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Unit 1 Breaking Records Warming up---教案

Teaching Aims

1. Ability goals Enable the students to talk about their feeling about sport events and also the GWR. 2. Learning ability goals

Help the students to talk about their feeling about sport events and also the GWR. Teaching important and difficult point

Encourage students to ask questions under a certain topic. Teaching methods

Discussion, competition and cooperative learning. Teaching aids

A blackboard Teaching procedures

StepⅠGreetings

StepⅡWord study Learn the words and expressions. Step Ⅲ Warming Up

Get the students to talk about pictures in Warming up. T: Well, let’s look at these pictures on Page 1 and talk about how these participants are feeling.

Exultant(狂喜): Because Liu Xiang is the first Asian who won the hurdling, which belongs to

the track and field — the weakest item for Asian. Calm: Participants are so strong in some certain spectator sports that they are confident in

winning the golden medals. Exciting: Their hard and dull practicing has been rewarded. T: Behind the applause, medals, flowers and praise, it is hard working, dull practicing, determination, and loneliness and persistent that assist them make the world records, keep them and break them. We admire them. However, there are other people who are fond of other unconventional maximal exercise (极限运动) also have their world records. Now do a listening practice on Page

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51, and then answer my questions. Step Ⅳ Discussion In this part, in order to arouse students’ interest, start with a competition with interesting questions.

T: Next, we are going to start with a contest. Now listen to the rules and relevant explanations attentively please! First of all, you will be divided into six (or less) groups and each group is supposed to answer five questions about the GWR. The group which provides the most correct answers will win the contest, and earn themselves a big reward. (Teacher had better prepare some presents to hand out for the winner group.) After announcing the rules, ask a question before the contest, that is, the basic information about the GWR. T: By the way, here is a question for all of you. It is well-known that GWR is Guinness World Records, but how much do you know about it? Its founder? Time of establishment? How does it work? How can be admitted... Ss: We don’t know much about it, except that only the wonderful people and amazing behaviors

hold the GWR. T: OK. Next, look at the screen and have a basic idea of GWR. In 1951, Sir Hugh Beaver, then the managing director of the Guinness Brewery, went on a shooting party and became involved in an argument. Which was the fastest game bird in Europe? The golden plover or the grouse? He realized then that a book supplying the answers to this sort of question might prove popular. He was right! Sir Hugh’s idea became reality when Norris and Ross Mc Whiter, who had been running a fact-finding agency in London, were commissioned to compile what became The Guinness Book of Records. The first edition was bound on August 27, 1955, and went to the top of the British bestseller lists by Christmas that year. Since then, Guinness World Records has become a household name and the global leader in world records. No other enterprise collects, confirms, accredits and presents world record data with the same investment in comprehensiveness and authenticity. The book has gone on to become a record breaker in its own right. With sales of more than 100 million copies in 100 different countries and 37 languages, Guinness World Records is the world’s best ever selling copyright book!

Show the above material to students.

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Ss: Wow that is attracting and exciting! So what are included then? T: The GWR includes totally eight categories: human body, amazing feats, natural world, science & tech, arts & media, modern society, travel & transport, sports & games. Ss: Then what are the procedures of applying for GWR? T: Good questions! However, I won’t tell you right now. You can get the replies in many different ways, e.g. surfing the Internet, refer to encyclopedia, consult a professional book, or whatever. When the students are eager to know more about GWR, teacher should encourage them to find answers for themselves, which is very helpful for their learning skills. T: Do remember look up for the answers and we gonna share it next period. Now, it is high time that we began the contest, are you ready? Ss: Sure. Ss make their choices. After that teacher should evaluate them and also make explanation to let Ss have further understanding of the issues that appear in the questions. Here is a sample graph to note which group ranks the top: Group Right choices

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G6 T: The first five questions are for group one: 1) The lowest temperature ever recorded on earth is _____. A. -75.4 °c

B. -89.2 °c

C. -110.7 °c 2) Which is the fastest movie to gross $1 billion? A. Harry Potter

B. Titanic

C. The Return of the King

3）Which one is the best selling clothes brand? A. Levi’s

B. Armani

C. Pierre Cardin 4) Which subway has the most station? A. London

B. New York

C. Paris

D. Tokyo 5）The highest number of goals in a soccer career is _____. A. 1279

B. 546

C. 3850 T: The second five questions are for group two: 6) The longest time a coin has been spun until coming to a total stop is _____ seconds.

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A. 19.37

B. 16.7

C. 30 7) The record of fastest beer bottle opening was held by _____. A. Chinese

B. German

C. French 8) How many pairs of scissors are used to cut hair in one hand by a record breaker? A. 6

B. 7

C. 8 9) As a record-holder, a man could play ____ instruments at the same time. A. 108

B. 20

C. 35 10) A man can memorize _____ packs of cards (52 /pack) at most. A. 10

B. 15

C. 54 T: Questions No. 11 to 15 are for the third group: 11) The most sheep sheared in 24 hours was _____. A. about 500

B. about 1000

C. about 2000 12) The fastest land bird is _____. A. the wild goose

B. the ostrich

C. the eagle 13) The fussiest eater is _____. A. koala

B. the cat

C. the swallow 14) The largest Fish in the world is ______. A. blue Whale

B. whale shark

C. blue shark 15) ________ can make the loudest animal sound.

A. fin whale

B. tiger

C. lion T: Group four, it is your turn now: 16) Which fish swim at the slowest speed? A. sea horses

B. sailfish

C. golden fish 17) Which element is the hardest? A. carbon

B. diamond

C. silicon 18) The lightest eye glasses weigh ______ gram. A. about 10

B. about 2

C. about 4.5 19) What is the most common element in the world? A. Oxygen

B. Hydrogen C. zinc

20) In which country one resident uses the most telephones on average?

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A. Israel

B. Monaco

C. America T: Group Five, it is your turn: 21) Which of the following is the largest worldwide TV network? A. BBC

B. VOA

C. CNN 22) Which band achieved the biggest All-Time Sales? A. Lincoln Park

B. The Beatles

C. The Back Street Boys 23) The Heaviest Statue stands in _____. A. China

B. American

C. India 24) The heaviest ever newspaper has _____ pages. A. over 100

B. over 500

C. over 1500 25) The costliest natural disaster in the history is a(an) _____. A. earthquake

B. tornado

C. outbreak of volcano T: The last five questions for the last group: 26）The busiest international airline is _____. A. Qatar Airways

B. Singapore Airline

C. Lufthansa

27）Do you know the largest passenger aircraft?

A. A380

B. PMDG 747

C. A340 28）The best-ever selling automobile is _____. A. QQ

B. Corollas

C. Polo 29）The longest ever reported traffic jam stretched _____ km. A. over 150

B. 100

C. 50 30）The largest Amusement Resort is located in _____. A. Hong Kong

B. Orlando

C. Tokyo

T: Congratulations! All of you have had excellent performances and shown your abundant storage of knowledge. Especially Group _____ have performed even better and become the champion! 1) A record low temperature of -89.2°C (-128.6°F) was registered at Vostok, Antarctica, on July 21, 1983. That’s over 100°C below normal room temperature! They are studying Lake Vostok, which is submerged under 5 km (3 miles) of ice. 2) As of February 22, 2004, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King had taken $1 billion (￡536.7 million) at the international box office, achieving this record figure in just 9 weeks 4

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days. Titanic (USA 1997) took the same amount in 11 weeks. 3）Levi Strauss Co. is the world’s biggest brandnamed clothing manufacturer, and sells under the Levis, Dockers, and Slates brands. The company’s sales totaled $6 billion at the end of November, 1999.

4) The New York City Transit has 468 stations in a network covering 370 km (230 miles). The railway first opened on October 27, 1904, and serves an estimated（估计的）5.1 million passengers per day, or 1.86 billion per year.

5) Born on October 23, 1940, Brazil, Pelé is the best soccer player ever. He scored more goals than anyone else, 1279 over a career spanning 21 years playing. Not only that, he was voted Athlete of the Century by the International Olympic Committee in 1999. 6) The longest time a coin has been spun until coming to a complete rest is 19.37 seconds. It was accomplished by Britain’s Scott Day at Earl’s Court, London, UK, as part of BBC TV’s Tomorrow’s World roadshow. The record was first set in April 2004 with a spin of 16.7 seconds by Scotland’s Sean Farrell at the Edinburgh Science Festival.

7) The fastest time for opening 300 bottles of beer, by a team of three, is 1 min 47 sec, on the set of Guinness — Die Show Der Rekorde. The team was led by Alois Unertl, of the Unertl Brewery, in Munich, Germany, on April 2, 1999. In relay style, each team member opened 100 bottles and when finished, passed the specially constructed opener for the next team member to begin more bottle-opening. 8) On March 11, 2002, America’s Bruce Choy successfully styled hair using a record-breaking eight pairs of scissors in one hand, controlling each pair independently at his salon Flyingshears in San

Francisco, California, USA. Bruce began his career as a barber in 1969, and studied with Vidal Sassoon in London before moving to San Francisco in 1982. A decade later, he opened his own saloon, and perfected and patented —

his “Flyingshears” technique, which he invented after seeing guitarist Stanley Jordan playing two guitars at once. “I thought, I’ve been cutting hair for 20 years and my left hand is always helping the right,” Bruce explains, “but I started to train the other hand... they became like one hand, and I can be perfect.”

Bruce, who’s been known as the “Vidal Sassoon-trained Edward Scissorhands”, beat the previous record of seven scissors held by Israel’s Danny Bar-Gil (professionally known as Danny Figaro),

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who set the record on January 12, 1998. 9) Rory Blackwell, aided by his double left-footed perpendicular percussion-pounder, three-tier, right-footed horizontal 22-pronged differential beater, and 12-outlet bellow-powered horn-blower, played 108 instruments simultaneously on May 27, 1985. 10) British mindbender Dominic O’Brien memorized on a single sighting a random sequence of 54 separate packs of cards all shuffled together (2,808 playing cards) at the basement bar of Simpson’s-In-The-Strand, London, UK, on May 1, 2002. It took Dominic 11 hours 42 minutes to memorize the 54 packs, and reciting them in the exact sequence took 3 hours 30 minutes. Guinness World Record rules allow only 0.5% margin of error (so no more than 14 errors), and memory — man Dominic completed the record with just eight errors — four mistakes and four prompted corrections. 11) In a 24-hour shearing marathon, New Zealand’s Alan MacDonald and Keith Wilson machine-sheared 2,220 sheep at Warkworth, Auckland Province, New Zealand. The “Shearathon” commenced at 1 pm on 25 June 1988 and concluded at 1 pm on 26 June 1988. Their efforts raised more than $10,000 (NZ) for the Home and Neighborhood Trust. 12) Despite weighing a massive 136 kg (300 lb), standing a mighty 2.4 m (8 ft) tall, and only having only two toes on each foot, the ostrich (Struthio camelus) can shoot across the African savannah at up to 72 kmph (45 mph), making it the fastest bird on land. 13) The world’s fussiest eater is the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus), which feeds exclusively on eucalyptus leaves. It browses on only six of the 500 species, sifting through 9 kg. (20 lb.) of leaves daily to find 0.5 kg. (1.3 lb.) to eat. 14) The world’s largest fish is the rare plankton feeding whale shark (Rhincodon typus), which is found in the warmer areas of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans. The largest scientifically recorded example was 12.65 m (41 ft 6 in) long. 15) The loudest animal sounds are the low-frequency pulses made by blue whales (Balaenoptera

musculus) and fin whales (B. physalus) when communicating with each other. They have been measured at up to 188 decibels. 16) The slowest fish are the sea horses (family Syngnathidas). Smaller species like the dwarf sea horse (Hippocampus zosterae), which is just 4.2 cm (1.7 in) in length, probably never attain speeds of more than 0.016 km/h (0.001 mph). The swimming ability of sea horses is severely

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limited by a rigid body structure and the only parts of the fish’s body which can be moved rapidly are the pectoral fins on either side of the back of the head and the dorsal fin along the back. 17) Diamond, an allotrope of carbon (C), has a value of 10 on Mohs’ scale of hardness. Diamonds have principally been mined in India, Brazil, South Africa, and Russia. 18) The Helper Superlight glasses, made by Seika Trading Company Ltd. of Osaka, Japan, and first sold in August 1998, weigh just 4.583 g (0.16 oz).They have lenses of seven different strengths, ranging from +1.00 to 4.00 diopters. 19) Hydrogen is the most common element in both the Universe and the Solar System. Over 90% of the Universe is comprised of hydrogen. Iron is the most common element on Earth, accounting for 36% of its mass. 20) Monaco has the most telephones per head of population, with 1,994 per 1,000. Monaco is the smallest independent state after the Vatican City. It has a population of 32,149, many of whom are foreigners attracted by high standards of living, a warm climate and a tax-free income. 21) CNN International can be seen in 212 countries and territories through a network of 23 satellites. Around 149 million households across the planet can tune in, making it the world’s largest TV network. CNN made its name as an important news source when it covered the 1981 assassination attempt on President Reagan. Turner’s television operations were acquired in 1996 by Time Warner Inc and Turner became the company’s vice-chairman. 22) The Beatles have amassed the greatest sales for any group. All-time sales have been estimated by EMI at over one billion discs and tapes to date. In 2001, they had been certified for album sales of 163.5 million in the US alone. The band has numerous other world records, including that for most recorded song —

Lennon and McCartney’s “Yesterday” had 1,600 versions recorded between 1965 and January 1, 1986. Also, their album titled 1, released on November 13, 2000, sold 13.5 million copies around the world in its first month, making it the fastest — selling album. 23) She’s not only the most famous lady in America, she’s also the heaviest! Weighing in at a staggering 24,635 tonnes (54.31 million lb), Lady Liberty, ei the Statue of Liberty, is officially named “Liberty Lighting the World” and was a gift from France to the USA commemorating liberty and friendship. Construction of the statue began in France in 1875, and after being completed in July 1884, it arrived in New York a year later in 350 individual pieces packed into 214 crates.

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24) On average, the New York Times is read by 1,094,000 people on weekdays, and by 1,650,000 on Sundays. The owner of the paper, The New York Times Co, has no trouble getting its message out as it also owns the Boston Globe, 18 regional daily newspapers, eight television stations, two radio stations, and a number of magazines. The record-breaking edition of the newspaper, published on September 14, 1987, had a staggering 1,612 pages! 25) The Kobe（神户）earthquake of January 1995 resulted in overall losses of $100 billion (?63.04 billion), making it the costliest natural disaster to befall any one country.

More than six years after the earthquake that caused such devastation, there is little sign of life in Kobe returning to normal. With such enormous damage to people and property, it was inevitable that life in the region would be changed forever. Many people must now pay two mortgages —

on the homes they currently own and the ones they lost in the quake. Earthquakes start deep down in the Earth’s crust, where stress builds up along fault lines (such as the San Andreas Fault in northern California). When enough stress builds up, these huge plates of rock crash together, releasing vast amounts of energy. This energy causes the Earth to shake. The severity depends both on whether the plates have moved horizontally or vertically, and on the strength or magnitude of the movement. This magnitude is measured on the Richter scale, invented by seismologist Charles Richter in 1935. 26) According to IATA, the German carrier Lufthansa（汉莎航空）

is the biggest carrier of international passengers. In 2001 the airline carried 29.1 million passengers to and from destinations outside of Germany on regular scheduled flights. 27) The Airbus A380, which was launched in December 2000 and is expected to enter service by 2007, will have a wingspan of 79.8 m (261 ft 10 in) and a length of 73 m (239 ft 6 in). It will be able to carry 555 passengers in considerable comfort and will have a maximum takeoff weight of 560 tonnes. Although there are Boeing 747-400s that can carry more passengers, the A380 has 49% more floor space, allowing for larger seats and facilities such as casinos, bars, and gyms. Once completed, it will be the world’s largest aircraft in active service, bigger even than the mammoth Ukrainian Anotov An — 124 cargo carrier. The aircraft will make its first flight in 2004, followed by the entry into commercial service in 2006. 28) By December 2000, more than 24,986,607 Toyota Corollas had been produced worldwide.

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The Corolla was first produced in 1966 and was introduced to the US in 1968 as a two-door

subcompact car. By 1970 the Corolla was the second best selling import in the US and by 1988, 10 million had been sold in that country alone. By 1997 the 20 millionth Corolla rolled off the production lines. In the decades since its introduction the Corolla has built up an enviable reputation for reliability. 29) The longest-ever reported traffic jam stretched 176 km. (109 miles) from Lyon towards Paris, France, on February 16, 1980. A record jam of 18 million cars crawling bumper-to-bumper was reported on the East-West German border on April 12, 1990. 30) Disney World, located 32 km (20 miles) southwest of Orlando, Florida, USA, covers an area of 12,140 hectares (30,000 acres), It was opened on Oct 1, 1971, and cost an estimated $400 million to develop. Step Ⅴ Assignment 1. Look up for further information about GWR（the procedures of applying for the GWR ...）

and present it to the class next period. 2. Group work: Quiz making (refer to TALKING on Page 52) Afterthoughts

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