析】本文介绍了美国人在外就餐时的风俗习惯。 1. D。细节题。根据第一段及关键句…it is impolite to light up a cigarette without asking if it will disturb them 可知 A、B、C 与原文不相符，同时关键句告诉我们“未
Unit 1 Women of achievement Reading A STUDENT OF AFRICAN WILDLIFE It is 5:45 am and the sun is just rising over Gombe National Park in East Africa. Following Jane's way of studying chimps, our group are all going to visit them in the forest. Jane has studied these families of chimps for many years and helped people understand how much they behave like humans. Watching a family of chimps wake up is our first activity of the day. This means going back to the place where we left the family sleeping in a tree the night before. Everybody sits and waits in the shade of the trees while the family beings to wake up and move off. Then we follow as they wander into the forest. Most of the time, chimps either feed or clean each other as a way of showing love in their family. Jane warns us that our group is going to be very tired and dirty by the afternoon and she is right. However, the evening makes it all worthwhile. We watch the mother chimp and her babies play in the tree. Them we see them go to sleep together in their nest for the night. We realize that the bond between members of a chimp family is as long as in a human family. Nobody before Jane fully understood chimp behaviour. She spent years observing and recording their daily activities. Since her childhood she had wanted to work with animals in their own environment. However, this was not easy. When she first arrived in Gombe in 1960, it was unusual for a woman to live in the forest. Only after her mother came to help her for the first few months was she allowed to begin her project. Her work changed the way people think about chimps. For example, one important thing she discovered was that chimps hunt and eat meat. Until then everyone had thought chimps ate only fruit and nuts. She actually observed chimps as a group hunting a monkey and then eating it. She also discovered how chimps communicate with each other, and her study of their body language helped her work out their social system. Four forty years Jane Goodall has been outspoken about making the rest of the world understand and respect the life of these animals. She has argued that wild animals should be left in the wild and not used for entertainment or advertisements. She has helped to set up special places where they can live safely. She is leading a busy life but she says: “Once I stop, it all comes crowding in and I remember the chimps in laboratories. It's terrible. It affects me when I watch the wild chimps. I say to myself, ‘Aren't they luck?' And then I think about small chimps in cages though they have done nothing wrong. Once you have seen that you can never forget…” She has achieved everything she wanted to do: working with animals in their own environment, gaining a doctor's degree and showing that women can live in the forest as men can. She inspires those who want to cheer the achievement of women. Using language WHY NOT CARRY ON HER GOOD WORD? I enjoyed English, biology, and chemistry at school, but which one should I choose to study at university? I did not know the answer until one evening when I sat down at the
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Module 1 Reading The City of the Future What will the city of the future look like No one knows for sure, and making predictions is a risky business. But one thing is certain— they are going to get bigger before they get smaller. In the future, care for the environment will become very important as earth's natural resources run out. We will use lots of recycled materials, such as plastic, aluminium, steel, glass, wood and paper, and we will waste fewer natural resources. We will also have to rely more on alternative energy, such as solar and wind power. All this seems certain, but there are plenty of things about city life in the future which are not certain. To find out what young people think about the future of urban life, a teacher at a university in Texas in the United States asked his students to think how they would run a city of 50,000 people in the year 2025. Here are some of the ideas they had: Garbage ships To get rid of garbage problems, the city will load huge spaceships with waste materials and send them towards the sun, preventing landfill and environmental problems. Batman Nets Police will arrest criminals by firing nets instead of guns.
Unit 1 Lifestyles Warm-up Tapescript 1 Football player: Being famous isn’t easy, you know. I travel a lot – I have matches in different countries. But my job is exciting, very exciting! I love the matches, the people cheering, know what I mean? 2 Student: My dad says these are the best days of my life –but I’m not so sure! You know, I’ve got lots of work to do and there’s not much time really. I also play football for the school team and we have to do training three nights a week. 3 Shepherd: I love th e animals and I love nature. It’s peaceful, and there’s no one to tell me what to do. But it’s not so good when the weather’s bad! 4 Business manager: I’m very busy, and I don’t have time to see my husband and children. Mmmm and my life is very stressful, I suppose. I mean, I have to deal with lots of money. But I find it really exciting. 1 A Perfect Day? A Couch Potato Forty-three-year-old Brian Blakey from Birmingham is sitting on his sofa and telling me about his perfect day. When I wake up I don't get up immediately. I turn on the television and watch the children's programmes and old movies until about half-past ten. Then I get up, go downstairs and switch on the TV in the living room. For lunch, I have biscuits and a glass of milk, and I watch the news. In the afternoon, I often watch another old film – they're showing some good ones at the moment. In the evenings, I often watch TV series or sport and the news again. I like the main news at six o'clock. At nine thirty, if there is a good play on BBC 2, I switch over and watch it. Then at night, I watch more films and I usually switch off the TV at about two o'clock. I never watch TV all night. I watch TV for sixteen or seventeen hours a day. I also do some exercise every day. I take Tina, the dog, for a walk every afternoon. I don't go far, of course. I walk to the wall outside my house. I always take my portable TV and I sit on the stone wall while the dog walks round in a circle. Of course, I couldn't live this lifestyle without a good wife. She's not here now because she's working, but she always makes my meals. We haven't got much money, you know, but we're happy. Sit down and watch TV. Here's the remote control. You've got the world at your feet. And in your hand. Great! A Workaholic Thirty-six-year-old Bob Black is sitting at his desk and working his way through his paperwork. I normally wake up about five minutes before my alarm clock goes off. As soon as I hear my alarm clock, I jump out of my bed. It takes me less than fifteen minutes to wash, get changed, have breakfast, leave home and get on a bus. I am always the first person to get to the office. The mornings are always very busy and the afternoons are even busier! Meetings and phone calls take up a large part of the day. Every minute
Unit 1 achievement n. 成就；功绩 △Joan of Arc 圣女贞德 △Elizabeth Fry 伊丽莎白.弗赖伊 （英国慈善家） △Quaker n. 教友派信徒；贵格会会员welfare n. 福利；福利事业 project n. 项目；工程；规划 institute n. 学会；学院；协会 △China Welfare Institute 中国福利基金会specialist n. 专家；专业工作者specialize vi. 专攻；专门从事；专注于 △Jane Goodall 简.古道尔(英国动物学家) △chimp n. （非洲）黑猩猩 connection n. 连接；关系 human being 人类 △Jody Williams 乔迪.威廉斯 （美国诺贝尔和平奖得者）campaign n. 运动；战役 vi. 作战；参加运动 △landmine n. 地雷 organization n. 组织；机构；团体 △Gombe National Park 贡贝国家公园behave vt. & vi. 举动；（举止或行为）表现behaviour (=behavior) 行为；举止；习性shade n. 荫；阴凉处 vt. 遮住光线 move off 离开；起程；出发 worthwhile adj. 值得的；值得做的 nest n. 巢；窝 bond n. 联系；关系；结合；纽带observe vt. 观察；观测；遵守observation n. 观察；观测 childhood n. 童年；幼年时代 outspoken adj. 直言的；坦诚 respect vt. & n. 尊敬；尊重；敬意 argue vt. & vi. 讨论；辩论；争论 argument n. 争论；争辩；争吵 entertainment n. 款待；娱乐；娱乐表演 lead a … life 过着……的生活 crowd n. 人群；观众 vt. 挤满；使拥挤 crowd in （想法、问题等）涌上心头； 涌入脑海 inspire vt. 鼓舞；激发；启示 inspiration n. 灵感；鼓舞 support n. & vt. 支持；拥护 look down upon/on 蔑视；瞧不起 refer vi. 谈到；查阅；参考 refer to查阅；参考；谈到 audience n. 观众；听众；读者 by chance碰巧；凑巧 come across （偶然）遇见；碰见 △career n. 事业；生涯 rate n. 比率；速度 sickness n. 疾病；恶心 intend vt. 计划；打算 emergency n. 突发事件；紧急情况 generation n. 一代；一辈 △determination n. 决心；果断 kindness n. 仁慈；好意 considerate adj. 考虑周到的 consideration n. 考虑；体谅 deliver vt. 递送；生（小孩儿）；接生； 发表（演说等） carry on 继续；坚持 modest adj. 谦虚的；谦让的；适度的Unit 2 statistic n. （常用pl statistics）数据；统计； 统计数字；统计资料 sunburnt adj. 晒黑的 struggle vt. & vi. 斗争；拼搏；努力decade n. 十年；十年期 super adj. 特级的；超级的 △hybrid adj. 混合的；杂种的 n. 杂交种；混血儿output n. 产量；输出 △strain n.（植物的）品种；种类 crop n. 庄稼；农作物；产量 hunger n. 饥饿；欲望 vt. & vi. （使）饥饿 disturbing adj. 引起烦恼的；令人不安的expand vt. & vi. 使变大；伸展circulate vt. & vi. 循环；流传
必修4 Unit 1 A STUDENT OF AFRICAN WILDLIFE It is 5:45 am and the sun is just rising over Gombe National Park in East Africa. Following Jane's way of studying chimps, our group are all going to visit them in the forest. Jane has studied these families of chimps for many years and helped people understand how much they behave like humans. Watching a family of chimps wake up is our first activity of the day. This means going back to the place where we left the family sleeping in a tree the night before. Everybody sits and waits in the shade of the trees while the family begins to wake up and move off. Then we follow as they wander into the forest. Most of the time, chimps either feed or clean each other as a way of showing love in their family. Jane warns us that our group is going to be very tired and dirty by the afternoon and she is right. However, the evening makes it all worthwhile. We watch the mother chimp and her babies play in the tree. Then we see them go to sleep together in their nest for the night. We realize that the bond between members of a chimp family is as strong as in a human family. Nobody before Jane fully understood chimp behaviour. She spent years observing and recording their daily activities. Since her childhood she had wanted to work with animals in their own environment. However, this was not easy. When she first arrived in Gombe in 1960, it was unusual for a woman to live in the forest. Only after her mother came to help her for the first few months was she allowed to begin her project. Her work changed the way people think about chimps. For example, one important thing she discovered was that chimps hunt and eat meat. Until then everyone had thought chimps ate only fruit and nuts. She actually observed chimps as a group hunting a monkey and then eating it. She also discovered how chimps communicate with each other, and her study of their body language helped her work out their social system. For forty years Jane Goodall has been outspoken about making the rest of the world understand and respect the life of these animals. She has argued that wild animals should be left in the wild and not used for entertainment or advertisements. She has helped to set up special places where they can live safely. She is leading a busy life but she says: "Once I stop, it all comes crowding in and I remember the chimps in laboratories. It's terrible. It affects me when I watch the wild chimps. I say to myself, 'Aren't they lucky?" And then I think about small chimps in cages
必修1第一单元Reading 阅读 ANNE’S BEST FRIEND Do you want a friend whom you could tell everything to, like your deepest feelings and thoughts? Or are you afraid that your friend would laugh at you, or would not understand what you are going through? Anne Frank wanted the first kind, so she made her diary her best friend. Anne lived in Amsterdam in the Netherlands during World War II. Her family was Jewish so the had to hide or they would be caught by the German Nazis. She and her family hide away for two years before they were discovered. During that time the only true friend was her diary. She said, “I don’t want to set down a series of facts in a diary as most people do, but I want this diary itself to be my friend, and I shall call my friend Kitty.” Now r ead how she felt after being in the hiding place since July 1942. Thursday 15, June, 1944 Dear kitty, I wonder if it’s because I haven’t been able to be outdoors for so long that I’ve grown so crazy about everything to do with nature. I can well remember that there was a time when a deep blue sky, the song of the birds, moonlight and flowers could never have kept me spellbound. That’s changed since I was here.…For example, when it was so warm, I stayed awake on purpose until half past eleven one evening in order to have a good look at the moon for once by myself. But as the moon gave far too much light, I didn’t dare open a window. Another time some months ago, I happened to be upstairs one evening when the window was open. I didn’t go downstairs until the window had to be shut. The dark, rainy evening, the wind, the thundering clouds held me entirely in their power; it was the first time in a year and a half that I’d seen the night face to face… …Sadly…I am only able to look at nature through dirty curtains hanging before very dusty windows. It’s no pleasure looking through these any longer because nature is one thing that really must be experienced. Yours, Anne Using Language 语言运用 Reading and listening 读与听 1 Read the letter that Lisa wrote to Miss Wang of Radio for Teenagers and predict what Miss Wang will say. After listening, check and discuss her advice. Dear Miss Wang, I am having some trouble with my classmates at the moment. I’m getting along well with a boy in my class. We often do homework together and we enjoy helping each other. We have become really good friends. But other students have started gossiping. They say that this boy and I have fallen in love. This has made me angry. I don’t want to end the friendship, but I hate other s gossiping. What should I do? Yours, Lisa Reading and writing 读与写 Miss Wang has received a letter from Xiaodong. He is also asking for some advice. Read the letter on the right carefully and help Miss Wang answer it.