何兆熊综合英语第二册unit

1、,“Weve Been Hit!”,Unit 1,1,Company Logo,Greetings,Did you have a happy Spring Festival?,The Spring Festival is a time for family reunion. Would you like to share your experience or feelings of going home for the Spring Festival?,Company Logo,2. Do you have any interesting holiday stories to share wi

2、th us? Is this year different from the last? 3. Do you have any special customs of celebrating the Spring Festival at your home?,Company Logo,1. family reunion dinner/ supper of Chinese New Years Eve 年夜饭,As one of the most important aspects of the Spring Festival, food is essential to a healthy, hap

3、py new year in Chinese tradition, and many dishes are imbued with auspicious and symbolic meanings either because of the appearance or the pronunciation of its Chinese name。,Some terms for the Spring Festival,Company Logo,2. Spring couplets 春联,Spring couplets are pasted on both sides and above the m

4、ain door. In addition, it is also common to hang calligraphic writing of the Chinese characters for spring, wealth and “blessing”. Some people will even invert the drawings of Fu since the Chinese for inverted is a homonym in Chinese for arrive, thus signifying that spring, wealth or blessing has ar

5、rived.,Company Logo,3. firework and firecracker 烟花爆竹,A Chinese New Year celebration would not be complete without fireworks. In China fireworks are set off to express joy and happiness during the Spring Festival. It is meant to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new.,Some terms for the Spring Fe

6、stival,Company Logo,4. gift money; money given to children as a lunar New Year gift ; lucky money 压岁钱 red packets (cash wrapped up in red paper, symbolize fortune and wealth in the coming year.) 红包,In the old days, New Years money was given in the form of one hundred copper coins strung together on

7、a red string and symbolized the hope that one would live to be a hundred years old. Today, money is placed inside red envelopes in denominations considered auspicious and given to represent luck and wealth.,Company Logo,5. CCTV Spring Festival Gala 中央电视台春节联欢晚会,It has become an ingrained tradition on

8、 Mainland China to watch the Spring Festival Gala on the Spring Festivals Eve. The Gala adds a mood of celebration as people laugh, discuss and enjoy the performances.,Some terms for the Spring Festival,Company Logo,Did you watch the Spring Festival Gala? What do you think of it? Which programme gav

9、e you the deepest impression?,Some terms: 小品 2. 相声 3. 魔术 4. 歌曲 5. 歌曲联唱 6. 舞蹈 7. 民族舞蹈 8. 杂技 9. 戏剧,skit/ comic sketch cross-talk magic/ magic tricks songs song medley dances ethnic dances acrobatics Chinese opera,Pre-reading Questions Background Information Structural Analysis Language Points,Teaching

10、 Points,Company Logo,Pre-reading questions,1. Tell what you know about the 9.11 attack. 2. Describe a disaster you have experienced or have heard of and how people involved reacted to it. 3. Talk about the biggest problems our world faces.,Company Logo,major challenges facing the world today,Populat

11、ion Growth Globalization World Health The Crisis of the Environment Religious and/or Ethnic Conflicts Biological/Chemical Warfare Terrorism International Cooperation Poverty drugs,Company Logo,Company Logo,Company Logo,World Trade Center Building Details: at New York, built 1966 to 1977, 110 stories

12、, 1353 feet (412 meters) tall about 10,000,000 square feet of rentable space, occupied by about 50,000 people the worlds tallest building for a short time, taking over from the Empire State Building, and then surpassed by the Sears Tower It was destroyed in 2001.,Company Logo,Empire State Building,1

13、02 floors, 1252 feet, 381 meters high.,Company Logo,Sears Tower At 1450 feet and 110 stories, the tallest building in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.,Company Logo,Company Logo,The Pentagon is the main building of the US Defense Department, in Washington. The US Defense Department is often referred to as the

14、 Pentagon,Company Logo,Osama bin Laden (19572011 ):,He is a Saudi Arabian multimillionaire suspected of planning terrorist attacks against the United States. September 11, 2001 terror attacks were sponsored by him. In 1999 the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) placed bin Laden on its Ten Most Wa

15、nted Fugitives list in connection with the bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. Little is known in the West about bin Ladens life. He inherited his great personal wealth from his father, whose construction company prospered through close connections with the Saudi royal family.,

16、9.11 attack： On Tuesday, September 11,2001, at 8:45 am New York local time, World Trade Center One, the north tower, was hit by a hijacked 767 commercial jet plane, loaded with fuel for a transcontinental flight. World Trade Center Two, the south tower, was hit by a similar hijacked jet 18 minutes l

17、ater at 9:03 am. On separate but related attacks, the Pentagon building near Washington D.C. was hit by a hijacked 757 at 9:43 am, and at 10:10 am, a fourth hijacked jetliner crashed in Pennsylvania.,The south tower, WTC 2, which had been hit second, was the first to suffer a complete structural col

18、lapse at 10:05 am, 62 minutes after being hit. The north tower, WTC 1, then also collapsed at 10:29am, 104 minutes after being hit. WTC 7, a substantial 47 storey building in its own right, built in 1987, was damaged by the collapsing towers, caught fire, and later in the afternoon also totally coll

19、apsed.,2. The World Trade Center: The World Trade Center is more than its signature twin towers: it is a complex of 7 buildings on 17 acres of land, constructed and operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The towers rise at the heart of the complex, each climbing more than 100 fee

20、t higher than the silver mast of the Empire State Building.,Before Attack,After Attack,I. Text analysis,The text describes a particular episode in the disaster that occurred on September 11,2001 in New York in praise of the courage and compassion of man.,II. Structural analysis,Paragraphs 2 9,to des

21、cribe the initial reaction of people inside the WTC when the building was hit,Paragraph 1,to tell the common peoples perception about the WTC,Paragraphs 10 30,to describe how the three people (Mayblum, Ramos and Hong) endeavored to save a heavyset man with their joint efforts.,Paragraphs 31 34,to de

22、scribe the gathering of some of the survivors and the victims wives,Company Logo,Click to edit title style,Heroes,Adam Mayblum,Harry Ramos,Hong Zhu,Fireman?,Company Logo,Adam Mayblum,Went back to look for Hong,Rip his t-shirt and gave them to his colleagues,Ready to help the heavyset man,Company Log

23、o,Help panicked workers Help the heavyset man to The last moment dead,1.Help the heavyset man 2. Be the guinea pig to test the safety of the lift.,Pre-reading Questions,What do you know about the 9.11 attack? When: It happened on _. Where: _City What: _was attacked by _.,September 11, 2001,World Tra

24、de Center,30,New York,two hijacked jet planes,Page 5,A third hijacked airliner crashed into the_ in Washington DC. Result: - _and_ collapsed. -Nearly _ people were killed in the terrorist attack.,3000,The Twin Towers,Pentagon,USDOD,United States Department of Defense,In Washington D.C.,A third hijac

25、ked airliner crashed into the Pentagon. Many government buildings including the White House were evacuated for fear they could be targets as well. A portion of the building later collapsed.,32,Background,The World Trade Center (sometimes referred as WTC or Twin Towers) was a complex located in the h

26、eart of New York Citys downtown financial district.,33,Building Details,110 stories, 1353 feet (412 meters) tall (By some sources, Tower One was 1368 feet tall and Tower Two was 1362 feet. Some sources say 1350 feet overall.) About 10,000,000 square feet of rentable space, occupied by about 50,000 p

27、eople.,Pentagon,The headquarters of the United States Department of Defense As a symbol of the U.S. military, the Pentagon is often used metonymically to refer to the Department of Defense rather than the building itself.,35,Who did this?,Investigations into who was behind the terrorist attacks bega

28、n just hours after the first plane struck the north tower. Almost immediately the finger of suspicion was pointed at exiled Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden and his group of followers known as AL Qaeda, or The Base.,持不同政见者,36,The Designer,Minoru Yamasaki (山崎實1912-1986) was a Japanese-American archite

29、ct The completion of the 110-story twin towers, which are 411 meters high, took 7 years.,World trade means world peace; the World Trade Center buildings in New York are living symbol of mans dedication to world peace.,37,Volcano eruption,earthquake,flood,Disaters,tsunami,Mudslide,Hurricane,Forest Fi

30、re,Nuclear Leak,Victim Leukemia,Airline Disaster,How to face the disaster?,To save yourself or save the other?,United,Optimistic,Helpful,Mayblum ,Dont ever beswayed by fashion,Under the sway of,The dancer swayed to the music.,In medieval times the church held sway over many countries.,影响，左右,受。控制,n.

31、(1)幻想,(对自己有利的)妄想 I have no illusion about (2)A false idea or belief 幻觉,错觉 be under an illusion,illusion:,my talent for drawing.,You are under an illusion about it.,Detailed Reading,Adam Mayblum used to enjoy watching as storms lashed the windows of his office: You think thats power? Mayblum would sc

32、off. Im on the 87th floor of the World Trade Center. Thats power. The drawstrings on his window shades would appear to sway slightly, but it was an illusion. Although it was 1,040 feet in the sky, The WTC was quite steady.,Detailed Reading (para2-5),When Mayblum felt a devastating rumble on that Sep

33、tember morning, he glanced at the drawstrings. They were careening wildly, three feet in either direction. Mayblum would be one of thousands cast into an extraordinary purgatory that morning. While as many as 25,000 would find their way to safety,5,000 would not.,devastating: completely destructive

34、devastate (v.); devastation (n.): destroy, damage (synonyms),婚外情确实会对婚姻造成毁灭性的影响。,Affairs do have adevastatingeffect on marriages.,Rumble: v. Make a deep heavy continuous sound Thunder rumbling in the distance n. the rumble of drums,远处传来隆隆的雷声,天 崩 地 裂 的 轰 鸣 声,Comparison: glance at / stare at / glare at

35、 /peer at /gaze at,Careen A heavy flood tide caused my vessel to . The car ed around the corner.,汽车歪歪斜斜疾驶过街角。 Rush forward in an uncontrollable way.,1. Can you paraphrase the sentence “They were careening wildly, three feet in either direction.” in Paragraph 2?,They were swaying up to three feet fro

36、m side to side, like a ship in a great storm.,Para 2: using the image of drawstring again to indicate the terrible force of the strike.,Detailed Reading,When Mayblum felt a devastating rumble on that September morning, he glanced at the drawstrings. They were careening wildly, three feet in either d

37、irection. Mayblum would be one of thousands cast into an extraordinary purgatory that morning. While as many as 25,000 would find their way to safety, 5,000 would not.,Purgatory (para.3): Purgatory is the place where Roman Catholics believe the spirits of dead people are sent to suffer for their sin

38、s before they go to heaven. (炼狱),58,purgatory: a place or condition of great suffering The devastating earthquake changed peoples home into a purgatory. Angela has a thin sharp voice; its purgatory to have to listen to her sing.,这场毁灭性大地震将人们的家园变成炼狱。,torture, plague,受苦的经历，折磨,Mayblum would be one of th

39、ousands cast into an extraordinary purgatory that morning. (Paragraph 3),Paraphrase: That morning, Mayblum would be one of thousands who were thrown into a terrible disaster.,那天早上，有数千人将被卷入一场惊心动魄的灾难， 梅布鲁也是其中的一员。,Find ones way Find ones way out Find ones way to,找到路;认得路,寻找解决方法,设法到达,Detailed Reading,For

40、 some, it was a matter of geographynot just which tower they worked in or on which floor, but in which corner of the building. For some, the choices were as basic as which staircase to use./ Others faced the ultimate moral dilemma: Save yourself, or save another.,What does the author mean by saying

41、“For some, it was a matter of geography”(4),For some whether they could survive depended on where they were.,对于有些人来说，生死攸关的是此时此刻他们所在的位置-不仅 是哪栋楼，哪一层，更重要的是在大楼的哪个角落,Ultimate: 1.Eventual 最后的, 最终的 他的最终目标是什么？ 2. fundamental 基本的, 最根本的 Ultimate principles, questions, causes, resources,What was his ultimate g

42、oal? （aim/outcome),3. The most important or powerful thing of a particular kind 至高的；最重要的,Ultimate power, authority, challenge,65,Mary was in a dilemma whether to marry or continue her study.,dilemma: a situation in which one has to make a difficult choice,面对这样的两难境地，唯一的出路就是在团队内合作。,The only way out of

43、 this dilemma is to cooperate within the group.,place/ put sb. in a dilemma be on the horns of a dilemma get out of dilemma 走出困境,Question: What is the implication of the parallel sentences “For somea matter of” and “For someas basic as”?,It implicates that people in the building were in great danger

44、 and whether they can survive depended very much on where they happened to be when the building was struck and what they choose to do at the time.,Para 2-5:Present a picture of what happened immediately after the hit.,WTC- _,purgatory,Devastating rumble drawstring careened,_ people would be safe, _

45、would not,For some For some Others,25000,5000,Question: (para6-9) What did Adam Mayblum do in face of the disaster?,Is there any evidence that showed peoples concern for others?,Detailed Reading,The confusion （inside Adam Mayblums office at May Davis, a financial services firm, ）lasted just seconds.

46、 He knew he needed to get out.,Decision-go out immediately,Detailed Reading,He ripped his T-shirt into pieces, soaked the pieces in water and gave them to colleagues to cover their faces. Among them: Harry Ramos, head trader at May Davis. Mayblum had worked with Ramos off and on for 14 years. Sparks

47、 bit at Mayblums ankles as he raced for the stairs. He bolted down two flights before realizing that his trading partner, Hong Zhu, had been left behind. He went back upstairs, the whole area now filled with smoke and burning jet fuel.,Detailed Reading,There was no sign of Hong. Mayblum hurried down

48、 again and made it to the 78th floor, a transfer lobby where one set of elevators and stairs ended and another began. He saw a reassuring sight; Ramos had waded into the pandemonium to help panicked workers into a stairwell.,After a few seconds of initial confusion, people began to try to get their

49、way out.-the employees in May Davis.,Peoples concern for each other: 1, Mayblum shared his ripped T-shirt with his collegaues 2, Mayblum went back to look for his trading partner 3, Ramos helped panicked workers into a stairwell.,Rip: tear apart quickly and violently. 撕开；扯开 rip into pieces = tear in

50、to pieces rip off 敲诈 他们在宾馆敲诈了我们。,They ripped us off at that hotel.,Soak She spent some time ing in a hot bath. The rain poured down, ing their hair.,Foot Soak,pedicure,Detailed Reading,He ripped his T-shirt into pieces, soaked the pieces in water and gave them to colleagues to cover their faces. Amo

51、ng them: Harry Ramos, head trader at May Davis. Mayblum had worked with Ramos off and on for 14 years. Sparks bit at Mayblums ankles as he raced for the stairs. He bolted down two flights before realizing that his trading partner, Hong Zhu, had been left behind. He went back upstairs, the whole area

52、 now filled with smoke and burning jet fuel.,Explosion,Detailed Reading,There was no sign of Hong. Mayblum hurried down again and made it to the 78th floor, a transfer lobby where one set of elevators and stairs ended and another began. He saw a reassuring sight; Ramos had waded into the pandemonium

53、 to help panicked workers into a stairwell.,wade into : begin to deal with someone or sth. waded into the task 投入到工作中,If there ispandemoniumin a place, the people there are Behaving in a very noisy and uncontrolled way. 喧闹；嘈杂；混乱,He walked into the chaos with great determination (difficulty),There wa

54、s when the news was announced.,Stairwell (楼梯井) Hong left alone.,Main idea: the most dangerous moment,Detailed Reading,“We really have to move,” Hong said. The rumbles of the collapsing tower next door seemed to sap the heavyset man of his last gasps of energy. “I cant do it anymore,” he said, sittin

55、g down. Hong and Ramos tried to persuade him to continue. “You dont have to move your legs!” Hong shouted. “Just move your butt. Lets go!” But the man couldnt go on. A fireman ran up to them. Hong expected that he would join in to get the heavy man to move. Instead, the fireman turned to Hong.,sap v

56、t. weaken slowly 消耗（精力）；消弱（信心）,Synonym:,weaken, exhaust, drain,Collocation:,sap up on sb. beat up sb. 殴打某人,Detailed reading,我担心患病已让我元气大伤。,Im afraid sickness had sapped my strength.,Butt Hip Buttocks Bottom Behind Backside,Big Butt Chairs,86,Beer bellyLove handle,Double chin,87,Detailed Reading,“Who

57、are you, screaming at him to get out?” the fireman shouted. “You get out!” Hong looked at Ramos, who was still standing with the heavyset man. “Im coming down with you,” Ramos told the man. “Im not going to leave.” “I left,” Hong says sorrowfully. “Alone.”,Whats the main idea of this part?,The gathering of some of the survivors and the victims family members in memory of the dead after the dis