2019-2020学年度第14期总第772期

Creative cities (P4)

山东省烟台第二中学 赵娜娜

Lead-in

Discussion

What do you think a creative city is like ?

 

 

 

 

 

Smart, high-tech cities

 

The UNESCO Creative Cities Network

Seven different categories: Crafts and Folk Arts, Design, Film, Gastronomy (美食学), Literature, Media Arts, and Music

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN) was created in 2004 to promote cooperation with and among cities that have identified creativity as a strategic factor for sustainable urban development. The 180 cities which currently make up this network work together toward a common objective: placing creativity and cultural industries at the heart of their development plans at the local level and cooperating actively at the international level.

 

What do the following two cities have in common?

 

 

 

 

 

Nanjing                                  Yangzhou

The creative cities, each in its way, make culture a pillar, not an accessory (附属物)of their strategies.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

While-reading

Fast reading

Read the passage and find the main idea.

Nanjing and Yangzhou joined the UNESCO Creative Cities Network in the literature and gastronomy categories, respectively, for their rich culture and distinctive spirit.

 

Read the text carefully and find the following aspects of Nanjing and Yangzhou.

1.Location

2.Typical features

3.Examples

4.Comments

 

Detailed reading

 

 

 

Nanjing

 

 

 

 

Yangzhou

Huaiyang cuisine

Huaiyang cuisine, along with Cantonese, Shandong and Sichuan cuisines, is one of China’s four great culinary traditions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Can you translate the sentence “Culture influences the music we listen to, the food we eat, our interests and even our values and views on morality”?

 

文化影响了我们听的音乐、吃的食物、我们的兴趣爱好以及我们的价值观、道德观。

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Language Study

 

What do the words have in common?

Located in the Yangtze River Delta region, Nanjing contains typical southern landscapes (景色) and culture, which have attracted and inspired writers and poets through the centuries.

Born in Nanjing, Qing Dynasty writer Cao Xueqin also found material to write about in the region.

Yangzhou, sitting on the north bank of Yangtze River, is “a land of fish and rice” says Confucius Magazine.

non-finite verbs非谓语动词

 

Post-reading

Retelling  

Retell the passage following the four aspects.

1.Location

2.Typical features

3.Examples

4.Comments

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Homework

Write an article introducing Nanjing and Yangzhou as creative cities.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2019-2020学年度第14期总第772期

Pain relief through VR (P6)

北京中学  李萍

 

 

I. Lead in   

• What are the guys wearing on their eyes?
• What do you think are they doing?

They are wearing VR headsets.

In the first picture, a doctor is using VR to do an operation. 

The man in the second picture is using VR to read.

 

• Have you ever experienced VR?
• If yes, how did you feel?
• How can VR be used?

 

II. Prediction

Read the title and predict what the passage will be talking about.

 

III. Reading Comprehension  

Read the text and check your prediction.

What is the main idea of this text?

This text mainly talks about a study on how VR may help chronic pain sufferers.

 

Read and explore

Read the text again and draw a mind map to show how the writer organizes the text.

 

Detailed reading

Read for a third time and decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F).

1.The study found that immersing people in Arctic scenery couldn’t reduce their sensitivity to ongoing pain.

2.15 healthy volunteers were tested in the study.

3.The team found that all the participants ranked capsaicin cream and electronic stimulus as more painful while using the VR headset.

4. In the future, the researchers will study whether regular VR treatment could work well for pain sufferers.

 

Key: FTFT

 

Critical Thinking

Discuss the following questions in groups.

1. What can you learn from the study?
2. Do you think “Pain relief through VR” is reliable? Why or Why not? If yes, find out supporting details from the text. If no, find out the problems in the study.

 

V. Language Focus

Useful expressions:

Fill in the blanks with expressions from the article.

1. Published in the journal Pain Reports, the study found that immersing people in Artic scenery reduced their ________ to ongoing pain and sharp shooting pain. 

sensitivity: the quality of reacting quickly or more than usual to sth 敏感性e.g. The eyes of some fish have a greater sensitivity to light than ours do. 

sensitive adj. 敏感的

 

2. According to the researchers, the findings add to a growing body of ______ that VR may have a future application in hospitals and medical centers. 

evidence: the facts, signs or objects that make you believe that sth is true 根据；证明；证据e.g. We found further scientific evidence for this theory. 我们找到了进一步证实这种理论的科学根据。

 

3. …which are known to be key parts of our pain-fighting systems and are helpful in _________ the spread of increased sensitivity to pain.
regulate:

1. to control sth by means of rules （用规则条例）约束，控制，管理
2. to control the speed, pressure, temperature, etc. in a machine or system 调节，控制（速度、压力、温度等）e.g. The activities of credit companies are regulated by law. 信贷公司的业务受法律的制约。

 

4. In the future, they are also looking into whether regular VR treatment could offer long-term pain _________for patients, as well as short-term relief. 

relief:  n. the act of removing or reducing pain, anxiety, etc. （焦虑、痛苦等的）减轻，消除，缓和 

relieve: v. to remove or reduce an unpleasant feeling or pain 解除，减轻，缓和（不快或痛苦） 

e.g. We all breathed a sigh of relief when he left.

常用语块: to one’s relief; in relief

 

Homework

Write a 100-word article to voice your opinion of the application of VR.