新标准大学英语综合教程4u3active_reading_2

Mapping,Embarkation,Navigation,Destination,Resources,Active reading 2,PredictingOrganising Students oral discussion by showing them how to present information and opinionsLearning to ask skilful questions to find out your own and others viewpointsDebating the ecology of jewellery,Active reading 2: Mapping,Active reading 2: Embarkation,Fiji and Majorca,Liberty,Seaham Beach,Jewellery description,Predicting,Jewellery description,Work in pairs. Look at the photos and describe the jewellery. Say which item you like best, and why.,Active reading 2: Embarkation,More,Jewellery description,Photo 1 like a blue sea glass necklace, made of matched pieces of glass found on beachesPhoto 2 a pearl necklace real or artificial pearls?Photo 3 a brooch with a large clear blue stone (crystal or tourmaline (电气石) or crystal like tanzanite (坦桑石) in the centre, with very ornate setting made of silver or platinum.,Active reading 2: Embarkation,More,tourmaline,tanzanite,Jewellery description,Photo 4 The Eastern style earrings with amber in the middle and hanging filigree designs made of gold prefer the earrings in the fourth photo look stylish and elaborateprefer the first necklace made of sea glass imagine their stories around the ocean and how someone found them on the beach and matched them up for me!,Active reading 2: Embarkation,Liberty,a well-known department store in central London since 1875, selling fashions, cosmetics, luxury brand accessories and gifts.,Active reading 2: Embarkation,Work in pairs and find what impress you most.,Fiji and Majorca,Fiji, an island nation in the South Pacific Ocean,Majorca, the largest island of Spain, and is located in the Mediterranean Sea,Active reading 2: Embarkation,Fiji Diving Soft Corals,Majorca,Work in pairs and find the similarities.,Seaham Beach,Active reading 2: Embarkation,Near Sunderland and Durham, in the north of England. It has a centuries-old tradition of glass-making, notably in the 19th-century Victorian era when workers dumped left-over glass into the sea. Multi-coloured sea glass can be found there.,Work in pairs and find the tradition of the beach.,Predicting,Working in pairs. Read the definition of sea glass and discuss the questions. sea glassglass which has been thrown into the sea and smoothed by the action of water over a long period of time,Active reading 2: Embarkation,More,Predicting,1. Where do you think sea glass can be found? 2. How much do you think it is worth? 3. What can be done with it?,Active reading 2: Embarkation,Now read the passage from Times Online and check your answers.,Text organisation,Text exploration,Active reading 2: Navigation,Interpreting,Text evaluation,Comprehending the text,Text organisation,Active reading 1: Navigation,click,Identify the textual pattern (clockwise).,Cohens career,from sea glass tojewellery,click,sea glassjewelleryin market,click,sea glasspopular,click,click,the future of sea glass,Text organisation,Active reading 1: Navigation,in her 20s and 30s,journalism and music management,her return to Capetown in her native South Africa,her career as a jeweller,her favourite hunting ground for seaglass,from 1990s,her designs sold at Liberty, London,Gina Cowen is still on the hunt for sea glass,Back,Text organisation,Active reading 1: Navigation,a stint in the sea,from sth ordinary to luminous treasure,perfect sea glass,edgeless gem, colour a hint of age,from seaglass to jewellery,1 polish,2 set in silver,3 suspended,3 pierced,3 threaded,or,&,How sea glass becomes jewellery,Back,Text organisation,Active reading 1: Navigation,Sea glass jewellery in market,supply,demand,a boom in the market,revive old habits of dumping glass? polish new glass to make it look old?,supply of sea glass,19th century: hurling glass into the sea,now,recycle glass,the end of the sea glass era,Gina Cowen,no!,always a story behind sea glass,Back,Text organisation,Active reading 1: Navigation,Why sea glass popular,nature compensates for mans folly,recycling,sellers market,the decline in supply,vs,an increasein demand,eco-credentials,gold damages environment in theextraction process,diamond industrypoor humanrights record,rarer sea glass,Back,Text organisation,Active reading 1: Navigation,the future of eco-jewellery,sea glass is vanishing,plastic being washed up,melted plastic,eco-material for jewellery,but,hunting for sea glass as Gina Cowen like a human crab,Back,Comprehending the text,1. What happens when Gina Cowen goes looking for glass on a beach? (a) She gets bitten by crabs. (b) She gets burnt. (c) She always finds a better piece than the last time. (d) She finds time passes slowly.,Active reading 1: Navigation,Work in pairs and choose the best answer.,More,(b) she says she burns her shoulders.,Tricky (d). “she loses her sense of time” means that time passes very quickly so she is not conscious of how it passes.,Comprehending the text,Active reading 1: Navigation,More,2. Why is red glass special compared to other types of glass? (a) Its smoother. (b) Its probably older. (c) Its more beautiful. (d) Its harder to find.,Tricky (a). Sea glass of any colour can be smooth over the years.,(b) Cowen says there is a strong chance that it could be centuries old.,Comprehending the text,3. What does Cowen do with most of the jewellery she makes? (a) She sells it to private customers. (b) She exhibits it in galleries. (c) She keeps it in her room. (d) She sells it in a London shop.,Active reading 1: Navigation,More,(a) the passage says “she works mostly to commission”.,Tricky (d). some of her designs were sold in London Liberty, but she sells most of her designs privately.,Comprehending the text,4. When did Cowen get interested in sea glass? (a) When she wrote an article about it for a newspaper. (b) When she saw a collection in a glass cabinet. (c) While walking along a beach in South Africa. (d) When she found out about the Victorian glass industry.,Active reading 1: Navigation,More,(c) She found some glass there and started a collection.,Tricky (d). she found out about this later in Britain.,Comprehending the text,5. Where does the best sea glass come from? (a) South Africa. (b) Liberty in London. (c) Fiji and Majorca. (d) Beaches in England.,Active reading 1: Navigation,More,(d) Seaham Beach in Britain is her “favourite hunting ground” & her Victorian sea-glass collection from British beaches is “most stunning”, so the implication is that British beaches are where the best sea glass comes from.,Tricky (c). Cowen has good sea glass from these islands, but it seems that the best is from British beaches.,Comprehending the text,6. Why will sea glass become rarer than diamonds? (a) People will stop making glass. (b) It will eventually be transformed into sand. (c) More and more glass is being recycled. (d) People will be prepared to pay a lot of money for it.,Active reading 1: Navigation,(c) this means that old glass is made into new glass instead of being dumped in the sea. As a result, sea glass will become rare.,More,Comprehending the text,7. What did a 15-year-old girl manage to do? (a) She sold her collection of sea glass on eBay. (b) She sold photographs of her collection of sea glass. (c) She sold Cowen some sea glass for more than it was worth. (d) She collected a lot of sea glass on a school trip.,Active reading 1: Navigation,(c) the girl sold it on eBay and Cowen says she paid too much for it.,Tricky (b). she took photos in order to illustrate the collection to help to sell the sea glass she didnt sell the photos.,More,Comprehending the text,8. Why is sea glass more ecological than diamonds and gold? (a) Getting it doesnt damage the environment. (b) It can be used for a variety of purposes. (c) It is a naturally occurring product. (d) It can be recycled more easily.,Active reading 1: Navigation,(a) the passage refers to serious ecological problems with extracting gold and mining diamonds, whereas because sea glass is waste material collecting and using it is actually clearing up the beach environment.,Tricky (c). sea glass does not occur naturally. it is glass that has been dumped into the sea by people as rubbish.,Interpreting,Active reading 1: Navigation,Quotations,Writers purpose,Writers purpose,Active reading 1: Navigation,Work in pairs and check ( ) the writers main purpose in writing the passage. 1. To paint a portrait of a woman with unusual passion. 2. To describe the process of making jewellery from sea glass. 3. To make people think about the importance of recycling. 4. A mixture of all three.,Quotations,Active reading 1: Navigation,Work in pairs and find the quotations in the passage which illustrate the ideas. 1. why sea glass is special 2. why colour is important 3. how a thoughtless act can have a happy ending 4. what will happen to sea glass 5. the mysterious appeal of sea glass 6. how almost anything can be made into jewellery,click,click,Quotations,Active reading 1: Navigation,1. why sea glass is special“It has the ability to transform magically from something ordinary to luminous treasure after a stint in the sea.” 2. why colour is important“The colour gives you a hint of age.” 3. how a thoughtless act can have a happy ending“The creation of sea glass is a form of recycling, but more than that, it is an example of nature compensating for mans folly.”,Back,Quotations,Active reading 1: Navigation,4. what will happen to sea glass“Sea glass will eventually run out one day, it will be rarer than diamonds.” 5. the mysterious appeal of sea glass“You can imagine what object it might have been, where it traveled and how old it is.” 6. how almost anything can be made into jewellery“People will find creative ways of working with whatever is available.”,Back,Text evaluation,Active reading 1: Navigation,Work in pairs and discuss the questions. 1. Why do people wear jewellery? 2. Do men and women appreciate jewellery in the same way? 3. “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” Is this proverb true of jewellery too? 4. Is it worthwhile to spend a lot of money on jewels which have no useful function? 5. Do you think most people share Cowens views about recycling waste items as jewellery?,click,click,click,click,click,Text evaluation,Jewellery a kind of decoration or adornment that you can easily put on and take off or change + can add colour and extra interest to your appearanceSome jewellery obviously fashionable or a high-status object that you can wear to show you are in fashion or you are richOther jewellery has a specific purpose: the wedding ring married, an engagement ring a fianc (fiance), or a college ring university you have studied at,Active reading 1: Navigation,More,1. Why do people wear jewellery?,Text evaluation,Some religious groups wear specific jewelleryMany Christians a cross Christ and his sacrifice; Sikhs a dagger for defence, to prevent violence and to show the power of the truth to cut trough untruth it represents the cutting edge of the mind adults of some tribes or communities certain kinds of jewellery some groups of women in Indian lots of gold ornaments which is basically their family wealth they carry jewellery rather than a credit card,Active reading 1: Navigation,Back,1. Why do people wear jewellery?,Text evaluation,rather hard to sayA few years ago women had a better appreciation of jewellery than men women wear jewellerynow many men wearing rings, earrings and necklaces + men can appreciate the jewellery that women wearSo men and women both appreciate jewellery,Active reading 1: Navigation,More,2. Do men and women appreciate jewellery in the same way?,Text evaluation,Perhaps those who wear jewellery appreciate it more deeply.many more men who are jewellers than women men appreciate it more anyone can appreciate jewellery in different ways, whether you are male or female,Active reading 1: Navigation,Back,2. Do men and women appreciate jewellery in the same way?,Text evaluation,In some ways, it isnt true. Jewellery hasnt changed very much in hundreds of years Example 1 jewellery found in ancient tombs still considered beautiful today,Active reading 1: Navigation,More,3. “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” Is this proverb true of jewellery too?,Text evaluation,Example 2 facial decoration where people make holes in the noses or ears for huge gold or wooden ornamentsmany of us would not consider that beautiful, but the wearers do Perhaps for jewellery the proverb should be, “Beauty is in the eye of the wearer.”,Active reading 1: Navigation,Back,3. “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” Is this proverb true of jewellery too?,Text evaluation,some rich people think so! either really like to wear jewellery or think it is art + it will be worth more in the future a kind of investment worthwhileme Id like to wear jewels and if they were worth a lot of money I would feel bad about wearing them in case something happened not worthwhile.,Active reading 1: Navigation,Back,Tribal Sea Glass Amber,4. Is it worthwhile to spend a lot of money on jewels which have no useful function?,Text evaluation,No, because I dont think many people have thought about waste items like this. I havent thought about it. After all, most rubbish that you throw out wouldnt really make jewellery, would it?,Active reading 1: Navigation,Back,5. Do you think most people share Cowens views about recycling waste items as jewellery?,Active reading 2: Destination,Talking point,Summarising,Summarising,Active reading 2: Destination,More,Sea glass is popular among the jewellery collectors for several reasons. First, the creation of sea glass is a form of _, where nature _ mans folly. Second, with human recycling rather than _ it into the sea, sea glass becomes rarer than diamonds, its supply is _ while its demand is on the rise. This leads to its boom in the market.,recycling,compensates for,Work in pairs and summarise the text by filling the blanks.,hurling,in decline,Summarising,Active reading 2: Destination,More,Third, its eco-credentials lend sea glass further _, as gold extraction damages the environment and diamond industry has a poor _ record. So the designers would like to put sea glass to use. Gina Cowen became a sea glass jeweller after her _ in journalism and music management in her 20s and 30s. While sea glass is disappearing, she is still on the hunt.,appeal,human rights,stints,Summarising,Active reading 2: Destination,More,Gina Cowens collection started in her walk along a _ beach near Capetown, South Africa, where she was born. She has several _, South Africa, Fiji, Majorca in Spain, and the UK. But her favourite one is Seaham Beach in the UK. Her designs were sold at _, London, but mostly she sells her jewellery to private customers.,shingle,hunting grounds,Liberty,Summarising,Active reading 2: Destination,With the decline of sea glass _, there has arisen problem of _ old habits of dumping glass into the sea. Gina Cowen refuses to _ it and she even rejects the idea of _ new glass to make it look old, as there is a story behind sea glass. So follow Cowens example and search for glowing pebbles before they _.,in supply,reviving,condone,polishing,vanish,Talking point,Active reading 2: Destination,Work in pairs and discuss the questions about jewellery. 1. Do you wear jewellery? If so, what is it? 2. Which traditional jewellery do you like? 3. Which jewellery goes best with modern clothes? 4. Which precious stone or metal do you prefer, and why? 5. What jewellery would you give to the person you love?,click,click,Talking point,Active reading 2: Destination,Back,1. Do you wear jewellery? If so, what is it?a ring. Sometimes a necklace and often earrings it depends on clothes and on my mood.2. Which traditional jewellery do you like?Pearl necklaces and earrings, and diamond earrings as well. Some gold things like necklaces and bracelets I think I probably have expensive taste.,Talking point,Active reading 2: Destination,3. Which jewellery goes best with modern clothes?Probably smaller and slimmer styles of jewellery which have a clean, uncomplicated look.4. Which precious stone or metal do you prefer, and why?emeralds and opals, but only see them in pictures and in shop windows not realistic for me5. What jewellery would you give to the person you love?Probably something nice made of gold, silver or platinum.,Back,Difficult sentences,Words to note,Information related,Active reading 2: Resources,Language in use,Preview,Difficult sentences,Active reading 2: Resources,1. but she works mostly to commission (Para 5) 2. The creation of sea glass is a form of recycling, but more than that, it is an example of nature compensating for mans folly. (Para 8) 3. Todays responsible attitude to its disposal, but it signals the end of the sea-glass era. (Para 10),click,click,More,click,Difficult sentences,Active reading 2: Resources,4. A 15-year-old girl recently sold her collection “Shed photographed it very well.” (Para 11) 5. Golds murky reputation for damaging the environment in the extraction process and the diamond industrys poor human rights record play into the hands of designers who have chosen to work with a material that puts a waste product to use. (Para 12),click,click,Difficult sentences,Active reading 2: Resources,1. but she works mostly to commission (Para 5) Paraphrase the sentence. People ask her to produce specific work (pieces of sea glass jewellery), for which they will pa