高中英语Unit 1 Breaking records必修九新人教版.doc

Unit 1 Breaking records Teaching Aims: Topics : Guinness Book of World Records/ Sports/ Surpassing physical limits Reading: a. The road is always ahead of you b. Focus on… c. Newspaper articles of record breakers. Grammar: The Subject (words, phrase, nonfinites, clauses) Special Focus: enlarge vocabulary: approximate, conventional, in reality, tough, gymnastics, fascinate, spiritual, accomplish, motivation, devotion, conception, repentance, wisdom, virtue, bid, amateur, entire, accountant, receptionist, scarf, zip, underwear, salary; practice reading skills: learn to get the main idea of a passage in a few minutes; learn to analyze the structure of an essay. Additional materials: From Text to Test 高考链接 1．Rather Ashrita attempts to break records in very imaginative events and in very interesting places. (P2) attempt 用作及物动词，意为 “试图; 企图”，相当于“try；make an effort at”。例如： He attempted to leave but was stopped. 他试图离开，但被阻止了。 The old lady lived, so her attacker was charged with attempted murder, not murder. 那个老太太没有死，所以攻击她的人被指控犯了谋杀未遂罪，而不是谋杀罪。 拓展：课文中另外一句也用到了attempt一词：Ashrita always acknowledges his teacher in his record-breaking attempts.（P3）[高考] A man is being questioned in relation to the ________ murder last night. (江苏) A. advised B. attended C. attempted D. admitted [高考] I am sure David will be able to find the library—he has a pretty good ______ of direction. (浙江) A．idea B．feeling C．experience D．sense… 的意义；理解；懂得。 Can you make sense of what this writer is saying? 你能理解这为作家在说什么吗? [高考] I have read the material several times but it doesnt make any ________ to me. (上海春季) ?A meaning? ??B. importance ??C. sense? ?D. significance 3．In 2000, he was the first person ever to swim the entire length of the Danube River in Europe ---- a distance of 3,004 kilometers in 58 days. (P8) distance 指 “ (空间或时间上的) 距离; 间隔”。如： What’s the distance between London and Glasgow? 拓展：distance 还有“远处；远方”的意思；还可以喻指“（人际关系的）疏远；冷淡；隔阂”。例如： in the distance 在远处 There has been a gre