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Unit 7 Face to Face with Guns 本单元教学目标： Modern communication often pictures guns as the enemy and ignores their changed use. Guns for many years provided food or safety in North America. Now, modern communication repeatedly shows and reports the wrong use of guns in frequent news and entertainment stories. It creates social change when all kinds of minds — the sick, the weak, the young, the not-so-mature — are influenced by images of lack of responsible gun use. Education in general has failed to control this mind changing communication. As a result, some see guns as a quick, easy, sure solution to negative feelings or problems. Others, wanting to stop this gun problem quickly, think simply removing guns will solve it. What do you think of the problem? Keep the question in mind as you read this unit. 二、本单元拟采用教学方法：task-based approach 三、本单元教学拟占用课时：seven hours 四、本单元具体教学内容安排应包括： 1、背景知识 ⑴ KFC: Kentucky Fried Chicken, known as KFC in the US, is the worlds most popular chicken restaurant chain. The company originated and still has its headquarters in the US. It now has more than 30,000 restaurants worldwide. ⑵ 911: This is the emergency telephone number in the US and Canada for contacting the police department, the fire department or medical emergency services. ⑶ Blakes Thames: Blake, William (1757 - 1827) was an English poet and artist whose best known books of poems are Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. The quotation used in Passage A comes from the first verse of a poem called London. ⑷The Thames is the main river flowing through London, and Englands most important river. 阅读前准备活动 First Listening Having ideas about a story before you read it is an important reading skill. Please listen to a very short piece of recording.? ??? A man who leaves his garage at night carrying some KFC is attacked by a thief who steals his money and his watch at gunpoint. The thiefs partner appears with an even larger gun and orders the man to stop looking at them. They f