Unit 5, Book 2

Unit 5 Overcoming ObstaclesI. Teaching ObjectivesStudents will be able to:1.grasp the main idea (dreaming and hard work helped Michael Stone on his way to success)andthe structure of the text(narration with a flashback);2.appreciate the narrative skills (using details to bring out a character; a surprising ending; use of3.master the key language points and grammatical structures in the text;4.conduct a series of reading, listening, speeding and writing activities related to the theme of the unit.II. Key Points:The structure, the writing skill, and the main idea of the text will be the focus. Only a few words and sentences, which will be the obstacles for students’ understanding of the text, will be explained in class.III. Difficult Points:Some sentences whose meanings are difficult to understand and whose structures are hard to analyze:1. Line 21-23(Para.4): Where he flew would always coincide with his mother’s stories. Where he flew was with a keen eye for detail and the free spirit of his mo ther’s love.2. Line 53-54（Para. 9）: The runway felt different this time. It startled him for a brief moment. Then it all hit him like a wet bale of hay.IV. Teaching Materials: Power point and materialsV. Teaching Methods: Lecturing, practicing and discussing.VI. Teaching Timing: 8 sessions of classVII. Teaching Process:1st -2nd periods:Pre-reading; Teacher’s Introductory Remarks and Students’ Discussion related to the topic.3rd -4th periods: While-Reading (Understanding the title of text A; Analyzing the organization of the text; Explaining Difficult sentences and language points in the text; Summing up the main idea of the text)5th-6th periods: Dealing with the exercises after Text A. Check on Ss’ home reading (Text B); Post-Reading Task: Theme-Related Language Learning Tasks7th-8th periods: Listening and speaking tasks.A. Pre-reading tasks1.T asks SS the following questions on the song Coming out Dark:(5minutes)Consider the title of the song, what does "Dark" refer to?(near death ;loss of consciousness after the car accident; slow and painful recovery; despair)How is the song related to the theme of he unit?(To get over despair after injury is also a form of overcoming obstacles.)2.Do you know these proverbs??(13minutes)1)T dictates the following Proverbs to SS:Where there's a will, there's a way.(有志者事竟成。

Unit 5 Section A Spend or save — The student's dilemma花钱还是存钱，学生进退维谷1 Do you feel as confused and manipulated as I do with this question, "ShouldI spend or should I save?" I think that the messages we get from our environment seem to defy common sense and contradict each other. The government tells us to spend or we'll never get out of the recession. At the same time, they tell us that unless we save more, our country is in grave danger. Banks offer higher interest rates so we increase savings. Then the same banks send us credit card offers so we can spend more.1 你是不是跟我一样对“我应该花钱还是存钱”这个问题感到困惑，且有被操纵的感觉？我觉得我们从生活的环境里所获得的信息似乎是有违常识、互相矛盾的。

政府告诉我们要花钱，否则我们将永远走不出衰退；与此同时，他们又告诉我们，除非我们节省更多的钱，否则我们的国家会处于严重危险之中。

银行提供较高的利率以增加储蓄。

然后，同样是这些银行又提供信用卡让我们可以花更多的钱。

2 Here's another familiar example: If we don't pay our credit card bill on time, we get demanding, nasty emails from the credit card company saying something like: "Your failure to pay is unacceptable. Pay immediately or you'll be in trouble!" Then, as soon as we pay, we get a follow-up email in a charming tone telling us how valuable a customer we are and encouraging us to resume spending.Which depiction is correct: a failing consumer in trouble or a valued customer? The gap between these two messages is enormous.2 这里还有一个大家熟悉的例子：如果我们不按时支付信用卡账单，我们会收到从信用卡公司发来的类似这样的令人讨厌的催缴账单的电子邮件：不还款是不可接受的。

必修二Unit 5 Music 音乐I．Vocabularyclassical adj.古典的；古典文艺的roll vt. & vi.滚动；（使）摇摆n. 摇晃；卷；卷形物；面包圈rock’n’roll (rock-and-roll)摇滚乐orchestra n. 管选乐队rap n. 说唱乐folk adj. 民间的jazz n. 爵士音乐choral adj.唱诗班的；合唱队的the Monkees n.门基乐队musician n.音乐家dream of 梦见；梦想dream about 梦想pretend vt.假装；假扮to be honest说实在地；实话说attach vt. & vi.系上；缚上；附加attach…to…认为有（重要意义）；附上；连接form vt.(使)组成；形成；构成fame n.名声；名望above all 最重要；首先passer-by n.过路人；行人earn vt.赚；挣得；获得extra adj. 额外的；外面的instrument n.工具；器械；乐器perform vt. & vi.表演；履行；执行performance n.表演；演奏pub n. 酒馆；酒吧in cash 用现金；有现钱studio n.工作室；演播室millionaire n.百万富翁；富翁play jokes on 戏弄actor n. 男演员；行动者relay vi. 依赖；依靠relay on 依赖；依靠broadcast n. vi. vt. 广播；播放humorous adj.幽默的；诙谐的familiar adj.熟悉的；常见的；亲近的be/get familiar with熟悉or so 大约break up 打碎；分裂；解体reunite vt.再统一；再联合；重聚attractive adj.吸引人的；有吸引力的addition n.加；增加；加法in addition 另外；也sort out 分类excitement n. 兴奋；刺激ballad n.歌谣情歌；民谣overnight adv.在晚上；在夜里dip vt. 蘸；浸tadpole n.蝌蚪lily n.百合；百合花confident adj.自信的；确信的brief adj.简短的；简要的n. 摘要；大纲briefly adv.简要地；短暂地devotion n.投入；热爱afterwards adv.然后；后来invitation n.邀请；招待beard n.胡须sensitive adj.敏感的；易受伤害的painful adj.疼苦的；疼痛的II. Reading THE BAND THAT W ASN’T 已逝的乐队Have you ever wanted to be part of a band as a famous singer or musician?译文：你是否曾想过：作为一名著名歌手或是著名音乐家来加入一个乐队？Have you ever dreamed of playing in front of thousands of people at a concert, at which everyone is clapping and appreciating your music?译文：你是否曾想过在音乐会上站在成千上万的观众面前进行演出，人人为你鼓掌，人人欣赏你的音乐？【注释：①dream of⑴梦见eg. 1) I often dreamed of my younger brother soon after I left home.刚离开家时, 我常梦见弟弟。

Unit 5, Book 2Optional Listening 1Mike: …So, we can look forward to warmer temperature. It’ll be a good weekend for the beach. Over to you, Alexa.Alexa: Thank you for that weather report, Mike. And finally, this story just in. … We have a report that a local man, Nick Brown, saw some strange lights. He was driving home at about 10 p.m. He said the lights were bright and they moved across the sky. He stopped at a gas station and talked to a police officer about the lights. The police officer had seen the lights, too.M: Hmmm, … that’s strange story. What happened next?A: Well, Mr. Brown took some pictures, but there was no film in his camera. Finally, he called his wife on his cell phone. But by that time, the lights were gone.M: Well, I know that there is a legend around here about mysterious lights … a lot of local people have seen the lights. It’s starting to seem like those lights really exist.. What do you think, Alexa? A: I don’t believe it. I think it’s some kind of hoax!Optional Listening 2It was raining heavily. I couldn’t see clearly. I drove slowly. Suddenly, I saw a young girl. She was dressed neatly and standing in the middle of the road. I was surprised! Somehow, I stopped the car quickly. “What are you doing?〞I asked. She looked at me strangely but didn’t answer. “Are you OK?〞I asked. “I’m fine,〞she answered. Then she smiled happily and walked away quietly. Nervously, I drove to my hotel and checked in. I told the clerk about the little girl. “Do you know her?〞I asked. “Oh yes,〞he said calmly. “That’s Mary Anne. She died five years ago on that road. It was a car accident during a rainstorm.〞Optional Listening 3A. The Tunguska mysteryIt was early morning, June 30, 1908, in eastern Russia. Suddenly, a terrible explosion rocked the forest in Tunguska. People fell to the ground, and all the trees for 2000 square kilometers were down. People heard the explosion 800 kilometers away, and the fire burned for many weeks.B. What caused this terrible explosion? A century later, scientists are still trying to find theanswer. Here are some possible explanations.1. An asteroid: Asteroids are very large pieces of rock that goes around in space and sometimes hit the planet. They can cause lots of damage. Some of them weigh as much as 100,00 tons. If an asteroid hit the earth, it would cause a huge explosion.2. A comet: Comets are giant balls of gas, ice., and rock with long tails. They travel through space in a regular pattern. Encke’s Comet was near Earth in1908, and it’s possible that a part of it broke off and hit the earth.3. An UFO accident: Some people believe that a spaceship crashed into the ground in Siberia and its engine exploded.4. An extraterrestrials might have wanted to destroy the earth, so they aimed their weapons at Earth and set fire to the forest.5. A scientific experiment: Another idea is that scientists made a mistake during an experiment with electricity. A man named Nikola Tesla tried to build a “supergun〞that used electricity. Maybe it was a test of his gun and it didn’t work correctly.Optional Listening 4Q. Where is Marfa and what exactly is it famous for?A. Marfa is a small town in west Texas in the United States. It’s famous for the “Marfa mystery lights〞Q. What are the mystery lights exactly?A. No one knows for sure. There are many different ideas about that.Q. Can you describe them?A. That’s a difficult question. Different people see different lights. They are not always the same. I can say that they appear after sunset in the sky. They dance mysteriously in air and vanish. Then they suddenly reappear.Q. Some people say they are car headlights. Do you think so?A. No. I don’t. A man first saw the mystery lights over 100 years ago. The man was Robert Ellison and the year was 1883. Of course we didn’t have cars in 1883.Q. What do you think causes the lights?A. There are many theories. The Native Americans thought the lights were stars falling to Earth. Some people think uranium gas causes the lights. Other people suggest that ball lightning does it. Ball lightning is lightning in the shape of circle. It often appears just after a rainstorm.Q What are some of the weirdest ideas about the lights?A. Well, some people call them “ghost lights〞. They think ghosts do it. That’s the strangest idea. Some say they are UFOs. I don’t think so.Q. What do the experts say?A. They can’t figure it out. Some engineers even came from Japan one time. They studied the lights, but couldn’t solve the mystery.Q. Are the local people scared?A. No, actually, they aren’t. They like the lights. And every year in early September there is a big town festival to celebrate the mystery lights.KeysOL1:A.从左至右：4-5-1-2-3 B. Nick Brown, police officer, local peopleOL 2:A. 1. A young girl standing in the middle of the road; 2. Because it was raining heavily3. He stopped the car quickly;4. She said “I’m fine.〞and walked away quietly.5. He said the girl was Mary Anne and was killed in a car accident five years ago.B. heavily; clearly; slowly; neatly; quickly; strangely; happily; quietly; Nervously; calmly;OL3A. 1. A terrible explosion; 2. In eastern Russian; 3. June 30, 1968.B. (first row) 4, 1, 3 (second row) 5, 2C. 1. a part of it broke off 2. lots of damage 3. its engine exploded 4. used electricity 5. set fire to the forestOL 4A. 2. a 3. h 4. d 5. g 6. e 7. b 8. cB. 1. different people see different lights 2. Robert Ellison saw the lights in 1883.3. The Native Americans thought the light were stars failing to the Earth4. A team from Japan studied the lights, but couldn’t solve the mystery.OL 51. solve; 2. it’s very likely; 3. stole; 4. apartment; 5. showing; 6. has an alibi; 7. it isn’t true; 8. walks in; 9. take out; 10. thief.贵州大学法学院法学102班梁江维上传QQ:342113906。

新⼈教版Book2Unit5Music课⽂Unit 5 MusicPart 1 THE BAND THAT WASN’THave you ever wanted to be part of a band as a famous singer or musician? Have you ever dreamed of playing in front of thousands of people at a concert, at which everyone is clap ping and appreciating your music? Do you sing karaoke and pretend you are a famous singer like Song Zuying or Liu Huan? To be honest, a lot of people attach great importance to becoming rich and famous. But just how do people form a band?Many musicians meet and form a band because they like to write and play their own music. They may start as a group of high-school students, for whom practicing their music in someone’s hou se is the first step to fame. Sometimes they may play to passers-by in the street or subway so that they can earn some extra money for themselves or to pay for their instrument s. Later they may give performance s in pub s or clubs, for which they are paid in cash. Of course they hope to make record s in a studio and sell millions of copies to become millionaires!However, there was one band that started in a different way. It was called the Monkees and began as a TV show. The musicians were to play joke s on each other as well as play music, most of which was based loosely on the Beatles. The TV organizer s had planned to find four musicians who could act as well as sing. They put an advertisement in a newspaper looking for rock musicians, but they could only find one who was good enough. They had to use actors for the other three members of the band.As some of these actors could not sing well enough, they had to rely on other musicians to help them. So during the broadcast s they just pretend ed to sing. Anyhow their performance s were humorous enough to be copied by other groups. They were so popular that their fans formed club s in order to get more familiar with them. Each week on TV, the Monkees would play and sing songs written by other musicians. However, after a year or so in which they became more serious about their work, the Monkees started to play and sing their own songs like a real band. Then they produce d their own record s and started tour ing and play their own music. In the USA they became even more popular than the Beatles and sold even more records. The band broke up about 1970, but happily they reunite d in the mid-1980s. They produced a new record in 1996, with which they celebrate d their former time as a real band.Part 2 FREDDY THE FROG (II)Not long after Freddy and the band became famous, they visited Britain on a brief tour. Fan s show ed their devotion by waiting for hours to get tickets for their concert s. Freddy was now quite confident when he went into a concert hall. He enjoyed singing and all the congratulation s afterwards! His most exciting invitation was to perform on a programme call ed “Top of the Pops.” He had to go to London, wear an expensive suit and give a performance to a TV camera. It felt very strange. But as soon as the programme was over, the telephones which were in the same room started ringing. Everybody was asking when they could see Freddy and his band again. They were truly stars.Then things went wrong. Freddy and his band could not go out anywhere without being follow ed. Even when they wore sunglasses or beard s people recognize d them. Fans found them even when they went into the toilet. They tried to hide in the reading rooms of libraries, but it was useless. Someone was always there! Their personal life was regularly discuss ed by people who did not know them but talked as if they were close friends. At last feeling very upset and sensitive, Freddy and his band realize d that they must leave the country before it became too painful for them. So they left Britain, to which they were never to return, and went back to the lake.Part 3 Freddy’s replyDear Li Hua,I’m honored that you would ask me for advice. As you know, our band was form ed in a very unusual way. However, we have learned a lot about being a band since then.First, you will need to agree on what kind of music you want to write and play. You had better play one kind of music if you want to become famous. Next you will need to come up with a name for your band-something that is different.Then, make a special time for practising and stick to it. You will also want to give several performances for friends and family to get their idea s on your musical ability.Above all, just have fun!Yours sincerely,Freddy。

Unit 5 Section A Spend or save — The student's dilemma花钱还是存钱，学生进退维谷1 Do you feel as confused and manipulated as I do with this question, "ShouldI spend or should I save?" I think that the messages we get from our environment seem to defy common sense and contradict each other. The government tells us to spend or we'll never get out of the recession. At the same time, they tell us that unless we save more, our country is in grave danger. Banks offer higher interest rates so we increase savings. Then the same banks send us credit card offers so we can spend more.1 你是不是跟我一样对“我应该花钱还是存钱”这个问题感到困惑，且有被操纵的感觉？我觉得我们从生活的环境里所获得的信息似乎是有违常识、互相矛盾的。

政府告诉我们要花钱，否则我们将永远走不出衰退；与此同时，他们又告诉我们，除非我们节省更多的钱，否则我们的国家会处于严重危险之中。

银行提供较高的利率以增加储蓄。

然后，同样是这些银行又提供信用卡让我们可以花更多的钱。

2 Here's another familiar example: If we don't pay our credit card bill on time, we get demanding, nasty emails from the credit card company saying something like: "Your failure to pay is unacceptable. Pay immediately or you'll be in trouble!" Then, as soon as we pay, we get a follow-up email in a charming tone telling us how valuable a customer we are and encouraging us to resume spending.Which depiction is correct: a failing consumer in trouble or a valued customer? The gap between these two messages is enormous.2 这里还有一个大家熟悉的例子：如果我们不按时支付信用卡账单，我们会收到从信用卡公司发来的类似这样的令人讨厌的催缴账单的电子邮件：不还款是不可接受的。