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111Unit 1 Tales of the unexplained Welcome to the unit 1st period Welcome to the UnitTeaching aims: (1) Get students to conduct a free discussion about some mysterious and unexplained phenomena in the world. (2) Encourage the students to make full use of resources and share their imaginative ideas with each other.Important points & difficult points:(1) Students are expected to describe what they have known about the posters and what they are eager to know about it.(2) Encourage students to communicate with classmates.Teaching procedures:Step 1 Lead-in (1) Group discussion: In your opinion, what is the most beautiful things one can experience? Why?(2) About Elbert Einstein: What have you known about Elbert Einstein? Why was he so great? Introduce his saying about mysteries and lead to the topic of this unit.Step 2 Photo observation1. Why is the Mona Lisa Smiling? Is the Mona Lisa just the painter himself?2. On seeing this photo, how are you feeling? Why? (Revision of the related vocabulary about the emotion.)3. What has drawn your attention? ( Train students to observe the photo and describe it in their own words.)Step 3 Posters(1) about UFOs: What do the letters UFO stand for?Are they really from another planet? Why?Read out more information about it. (2) about Yetis: Himalayas-the highest mountain range in the world; Why do some people make great efforts to climb them?Yeti-Abominable Snowman, half-man and half-beast.(3) about Lock Ness Monster: Where is Lock Ness? Why is it famous for? What does the Loch Ness Monster look like? A sunken ship? A kind of dinosaur? (4) about Stonehenge: introduce some information about Stonehenge to students.(5) about pyramids: Where were these pyramids built, on the east coast of the Nile or on the west coast? What are the reasons? Do you think the Great Pyramid is a wonder in human history? One of them: the Sphinx-Half human, half lion, the Sphinx is 240 feet long and 66 feet high. (If time permits, introduce more information about pyramids that we have known about them, such as how wide, how tall and how heavy and do some quizzes.) Step 4 Group discussion: 1. Do you believe in unexplained things mentioned above? Why or why not?2. If you saw a UFO or a monster some day, what would you do? Step 5 Language points1. advanced (adj.); advance (v.)2. run into3. translation of some phrasesStep 6 Homework(1) Surf the net and learn more about world mysteries. Prepare a short speech (better in Powerpoint) to introduce something that interests you.(2) Make a scale model of the Great Pyramid under the following guidelines and bring it to the class. 背景导读：A In 1974, in a village in Nepal, high in the Himalayan Mountains, something strange attacked a young girl called Lhakpa Dolma. When the police saw the footprints of the attacker, they were frightened. The footprints were huge! “What kind of beast is this?” the people asked. Lhakpa lived in the village, and every day she went up the mountain with her yaks(a kind of cow) so that they could eat the grass. Lhakpa knew exactly where to find the sweet, green grass for her yaks on this special mountain, which was called Mount Everest and is famous because it is the highest mountain in the world. “Arent you frightened to walk in the mountains alone, Lhakpa?” asked her friends. “What about the yeti?” But Lhakpa was not frightened. “The mountains of the Himalayas are huge!” she laughed. “I only go to one small place, not far from the village. And no one here has veer seen a yeti-its only a story.” So Lhakpa never really thought about the old yeti tales while she was working. One day in 1974, Lhakpa took her yaks up the mountain as usual, but she could see that the yaks were not happy. “Perhaps they can smell a bear or a snow leopard near us,” she thought, and looked around. Lhakpa couldnt see anything, but she moved away. She took the yaks to another place, near a small stream. The water here came from the mountain snow and Lhakpa drank a little-it always tasted good! Then she sat down and watched her yaks eating. Suddenly, Lhakpa heard a noise behind her-it was the noise of an animal, but it was very strange. She looked round very quickly-Lhakpa couldnt believe her eyes! A huge creature was coming towards her on two legs. Lhakpa s eyes got bigger and biggerit was a yeti! The yeti took Lhakpa up in its long, hairy arms! She was terrified. She shouted and kicked, but it was no good - the yeti was too strong. “Help me!” she shouted. But the mountains were quiet, and nobody heard her. But the huge beast was not really interested in Lhakpa - perhaps she was too small. It put her down in the cold mountain stream, then it turned round and looked at the yaks, which were big and strong- but the yeti was bigger. Lhakpa watched the yeti- she was too terrified to move at first. With its strong arms, it quickly killed three of the yaks. Then Lhakpa got out of the stream and ran home. She was frightened and cold. She told her parents about eh yeti killing the yaks. Her family were amazed at the story. They soon went to the police after they learned about it. But when the police and the people from the village arrived at the stream, they saw the huge footprints of a strange creature - but they didnt see the yeti. 1. Lhakpa was frightened to walk on the mountains. 2. That day Lhakpa found a bear near her. 3. The water that came from the mountain snow always tasted good. 4.The yeti caught up with Lhakpa and killed her. 5. When the police and the people from the village arrived at the stream, only to find some huge footprints.6. The yeti killed all the yaks.B The very success of communication satellite system has raised wide spread concern about their future. Some countries are already using satellites for domestic(国内的) communications in place of conventional (传统的) telephone lines on land. Although this technique is extremely useful for linking widely scattered villagers in remote or mountainous regions, in heavily built-up areas where extensive telephone and telegraph systems already exist, domestic satellites (or “domsats”) are seen by the landline net work as an unfair competition. Despite such opposition, domsats are gaining support from many businesses and public interest groups in the United States, and seem likely to be more widely utilized in the future.7. The passage mentions which of the following as a major advantage of domsats? A. They are inexpensive to operate B. They easily connect distant points C. They can be directed by remote control. D. They can be built to be very light.8. According to the passage, the use of domsats is especially valuable for which of the following? A. mountain areasB. busy citiesC. small countriesD. private businesses9. Who objects to the use of domsats? A. managers of international business group B. people in small villages C. operators of conventional communications systems D. large public interest groups10. According to the passage, future United States domsats will probably _. A. be produced competitivelyB. carry telephone message only C. become a government monopoly (垄断)D. increase in useC A 17-year-old cave explorer was rescued(解救), wet and cold, today. He had been inside a narrow part of a cave for twenty-three hours without food or light. Bill Dean had gone exploring by himself yesterday afternoon with only a lamp to light his way. Less than an hour after he entered the cave, his light went out. He sat in the damp(潮湿的) darkness the rest of the day, all night and part of today. “I was terrified,” Bill said. He had decided against trying o find his way out. He thought it best to wait for somebody to rescue him. One boy crawled(爬行) 600 feet into the cave, but could not find Bill. Finally, one of Bills friends and a teacher crawled slowly inside, found him and led him to safety.11. Yesterday afternoon Bill Dean_ A. dropped into the caveB. went into the cave by mistake C. entered the cave to learn or to study somethingD. was driven into the cave by somebody12. Bill Dean had to stay in the cave because_. A. he went into aloneB. his light went out C. he became afraidD. he had no food13. After the light went out, Bill Dean_. A. decided to wait for helpB. tried to crawl out C. crawled to find another way outD. lit a fire to light his way14. Before he was rescued, Bill Dean_. A. had food leftB. was walking about C. cried for helpD. was alone15. After the rescue, Bill Dean would most probably _ at once. A. go home to eatB. be sent to the hospital C. go back into the cave to continue his workD. go back to schoolD Many people will remember the flight of the space shuttle(航天飞机) Challenge, in June, 1983. The achievement of Sally Ride, Americas first woman astronaut(航天员) to fly into space, made this flight especially memorable. Students from two Camden, New Jersey, high schools, however, are probably to remember Norma rather than Sally whenever they think about the flight. Norma didnt travel alone. She brought about 100 companies along with her. Norma was an ant, a queen ant who, with her subject, made up the first ant colony(群体) to travel into space. The ants were part of a scene experiment designed by students to test the effects of weightlessness on insects(昆虫). The equipment designed by the students for their colony functioned perfectly through the long space trip. The young scientists and their teachers were very sad to find that their insect astronauts had all died at some point before the container was returned to the school and opened. The problem did not occur in space, but on the ground after Challenger had landed. The container remained in the desert for nearly a week before the ant colony was removed. The hot, dry desert air dried out the colonys container and the ants died from lack of moisture(水分). The project was termed a success because it did provide useful information. Students will continue their efforts to pinpoint exactly what went wrong. They dont want to be discouraged either by the demise of the ants or by the $ 10,000 shuttle fare the will have to pay to send the next colony of ants into space.16. The story is mainly about_. A. Sally Rides first rideB. space equipment for insects C. a space experiment with antsD. going to school in New Jersey17. Demise is another word for_. A. deathB. moistureC. spaceD. leader18. The project wasnt failure because_. A. important things were learnedB. space caused too much pain C. no one fed them in spaceD. they dried out in the desert19. The ants died because_. A. weightlessness harmed themB. space caused too much pain C. no one fed them in spaceD. they dried out in the desert20. On the next space trip, ants_. A. will be sent without peopleB. should not be left in the desert C. will have to pay double fareD. will die completely111
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