高中英语(译林牛津版)必修二教案(湖南专用)案 Unit 1 Tales of the unexplained 背景材料 文章
Yeti: Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas
A tibetian fortress below the mountains were the Yeti is supposed to roam.
The Himalaya Mountains, the highest range on Earth, have been referred to as the
"roof of the world." If that is so, there is a mystery called the Yeti in our attic. In Tibetan
the word means "magical creature" and truly it is a seemingly supernatural enigma in
the shape of a hairy, biped creature that resembles a giant ape.
The Himalayas lie on the border between India, Nepal, and Tibet (now part of
China). They are remote and forbidding. Large stretches around these rough valleys and
peaks are uninhabited. The tallest mountain in the world, Everest, 29,028 feet high, lies
half in Nepal, half in China. It is from Nepal, though, that most attempts to climb Everest,
and the surrounding mountains, are made.
In Katmandu, the capitol of Nepal, a visitor finds himself immersed in the Yeti
legend. He is a commercial money maker for the tourist industry (there's even a Hotel
named the "Yak and the Yeti") as well as legend, religion and fantasy to some of the
Nepalese people.
The first reliable report of the Yeti appeared in 1925 when a Greek photographer,
N. A. Tombazi, working as a member of a British geological expedition in the Himalayas,
was shown a creature moving in the distance across some lower slopes. The creature
was almost a thousand feet away in a naira with an altitude of around 15,000 feet.
"Unquestionably, the figure in outline was exactly like a human being, walking
upright and stopping occasionally to uproot or pull at some dwarf rhododendron bushes," said Tombazi, "It showed up dark against the snow and, as far as I could make
out wore no clothes."
The creature disappeared before Tombazi could take a photograph and was not
seen again. The group was descending, though, and the photographer went out of his
way to see the ground were he had spotted the creature. Tombazi found footprints in
the snow.
"They were similar in shape to those of a man, but only six to seven inches long by
four inches wide at the broadest part of the foot. The marks of five distinct toes and the
instep were perfectly clear, but the trace of the heel was indistinct..."
There were 15 prints to be found. Each was one and one half to two feet apart.
Then Tombazi lost the trail in thick brush. When the locals were asked to name the
beast he'd seen they told him it was a "Kanchenjunga demon." Tombazi didn't think
he'd seen a demon, but he couldn't figure out what the creature was either. Perhaps
he'd seen a wandering Buddhist or Hindu ascetic or hermit. As the years went by though
and other Yeti stories surfaced, Tombazi began to wonder if he'd seen one too.
Yeti reports usually come in the form of tracks found, pelts offered, shapes seen at
a distance, or rarely, actual face-to-face encounters with the creatures. Face to face
encounters never come with researchers looking for the Yeti, but with locals who
stumble into the creature during their daily lives.
Some of the best tracks ever seen were found and photographed by British
mountaineers Eric Shipton and Micheal Ward in 1951. They found them on the
southwestern slopes of the Menlung Glacier, which lies between Tibet and Nepal, at an
altitude of 20,000 feet. Each print was thirteen inches wide and some eighteen inches
long. The tracks seemed fresh and Shipton and Ward followed the trail for a mile before
it disappeared in hard ice.
Some scientists that viewed the
photographs could not identify the tracks
as from any known creature. Others,
though, felt it was probably the trail of a
languor monkey or red bear. They noted
the tracks in snow, melted by the sun, can change shape and grow larger. Even so, the bear/monkey theory seems unlikely as both of these animals normally move on all four
feet. The tracks were clearly that of a biped.
Shipton's and Ward's reputations argue against a hoax on their part and the
remoteness and height of the trail's location argues against them being hoaxed.
Shipton's footprints were not the first or last discovered by climbers among the
Himalayas. Even Sir Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa guide, Tenzing Norgay, on their
record ascent to the top of Mount Everest, in 1953, found giant foot prints on the way
up.
One of the more curious reports of a close encounter with a Yeti occurred in 1938.
Captain d'Auvergue, the curator of the Victoria Memorial in Calcutta, India, was
traveling the Himalayas by himself when he became snow-blind. As he neared death
from exposure he was rescued by a nine foot tall Yeti that nursed him back to health
until d'Auvergue was able to return home by himself.
In many other stories, though, the Yeti hasn't been so benign. One Sherpa girl, who
was tending her yaks, described being surprised by a large ape-like creature with black
牛津译林版高中英语必修2Unit 1Tales of the unexplainedTask教案3
Unit 1《Tales of the unexplained》
Teaching plan for Task of B2U1
Conducting a survey
Mini-task1 What is a questionnaire?
T: Today we are going to learn Task of this unit. As we all know, in our daily life and study, we
may meet all kinds of questions and problems. For example, we may have new words in our
reading. Class, please discuss with your partners and find their ways to solve this problem.
T: Good. To know the meaning of a new word, we can look up the dictionary, ask the teacher for
help and guess its meaning.
T: Again, if your teacher asks you to write a report about the usual ways to find the meaning of a
new word, what can you do to collect some useful information?
Ss: We can ask our partners what are the ways they use to find the word meaning.
T: Yes. To collect information we need, we can ask people do some questions and answers.
【学无止境】高中英语(译林牛津版)必修二教案 Unit1 Tales
【美文阅读】
Tales of the unexplained
人类科技发展到今天，早已能够上天下海。那么人类是否已无所不能了呢？还是让我们先去看一看百慕大三角再下结论吧！
We like to consider ourselves the superior race，and we are.It's
true that we are getting to know more and more，and we actually
live in “the information age”．Our human vanity (虚荣心) makes
us believe that we really have to know everything！
Surprisingly，we do not have this ability.The question “What
is happening in the Bermuda Triangle？”is the very proof (证据)．
Where is the Bermuda Triangle located？The mysterious
triangle is believed to be situated between Florida，Bermuda and Puerto Rico，where
too many unusual events have happened.
On December the 5th 1945，five U．S. military planes took off from Florida on a
clear day only to disappear over Bermuda.Furthermore，some other disappearances
took place：in 1947，an American C54 plane simply disappeared at 100 miles from
牛津译林版高中英语必修2Unit 1Tales of the unexplainedTask教案4译林版必修2
Unit 1 Tales of the unexplained
●Task Conducting a survey
This section consists of a series of activities which provide you opportunities to learn and practise
your language skills of listening, reading speaking and writing. Your ability to analyze problems is
supposed to be improved. The Task section is divided into three steps, each of which is preceded
by a skills building activity. By going through the three steps, you will learn how to design a
questionnaire, how to conduct an interview, how to analyze statistics and how to write a report
which includes conclusions and recommendations based on the survey.
Skills building 1: Completing a questionnaire
This part tells us how to design a questionnaire. Six rules are given to let you know the style of the
language used in a questionnaire, so the questions and statements do not cause any confusion. You
牛津译林版高中英语必修2unit 1tales of unexplainedtask教案1
●Task Conducting a survey
This section consists of a series of activities which provide you opportunities to learn and practise
your language skills of listening, reading speaking and writing. Your ability to analyze problems is
supposed to be improved. The Task section is divided into three steps, each of which is preceded by
a skills building activity. By going through the three steps, you will learn how to design a
questionnaire, how to conduct an interview, how to analyze statistics and how to write a report
which includes conclusions and recommendations based on the survey.
Skills building 1: Completing a questionnaire
This part tells us how to design a questionnaire. Six rules are given to let you know the style of the
language used in a questionnaire, so the questions and statements do not cause any confusion. You
牛津译林版高中英语必修2精选教案Unit 1 Tales of the unexplainedwelcome
Unit 1 Tales of the unexplained
Part 1: Teaching Design
Aims and requirements
♦ Read a news story about a missing boy and a magazine article about Yeti
♦ Listen to a dialogue between a boss and his employee
♦ Talk about aliens and conduct an interview
♦ Write a report
♦ Tell a mysterious story
Procedures
●Welcome to the Unit
Step 1: Brainstorming
1. Boys and girls, have you ever heard something not only interesting and attractive but
also unexplained at all even with the help of modern science and technology in the world? Here are
some pictures on the screen. Can you tell me what they are?
The chances for seeing a UFO are greater for those people who live in small towns or in the
country and are outside late at night.
UFOs. Yes, they are called UFOs, meaning unidentified flying objects.
UFOs come in all shapes and sizes. Some are only small spots of light that move in strange
牛津译林版高中英语必修1高考一轮复习课时作业2Unit 2Growing pains湖南专用
课时作业(二) [必修模块1 Unit 2 Growing pains]
[限时：30分钟]
Ⅰ.语法填空
1．Mary，we left you in ________charge of the room，but now it’s in ________ mess.
A．the；a B．/；a C．the；/ D．/；the
2．________ what would happen，none of them could find a way out.
A．Left wondering B．Having left wondering
C．Leaving to wonder D．Having left to wonder
3．Don’t be too hard ________ the boy；he didn’t mean ________ it.
A．at；doing B．on；doing
C．for；to do D．on；to do
4．The old lady insisted that the young man ________ her purse and insisted on ________ him
to the police station.
A．had stolen；send B．should steal；to send
C．had stolen；sending D．steal；sending
5．________ two exams to worry about，I have to work really hard this weekend.
A．With B．Besides C．As for D．Because of
6．Recently he has made another wonderful invention，________ of great importance to science.
牛津译林版高中英语必修2精选教案Unit 1 Tales of the unexplainedtask2
Unit1 Tales of the unexplained-Task教案
Conducting a survey
Teaching aims:
1. Provide the students with a good chance to practice their English in listening, speaking, reading
and writing.
2. Help the students to realize the importance of cooperation, and encourage them to communicate
with each other in obtaining useful information.
3. Enable the students to conduct a survey, make conclusions and give recommendations.
Teaching important and difficult points
1. Finish the task of listening to improve the students’ listening ability.
2. Finish the task of writing a report
Teaching Procedures and ways:
Step 1 Skills building 1: completing a questionnaire
The rules to conduct a survey:
Questionnaire
Step 2: designing a questionnaire
Designing a questionnaire page13
Listen to the first part of his conversation with you and check your revisions. Then listen to the
牛津译林版高中英语必修2精选教案Unit 1 Tales of the unexplainedreading2
Unit1 Tales of the unexplained-Reading教案
Description
The article is a news story about a boy’s strange disappearance. Though a lot of efforts have been
made to investigate the case, it still remains a mystery. How to read a news article is designed and
presented. All the activities are involved with checking and enhancing students’ reading abilities.
Students are expected to gain an overall understanding of the article and learn to read in different
ways according to the type of the article.
Suggested teaching procedures
Lead-in
Ask students the following questions by having them focus on the title of the article ‘Boy missing,
police puzzled’.
Does the title arouse your interest when you read it? Can you complete the title?
From the title what information can you get? And what else do you want to know? For example:
高中英语(译林牛津版)必修二教案(湖南) Unit 1 Tales of the unexplained 单元测试题
Unit 1 单元测试题
第二部分： 英语知识运用 （共两节，满分35分）
第一节：单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
21. —Will you carry out the project this year?
—_____. It depends on whether we can collect enough money for it.
A. That’s right B. Good luck
C. Forget it D. Hard to say
22.—Have you all got ready for _____ journey to Tibet next week?
—Not yet. We still need _____ few tents and some other camping equipment.
A. the; a B. a; a
C. the; 不填 D. a; 不填
23. —Was there lots of fun at yesterday’s party?
—Yes. We all enjoyed ourselves. You _____ have come, but why didn’t you come?
A. must B. should
C. might D. need
24. In front of the temple _____ two tall trees, which _____ said to be over eight
牛津译林版高中英语必修2Unit 1Tales of the unexplainedTask教案4
Unit 1《Tales of the unexplained》
Task Conducting a survey
Teaching aims: 1. Provide the students with a good chance to practice their English in listening,
speaking, reading and writing.
2. Help the students to realize the importance of cooperation, and encourage
them to communicate with each other in obtaining useful information.
3. Enable the students to conduct a survey, make conclusions and give
recommendations.
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1
Skills building 2: Greeting others and making introductions:
Good morning, class. In the last period, we learned a new task. It’s about conducting a survey.
This is a good way to collect information and help make decisions. In order to complete our
survey successfully and accurately, what do we need to do first? (design our questionnaire.) That’s