Unit5Livinginharmony

1、Reading,Unit 5,Living in harmony,Every coin has two sides.,What do you think of the saying? What can result from the highly developed industrial and material society?,What do you think of when you read the title Living in harmony?,Free talk,1. Which alternative will make more profit? 2. Which altern

2、ative is better? Why?,What would you choose?,It will provide more jobs for people.,Alternative A will destroy the environment.,It will provide things that people can buy.,It will produce medicine that can save lives.,It will make much profit.,It is in line with sustainable development and growth.,Sk

3、im the story for the gist and answer the questions below. In the story, what did Harry Saleem decide to do first? 2. What did he decide to do next? 3. As a result of these two choices, what might happen to him?,To see an engineer.,To flood the valley.,He might die.,Skimming,Scan the story quickly an

4、d answer these questions. 1. What is the name of the valley, and where is it? 2. What had the valley been a few months before? 3. How ill is Saleem? 4. Is the new medicine working well? 5. What does the doctor need to get to make the medicine?,The Pakan Valley. Its in South America.,A rainforest.,He

5、 is dying.,Yes, it is saving his life.,He needs to get some green orchids.,Scan the story quickly and answer these questions. 1. What is the name of the valley, and where is it? 2. What had the valley been a few months before? 3. How ill is Saleem? 4. Is the new medicine working well? 5. What does t

6、he doctor need to get to make the medicine?,The Pakan Valley. Its in South America.,A rainforest.,He is dying.,Yes, it is saving his life.,He needs to get some green orchids.,Match the main idea with each part.,Two people, a doctor and an engineer, wait for Harry Saleem. b. The doctor comes in and e

7、xamines Saleem. c. Saleem decides to speak to the engineer by satellite. d. The moral of the story. e. Saleem gives the order, and the valley is flooded.,Para. 1 Para. 2 Para. 3-4 Para. 5-7 Para. 8-13,Decide the sentences true or false. We cannot foresee the consequences of life. _ 2. Saleem raised

8、a fat finger, and switched on a large television set. _ 3. The dam to be built was aimed to produce electricity. _,always,his staff switched,F,F,_,T,4. The doctor hadnt found the medicine to cure Saleems illness. _ 5. There would not be any difficulty in finding many of the green orchids for the doc

9、tor. _ 6. Saleems men destroyed the forests as well as killing himself. _,F,It had been found and its main ingredient of this new medicine came from a newly-discovered plant, a small, green orchid.,F,_,_,It would be never found since the forest had been destroyed.,T,Choose the best answers according

10、 to the passage.,What the word “fool” refer to in the 3rd paragraph? A. The secretary B. The doctor C. One of his engineers D. The businessman 2. Saleem communicated with his engineer by _. A. telephone B. radio C. satellite D. videophone,B,C,3. What would the engineers be going to blow? A. A river

11、B. The dam C. The factory D. The Pakan Valley 4. The tone of the story is _. A. humourious B. optimistic C. irony D. pessimistic,A,C,5. What can we infer from the end of the story? A. Saleem died. B. The doctor had no difficulty in finding more green orchids. C. Saleem recovered quickly after he too

12、k the medicine from the green orchids. D. Saleem succeeded in both business and personal health.,A,Answer the following questions in complete sentences using the information in the story. 1.Why did Saleem decide to talk to the engineer before the doctor? 2. What happened when the engineer pressed th

13、e button?,He decided o talk to the engineer because he thought business must come first.,An explosion took place. This made a large river go in a different direction, and as a result it flooded the valley.,Read and think,3. In what way was the doctor wrong? 4. Why would it be impossible to make any

14、more medicine for Saleem? 5. What do you think Saleem probably wished in the end?,He thought that there would be no difficulty in finding more green orchids.,Saleem had destroyed the valley in which the orchids grew.,He probably wished that he had seen the doctor first.,Each of these sentences could

15、 be inserted in one of the paragraphs of the story. Read them carefully, and write down the paragraph numbers.,It rushed into the valley and flowed over the empty huts of the villagers. ( ) 2. At that moment, Saleem realized that he had made the wrong choice. ( ) 3. “It takes over ten of them just t

16、o make one pill.” ( ),Para 7,Para 13,Para 11,4. With cheap power, and cheap labour (from the homeless villagers), the factories would be very successful. ( ) 5. “When I press this button, the river will flood into the valley.” ( ) 6. He checked his blood pressure and listened carefully to his heart.

17、 ( ),Para 9,Para 5,Para 6,An _ businessman was seriously ill from being overweight. Unfortunately, he was still _ with making money. He dealt with business first instead of meeting his _ doctor, who was bringing him _ news about saving his life. What was worse, he made a bad decision to _ all the _

18、trees in Pakan Valley in order to build a factory there, all so he could make a huge _. Of course, you can _ the consequences. The main _ only medicine that could save his life came from a newly-discovered _which only grew in Pakan Valley.,Fill in he blanks with the information in the passage.,obese

19、,obsessed,personal,vital,cut down,valuable,profit,foresee,ingredient,orchid,He can _. He decides _. As a result, Pakan valley _. Then Saleem agrees_. He doctor says _. The orchids_. Consequently, Saleen will _.,he can _ _.,OR,talk to his engineer first,talk to his engineer first,to talk to his engin

20、eer,is flooded,to see his doctor,they need more green orchids,grow only in Pakan Valley,never recover from his illness,Work in pairs to describe the rich mans character.,Discussion,rich, overweight, dying, nervous, impatient, greedy and selfish,Role-play,A conversation between the rich man and his e

21、ngineer. What would they talk about? How would they deal with the business? b. A conversation between the rich man and his personal doctor. What would the doctor say to the man? How would the man feel when he hears the news?,Writing,假设你是某一中的学生。请你围绕“建设和 谐社会的主题，根据下面所给出的要点提 示，用英语给全校学生写一封倡议书。 要点提示： 1. 人

22、与社会：祖国、家乡、学校，热爱关心 2. 人与人：家人、师长、同学，诚信互助 3. 人与自然：能源、环境、动植物，爱惜保护 4. 你的态度：(内容由自己拟定),A Sample,Dear fellow students, Our government is aiming to build a “harmonious society”. I think it is every citizens duty to work hard to achieve this goal. As high school students, what should we do? First of all, we sho