1、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,Page,*,本资料仅供参考,不能作为科学依据。谢谢。本资料仅供参考,不能作为科学依据。本资料仅供参考,不能作为科学依据。谢谢。不能作为科学依据。,Unit 5,Text I,The Light at the End of the Chunnel,1/53,Objectives:,1.The building of English Chunnel,2.Narration in Informal Tone,3.Vocabulary and structures,2/53,Teaching Tasks and P
2、rocess,3/53,Background information,The,National Geographic Magazine,is the official journal of the National Geographic Society.It published its first issue in 1888,just nine months after the Society itself was founded.,4/53,Some information for a better understanding of the text,The English Channel
3、P54),The long-lasting Anglo-French Conflict,The Channel Tunnel Project,5/53,The English Channel,6/53,The Channel Tunnel,7/53,Pre-reading Questions,How did the English and the French people look at the Chunnel,joyously or resentfully?Why do you think so?,How do you visualize the breakthrough ceremon
4、y?Exercise your imagination.,8/53,Pre-reading Questions,Channel,n.Stretch of water joining two sea,Tunnel,n.Underground passage,e.g.,for a road or the sea Railway through a hill or under a river on the sea.,blend,n.sth.put together;sth.mixed,construction,n.建设,结构,建筑物,建造,结构,解释,9/53,Inaugurate,v.举行就职仪式
5、举行仪式,开始,开创,Introduce at a special ceremony;,begin,start,commence,initiate,inaugurate,The city library was inaugurated by the mayor.,市长主持了市图书馆落成仪式。,Watt inaugurated the age of steam.,瓦特开创了蒸汽时代。,10/53,Consist of,Attitude towards,Breakthrough,n.突破,It is a major technological,breakthrough,.,这是一次主要技术突破。
6、11/53,Joy;enjoy;joyous;joyously,;,Resent,vt.恨,生气,Kate said she felt we,resent,her.,I,resent,having to get his permission for everything I do.,Would your wife,resent,my being with you here?,12/53,Resent;resentful;resentfully,;,Visual,a.,concerned with or used in seeing,Visualize,v.imagine,使.看得见,形象化,
7、构想,I remember meeting him but I just cant,visualize,him,13/53,Image,imagine;,imaginary;imagination,14/53,Main idea,In spite of the adverse sentiments expressed by the English and the French people,the Chunnel that joins Britain and France was finally completed and,looking back,the breakthrough that
8、took place several years ago was a moving scene.,15/53,The author-Cathy Newman is a senior staff member of the national Geographic Magazine.,16/53,Language Points,Lobby,n.,Soon-to-be-opened,a.,Stiff,a.not easily bend/folded/moved/,changed,Tremble,v.shake,quiver ,His voice trembled with rage.,17/53,L
9、anguage points,soon-to-be-opened,English Channel Tunnel:Please note the word formation.,=the English channel Tunnel that will be opened soon.,an easy-to-perform trick,a difficult-to-use camera,18/53,stiff upper lips,trembled.,stiff upper lips,:the ability to accept bad luck or unpleasant events with
10、out appearing upset.,n.坚定从容,British men are taught to keep a stiff upper lip and show no emotion.,He kept a,stiff upper lip,during the crisis.,在危机中,他一直坚定从容。,19/53,The old general praised the boys for keeping a stiff upper lip in time of trouble.,-metonymy rhetoric(转喻修辞),即用一个与之有紧密联络词或词组替换一个词或词组。,subs
11、tituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself(as in they counted heads),E,g,Washington-the united States Government,swordmilitary power,20/53,The last ice age (P55),21/53,his pale blue eyes filled with,foreboding,.,He stood there,his hands in his pockets,.,She ran,her
12、 long hair flowing in the wind.,The last bus having gone,we had to walk home.,22/53,foreboding,:a feeling of coming trouble,n.不祥预感,先兆,Tims absence filled her with,foreboding,.,提姆缺席令她产生了不祥预感。,A sense of,foreboding,descended over the rival bankers.,其它银行家有一个不祥预感。,It is the,foreboding,of storms.,23/53,R
13、uby,adj.红宝石色 n.红宝石,红宝石色,n.红宝石,The one in Aryan was a soft,ruby,red.,雅利安穹顶是一个柔和红宝石色。,Her,ruby,necklace brightened her face.,红宝石项链照亮了她脸庞。,The genie gave her a big,shiny,ruby,.,精灵给她一颗又大又闪亮红宝石。,红宝石色,Ruby:露比(人名),24/53,as the,gull-wing eyebrows,shot upward.,a baby-food store,a mountain-top hut,a city-cons
14、truction discussion,25/53,Well,by grace of,one of the engineering feats of the century,by grace of,:due to;thanks to,By the grace of God the children were rescued by the firemen.,26/53,Feat n.技艺,功劳,技艺演出,It was quite a,feat,to move that piano by yourself.,你真有能耐,一个人挪动那架钢琴。,功劳,The skyscraper is a,feat,
15、of engineering.,那座摩天大楼是一项工程壮举。,27/53,for,richer or poorer,better or worse,England and France are getting,hitched,.,“,To have and to hold from this day forward,for better,for worse,for richer,for poorer,in sickness and in health,to love and to cherish,till death do us apart.”,28/53,For richer or poor
16、er,better or worse,-it is not certain what the consequences will be,but they will have to be accepted,because the action has been taken.,-whether one likes it or not;whatever happens.,-on terms of accepting all results.,29/53,Hitch,hit n.猛拉,急促猛推,跛行,妨碍,无偿搭车,He gave his sock a,hitch,when he fell it sl
17、ipping down.,他感觉袜子向下滑时,猛拉了一下。,The ceremony went off without a,hitch,.,仪式进行得很顺利。,The conference came off without a,hitch,.,会议毫无障碍地结束了。,拉紧,He,hitched,up his trousers before sitting down.,他把裤子往上拉起,然後坐下。,无偿搭车,Can I,hitch,a ride with you?,我能够顺路搭乘你车吗?,We can,hitch,a ride to London on a lorry.,我们能够无偿搭乘卡车去伦
18、敦。,vi.蹒跚,被缠结,无偿乘车,30/53,Hitch,vt.拴住,连住,急拉,拉紧,无偿搭车,vt.拴住,Mr.Hess hitched his horse to the tree.,赫斯先生把马拴在树上。,Hitch,these two ropes together.,把这两根绳子接起来。,She,hitched,up her skirt so as not to get it wet.,她把裙子往上提起,省得弄湿了。,31/53,Queen Elizabeth of Britain and are scheduled to,inaugurated,inaugurate,:,to st
19、art,some important event,inaugurate a conference,inaugurate a new era,The Queen inaugurated the exhibition.,32/53,Inauguration,33/53,Rift,rift n.裂口,隙缝,切口,Many years passed as the Warlocks sought to unlock the mysteries of this tiny,rift,.,术士花了许多年寻找扩大这个微小裂口神秘方法。,Shuttle,the shuttle,the vehicle used f
20、or a regular journey from one place to another and back over a short distance.,Service tunnel a tunnel for the use of motorists,Through service train service that goes directly from one place to another,34/53,Psyche n.【C】精神,心灵,灵魂,It was a false alarm at the psych ward.,在精神病房是个错误警报。,In psychoanalysis
21、the division of the,psyche,that is conscious,most immediately controls thought and behavior,and is most in touch with external reality.,自我在精神分析学中指有意识最直接地控制思想和行为,与外部世界联络也最多那部分自我,35/53,The,psyche,was empty of its struggles and its pains.,心灵清空了它全部挣扎和痛苦。,She spent her life plumbing the mysteries of the
22、 human,psyche,.,她一生探索人类心灵奥秘。,Its violence to your own,psyche,.,这是加诸在你灵魂上暴力。,We think quality is the,psyche,of a corporation.,我们认为质量是一个企业灵魂。,Psyche:希神塞姬(爱神丘比特所爱美女,36/53,Moat n.壕沟,护城河 vt.将.围以壕沟,The next day the mother duck with her family went down to the,moat,.,隔天这只母鸭带着她一家人走到壕沟。,Its the classic bluep
23、rint of a medieval castle,its thick outer walls separated from the inner structure by a,moat,dug out of the rock.,喀拉特萨拉赫丁设计为经典中世纪城堡式,它外城与内部建筑间隔着一道岩石上开凿出来壕沟。,I thought it less like a lake and more like a,moat,.,我想它不太像一个湖泊,更像一条护城河。,37/53,Breach n.破坏,违反,决裂,裂口,(浪)冲击,v.违反,突破,在.上打开缺口,Union officials denou
24、nced the action as a,breach,of the agreement.,工会责任人训斥这一行动破坏了协议。,You are in,breach,of your contract.,你违反了你签协议。,It caused a lifelong,breach,with his father.,这使得他们父子终生失和。,The huge waves made a,breach,in the sea wall.,大浪在堤上冲出一个缺口。,38/53,Music,blares,and lights,glare.,near and dear,hustle and bustle,out
25、of sight,out of mind,39/53,Vocabulary,Complexion -natural color of the skin,especially of the face,Foreboding -a feeling of coming trouble,Terminal the station at the end of the Chunnel,rift -breach,split,disagreement,Snakes winds its way;moves in curving manner,Screeches makes a harsh,piercing soun
26、d,40/53,Shudder uncontrollable shaking,Ketchup sauce made from tomato juice,Feat sth.different well done;,Hitched joined or connected to each other,Scheme plan or design for work,41/53,Parallel continuing at the same distance from one,another,Psyche human mind;mentality,Moat deep,wide ditch filled w
27、ith water round a,castle,Installation fixing in position for use,Communication lines telephone or telegraph lines,connecting places.,Quirk peculiar behavior,Chic stylish,fashionable in style.,42/53,Questions,1.What did an English couple say about the French people,and what did a Frenchman say about
28、the English people?Why do you think they showed a mutual feeling of dislike?,43/53,2.With the help of the information given in the Notes,explain the following:,1).200 years of failed cross-Channel-link schemes,and,2).1,000 years of historical rift.,44/53,3.How will the Chunnel facilitate the transpo
29、rt between Great Britain and France,or rather,between Great Britain and other European countries?,4.Did the mutual feeling of dislike still exist when the tunnel was completed?,45/53,5.How do you understand the sentence“The Chunnel rewrites geography,at least in the English psyche”?,6.Why did one of
30、 the visitors say“Makes you appreciate British Rail”?,46/53,7.Describe the breakthrough scene in your own words.,There were many people present,the Eurotunnel officials,construction workers,and journalists.When the cutterhead of the tunnel boring machine bit into the last piece of rock separating En
31、gland from France,there was loud music as well as dazzling lights.A number of Frenchmen were seen coming from the other side,and thunderous applause was heard.The French and British people drank champagne and hugged each other.It was truly a moving sight.,47/53,Text II Travelling,48/53,Questions,Wha
32、t kept Aunt Augusta from traveling as constantly as before?,What were the advantages of going to Istanbul by plane?,49/53,Why did Aunt Augusta not take the plane?,What do you think their surname was?,Compare Aunt Augusta and Henry.,50/53,Discussion/Exercises,ORAL WORK,Role-playA Trip to China,51/53,ORAL WORK,Role-play,A Trip to China,52/53,Assignments,Exercises on the Work Book,53/53,






