2019-2020学年度第28期总第782期
STUDYING FULL-TIME (P3)
南京师大附中   汪美意
Lead-in
Prevention is better than a cure.
What can we do to stay safe during the NCP epidemic?
 
The world's leading medical journal, Lancet published a study suggesting that people infected with the new coronavirus might be able to spread it even if they do not have flu symptoms.
People are advised to avoid close contact.

Pre-reading
Look at the title “studying full-time” and think about the following questions：
· What problem will studying full-time have during the epidemic?
· Could there be any benefits that you can think of when studying full-time from home?
· What challenges will teachers face?

Skimming
Read the passage quickly and summarize the main idea of each paragraph.
 
· Para 1    a 17-year-old high school student ________ (plan) to resume her studies earlier for the Gaokao.
· Para 2    __________ the NCP outbreak, the spring semester was delayed.
· Para 3    Students in China have resumed full-time studying, only from ____.
· Para 4    A “__________” with education resources was launched to help students.
(Key: had planned; Due to/Because of; home; cloud platform)

· Para 5    Online teaching means  ________ for students.
· Para 6    Online teaching means students have a   _________ to study.
· Para 7    Teachers think _________     is clearly better.
· Para 8    For _____ teachers, the tools   for online classes are not easy to handle.
(Key: more freedom; weaker motivation; face to face teaching; older)
· Para 9    Online courses are only a ______ measure.
(Key: temporary)
How many parts can you divide the passage into?
 
Scanning
What has the Ministry of Education done to help students and teachers with their online classes?
· A “cloud platform” with educational resources was launched.
· Set limitations on how to deal with improper measures.

Language difficulties 
Rather than falling behind their original plan, Liu and many others have already begun studying full-time – only from home – in what may have become the largest online teaching trial (试验) the country has ever _____. (Key: seen)
 ......, Liu and many others have already begun studying full-time again in a large online teaching trial.
It may have become the largest trial the country has ever seen.

For instance, schools shouldn’t place a hard minimum on how much a student should study each day.
place value/importance/emphasis on sth.
place the blame on sb.
Most people place too much value on money.
The company places a lot of emphasis on training.
She placed the blame on George.

Post-reading
1. Do you think the Ministry of Education is doing enough to help online classes?
· What suggestions can you give?
2. Visit the “cloud platform” at ykt.eduyun.cn, and make comments.

2019-2020学年度第28期总第782期
Polar heatwave (P7)
南京师大附中   汪美意
I. Lead-in
Does anyone hate summer and heat like I do?
Now the heatwave has reached the world's iciest place.
 
What pictures do you have in mind?
II. Pre-reading
What do you expect to find in an article titled “Polar heatwave”?
 
III. While-reading
 
What do we know about the new temperature?
 
Rising sea levels threaten coastal areas
 
IV. Post-reading 
What does the Brazilian soil scientist mean by saying “We can’t use this to anticipate climatic changes in the future. It’s simply a signal that something different is happening in that area.”?
The recorded high temperature is only a data point, not enough to predict the trend of climate change, but we should pay closer attention to polar Regions.
 
V. Language Focus
 
According to the Guardian, the Antarctic has registered (登记) a new high temperature for the first time on record, ________ fears of climate instability in the world’s iciest place.
(Key: promoting)
prompt  vt. to cause something to happen or be done 促使某事发生
The discovery of the bomb prompted an increase in security.
prompt sb. to do sth. 促使某人做某事
The birth of my first child prompted me to write this article.

We can’t use this to a_______ climatic changes in the future. (Key: nticipate)
我们不能用这一温度来预测未来气候的变化。
anticipate  vt. If you anticipate an event, you realize in advance that it may happen and are ready for it.
The schedule isn't final, but we don't ~ many changes.
We don't ~ this causing any difficulties.
It is anticipated that the research will have many different practical applications.

Otherwise, it may become too hot for us to ____. (Key: fix)
fix vt. repair
Ellis was able to quickly find and fix the problem.
What else can you fix?
They fixed a meeting for next Friday at 9:00am.
How should I fix my hair for the party?
They thought that their relatives would be able to fix the visas.

Difficult sentence：
· It’s believed to be behind an alarming decline of more than 50 percent in chinstrap penguin(帽带企鹅) colonies, ......
· 翻译：它（冰雪融化）被认为是帽带企鹅数量暴跌50%以上的原因。
· The people, reason, or events behind a situation are the causes of it or are responsible for it.
· It is still not clear who was behind the killing.