Step by Step 3000 Teaching Plan Unit 1-7(答案加内容)

Unit 1 World News: International Relations

I Teaching objectives and requirements: Objectives:

1 To let students master certain English listening skills;

2 To let students learn about the world news, focusing on international relations; 3 To make students broaden their eyesight to know more about world news by way of listening extensively. II Difficult and key points:

Key points: Listening skills and the expressions on international relations

Difficult points: Some of the words and sentence structures and sentences on international relations. III Teaching approaches:

1. Task-based instruction, 2. Learner-centered instruction, 3. Interactive teaching

4. Communicative language teaching, 5. Cooperative learning. IV Time allotment: 4 classes V Teaching procedures:

Main teaching contents and steps

Step 1 Discussion (10 minutes) Two topics for discussion:

Topic one: How to develop our English listening well?

Topic two: What do you know about international relations?

Goal: To learn some skills on English listening and to begin the content to be learned in Unit One.

Step 2 Main content in Chapter 1 (145 minutes) Part I Warming up Part II News report

Part III Anti-piracy mission Part IV Speeches Part I Warming up A

Words learning:

radical change (根本变革), further fighting (进一步的战斗), bomb (炸弹, 爆炸), depleted uranium (贫铀), allay (减轻，缓和), disquiet (使不安, 使担心), ammunition (弹药), Macedonian (马其顿人, 马其顿的), Albanian (阿尔巴尼亚人, 阿尔巴尼亚人的) guerrilla (游击队, 游击战), 大猩猩(gorilla), Bosnia(波斯尼亚), Kosovo (科索沃), Kuwait (科威特), navy aircraft (海军飞机), hit (袭击, 碰撞), push for (奋力争取), NATO (北约: 北大西洋公约组织, North Atlantic Treaty Organization).

Tape listening:

Listen to the CD from the computer first and then check the answers.

1. The former American Defense Secretary William Perry has recommended a

radical change of policy towards North Korea. 2. Hundreds of thousands of mothers from across the United States gathered here in Washington Sunday to push for tougher gun control laws. 3. There’s been further fighting between Macedonian forces and Ethnic Albanian guerrillas inside the Macedonian border with Kosovo. 4. A bomb dropped by United States navy aircraft during training in Kuwait has hit a group of military observers, killing six of them. 5. NATO is taking a number of steps to allay growing disquiet about the possible health risks from ammunitions containing depleted uranium, which it used in Kosovo and Bosnia. B

Words learning

summit (峰会), collision (碰撞, 冲突), eradicate (根除, 消灭), shrug off (摆脱), denunciation (谴责), regime (政体, 政权, 管理体制), pluck (摘, 拔, 扯), upsurge (高涨, 高潮) breach (破坏, 打破), vessel (船, 舰), West Bank (约旦河西岸), Gaza (加沙地区)，reverse ( 扭转, 颠倒), ASEAN: Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( 东南亚国家联盟, 简称东盟), rank (n. 1. 等级; 地位,身份 2. 社会阶层;军阶,军衔 3. 高地位,高身份,显贵 4. 排,横), Rangoon (仰光:缅甸首都) USS(the United States Ship: 美国军舰) Greenville:军舰名 emergency surfacing drill (紧急海上演习), Coast Guard (海岸警卫队), Israeli (以色列的, 以色列人的, n 以色列人), troops (部队,军队), Palestinian (巴勒斯坦的, 巴勒斯坦人的，n 巴勒斯坦), gunmen (枪手), rage (vi. 大怒；流行，风行).

Tape listening:

Listen to the CD from the computer first and then check the answers.

1. To make commitments to eradicate poverty, promote democracy and education, and reverse the spread of AIDS. 2. Burma, Cambodia, and Laos. 3. A US nuclear submarine tore through a Japanese fishing vessel, sinking it within minutes.

35/9 4. Gun battles between Israeli troops and Palestinian gunmen have been raging overnight. 5. Some nuclear facilities have breached many health and safety laws. More than half of the nuclear plants failed some basic tests, such as checking radiation measurements. Part II News report A

Words learning:

Ballot ((以无记名)投票,投票表决[(+for/against)], e.g.: They balloted for a new chairman. 他们投票选举了新主席), contention (争论，争辩，论点), lobby (v 游说, n 大厅, 休息厅), UN General Assembly (联合国大会), Mauritius (毛里求斯), Security Council (安全理事会), Organization of African Unity (OAU, 非洲统一组织，1963)，allot (分配，分派), balloting (投票), King Harald (哈拉德王),

Tape listening:

Listen to the CD from the computer first and then check the answers.

Summary

The news report tells us that the United Nations General Assembly has elected Columbia, Ireland, Mauritius, Norway and Singapore as the new non-permanent members of the Security Council. Statements:

1. Columbia, Ireland, and Singapore won their seats as non-permanent members of the security Council on the first round of balloting while Mauritius and Norway won their seats on the fourth ballot. 2. Sudan and Mauritius are two candidates competing for the second seat for the African and Asian group. 3. There were three countries contending for the two seats allotted to the western industrialized group of nations. 4. The Security Council is made up of 15 members, including five permanent members — China, France, Great Britain, Russia, and the United States and 10 non-permanent members. B

Words learning

abstain(自制, 放弃), high-profile (高调的, 知名度高的), genocide (种族灭绝), UN Human Rights Commission (人权委员会), Bosnian (波斯尼亚人, 波斯尼亚人的), Rwanda (卢旺达：东非国家), maneuver（用计谋，调遣） cycle of violence (暴力周期), dissenting (不同意的), East Timor (东帝汶), volatile (不稳定的)

Tape listening:

Listen to the CD from the computer first and then check the answers. Summary

This news report tells us that the United Nations Human Rights Commissions was going to hold an emergency meeting to deal with the crisis situation between Israeli and Palestinians. Answers to the questions:

1. 53 2. 48 3. 3

4. The United States 5. Canada

6. On October 18th

7. No more than three days

8. To get the Israelis and Palestinians back to the negotiating table 9. 4 / Bosnian War / genocide in Rwanda / violence in East Timor Part III Anti-piracy mission A

Words learning:

Warship (战舰，军舰) , operation (操作, 经营), Somalia (索马里：非洲) ),

surveillance (监督, 监视), deter (制止, 阻止), vis-à-vis (和面对面, 同相比), ransom (赎金, 赎回), infested (被扰乱的) infest (骚扰, 扰乱). EU’s Naval Operation (海军作战), crew (全体人员, 全体船员), robust (强健的,强有力的), Gulf of Aden (亚丁湾)

Tape listening:

Listen to the CD from the computer first and then check the answers.

EU’s Naval Operation

The massive problem: Piracy off Somalia’s waters

Almost 100 ships were attacked this year alone. Somali pirates are holding about 16 ships and more than 350 crew members off their country’s coast.

EU’s mission:

Sending 6 warships and more than 3 surveillance planes to tackle the problem Aim: To deter, to prevent, to protect and, in particular, to protect the UN humanitarian component (成分, 组件) in those waters vis-à-vis Somalia.

Headquarters: Near London Duration: At least a year B

Words learning

Chinese naval task force (特遣部队, 特别小组, 工作小组), escort mission (护航使命, 护航任务), rear admiral (海军少将), applause (欢呼, 鼓掌), combat (与…战斗, 反对), secure (vt. 保护), safeguard (保护, 捍卫), special forces (特种部队), appeal (恳求).

Tape listening:

Listen to the CD from the computer first and then check the answers.

Chinese Navy’s Escort Mission against Piracy

Primary mission: To secure vessels, personnel and cargo, but not to hit piracy off the Somali coast directly.

Target: To protect the ships and personnel passing through the area (the Gulf of Aden and waters off the coast of Somalia); to safeguard the vessels transporting humanitarian materials from international organizations. Number of crew members:

800 incl. 70 soldiers from the Navy’s special forces. Duration of the first phase: Three months Time ready to receive protection appeals: Jan. 6 Part IV Speeches

Words learning

Space project (太空计划), touch, swelter (使闷热, 使中暑), oasis (绿洲), vindication (辩护, 证明无罪), cynicism (愤世嫉俗), creed (信条, 教义), affirmatively (肯定地, 断然地), tribute (颂词, 礼赞), Georgia (乔治亚州), injustice (歧视, 不公平), oppression (压迫), content of their character (品质的含量, 人品的内涵)，restore (还原, 恢复), Ann Nix Cooper( Ann Louise Nixon Cooper (January 9, 1902 – December 21, 2009) was a centenarian mentioned in United States President-elect Barack Obama's November 2008 election speech as a representative of the change in status African Americans had undergone during the past century and more in America. Before that, she was a noted member of the Atlanta African-American community and an activist for civil rights.), reclaim (开拓, 改造)

Tape listening:

Listen to the CD from the computer first and then check the answers. Extract 1 (Expressing an opinion): I believe that … I believe we should… Extract 2 (Paying a tribute): He said to those he touched and who sought to touch him…

Extract 3 (Expressing an opinion): I have a dream… Extract 4 (Expressing an opinion): America needs a full-time President and a full-time Congress. Extract 5 (accepting a post): I am profoundly grateful … for giving me the chance to serve you. (making a promise): I will do everything I can be worthy of … I promise you… that I will…

Extract 6 (Expressing determination): This is our time, to put … to restore… to reclaim…Yes, we can. Step 3 Knowledge Extension (20 minutes)

Listen to the latest world news on international relations.

Goal: To further know about international relations. Step 4 Problem-Solving and Homework (5 minutes)

Homework:

1. Review the content learned this class.

2. Do certain practice on English listening from BBC or VOA, or other programs and show the general idea for each class from the second week.

3. Preview Unit 2 so as to be familiar with the content.

4. Any questions on English listening and English learning can be submitted to me or solved in class with your active proposal.

5. You shall insist on listening to English programs at least 30 minutes each day. Goal: To solve the problems students have in class and ask students to do certain homework to reinforce their knowledge on world news focusing on international relations.

Design of teaching process: Review for 10 minutes, textbook learning for 100 minutes, knowledge extension for 20 minutes, and offering assignment for 5 minutes.

Remarks: Add certain knowledge on international relations.

Some websites for English listening: 1. 人人听力网http://www.rrting.com/ 2. 普特英语听力http://www.putclub.com/ 3. 可可英语网http://www.kekenet.com/

4. 在线英语听力室http://www.tingroom.com/ 5. 听力特快http://www.listeningexpress.com/ 6. 沪江英语http://ts.hjenglish.com/ 7. 我爱英语网http://www.52en.com/tl/ 8. 听力课堂http://www.tingclass.net/ English programs:

BBC, VOA, CRI, CCTV 9 , etc

Unit 2 World News: Earth and Environment

I Teaching objectives and requirements: Objectives:

1 To let students master certain English listening skills;

2 To let students learn about the world news, focusing on the topics of earth and environment;

3 To make students broaden their eyesight to know more about world news on earth and environment by way of listening extensively. II Difficult and key points:

Key points: Listening skills and the expressions on earth and environment

Difficult points: Some of the words and sentence structures and sentences on earth and environment. III Teaching approaches:

1. Task-based instruction, 2. Learner-centered instruction, 3. Interactive teaching

4. Communicative language teaching, 5. Cooperative learning. IV Time allotment: 4 classes V Teaching procedures:

Main teaching contents and steps

Step 1 Review (5 minutes)

Review what we have learned in Unit 1 on the topic of international relations Part I Warming up Part II News report

Part III Anti-piracy mission Part IV Speeches

Goal: To review the learned points and begin the new learning content of Unit 2.

Step 2 Classmates’ presentation(10 minutes) Requirements for classmates’ presentation:

 1. Each classmate makes the presentation for about 2 minutes.

 2. 3 classmates are to take part in the presentation voluntarily or passively.  3. The presentation is recorded as a classroom performance.

 4. While listening, the other classmates shall listen to the presentation carefully and intensively.

 5. If you have questions, you can ask after the presentation.

Goal: To check and train students’ English listening effect and their English speaking ability.

Main content in Chapter 2 (145 minutes) Part I Warming up Part II News report Part III City recycling

Part IV Language study and language appreciation

Part I Warming up A

Words learning:

oil spill (漏油, 浮油, 石油漏出), spill (n 溢出,溅出, 摔下vi 溢出, 流出, 摔下vt 使流出 使溢出, 使摔下), wildfires (野火, 大火灾), melting (融化的, 溶解的), blaze (n 火焰 烈火 vi 燃烧, 发光, 激发 vt 在树皮上刻路标，公开宣布), coastal regions (沿岸区域, 滨海区), desertification (沙漠化, 荒漠化), Brazil (巴西), San Diego (圣地亚哥，加州港口城市), crew (船员), Everglades (埃弗格莱兹, 弗罗里达的城市), contained (被控制的, 被遏制), Space Agency (航天局, 宇航局), Greenland (格陵兰岛, 北美东北的一大岛, 属丹麦), ice sheet (冰层)

Tape listening:

Listen to the CD from the computer first and then check the answers.

1. New research on the likely impact of climate change suggests that damage to crops in low-lying coastal regions could be worse that previously thought. 2. More than 2000 delegates from around the world have gathered in northern Brazil for the third United Nations Conference on Desertification. 3. Crews are working to clean up a huge oil spill off the coast of Mexico, about 50 miles south of San Diego.

4. Wildfires in the Florida Everglades have been contained after nearly a week of blazes that consumes 65, 000 hectares in the southern part of the state.

5. A US Space Agency study finds that Greenland is melting around the edges. The loss to the world’s second largest ice sheet – more that 50 cubic kilometers per year – is enough to raise global sea level by 0.12 millimeters. B

Words learning

Water plan (水利计划), reptile (爬行动物), aerial offensive (空气传播侵害), directory (名录，人名地址簿), plants (植物，工厂), deformity (畸形), salamander (蝾螈，火蜥蜴), alligator (鳄鱼), eradicate (根除，消灭), herbicide (除草剂), sawgrass (锯齿草), xeriscaping (节水型园艺), World Conservation Union (世界自然保护联盟), Boulder County Green Pages (圆石县绿色倡议), amphibian (两栖类的), poppy (波比, 罂粟花), sphere (范围), Rotary Clubs(扶轮社，扶轮国际的分支机构), put together (组合). sponsoring group(赞助团体)

Tape listening:

Listen to the CD from the computer first and then check the answers.

1. It attempts to balance environmental concerns and the needs of the community. 2. Reptile species are in greater trouble than amphibian species. 3. A new approach in the fight against the illegal drugs trade. 4. One in every eight species of plants is threatened with extinction. 5. A new local directory for the environmentally-aware, called the “Boulder County Green Pages”.

Part II News report

A

Words learning:

deteriorate (恶化, 变坏), vibrancy (振动，活力), coral reef (珊瑚礁), glacier (冰河，冰川)， Worldwatch Institute (世界观察研究所), State of the World 2000 (2000年世界状况), Daimler-Chrysler (戴姆勒-克莱斯勒), Shell Oil (壳牌石油公司) hydrogen powered economy (氢动力经济)

Tape listening:

Listen to the CD from the computer first and then check the answers.

An annual study by the Worldwatch Institute in Washington says with the boom in the information economy(信息经济，咨询经济), Americans have lost sight of the deteriorating health of the planet. The fast growing information economy is affecting every aspect of life, from communication, commerce and work, to education and entertainment. The Worldwatch Institute gives the earth an annual physical exam (体检, 实际检查). According to this year’s result, almost all those vital signs of the health of the earth, including the number of species, the stability of climate, the health of coral reefs, show deterioration. Other warning signs are rising temperatures, falling water tables (地下水位，潜水面), melting glaciers, shrinking forests, and collapsing fisheries. The major environmental challenges in the 21st century will be to stabilize both climate and world population growth. B

Words learning

global solutions(全球解决方案), overuse (过度使用), catastrophic (灾难的), scarcity (不足，缺乏), potable (适于饮用的), sanitary (n. 公共厕所 adj. 卫生的, 清洁的), World Meteorological Organization (世界气候组织)

Tape listening:

Listen to the CD from the computer first and then check the answers. Summary

This news report is about the severe shortage of water in some developing nations. It will lead to catastrophic consequences unless global solutions are found soon. Answers to the questions:

1. 150 2. Monday

3. Almost one billion people could suffer from a scarcity of water.

4. Middle East, parts of Africa, western Asia, northeaster China, western and southern India, large parts of Pakistan and Mexico, parts of the Pacific coast of the United States and South America.

5. To treat water as a precious resource. 6. 5 liters 7. 50 liters 8. 500 liters

Part III City recycling A

Words learning:

landfill (垃圾填埋地, 垃圾堆), recyclables (可回收物, 可循环利用物), curb (抑制, 路边, 勒马绳)side，bustle (喧嚣, 热闹的活动), mound (高地, 堆), commingle (混合, 合并), assorted (组合的, 各式各样的, 混杂的), forklift (铲车, 叉车), fuzz (n. 绒毛, 模糊, 细毛), North Carolina (北卡罗来纳州), Charlotte Mecklenburg (夏洛特 梅克伦堡)“Recycle Now” truck, FCR, porch (门廊, 走廊), plastic wood (塑料木)

Tape listening:

Listen to the CD from the computer first and then check the answers. A

2 4 3 1 B

1. 130, 000 / 80%

2. Plastics / glass / tin cans / newspapers 3. Recycle truck picks it up.

4. One of community’s recycling centers 5. Each weekday

6. Conducts tours of the plant 7. 3/4

8. Sold to other companies that make them into different products. 9. Made into new containers.

10. One of the top five in the USA

Part IV Language study and language appreciation

Words learning

to press the case for (敦促, 要求), head-on (adj. 正面的；直接的；头朝前的，adv. 迎头；头朝前地；正面针对地) Tape listening:

To listen to the CD to appreciate the use of the words and expressions Step 3 Knowledge Extension (15 minutes)

Listen to the latest world news on earth and environment.

Goal: To further know about earth and environment. Step 4 Problem-Solving and Homework (5 minutes)

Homework:

1. Review the content learned this class.

2. Do certain practice on English listening from BBC or VOA, or other programs and show the general idea for each class from the second week.

3. Preview Unit 3 so as to be familiar with the content.

4. Any questions on English listening and English learning can be submitted to me or solved in class with your active proposal.

5. You shall insist on listening to English programs at least 30 minutes each day. Goal: To solve the problems students have in class and ask students to do certain homework to reinforce their knowledge on world news focusing on earth and environment.

Design of teaching process: Review for 10 minutes, textbook learning for 100 minutes, knowledge extension for 20 minutes, and offering assignment for 5 minutes.

Remarks: Add certain knowledge on earth and environment.

Unit 3 World News: Economic Developments

I Teaching objectives and requirements: Objectives:

1 To let students master certain English listening skills;

2 To let students learn about the world news, focusing on economic developments;

3 To make students broaden their eyesight to know more about world news on economic developments by way of listening extensively. II Difficult and key points:

Key points: Listening skills and the expressions on economic developments

Difficult points: Some of the words and sentence structures and sentences on economic developments. III Teaching approaches:

1. Task-based instruction, 2. Learner-centered instruction, 3. Interactive teaching

4. Communicative language teaching, 5. Cooperative learning. IV Time allotment: 4 classes V Teaching procedures:

Main teaching contents and steps

Step 1 Review (5 minutes)

Review what we have learned in Unit 3 on the topics of earth and environment Part I Warming up Part II News report Part III City recycling

Part IV Language study and language appreciation

Goal: To review the learned points and begin the new learning content of Unit 3.

Step 2 Classmates’ presentation (10 minutes) Requirements for classmates’ presentation:

 1. Each classmate makes the presentation for about 2 minutes.

 2. 3 classmates are to take part in the presentation voluntarily or passively.  3. The presentation is recorded as a classroom performance.

 4. While listening, the other classmates shall listen to the presentation carefully and intensively.

 5. If you have questions, you can ask after the presentation.

Goal: To check and train students’ English listening effect and their English speaking ability.

Main content in Chapter 3 (100 minutes) Part I Warming up Part II News report

Part III Voice mail may cost company’s business

Part IV Business jargon Part I Warming up A

Words learning:

outlook (前景，展望), foreign investment (外国投资), income tax cut (所得税消减), job cuts (工作减少，职位减少), animal produce (畜产品), slowdown (放缓，减慢), impose (施加，强加), live-stock (家畜，牲畜), Central Bank (中央银行，央行)，UN Conference on Trade and Development (联合国贸易与发展大会), United States House of Representatives (美国众议院), foot-and-mouth disease (口蹄疫)

Tape listening:

Listen to the CD from the computer first and then check the answers. 1. Central Bank governors from more than a dozen countries. 2. It grew by 40% last year to more than 600 billions dollars. 3. The United States House of Representatives. 4. Intel; To reduce 5000. 5. EU has imposed further restrictions on the movement of live-stock. The US and Canada has issued temporary bans on the import of animal produce from EU. B

Words learning

Earnings (收入，工资，薪金), batter ( n. 击球手；（用鸡蛋、牛奶、面粉等调成的）糊状物；墙面的倾斜. vt. 猛击；打坏；使向上倾斜. vi. 接连猛击；向上倾斜), profit taking (获利完成，实现利润，见利抛售), turnover (营业额，人员流动), London’s 100 Share Index (伦敦一百种股票指数)，Nikkei Share Index(日经指数，最重要、最著名的日本股票指数), FT 100 Index (英国《金融时报》100种股票指数), CAC Quarante (The CAC 40 is a benchmark French stock market index), DAX (德国综合指数), arrow (箭头) Dow Jones (道琼斯股票指数), active stock (活跃股票), Hang Seng Index (香港恒生股票指数), Cable and Wireless HKT (Hong Kong Telecommunications ) (香港有线无线电信股票), HSBC (汇丰银行：The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation)，Hutchison (和记电讯：香港企业名), Shanglongkai Property (财产), Pacific Century Cyberworlds (盈科拓展集团网络世界), CCT Telecom (中建电讯), New World CyberBase (新世界数码基地), Hanong Holdings (控股，控股公司), Philips Electronics (飞利浦电子公司), Royal Dutch Shell (荷兰皇家壳牌), Electronic Data Systems (电子数据系统公司)

Tape listening:

Listen to the CD from the computer first and then check the answers. 1. Foreign exchange rates:

1 dollar = 1.733 German marks = 126.9 Japanese yen

1 pound = 1.624 dollars Share Index:

Dow Jones ↑ 6,783 (+45) London’s 100 ↑ 4,390 (+20)

Nikkei closed 2. Share Index:

Dow Jones ↑ 10,116 (+96) Standard and Poor’s 500 ↑ 1,254 (+6) NASDAQ ↓ (-1.5%) 3. Share Index:

Dow Jones ↓ 8,094 (-66) NASDAQ ↓ 1,662 (-3) FT 100 ↓ (-36) CAC Quarante ↓ (-33, -1%) DAX ↓ (-1%) 4. Most active stocks:

Cable and Wireless HKT ↑ $0.45 HSBC ↓ $0.50 Hutchison ↓ $0.50 Shanglongkai Property ↑ $2.25 China Telecom ↓ $1.50 Chang Kong ↑ $0.25 Pacific Century Cyberworlds ↓ $0.10 CCT Telecom ↓ $0.275 New World CyberBase ↓ $0.075 Hanong Holdings ↓ $0.25 Gold prices:

Hong Kong gold: HK$ 2670 London gold: US$ 289 5. Earnings:

Philips Electronics (last year):

$ 2.4 billion dollars ($ 300 million ↓) Royal Dutch Shell (4th quarter) $ 3.6 billion Electronic data Systems (4th quarter) $ 0.70 per share ($ 0.02 ↑) Part II News report A

Words learning:

composite formula (合成公式), market capitalization (市值，市场总值，市场资本值), merger (合并, 并购), acquisition (收购，购买), cite (引用，表彰，引证), “Super 100 Global” list (全球一百强名单)

Tape listening:

Listen to the CD from the computer first and then check the answers. Summary

This news report is about Forbes’s “Super 100 Global ” list. Answer the questions: 1. 2 Citigroup

4 HSBC Banking Company 5 Daimler-Chrysler

1 General Electric Corporation 3 Bank of America 2. The companies are ranked with a composite formula, which includes total sales, profits, assets and market capitalization, or the total value of their stock. 3. 46 in the United States, 54 in Europe and Japan 4. Because most of the Internet-related firms have little or no profits so far. B

Words learning

Blue chips (蓝筹股), rally (集会), edge (边缘，优势), clouded (阴云密布的，有暗影的，阴的), strategist (战略家，军事家)

Tape listening:

Listen to the CD from the computer first and then check the answers. Summary

This news report gives us a general picture of the US stock market. It also presents some analysts’ views on the market. Statements:

1. The Dow Jones Industrial Average went up less than one percent, to 10,546. 2. An analyst said that sales growth at Intel could be stronger than expected. 3. Retail stocks gained on stronger-than-expected sales because of the Thanksgiving holiday shopping season. 4. Sales of existing homes fell a steep 3.9% in October, their second monthly decline.

5. According to investment strategist Alan Skrainka, this is a very good entry point for a long-term investor to get in the market. Part III Voice mail may cost company’s business A

Words learning:

Voice mail (语音邮件，语音信箱), ad campaign (广告活动), high service (高技术服务), voice jail (声音监狱, voice jail is the place in voicemail from which there is no escape, except to hang up.), Etiquette Guide (礼仪向导), turn off (关掉，关闭；拐弯，使转变方向), health maintenance organization (HMO, 保健组织，健康维护组织), lampoon (讽刺，讽刺文章), disembodied (adj. 空洞的；无实质的；无实体的), fidelity (n. 保真度；忠诚；精确；尽责), spoof (vt. 哄骗；戏弄；对…作幽默讽刺. vi. 行骗；开玩笑. n. 诳骗；愚弄；戏弄；讽刺性文章. adj. 哄骗的), fury (狂怒), run-in (n. 试车；插入部分；争论，车辆出入通道，汽车通道，路口), flawed (adj. 有缺陷的；有瑕疵的；有裂纹的), overhaul (vt. 分解检查，大修；追上并超过. n. 彻底检修，详细检查), backlash (n. 后座；反斜线；后冲, 回拨), TakeCare (当心，照料), Plogue Research (研究), Pacific Bell (太平洋贝尔电话公司)

Tape listening:

Listen to the CD from the computer first and then check the answers. A

Jud Jessup (TakeCare HMO): We strive to deliver personalized service and we’ve

always positioned our company as what we call a “ high service” HMO. And we

don’t think that getting a recording is high service. It may – may be efficient, and it may be cost effective, but it’s not high service. …

People have individual problems. I think there’ll always be a place for personalized service.

Stanley Plogue (Plogue Research): About a fourth of the people said they have not let out a contractor or supplier because they didn’t like their voice mail system. And others have just given up with trying to deal with certain companies. Sandy Hale (Pacific Bell): As companies are, you know, watching what’s happening

to their bottom line, and see what’s happening with their costs, they are looking for ways to become more efficient at what they do, including their customer service operations, and voice mail is certainly a valuable tool. B

1. T 2. T 3. F 4.F 5.T 6. F 7. F 8. T 9. T 10. T C

3. Five years ago, people were wary of voice-mail.

4. TakeCare used a funny voice-mail message in its advertisements. 6. Voice-mail decreases contact between customers and companies. 7. The problem is not the technology, but the voice-mail menus. Part IV Business Jargon

Words learning

Short-cuts (捷径), jargon (行话，术语), language shorthand (语言速记（法）), stakeholder (n. 利益相关者；赌金保管者), baffle (vt. 使…困惑；使…受挫折；用挡板控制. n. 挡板；困惑. vi. 做徒劳挣扎), fall foul (相撞), Investors in People (投资于人，认证)

Tape listening:

Listen to the CD from the computer first and then check the answers. A

1. Jargon is simply a kind of language shorthand that lets us say what we mean quickly.

2. A report just out in Britain claims that most managers overuse business jargon and that this has a negative effect on how staff feel. 3. Most employees in Britain have a low opinion of colleagues who use management jargon. Over a third of those surveyed think it shows a lack of confidence and almost one in five think people who use it are untrustworthy or trying to cover something up. 4. Peter Russian from Investors in People said that an effective boss is one who can communicate in a way which everyone can easily understand, not one who uses a lot of management jargon. B 1.T 2.T 3.F 4.F 5.F

C 1.blue-sky thinking: imagine new or different ways of doing things 2. get our ducks in a row: have everything arranged efficiently. 3. brain dump: tell everything you know about a particular subject. 4. think outside the box: be creative in how you think about problems

5. the helicopter view: an overview 6. a heads up: a warning 7. that’s a real no-brainer：that’s simple Step 3 Knowledge Extension (15 minutes)

Listen to the latest world news on economic developments.

Goal: To further know about economic developments. Step 4 Problem-Solving and Homework (5 minutes)

Homework:

1. Review the content learned this class.

2. Do certain practice on English listening from BBC or VOA, or other programs and show the general idea for each class from the second week.

3. Preview Unit 4 so as to be familiar with the content.

4. Any questions on English listening and English learning can be submitted to me or solved in class with your active proposal.

5. You shall insist on listening to English programs at least 30 minutes each day. Goal: To solve the problems students have in class and ask students to do certain homework to reinforce their knowledge on world news focusing on economic developments.

Design of teaching process: Review for 10 minutes, textbook learning for 100 minutes, knowledge extension for 20 minutes, and offering assignment for 5 minutes.

Remarks: Add certain knowledge on economic developments.

Unit 4 World News: Up in Space

I Teaching objectives and requirements: Objectives:

1 To let students master certain English listening skills;

2 To let students learn about the world news, focusing on space;

3 To make students broaden their eyesight to know more about world news on space by way of listening extensively. II Difficult and key points:

Key points: Listening skills and the expressions on space

Difficult points: Some of the words and sentence structures and sentences on space.

III Teaching approaches:

1. Task-based instruction, 2. Learner-centered instruction, 3. Interactive teaching

4. Communicative language teaching, 5. Cooperative learning. IV Time allotment: 4 classes V Teaching procedures:

Main teaching contents and steps

Step 1 Review (5 minutes)

Review what we have learned in Unit 3 on the topics of earth and environment Part I Warming up Part II News report

Part III Voice mail may cost company’s business Part IV Business jargon

Goal: To review the learned points and begin the learning of Unit 4. Step 2 Classmates’ presentation (10 minutes) Requirements for classmates’ presentation:

 1. Each classmate makes the presentation for about 2 minutes.

 2. 3 classmates are to take part in the presentation voluntarily or passively.  3. The presentation is recorded as a classroom performance.

 4. While listening, the other classmates shall listen to the presentation carefully and intensively.

 5. If you have questions, you can ask after the presentation.

Goal: To check and train students’ English listening effect and their English speaking ability.

Main content in Chapter 3 (100 minutes) Part I Warming up Part II News report

Part III Returning to the Moon

Part IV Language study and language appreciation

Part I Warming up A

Words learning:

Orbit (轨道), order back (命令返回), lift-off (离地升空，垂直发射),

International Space Station (国际太空站，国际空间站), return in triumph (凯旋), reconnaissance ([ri'kɔnisəns] n. [军] 侦察；勘测（等于reconnoissance）；搜索；事先考查), orbiter (n. 人造卫星；盘旋物; 轨道飞行器), abbreviated (简短的，简略的), en route (在途中，在航途中), truss (n. 捆；束；构架vt. 捆绑；用构架支撑), revive (vi. 复兴；复活；苏醒；恢复精神vt. 使复兴；使苏醒；回想起；重演，重播), space probe (航天探测器), Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (火星探测卫星), Cape Canaveral ([航]卡纳维拉尔角（位于美国）), Pathfinder (探路者), Hubble Telescope (哈勃望远镜), space shuttle (航天飞机),

Tape listening:

Listen to the CD from the computer first and then check the answers. 1. To Mars / March of next year. 2. Because of a mechanical problem. 3. 5 males and 2 females. 4. NASA / At the end of September, 83 days after landing. 5. To return home at the Kennedy Space Center after completing repairs on the Hubble Telescope. B

Words learning

Mir (核磁共振，和平号，和平号太空站), cosmonaut (n. （俄）宇航员（等于

astronaut）)，re-entry (重新返回，重返), collison (冲突，碰撞), microbe (细菌，微生物), flawless (无瑕疵的)

Tape listening:

Listen to the CD from the computer first and then check the answers. 1. Length of service: 15 years.

2. Built by: The Soviet Union, now Russia 3. Cost: $ 4.2 billion (for building and maintaining) 4. Time for building: 10 years (1986 - 1996) 5. Weight: 135 tons

6. Volume: 9,900 cubic feet

7. Size: 63 feet wide and 85 feet long 8. Visits to Mir by: 104 cosmonauts, astronauts, and other visitors 9. No. of flights made to Mir: 46

10. Longest single stay in orbit: Cosmonaut Valery Polyakov, 438 days 11. Longest total for human stay in space: Cosmonaut Sergei Avdeyev, totaled 747 days, three separate missions

12. Mir back to Earth: Mar. 23, 2001 Part II News report A

Words learning:

Extrasolar (太阳系以外的), telltale (adj. 报警的；泄密的；搬弄是非的 n. 迹

象；指示器；搬弄是非者adj.报警的；泄密的；搬弄是非的n.迹象；[仪]指示器；搬弄是非者), wobble (vi. 摇晃；摇摆；游移不定n. 摆动；摇晃；不稳定vt. 使摇摆；使颤动；摇动), tug (n. 拖船；拖曳；苦干vi. 用力拉；竞争；努力做vt. 用力拉；较量；用拖船拖), mass （n. 块，团；群众，民众；大量，众多), dwarf (n. 侏儒，矮子, v变矮小，使矮小), proximity (亲近，接近，邻近),Galiese 581 C （Gliese581c欧洲南方天文台的科学家在2007年4月24日发现的一个行星，怀疑可能适合人类居住,可能有液态水存在.Gliese581c围绕着名为Gliese581的红矮星运转。), Neptune (海王星), Libra constellations (天秤座)

Tape listening:

Listen to the CD from the computer first and then check the answers. Summary

This news report is about the discovery of the smallest and most earth-like extrasolar planet. Answer the questions: 1. About a dozen. 2. Five times the mass of the earth 3. A red dwarf 4. Two 5. One is similar to Neptune and the other is 8 times the mass of the earth. little or no profits so far. B

Words learning

Robotic cover (机器人盖)，robotic arm(机器臂), atmosphere (n. 气氛；大气；空气), subsurface (n. 地表下岩石 adj. 地下的，表面下的), installment (n. 分期付款；部分；就职；安装), retrorocket (n. 反向火箭，制动火箭), descent (n. 下降；血统；袭击vt. 除去…的气味；使…失去香味), condensate (n 凝聚物，冷凝物 adj. 凝聚的) , finale (n. 结局；终曲；最后一场；最后乐章；尾声), tentatively (暂时地，试验性地)，Polar Lander (极地登陆者), Mars Climate Orbiter (火星气候轨道器，火星气候探测器), Mars Global Surveyor Orbiter (火星全球探测器), rugged (粗糙的，坚固的), probes (探索，探针), Martian (火星的，火星人的)

Tape listening:

Listen to the CD from the computer first and then check the answers. Event: NASA’s 12-year program of Mars Starting time: 1996 Finishing time: 2008 First installment:

Names of spacecrafts: the Mars Global Surveyor Orbiter / the Pathfinder Lander

Arrival time: 1997 Mission: To collect and analyze rocks Second installment:

Names of spacecrafts: the Polar Lander / the Mars Climate Orbiter Launch time: December Arrival time: Next December Mission:

a. To inspect for subsurface water

b. To measure the distribution of water vapor, dust and condensates Grand finale:

Launch time: 2005 Return time: 2008 Mission: To return soil and rock samples to Earth. Part III Voice mail may cost company’s business A

Words learning:

UK (英国, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and North Ireland)，collaborate (合作，协作), scientific instruments (科学仪器), Chang’e program (计划), space station (空间站，太空站), robotic (机器人的，自动的), phase (相；(天)位相；阶段), Briton (英国人，大不列颠人), Apollo 17 (阿波罗17号), Beagle 2 probe (猎犬2号探测)

Tape listening:

Listen to the CD from the computer first and then check the answers. Summary

This news report is about UK’s possible collaboration with China on the Chang’e program. Answers to the questions: 1. Four phases 2. a. to explore the moon with robotic spacecraft b. to return astronauts to the moon c. to set up a permanent space station. 3. Building of scientific instruments by UK 4. Five days 5. Thirteen days Part IV Language study and language appreciation

Words learning

Impose restrictions on (对… 施加限制), move into record territory (记录范围), post

earnings (公布收益，公布收入), in a rally mode (以一种回升的模式), a holiday-shortened week (因放假而变短的一周), get a boost (帮助，提升，推动，宣扬) from, turn off (使转变方向), be wary of (提防，当心), to lampoon (vt. 讽刺) with, run-in (试车，插入部分), a backlash (后座，后冲) against, get across (通过，使…被理解), baffle (使困惑), to cover up (隐瞒), betray (vt. 背叛，出卖，泄露，露出迹象) the presence (存在，出席) of, tug at (使劲拉), in orbit (在轨道上，在轨道上运行), to unlock (开启，表露) the secret of, to break free of (自由地突破，挣脱束缚)

Tape listening:

To listen to the CD to appreciate the use of the words and expressions Step 3 Knowledge Extension (15 minutes) Listen to the latest world news on space.

Goal: To further know about space.

Step 4 Problem-Solving and Homework (5 minutes)

Homework:

1. Review the content learned this class.

2. Do certain practice on English listening from BBC or VOA, or other programs and show the general idea for each class from the second week.

3. Preview Unit 5 so as to be familiar with the content.

4. Any questions on English listening and English learning can be submitted to me or solved in class with your active proposal.

5. You shall insist on listening to English programs at least 30 minutes each day. Goal: To solve the problems students have in class and ask students to do certain homework to reinforce their knowledge on world news focusing on space.

Design of teaching process: Review for 10 minutes, textbook learning for 100 minutes, knowledge extension for 20 minutes, and offering assignment for 5 minutes.

Remarks: Add certain knowledge on space.

Unit 5 New Explorations in Food and Medicine

I Teaching objectives and requirements: Objectives:

1 To let students master certain English listening skills; 2 To let students learn about food and medicine;

3 To make students broaden their eyesight to know more about food and medicine by way of listening extensively. II Difficult and key points:

Key points: Listening skills and the expressions on food and medicine

Difficult points: Some of the words and sentence structures and sentences on food and medicine.

III Teaching approaches:

1. Task-based instruction, 2. Learner-centered instruction, 3. Interactive teaching

4. Communicative language teaching, 5. Cooperative learning. IV Time allotment: 4 classes V Teaching procedures:

Main teaching contents and steps

Step 1 Review (5 minutes)

Review what we have learned in Unit 4 on the topics of earth and environment Part I Warming up Part II News report

Part III Returning to the Moon

Part IV Language study and language appreciation

Goal: To review the learned points and begin the learning of Unit 5. Step 2 Classmates’ presentation (10 minutes) Requirements for classmates’ presentation:

1. Each classmate makes the presentation for about 2 minutes.

2. 3 classmates are to take part in the presentation voluntarily or passively. 3. The presentation is recorded as a classroom performance.

4. While listening, the other classmates shall listen to the presentation carefully and intensively.

5. If you have questions, you can ask after the presentation.

Goal: To check and train students’ English listening effect and their English speaking ability.

Main content in Chapter 3 (100 minutes) Part I Warming up

Part II Eating right for good health Part III Medical emergency

Part IV Keeping the country healthy Part I Warming up

A1

Words learning:

Transplant surgeon (移植外科医生), glaucoma (青光眼), acupuncture (针灸), adrenal ([ə'dri:nəl] adj. 肾上腺的 n. 肾上腺), gland (腺)，implant (vt. 灌输；种植；嵌入), meridian (adj. 子午线的；最高点的), crisscross (n. 十字形；矛盾), anesthesia (n. 麻醉；麻木: 等于anaesthesia ), primary channel(主通道)

Tape listening:

Listen to the CD from the computer first and then check the answers. 1. A successful brain tissue transplant carried out by a South African surgeon. 2. The discovery of a new way to increase the effectiveness of chemotherapy. 3. The possibility of a new way to treat glaucoma.

4. A new research on writing which shows that writing can result in clinically meaningful outcomes. Or A new research on writing which shows that writing can help people with chronic illness improve their health.

5. The theory and function of acupuncture. A2

1. A week ago / Parkinson’s disease. 2. A natural defense mechanism 3. The death of brain cells

4. Meeting patients’ psychological needs produces physical health benefits. 5. Side effects / cut back on medication.

Original data:

1. The world’s leading transplant surgeon, Dr Christopher Bernard, has carried out one of the most difficult brain tissue transplants yet attempted. The South African surgeon has succeeded in transplanting tissues into the human brain in what is thought to be the first operation of its kind. The surgery was performed a week ago on a patient suffering from Parkinson’s disease. A portion of the patient’s adrenal gland was implanted into a part of the patient’s brain, an operation which has previously been performed only on rats and monkeys.

2. Approximately a third of all people develop cancer at one point in their lives. Chemotherapy has its limitations, but it is one of the major treatment options. Some American scientists have discovered they can increase the effectiveness of chemotherapy by inhibiting a natural defense mechanism employed by cancer cells.

3. Glaucoma is responsible for blindness in an estimated 67 million people around the world. Until now, treatments have focused exclusively on the eyes. But that may change in the next few year, following the discovery that glaucoma involves the death of brain cells.

4. New research shows that the simple act of writing down thoughts about a stressful event can help people with chronic illnesses improve their health. This is the first study to show that writing can result in clinically meaningful outcomes for chronically-ill patients. The study adds to the growing amount of scientific literature suggesting that meeting patient’s psychological needs produces physical health benefits.

5. Traditional Chinese medicine says that good health is associated with the

balance of Qi. Qi can be hindered or helped by yang and yin. According to traditional theory, the goal of acupuncture is to promote the flow of qi by keeping yin and yang in balance ---- and this is done by inserting needles at various points along primary channels and meridians that crisscross the body. One of the key benefits of acupuncture is that it has few, if any, side-effects; and that when used with standard drug treatment --- in anesthesia, for example --- it allows physicians to cut back on medication, delivering the same level of benefit with fewer negative effects. B

Words learning

Pharming (is equal to farming)，pun (双关语；俏皮话)，pharmaceutical (制药（学）的)，subhuman (类人的；近似人类的；低于人类的), pest (害虫)

Tape listening:

Listen to the CD from the computer first and then check the answers.

1. gene / instructions / characteristic / DNA / inserts / another / organism / genetically modified organism / genetic engineering

2. artificial fertilizers / pest control / food / farming / artificial fertilizers / half 3. genetic material / unrelated / another species / animal /plant / going across 4. animals / cows, goats and pigs / genetically changed / pharmaceutical drugs / farming

5. novel / 1797-1851/ scientist / subhuman / destroying / creation that ends up destroying the creator.

Part II Eating right for good health （答案见听力原文中的红色部分） A

Words learning:

Superfoods (超级食品，绿色食品), powerful chemicals (强力化学品), phytochemical (植物化学的, 植物营养素，植化素)，cruciferous vegetable family(十字花科蔬菜的家庭)，organic (有机的；器官的；组织的；根本的)，Omega (最后；终了), soy (酱油；大豆)，vibrantly (充满活力地), dietician (营养学家；膳食学家（等于dietitian）), rosemary ([植]迷迭香，艾菊), thyme ([植]百里香，麝香草), turmeric (n. 姜黄；姜黄根粉末), anti-inflammatory (n. 抗炎药 adj. 抗炎的), colon (n. [解剖] 结肠；冒号（用于引语、说明、例证等之前）；科郎（哥斯达黎加货币单位）), rectal (adj. 直肠的) veggy (n. 蔬菜，蔬菜类，素食主义者adj. 吃素的，素食的), Brussels sprouts (球芽甘蓝（等于Brassica oleracea gemmifera）), cruciferous (adj. 十字花科的), lycopene (n. [生化] 番茄红素),

prostate (adj. 前列腺的n. 前列腺), citrus (n. 柑橘属果树；柑橘类的植物adj. 柑橘属植物的), limonoid (柠檬苦素类化合物), phenol (n. [化]石碳酸，苯酚),

inactivate (vt. 使不活动；使不活泼；阻止活动), cantaloupe (n. 哈密瓜；香瓜；[园艺] 罗马甜瓜), carotenoid (n. 类胡萝卜素), flavonoid (n. 黄酮类；[有化] 类黄酮), ellagic acid (n. 鞣花酸adj. 鞣花酸的), antioxidant (. 抗氧化剂；硬化防止剂；防老化剂), toxicity (n. 毒性)， flaxseed (n. 亚麻仁), fatty acid (脂肪酸)，osteoporosis (n. [外科] 骨质疏松症), shallot (n. 葱)

Tape listening:

Listen to the CD from the computer first and then check the answers.

In North Beach in San Francisco, where some pretty super food gets served every night.

“ Absolutely very super food! ” “ and I really like the taste of it”

But we’re not just talking about taste. Research now shows that some foods, including tomatoes, onions, garlic, and olive oil ---- are among the super foods. Super foods are packed with powerful chemicals that may offer your body great protection against chronic disease--

“Including cancer, obesity, heart disease. Vibrantly colored red, yellow, orange and green all giving you different types of phytochemicals.”

Natalie Ledsma is a registered dietician at U. C. S. F. (University of California, San Francisco: one of the world's leading centers of health sciences research, patient care, and education.). She says compounds found in super foods --- called phytochemicals ---- can reduce the risk of cancer, boost the immune system, and protect the heart. She showed us what everyone should try to eat each week for optimal health.

On her shoppinglist? Herbs!

“Dark green ones (herbs), like rosemary and thyme, and any intensely colored spice（香料，调料）, like turmeric (姜黄) or red pepper.” “Both of those have anti-inflammatory properties(性能).”

Turmeric may reduce the risk of leukemia(白血病), skin, and liver cancers. Hot peppers may reduce the risk of colon (结肠), stomach (胃), and rectal (直肠) cancers. Also on the list: green veggies(绿色蔬菜). But not just any green veggy.

“Brussels sprouts (球芽甘蓝) are part of the cruciferous vegetable family that has significant anti-cancer properties, and that family also has a very favorable effect on hormone metabolism (激素代谢）.”

Other cruciferous veggies include cabbage, broccoli, and cauliflower. And don’t forget the tomato.

“it is probably the best source of lycopene (番茄红素), which is one of the phytochemicals(植物素) that has shown significant anticancer properties, especially with prostate and potentially lung and breast cancer as well.”

As for fruit, citrus contains Vitamins C, limonoids, and phenols, which inactivate cancer cells and strengthen the immune system. Cantaloupes (香瓜), mangos and carrots contain cancer-fighting carotenoids. And berries (草莓) are bursting with flavonoids (类黄酮) and ellagic acid (鞣花酸) ---- antioxidants that protect against cancer, ulcers, and viruses. Natalie recommends organic.

“Organic fruits and vegetables have shown not only to have lower pesticide toxicities and lower pesticide levels, but also now have been shown to have higher phytochemical content.”

Don’t forget the fatty fish or flaxseed ---- both are excellent source of Omega 3 fatty acids that inhibit the growth of cancer cells and boost the immune system, olive oil, which may reduce breast, prostate, or colon cancer, and soy.

“soy has protective effects for heart disease as well as osteoporosis(骨质疏松症), potentially.”

And finally onions, garlic, and shallots. They may protect the heart， fight cancer,

and help with asthma. B

Words learning

Cardiovascular (adj. [解剖] 心血管的), borderline（n. 边界线，边界；界线adj. 边界的；暧昧的）

Tape listening:

Listen to the CD from the computer first and then check the answers.

I. Harvard Medical School

II. Borderline high blood pressure III. 10 /7

IV. cardiovascular / by a quarter

chances of dying from cardiovascular disease falling by 1/5 V. A: no more than 3 grams B: fast food C: labels

D: fresh fruit and vegetables

Original data：

Salt is crucial to our health, but too much of it can put human at risk from high blood pressure, heart disease and stroke. Many reports, researchers at Harvard Medical School say the significant reduction in salt intake can cut the chances of heart disease and strokes by a quarter. Here is our health correspondent, Adam Brimelow.

It’s long been known that cutting salt can reduce blood pressure. But there has been much less evidence of what it means for cardiovascular disease, including heart attacks and strokes. The Harvard team followed up people with borderline high blood pressure, who had taken in part in two salt reduction studies, typically cutting intake from 10 to 7 grams a day. The risk of developing cardiovascular disease over the next decade or so was cut by a quarter compared with those who did not reduce their salt intake. And their chances of dying from cardiovascular disease fell by 1/5. In developed countries such as the United States and the UK, the average adult daily salt intake is about 10 grams. Much of this is already in the food that people buy, including processed foods and bread. Many experts say no one should have more than 3 grams. They say the best way to cut salt, is to get away from fast food, check labels and have plenty of fresh fruit and vegetable. Adam Brimelow reporting.

Part III Medical emergency 911 A

Words learning

Paramedic (护理人员，伞兵军医), intravenous (静脉内的), blood plasma (血浆，血清)，trauma (创伤，外伤)，medevac helicopter(救难直升机) System Communication Center(系统通信中心SYSCOM)

Tape listening:

Listen to the CD from the computer first and then check the answers. ( 3 ) a. How SYSCOM operates ( 4 ) b. Purpose of SYSCOM

( 2 ) c. Treatment by ambulance workers ( 1 ) d. Response to shooting accident B.

1. What happens in Maryland when there is a serious accident?

2. What response is made to the accident reported to 9117 What does Lieutenant Mike Fahey do?

3. What do the ambulance paramedics do for this patient? 4. What is SYSCOM? What does it do? 5. What is the purpose of this system? C

1. How does this system help if you have a serious accident? a. Know where and when an accident happens b. Immediate action / life-saving care 2. How is this system activated? By dialing 911

3. Where is your call forwarded?

To fire department's emergency rescue service / then to nearest help / depending on information given

4. In this report, what kind of accident has happened? Shooting accident

5. Who responds first? How long docs it take to respond? Paramedic supervisor / 9 minutes

6. How docs Lt. Fahey act? What effect docs he have on the patient? Deliberately / calmly / calm patient down

7. What condition is the patient in when he is put in the ambulance? In shock

8. What has everyone agreed to do for this man? Why?

Send him to the regional shock trauma center / center is 6 min. away by land / available / equipped for his injury 9. What is SYSCOM?

Statewide System communication Center

10. What important function docs SYSCOM serve? Dispatch point for helicopters

11. What can SYSCOM do for paramedics?

Connect them by radio to hospitals and emergency specialists

12. According to Dr R. Adams Cowley, what needs to be done in order to save a person's life?

Stop bleeding and restore blood pressure within an hour of accident C:

1. a: know where and when an accident happens b. immediate action / life-saving care

2. by dialing 911

3. to fire department’s emergency rescue service / then to nearest help / depending on information given

4. shooting accident

5. paramedic supervisor /9 min

6. deliberately / calmly / calm patient down 7. in shock

8. send him to the regional shock trauma center / center is 6 min. away by land / available / equipped for his injury

9. the Statewide System Communication Center. 10. Dispatch point for helicopters

11. connect them by radio with hospitals and emergency specialists 12. stop bleeding and restore blood pressure within an hour of accident.

Tape script：

Maryland may be a small state, but it's a major player in developing emergency medical services. There are 49 hospitals that have 24-hour emergency departments. Nine of those hospitals are specially designated shock trauma centers, and there's a sophisticated communication center that links the state's ambulances, helicopters, and the hospitals.

\"A serious accident happens. Pre-hospital staff --paramedics, emergency medical technicians--through a sophisticated communication system know where and when the accident happened, and they are summoned immediately to provide the initial, quick, life-saving care.\"

That's Dr Philip Militello. He's head of trauma surgery for the state system. If you have a serious injury anywhere in Maryland, this system will get you the right treatment with the least delay. What kind of help do you need? Where's the closest hospital? Should you go by ambulance or by helicopter? The answers to these questions come through sophisticated communications. The system springs into action with a telephone call to 911, your local emergency number anywhere in the state. \"Fire and rescue.”'

If you're injured, your call is forwarded to the fire department's emergency rescue service. Based on the information you give them, they send a radio call for the nearest available help.

\"He has been shot. Hold on while I dispatch an ambulance.\"

A man has shot himself. The nearest available shock trauma ambulance is twenty minutes away. But a paramedic supervisor with some emergency medical equipment in his car responds to the radio call and arrives on the scene within nine minutes. The supervisor, Lieutenant Mike Fahey, is a nationally certified paramedic. He quietly talks to the patient while he bandages the bullet hole. Finding the patient's blood pressure alarmingly low, he immediately starts intravenous blood plasma. His movements are deliberate and his voice is calm.

\"Come in. Take control of the situation. Remain calm. Chaos is contagious, and so is the calm that you have. When the patient looks up at you and you're calm, then you're reassuring. Then they calm down.\"

The paramedic ambulance with advanced life support equipment arrives twelve minutes later, and Fahey's patient is loaded on a stretcher, ready to go. But the patient is in shock. If he stays in shock, he has a poor chance of survival. Inside the

ambulance, they start another line of plasma and apply medical anti-shock trousers. Those are rubberized trousers to squeeze the blood from the legs back to the brain and other vital organs. Through radio communication everyone has agreed to send him by ambulance to the regional shock trauma center. It's only six minutes by land; it's available; and the regional center is equipped for his particular injury.

\"They're putting on the trousers now. As soon as they get that, they'll be able to start going down the highway. '

\"If we can get the patient to the trauma center within twenty minutes, we go by land. If it's going to be longer than twenty minutes, we try to go by air.\"

Captain Linda Sterling. She's Mike Fahey's boss at the local emergency medical service. When one of her paramedics needs a medevac helicopter, the request goes quickly to the SYSCOM, the statewide System Communication Center. Three large screens dominate the darkened room at SYSCOM. The right screen shows which hospital can take what kind of injury. The center screen shows the location of all medevac helicopters. And the one on the left shows the helicopter landing pad at the main shock trauma center. SYSCOM operations chief Andy Polavski tells us what's happening.

\"Part of the operation here is the SYSCOM operation: system communications. They serve as the coordinators of the medevac activity in the state. This is the dispatch point for the State Police helicopters and the U.S. Park Police helicopters.\" SYSCOM can also connect by radio any paramedic in the state with any hospital or any emergency specialist. In shock trauma injuries, minutes can mean life or death. Maryland's communication system saves precious time by connecting citizens, ambulances, helicopters, and hospitals. Dr R. Adams Cowley, founder of the system, said, \"If I can get you and stop your bleeding and restore your blood pressure within an hour of your accident, then I can probably save your life. '

Part IV Keeping the country healthy Part IV

1. NHS’(英国国民健康保险制度) greater focus on prevention 1. a gimmick 2. a: increased screening 2. proper timetable e.g. heart disease, stroke, cancer 3. treatment

b: the most vulnerable 4. private healthcare c: more widely available Tape script：

It seems that politicians around the world are thinking about the health of their countries. While in China, Chen Zhu has announced his plans for a universal health service and reform across health services, Gordon Brown, the UK Prime Minister, ahs also announced he is planning to make some changes in our heath service.

The cruxes of Mr. Brown’s proposals are related to giving the NHS（National Health Service）a greater focus on prevention, rather than just curing patients.

He is planning to introduce increased screening for common diseases such as heart disease, strokes, and cancer, for example breast cancer. In Britain there are 200,000 deaths a year from heart attacks and strokes, many of which might have been avoided if the condition had been known about.

Initially, the diagnostic tests will be available fro those who are most vulnerable, or most likely to have the disease, but later on the Prime Minister claims that they will be more widely available. One example is a plan to offer all men over 65 an

ultrasound test to check for problems with the main artery, a condition which kills 3,000 men a year.

The opposition has criticized Mr. Brown’s proposals, saying that they are just a gimmick, and claiming that there is no proper timetable for the changes. They also say that Mr. Brown is reducing the money available for the treatment of certain conditions while putting more money towards testing for them.

The NHS was founded in 1948, and is paid for by taxation. The idea is that the rich pa more towards the health service than the poor. However in recent years there has been a great increase in the use of private healthcare.

Many people who can afford it choose to pay for medical care, often because it can be quicker, although the doctors and hospitals are often the same!! NHS waiting lists for operations can be very long, so people can jump the queue by paying for their operation.

Step 3 Knowledge Extension (15 minutes)

Listen to the latest world news on food and medicine.

Goal: To further know about space.

Step 4 Problem-Solving and Homework (5 minutes)

Homework:

1. Review the content learned this class.

2. Do certain practice on English listening from BBC or VOA, or other programs and show the general idea for each class from the second week.

3. Preview Unit 6 so as to be familiar with the content.

4. Any questions on English listening and English learning can be submitted to me or solved in class with your active proposal.

5. You shall insist on listening to English programs at least 30 minutes each day. Goal: To solve the problems students have in class and ask students to do certain homework to reinforce their knowledge on world news focusing on space.

Design of teaching process: Review for 10 minutes, textbook learning for 100 minutes, knowledge extension for 20 minutes, and offering assignment for 5 minutes.

Remarks: Add certain knowledge on food and medicine.

Unit 6 Breakthroughs in Science and Technology

I Teaching objectives and requirements: Objectives:

1 To let students master certain English listening skills; 2 To let students learn about science and technology;

3 To make students broaden their eyesight to know more about science and technology by way of listening extensively. II Difficult and key points:

Key points: Listening skills and the expressions on science and technology

Difficult points: Some of the words and sentence structures and sentences on science and technology. III Teaching approaches:

1. Task-based instruction, 2. Learner-centered instruction, 3. Interactive teaching

4. Communicative language teaching, 5. Cooperative learning. IV Time allotment: 4 classes V Teaching procedures:

Main teaching contents and steps

Step 1 Review (5 minutes)

Review what we have learned in Unit 5 on the topics of food and medicine. Part I Warming up

Part II Eating right for good health Part III Medical emergency

Part IV Keeping the country healthy

Goal: To review the learned points and begin the learning of Unit 6. Step 2 Classmates’ presentation (10 minutes) Requirements for classmates’ presentation:

1. Each classmate makes the presentation for about 2 minutes.

2. 3 classmates are to take part in the presentation voluntarily or passively. 3. The presentation is recorded as a classroom performance.

4. While listening, the other classmates shall listen to the presentation carefully and intensively.

5. If you have questions, you can ask after the presentation.

Goal: To check and train students’ English listening effect and their English speaking ability.

Main content in Chapter 3 (100 minutes) Part I Warming up

Part II Human genome project

Part III Latest breakthroughs in technology

Part IV Language study and language appreciation Part I Warming up A

Words learning:

Bulletproof vest (防弹背心；避弹衣), predicting weather (预测天气), chess (国际象棋，西洋棋), Chinese chess, DNA (abbr. 脱氧核糖核酸（deoxyribonucleic acid）；（美国）国防部核子局 （Defense Nuclear Agency）), shooting range (射击场), yarn (n. 纱线；奇谈，故事vt. 用纱线缠vi. 讲故事), pawn (n. 典当；人质；抵押物；兵，卒vt. 当掉；以……担保), rival (对手，竞争者), mutation (（遗）突变，变化，元音变化), trait (特征，特点), cutting-edge (优势，尖端，前沿)

Tape listening:

Listen to the CD from the computer first and then check the answers. A1.

1. This news item is about a kind of new bulletproof vest made of silk.

2. This news item is about research done by American and Japanese researchers to predict severe weather in and around the Indian Ocean.

3. This news item is about a chess match between a world champion and the rest of the world on the Internet.

4. This news item is about the significance of the discovery of the structure of DNA.

5. This news item is about NEC's new robot that talks and understands orders. A2

1. While silk threads may be soft, they can be used to produce a stronger yarn than copper threads.

2. American and Japanese researchers have discovered a strong connection between extreme weather and conditions in the ocean.

3. Visitors to the site have 24 hours to vote on their counter move helped by a team of young chess experts who will suggest strategies.

4. Understanding its code has helped to unlock the mechanics of inherited disease, as well as beneficial biological traits such as intelligence and body strength.

5. The robot from NEC (abbr. 日本电气公司（Nippon Electric Company）；[计算机]未校验误差（No Error Check）；（美国）全国经济委员会（National Economic Council）) can record and send video mail through the Internet and switch on TVs, VCRs and air conditioners.

Tape script：

1. Thai silk is known for its beauty and elegance. But a research team has found a new use for it. A bulletproof vest made of silk was put to the test at a shooting range in Thailand. After several rounds of gunfire, the vest was examined. The bullets were stuck in the first layer of fifteen pieces of silk. A member of the research team says while silk threads may be soft, they can be used to produce a stronger yarn than copper threads, the material used in regular bulletproof vests.

2. American and Japanese researchers say they are a step closer to predicting severe weather in and around the Indian Ocean. Researchers have analyzed weather data from the region over the past 40 years and they've discovered a strong connection between extreme weather and conditions in the ocean. A BBC science correspondent says the findings could make it easier to predict droughts or, indeed, periods of heavy rainfall.

3. The world chess champion Garry Kasparov began a match against the rest of the world on the Internet. Kasparov made his first move with a meter-high pawn

before an audience of chess fans at a park in New York. The move was immediately posted on a special website set up by the Microsoft Corporation. Visitors to the site have 24 hours to vote on their counter move helped by a team of young chess experts who will suggest strategies.

4. Few scientific advances of this or any millennium can rival in significance the discovery of the structure of DNA, the basic molecule of life. Knowledge of the structure of DNA helps explains many things, including genetic mutation and , through it, evolution. Understanding its code has helped to unlock the mechanics of inherited disease, as well as beneficial biological traits such as intelligence and body strength. The discovery of the DNA molecule also paved the way for many of today’s cutting-edge sciences, including genetic engineering, a controversial branch of knowledge that raises new ethical and moral questions that are certain to be with us far into the next millennium.

5. Some say it's hard to find good help these days, but a Japanese electronics firm thinks it's found the answer. It's a robot that talks and understands orders. The robot from NEC can record and send video mail through the Internet and switch on TVs and VCRs. And if it's becoming a bit warm for you, one simple command and the robot will switch on the air conditioner. B.

Words learning: Force of attraction （（力）引力，吸引力，吸引力规定）Spark(火花，闪光), penetrate(vt. 渗透；穿透；洞察vi. 渗透；刺入；看透), eletromagnetic waves (电磁波), fungus(真菌，毒菌，菌类), resistance to movement (抵抗运动)，

energy-efficient （节能的，节约能源的；高能效的）, opaque (adj. 不透明的；不传热的；迟钝的n. 不透明物vt. 使不透明；使不反光), ruby (n. 红宝石；红宝石色adj. 红宝石色的vt. 使带红宝石色), ferment (n. 酵素；发酵；动乱vi. 发酵；动乱vt. 使发酵；使动乱；酝酿), ball bearing (滚珠，钢球；滚珠轴承), lubricating oil (润滑油), LASER (n. 激光 Light Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation) gravity (n. 重力，地心引力；庄严；严重性), gravitation (重力；地心吸力；万有引力), Patronizing(adj. 要人领情的；屈尊俯就的；以恩人态度自居的v. 屈尊俯就（patronize的现在分词）) Tape listening:

Listen to the CD from the computer first and then check the answers. 1. Gravity/ Gravitation Superior 2. Lightning Patronizing 3. X rays Enthusiastic 4. Laser Bored

5. Yeast Friendly / intimate 6. Friction Loudly but neutral 7. Recycling Patiently

Tape script:

1.... Yes, you see, it's the force of attraction between any two objects. The strength of the force depends on the mass of the objects and the distance between them. Er... the most obvious effect is the way objects on the surface of the earth are attracted towards the center of the earth...

2.... as it comes down it goes relatively slowly 100 to 1,000 miles per hour and you can't see it, but the return stroke goes up from the earth to the cloud and it goes at over 87,000 miles per hour and that's the one you can see, you see, the one that goes back up. It's really just a very large, powerful spark. The distance in miles you are away from it is the time in seconds between it and the sound you hear...

3.... Well, they were first discovered in 1895 and they can penetrate matter that is opaque to light. Some matter is more transparent to them than others, which means you can see inside somebody. They are actually quite dangerous and people who work with them wear special protective clothing...

4.... ordinary light consists of electromagnetic waves of different frequencies and phase(s). This is a bundle of waves of the same frequency and phase. You can create the beams from a ruby rod or a tube of carbon dioxide that's stimulated with flashes of ordinary light. The word is an acronym for light amplification by the stimulated emission of radiation. Now, does anybody ...

5.... they're all types of fungus. There are many different kinds of them but the best known are the ones used in cooking and brewing. When they're mixed with sugar they cause the sugar to ferment and two things happen: first carbon dioxide is given off and second alcohol is formed, but when the proportion reaches 12%, it's all killed off naturally...

6.... in contact with each other, there's a resistance to movement between them. The main reason why we use ball bearings and lubricating oil is to counteract this; the main reason why rubber is used in tires and shoes is to increase the effect of it...

7.... No, it's the process whereby materials are used again. Normally, it is cheaper to do this because it's more energy-efficient. On the other hand, one material that's hard to deal with in this way is plastic -- there are so many types that it's very difficult to separate...

Part II Human genome project A

Words learning:

Human genome project (人类基因组工程), DNA(脱氧核糖核酸), sequence (序列，顺序，续发事件), inherited disease (遗传病，遗传疾病), genetic traits (遗传学，基因特征), genetic map (遗传图谱，基因图谱), genome (基因组，染色体组), map (地图；示意图；染色体图), chromosome (染色体（形容词chromosomal，副词chromosomally）), rung (横档，脚蹬横木；地位, v. 给…打电话（ring的过去式和过去分词), makeup (化妆品；组成；补充；补考), amplify (v. 放大，扩大；增强；详述), warfare (战争；冲突) Tape listening:

Listen to the CD from the computer first and then check the answers. 1. identify, Catalog, map and analyze / 100,000 2. A: a piece of DNA, the basic Molecule of life

B: on chromosomes /in every cells/alternately colored rungs

C: produce chemical instructions / build and run the human body. III: Significance A: cure or prevent

B: desirable genetic traits

C: the brain, consciousness and the mind D: a scientific description IV Controversies, abuse 2. warfare Transcript：

The goal of the human genome project initiated in the early 1990s is to identify, catalog, map and analyze every one of the estimated 100,000 genes in the human body. If the multi-billion-dollar project is successful, its effects may be as fundamental to the human future as the discovery of fire and seed agriculture once were.

To understand the significance of the human genome project, it is necessary to know that each gene is a piece of DNA, the basic molecule of life. Genes are located on chromosomes that in turn reside in every cell in arrangements similar to the alternately colored rungs on a ladder. The sequence of genetic rungs produces the chemical instructions the cells need in order to build and run the human body. By identifying the location and makeup of each gene, the genome project should help scientists cure or prevent many inherited diseases and possibly amplify desirable genetic traits in future generations. Some scientists hope that a genetic map also will solve many mysteries of the brain, consciousness and the mind, and, possibly lead to a scientific description of human nature itself. Others warn about potential abuse of this power, for profit or warfare, for example.

With massive international government and private support of the human genome project, its work may be complete within the next five years. B

Words learning:

DNA, deciphering (解密，破译), genetic code (遗传密码，基因序列), a series of letters (一系列字母), human genome (人类基因组), sorted out (清理), function (n.功能；[数] 函数；职责；盛大的集会v. 运行；活动；行使职责), mapping (绘图，（数）映射), lifeblood (n.生机的根源；生命必须的血液), embryo (n. [胚] 胚胎；胚芽；初期adj. 初期的；胚胎的)，scroll (n. 卷轴，画卷；名册；卷形物 v. (使)成卷形), cystic fibrosis (囊胞性纤维症) Tape listening:

Listen to the CD from the computer first and then check the answers. 1. d 2.c 3.a 4.c 5.b 6.b Part III Latest breakthroughs in technology A

Words learning:

Integrated (综合的，完整的，一体化的), miniaturization (小型化，微型化), tinker with (胡乱地修补), fad (n. 一时的爱好；时尚；一时流行的狂热), grand (adj. 宏伟的；豪华的；极重要的 n. 大钢琴；一千美元), earpiece (n. （头戴式）耳机，听筒；眼镜脚), inventiveness (n.创造性；发明的才能), What’s New? (新特性) Popular Science magazine (大众科学，通俗科学) Tape listening:

Listen to the CD from the computer first and then check the answers. 1. What is the trend for electronics in the future?

Integrated, smaller, faster, better

2. What is the theme for electronics in the future?

The combination of computers and communications and then having them disappear from our sight B.

Tape script:

\"Everybody thinks of technology as somebody in a lab coat, you know, tinkering with computer chips, but technology is really about how we live and how we communicate.\"

Suzanne Cantra is the \"What's New?\" editor at Popular Science magazine, a magazine that has been following advances in technology for more than a hundred years.

The most fanciful dream of mankind is today a startling reality.\" Remember when television was considered a fad of the future? \"It may not be long before our news events and current world happenings will be witnessed in thousands of homes.\" Boy, were they wrong?

This recorder shows how far television has come. T-Bo's personal TV, an NBC investment, is one of the products that caught Cantra's eye.

\"One of the benefits of having a computer recording video is that the computer can read the video broadcast as it comes in so if the phone rings, you can hit pause on a live broadcast.\"

And not only that, this sort of smart VCR learns which TV shows and characters you like to watch and records them for you. This device is only one of a hundred items, Cantra says, best represents the future. And while we couldn't show you all of them, here are a few that reflect some of the new trends.

Like Ericsson's R380. You can make calls, browse the web, check your calendar and send and receive email, all in this one device.

\"This cell phone actually shows us the future of integrated devices.\"

And I bet you can't guess what this is? Although it looks like a watch, in fact, it's a camera. That's right. A camera.

\"The P3 wrist camera sort of talks to that whole concept of miniaturization and having devices integrated into things that you wouldn't think of.\"

And while the pictures are pretty good, only you can decide whether they're worth two grand.

And how about this? It's a prototype computer that puts your mobile laptop to shame.

\"The IBM wearable PC definitely gives you a vision into what's gonna be coming down the line. We will be carrying (be carried easily ） these kinds of computing devices and you will need to only access the information somehow. Whether that's through an earpiece or whether it's just integrated into your clothing.\"

The PC weighs less than a pound and clips onto your belt. The monitor, about the size of a pen cap rests an inch from your eye.

But if you don't necessarily wanna work during your down time, something like the Panasonic portable DVD player might be the gadget for you.

\"The ability to have a very small compact device where you can watch movies

or listen to CDs is something that any business traveler will tell you is a great benefit.\"

If you're more the adventurous type, then Casio's GPS watch is a must (to) have.

\"A few years down the line, instead of just having, you know, your coordinates, it can actually tell you where you are on a map and give you directions.\"

Over the past several years, we've seen electronics get smaller, faster and better and that trend is going to continue into the next century.

\"The theme for electronics in the future is the combination of computers and communications and then having them disappear from our sight.\"

But Cantra says these new technologies are not just about bits and bites.

\"When you look at new technologies, they're based on the past and what we think that we need, but a lot of times it's just sheer human inventiveness that takes it to this next step. And there's nothing more exciting than finding a new way of being able to reach out and share information.\"

Part IV Language study and language appreciation

Words learning

To spring into action (突然活跃起来), DNA molecule (脱氧核糖核酸), molecule (n. 分子；微小颗粒，微粒), to pave the way for (为……铺平道路), alternately colored rungs on a ladder (梯子上彩色横档交替), to scroll over the Internet (在因特网上滚动), bits and bites (一些小事) Tape listening:

To listen to the CD to appreciate the use of the words and expressions Step 3 Knowledge Extension (15 minutes)

Listen to the latest world news on science and technology.

Goal: To further know about science and technology. Step 4 Problem-Solving and Homework (5 minutes)

Homework:

1. Review the content learned this class.

2. Do certain practice on English listening from BBC or VOA, or other programs and show the general idea for each class from the second week.

3. Preview Unit 7 so as to be familiar with the content.

4. Any questions on English listening and English learning can be submitted to me or solved in class with your active proposal.

5. You shall insist on listening to English programs at least 30 minutes each day. Goal: To solve the problems students have in class and ask students to do certain homework to reinforce their knowledge on world news focusing on space.

Design of teaching process: Review for 10 minutes, textbook learning for 100 minutes, knowledge extension for 20 minutes, and offering assignment for 5 minutes.

Remarks: Add certain knowledge on science and technology.

Unit 7 Future of Communication

I Teaching objectives and requirements: Objectives:

1 To let students master certain English listening skills; 2 To let students learn about ways of communication;

3 To make students broaden their eyesight to know more about communication by way of listening extensively. II Difficult and key points:

Key points: Listening skills and the expressions on communication

Difficult points: Some of the words and sentence structures and sentences on communication.

III Teaching approaches:

1. Task-based instruction, 2. Learner-centered instruction, 3. Interactive teaching

4. Communicative language teaching, 5. Cooperative learning. IV Time allotment: 4 classes V Teaching procedures:

Main teaching contents and steps

Step 1 Review (5 minutes)

Review what we have learned in Unit 6 on the topics of science and technology. Part I Warming up

Part II Human genome project

Part III Latest breakthroughs in technology

Part IV Language study and language appreciation

Goal: To review the learned points and begin the learning of Unit 7. Step 2 Classmates’ presentation (10 minutes) Requirements for classmates’ presentation:

1. Each classmate makes the presentation for about 2 minutes.

2. 3 classmates are to take part in the presentation voluntarily or passively. 3. The presentation is recorded as a classroom performance.

4. While listening, the other classmates shall listen to the presentation carefully and intensively.

5. If you have questions, you can ask after the presentation.

Goal: To check and train students’ English listening effect and their English-speaking ability.

Main content in Chapter 3 (100 minutes) Part I Warming up

Part II New ways to communicate Part III Digital Mcluhan Part IV Technical jargon Part I Warming up

A

Words learning:

Google(谷歌；搜索引擎技术；谷歌公司), mega (n. 百万adj. 许多；宏大的 adv. 非常) megasearch (大型搜索，多元搜索), VCR (录像机（Video Cassette

Recorder）), haystack (干草堆), gigahertz (千兆赫, GHz, 十亿赫兹；千兆赫,吉赫), megahertz(兆赫), render (V. 提出；致使；实施；以…回报；着色), Fast Search & Transfer (FAST)( 快速搜索和转移), Developer Forum (开发者论坛), Palm Springs (棕榈泉（美国加州）), Willamette (n. 威拉米特河；威拉默特（英特尔赛扬1.7G处理器的核心）), Windows Media Player (视窗媒体播放器), check out (检验，考核), television presenter (电视主持人), jamming (堵塞), crippling (造成严重后果的), Oslo (奥斯陆，挪威首都), power (激励，供以动力，使……有力量) Tape listening:

Listen to the CD from the computer first and then check the answers. A.

Tape scripts:

1. And British papers report the latest trend when you meet someone in a bar is to get their number, go home, and google them. Yes that gorgeous girl or guy you met the other night is probably patrolling a search engine right now to check you out. So don't even think of trying to tell them you're a famous footballer or brain surgeon or television presenter.

2. The jamming, earlier this month, of several popular Internet sites with a flood of crippling messages sent a wakeup call to those involved with electronic or e-commerce. One recent suggestion is to form an industry-wide group to share information about security issues. High-tech executives want to make a coordinated effort to ensure that the Internet becomes a safe place to conduct business.

3. Now home to some 800 million pages--a figure that's doubling each year- searching the Internet can be like looking for a needle in a haystack. But Oslo-based Fast Search& Transfer (FAST) has developed a search engine (www. alltheweb, com) capable of scanning more than 200 million pages. FAST is working on a mega-search engine that searches \"all the web, all the time.\"

4. This week, the Intel corporation held its semi-annual Developer Forum in Palm Springs, California. The gathering draws more than 2,000 hardware and software developers from around the world. Intel executives opened the event with a demonstration of a high-speed chip, code-named \"Willamette.\" The chip, designed to power personal computers, has a speed of one point five gigahertz, making it almost twice as fast as Intel's popular Pentium III chip which runs at 800 megahertz.

5. An online VCR seems like a bright idea but it's been quickly rendered non-functional by the copyright lawyers. Not for the first time, the Hollywood studios objected to re-transmitting network television shows, in this case for users to watch via the web. Programs were being made available for visitors to save remotely or record for subsequent viewing via Windows Media Player. B.

Words learning:

National geographic (国家地理（杂志）), Ask Jeeves Site (问吉维斯网站)，Hunger Site(饥饿网站), airfare (飞机票价，飞机费用)

Tape listening:

Listen to the CD from the computer first and then check the answers. National Geographic:

1. Helping choose the magazine's cover 2. Interviewing the photographers 3. Showing more pictures 4. Providing Zip U. S. A. Hunger Site:

5. Helping alleviate world hunger 6. Donating contributions to the United Nations World Food Program each time an individual logs on to the site 7. Total value of distributed food: approximately $400,000 Ask Jeeves Site:

8. Asking questions in simple English 9. Getting direct answers 10. Starting year: 1997 11. Questions dealt with so far: more than 150 million

Tape scripts:

1. National Geographic, the magazine, has redesigned its website with some new features. Among them, an opportunity for readers to help choose the magazine's cover, interviews with National Geographic photographers, and lots and lots of pictures. More pictures in fact than there was room for in the print version. There's also Zip U. S. A., the feature you can find both online and in print. It's a focused look at one zip code in the U. S.

2. Now, there's a website created to help alleviate world hunger called the Hunger Site. Contributions, generated when computer users visit the site on the Worldwide Web, are donated to the United Nations World Food Program. \"The beauty of the site is that when the web surfer clicks on, they don't pay a penny.\" This is Abby Spring, a World Food Program official. She says that funds to purchase the food come from corporate donors who make a financial contribution each time an individual logs on to Hungersite -- that's one word -- dot com. Abby Spring says that so far, thanks to Hungersite dot com, the World Food Program has been able to distribute food valued at approximately $400,000.

3. The Ask Jeeves Site on the Internet is one of the most useful Internet sites for asking questions in simple English and getting direct answers. Ask most search engines a question these days and they will return a result which gives thousands of pages for you to search. The Ask Jeeves Site gives you half a dozen where you can find the exact answer. The Ask Jeeves Site owners say they have dealt with more than 150 million questions since Ask Jeeves was set up in 1997. Just this month, people were asking Jeeves the following questions: What are the latest scores for baseball? What is the address of the website for Coca-Cola? Where can I find a list of airfare travel bargains? Tell me the names of the top 20 universities and colleges in the U.S. Part II New ways to communicate A

Words learning:

Instant messaging (即时通讯，即时通信), voice conversations (语音对话), video conferencing (视频会议，电视会议), ASL, LOL, CU L8er, plus point (好的一面), webcam (网络，网络摄像头), swap (以...作交换；与...交换), Windows IM(微软IM), AIM(American Online Instant Messager, 美国在线即时通讯软件), ICQ(网路呼叫器（一种网络通讯软件，等于I Seek You）), MSN (微软网络服务（Microsoft Service Network）；即时通讯软件（MSN Messenger）)

Tape listening:

Listen to the CD from the computer first and then check the answers. A1

1. When a friend is online 2. 1.6 billion 3. 3,000

4. you can only contact someone using the same program 5. Laugh out loud. A2

online / popular / take off / signing up / by / make up

obvious / disadvantage / bright / voice conversations / swap / funny

Tape scripts:

When you meet someone for the first time，do you ask their ASL? Do you LOL if they come out with something funny, and say CU L8er when you finish the conversation? If you know what I’m talking about, then you are probably already a user of instant messaging, or IM.

The idea behind IM is simple. A program on your computer tells you when a friend is online. You can then send a message to your friend, who can type a reply instantly. To do this, you need an IM program.

Worldwide, AIM, the instant messaging service provided by AOL, is by far the most popular. It has 195 million users who send about 1.6 billion messages every day. ICQ, which is owned by AOL, has about 140 million messengers, and MSN and Windows IM make up about 75 million users.

The advantage over e-mail is that with instant messaging you know you’re likely to get a reply. IM is already hugely popular in the USA, where people spend five times more time online than in Europe. However, IM is starting to take off in the UK, with over 3,000 people signing up to MSN Messenger alone every day.

While the plus points of IM are obvious, there is one very important disadvantage: you can only contact someone on the same network as you. If your friend is using AIM, and you are using MSN, you cannot talk to each other. This makes IM less useful than it should be. Imagine if you couldn’t send an e-mail form hotmail to yahoo. However, things look like they’ll change soon.

In general, the future looks bright for IM. Lots of programs also allow you to have voice conversations, video conferencing ---- this means you can see the other

person using a webcam ---- and also let you swap pictures, music and other files. So, perhaps we’ll all soon be asking someone’s age, sex and location (ASL), and laughing out loud (LOL) when they say something funny. See you later (CU L8er). B

Words learning: Socializing (n.交往，交际v. 社交，交际（socialize的现在分词形式）), social networking website (社交网；社交网站), digital community (数位社区；数位社群；数字社区), socialize (vt. 使社会化；使社会主义化；使适应社会生活vi. 交际；参与社交), like-minded (adj. 志趣相投的；具有相似意向或目的的), upload (vt.上传), hook up (以钩钩住), devotee (n.爱好者；信徒), create a buzz(制造话题), buzz (vt. 使嗡嗡叫；暗中散布vi. 作嗡嗡声；东奔西忙n. 嗡嗡声), MySpace (“我的空间”，美国在线社交网站名称), Bebo (n.社交网站；交友网站), MSN Spaces (共享空间；我的共享空间；博客服务), Arctic Monkeys (北极泼猴)and Lilly Allen Tape listening:

Listen to the CD from the computer first and then check the answers.

Tape scripts：

How do you meet new people, make new friends, or find out about the latest bands? Here in the UK young people have traditionally done their socializing in bars, pubs and clubs.

However there is a new generation growing up that finds it easier to manage their social lives on the net, using free websites like MySpace, Bebo or MSN Spaces. Welcome to the social networking website ---- a place where you can present yourself to the digital community and meet other like-minded people.

The most successful social networking website in the UK is MySpace.com. as of July 2006, MySpace is the world’s fourth most popular English-language website, attracting almost 3 million visitors per month. Myspace claims to have 95 million members with 500,000 new members joining the community each week.

So how has it become to successful? Perhaps its secret is in its simplicity. Each new member can build their own page simply --- uploading photos, videos and MP3 files. Then they describe themselves, listing their likes, dislikes, favorite bands, relationship status, etc. it’s an easy way to hook up with people who share your interest.

Briana Dougherty, a 25-year-old MySpace devotee, told us, “It’s a casual way to stay in contact without appearing weird. ” it seems that many people do not feel comfortable giving out their phone number or personal e-mail address to new acquaintances but are perfectly happy to trade MySpace profiles

While socializing is the key to MySpace’s success, love of music is at the heart of the community. Indeed, most aspiring musicians in the UK upload their songs to the site, and with good reason: unsigned artists, Arctic Monkeys and Lilly Allen created such a buzz on the site that they were offered recording contracts and scored number one hits.

Social network sites could be a great place to practice your English. Why not give it a try? You can tell us about your experience by filing in the new comments

form at the top of the screen. Statements:

1. Most young people in the UK make new friends at work. 2. Yahoo and Google are social networking sites.

3. MySpace is one of the top five English-language website. 4. New brands put their music on the web for people to listen to. 5. Users of social networks usually pay for the service. B1 1.F 2.F 3.T 4.T 5.F

Part III Digital Mcluhan A

Words learning:

Applicability (适应性；适用性), publisher (出版者，出版商；发行人), stipulate (v. 规定；保证), vouch for (担保；保证), drivel (n. 鼻涕；口水；糊涂话vi. 淌口水；流鼻涕；说傻话vt. 浪费), gem (n. 宝石；精华；宝物；珍品；美玉vt. 点缀；用宝石镶嵌；饰以宝石)

Tape listening:

Listen to the CD from the computer first and then check the answers. Summary:

Marshall McLuhan, a communications expert from Canada, never touched a personal computer. But his research on the media and their effect on people and society remains relevant today. He was the first thinker to really look at television as something that had a serious impact upon our society. Although he was writing about television, an enormous amount of what he said has even more applicability to the Internet age. He said that television was turning the world into a global village. And the notion of village becomes much more meaningful and real in our digital age. He saw a time when everyone would be a publisher with the help of the Xerox machine, and now the web is even expanding and amplifying that.

Tape scripts：

I Interviewer L -- Paul Levinson

Marshall McLuhan, a communications expert from Canada, never touched a personal computer. He died in 1979. But his research on the media and their effect on people and society remains relevant today. Paul Levinson, an American high-tech expert knew Professor McLuhan, and discusses his impact in a volume entitled Digital McLuhan: A Guide to the Information Millennium.

I. Mr. Levinson, why is Marshall McLuhan such an important figure?

L. Well, he did his writing in the 1950s,1960s and 1970s. And those decades, of course, were the first years of television. And he was the first thinker to really look at television as something that had a serious impact upon our society. Interestingly, although he was writing about television, an enormous amount of what he said has even more applicability to the Internet age. For example, he said that television was turning the world into a global village. What he meant by that is when everyone watches the same thing on the television screen, that group that's watching that television program is a community of sorts. It's like the people in a village all hearing and seeing the same thing. In contrast, now in the 1990s, as we move into the new

millennium, when people communicate on the web, and through the Internet, they are not only doing and hearing and seeing the same thing, they are also participating, communicating among each other. And so, the notion of village becomes much more meaningful and real in our digital age.

I. TV was a... or is a one-way medium, whereas the Internet is a ... is two-way. L… That's right. There is a crucial difference right there. Most media in the 20th century, in fact all the major media of the 20th century radio, motion pictures, television --were and are like newspapers and books, one-way media. The telephone, which of course was invented in 1876, is a two-way medium. But, it's a two-way personal medium. There is nothing public, or there shouldn't be much public about a telephone conversation. What makes the Internet so different is that it is public but it is also interactive and two-way.

I. Marshall McLuhan saw a time when everyone would be a publisher. He was referring to the Xerox machine, the copying machine. Today, we have the Internet which makes everybody an editor, and ... or makes everybody a publisher but not an editor. Isn't this a problem when everybody is a publisher but there is no editor around?

L. The traditional value of the editor is to, in some way, stipulate and vouch for the quality of the publication of the production. So yes, there is a concern that when anyone can put anything on a web page, you know, there is no safeguard for the quality. But, on the other hand, and there is always another hand, I think the reason why McLuhan celebrated first the Xerox, allowing every author to be a publisher, and why I'm now so pleased that the web is even expanding and amplifying that, is ... there is also the danger of editors keeping out of the mix things that are good. What the web does is it removes the middle man and allows the creator to communicate directly with his or her audience and on balance I think that's a good thing. There will be more drivel available. But, there'll also be more gems that would otherwise be hidden from public view.

Part IV Technical jargon

Words learning

Knowledge snobbery (知识势利), iPod (苹果公司音乐播放器),cutting edge (尖端, 前沿,剪刃，[机] 切削刃；刀刃，刀口), news feeds (新闻订阅 ；其它站点的链接 ；新闻定制), syndication (企业联合组织；辛迪加组织), WiFi (基于IEEE 802.11b标准的无线局域网（Wireless Fidelity）；无线网络模块), PDA(个人数字助理（等于Personal Digital Assistant）), bamboozle (vt. 欺骗；使迷惑), VOD(视频点播（Video-On-Demand）), PVR (精密电压基准（Precision Voltage Reference）), blog (n.博客；部落格；网络日志), podcast (n.播客), Nielsen (尼耳森（人名）), NetRatings (Netratings： 尼尔森 Nielsen Netratings： 尼尔森), Really Simple Syndication (RSS)( 简易供稿 ；真正简单的整合 ；真正简易聚合)

Tape listening:

Listen to the CD from the computer first and then check the answers. A

1. 40% 2. 67%

3. 30% 4. 75% 5. 68%

6. The technology industry B

1. What do millions of British people do every week? 2. What is Nielsen / NetRatings ?

3. What is the growing trend for new technological jargon? C

1. Age, sex and location 2. Laugh out loud 3. See you later

4. A pocket-sized device used to play music files 5. Really Simple Syndication 6. Wireless fidelity

7. Personal digital assistant 8. Video-on-demand

9. Personal video recorder

10. To read, write, or edit a shared online journal

11. To deliver a Web-based audio broadcast via an RSS feed over the Internet to subscribers

12. To seek on line

Tape scripts：

Every week millions of Britons use computers to access the Internet but how many of them actually know their ipods form their IMs? Not many it seems. A recent survey from Nielsen / NetRatings --- a global Internet, media and market research company --- shows that while the British are crazy about buying and owning new technology they’re not so keen to keep up with the ever-changing jargon of 21st century technology.

According to Nielsen / NetRatings, people love having cutting-edge technology but often don’t understand the terms that describe what their devices actually do.

For example, 40% of online Britons receive news feeds but 67% don’t know that the official term for this service is Really Simple Syndication.

Terms like WiFi and PDA are still meaningless to more than 30% of the British public who regularly work or surf online.

Acronyms in particular bamboozle users. 75% of online Britons don’t know that VOD stands for video-on-demand, while 68% are unaware that personal video recorders are more commonly referred to as PVRs.

Millions of people keep in touch via instant messaging but 57% of online Brits said they didn’t know that the acronym for it was IM.

Alex Burmaster, an Internet analyst with Nielsen / NetRatings commented “the technology industry is perhaps the most guilty of all industries when it comes to love of acronyms. There is a certain level of knowledge snobbery. If you talk in acronyms

you sound like you really know what you are talking about and if others don’t understand than they are seen in some way as inferior.”

This study shows that many people don’t completely understand much of the new technological jargon but things are slowly changing. Words such as “blogging” and “podcasting” are now used and understood by enough people for these terms to have made it into the most recently published dictionaries in Britain. Step 3 Knowledge Extension (15 minutes)

Listen to the latest world news on communication.

Goal: To further know about communication. Step 4 Problem-Solving and Homework (5 minutes)

Homework:

1. Review the content learned this class.

2. Do certain practice on English listening from BBC or VOA, or other programs and show the general idea for each class from the second week.

3. Preview Unit 8 so as to be familiar with the content.

4. Any questions on English listening and English learning can be submitted to me or solved in class with your active proposal.

5. You shall insist on listening to English programs at least 30 minutes each day. Goal: To solve the problems students have in class and ask students to do certain homework to reinforce their knowledge on world news focusing on communication.

Design of teaching process: Review for 10 minutes, textbook learning for 100 minutes, knowledge extension for 20 minutes, and offering assignment for 5 minutes.

Remarks: Add certain knowledge on communication.

Unit 8 New Ideas, New Architecture

I Teaching objectives and requirements: Objectives:

1 To let students master certain English listening skills;

2 To let students learn about new ideas and new architecture;

3 To make students broaden their eyesight to know more about new ideas and new architecture by way of listening extensively. II Difficult and key points:

Key points: Listening skills and the expressions on new ideas and new architecture

Difficult points: Some of the words and sentence structures and sentences on new ideas and new architecture. III Teaching approaches:

1. Task-based instruction, 2. Learner-centered instruction, 3. Interactive teaching

4. Communicative language teaching, 5. Cooperative learning. IV Time allotment: 4 classes V Teaching procedures:

Main teaching contents and steps

Step 1 Review (5 minutes)

Review what we have learned in Unit 7 on the future of communication. Part I Warming up

Part II New ways to communicate Part III Digital Mcluhan Part IV Technical jargon

Goal: To review the learned points and begin the learning of Unit 8. Step 2 Classmates’ presentation (10 minutes) Requirements for classmates’ presentation:

1. Each classmate makes the presentation for about 2 minutes.

2. 3 classmates are to take part in the presentation voluntarily or passively. 3. The presentation is recorded as a classroom performance.

4. While listening, the other classmates shall listen to the presentation carefully and intensively.

5. If you have questions, you can ask after the presentation.

Goal: To check and train students’ English listening effect and their English-speaking ability.

Main content in Chapter 3 (100 minutes) Part I Warming up

Part II Eco-conscious construction Part III Tomorrow’s house

Part IV Language study and language appreciation Part I Warming up

A

Words learning: Tape listening:

Listen to the CD from the computer first and then check the answers. Tape scripts:

For hundreds of years, it has been an imperial capital of Europe. Its rulers raided the Western world to enrich the coffers of the empire. They spent their wealth on magnificent palaces and grand public buildings. They built an opera house that rivals any in Europe. They founded great museums and libraries. They constructed massive, ornate government buildings. And they raised opulent palaces for themselves. A tour of Vienna is a tour of these monuments to excess.

Take Schonbrunn Palace, for instance. The Palace's Million Room, named after the cost of the decorations -- 1 million guilders, is a Rococo masterpiece. Inset in the paneling are 260 rare miniatures of Indo-Persian heritage. The frames are real gold leaf, and the paneling is precious wood.

The Great Gallery, modeled after a room in Versailles near Paris, has 35-foot ceilings graced with giant frescoes（壁画） boasting of the power of the Austrian army. Massive crystal chandeliers reflect in the wall of mirrors, trimmed in gold leaf.

The list of other sights to see in Vienna is long. St. Stephen's Cathedral dominates the skyline of Old Town, the medieval section of the city. Its main spire soars 450 feet into the sky, and the top can be reached by climbing 343 steps. The cathedral' was begun in the 12th century.

In the catacombs（陵墓） beneath the cathedral are copper urns（骨灰坛） containing the intestines of deceased Habsburgs. Their bodies are in ornate caskets（棺材） in the Imperial Burial Vaults in the Kapuziner Church a few blocks away, and can be visited.

The Old Town is a fascinating place to walk. Most of the narrow streets have been turned into pedestrian malls lined with shops, coffeehouses and restaurants. In one section, the original Roman ruins under the streets can be seen by going to an underground museum.

The Natural History Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts occupy matching buildings on Maria Theresa Plaza, a small square across from the Hofburg. Hofburg is the Habsburg’s in-town palace. It is big, with 2,600 rooms, but not ornate. Hofburg is a jumble of buildings constructed at different times and in different styles, from Baroque, Gothic and Classical to Renaissance and Rococo. Its oldest parts date from the 13th century, but most were built from the 1700s on. B1

Words learning:

Tape listening:

Listen to the CD from the computer first and then check the answers.

The Palais du Louvre: Location: heart of Paris

Beginning year of construction: 1527

Time when first used as a public art gallery: 1793

The Louvre Pyramid: Designer: Ieoh Ming Pei

Use: the main entrance to the Palais du Louvre Height: 21m Width: 33m

Materials: steel tubes, cables, sheet glass Year of completion: 1988 Tape script:

The Palais du Louvre stands at the heart of Paris, and houses one of the world's greatest collections of works of art. The original palace dates from 1527, and it was extended and added to over the next four centuries. It was first used as a public art gallery in 1793. In 1981, the Chinese-American architect Ieoh Ming Pei was commissioned to redevelop the public part of the Louvre and create more space for reception areas and services. He designed the famous Glass Pyramid, which serves as the main entrance to the building, leading underground to the museum and art gallery. The Pyramid is 21 meters high and 33 meters wide, and uses a combination of steel tubes, cables and sheet glass. It was completed in 1988, and quickly became a major tourist attraction in its own right. B2

1. She likes the Louvre Pyramid because of the transparency, and it has a light effect.

2. She likes the Louvre Pyramid for its contrast of shapes. It emphasizes the beauty of the Louvre.

3. She thinks the right thing is to put something so contradictory to the Louvre. They stand in dialogue with each other and they don't try to complement each other.

4. She thinks it would have been the biggest mistake to try to build something similar to the Louvre.

Tape script:

I like the Louvre Pyramid because of its transparency, because you can just look through it, and it has a very light effect. It is not heavy and it is made of glass, and so it looks like a light object. And I like it for its contrast of shapes, because it is such a contrast to the Louvre building that in fact it doesn't interfere with the beauty of the Louvre, but it even, it emphasizes the beauty of the Louvre. And in the evening when this pyramid is lighted, it's just a source of light to put the Louvre into a new light. And this has for me also a symbolic meaning. And it is such an unexpected shape in this urban context, just to use a traditional shape of a pyramid built in new materials with new technologies, high-tech, and so on, that it is a completely surprising effect. So that people get shocked by it or they like it, but there is nobody who would be uninvolved or who could just pass and not notice this building. So it's something you have to look at. And I think this is also very important in building, and creating something in the cities, and exactly for example close to these historical buildings which are such a... they are so sensitive topics that nobody dares to touch them. I think the right thing is really to put something so contradictory to it that they stand in

dialogue with each other and they don't even try to complement each other. Because it would have been the biggest mistake to try to build something similar to the Louvre, to put a building which would copy the Louvre, because it would just mean that we don't live in continuity, the architecture doesn't continue its history, but it would mean that architecture stands still on the level of the 17th century, and that would be a lie. Part II Eco-conscious construction A Words learning:

Tape listening:

Listen to the CD from the computer first and then check the answers. 1. the world’s first eco-city 2. off the coast

3. agricultural land 4. half a million 5. $1.3 billion

6. a sustainability consultant 7. sustainable development

8. a more ecologically friendly model

9. minimize impact on nature 10. solar and wind power 11. power and fertilizers 12. electric cars B1

1. a dream-house which is sustainable by the environment ----- an environmentally-sustainable dream-house

2. windows that face south -- south-facing windows 3. a kitchen that is well lit -- a well-lit kitchen

4. paint that is based on milk or uses milk as a base ---- milk-based paint

5. solutions which are beneficial to the environment – environmentally - beneficial solutions

Tape script

1. Architect Jim Logan is building his environmentally-sustainable dream-house at the site of a former commune a few miles north of Boulder.

2. As you drive onto the small farm property, you're immediately struck by a series of large south-facing windows.

3. Walk through the well-lit kitchen, and you'll see that even the north side of the building has a passive solar component.

4. In all facets of construction, Logan is emphasizing both biodegradable building products and nontoxic materials. He's using milk-based paint, for example.

5. In many cases, many environmentally-beneficial solutions pay for themselves in as little as 6 or 7 or 8 months.

Tape script

1. Logan has incorporated nearly every aspect of a modern eco-conscious design.

2. Every room in this house has a window that faces south, regardless of where it's located.

3. All the rooms in the house have both day-lighting, which means that there's ample light coming in high into the room so that we don't need to use electric lights during the day.

4. As a result, Logan's house will have neither a furnace nor air-conditioning. 5. The so-called super-insulation is required to store the solar heat.

6. Logan is also using thermal mass, or dirt, to keep the house both warm in the winter and cool in the summer.

7. He's using milk-based paint, for example, and relatively little of that.

8. This room and the inside of this room -- virtually all the finishes did not need to be painted.

9. Painting is a fairly un-environmental act in that it is something that involves chemistry.

10. Initially, Logan will get all his water from a well.

11. The roof has gutters and will eventually collect rainwater for general use. B3. Main features:

1. south-facing windows: day-lighting, solar heat

2. no furnace

3. no air-conditioning 4. solar heater: hot water

5. three-foot outside walls: adobe + insulation + adobe 6. thermal mass 7. milk-based paint 8. ceiling: galvanized 9. inside wall: plaster 10. no carpet

11. not connected to a water system: well, rainwater Tape script:

A--Alan J--Jones L—Logan

A: Many environmentalists and energy experts say that the wave of the future won't be any one miracle cure, but rather overall conservation of available resources. The approach is being spearheaded by a quiet revolution in the eco-conscious construction business. Colorado Public Radio's Peter Jones recently visited a building site near Boulder and brings us this report.

J: Architect Jim Logan is building his environmentally sustainable dream-house at the site of a former commune a few miles north of Boulder. Logan has incorporated nearly every aspect of a modern eco-conscious design. As you drive onto the small farm property, you're immediately struck by a series of large south-facing windows. Walk through the well-lit kitchen, and you'll see that even the north side of the building has a passive solar component.

L: Every room in this house has a window that faces south, regardless of where it's located, so all the rooms in the house have both day-lighting, which means that there's ample light coming in high into the room so that we don't need to use electric

lights during the day, and also have south-facing glass that provides solar heat.

J: As a result, Logan's house will have neither a furnace nor air-conditioning. For hot water, he'll tee an active solar heater. But efficient use of the sun is only one of the building's many eco-conscious features.

L: The outside walls -- if you include a foot of adobe, a foot of insulation, and another foot of adobe- are three feet thick.

J: The so-called super-insulation is required to store the solar heat, but Logan is also using thermal mass, or dirt, to keep the house both warm in the winter and cool in the summer.

J: In all facets of construction, Logan is emphasizing both biodegradable building products and nontoxic materials. He's using milk-based paint, for example, and relatively little of that.

L: This room and the inside of this room- virtually all the finishes did not need to be painted. The ceiling is made out of galvanized metal and the walls are plaster. Painting is a fairly un-environmental act in that it is something that involves chemistry, it involves doing it over and over many times in the lifetime of the building.

J: And don't look for any carpeting in Logan's house.

L: Well even if carpet is made from recycled material, it still can't be recycled the second time currently, so carpet virtually always gets thrown away. Also, most carpet gives off volatile organic compounds.

J: Initially, Logan will get all his water from a well. The house won't be connected to a city water system. But he says the roof has gutters and will eventually collect rainwater for general use. Logan is paying $75 a square foot to build his house, and estimates environmental features added 10 - 15% to the up-front costs. But he says he'll save money in the long run.

L: In many cases, many environmentally-beneficial solutions pay for themselves in as little as 6 or 7 or 8 months. A low-flow showerhead in most situations will pay for itself in a month.

Part III Tomorrow's house

Words learning: Tape listening:

Listen to the CD from the computer first and then check the answers. A

1. What is home automation? In your opinion, what are some of the things that could be examples of home automation?

2. What are some of the main interests in creating automated houses?

3. Can home automation offer benefits and lifestyle improvements for elderly and disabled people? Imagine how. B.

Safety:

Security systems that detect fires, gas and water leaks, intruders, unwelcome guests, etc.

Security systems that limit home access to specific times of the day and tell you which doors and windows are open

Energy-efficiency:

Lights that turn themselves off when you leave a room

Sensors that help open skylights, turn on ceiling fans and close the draperies when the house reaches a certain temperature

Convenience

Appliances that tell you when something is wrong with them

Security system, spa, lights, CD player, garage door, thermostat, stereo, etc. that can be controlled while in the house or remotely from a touch-tone phone or computer and modem

Lifestyle improvements for elderly and disabled people: voice command, infrared remote control, etc.

Tapescript:

Current advances in home automation offer homeowners convenience, security, energy savings and a lot of gee-whiz technology.

With a fully automated home, you'd be able to pick up your phone, call your house and instruct it to disarm the security system, start the spa, turn up the lights and coax classical music from the compact disc player. While you were at it, you could also open the garage door or set the thermostat to a pleasant 70 degrees.

Sound intriguing? How about lights that turn themselves off when you leave a room? A stereo that quiets itself when the phone rings? Or appliances that tell you when something is wrong with them?

Although most home automation systems now on the market are expensive and available only in new homes, within the next two years you can expect an explosion of products that transform homes into architectural geniuses.

By all accounts, the time is right for houses to become \"smart.\" During the last decade, consumers have readily accepted such technological wonders as microwave ovens, fax machines and cellular phones. Our cars use microprocessors, automated tellers abound, and virtually everyone has access to a personal computer. The interest in home automation, however, is not born out of a desire to create a space-age home. It stems from a genuine interest in ways to make houses safe, energy-efficient and more comfortable.

Take security, for example. If there is a fire, an automated house will detect it, turn off the gas, close the dampers in the ventilation system, turn on the lights, unlock the doors, set off an alarm and call the fire department. More advanced systems might even tell you where the fire is and through which room you should escape.

In the case of an intruder, a triggered motion detector can turn on floodlights in the yard and instruct your stereo to queue up the sound of a barking dog.

Or say you want to avoid unwelcome guests. By mounting a video camera at the front door, you can view visitors on a TV screen.

Automated security systems can also detect gas and water leaks, limit home access to specific times of the day and tell you which doors and windows are open when you activate the system.

With Home Manager, one of several automation systems on the market, you can warm up the master bedroom, kitchen and bathroom in the morning before the alarm goes off. Or you can program it to keep the nursery at a constant temperature. In

midsummer, you can even instruct sensors in the house to open skylights, turn on ceiling fans and close the draperies when the house reaches a certain temperature.

All of these functions can be controlled while in the house or remotely from a touch-tone phone or computer and modem.

In addition, home automation offers tremendous lifestyle improvements for elderly and disabled people. For those who cannot push a button or flip a switch, a voice command can be used to activate security cameras, turn up the stereo volume or drop the room temperature a few degrees. The click of an infra: red remote control could turn on the oven, close the blinds or open the door.

So what is home automation, exactly? In short, it's actually a combination of several things including microprocessors, enhanced power line transmission, computer chips, telephone and cable wiring, infrared sensors and radio frequency waves.

Fortunately, the manufacturers that are developing these automated products understand that consumers don't care how something works as much as they care that it does work and is easy to operate.

Part IV Language study and language appreciation

Words learning Tape listening:

To listen to the CD to appreciate the use of the words and expressions Step 3 Knowledge Extension (15 minutes)

Listen to the latest world news on new ideas and new architecture.

Goal: To further know about new ideas and new architecture. Step 4 Problem-Solving and Homework (5 minutes)

Homework:

1. Review the content learned this class.

2. Do certain practice on English listening from BBC or VOA, or other programs and show the general idea for each class from the second week.

3. Preview Unit 8 so as to be familiar with the content.

4. Any questions on English listening and English learning can be submitted to me or solved in class with your active proposal.

5. You shall insist on listening to English programs at least 30 minutes each day. Goal: To solve the problems students have in class and ask students to do certain homework to reinforce their knowledge on world news focusing on new ideas and new architecture.

Design of teaching process: Review for 10 minutes, textbook learning for 100 minutes, knowledge extension for 20 minutes, and offering assignment for 5 minutes.

Remarks: Add certain knowledge on new ideas and new architecture.

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