浙江省诸暨市牌头中学高中英语 Unit1 Friendship Reading task课件 新人教版必修1.pptVIP

I. Fast reading: Read the passage as quickly as possible and try to find out what each of the following words means in the language of the Hawaiians. 2. Why do many different peoples call Hawaii their home? Some exercises on your workbook Translate the following sentences into English. (P41) 1. 你把所有的数加起来就会知道结果。(add up) You will know the result when you add up all the numbers. 2. 我们努力想让他平静下来，但他还是激动地大叫。(calm down) We tried to calm him down but he kept shouting excitedly. 5. 如果你不想和我在一起，你就收拾东西走人。(pack up) If you don’t want to stay with me, you can pack up and go. 6. 战争期间，我受了很多苦。我用日记记下自己的经历，以便老了以后能够记住。(suffer; set down) During the war, I suffered a lot. I wrote my diary to set down my experiences so I would remember them when I was old. * Workbook Reading task Exercises Can you think of any place where Chinese and Western cultures live side by side? Hong Kong, Macao, Singapore, Hawaii… Havaii is a unique place in many ways. The eight larger islands are farther away from the continents than any other islands in the Pacific Ocean. Yet they are home to rich cultural diversity of people. The first inhabitants were Havaiians, a people who sailed to these islands in wooden canoes centuries ago from another part of Polynesia. In the past 150 years, other peoples have come to live here from every East and Southeast Asian nation and most of the other islands in the Pacific Ocean. They have also come from North America and Western Europe. More importantly, Hawaii is a place where the East truly meets the West. The living and learning environment of these beautiful islands mixes the best of both worlds. This coming together of cultures happens in the schools, in business and in government. It also happens in families: most of the people are multi-racial, that is, from many races. No racial or ethnic group is in a majority, either, which makes Hawaii the only state in the US with this special situation. To be Hawaii nowadays is to be part of a culture that