part-2-The-English-Countryside：Text.ppt

The English Countryside 英国乡村Part I Communicative activities nIntroduction nListening nTourist picks Rural Landscape in the 19th Century in the early20th CenturyIntroduction Learn to use English to nTalk about rural views of BritainnTalk about one’s preference of living in the city or in the countrysidenMake an itinerary for a tour Rural landscape nIn Blake’s poem Jerusalem he describes the English countryside as a “green and pleasant land” with “mountains green”, “pleasant pastures” and “clouded hills”. It is a defiantly pre-Industrial picture and, in many ways, this is how we like to think of our countryside – a place of timeless beauty, unsullied by modern life.nShakespeare: precious stone set in a silver seaThe Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandRivers UK RiversBeing a relatively small Island, the UK's rivers are not very long. The Severn, its longest river, is just 354 km in length, beginning in Wales and entering the Atlantic Ocean near Bristol in England. Other major rivers include the Thames, which flows through Oxford and London, and the Trent and Mersey rivers, which drain rainfall from large areas of central England.The ThamesAmong the most important rivers in the UK is the Thames, which flows into the North Sea. Its length is 346 km and it is the deepest river in Britain. It is navigable as far as the capital of Great Britain – London. LancashireLake District Listening Advantages No.advantagesWhy 1convenience 2Cheap services 3Job opportunities 4Open-mindedness5Exciting life-style A lot of things for him to do, i.e, theatre or movieLarge population, more jobs available Public services are cheap because of large populationQuick to accept new things and open-mindedLife is never dull; new pop songs Disadvantages 1Crowd The celebrity admitted in the talk that the crowd is a disadvantage of living in the city2pollutionPollution is serious but the public needs to act together for solutions.3Quick to forfeit (lose) traditional values City people are open-minded and quick to accept new things, which implies that they are quick to lose traditional values that are important to our culture. Tourist picks nYorkshire dale Yorkshire Dales（valleys ) is a world renowned Tourist attraction, and also one of the 14 national parks in UK, located inThe north of England. Words Scar: an isolated, protruding rock Pot-holding and caving: forming holes and caves on the surface of the groundPennines奔宁山脉: low rising mountain range in northern England and southern Scotland. The very big nascent开始存在的 ['næsənt, 'nei-] wildness: the wildness is quite new (nascent) because of clear-felling of original forestHeather ['heðə ],石南属植物 : a kind of low growing plantTributary ['trɪbjətri]从从属属的的；；辅辅助助的的；；支支流流的的 valleys: streams that flow into larger rivers or valleys. All on a human scale: just suitable in proportion to human life. nLimestone: [‘laimstəun ]石灰岩nAlkaline ['ælkəlain]碱性的，碱的 nArchaeology: [,ɑ:ki‘ɔlədʒi 】考古学nCavern [‘kævən]大山洞；大山洞； 凹处凹处 nStark stɑ:k 完全地nMoraine [mɔ'rein, mə-]冰碛石 nClamp夹紧，固定住nBedrock基岩；根底；基本原理 nDerive [di‘raiv] from—originate from来源于Incorrect answersn1, 4, 5, 11, 14, 16, 17 4. In the stark contrast between the bare, brown, moraine summits their very big nascent wildness is the Results of thousands of years of clear felling of The original forest, sheep grazing, and lead mining. Proverb nGrass is always greener on the other side of the fence. n篱笆另一边的草更绿。

nFamiliarity breeds contempt. n远香近臭nBeauty is in the eye of the beholder.n情人眼里出西施nAbsence makes the heart grow fonder. n距离产生美。