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Why do we study English

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Why do we study English

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    2. Death of a Dream

    3. In-class research

    5. Content Awareness and Produce 1 Who Input (tips +in-class reading) Direct (words and expressions) Indirect (questions, pictures) Output (description of all the main characters) individual activity The whole picture Brother and sister Husband and wife Three medallists for womens single Mother and daughters

    7. The 1961 US World Figure Skating Team

    8. Things to do

    13. Laurie Jean Hickox

    15. Try to elaborate your description of Laurie Jean Hickox and William Holmes Hickox with the help of the epigraph on their gravestones.The following information should be included:

    18. Things to do Imagine you are one of the couples friends, and describe them to the class,the following information should be concluded:

    19. Content Awareness and Produce 2 What Input (general content awareness) before class (self study) Output Questions and answers(checking content awareness and language awareness)(team racing) ???? Discourse (story-telling relay)(team-racing)????

    20. What happened exactly?

    24. Story-telling relay

    25. In 1961 the 18 members of the US figure skating team boarded a plane with high hopes to travel to Belgium on their way to the world championships in Czechoslovakia. They are the best of Americans skaters and they are very excited and beamed for the camera. Among them was the brightest star of all, a girl of 16 with dazzling grace and great skill. As the plane approached Brussels, there was no distress signal of any kind. But something must have gone wrong.

    26. Twice the pilot lowered the wheels of the jet and appeared to be making a normal approach to land, but twice he pulled the plane up. It was the second time of trying to come in when the plane exploded and crashed to the ground. There was a scene of total destruction. All 72 people on the plane was killed. Debris was scattered over 200 yards. The competition in Prague was canceled to honor the dead. Never before had such a terrible tragedy occurred in the sport of skating.

    30. Content Awareness and Produce 3 From what angle Input (extended reading materials) Output Information gathering (team work) Discussion(team work) Simulation Make a speech as the president of USFSA (assigned) (individual activity) As a rescuer from ICRC (with more extended reading materials)

    38. Imagine you are the president of the USFSA (can you guess what this acronym mean?),and you are now on the ceremony of the The Memorial to Sabena Flight 548 and going to deliver a speech as you stand before the monument. What would you say? Please look up in the library for a book of the collection of speeches of some celebrities in the world on different occasions. Try to find at least one speech under the situation of the memorial for the dead. Try to pick out all the phrases, expression and sentences that could be used in your speech.

    52. Find all the verbal phrases illustrate flight movement. Find all the nominal phrases describing those skaters. Find all the adjectives and classify them into positive ones and negative ones. Find all the nominal phrases of places and organizations. Find all the nouns relating to disasters. Find all the participles used as modifiers.

    53. Matching Work with your group members, write as many sentences with these words as possible . Write down these sentences, report these sentences to the class, You get five points for each sentence. Other groups will listen to your sentences and if they can pick out something either illogical or grammatically incorrect, you will lose half point or one point, and they will gain half point or one point correspondingly.

    60. Assignment 2

    65. Survivor is a very popular TV show in the US, the participants have to overcome various difficulties, either physical or psychological, it is cruel in a sense,but millions of people love it and the winner will win a bonus of one million dollars.

    68. Extra Background Knowledge

    69. Figure Skating

    72. Sabena Airlines Sabena was founded in 1923, and opened its first scheduled service between Brussels and Strasbourg (France) in 1924. However on Monday, this bankrupt Sabena airline of Belgium was sold for 3.4 million euros (US$3.8 million) to an anonymous buyer.The selling price was nearly a million euro (US$1.12 million) more than the auctioneers had anticipated.

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