Experiencing English

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Experiencing English

• Book Two

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Procedures

• Passage A
• Warm-up Activities
• Culture Notes
• Language Points
• Difficult Sentences
• Summary
• Follow-up Activity
• Assignment

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Warming-up Activity

• Describe the following pictures with your own
  words.

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Unit 4
Calamaties and Rescues
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Passage A Death of a Dream

• Warm-up questions
• Do you often travel by air? Do you enjoy it?
• It is said that travel by air is safer than any
  other forms of transportation. Do you agree?
• How do you feel when you hear of, or read about
  an air crash?

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Culture Notes

• New York City
• New York city is the largest city in the
  United States, the home of the United Nations,
  and the center of global finance, communications,
  and business. Unlike most American cities, which
  are made up of only a part of a particular
  county, New York is made up of five separate
  counties, which are called boroughs. They are
  Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx and
  Staten.

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New York City
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Figure Skating
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Brussels
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Belgium
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Sabena Airlines
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Language Points

• 1. beam v. smile brightly and happily
• He beamed inside.
• He is beaming with delight.
• Synonyms
• giggle laugh lightly in a nervous or silly way
• chuckle laugh quietly or to oneself
• sneer laugh scornfully to show contempt

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Language Points

• 2. dazzle v. impress sb. greatly through
  splendor, ability, etc.
• He was dazzled by her beauty and wit.
• dazzling adj.
• a dazzling display of sporting skills

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Language Points

• 3. bound adj.
• (1) ( for some place) going or ready to go in
  the direction of
• We are bound for home.
• (2) ( to do sth.) certain to do sth.
• The weather is bound to get better tomorrow.

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Language Points

• 4. distress
• (1) usu. sing. (cause of) great pain, sorrow,
  suffering, etc.
• Her death was a great distress to all the family.
  
• (2) U. state of being in danger or difficulty
• a ship in distress
• a distress signal

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Language Points

• 5. contact
• v. communicate with sb.
• When can I contact you tomorrow?
• n. communication with sb.
• make contact with sb.
• keep in contact with sb.

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Language Points

• 6. in any case whatever happens or whatever
  may have happened
• In any case, do your best.
• in no case under/in no circumstances
• In no case are you allowed to be absent without
  any notice.
• (just) in case because of the possibility of
  sth. happening
• Youd better take an umbrella in case it rains.

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Language Points

• 7. collision n. a crash or conflict
• 30 people were killed in a collision on the
  railway yesterday.
• collide v.
• The bus and the van collided in the thick fog.

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Language Points

• 8. rear v.
• (1) ( up) (of a horse, etc) raise itself on its
  legs
• The horse reared up in fright.
• (2) raise esp. ones head
• The snake reared its head.
• (3) bring up children
• He worked hard to rear his children.

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Language Points

• 9. explode v.
• (1) blow up cause sth. to burst with a loud
  noise
• When the boiler exploded, many people were
  injured.
• (2) (of feelings) burst out suddenly
• explode with laughter

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Language Points

• 10. comb through sth.
• search sth. thoroughly
• Police are combing through the woods for the
  missing children.
• She is combing through the dresser drawers for a
  lost bracelet.

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Difficult Sentences

• 1. This was going to be the time of their lives.
• This was going to be their most important
  moment and experience in their life.

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Difficult Sentences

• 2. The plane appeared to be making a normal
  approach to land when it suddenly reared up into
  the sky.
• It seemed that the plane was preparing to land
  as usual when it suddenly rise upright into the
  sky.

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Difficult Sentences

• 3. Never before had anything so tragic happened
  in their sport.
• Nothing so tragic had happened before in the
  field of skating.

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Difficult Sentences

• 4. All that remained as rescuers combed through
  the wreckage were three pairs of melted skates
  dangling from one of the wings.
• After thorough search through the wreckage,
  the rescuers could only find three pairs of
  melted skates suspended from one of the wings.

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Summary

• In 1961 the 18 members of the US figure
  skating team boarded a plane to travel to Belgium
  on their way to the world championships in
  Czechoslovakia. As the plane approached Brussels
  the weather was good but something was wrong with
  the plane. Twice it descended as if to land, but
  pulled up and ascended again. The second time it
  exploded and crashed to the ground.

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Summary

• All 72 people on the plane were killed and
  there were ten families that had lost at least
  two dear members. The crash site was a scene of
  total destruction. Later three pairs of melted
  skates were found dangling from one of the wings.
  The competition in Prague was canceled to honor
  the dead. Never before had such a terrible
  tragedy occurred in the sport of skating.

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Follow-up Activity

• Watch the following videos and describe the
  following calamities.

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Watch the videos
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Assignment

• Write a paragraph of around 80 words describing
  the air disaster befalling the United States
  figure skating team.

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Procedures

• Passage B
• Warm-up Activities
• Language Points
• Difficult Sentences
• Summary
• Follow-up Activity
• Assignment

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Passage B In the Nick of Time

• Warm-up activities
• 1. Talk about one or two calamities that have
  happened around you, or that you have heard of.
• 2. How should one react when he or she is in some
  sort of emergency?
• 3. How do you understand the proverb Calamity is
  mans true touchstone?

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Culture Notes

• New Jersey

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Websters
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Language Points

• appreciation grateful feeling
• He showed an appreciation of my help.
• The girls giggled their appreciation.

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Language Points

• 2. everlasting adj. lasting for ever, endless
• What is the key to everlasting happiness?
• Their contributions to science have earned them
  an everlasting place in history.

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Language Points

• 3. incline vi./vt.
• deviate form the horizontal or vertical
• He inclined toward the speaker to hear more
  clearly.
• incline to/towards to influence to have a
  certain tendency
• I incline to another point of view.

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Language Points

• 4. instant adj./n. immediate a moment of time
• instant coffee
• instant photography
• I shall be back in an instant.

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Language Points

• 5. put away remove (something) to a place where
  it is usually stored
• I'll have to put something away for my
  retirement.
• If you have finished with those tools, I wish
  you'd put them away.

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Language Points

• 6. slam v. push, move hurriedly and with great
  force
• He slammed the book down on the table and angrily
  walked out.
• She slammed on the brakes and the car came to a
  stop.

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Language Points

• 7. unload v. remove (a load) from (something)
• They unloaded the books from the car.
• The plane unloaded the passengers at the
  terminal.

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Difficult Sentences

• 1. Just over a slight rise to the west, a 19-car
  freight train slowly made its way up the incline.
  
• On the other side of a small hill to the
  west, a 19-car freight train slowly climbed up
  the slope.

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Difficult Sentences

• 2. Falzo knew right away that the train was going
  too fast to stop in time.
• Falzo quickly realized that the train was
  going too fast to stop before it hit the children.

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Difficult Sentences

• 3. With one child tucked under each arm, he
  pressed Todd and Scott down into the roadbed
  gravel.
• He quickly pressed the two kids one under
  each arm and pushed them down into the roadbed
  gravel between the rail tracks.

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Summary

• As Katie Pritchard unloaded some groceries
  from her car, she thought her two sons were
  playing safely nearby. But they had wandered onto
  a railroad track and into the path of an
  approaching train. The train's engineer and its
  conductor saw them on the track but could not
  stop the train in time. The boys ignored the
  train's whistling horn and screeching brakes.

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Summary

• So the conductor, Tony Falzo, a former
  gymnast, hung from the front of the train, jumped
  at exactly the right moment, and rescued the two
  boys from the moving train, which barely missed
  crushing them before it finally stopped. One of
  the boys had a minor cut and the other was
  unharmed. The mother said she could find no word
  in a dictionary to express her gratitude to Tony.

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Follow-up Activity

• Describe the following picture.

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Describe the picture
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Rescue assistance/aid/help
survivor emergency
team shelter carry /put sb into the
ambulance take sb. to a hospital go see him (her)

• Calamities
  
• collide
• collision
• wreckage
• debris
• ambulance
• shatter

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• The picture shows the scene of a traffic
  accident. A man dials 120 with his mobile phone
  and the ambulance arrives immediately. Mobile
  phones are extremely useful at times of
  emergency. Help from a hospital or the police
  station can be obtained without the least delay.
  Sometimes it is a matter of life and death.

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Assignment

• Retell the storyIn the Nick of Time by the
  following words.

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Assignment

• in the nick of time/ in time
• unload/load download/upload a load of
  groceries/a bag of groceries
• beyond a cluster of trees
• put away (toys, clothes, a load of groceries)
• roll by/pass by
• head (straight) for/make ones way to
• resume full speed
• slam on the trains brake/slam the book on the
  table

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Assignment

• right away/straight away
• steer ones car/boat
• slow down
• time his jump/ a good sense of timing
• crush---crash (train crash)
• perch just a couple of inches over their head
• express our everlasting appreciation to sb. for
  sth.