1217reading.ppt

1、2013.12.17,高二英语备课组,The UN,bringing everyone closer together,ZhaoShuxian,2013.12.17,高二英语备课组,2013.12.17,高二英语备课组, review some reading skills according to the text, learn how to understand the speakers attitude, and know some information of the UN.,Learning targets:,2013.12.17,高二英语备课组,Read the text quic

2、kly and divide the text into three parts.,Part 1,Part 2,Part 3,Brief introduction of the UN,What Tang Ning has done as a UN Goodwill Ambassador,The problems the UN helps solve and its goals to achieve by 2015,Para_,Para_,Para_,(1-3),(4-5),(6),2013.12.17,高二英语备课组,What reading strategy have you adopted

3、?,2013.12.17,高二英语备课组,A Goodwill Ambassador 1945 51 1.35yuan 2000 2015,Say something about the following information.,2013.12.17,高二英语备课组,What reading strategy have you adopted?,2013.12.17,高二英语备课组,Fill in the blanks.,2013.12.17,高二英语备课组,The United Nations (the UN),When it was set up,Countries in the UN

4、,Fill in the blanks.,After the Second World War in October 1945,(originally) 51 countries,(recently) 192 countries,2013.12.17,高二英语备课组,Fill in the blanks.,The United Nations (the UN),Its four main functions,_,2._,_,3._,_,_,4._,to keep international peace;,_,_,to develop friendly relationships among n

5、ations;,to be a center for organizing the actions or work of different nations.,to work together in solving international political conflicts and in promoting respect for human rights;,2013.12.17,高二英语备课组,4._,_,Helps end some of the worlds most horrible conflicts;,Fill in the blanks.,The United Natio

6、ns (the UN),Problems it helps to deal with,_,_,_,5._,_,2._,assists the victims of wars and disasters;,3._,improves international laws;,protects human rights;,helps with other problems such as lack of education, starvation, disasters,AIDS and other diseases.,2013.12.17,高二英语备课组,What reading strategy h

7、ave you adopted?,2013.12.17,高二英语备课组,victim volunrary,Guess the meaning of the following words .,2013.12.17,高二英语备课组,What reading strategy have you adopted?,2013.12.17,高二英语备课组,How to understand the authors/speakers /others attitude?,A new reading strategy,2013.12.17,高二英语备课组,Compare these expressions.,

8、I am very happy to have been chosen to be a Goodwill Ambassador for them.,some of the worlds most horrible conflicts,attitude?,2013.12.17,高二英语备课组,positive negative,Try to understand the speakers attitude.,happy pleased honored fortunate,horrible difficult angry unhappy,2013.12.17,高二英语备课组,Practice ma

9、kes perfect!,2013.12.17,高二英语备课组,Example 1: Why isnt your newspaper reporting any good news? All I read about is murder, bribery and death. Frankly, Im sick of all the bad news. Q: The authors attitude towards the newspaper reporting is to _. A. complainB. apologize C. amuse D. inform,2013.12.17,高二英语

10、备课组,Example 2: New technology links the world as never before. Our planet has become smaller. Its now a “global village” where countries are only seconds away by fax or phone or satellite link. And, of course, our ability to benefit from high-tech communication equipment is greatly increased by fore

11、ign language skills. Q: What is the authors attitude towards high-tech communication equipment? A. Critical B. Prejudiced C. Indifferent D. Positive,2013.12.17,高二英语备课组,Example3: To curb(抑制) the spread of the deadly virus, the government of Macao Special Administrative Region(SAR) has formed a joint-

12、department committee in 2005 to fight AIDS, and the SARs anti-drug law was promulgated (公布，发表)in 2009. Q:Whats the attitude of the government towards AIDS? A.Neutral B.Positive C.Negative D.Indifferent,2013.12.17,高二英语备课组,Example 4: Four people in England, back in 1953, stared at Photo 51. It wasnt m

13、ucha picture showing a black X. But three of these people won the Nobel Prize for figuring out what the photo really showedthe shape of DNA. The discovery brought fame and fortune to scientists James Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins. The fourth, the one who actually made the picture, was l

14、eft out. In 1962 at the Nobel Prize awarding ceremony, Wilkins thanked 13 colleagues by name before he mentioned Franklin. Watson wrote his book laughing at her. Crick wrote in 1974 that “Franklin was only two steps away from the solution.” Q: Whats the authors attitude towards Wilkins, Watson and C

15、rick? A. Disapproving B. Respectful C. Admiring D. Doubtful,2013.12.17,高二英语备课组,1. What is stressed in the first paragraph? A. The present situation of the internet. B. The difficulty in communication on the internet. C. The socially valuable function of the internet. D. The role of the human mind in

16、 the internet communication. 2. The underlined word engagement in the second paragraph probably means _. A. appointment B. connection C. interview D. agreement,2013.12.17,高二英语备课组,3. According to the passenger, the author holds the view that_. A. the internet fails to play so valuable a role in commu

17、nication as it promised B. the internet determines the quality of social relationships C. the internet greatly increases the size of social circles D. the internet communication is no less effective than the face-to-face talk 4. What is the authors attitude towards the use of the internet to strengt

18、hen relationships? A. He is uncertain about it. B. He is hopeful of it. C. He approves of it. D. He doubts it.,2013.12.17,高二英语备课组,The Internet will open up new vistas (前景), create the global village you can make new friends all around the world. That, at least, is what it promised us. The difficulty

19、 is that it did not take the human mind into account. The reality is that we cannot keep relationship than a limited number of people. No matter how hard the Internet tries to put you in communication, its best efforts will be defeated by your mind. The problem is twofold（双重的）. First, there is a lim

20、it on the number of people we can hold in mind and have a meaningful relationship with. That number is about 150 and is set by the size of our brain. Second, the quality of your relationships depends on the amount of time you invest （投入）in then. We invest a lot in a small number of people and then d

21、istribute whats left among as many others as we can. The problem is that if we invest little time in a person, our engagement with that person will decline（减弱）until eventually it dies into “someone I once knew”.来源:Zxxk.Com This is not, of course, to say that the internet doesnt serve a socially valu

22、able function. Of course it does. But the question is not that it allows you to increase the size of your social circle to include the rest of the world, but that you can keep your relationships with your existing friends going even though you have to more to the other side of the world.来源:Zxxk.Com In one sense, thats a good thing. But it also has a disadvantage. If you continue to invest in your old friends even though you can no longer see then, then certainly you