Unit 15 A Fable for Tomorrow机制建设
I. Teaching Aims:
In this unit students are required to:
1. Practice reading strategies such as predicting, skimming, guessing, etc.
2. Grasp some new words and expressions to enrich student’s vocabulary;
3. Do some oral work such as pre-reading questions, role play and interaction activities to help to develop the students’ oral communicative abilities;
4. Appreciate the two texts in this unit and learn some writing skills and practice it along with letter writing;
5. Do some other after-class exerci including listening and translation to improve students’ comprehensive skills.
II. Teaching Emphasis:
1. The comprehension and appreciation of Text I;
2. New words and expressions:
fable in the heart of (center) harmony(harmonious, harmonize) in the midst of checkerboard prosperous/ prosper/ prosperity clouds of bloom drift/ float/ flow a blaze of color flame/ fire/flicker backdrop/ background delight/ delighted/ delightful feed /feed on an abundance of(in abundance/ abundant(supplies) blight evil spell malady a flock of chicken a shadow of death at play/ at work moribund throb brood/ hatch litter(v./n) come into bloom pollination angler/fishermen eave and shingle granular witchcraft silence(v./n) grim spectre stark reality migrate, immigrate, emigrate & migrant, immigrant, emigrant hatch
III. Teaching Procedures
1. lead-in:
When you e the title “A fable for Tomorrow”, what comes into your mind first? Why is thi
s passage called a fable? What can this fable be about? What are some of the problems relating to the future most people are very concerned about?
A fable is an imaginary story told to teach a moral. “A Fable for Tomorrow” is a story invented by the writer which is meant to tell us a moral: if the sizable u of chemical incticides can not be brought under control, the emingly impossible tragedy will become a stark reality.
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我是一只鱼连杆螺栓World economy has been striding forward in the past century. However, this has been achieved at the cost of contaminating the environment we are living in, and human beings are now paying high prices for what they have done to nature. Meanwhile, many environmentalists are devoted to making more people realize the ecological conquences incurred in the process of modernization. Now environmental protection and sustainable development have become the two greatest concerns for the whole world.
Types of Pollution
The chief types of environmental pollution include air pollution, water pollution, soil pollution, pollution caud by solid waste and hazardous waste, and noi pollution. Besides, pesticides have been regarded by many environmentalists as a type of pollution, too. It is believed that pesticides are poisons which should be ud as a last resort and if ud, then they should be ud with extreme caution.
职场规则
1) Make a short speech, telling a story or describing a scene about the future world in one of the aspects such as medicine, environment, food, energy, housing, population, transportation, etc.
Reference1: Back from the Dead
One morning in the year 2070, a man called Duane awakens. He looks up and es a doctor in a white coat smiling at him. “Why am I in hospital?” he asks.
潍县萝卜“You’ve been sick.” The doctor replies.
牵牛花的作用Then Duane notices a badge on the doctor’s coat. It reads “ Alcor Resuscitation.” Sudden
ly Duane remembers everything. He has come back to life, 70 years after he “died”.
The reason this was possible is becau, instead of being buried or cremated when he died, Duane’s body was prerved in a “flask” of liquid nitrogen (at –196 degrees Celsius). And there it “ waited” until science had developed the technology to revive a frozen human being.
Suddenly, a woman appears beside the doctor. It is Duane’s wife Jeannie, looking more beautiful than ever. For the past 70 years, she has been taking drugs that prevent her body from aging. Duane looks lovingly at her, and then at his own body. That , too, is in perfect condition.
The couple look at each other apprehensively—after all, they haven’t en each other for 70 years. “I guess we’ve got some stuff to talk about, huh?” Duane says to her.
Reference 2: The Magic of the Button
It is 7:30 in the morning, There goes the bell of the alarm clock. The curtain of the bedr
oom draw apart , and the shutter roll up automatically. In the kitchen, the coffeepot starts to grumble. The backdoor opens to let the dog out. On TV, emerge a ries of flash , the prentation of news items today, including the latest developments in economy , politics, etc. After that there appears the morning mail. At this moment, the modern Alatin, lying comfortably in bed, press a button on his bedside, and on the screen of the television appear the memos about business as well as private life. Then he gets up, and gets into the bathroom where the shower is on automatically. After that, he is reminded by a special sound and at the same time a blue flash on the screen that his boss is on the way to work. So he is dresd, and at leisure he walks towards his car, which is ready to go. After kissing good bye to her husband, Alice Alatin sits down in front of the screen, reading with concentration the price catalogs of department stores and markets in the locality. After face to face negotiation with the butcher, baker and grocery owner on the screen, she press a button, ordering food items for the dinner. Then she press a button on the terminal of the kitchen computer, retrieving her favorite recipe from the computer memory, and giving directions to the computer to calculate the different amoun
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ts of ingredients and the time to cook and the appropriate temperature. After that Alice takes part in a minar on arts through the internet. Then she goes into the language lab, and picks up the earphone and learns that her son Alatin Junior gets an “A” in Latin.
