2018-2019学年度第30-31期总第745期

Captain of cool (P1)

吉林省吉林毓文中学 刘媛

Lead-in

Who are they? Which one is your favorite character?  

Scanning

Scan the article and try to find the meaning of the title “Captain of cool”.

Detailed reading

Read the article carefully and answer the following questions.

1. What difficulty do the Avengers meet?

Half of them disappeared after Thanos snapped his fingers and the other half don’t know what to do next.

2. What will be the last film in the Avengers series and when will it be released?

Avengers: Endgame which will be released next month.

3. What is Captain Marvel skilled at?

She is an expert in hand-to-hand combat. And she has superhuman strength with the ability to fly at six times the speed of sound and to shoot energy from her fingertips.

4. What makes Captain Marvel different from other female superheroes?

She has a female friendship with Maria Rambeau in the movie.

Summary

Discussion

What other female superheroes do you know?

Talk about them with your classmates.

Language focus

Expressions

1. make a mess of

2. turn things around     

3. come out

4. the second to last

5. result from

6. by contract

7. in the previous movie

8. the bond between…

9. have no problem doing…

1. 弄乱、打乱

2. 使事情好转

3. 上映

4. 倒数第二

5. 由…引起

6. 相反的

7. 在之前的电影中

8. …之间的关系

9. 做…没有困难

Homework

Write a 100-word article to introduce Captain Marvel.

Career

Skills

Special power

Influence in the movie

2018-2019学年度第30-31期总第745期

Get out of my personal space! (P6)

山东泰安第十九中学 张波

I. Pre-reading:

Are you at ease when someone comes very close to you?

(Many people might find this very uncomfortable.)

II. Reading:

1.      Read the article and find what key points have been mentioned in the article.

1) The general size of personal space.     2) How the researchers got this size.

3) What influences personal space.     

4) What to do when someone gets into your personal space.

2.       Read again and find the correct answer to the following questions.

1) Which will NOT change your personal space according to the text?  (C)

A. Psychological factors.            B. The environments you are in.

C. Eye blinks.                     D. Different cultures.

2) Which of the following is suggested for when someone steps into your personal space? (D)

  A. Putting something into your bag.    B. Stepping backwards.    

C. Saying “No” directly.                  D. Creating a new personal space.

3. Read the following statements and decide whether they are true (T) or false (F) exercise according to the article.

1) Not everyone has a sense of personal space.  (F)

2) When you are anxious, you will need a larger personal space.   (T)

3) People who hug a lot are less sensitive to personal space. (T)

4) People who are in a strange environment •need less personal space. (F)

III. Language points

1. The more they blinked, the more of a threat they felt the shock was to their face.

“the more..., the more...”句型常表示”越……就越……”。

① The more he gets, the more he wants. 他得到的越多，想要的越多。

② The more she learns, the more she wants to learn. 她越学越想学。

2. Whenever that happens, rather than trying to step backwards, researchers suggested that…

whenever做连词，意为“无论何时”等于no matter when

Whenever you like, you can have my cottage.

只要你愿意，随时都可以去我的乡间小屋住。

也可以把whenever引导的从句提前Whenever you like，you can have my cottage.

3. Consolidation exercise:

1) _____ hard you try, it is difficult to lose weight without cutting down the amount you eat.

A. However         B. Whatever        C. Whichever        D. Whenever

2) A map is a good tool for _____ someone goes to a new place.

A. whenever    B. whatever         C. wherever        D. however

3)_____did this will sooner or later be caught and will be punished.

A. Whichever          B. Whenever      C. Whoever            D. Wherever

4) Please call my secretary to arrange a meeting this afternoon, or _____ it is convenient to you.

A. whenever  B. however       C. whichever     D. wherever

5）It’s believed that ____ you work, ____ the result you’ll get.

A. the harder; the better   B. harder; better

C. the harder; a better     D. much harder; much better

6) In recent years, travel companies have succeeded in sending us the idea that the further we go, 

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