331期高二教案：

作者：杜文娟 山东省临沂第一中学

Recording history
No one denies that it is exciting to watch a game in the Bird's Nest or the Water Cube these days. Still, it might be even more exciting to write about a world gold medalist after you watch all of his or her games and have a close-up interview with them, as a teenage journalist.
Eighteen German students, who were selected from all the high schools in Berlin, arrived in Beijing right before the Paralympic Games kicked off on September 7. They are now busily working with 18 students from Beijing No 80 High School for a German-Chinese magazine Paralympics Zeitung, which will have four issues published during the Games.
Alessandro Ambrosia Del Toro, 17, who lives in Germany but has family in Spain, is a sports journalist. Last Tuesday he felt overwhelmed when he was allowed to have an appointment with 21-year-old Spanish swimmer Maria Teresa Perales, who won two gold medals and set a new world record in her class of disability.
"I have done some homework about Maria from the Internet. Unfortunately there is not much about young disabled athletes like her," he said.
In the past one and half years, Alessandro and his friends have practiced writing profiles and interviews with disabled people. They've also learned how to deal with them.
"We don't always try to be helpful to the disabled unless they show their needs. Otherwise they will feel like they can't do anything. When we meet an athlete with visual problems, I give a handshake with one hand only after I touch him or her on the arm with another," Alessandro says, while demonstrating his ways of interacting with disabled people.
Beside the Games, the students have got to know more about Beijing, the city to which most German students has paid their first visit.
"My friend Franziska Helms and I go out a lot to visit different venues, attractions and restaurants in order to find interesting things for our articles," said culture editor Astrid Klein, 19, who wears a necklace with a pendant of the Chinese character "寻". She speaks plenty of Chinese after having learned the language for four years in her school.
"We've plan to search for more about the city and the Chinese culture, by talking to some German students at German Embassy School in Beijing," she added.

By Liu Jinmei, 21st Century Teens staff

I. Pre-reading:
Have you ever talked with a world gold medalist? What questions would you like to ask?
II. Read and fill in the blanks.
The 18 German students were selected from all the high schools in Berlin. They are now working on a German-Chinese magazine, Paralympics Zeitung, with the help of 18 Chinese students. The magazine will publish four issues during the Paralympic Games. Before coming to China, Alessandro and his friends have practiced writing profiles and interviews with disabled people while Astrid Klein have learned Chinese for four years in her school.
III. Sentence pattern:
No one denies that it is exciting to watch a game in the Bird's Nest or the Water Cube these days.
1. No one denies that ______________________________.
2. No one denies that ______________________________.
3. No one denies that ______________________________.

Tourism changes
Today's tour guides need more than a map and a compass. They also need a specialization, thanks to the fast development of the tourism industry.
Take Li Tingting, a tour guide with China Travel Service, for example. When recently traveling with a group of British tourists from a wildlife aid organization, the 24-year-old was expected to know a lot about wildlife protection.
"I not only need to know about policies, but I also have to understand cultural differences related to wildlife protection," said Li. "As a result, I've never talked about eating dog meat with my clients."
Li is one of a growing number of multi-talented tour guides in an industry struggling to meet the changing needs of its customers.
According to a statement by six central policymakers this month, the Chinese government will go to great lengths to improve the country's tourism. The number of people employed in the industry will increase by two-thirds, from 60 million to 100 million by the year 2015.
With 132 million tourists coming to China each year, the tourism and hospitality industry is changing. Destination-based tours and sightseeing trips are out, theme-based tours and leisure trips are in. Experts say these new trends call for new types of talent.
Wang Qingjiang, manager of Beijing Jingxi Tourism Development Company, says that an ideal employee in the tourism sector should be able to create attractive travel products. Talent is also needed in crossover fields that combine tourism with other industries, such as commerce, architecture, media and culture.
For instance, a travel website editor should have knowledge of both e-business and tourism. And an eco-tourism operator should be familiar with environmental issues. "Those who are skilled in more than one area will be valuable to the tourism industry," said Wang.
"Tourism is a labor-intensive industry that accepts talents at all levels. But it should also be an intelligence-intensive sector," said Liu Deqian at the Tourism Research Center. "And tourism programs at Chinese universities are still struggling to address the changing market."

By Xu Weiwei, 21st Century Staff

I. Skimming:
What is the fast development of the tourism industry?
Key: About 100 million people will be employed by the year 2015 in this industry and 132 million tourists come to China each year.
II. Find the detailed information to complete the sentences:
1. Li Tingting didn’t talk about eating dog meat because her clients are from a wild aid organization.
2. To meet the changing needs of its customers, the tourism industry needs multi-talented tour guides.
3. New trends of tourism call for theme-based tours and leisure trips.
4. An ideal employee in the tourism sector should be able to create attractive travel products.
III. Write down the causes of the following sentences.
1. Tour guides need a specialization because there is a fast development in the tourism industry.
2. Destination-based tours and sightseeing trips are out because the tourism and hospitality industry is changing.
3. An eco-tourism operator should be familiar with environmental issues because talent in crossover field is needed.

In brief
British police could soon be armed with stink bombs to drive away rioters and glue guns to catch criminals.
Scientists are testing a group of new "less lethal technologies" to help police officers tackle offenders without using firearms.
Gadgets being tested include "sticky nets", which can trap criminals while giving them a powerful electric shock, and low-powered lasers which cause great pain when fired at an offender's skin, but without serious injury.
The stink bombs contains a chemical compounds so smelly that rioters will gag and be forced to run away.
"Immobilizer glue" is another option. A special gun could fire extremely sticky material and leave a suspect helplessly stuck.

Particle physicists fall into the stereotype of geek scientists - serious, distracted and wearing ties that look like socks. But a rap hit on the video website Youtube has shed unexpected light on their fun side.
"Large Hadron Rap" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM) has received millions of hits in the past two weeks. Rapping scientists in lab coats and hard hats make it easier for people who don't know the difference between a proton and a crouton.
The rap is the brainchild of Kate McAlpine, a graduate student of Michigan State University who is working at CERN, as the European Organization for Nuclear Research is called.
Last Wednesday, CERN switched on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a massive underground laboratory that smashed protons together and analyzed results. The project will solve some of the greatest mysteries in physics.

I. Questions:
1. British police will have new tools to drive away rioters and catch criminals, which includes sticky nets, stink bombs and immobilizer glue.
2. “Large Hadron Rap” has received millions of hits and it helps people understand the fun side of the particle scientists.
II. Chunks:
1. 配备，装备 be armed with 2. 驱赶 drive away 3. 给与有力的点击 give a powerful electric shock 4. 属于，被归类 fall into 5. 一首轰动的饶舌歌曲a rap hit 6. 使某事易于理解 shed light on 7. 在过去的两周里 in the past two weeks 8. 了解…与…的不同know the difference between …and … 9. 打开，开启 switch on 10. 脑力劳动的产物 the brainchild of
III. Translate the following sentences:
1. Scientists are testing a group of new “less lethal technologies” to help police officers tackle offenders without using firearms.
为了帮助警察不用枪支擒获罪犯，科学家正在测试一组新的危害性较小的技术。
2. Particle physicists fall into the stereotype of geek scientists - serious, distracted and wearing ties that look like socks.
粒子科学家被归为怪人那一类——一本正经，精神错乱，领带看起来像袜子。

Google turns ten
It all began in the summer of 1995, when Larry Page and Sergey Brin met at Stanford University (Brin showed Page around the school). The two students founded Google a year later. It became a company on September 7 1998 - which became Google's birthday.
Google is 10 years old now! With millions using Google every day, it is regularly voted one of the world's top brands. Page and Brin have been described as the Thomas Edisons of the Internet.
Google's tentacles are everywhere. It runs services for blogging, email, instant messaging, shopping and social networking. It also offers word processing, spreadsheet and other tools in the workplace. It is building a software platform for mobile phones. Last week it launched Chrome, a new web browser.
At this speed, it is hard to guess what Google would be like in the next 10 years. But we could be sure that, as the company described, for web users "the best is yet to come".
To commemorate the occasion, we dig up some quirky facts about Google.
1. Google's name was a wordplay on 'googol', which refers to the number 1 followed by one hundred zeroes. Google's play on the word shows the company's mission to organize the vast amount of information available on the web.
2. Google began as a research project for Larry Page, 24, and Sergey Brin, 23. Both of them were Phd Students at that time. The duo went on to rent a garage at a Californian home for five months at the beginning of the company's launch. Google has since bought the house, which has become a popular tourist attraction.
3. Google receives daily search requests from across the globe - including Antarctica. Users can found their searches for content in 43 languages. No requests have been received from outside the earth yet. Still, Google have a Klingon interface, you know, just in case.

I. Pre-reading:
Do you often use google when surfing the Internet? How do you like it?

II. Find the details for the following main ideas. Write your answers in complete sentences.
1. Page and Brin have been described as the Thomas Edisons of the Internet.
Details: _____________________________
2. Google’s tentacles are everywhere.
Detail 1: _____________________________
Detail 2: _____________________________
Detail 3: _____________________________
3. Read and try to fill in the form.