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,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,*,*,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,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,Company Logo,*,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,*,*,“Weve Been Hit!”,Unit 1,1,1/94,Company Logo,Greetings,Did you ha
2、ve a happy Spring Festival?,The Spring Festival is a time for family reunion.Would you like to share your experience or feelings of going home for the Spring Festival?,2/94,Company Logo,2.Do you have any interesting holiday stories to share with us?Is this year different from the last?,3.Do you have
3、 any special customs of celebrating the Spring Festival at your home?,3/94,Company Logo,1.family reunion dinner/supper of Chinese New Year,s Eve,年夜饭,As one of the most important aspects of the Spring Festival,food is essential to a healthy,happy new year in Chinese tradition,and many dishes,are imbu
4、ed with,auspicious,and symbolic meanings either because of the appearance or the pronunciation of its Chinese name,。,Some terms for the Spring Festival,4/94,Company Logo,2.Spring couplets,春联,Spring couplets are,pasted,on both sides and above the main door.In addition,it is also common to hang,callig
5、raphic,writing of the Chinese characters for spring,wealth and,“,blessing,”,.Some people will even,invert,the drawings of Fu since the Chinese for inverted is,a homonym,in Chinese for arrive,thus signifying that spring,wealth or blessing has arrived.,5/94,Company Logo,3.,firework and firecracker,烟花爆
6、竹,A Chinese New Year celebration would not be complete without fireworks.In China,fireworks are set off,to express joy and happiness during the Spring Festival.It is meant to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new.,Some terms for the Spring Festival,6/94,Company Logo,4.,gift money;money given to
7、 children as a lunar New Year gift;lucky money,压岁钱,red packets(cash wrapped up in red paper,symbolize fortune and wealth in the coming year.),红包,In the old days,New Years money was given in the form of one hundred copper coins strung together on a red string and symbolized the hope that one would li
8、ve to be a hundred years old.Today,money is placed inside red envelopes,in denominations,considered auspicious and given to represent luck and wealth.,7/94,Company Logo,5.CCTV Spring Festival Gala,中央电视台春节联欢晚会,It has become,an ingrained tradition,on Mainland China to watch the Spring Festival Gala on
9、 the Spring Festival,s Eve.The Gala adds a mood of celebration as people laugh,discuss and enjoy the performances.,Some terms for the Spring Festival,8/94,Company Logo,Did you watch the Spring Festival Gala?What do you think of it?Which programme gave you the deepest impression?,Some terms:,小品,2.,相声
10、3.,魔术,4.,歌曲,5.,歌曲联唱,6.,舞蹈,7.,民族舞蹈,8.,杂技,9.,戏剧,skit/comic sketch,cross-talk,magic/magic tricks,songs,song medley,dances,ethnic dances,acrobatics,Chinese opera,9/94,Pre-reading Questions,Background Information,Structural Analysis,Language Points,Teaching Points,10/94,Company Logo,Pre-reading question
11、s,1.,Tell what you know about the 9.11 attack.,2.Describe a disaster you have experienced or have heard of and how people involved reacted to it.,3.Talk about the biggest problems our world faces.,11/94,Company Logo,major challenges facing the world today,Population Growth,Globalization,World Health
12、The Crisis of the Environment,Religious and/or Ethnic Conflicts,Biological/Chemical Warfare,Terrorism,International Cooperation,Poverty,drugs,12/94,Company Logo,13/94,Company Logo,14/94,Company Logo,World Trade Center,Building Details,:,at New York,built 1966 to 1977,110 stories,1353 feet(412 meter
13、s)tall,about 10,000,000 square feet of rentable space,occupied by about 50,000 people,the worlds tallest building for a short time,taking over from the,Empire State Building,and then surpassed by the,Sears Tower,It was destroyed in.,15/94,Company Logo,Empire State Building,102 floors,1252 feet,381 m
14、eters high.,16/94,Company Logo,Sears Tower,At 1450 feet and 110 stories,the tallest building in Chicago,Illinois,U.S.,17/94,Company Logo,18/94,Company Logo,The Pentagon is the main building of the US Defense Department,in Washington.The US Defense Department is often referred to as the Pentagon,19/9
15、4,Company Logo,Osama bin Laden(1957):,He is a Saudi Arabian multimillionaire suspected of planning terrorist attacks against the United States.September 11,terror attacks were sponsored by him.In 1999 the Federal Bureau of Investigation(FBI)placed bin Laden on its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list in c
16、onnection with the bombings of U.S.embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998.Little is known in the West about bin Ladens life.He inherited his great personal wealth from his father,whose construction company prospered through close connections with the Saudi royal family.,20/94,9.11 attack,:,On Tuesd
17、ay,September 11,at 8:45 am New,York local time,World Trade Center One,the north,tower,was hit by a hijacked 767 commercial jet,plane,loaded with fuel for a transcontinental flight.,World Trade Center Two,the south tower,was hit,by a similar hijacked jet 18 minutes later at 9:03 am.,On separate but r
18、elated attacks,the,Pentagon,building near Washington D.C.was hit by a hijacked,757 at 9:43 am,and at 10:10 am,a fourth hijacked,jetliner crashed in Pennsylvania.,21/94,The south tower,WTC 2,which had been hit,second,was the first to suffer a complete structural,collapse at 10:05 am,62 minutes after
19、being hit.,The north tower,WTC 1,then also collapsed at,10:29am,104 minutes after being hit.WTC 7,a,substantial 47 storey building in its own right,built,in 1987,was damaged by the collapsing towers,caught fire,and later in the afternoon also totally,collapsed.,22/94,2.The World Trade Center:,The Wo
20、rld Trade Center is more than its,signature twin towers:it is a complex of 7,buildings on 17 acres of land,constructed,and operated by the Port Authority of New,York and New Jersey.The towers rise at,the heart of the complex,each climbing,more than 100 feet higher than the silver,mast of the Empire
21、State Building.,23/94,Before Attack,After Attack,24/94,I.Text analysis,The text describes a particular episode in the disaster that occurred on September 11,in New York in praise of the courage and compassion of man.,25/94,II.Structural analysis,Paragraphs 2 9,to describe the initial reaction of peo
22、ple inside the WTC when the building was hit,Paragraph 1,to tell the common peoples perception about the WTC,Paragraphs 10 30,to describe how the three people(Mayblum,Ramos and Hong)endeavored to save a heavyset man with their joint efforts.,Paragraphs 31 34,to describe the gathering of some of the
23、survivors and the victims wives,26/94,Company Logo,Click to edit title style,Heroes,Adam Mayblum,Harry Ramos,Hong Zhu,Fireman?,27/94,Company Logo,Adam Mayblum,Went back to look for Hong,Rip his t-shirt and gave them to his colleagues,Ready to help the heavyset man,28/94,Company Logo,Help panicked wo
24、rkers,Help the heavyset man to,The last moment,dead,1.Help the,heavyset man,2.Be the guinea pig,to test the safety,of the lift.,Hong Zhu/Harry Ramos,29/94,Pre-reading Questions,What do you know about the 9.11 attack?,When:,It happened on _.,Where:,_City,What:,_was attacked by,_.,September 11,World T
25、rade Center,30,New York,two hijacked jet planes,Page 5,30/94,A third hijacked airliner crashed into the_ in Washington DC.,Result:,-_and_ collapsed,.,-,Nearly _ people were killed in the terrorist attack.,3000,The Twin Towers,Pentagon,USDOD,United States Department of Defense,31/94,In Washington D.C
26、A third hijacked airliner crashed into the,Pentagon,.,Many government buildings including,the White House were evacuated,for fear they could be targets as well.,A portion of the building later collapsed.,32,32/94,Background,The,World Trade Center,(sometimes referred as,WTC,or,Twin Towers,)was a co
27、mplex located in the heart of New York Citys downtown financial district.,33,33/94,Building Details,110 stories,1353 feet(412 meters)tall(By some sources,Tower One was 1368 feet tall and Tower Two was 1362 feet.Some sources say 1350 feet overall.),About 10,000,000 square feet of rentable space,occup
28、ied by about 50,000 people.,34/94,Pentagon,The headquarters of the United States Department of Defense,As a symbol of the U.S.military,the Pentagon is often used metonymically to refer to the,Department of Defense,rather than the building itself.,35,35/94,Who did this?,Investigations into who,was be
29、hind the terrorist,attacks began just hours,after the first plane,struck the north tower.,Almost immediately the,finger of suspicion was,pointed at exiled Saudi dissident,Osama bin Laden,and his group of followers known as AL Qaeda,or,The Base,.,持不一样政见者,36,36/94,The Designer,Minoru Yamasaki,(,山崎實,19
30、12-1986)was a Japanese-American architect,The completion of the 110-story twin towers,which are 411 meters high,took 7 years.,World trade means world peace;the World Trade Center buildings in New York are living symbol of mans dedication to world peace.,37,37/94,Volcano,eruption,earthquake,flood,Dis
31、aters,38/94,tsunami,Mudslide,Hurricane,Forest Fire,39/94,Nuclear Leak,Victim,Leukemia,Airline Disaster,40/94,How to face the disaster?,To save yourself or save the other?,41/94,United,Optimistic,Helpful,42/94,Floor,People,Event,87th,78th,53th,44th,36th,Mayblum&his,colleagues,Confusion,Ramos,Ramos he
32、lped panicked people,to a stairwell.,Hong Zhu&,Ramos,They helped a heavyset man.,Hong Zhu&,Ramos,They helped a heavyset man to,the last bank of elevators.,Hong Zhu Ramos,fireman the,heavyset man,Hong Zhu left alone.,Global Reading,43/94,Detailed Reading,Adam Mayblum used to enjoy watching as storms
33、lashed the windows of his office:You think thats power?Mayblum would scoff.Im on the 87th floor of the World Trade Center.Thats power.The drawstrings on his window shades would appear to sway slightly,but it was an illusion.Although it was 1,040 feet in the sky,The WTC was quite steady.,44/94,What d
34、id Mayblum think of the WTC before the building was hit?,Two images:,Storms,Swaying of the drawstrings,Power,Steady,Para 1:tell the common peoples perception about the WTC,45/94,Detailed Reading,Adam Mayblum used to enjoy watching as storms lashed the windows of his office:You think thats power?Mayb
35、lum would scoff.Im on the 87th floor of the World Trade Center.Thats power.The drawstrings on his window shades would appear to sway slightly,but it was an illusion.Although it was 1,040 feet in the sky,The WTC was quite steady.,46/94,lash:,to hit violently or suddenly,lash out(at),:,speak very angr
36、ily to sb,criticizing or saying,that they have done something wrong.,猛烈抨击,严厉斥责,(风、雨或水)猛抽,狠打,狂扫,海浪击打着岩石。,The waves,lashed,(against)the rocks.,文章抨击了了社会不公。,The article lashed out at social injustice.,47/94,你不该嘲弄宗教。,You are not supposed to scoff at religion/at ones belief.,scoff,vi.,(常与,at,连用,):laugh at
37、scoff at,sb.sth.,嘲弄某人,某事,scoff at difficulties,藐视困难,scoff:,指对普通受到尊重事物嘲笑。,sneer,:,指除了用讽刺言语嘲笑外还带轻蔑表情。,48/94,Window shade,&,drawstring,=,blind,49,49/94,sway:,v.to move or swing from side to side,n.controlling influence,Be swayed by;,Dont ever beswayed by fashion,Under the sway of,The dancer,swayed,to
38、the music,.,In medieval times the church held sway over many countries.,影响,左右,受。控制,50/94,n.,(1),幻想,(,对自己有利,),妄想,I have no,illusion about,(2)A false idea or belief,幻觉,错觉,be under an illusion,illusion:,my talent for drawing.,You are under an illusion,about it.,51/94,Detailed Reading,Adam Mayblum used
39、to enjoy watching as storms lashed the windows of his office:You think thats power?Mayblum would scoff.Im on the 87th floor of the World Trade Center.Thats power.The drawstrings on his window shades would appear to sway slightly,but it was an illusion.Although it was 1,040 feet in the sky,The WTC wa
40、s quite steady.,52/94,Detailed Reading,(para2-5),When Mayblum felt a,devastating,rumble on that September morning,he glanced at the drawstrings.They were careening wildly,three feet in either direction.Mayblum would be one of thousands cast into an extraordinary purgatory that morning.While as many
41、as 25,000 would find their way to safety,5,000 would not.,53/94,devastating:,completely destructive,devastate(v.);devastation(n.):,destroy,damage(synonyms),婚外情确实会对婚姻造成毁灭性影响。,Affairs do have adevastatingeffect on marriages.,Rumble:,v.Make a deep heavy continuous sound,Thunder rumbling in the distance
42、n.the rumble of drums,远处传来隆隆雷声,天,崩,地,裂,轰,鸣,声,54/94,Comparison:,glance at/stare at/glare at/peer at/gaze at,Careen,A heavy flood tide caused my vessel to .,The car ed around the corner.,汽车歪歪斜斜疾驶过街角。,Rush forward in an uncontrollable way.,55/94,1.Can you paraphrase the sentence“,They were careening w
43、ildly,three feet in either direction,.”in Paragraph 2?,They were swaying up to three feet from side to side,like a ship in a great storm.,Para 2:using the image of drawstring again to indicate the terrible force of the strike.,56/94,Detailed Reading,When Mayblum felt a devastating rumble on that Sep
44、tember morning,he glanced at the drawstrings.They were careening wildly,three feet in either direction.Mayblum would be one of thousands cast into an extraordinary purgatory that morning.While as many as 25,000 would find their way to safety,5,000 would not.,57/94,Purgatory,(para.3):,Purgatory is th
45、e place where Roman Catholics believe the spirits of dead people are sent to suffer for their sins before they go to heaven.,(,炼狱,),58,58/94,purgatory,:,a place or condition of great suffering,The devastating earthquake changed peoples home into a purgatory.,Angela has a thin sharp voice;its,purgato
46、ry,to have to listen to her sing.,这场毁灭性大地震将人们家园变成炼狱。,torture,plague,受苦经历,折磨,59/94,Mayblum would be one of thousands cast into an extraordinary purgatory that morning.(Paragraph 3),Paraphrase:,That morning,Mayblum would be one of,thousands who were thrown into a terrible disaster.,那天早上,有数千人将被卷入一场惊心动魄
47、灾难,,梅布鲁也是其中一员。,60/94,Find ones way,Find ones way out,Find ones way to,找到路,;,认得路,寻找处理方法,设法抵达,61/94,Detailed Reading,For some,it was a matter of geographynot just which tower they worked in or on which floor,but in which corner of the building.For some,the choices were as basic as which staircase to u
48、se./,Others faced the ultimate moral dilemma:Save yourself,or save another.,62/94,What does the author mean by saying“,For some,it was a matter of geography,”(4),For some whether they could survive depended on where,they were.,对于有些人来说,生死攸关是此时此刻他们所在位置,-,不但 是哪栋楼,哪一层,更主要是在大楼哪个角落,63/94,Ultimate:,1.Event
49、ual,最终,最终,他最终目标是什么?,2.fundamental,基本,最根本,Ultimate principles,questions,causes,resources,What was his ultimate goal?,(,aim/outcome),3.The most important or powerful thing of a,particular kind,至高;最主要,Ultimate power,authority,challenge,64/94,65,Mary was,in a dilemma,whether to marry or continue her stu
50、dy.,dilemma:,a,situation in which one has to make a difficult choice,面对这么两难境地,唯一出路就是在团体内合作。,The only way out of this dilemma is to cooperate within the group.,place/put sb.in a dilemma,be on the horns of a dilemma get out of dilemma,走出困境,65/94,Question:,What is the implication of the parallel senten






