高三英语unit1 listening课件.ppt

,人教修订版 高中三年级 Unit 1,Listening & Speaking,The record of Guinness,Car balancing,Beer bottle opening,Human chair stack,Warming up,The lowest temperature ever recorded on earth is . 2. The worlds tallest man is . 3. The youngest college graduate was .,-89.2C,2.55m,10 years old,4. The highest number of goals in a soccer career is . 5. The longest beard is . 6. The longest lecture lasted .,1,279,1.83m,62.5h, Typical measurements m=meters cm=centimeters h=hours Height of people When referring to people, “tall” is used, not“ high”, and measurements are given in feet and inches (but not yards) or meters and centimeters.,e.g. She is about 5 feet 6 inches tall. The worlds tallest man is 2.55m. Speed e.g. A speed limit of 30 mph(时速) Sound travels 186,300 miles in a second., Measurement of Temperature e.g. The normal temperature of the human body is 37C. The lowest temperature ever recorded on earth is -89.2C.,Pre-listening,Are you familiar with the measurements? 2. How tall are you? 3. Who is the tallest in your class?,Yao Ming Fun Facts Favorite Color: blue Favorite Animal: dogs Favorite Food: burgers and homemade cooking by Mon Favorite City: Shanghai,Favorite Actor: Denzel Washington Enjoys: playing video games, surfing the web, music, reading Favorite Players : Charles Barkley, Arvydas Sabonis, Hakeem Olajuwon,Listening,Exercise 1 You are going to hear someone talk about the size and speed of humans and animals. Before you listen to the tape, answer the questions below.,1.What words would you use to describe a persons size and an animals size?,Tall, short, medium-height, lean, thin, heavy, bulky, etc,2. What words would you use to talk about how fast a human being or an animal is?,miles/kilometers per hour /second, fast, slow, twice as fast,3. Some people are short and small and some are tall and big. What are the advantages and disadvantages of different sizes?,Exercise 2 Listen to part 1 and complete the two pictures below with information form the tape.,Listening text,Size often matters in the world. Beijing big and strong hats its advantages, but it may also be a good thing to be small and fast. Yao Ming, Chinas most famous basketball player, is a tall man. At 2.26 metres, he towers over most of the other players. But compared to the,Worlds tallest person, Yao Ming isnt that tall. The worlds tallest living man is almost a head taller than Yao Ming - he is an incredible 2.35 metres! The tallest living woman in the world is 2.31 metres. When most doors are only about 2 metres, being that tall isnt always easy! What about the worlds,Heavy-weight champion? No, we dont mean boxing, we mean how heavy is the worlds heaviest living person? The answer is Are you ready? 635 kilograms! Thats about equal to the weight of 30 TVs and almost the same weight as a horse!,Exercise 3 Listen to part 2 and complete the chart below.,60 mph,68 mph,100-200 mph,39,000 mph,51,1/20,000,Listening text,Who rules the planet when it comes to speed? Well, its not always easy to decide. If we were to set up a race between a horse and a human being, the human being may win, at least at first. Animals with two legs tend to be faster in the start than four-legged,animals. Thats because it takes longer to get four legs going than two. Over a longer distance, however, the horse would beat the man. A horse can run at a speed up to 50 miles per hour, which is about twice as fast as a man. The fastest land animal is the cheetah, which can run as fast as 60 mph. And,the speed king of the ocean is the sailfish, whose speed can reach 68 mph. But the fastest animal on the planet is actually a bird. The fastest animal on the planet is actually a bird. The fastest bird can fly 100-200 mph. Thats almost as fast as a high-speed train. The fastest man-made object is the space explorer,Voyager 1. It was escaping in the solar system at a speed of 39,000 miles per hour. Thats about 51 times the speed of sound and one-twenty thousandth of the speed of light!,Speaking,Adili, a tight ropewalker.,Interview,Now Adili is visiting our city and you are going to interview him for the school newspaper. Please dont forget to refer to the information on Page 3.,A: Adili B: A Journalist B: Adili, glad to meet you and welcome to our city! Im a school journalist from No. 1 Middle School. A: Thank you!,A Sample of the interview,B: The students in our school admire you very much. They are eager to learn something about you. May I ask you some questions? A: OK. Thank you and I am willing to be of some help.,B: How many years has your family walking on the rope? A: My family has been walking on tightropes for 430 years! B: Wow, so many years! Could you say something about the 2002-year record? How many days did you stay on the high wire?,A: In May 2002, I broke a world record by staying on a wire rope for 22 days and beat the 21-day Guinness world record. I walked on the rope up to five hours a day. I spent the rest of the time in a hut at the end of the rope.,B: You are very great. I was told you broke some other Guinness world records. Could you say something about your ropewalk across the Three Gorges? How long was the wire? How high was the wire above the ground and how long did the walk take you?,A: On June 22, 1997 I crossed the Three Gorges on a high wire, which was 646 meters long, 402 meters high and the walk took me 13 minutes 48 seconds. I broke the Guinness world record set by a Canadian.,B: We are very proud of you. In October 2000 you broke another Guinness world record when you walked across Mt. Heng. How long was the wire? How high was the wire above the ground and how long did the walk take you?,A: When I walked across