15-16年度第45期总第641期高一教案
Venice worth your visit (P4)
山东烟台经济技术开发区高级中学  唐福珍
I. Warming up  
Have you ever been to Venice? How much do you know about the city?
Background information
威尼斯(Venice): 是意大利东北部著名的旅游与工业城市，也是威尼托地区的首府。
威尼斯曾经是威尼斯共和国的中心，被称作"亚得里亚海明珠"，十字军进行十字军东征时也曾在这里集结，而且也是13世纪至17世纪末一个非常重要的商业艺术重镇。威尼斯别名"亚得里亚海的女王"、"水都"、"桥之城"及"光之城"，堪称世界最浪漫的城市之一。 威尼斯市区涵盖意大利东北部亚得里亚海沿岸的威尼斯潟湖的118个岛屿和邻近一个半岛。这个咸水潟湖分布在波河与皮亚韦河之间的海岸线。
圣马可广场（Piazza San Marco）: 是意大利威尼斯的中心广场。圣马可广场在欧洲城市的广场中是独一无二的，它座落在市中心，却不像其他广场那样受到交通的喧闹，这归功于威尼斯宁静的水路交通。作为威尼斯的地标，圣马可广场受到游客、摄影师和鸽子的格外青睐。19世纪法国皇帝拿破仑（Napoleon Bonaparte）曾称赞其为“欧洲最美的客厅”。
Canaletto Antonio Canal : 意大利著名风景画画家。他的作品以描绘18世纪的威尼斯风光主题而闻名于世。他记录了大运河边的人家与作坊、赛舟会、圣马可广场的耶稣升天日庆典、一次雷击后圣马可广场钟楼维修的情形等城市景象。
II. Skimming
1. Read the passage and decide what its main idea is.
The reasons why Venice is among the top three destinations for visitors to Europe.
III. Scanning
1. What attracts visitors to Venice?
1) Tales of romantic trips along its waterways and its marvelous (非凡的) architecture (建筑) of cobbled (铺着鹅卵石的) squares, churches, theaters and museums attract visitors.
2) Literature and Hollywood have also played their part in making the beautiful city into a legend (传奇).
3) This rising of its waters is another urgent (急迫的) reason to visit Venice.
2. Which waterway is its most famous one?
The Grand Canal.
3. What is the first place to see in Venice, according to the article?
The Piazza San Marco.
4. What has led to many events, such as conferences and the Venice Film Festival, taking place in Venice?
Its uniqueness and its beauty.
IV. Vocabulary
1. But in truth, Venice doesn’t need Lonely Planet to talk it up.
in truth: 事实上，实际上 = in fact/ as a matter of fact / in reality
talk sth. up: 过分夸奖，吹捧
Joes talked up the idea at the meeting.
琼斯在会议上大肆吹捧了这个想法。（朗文） 
2. You approach Venice by boat, or rather by gondola.
or rather: 更确切地说
We all went in Tom’s car, or rather his father’s.
我们都是坐着Tom的车走的，更确切地说，是他父亲的车。（朗文）
3. Venice is home to the Art Biennale every two years, and the Venice Film Festival is the most important in Europe after Cannes in France.
be home to: 是---所在地。
China is home to many pandas.
中国是大熊猫的故乡。
V. Discussion
What do you think people should do to prevent Venice from sinking?

How wrinkles help out hands (P5)
合肥世界外国语学校 谢冰
I. Warm-up
If we put our hands in water for long enough, what changes will happen to our fingertips?
They will become wrinkled.
Do you know why?
II. Fast Reading
1. It might be generally believed that the finger wrinkling up _____.
   A. makes no sense to us
   B. has no use at all
   C. is just because it takes in water and swells up
   D. helps us hold things more tightly
2. By saying “And evolution wouldn’t have selected it unless it conferred some sort of advantage”, what does Professor Tom Smulders mean?
    A. our fingers needn’t wrinkle up
    B. the finger wrinkling up means nothing
    C. evolution sometimes confers some sort of advantage
    D. everything our bodies do must mean something 
3. Smulders and his research team’s test proves that ____.
    A. fingertips will be wrinkled in water
    B. wrinkled fingertips help hold things more tightly
    C. dry hands perform equally well
    D. wrinkled fingertips perform better in water
Answers: CDD
III. Careful Reading
Fill in the blanks.
1. ________ about the finger wrinkling up
Phenomenon  The fingertips are 2._____ when our hands are 3.______ in water.
Common 4.______ The fingers take in water and they just 5.______ up.
Scientists’ 6.______ Wrinkles on fingers might be able to help the hand take 7. _______ hold of things.
The details of the test 20 people were asked to pick up marbles from water with their hands, some of 9._____ had to keep their hands in water for half an hour before 10._______. 
The 11._____ of the test  The people with wrinkled fingers completed the task faster than those with 12. _____ hands, but all the people performed equally well when they 13.________ dry marbles.
14._____ Wrinkled fingers help hands perform better in water while 15._______ ones are more sensitive. 
Answers:
1. Research 2. wrinkled  3. kept  4. belief  5. swell 6. guess 7. tighter 8. asked  9. whom  10. starting  11. findings   12. dry   13. moved  14. Conclusion/Summary 15. smooth

Finding safety in groups (P6)
山东烟台经济技术开发区高级中学  唐福珍
I. Warming up  
Do you often work in groups in class? Or do you often deal with problems in groups? How can we benefit from doing things in groups?
II. Skimming
1. Read the passage and decide what its main idea is.
Even the biggest challenges are less terrifying when you tackle them as a community.
III. Scanning
1. What does the author mean by saying “We were all born less than 24 months apart, which had its pluses and minuses”?
Although her brother, sister and cousins always fought at home, they would join up with one another if someone outside her house interfered with any one of them.
2. How has the author benefited from being part of a community?
She has felt safe to try for things that seemed out of her reach. And when things got bad, her community and friends stood beside her.
3. What does the author suggest?
If you are going to do something that terrifies you, find a group first.
IV. Sentence structure
1. While we came up with more and more creative ways to fight at home, ---you got all of us.
While I understood the power of groups when things were normal, --- and our sports teams that stood beside us.
两个句子中，while引导的是让步状语从句，意为“尽管，虽然”。
(1)While we don’t always agree, we continue to be good friends.
尽管我们意见不一致，但我们仍是好朋友。
(2) While the methods used were quite different, the results were similar.
虽然所用方法完全不同，但效果却相似。
2. When a drunk driver killed my father, it was our community that stepped in.
--- it was our family friends, our community theater and our sports teams that stood beside us.
两个句子中，“It was --- that---”为强调句型。被强调的部分都是句子的主语。
3. I don’t recommend a parent’s death as the way to learn about the power of small communities, but it did make me realize that, if I looked for bigger challenges with the support of a group, I was going to go for broader goals and build deeper relationships throughout the journey.
本句中，did make是对谓语动词的强调。
强调句：一类是It is/was＋被强调成分＋that/who…强调除了谓语以外的成份；一类是用do/does/did＋动词原形…强调谓语.
V. Vocabulary
1. While we came up with more and more creative ways to fight at home, ---.
come up with 想出，提出
We weren't able to come up with any new
suggestions.
我们提不出任何新建议。
2. ---when I was in a community, I felt safe to try for things that seemed out of my reach.
try for 争取，试图得到
out of one’s reach 超出某人的能力范围；某人够不着
Those goods are priced out of our reach.
这些商品定价太高，我们买不起。
Keep all medicines out of the reach of children.
把所有的药放在孩子们拿不到的地方。
3. --- and his colleagues – now my teachers – began to keep a closer eye on us because he no longer could.
keep a close eye on  照看；留意；密切注视
1) We should keep a close eye on new technology.
我们应该密切关注新技术.
2) Smart homes could keep an eye on elderly people and allow them to be more independent. 
智能型家庭可以照看老年人，并且让他们更加的独立一些。
VI. Discussion
What can we learn from the author’s experiences?