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发布时间:2014-12-22

2014-2015学年第17期总581期
Ebola fighters win (P2)
苏州工业园区第二高级中学 孙炳芳
I. Lead in
Have you ever heard of a disease called Ebola?
II. Fast reading
Part 1 Para 1-4 Briefly introducing the disease.
Part 2 Para 5-6 This is the largest breakout to date in Africa.
Part 3 Para 7-11 Kent Brantly fights against the disease.
III. Carefully reading
1. Why has Time magazine named thousands of medics as its “Person of the Year 2014”?
Because they are risking their lives to treat patients with the Ebola virus.
2. How serious is the disease?
Ebola is a disease that is more harmful to humans than perhaps any known virus on Earth, according to The New York Times. People get infected by making direct contact with Ebola patients’ bodily fluids. The disease kills up to 90 percent of its victims.
3. How did doctors treat patients?
They hadn’t experienced Ebola before, leaving health workers unprepared and without the resources to protect themselves and others. But they didn’t quit to protect themselves. Instead, they stayed, treated patients, and sterilized their areas to stop the disease from spreading.
4. How did Kent Brantly recover from the disease?
After being treated with an experimental drug called ZMapp, he recovered and was released from hospital on Aug 22.
5. What role is Kent playing?
The best role he can play in fighting Ebola is to be a voice for the people of West Africa. They are suffering.
IV. Language points
1. They haven’t experienced Ebola before, leaving health workers unprepared .
They haven’t experienced Ebola before, _______  ______ health workers unprepared .
2. There is mud and water everywhere, making it difficult to travel from place to place.
There is mud and water everywhere, _____ _____ it difficult to travel from place to place.
3. He comes home late every evening, making his wife very angry.
He comes home late every evening, ____    ____      his wife very angry.
He comes home late every evening, and _____  _____his wife very angry.

Cuteness can be helpful (P5)
苏州工业园区第二高级中学 孙炳芳
I. Lead in
How do you feel when you notice cute animals?
II. Fast reading
Part 1 Para 1-3 Few people can resist looking at pictures of cute animals.
Part 2 Para 4-8 Looking at cute pictures of animals can be helpful.
Part 3 Para 9-16 Further research has been done to prove the “power of cute” could be of use.  
Part 4 Para 17-19 Drawing a conclusion.
III. Careful reading
1. How was it proven that looking at cute pictures of animals can help you concentrate better?
In two experiments, participants performed the given tasks twice – before and after looking at seven pictures of either kittens and puppies, or cats and dogs. As a result, in both cases students who were shown cute baby animal pictures made much fewer mistakes.
2. What did the researchers do for their second piece of research?
To find out the answer, the researchers chose some food pictures which looked pleasant but not cute, and gave them to a third group of students. But viewing the foods did not make the students perform any better in the number test.
3. What conclusion did the author draw from the two pieces of research?
The “power of cute” could be of great use.
4. Why bring small plastic toys to school during tests?
Cute things can be beneficial, helping you to do things such as concentrating on tests.
IV. Language points
resist doing sth
相关跟doing 的动词的歌谣
1. consider, suggest/advise, look forward to, excuse/pardon
考虑建议盼原谅
2. admit, delay/put off, fancy,
承认推迟没得想
3. avoid, miss, keep/keep on, practice,
避免过错继续练
4. deny, finish, enjoy/appreciate,
否认完成就欣赏
5. forbid, imagine, risk
禁止想象才冒险
6. can’t help, mind, allow/permit, escape
不禁介意准逃亡
1. There’s another benefit to cuteness.
Cuteness is of _________ .
Cuteness is _________.
2. The “power of cute” could be of great use.
The “power of cute” could be very ____.

Look for the inspiration (Page 6)
大连开发区八中 程国良
I. Free talk
Have the students talk about their future occupations and other plans
What are you going to do in the future?
How can you be successful in your career?
II. Skimming
Here is a story about a sock shop
(“The fastest road to failure is to do things mechanically”)
III. Decide whether the following statements are true or false.
1. The author went to Fifth Avenue to buy socks.
2. The clerk’s interest in his job surprised him.
3. He was well served in the sock shop.
4. People easily become apathetic nowadays.
5. “Doing things mechanically is the deadly enemy of success.”
IV. Paraphrase the following.
1. A boy clerk who could not have been more than seventeen years old.
2. I had not been aware of that.
3. There was on his face an expression of joy, as if he were showing to me the mysteries of his religion
4. My amazement at his pride in salesmanship will be understood by all.
V. Word study
Match the words and phrases with correct definitions.
1.wear off A. freshness
2.mysteryB. disappear gradually
3.apatheticC. being unenthusiastic
4.noveltyD. serve; work for or be a servant to
5.zealE. a feeling of  eagerness
6.wait onF. Of people as if moved by machinery; by habit, not will
7. mechanicalG. something strange that you cannot understand or explain
B. Fill in the blanks with a word or phrase  from the article.
1.Bob often helped his mother_____ the table at dinner time.
2.The excitement of moving to a new town will soon _____.
3.He was  driving  so carefully along that he _____ the danger ahead.
4.When he was young, he _____ great interest in DIY.
5.He was asked the same question so many times that the answer became _____
6.Mr. Cold is a person with no enthusiasm and he is always ____ about everything.
VI. Writing
Get the students to list “the mechanical and passive phenomena” in their school life and think of ways to overcome them.
Now we know
Doing things mechanically is the deadly enemy of success.
As a student,
we shouldn’t
we should
 
Answers:
III. 1.F 2.T 3.T 4.F 6.T
IV. 1. The boy clerk was much younger and obviously he was a fresh hand at the job.
2. I didn’t know that that I had come in the best place in the world to buy socks. I  hadn’t even found anything special.
3. He was extremely happy and served me enthusiastically and patiently.
4. Everyone will understand why I was amazed that the boy clerk was so proud of his job.
V.A. 1. B  2. G  3. C  4. A  5. E 6. D  7. F
B. B. 1. wait on   2. wear off  3. wasn’t aware of  4. displayed  5. mechanical 6. apathetic
 


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