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单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,*,*,Unit,4,Housing,Book 1,Unit 4,Housing,F,urther Listening,Listening 1,A,|,Listen to a talk about straw houses and choose the main idea of the talk.,a.Builder Michael Furbish uses straw to make buildings.,b.A straw house is another way to“go green”.,c.Straw bales are used to build houses and schools.,Answer Keys,Building a house from wood means cutting down trees and damaging the environment.Straw is a kind of grass,and it takes little energy to grow.,1.Why is straw a better material to build a house than wood?,Listening 1,Answer Keys,After the straw is dry,farmers use a machine to make baleslarge rectangular bricks of straw.Then,builders build walls with the bales.When they finish the walls,they cover them with plaster inside and outside.,2.How do people make straw-bale houses?Explain the process.,Listening 1,Answer Keys,Furbish used about 900 straw bales for his familys house.His company used about 4,000 bales to build an elementary school in Maryland.,3.How many straw bales did Furbish use to build his familys,house?And how many bales did his company use to build an,elementary school in Maryland?,Listening 1,Answer Keys,1.T,2.F(You dont have to be a Mexican citizen to own property here.),3.T,Listening 2,Answer Keys,Listening 2,Vacation Homes in Baja California,Benefits,Worries,2 coasts:Pacific Ocean and Sea of Cortez(sea life e.g.dolphins,whales,unusual fish),beautiful mountains and deserts(for hiking and sightseeing),more and more people move to B.C.(growth could damage environment),very dry(enough drinking water for everyone?),Answer Keys,Baja California has coasts on the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Cortez,so tourists can enjoy sea life such as dolphins,whales,and unusual fish.Its beautiful mountains and deserts are also excellent for hiking and sightseeing.,Listening 2,1.Why is Baja California popular for vacation?,Answer Keys,The housing growth in Baja California may cause damage to the environment as more and more people move in.Baja California is also very dry,so having enough drinking water for everyone is another concern.,Listening 2,2.Why are some people worried about the housing growth?,In Barcelona,Spain,both visitors and residents of the city know about the architect Antoni Gaud.The Casa Mil is perhaps his best-known building.From the outside,the walls look like natural stone.On the roof,several large,unusual works of art are actually chimneysthey carry away gases from cooking and heating from inside the apartments.,The Casa Batll is another of Gauds apartment buildings.The outside of the building is very colorful,and its easy to see that Gaud was an artist as well as an architect.Not every apartment is spacious,but each apartment has a balcony,so residents can stand outside their bedrooms or living rooms and see the street below.,Listening 3,Answer Keys,
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