1. 牛津高中英语牛津高中英语 ( 模块二 · 高一上学期 )

2. Welcome to the unit 板块：教学设计 — 课件 Unit 1

3. Unit 1 本单元的学习内容主要是关于一些世间 未解之谜。作为本单元的第一课时，主要是 起热身作用，将鼓励学生充分发挥他们的想 象力，同时还将充分利用网络、报纸、电视 新闻等多种渠道的信息让学生对后面即将要 学的内容有个粗略的了解，希望籍此来激发 学生对将学内容的兴趣，培养学生探索发现 问题的能力和英语口语表达的能力，并将学 习本节课教材中出现的一些重点词汇及句型。 课件描述：

4. In your opinion, what is the most beautiful thing one can experience? Why? Group discussion

5. What have you known about Albert Einstein? Why was he so great? Einstein contributed more than any other scientist to the modern vision of physical reality. His special and general theories of relativity are still regarded as the most satisfactory model of the large-scale universe that we have. He solved lots of problems mysterious to us before…

6. Do you want to know his opinion of the most beautiful thing one can experience? The most beautiful thing one can experience is mysteries. They are truly the basis of all arts and sciences. ------what kind of attitude should we adopt towards mysteries?

7. Have you ever heard of something not only interesting and attractive but also unexplained at all even with the help of modern science and technology in the world?

8. Leonardo Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa on a piece of pine wood( 松树 ) in the year 1506.

10. The Bermuda Triangle

12. Pair work 1.Do the five pictures have something in common? If so, what is it? 2.Can scientists explain these phenomena? 3.How do you feel about them?

13. Example: They are mysterious because no satisfactory answers have been offered to explain them so far. Though these mysteries have puzzled people for a long time, they still show great interest in them. People feel puzzled by the mysteries…

14. Example: UFO stands for Unidentified Flying Objects, that is, objects, apparently moving in the sky, which we cannot identify. There are lots of reports about UFOs. Some say they are aliens visiting us in their spacecraft, and some say they are military test aircraft, while others say they do not actually exist. Since we have never seen one with our own eyes and there is no definite scientific explanation for it, we are not certain whether UFOs really exist, but we believe everything will be clear in the future.

15. What do the letters UFO stand for ？ unidentified flying objects Are they really from another planet?

16. Do you believe in UFOs? What might be the most acceptable explanation for UFOs? Aliens from space. Military test aircraft. Some UFOs are alien, some are test aircraft. UFOs are evidence of human space travel. UFOs are neither alien nor test aircraft. UFOs don’t exist.

17. The chances of seeing a UFO are greater for those people who live in small towns or in the country and are outside late at night. UFOs come in all shapes and sizes. Some are only small spots of light that move in strange patterns across the night sky. Some can be seen in the daytime. They are often said to be disk- or saucer-shaped.

18. Where is it? Himalayas the highest mountain range in the world weather High winds Snowstorms Cold Wet… Why so many people make great efforts to climb them? Hobby Dream Challenge themselves Overcome difficulty Make discoveries …

19. Yeti Abominable snowman What do Yetis look like? Half-man and half-beast Strong, hairy…

20. The Yeti or Abominable Snowman, also called the “missing link” （推想中从类人猿发展到人类 之间的过渡生物）, is said to be a humanlike monster that is supposed to live in Himalayas, the highest mountain range in the world. Several sightings, mainly of footprints, have been reported by western explorers throughout the years. Yet none of them have been supported with evidence in any way.

21. Loch Ness A big lake in Scotland, one of Scotland’s top tourist attractions, famous because of Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster. Loch Ness Monster On the 21st December 1933, The hunter, M A Wetherall, "It is a four fingered beast and it has feet or pads of eight inches across. I judge it to be a powerful soft footed animal about 20 feet in length... I am sure that it can breathe like a crocodile with just one nostril out of the water."

22. Stonehenge Prehistoric monument on Salisbury Plain, southern England, consisting of two concentric circles( 同心圆 ) of large standing stones, the heaviest of them weighing probably about 45 tons, one of the most famous prehistoric sites in the world, added to the UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites in 1986, built between 2800 and 1500 BC, thought to have been an astronomical calendar( 天文 历 ) or a temple to the sun.

23. Pyramids, Egypt The Sphinx Half human, half lion, the Sphinx is 240 feet long and 66 feet high All Egyptian pyramids were built on the west bank of the Nile, as the site of the setting sun was associated with the world of the dead in Egyptian mythology.setting sun

24. The Great Pyramid The Great Pyramid of Khufu is one of the seven wonders of the ancient( 古代 的 ) world. No one knows how people can put such big stones on without any machine.It is the greatest of the Egyptian pyramids. They are burial places( 墓地 ) for the Pharaohs( 法老 ). It is the symbol of Egypt.Some people say the pyramids are built by the aliens.

25. Group discussion : What other unexplained things do you know about? If you saw a UFO or a monster some day, what would you do?

26. 1.tales of the unexplained: 常用 “the+adj/v-ing/v-ed” 来表示一类人 或物，如 the rich; the unknown; the living, the unemployed Language points

27. 2. talk about aliens and conduct an interview conduct=lead or guide 领导、指导、引导 高小姐领着游客们参观了博物馆。 Miss Gao conducted the visitors round the museum. conduct 管理、主持、经营、指挥 onduct business 经营生意 conduct a meeting 主持会议 conduct a survey 进行一项调查 他处理公事很粗心。 He conducts his business affairs in a careless way.

28. 3. …full of mysteries unsolved 充满难以解释的神秘 be full of; be filled with 无法解释的 unexplained 未知的 unknown 未完成的 unfinished He died suddenly with his work unfinished. He went out to play, leaving his homework unfinished.

29. 4.. advanced science and technology advanced adj. 先进的；进步的；高级的 advanced teaching methods advanced ideas he advanced education advanced mathematics 先进的教学方法 先进的思想 高等教育 高等数学 in advance adv. 预先，事先， 提前 预知未来的发生是不可能的。 It is impossible to know in advance what will happen.

30. 5. a sunken ship sink-sank-sunken sunken adj. 已经沉没了的 sinking adj. 正在下沉的 比较： They tried in every way possible to rescue the sinking boat. They tried to bring the sunken ship out of the sea. 又如： the rising sun the risen sun the falling leaves the fallen leaves Last night, his house was destroyed by a fallen (fall)tree.

31. 6. You might run into a Yeti. 偶然遇见 =run across =come across=happen to meet =meet by chance ●撞●撞 ● 跑进 ● 流入 Guess whom I ran into today! He ran into the back of another car the other day. We saw the boy run into the house. The river runs into a lake. 遇见 撞 跑进 流入

32. 7..That’s why … 那就是为什么......, 那就 是...... 的原因 That’s because… 那是因为...... 他今天不在, 那是因为他病了。 ­­­­He is absent today. That’s because he is ill. I had neither a raincoat nor an umbrella. That’s why I got wet through.

33. 8. reason The reason for (doing) sth. /for…reason/the reason why/that… The reason for building the pyramids in Egypt is still unknown. =The reason why people built the pyramids in Egypt is still unknown. The reason why he was ill was drinking the polluted water. =The reason for his illness was drinking the polluted water. For what reason was he late again?= Why was he late again? reasonable adj. 合理的 unreasonable adj. 不合理的

34. 9. believe in unexplained things believe in 信任；信仰 believe 相信某人的 话 We usually believe him, but this doesn’t mean we always believe in him. 10. some day; 将来某一天 one day 过去或将来某一天 11. can’t tell? tell … from … 区分 tell apart 区分，分清 tell sb (not) to do /tell sb that… 告诉 Nobody can tell the future. 断定；知道

35. Translation of some phrases: 1. 无法解释的传说，未解之谜 2. 充满神秘 3. 先进的科技，高科技 4. 偶遇 5. 某天（将来的） 6. 一艘沉船 7. 提前 tales of the unexplained be full of mysteries advanced science and technology run into/ come across/ meet by chance some day a sunken ship in advance/ ahead of time/ ahead of schedule

36. homework Surf the net and learn more about world mysteries. Prepare a short speech to introduce something that interests you.

37. Translate the following sentences into English : 我不知道出于什么原因他没来参加我们的聚会。 他们看起来完全一样，你怎么认得出谁是谁啊？ 你怎么知道要按这些中的哪一个？ 那个粗心大意的司机把汽车撞在一棵大树上。. 他上周偶然碰见了他大学时的老师。