unit 2 witnessing time project3

课件23张PPT。Project
Reporting on colours and culturesA short film for appreciation:What did you see in the film?
It’s a film about colors. We can see different flowers with different colors in the film. It’s a world of colors.Discussion: 1. What is your favorite color? Why do you like it?
2. What about your partner? Do you like his/her favorite color? Why or why not?
3. Why do different people have different ideas about the same color?
4. Why do Chinese people like using the color red on many important traditional occasions?
5. What are the colors of the five rings on the Olympic flags? What do the colors represent? Read the magazines article about colors and cultures. Answer the following questions.1. What does the color red mean in China, the USA and South Africa?2. Why did women wear yellow ribbons on blouse collars or sleeves in the USA and the UK decades ago?
3. What is green always associated with?
4. What does ‘in the black’ mean?
5. What kind of people is white usually associated with? Answers:
1. The red is the color of happiness, excitement and good luck.
2. The yellow ribbons were regarded as a sign of hope by women waiting for their husband or boyfriends to come home safely from war.
3. Green represents growth, health and the environment, and it has long been associated with Ireland, where the national flower is green.
4. The idiom conveys the positive meaning of having money or that a business is making a profit.
5. surgeons, nurses and dentists Read the passage again and take note of each color mentioned in the passage. Fill the blanks. Read the passage again and ask each group to discuss the following questions:
1. What other meanings do you know of for the colors mentioned in the reading passage? Can you give an example?
2.Are you interested in any other color? What do you know about it?Discuss the eight questions in Part B in groups of four. While discussing, you should focus on the positive and negative meanings of colors in different cultures.Discussion:Language points1. Rose are red, violets are blue, but which of the two really suits you? (P46)1). suitsuit verb [T] to be right for a particular person, situation or occasion: 适合 Corn is grown a lot in this area - the soil seems to suit it very well.The city lifestyle seems to suit her - she's certainly looking very well. suited ?? adjectiveright for someone or something: 适合的 With her qualifications and experience, she would seem to be ideally suited to/for the job.If two people who have a relationship are suited, they have a good relationship which will probably last, often because they share a lot of interests: 适宜的
They were never suited (to each other) from the start - they've got nothing in common. suitable ?adjective
?acceptable or right for someone or something: 适合的 My mother doesn't like me wearing short skirts to church - she doesn't think they're suitable. 高考链接1. (2004全国)
— How about eight o' clock outside the cinema?
—That _______ me fine.
A. fits B. meets C. satisfies D. suitsD2. In most Western countries, white is traditionally a color for wedding celebrations and women get married in a white dress. (P46)1). get marriedverb [L + past participle] getting, got, got or US gotten sometimes used instead of 'be' to form the passive: They're getting married later this year.This window seems to have got broken. 高考链接1. (2002北京春)
Be careful when you cross this very busy street. If not, you may ______ run over by a car.
A. have B. get C. become D. turn
2. (2002 全国春)
--- How are the team playing?
--- They're playing well, but one of them
hurt.
A. got B. gets C. are D. wereBA3. (2001全国)
As we joined the big crowd I got ______ from my friends.
A. separated B. separated C. lost D. missedAHomework:
1. Read the passage in project and try to remember something about the colors.
2. Surf the Internet and gain more information about colors in different cultures. Thank you!