澳大利亚中学英语B Unit 10
[00:00.00]Unit 10 A project
[00:04.78]1.Listen,read and practice in pairs.
[00:11.34]Have you ever done a big assignment called a "project"?
[00:16.98]What's in a project?How long does it usually take?
[00:22.83]Why are students interested in projects?
[00:27.79]That's what LiMeng is going to find out.
[00:32.55]LiMeng:Hi,Daniel.You know what?
[00:36.52]Our English teacher asked us to do a mid-term project each.
[00:42.16]I need your help.
[00:45.32]Daniel:What kind of help do you need?
[00:48.98]LiMeng:I need to get some rough ideas about projects.
[00:53.84]Have you done one before?
[00:57.00]Daniel:Yeah.I once did a project on drunk-driving.
[01:01.86]I learned so many people died in car accidents.
[01:06.72]The number shocked me and my classmates.
[01:11.26]LiMeng:So you collected some numbers for your project?
[01:16.23]Daniel:Not just numbers.I also put a few pictures of accident scenes in it.
[01:23.20]I'm sure I'll never forget those.
[01:27.25]If you want to give a long-lasting impression,you should add some photos too.
[01:33.60]LiMeng:Is there anything else I should know?
[01:37.96]Daniel:Well,actually,
[01:41.12]the most important thing you should do is to choose an interesting topic.
[01:46.87]LiMeng:I know!The goldseekers should be an exciting topic.
[01:52.82]Daniel:Are you thinking about the Chinese goldseekers
[01:57.58]who came to Australia more than a hundred years ago?
[02:02.02]LiMeng:Yeah.I heard people talk about an old gold mine at Sovereign Hill.
[02:08.39]I think I should go and collect some first-hand information.
[02:13.54]Daniel:Right.You should take a digital camera along to get some snapshots.
[02:19.60]6.Listen,read and then answer in pairs.
[02:26.44]Have you ever seen a town that looks the same as it was more than 150 years ago?
[02:34.38]Can you imagine talking to people in old-fashioned clothes
[02:40.63]and eating cookies and pies that haven't changed for such a long thime?
[02:47.11]Have you walked in a cold,dark gold mine?
[02:52.56]Would you be afraid?Come to Sovereign Hill.
[02:58.31]Tour guide:Now,the first thing you should know is,follow me closely:
[03:03.67]or you'll never find your way out.
[03:07.64]LiMeng:Please,Miss.I can hear water running.
[03:12.00]Tour guide:Yes.Please come over,everyone.See this huge machine here?
[03:17.64]It's working 24 hours a day to pump out the water.
[03:22.32]If it stops,this place we're standing in will soon be deep in water.
[03:28.67]Xiaohong:Oh,my goodness.I hope we are safe here.
[03:33.50]Tour guide:Don't worry.Now,here,in this dark little place,
[03:38.64]the gold miners rested and ate their lunch.
[03:43.22]See those candles?Anyone knows what they are for.
[03:48.47]LiMeng:To help them see their food.
[03:52.62]Xiaohong:Yeah.Otherwise it'd be pitch-dark here and frightening.
[03:58.18]Tour guide:Actually,if the candlelight died down,
[04:02.55]the miners would run for their lives.You know why?
[04:07.88]10.Listen,read and act.
[04:14.15]In the classroom,LiMeng is telling his classmates about his trip to the gold mine.
[04:21.41]LiMeng:While we were underground,
[04:26.16]we also saw a movie which told a sad story about some Chinese gold miners.
[04:32.82]Peter:A movie shown underground in a real gold mine?I can't believe it.
[04:38.99]LiMeng:Yes.It was real.
[04:42.54]There's a place in the mine where you can actually see gold.
[04:47.90]Mary:Have you brought back some?
[04:51.34]LiMeng:Yes!Well,not gold,but some great photos!
[04:56.80]Look at this one.It's a candlemaking demonstration.
[05:02.16]And this one is a sweet making demo.It was really eye-catching.
[05:08.22]John:I seem to remember there's a gold museum down there.
[05:12.97]LiMeng:Correct!We also went there and saw an exciting exhibition--pieces of gold,
[05:20.05]old machines,old clothes,pictures of the old town,its history and everything.
[05:26.82]Mary:You should add those thikngs to your project.
[05:30.89]John:Yeah.Just think about them,stories,history and photos.
[05:36.74]If you put those things together nicely,you should produce something top-notch.
[05:43.72]12.Listen,read and lean.
[05:51.87]Have you got a good idea?
[05:55.92]Sitting in your classroom and gazing at the walls,
[06:01.38]I'm sure in a minute you may come up with some very good ideas
[06:06.94]about how to decorate those classroom walls.
[06:12.01]This may include placing students'assignments on those walls.
[06:18.36]You may also have many other ideas about how to make your classroom more beautiful.
[06:25.02]If you think harder and the teacher doesn't interrupt you,
[06:30.58]you may go on producing new and wonderful ideas.
[06:36.33]An idea is a thought or a picture that you have in your mind.
[06:42.10]Generally speakin,everybody has got some ideas.
[06:47.56]You may think about changing the classroom environment.
[06:52.89]You may also think about how to finish the teacher's assignments.
[06:58.32]However,good ideas and even brilliant ideas
[07:03.76]often need to be further developed by more careful thought and deeper thinking.
[07:10.52]If you think about your teacher's job for a while,
[07:15.57]you may think of ideas like making some dustless chalks for teachers
[07:21.94]and creating a kind of computer-controlled big white board.
[07:28.10]You may design a system which would let the teacher just
[07:32.96]press the next-page button on the computer so that a clean,
[07:39.42]white board would be presented right in front of the teacher.
[07:44.14]Brilliant ideas are very important.
[07:48.61]They can help us change our lives,change our perception of the world,
[07:54.85]and lead us into a new stage of living.
[07:59.61]Without creativity the human species would not have advanced
[08:05.77]and we'd still be living in caves.
[08:10.03]Everything associated with progress comes from ideas
[08:15.91]and the best ideas come from people using the proper tools and processes.
[08:22.67]No matter where they happen
[08:26.23]some new ideas and the waves they create will affect our job,
[08:32.39]our health,our prosperity and our world.
[08:37.85]A supermarket is loaded with ideas about what to eat.
[08:43.52]Most of which we could not remember if we were not in that environment.
[08:49.76]But as we walk through the supermarket each
[08:54.44]item reminds us of what we might have for dinner.
[08:58.98]As a result we can generate lots of ideas in a relatively short time.
[09:05.75]With excellent ideas,we can turn trash into treasure!
[09:12.12]We can make the best and fullest use of discarded glasses,
[09:18.08]bottles,boxes,old light bulbs,paper bags,dry leaves,
[09:26.02]egg shells and orphaned socks and create great craft projects and gifts.
[09:33.57]Ideas ate very important and necessary.
[09:39.00]The bottom line is"Have you got a good idea or a brilliant noe?"
