2016高职高专英语第一册（校编）教案：Unit 9 Recycling Waste.docVIP

Unit 9 Recycling Waste I. Teaching Objectives: After the learning of this text, the students will be able to 1. understand the main idea of the text; 2. learn to analyse long difficult sentence patterns; 3. grasp the key words, language points and grammatical structures in the text; 4. conduct a series of reading, speaking and translation exercises related to the text. II. Time Allotment: Eight periods (six for intensive reading and two for Exercises) III. Text Analysis 1. The organic waste materials found in garbage dump serve as food for tiny bacteria. serve as: To be of service or use 担当；充当 e.g. He served as president for ten years. The room has to serve as both bedroom and living room. 2. Over the years, as one load of garbage is piled on top of another ….. over the years 经过很多年 介词over: Through the period or duration of: 在…时期或期间 e.g. records maintained over two years. 保持了两年的记录 load of: Something that is carried, as by a vehicle, a person, or an animal:装载物，车辆，人或动物所背负的东西 e.g. a load of firewood一担柴火 3. Methane is a flammable gas, or one that is easily set on fire. one 代词，= a gas set on fire 放火，点燃； e.g. The house was set on fire at midnight. In fact, some garbage dumps are so full of methane that they sometimes catch fire. be full of 充满了… e.g. The bin needs emptying; its full of rubbish. 垃圾箱该倒了, 垃圾都满了。 catch fire 着火 e.g. Dry straw catches fire easily.Now Britain and other nations are well on with the building of huge industrial complexes for the recycling of waste. be well on with sth. 事情进展地顺利The concept of recycling waste took shape at the British technological laboratory at Warren Spring, not far north of London. take shape 开始形成 e.g. These ideas took shape in his mind years ago. north of London 该地在伦敦以北，用介词of； 如在伦敦的北部，用介词in。Today, the laboratory spends four times as much money in studying recycling as it did five years ago. spend sometime (in) doing something e.g. I’ve spent a whole day writing a letter four times as much as... 四倍之多All these i