2. Cathy English Department 2014.5

3. When you watch the documentary film, please pay attention to the information listed below When? Where? What happened? What did the commuters do?

5. When? Jan.13, 1982 Where? Potomac River, Washington What happened? Air crash. Hit the bridge What did the commuters do? Jumped into the ice-water to rescue the few survivors among the wreckage of the plane.

6. Listen to Para. 1 Discuss the following questions  What was unusual about this air crash? Did it make the disaster more special than others?  What is the aesthetic crash? Is it really so?

7. Pre-listening Information words (question) Listening Same word/Synonym Information words after the same word or Synonym. Post-listening Organize your answer into complete sentences

8. Listen to Para. 1 Discuss the following questions  What was about this air crash? Did it make the disaster more special than others?  What is the crash? Is it really so? unusual aesthetic

9. As disasters go, this one was terrible, but not unique, certainly not among the worst air crashes on record. compared with the average disaster of this type 就灾难而言 As businessmen go, he is considered pretty honest. 就商人而言，他算是很诚信 的了。 Examples of “as… go” Paraphrase: Air crashes usually involve a heavy loss of lives. Compared with other air crashes, this one was not the worst. This air crash was remembered for a different reason.

10. There was the unusual element of the bridge, of course, and the fact that the plane hit it at a moment of high traffic. factor heavy traffic; heavy flow of vehicles Paraphrase: One thing that was unusual about this disaster was that the plane hit the bridge at the time of heavy traffic.

11. Washington, the city of form and rules, turned chaotic by a blast of real winter and a single slap of metal on metal. became chaotic; was thrown into a terrible confusion a sudden strong and really cold wind figurative: sound comparison a quick blow with sth flat as in “a slap across the face” Sound---Auditory Sense

12. And there was the clash as well – blue-and-green Air Florida, the name of a flying garden, sunk down among gray chunks of ice in a black river. aesthetic Sth connected with the study of beauty the combination of different colors which looked very bad a fairly large amount Paraphrase: When the air crash occurred, it was not just a clash of metal against the bridge, but also a clash between colors: the blue-green color of the plane and the gray and black color of the ice and river. Color---Visual Sense

13. Still, there was nothing very special in any of it, except death, which, while always special, does not necessarily bring millions to tears or to attention. Although (it is) always special while+ adj. Money, while desirable and useful, can corrupt. Possibly but not certainly eg: New things are not necessarily better. to make millions cry or attract millions of people’s attention.

14. Why, then, the shock here? elliptical sentence: Five o’clock? Why so early? Paraphrase: Why was there such a shock here?

15. Write a description of a disaster Basic Information Auditory Sense Visual Sense Smell Feeling Something moves you