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1、Emergency,Unit Seven,Book One,“KIDS ON THE TRACK!”,Jack Murphu,Text A:,“KIDS ON THE TRACK!”,Main characters in the story:,1. Kate Pritchard,2. Todd,3. Scott,4. Rich Campana,5. Anthony Falzo,The mother of two kids,Kates 3 1/2-year-old son,Kates 18-month-old son,The engineer of the train,The conductor
2、 of the train,Warm-up activity:,Text Organization:,Part One:,Paras 1-13,While Kate was putting the groceries away and her two sons were heading for the railroad, a train was approaching.,Before the incident,Text Organization:,Part Two:,Paras 14-33,During the incident,Anthony Falzo, the conductor of
3、the train prevented a horrible railroad accident and saved the lives of the Pritchard children at the risk of his own.,Text Organization:,Part Three:,Paras 34-35,After the incident,Anthony and the Pritchards became good friends.,Monday, May 1, 1989 was a pleasant morning in Ramsey, N.J. Kate Pritcha
4、rd bent over her car trunk and struggled,with the bags of groceries shed just brought home. She heard the distant cry of a locomotive horn.,Paragraph 1-1:,汽车后部的行李箱,食品杂货,Language points:,struggle with sth:,have difficulty handling or coping with sth.,费力地对付,Examples:,She struggled with the math proble
5、m but eventually worked it out.,The cab driver was struggling with his car stuck in the mud.,struggle against struggle for struggle to do struggle to ones feet,与作斗争 为作斗争 竭力做 挣扎着站起来,Collocation:,Language points:,the track-only a thick row of trees. But, her sons, 3-year-old Todd and 18-month-old Scot
6、t, were nearby, playing on the driveway.,The trains of Conrail passed less than 300 feet from the Pritchards house. No fence separated their backyard from,Paragraph 1-2:,Foreshadowing 预兆，预示,一排长得密密的树木,Todd,Scott,“Stay right here,” Kate said, “while Mommy puts the groceries away. Then well go inside a
7、nd have lunch, okay?”,“Okay!” said Todd, giving a thumbs-up gesture hed seen his father make.,“kay!” echoed Scott, trying to copy his older brother.,Paragraph 2-4:,repeat,随声附和,imitate,Language points:,put (sth.) away:,put (sth.) back in place.,放回原处，收拾好,Examples：,Mother asked her kids to put away the
8、ir toys before dinner.,After dinner, we helped mother put away the kitchen utensils.,thumbs-up gesture:,Explanation:,This is a sign that you make by making a fist and raising your thumb to show that:,you agree with someone,you are happy with an idea or situation,everything is all right.,They watched
9、 their mother enter the house with several bags.,Kate shut the refrigerator and hurried outside. Good. The boys were playing right where shed left them.,As she lifted more bags from the trunk, Kate heard a train race past -a passenger express, she judged from its speed. She carried more bags into th
10、e house.,Paragraph 5-7:,正在原地玩耍,特快客车,were playing right where shed left them.,a passenger express,The sounds of the train apparently drew the boys attention to the track. After making their way through the trees, they climbed to the top of the steep roadbed, knelt down along the railroad and began to
11、 play.,Paragraph 8:,显然把两个孩子的注意吸引到铁轨上,爬上笔陡的路基，,跪在铁轨上玩了起来。,A few thousand feet west, a freight train rolled slowly toward the children. Overhead lights signaled to engineer Rich Campana that the passenger train ahead was out of the way, and they could resume their normal speed of 40 miles per hour.,Pa
12、ragraph 9-1:,一辆货车,火车司机,已经开走,正常速度,Language points:,signal: v,send (sth. such as a warning or a message) by a light or an act.,发信号，示意,Examples:,Tom raised his hand, signaling to the teacher that he had a question to ask.,“Why didnt you stop when we first signaled?” _ asked _ .,the police,the driver,La
13、nguage points:,signal: n,信号，暗号，预兆,signal fire:,signal flag:,signal light:,signal man:,signal code:,信号旗,信号灯,信号员,烽火,暗号,Language points:,out of the way: 1) far from a town or city; remote 远离城镇; 偏远 2) exceptional, uncommon 异常的, 不普通的 That is an out-of-the-way village. He has done nothing out of the way.
14、C.f. in the/sb.s way & on the way,妨碍, 阻挡,在路上,Language points:,resume：v,begin (sth.or doing sth.) again after a pause.,重新开始，恢复 (n. 简历),Examples:,The search for the missing pilot is expected to resume today.,After a short break of ten minutes, we resumed our discussion.,The engineer adjusted the accel
15、erator, then turned to conductor Anthony Falzo, a man, medium in height and strongly built, who had worked for Conrail for almost half of his 35 years.,Paragraph 9-2:,The description of Falzo: his size, height, body, and his working experience.,Falzo, a man, medium in height and strongly built, who
16、had worked for Conrail for almost half of his 35 years.,He was now 35 years old, who had worked for Conrail for almost 18 years.,调整加速器,Language points:,medium: 1) adj. 中等的, 中间的, 平均的 2) n. (pl. media) 媒介, 方法, 手段,介质; (pl. mediums) 中间物 Commercial television is an effective medium for advertising. 商业电视是有效的广告宣传工具. College students get to know the outside world through media.,“So whatd you do over the weekend, An
