extensive reading: (1) sightseeing in london scanning: make a list of zhang pingyu’s tour of...

Extensive Reading:(1) Sightseeing in London

Scanning: make a list of Zhang Pingyu’s tour of London

Fast reading (skimming):How did Zhang Pingyu plan her tour?

First, she made a list of the sites she wanted to see.Then she planned her four-day trip.

Day 3Karl Marx’s StatueBritish Museum

Day 2 Greenwich ships clock

Day 11 Tower of London2 St Paul’s Cathedral3 Westminster Abbey4 Big ben5.Buckingham Palace

Careful reading:• Listen to the tape of the

passage and

• Make a comment on each place she visited(P14).

Day 11 Tower of London 1 delighted

St.Paul Cathedralsplendid and interesting

威斯敏斯特教堂(Westminster Abbey)

interesting ,full of statues of poets and writers

Big BenBig Ben

英国伦敦议会大厦顶的大钟 , 美国得州西南部的国立大本德公园 (Big Bend National Park)

famous and very loud

Buckingham Palace

has so much to tell

Greenwich

格林威治 ( 位于英国伦敦东南部 , 为本初子午线所经之地 ,原设有英国皇家格林威治天文台 ), 格林威治镇 ( 位于美国康涅狄格州 )

Interested in the longitude line.

Greenwich astronomical observatory

The old ships and famous clock.

The last day (Day 3 )

Highgate Cemetery

Highgate Cemetery

Day 3

StrangeFamousSadly

The British Museum英国最大的综合性博物馆，位于伦敦

Day 31 Thrilled2 wonderful3 felt proud of her country

英国最大的城堡

Wondered…

The next day

Language points in the text:

(2) A particular British Celebration

Read the text and do Ex.1 on P52

• October 10: one of Fawkes’ Catholic friends, named Catesby, asked him if he would support a plan to change the government and replace it with another.

• Oct 27(ten days before the plan): Fawkes and Catesby arranged to buy a house close to the Houses of Parliament.

• Oct.28-31(the next three days): Catesby and Fawkes bought large containers of gunpowder and stored them in the cellar.

• Nov.1-5: waited for the opening of Parliament, but were discovered and taken to the Tower of London to be killed.

• Nov.6: the king and all his advisers would be in the parliament for the meeting.