2014-2015学年度第12期总第576期
China shops online (P2)
哈尔滨市第一中学 张婳
I. Pre-reading
Did you buy anything on Taobao on 11.11?
II. Reading
•What’s the main idea of the passage? (You can use your own words.)
•The passage is about Taobao shopping Day on 11.11.
•How much money did Tmall and Taobao make last year?
•A. 350, 000          B. 35,000
•C. 35, 000, 000    D. 3,500, 000
•The money made this year was _____ more than that of last year.
•A. 63%   B. 64%   C. 65%   D. 66%
•What advice does the writer give the reader about Taobao shopping day?
•Stay rational, make a shopping list, and shop around (货比三家).
III. Vocabulary
Look at these sentences and try to figure out the meanings of the underlined words.
•Millions of Chinese people rushed to Tmall.com and Taobao.com, operated by Alibaba, for special offers.
•经营，管理
•This year’s shopping festival kicked off with an even stronger start.
•开始
•Sales hit 10 billion yuan in the first 40 minutes.
•达到（某一高点或低点）
•With orders coming from over 217 countries, Alibaba helped Chinese shoppers buy overseas products and overseas buyers order goods from China.
•n. v. 定单，下定单
•…creating a new way for China to make domestic demand (国内需求) greater with his e-commerce platforms.
•平台
IV. Structure
Look at the sentences and pay attention to their structure.
•Jiang was not the only one who took advantage of the 11.11 shopping day.
•He is one of the students who ______(join) the Party last week.
•He is the one who ______(join) the Party last week.
•He is not the only one who ______(join) the Party last week.
•Sales … had reached 57.1 billion by the end of the day.
•请注意此句的时态
•过去完成时+by the end of +过去时间点
•He had learned 3000 words by the end of last year.
•但by the end of +将来时间点，句子要用将来完成时
•He will have learned 3000 words by the end of next year.

Fake penguin gets close (P5)
哈尔滨市第一中学 张婳
I. Pre-reading
Have you ever gotten close to a wild animal?
II. Reading
•According to the passage, how did researchers get close to emperor penguins?
•They did it by using a rover (探测器) disguised (伪装) as a baby penguin. 
•How did the rover recognize its target?
•The rover had an antenna (天线) to read the electronic ID tags (电子识别标签) fitted to some of the birds for research.
•When a rover is getting close, can the penguins tell that the rover is different from other penguins?
•No. (Paragraph 7)
•What are the advantages of using the rover?
•It can help scientists get closer to animals.
•It may lead to “more ethical (合乎道德的)” research.
III. Vocabulary
Look at some sentences and try to figure out the meanings of the underlined words.
•WHETHER it’s to understand how animals behave or record video for a new wildlife TV series, getting up close with wild animals has always been a difficult task.
•不论是…还是…
•Whether they go or stay, it makes no difference.
•To get around the problem, researchers have come up with a new way.
•克服，消息传开，四处走走
•The rover even took never-before-seen video of an emperor penguin laying an egg.
•从未见过的
•lay: 下蛋，放置
•lay, laid, laid, laying
IV. Structure
Look at the sentence and pay attention to the structure of the sentences.
•Researchers have come up with a new way … using a rover (探测器) disguised (伪装) as a baby penguin.
•此处为分词做后置定语 ，译成：被伪装成小企鹅的探测器。
•The man sitting at the table is Tom.  (表主动)
•The man seated at the table is Tom.  (表被动)
•The meeting held yesterday was a big one. (表过去)
•The meeting being held now is a big one.   (表进行)
•The meeting to be held tomorrow will be a big one. (表将来)
1. At the beginning of class, the noise of desks _____ could be heard outside the classroom.    A. opened and closed
B. to be opened and closed
C. being opened and closed
D. to open and close
The 29th Olympic Games, _____ in Beijing in 2008，were a great success．
A．held
B．which held
C．to be held
D．was held

Laugh away pain (P6)
山东泰安第十九中学 张波
I. Warming up
1.Do you like golf?
2. Have you ever known someone who has gone through chemotherapy?
II. Comprehension
1. What helped me through when I had cancer?
It was my sense of humor.
2. How did I feel on the first day of the tournament?
I was happy and excited (in heaven).
3. What happened when my three favorite golfers arrived at the tee box?
A huge wind blew my hat and hair right off my head and into the middle of the fairway! Thousands of spectators, along with my golf idols, were watching me.
4. How did I feel and react then?
I felt embarrassed and then played jokes on myself to amuse others.
5. What can you learn from the story?
Open-ended question. The answers can be various.
III. Discussion
What would you do in such an embarrassing situation?
1.You call somebody by mistake.
2. You fall down when you stand up to give a speech.
IV. Language study
1. Match the words or phrases with their correct meanings.
be attached               be stuck to or added to
treatment                  a process for improving a patient’s health
lift my spirits               to make me feel happy or joyful
approach                   get close to
embarrassed                ashamed
2. Useful sentence structures.
1) I think it was my sense of humor that allowed me to hold onto my sanity.
Eg. I met him in the library last week.
是我在图书馆上周见到他的。
It was I that/who met him in the library last week.
Who was it that met him in the library last week?
我在图书馆上周见到是他。
It was him that/who met him in the library last week.
我上周见到他是在图书馆。
It was in the library that I met him last week.
Where was it that you met him last week?
我是上周在图书馆见到他的。
It was last week that I met him in the library.
When was it that you met him in the library?
2). Embarrassed as I was, I knew I couldn’t just stand there.