(共17张PPT)
B3U6
Understanding ideas
Pre-reading
Look at the picture & the title and predict what the passage is about.
Infrared thermographic image 红外线热像
the subway/tube
While-reading
Read the passage and choose the author’s purpose in writing the passage.
1 To explain why summers in London are getting hotter and hotter.
To complain about the London Tube.
To warn people about the danger of London being flooded.
To express his worries about the dangers of extreme weather conditions.
P84 Activity 3
Complete the flow chart with words and expressions from the passage.
While-reading
P85 Activity 4
The author is travelling on the London Tube. It is very hot and the temperature outside will be 1______________________. He feels awful.
30 plus/over 30 degrees
It is even hotter inside the train than outside, and the author thinks he is 2________________________ with the passengers next to him.
melting and becoming one
Why is it so hot on the London Tube
Thinking that London will probably get hotter, the author feels 3___________. To prepare for the future, he thinks he should:
4_____________________________________
5_____________________________________
_____________________________________
6_____________________________________
a bit scared
put his flat on the market and buy a boat;
speak with his manager about moving to the top floor;
learn to swim
In the newspaper, there are sports of natural disasters around the world caused by 7______________ which makes the author feel 8________.
climate change
nervous
Going outside, the author feels refreshed and realises he has been 9__________________.
worrying too much
Which sentences vividly show that it is extremely hot inside the station/on the train
While-reading (Para. 2)
Sure enough, going down the stairs and onto the platform is like jumping into a volcano that’s erupting.
…can reach 35 degrees! It’s lovely at the beach, but not so when you’re wearing a suit and in a crowd of passengers!
Simile 明喻
Hyperbole 夸张手法
I’m sure the passenger next to me and I are melting and becoming one!
Comparison
How do you understand the ending of the passage
While-reading
“After all, it’s only 30 degrees outside.”
Think & Share
Do you share the author’s concerns about extreme weather conditions Why
Do you think climate change will affect your life in the future How would you adapt
We should live a ____________ lifestyle.
sustainable
occur vi
When exactly did the incident occur
这事件究竟是什么时候发生的?
Sugar occurs naturally in fruit.
水果天然含糖分。
It occurred to him that he should do...
= It _______ him that he should do...
- occurred - occurred; occurring
struck/hit
发生;出现
存在于;出现在
被想到;出现在头脑中
It occurs/occurred to sb. that + 从句
pick up
Picking up the phone, he heard a strange voice.
He goes to pick up his son from school at 5 every day.
A cellophane can serve as a radio picking up programmes from home and abroad.
Let’s pick up where we left off yesterday.
All I seem to do is cook, wash and pick up after the kids.
Travelling in France, he picked up some Spoken French.
The economy is finally beginning to pick up again.
We reach the outskirts of town and begin to pick up speed.
The economic crash totally ruined my business, but I picked myself up and got to work wherever I could.
接电话
开车接人
接收
偶然学会
改善;好转
(跌倒后)站起来,振作起来
重新开始;继续
收拾整理
加速
compare
你可以把你的速度和狮子的速度进行比较。
You can compare your speed with the lion’s.
= You can make a comparison between your speed and a lion’s.
有时老师被比作蜡烛。
Sometimes teachers are compared to candles.
__________ with cars, bikes are more eco-friendly.
= In comparison with cars, bikes are more eco-friendly.
___________ cars with bikes, you can find bikes are more eco-friendly.
compare A with B
compare A to B
比较A和B,侧重区别
把A比作B,侧重比拟
Comparing
Compared
compare
美国的情况与英国的不能直接相比。
The situation in the US is not directly ____________ to that in the UK.
For him, arts subjects are _____________ easy to learn than science ones.
比较而言,中国人更重视家庭关系。
Comparatively speaking, Chinese people attach more importance to family relations.
comparatively
comparable
P84 Now that it’s hard to avoid a disaster on Earth, perhaps I should start thinking about moving to space.
now that 连词,引导原因状语从句,表示显而易见的原因。
总结:原因状语从句的引导词
now that in that, for the reason that
seeing (that), considering (that), given that
既然很难避开地球上的灾难,也许我应该开始考虑移民太空。
鉴于、考虑到
既然
因为,由于
既然天气这么热,为什么不宅家吹空调呢?