Unit 2 Warm-up 吴小凰

In this unit you will… Read about heroes and heroines and an interview. Talk about people you admire. Listen to dialogues and a radio programme.

Write a magazine story. Review the Past Simple, Past Continuous and Present Perfect tenses.

athlete 奥运首金陈燮霞 2008 Olympic Games 刘璇北大再续冠军路

女子 200 米蝶泳冠军刘子歌 郭晶晶吴敏霞 3 米跳板冠军

美国梦八战胜西班牙夺回男蓝金牌

男子体操团体冠军

女子艺术体操全能银牌

奥运神话 -- 游泳 8 块金牌获得者菲尔普斯

残奥会中国首金男子 100 米自 由泳 S3 级冠军杜剑平 Paralympic Games 男子 50 米自由泳 S8 级冠军 王晓福

男子 800 米 T53 级冠 军李虎召 女子铅球 F42-46 级冠军 郑宝珠

神舟七号飞船在酒泉卫星发射中心升空 rocket

神舟七号飞船在机场进行卸运 即将返回的神舟七号载人飞 船正在做环绕地球第 44 圈 的飞行 Manned spaceship

神舟七号航天员出征仪式 astronaut

Do you know these people? Are they heroes? What do you think of them?

History maker

Soldier Lei Feng

Soldier Dong Cunrui

Soldier Wang Cheng

Actor Li Lianjie

Film Character Spider-man

1.Think of different kinds of heroes and heroines: a)a sports or film star you admire Yao Ming

Mother Teresa was an unusual woman who devoted all her life to helping the poor and sick in India.

Hamlet is the sensitive and indecisive （ 优柔寡 断的 ） hero of Shakespeare’s play.

Classify the adjectives in the Key Words box as positive or negative. Key Words brave, calm, cruel, dangerous, generous, honest, humorous, kind, pleasant, smart, violent

Positive brave calm generous honest humorous kind pleasant smart Negative cruel dangerous violent

2. Now write three sentences about some film heroes, heroines and villains that you know well and read them to your group. Use the Key Words to help you. Example: Scar is a cruel and dangerous character in Lion King.

2 Listen to descriptions of three film characters. Match them with the following adjectives: 1 Nemo 2 Bright Jones 3 Dr Octopus a)smart but cruel and violent b) brave and humorous c) pleasant and humorous

Nemo Finding Nemo

Bright Jones Bridget Jones’s Diary

Spider-man Ⅱ Dr. Octopus

Tapescript 1. Nemo is the main character in the movie Finding Nemo. He’s a little fish who is often frightened but never runs away from danger. He often finds himself in funny situations that make people laugh.

2. Bridget Jones is the main character of the book and movie, Bridget Jone’s Diary. She is really a nice person but is always doing funny things that cause her a lot of trouble and give people a lot of joy.

3. Doctor Octopus is Spiderman’s enemy in the movie Spiderman Ⅱ.He’s a very smart man but his invention makes him kill many people.

Homework: Writing In groups, please write a character description of a well- known film or television actor without saying who he/she is. Then exchange your description with another group and try to guess who is being described.

For example He is a well-known film star. He is from Hong Kong. He is not very tall but strong and brave. His action is humorous and funny. He is famous as Chinese kung Fu. Who can it be?

Jackie Chan