2019-2020学年度第45期总第798期
Televised injustice (P4-5)
山东省烟台第二中学 赵娜娜

Lead-in
Looking at the picture, do you know why the people are protesting?

Protests are erupting in the United States.
What caused these protests?
After George Floyd, an unarmed African American man, died while in police custody on May 25, people across the United States took to the streets.

This recent event has sparked awareness of racial injustices.
statues have been toppled
a call to legal reform

Title prediction
How are people around the world seeing these events?
What kind of injustice?

Fast-reading
Read the article quickly and choose the main idea of the article.
A. Inequality within the film and television industry.
B. How to deal with racial inequality in the US.

Reading for details
Read the article carefully and find out how we should re-think the way we’ve previously perceived films, TV shows and various other media.

Post-reading
What’s your opinion of the recent news that Boston is considering removing statue of Lincoln standing before a freed black slave?

Language study
1.使……显现出来
2.超越边境
3.引发种族
不平等的意识
4.流媒体平台
5.有争议的
6.被从……中移走
7.把……应用于
8.当前环境
9.宣布一个新的倡议
10.旨在
11.扩大多样性和包容性
12.接受挑战
 
Homework
Can you give other examples of films, TV shows or literary works that need a second thought?

2019-2020学年度第45期总第798期
Survival skills in the wild (P6)
山西省灵石县第一中学  任立琴

I. Free-talk

II. Read for general information
The article is mainly about the importance of cultural knowledge to animals.

What is the writing style of the article?
A. Narrative
B. Exposition
C. Argumentation

III. Read for details
1. Why does the writer ask three questions at the beginning of the text?
A. To test the readers’ knowledge.
B. To show her confusion about culture.
C. To lead up to the topic of the text.

2.List all the cultural knowledge mentioned in the article.
Øwhere, when and how to find food or build nests;
Ø___________________;
Øgroup identity;
Ø____________;
Ø___________________;
Ø_____________________.

3. What is the function of such cultural knowledge?
Cultural knowledge is necessary for survival.

4. Try to summarize the features of cultural knowledge.
In the wild, the parents would be the ones to teach them such important information.
It can be passed down from the older generation to the newer one.
It is possible that each population’s unique culture is disappearing.

Complete the structure map of this article.
Survival skills in the wild
 
V. Language focus
想起，想到
全世界
作为......而著名
传递
适应
think of
across the world
be known as
pass down
adapt to

Can you write down their synonyms?
think about
all over the world
be famous/well-known as
pass on
get used to

sentence
Sam Williams, executive director of the Macaw (金刚鹦鹉) Recovery Network in Costa Rica, helps to improve macaw populations by taking birds that were born in captivity and releasing them into the wild.
该句的主干为________________________ ;下划线部分是______；红色部分作______。  

population   n.
用法一：  表示“人口，人数” ，常以单数形式出现。如果指世界不同地区的人口时，用复数。
用法二：表示一个地区的特定人群动物群时，用作可数名词，前面搭配定冠词the 。
用法三：询问某国、某地有多少人口时,要用How large...?;在问具体人口时用What...。表示人口的多或少，要用large或small。

即学即练
1. The population of this city_________(grow) every year.
2. The population of our hometown is nearly twice as _____ as that of yours.
      我们家乡的人口是你们家乡人口的将近两倍。
3.   _____ is the population of Canada?
      加拿大的人口有多少?
4.   China has_____ population of about 1.4 billion.

release  一词多义
v. 1.放开，松开，放松
2.释放，解放
3. 出版，发行
n. 1.放松，排放，释放
2.释放证，放弃文书
3.发布的新闻，发行的影片

1. The band released their latest album.
2. The cruel criminal will be released next month.
3. The ability of coal to release a combustible gas has long been known.

词性变化
_____(v. 幸存，幸免于难)---survival(n)---_______(n.幸存者)
cultural(n)---_______(n.文化)
socialize(v. 社交)---________(n. 社会)---_______(adj.社会的)
_____ (n. 可能性)---_______(adj.可能的)---________(adj.不可能的)
_____(v. 使人害怕)---________(n. 恐惧)---terrifying(adj.令人恐怖的)---_______(adj.感到恐怖的)

即学即练
1.  We were not in the least worried about the__________  that sweets could rot the teeth.
      我们以前完全不担心吃糖果有可能会蛀牙。
2.  His only chance of __________ was a heart transplant.
     只有进行心脏移植，他才有望活下去。
3.  Their__________backgrounds gave them a spirit of adventure.
     他们的文化背景赋予了他们一种冒险精神。
4. I still find it__________   to find myself surrounded by large numbers of horses.
     我仍旧觉得被一大群马包围很可怕。

Grammar
This type of knowledge is known as cultural knowledge. Cultural knowledge can be passed down from the older generation to the newer one.
In the wild, the parents would be the ones to teach them this important information.
One和ones这两处都是用作代词，代指前面刚刚提到过的名词。类似用法的词还有it, that和those等。我们可以从以下两个角度进行区分。