2014-2015学年高中英语 Unit 1 A land of diversity Workbook listening and speaking课件 新人教版选修8.pptVIP

Look at the pictures and discuss what you think is happening. A coffin is being carried by a horse-driven cart, and many people are marching behind it. Jazz funeral There is a brass band, with some people blowing trumpets. Many people are dancing in the street, and some of them are holding umbrellas. brass musical instrument with a bright ringing tone; person who play the instrument consisting of a hollow round frame; ceremony of burying, burning dead people; trumpet: drummer: funeral: box holding a dead body; v. walk as soldiers do, with regular steps of equal length; n. piece of music written for marching to; rite; function; protocol coffin: march: ceremony: * Listening Speaking Revision Write an email or a postcard to a friend telling him about the place where you are on holiday. The place I would like to visit would be Mars. I only know that it is the closest planet to the Earth, and it is the most similar to Earth. Although Mars is the fourth closest planet to the sun, it is still much colder that the Earth. Like the satellites pictures showed that Mars has lots of craters, and scientists speculate that perhaps Mars used to be like Earth billions of years ago. I think there is more to Mars than what the scientists believe. I believe there is life on Mars. Perhaps the definition of life on Mars is different from Earth. It could be that the life there does not need oxygen, but other kinds of gases. I would imagine that life may not be active, because Mars has been hit by meteorites and the surface has been very much bombarded. So I presume the life that still exist would not be like life on Earth. I have no idea what the weather would be like, but I can presume it would be very cold, since Mars is much further from the sun than Earth. As for its special features, I think if one stands on the surface of Mars, we can see the whole univer