Unit2

Understanding the Text
Questions for Part Two What are the functions of smart cars?
What is the function of GPS?
What is the main idea of this part?
Understanding the Text
Questions for Part Three What are the prospects of applications of GPS? What hopes do promoters of the smart highway have for its future? What are the advantages of smart highways? What is the main idea of this part?
3. Language
Para.2 (line 4) The automobile industry ranks as among the most lucrative and powerful industries of the twentieth century rank: to have a particular position in a list of people or things that have been put in order of quality or importance rank as/among = rank as one of e.g. Today's match ranks as one of the most exciting games that these two have ever played. We rank among the safest countries in the world. Other cities that rank as among the most expensive are Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco.
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Contents
1. Background information 2. Text Organization
3. Language Points
4. Text Analysis
5. Useful Expressions
6. Word Study
7. Writing Strategy
2. Global Positioning System (GPS)
Space-based radio-navigation system, consisting of 24 satellites and ground support. GPS provides users with accurate information about their position and speed, as well as the time, anywhere in the world and in all weather conditions.
What are smart cars?
The broad purpose of Smart Cars is to improve current levels of automobile safety, traffic congestion, mobility, and environmental efficiency through the use of advanced technology for automobiles. In others, technology that is simple in theory is used to help cars perform better which benefits people and the environment.
(SUV) 多功能运动车
Off-Road Vehicle
越野车
Sports Car 跑车
Classic Car
老爷车
Smart Car 智能汽车
Cars in China Dream machines June 2nd 2005 BEIJING AND SHANGHAI From The Economist print edition China is not yet an auto-culture in the mould of the United States. But it may only be a matter of time.
2. Text Organization
Parts Para. Main Ideas
New technology will have a dramatic impact on cars and highways in the 21st century
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1-3
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III
With the aid of advanced technology, smart cars will be so designed that they 4-9 can help eliminate traffic accidents, determine their own precise locations and warn of traffic jams GPS and “telematics” will make it possible to build smart highways, which 10-12 will benefit us in more than one way
3. Language
Para.2(Line 7) Sales of the automobile industry stand at about a trillion dollars… stand (at) : [linking verb] to be at a particular level or amount
why you want to drive
a car.
(Group 1,3,5,6)
Each group leader will report your discussion result to the class.
What can we do to solve the problems of our present cars
3. Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) 智能运输系统:
Advanced electronics, communications, and computer systems that increase the efficiency and safety of highway transportation. Originally known as Intelligent Vehicle/Highway Systems (IVHS), these technologies can provide real-time information exchange between drivers and the roads, giving rise to the terms “smart cars” and “smart highways”.
Some useful expressions about the road
Highway 公路，国道 Expressway 高速公路 Light rail (elevated railway) 轻轨 Outer-ring road 外环路 Inner-ring road 内环路 Elevated road / overpass 高架桥
Understanding the Text
Questions for Part One What will happen to cars and roads in the 21 century? Why dose the author say the key to tomorrow’s smart cars will be sensors? What is the main idea of this part?
A country that once ran on two wheels nowadays depends on four. After the US and Japan, China is the world’s biggest car manufacturer. Car ownership has quadrupled in the past decade, and shows no signs of slowing. In China's bigger cities, the rivers of bicycles once one of the most vivid images of urban China have been replaced with streets jammed with cars, most of them, terrifyingly, in the hands of novice drivers.
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Lead-in Activities
I. Getting to know various types of automobiles
Concept Car
概念汽车
Mini Car
迷你轿车
Pickup Car
皮卡 （小型货车)
Sports Utility Vehicle
II. Group Discussion
Driving or not driving?