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单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,The Guinness Book of World Records,Warming Up,Who is the tallest student in our class?Whats the height?What about the tallest man in the world?,答案,Are you tall or short in your class?Who is the shortest man in the world?,答案,Whats your weight if you dont mind my asking you?Who is the heaviest man in the world?,答案,Next Page,The tallest man,The tallest man in history for whom there is evidence is Robert Pershing,Wadlow,(USA,1918-40)who,when last measured on June 27,1940,was found to be 2.72 m tall.,Xi Shun,who was born in 1951,lives in Inner Mongolia in China,who measures 2.361,m,taller,than,Radhouane,Charbib,who,for the last six years,has held the title of worlds tallest living man.,回到问题,Shortest man ever,The shortest mature human of whom there is independent evidence was,Gul,Mohammed(India).On July 19,1990,he was examined at Ram,Manohar,Hospital,New Delhi,India,and found to be 22.5 in.(57 cm)tall.,回到问题,Heaviest man ever,Jon Brower,Minnoch,(USA).He suffered from obesity as a child and,by 1963,when he was 22 years old and 1.85,metres,tall,he weighed 178 kg.Four years later,he doubled that weight and by September,1976,he weighed 442 kg.He was rushed to the hospital in 1978 with heart and respiratory failure,weighing an estimated 635 kg.When he died in 1983 he was down to 362 kg.,回到问题,Scanning the text for the answers,The oldest person lived to be _,The longest moustache reached _,The longest poisonous snake is _ long.,An Englishman balanced a small car weighing 159.6 kg on his head for _,The largest square has an area of _,The most remote city from the sea is _,The largest,Jiaozi,weighed _ kg.,Detailed reading:Paragraph 1,Who was Sir Hugh Beaver?How did he,come up with,the idea for the Guinness Book of World Records?,When did the first edition come out?How has the Guinness World Record sold?,答案,Answers,Sir Hugh Beaver was the,then,director of the Guinness Brewery.He wanted to settle an argument about the fastest bird in the world.After talking to his friends,he,conluded,that a book which,which,answered such questions might be popular.,In 1955 and has been a best seller ever since.,背景阅读,In 1951,Sir Hugh Beaver,then the managing director of the Guinness Brewery,went on a shooting party and became involved in an argument.Which was the fastest game bird in,Europe,the,golden plover or the grouse?He realized then that a book supplying the answers to this sort of question might prove popular.He was right!,Sir Hughs idea became reality when,Norris,and,Ross,McWhirter,who had been running a fact-finding agency in London,were sent to compile what became The Guinness Book of Records.The first edition was bound on August 27,1955,and went to the top of the British bestseller lists by Christmas that year.The book has gone on to become a record breaker in its own right.With sales of more than 94 million copies in 100 different countries and 37 languages,Guinness World Records is the worlds best ever selling copyright book!,Detailed reading:,Pragraph,2,Which is correct according to this part?,A.All new records cant be printed in the Guinness Book of World Records.,B.It seems easy to find records in economy,military and politics.,C.The English man who balanced a small car might have been,recored,in the category of the Human Body.,D.The oldest person alive today is more than 122 years.,答案：,A,Detailed Reading:Paragraph 3,Can You name some other,Chines,Guinness World Records?,姑苏盛图,，,a,Qing,Dynasty painting with over 12,000 people in it.,伏明霞，,youngest,Olmpic,champion when she was 13,高其光，,floating in water over 15 hours,Detailed reading:Paragraph 4,Why are Lance Armstrongs record special?,背景材料,In 1996,shortly after his 25th birthday,Lance was diagnosed with cancer.Cancer is a very serious disease that kills many people.In order for Lance to fight this dreadful disease he had to have some very uncomfortable treatments.,The treatments made Lance weak,caused him hair loss.After several months of painful struggle,the doctors told him that he beat the disease.,音像资料,Video Watching,How many times has Armstrong won the Tour de France?Whats the record coming next to him?,What does he think of his girlfriend?,Has he planned to retire or not?,What is he thought of by the Americans?,资料链接：,reading:Paragraph 5,What is it that leads people towards world records in the first place?,A.entertainment B.interest C.curiosity D.fame,What may“make for”mean here?,A.make up B.call up C.promise to be D.have advantages,Detailed reading:Paragraph 6,What types of record attempts are not allowed?,Records that are dangerous to the person who is attempting it or to others.,What has to be done if you want to set a world record into the Guinness Book of World Records?Fill in the blanks:,c_ d_,s_i,_,c_g,_,广告阅读,How do I apply to set or break a record?,The first thing you need to do is to tell us what record youre interested in breaking.Do this by filling in the form found in,the Make a Record Attempt section,of the website.,If you tell us that you want to break an existing record well send you the current record details and the,relevant,rules and guidelines for you to follow when you attempt to break that record.,If you wish to try something that hasnt been done before or have already attempted a potential record then well need to pass your suggestion on to our research department first.Theyll decide if its something that were interested in establishing as a new record category.If we are,theyll draw up the necessary guidelines and send them to you.If not,we can always suggest other records that you may wish to attempt.,Further understanding,Read the text again and match each of the sentences on Page 5 with a paragraph in the text.,Discussion,What record do you want to set?,Homework,Fill in the,appilication,form for a world record you are going to set on Page 9.,Read the text again and underline the important phrases.,
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