Warm-up & L1 Living in a Community

寿县安丰高中高二英语教研组

Learning ObjectivesIn this unit, you will

• Talk about, act out and resolve different kinds of conflict.

• Listen to summaries of different conflicts, dialogues, a radio documentary and a radio play. Use listening strategies for identifying mood and sequencing events.

• Read war memories, a newspaper article and a formal letter. Use reading strategies for reading under pressure.

• Write a formal letter of complaint.• Learn about complex sentence structure

for emphasis.

Topic: Conflict

• L1: Living in a Community

• L2: Conflict Resolution

• L3: War Memories

• Communication Workshop: A letter of Complaint

• Language Awareness 8:

conflict

Between two countries

With a family member

In the neighborhood

…

a _______ at seabattle

was betrayed byJesus Judas

hand over to the power of an enemy by disloyalty

MuslimsChristians

The Crusades (十字军东征 )were a series of military conflicts of a religious character waged by Christians during 1095–1291, The Crusades originally had the goal of recapturing the "Holy Land" from Muslim rule

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusades

Catholic faith

The man is having an argument with the woman.

Ex. 1: Listen to the summaries of different conflicts and match them with the pictures

Summary 1

Summary 2

Summary 3

Summary 4

• Picture C: The Grand Mansion Gate

• Picture A

• Picture D

• Picture B: The story of Qiuju

family conflict

religious conflict

national conflict

social conflict

1• This is a ______ about the owner of a

large __________ who is put in prison by the military government. He is ________ by a family member. Fiction between the family-run business and the m. g. first became ______ when the owner wouldn’t hand over his “___________.”

TV series

drug store

betrayed

serious

secret recipe

2• Between the 11th and 13the

centuries, there were many ________ wars between Christians and Muslims. The Christians were of the Catholic faith and they wanted to ______ areas of the Middle East which they called the ______ land.

religious

win back

holy

3

• The French led by…and the English led by…were the two _________ navies in a great battle in 1908. ……Nelson died during the battle. There is a _________ to him in London.

opposing

memorial

4

• This is a movie about a woman who takes a village official to _____ for kicking her husband. She ends up having to _____ the highest court for ______. It all started when the woman’s husband, a 38-year-old man, had an ________ with the local village official.

courtturn to

justice

argument

Ex. 3. Work in pairs. Discuss the newspaper headlines below. Use the Key Words to help you.

What do you think the story is about?What do you think caused the conflict?

Widow robbed for $ 5

Prejudice towards black people

leads to racial war

Drummer hits the road

Grandpa jailed after one

shower too many

What do you think the story is about?What do you think caused the conflict?

Racial Harmony

kind of Conflict??

L1

Living in a Community

Learning Objectives

In this period, you are going to

• Read two newspaper reports and find out the key information about conflicts.

• Deal with comprehension questions

• Talk about the conflict you have ever experienced

Lead-in

• Have you heard of the story, “Music Half-notes”?

• If you were the old man in the story, what would you do?

• If you were the young man in the story, what would you do in the future? Musical Half-Notes

A musician who played Pop Music in a Club lived in boardinghouse in the centre of London. He always used to get back to his room very late at night and sometimes in the early hours ofthe morning. He was so tired when he got back that he would sit on the edge of his bed ,take off his shoes and throw them on the floor and say. 'Thank goodness. another day is over.' He would then get bed and fall fast asleep.

But the poor lodger who had the room under the musician's was woken up each night, or early? in the morning. by the two thuds that the two shoes made as they landed On his ceiling. Finally, he could not stand it any more and went and complained to the musician.

Naturally the musician was very upset and promised that, in future, after taking off his shoes, he would put them down as quietly aspossible on the carpet.The next day, he got back from his club at about one o'clock in the morning. went up to his room, sat on the edge of his bed, took off one shoe and threw it on the floor.

He was just about to do the same with the other when suddenly remembered the promise he had made the day before. So with greatcare he put the second shoe down silently on the carpet. Then he got into bed and fell fast asleep. An hour later, he was woken up by a violent knocking on his door. It was the lodger who slept in the room just under his

'Please, please, please,' the Iodger pleaded, 'drop the other shoe. I have been waiting for a whole hour for you to drop it. As soon as you do I can go to sleep. '

Adolescence can be a difficult time (period) especially between the age of 13 and 16.

adolescent

Before-reading:

This is a well-furnished suite.

Before-reading:

Don’t forget to classify the laundry before throwing them into the washing machine.

Before-reading:

classify:

arrange into classes

Our bodies produce vitamin D when our skin ___________ the sunis exposed to

Before-reading:

expose:

uncover, leave without protection

laundry; expose; furnish; classify

• Is bamboo _________ as a tree or a grass?

• It is feared that people living near the power station may have been ________ to radiation.

• My mother makes me do my own ________.

• It cost us a fortune to ________ our new flat.

classified

exposed

furnishlaundry

P67

• What might happen if your new neighbor happens to be one who is crazy about music?

• Use reading strategies to predict what might have happened.

Read the title and first

paragraph of the first newspaper

report. In pairs, discuss what you

think might have happened.

Reading StrategiesWhile-reading:

• Title: Drummer hits the road• Paragraph 1: Yang Ming, drummer

for the rock band “storm”, has packed his bags. He’s bid his furnished apartment goodbye after complaints from his neighbors about loss of sleep. …the biggest problem was his late-night drumming.

While-reading:

The six basic elements of a newspaper report

• What

• When

• Who

• Where

• Why

• how

• _________________

• _________________

• _________________

• _________________

• _________________

• _________________

While-reading:

Read the article and pick out the opinions about drumming.

People Opinions

Yang Ming My rights have been _________.

I hate to called an _______.

I don’t mind ______________.

His neighbors

We rarely get a _________ sleep.

We are being ___________ by the noise of the drum.

The drummer, an alcoholic __________________ on our ______________ children.

ignoredalcoholic

leaving the apartment

full night’s

driven mad

is a bad influenceadolescent

While-reading:

T/F1.Yang Ming has decided to move because his

neighbours made several complaints about l

oss of sleep.2. Though his music is noisy at sleeping time,

people still appreciate his music skills. 3. Yang Ming is very angry and thinks it is his

rights to drum at any time he likes. 4. Drumming often caused such conflicts in th

is area. 5. Yang Ming affected his neighbours so badly

that the local council take action to punish him.

T

F

T

F

F

While-reading: optional

Role play

Suppose you have such a neighbor, and what would you say to him/do?

Title: Grandpa jailed after one shower too many

Para. 1: Eighty-year-old retired tailor, James Mc

Kay, spent Saturday night in jail after hitting thirt

y-year-old Keith Smith over the head….. Mckay’s

wife…while Mckays is usually a peaceful person,

he had been driven to this act of violence by gett

ing wet just once too often.

How Mr Mckay might have got wet.

Passage 2:While-reading:

The six basic elements of a newspaper report

• What

• When

• Who

• Where

• Why

• how

While-reading: optional

• _________________

• _________________

• _________________

• _________________

• _________________

• _________________

1. How many days had Smith lived above th

e McKays before he got into trouble with

them? Two weeks.

Questions

2. Are there lots of candles on Mr Mckay’s birthday cake? How do you know?

Yes. As the passage mentioned, the candles were a great sight.

3. Why didn’t Mr Mckay get to blow them out? Because all the candles were put out by th

e water emptied from above.

While-reading:

Summary

Smith lives about the James McKay, a retired tailor. Being a keen gardener and a fish collector, Smith sent water over his balcony every day. _1_The McKays have hardly dared go onto the balcony. On Sat. evening, when they were celebrating James’ birthday on the balcony, Smith emptied his tank and both McKay and the cake were wet through. _2_ After hitting Smith over the head with his walking stick, he was put in jail for the night. _3_And at the same time, James enjoyed the most exciting birthday celebrated by a crowd of supporters as he left the police.

C. He used too much water, which ended up on the McKay’s or too often on themselves.

A. James was so angry that he went up in a flash.B. Luckily, Smith has promised to change his ways from now on.

C

A

B

• What is the conflict?

• How do people feel in the conflict?

• What did people do?

• What was the effect?

• ____________

• ____________

• ____________

• ____________

Post-reading: Summary: Vocabulary

• loss of sleep• drive sb. mad• be exposed to• move into• no sooner than• a bad influence on

sb.• in the end

• take action• go back to normal • act of violence• end up• fall onto• get rid of• blow sb. out

Post-reading: Useful expressions

1) Have you ever experience such conflict?

2) How did it happen?

3) How did you feel?

4) How did you solve it?

Post-reading:

Assignment

1. Read the text fluently

2. P67 Ex. 5 Vocabulary