课件42张PPT。Lesson 4
Car Culture中文名:奥迪
英文名:Audi
产 地:德国中文名:宝马
英文名:B.M.W
产 地:德国中文名:红旗
英文名:Hongqi
产 地:中国中文名:奔驰
英文名:Mercedes Benz
产 地: 德国日产SUV车系 X-Trail 雷诺Avantime 福特的探险者 (Explorer) 瑞典的沃尔沃(VOLVO) Pre-reading Does your family have a car?
If so, what kind of car is it?
How often do you travel in it?
What car would you like to have? Why?Check the meaning of these traffic words in a dictionary.accident
air pollution
carbon monoxide
highway
(交通) 意外
空气污染
一氧化碳
高速公路
construction works
speed limit
pavement
traffic jam
crossroads 施工工程
速度限制
人行道
交通堵塞
十字路口 What happened?
Traffic jam.
What’s your feeling about this? 1. What happened?
Traffic accident.
2. What did it bring to us?
It may cause death to us. And maybe we will get hurt in the accident.What’s this? Is it bad for us ?What disadvantages did it bring to us? Carbon monoxide Read the article and make notes in your notebook. Use the Reading Strategies to help you. ReadingNumber of cars:
Increase in the last ten years:
Amount of TV advertising:
Short car journeys:1/4Traffic in Britain 25 million 30%25% under 2 miles Chemicals produced by cars:
carbon monoxide
Health effects of air pollution:
25,000 deaths per year, some types of cancer caused by traffic pollution
Number of road deaths:
over 3,000 per year Advantages of buses over cars:
40 people travel in 1 bus, you can relax on a bus
Advantages of sharing a car:
cheaper and kinder to environment Advantages of physical exercise:
saves money, keeps you fit and helps you live longer, cuts the risk of heart disease
Ways of making streets safer:
speed limit, pedestrian area Post-readingRead the text again and answer these questions:1. What are the A10, the M11 and the M25?
Roads. 2. What effect does traffic have on people?
Makes them angry and stressed.
3. Why do people make excuses?
Because they want to continue using their cars.4. What does Jenny Trowe think about car advertisements on TV?
They present an untrue picture of driving and cars.5. How does she think we should change our lifestyles?
We should take action by writing to the papers, going to the town council, getting a protest group together. 1. get stuck 陷入,卡住
Use a dictionary if you get stuck.
2. How often do we arrive at work or school stressed out, tired, and angry? 有多少次我们极度焦虑、疲惫、恼怒地到达办公室和学校?Language pointsstressed out, tired, angry 是形容词做状语。
He went to bed, cold and hungry. 他又冷又饿地上床睡觉了。
The thief was caught red-handed. 小偷被当场抓住。3. compared…to (with) 与……相比
Compared to (with) a student grant, the pay is quite good. 与学生的补助金相比,这份收入相当不错了。
Compared with most of the women at that time, she was lucky.4. go up to 上升至
The new building is going up to fifty stories.
The number of the visitors today has gone up to 3,000.
go up by 以某种速度(比例)上升
Industrial production went up by nearly two-fifths in the past three years.
过去的三年中工业生产上升了近2/5。
5. be addicted to
对……上瘾, 对……有瘾
It does not take long to become addicted to drugs.
My kids are all addicted to cartoons.
6. on average 平均起来,一般来说
On average we received ten junk e-mails every day.
These youth are on the average better educated and smarter than the ones you have already hired. In English, some words often go together to form common expressions. Match the words below.Exercise 11 to make a) the corner
2 around b) traffic
3 to go up c) in a traffic jam
4 to get stuck d) by 20%
5 heavy e) an excuse6 a short f) fit
7 to keep g) journey
8 to have h) transport
9 public i) twenty minutes
10 to take j) a conversationExercise 2destruction, be addicted to, be/get stuck in, stressed out, compare to, cost, confess, occupy, complain aboutUseful vocabularyThe floods brought death and __________ to the area.
2. The boat __________ the mud.
3. Workers who had lost their jobs ________________the way they had been treated.destruction was stuck in Use the words or phrases from above to complete the sentences.complained about 4. Occasionally people ______ to crimes they haven’t committed just to get attention.
5. I tried to give up smoking several times before I realized I ___________ __ it.
6. Three companies _______ the new building.confess was addictedtooccupy 7. ___________ our small flat, Bill’s house seemed like a palace.
8. Studying for exams always _____________.
9. This doesn’t include the ___ of repairing the damage.
Compared to stresses me out cost HomeworkWrite an article about the advantages and disadvantages of having a car according to the text.