江苏省太仓市英语译林牛津版选修7U2同步教案（task01）.doc

第  PAGE 8 页 共  NUMPAGES 8 页 江苏省太仓市英语译林牛津版选修7U2同步教案（task01） Task Reporting on short-sightedness 2. Read the instructions on page 26. Make sure that you understand how to listen for current situations. You should know that it is important to identify the problem, the explanation, the reasons and the solutions in the report. Step 1: completing notes You will listen to a TV programme and take notes to report on the current problem of short-sightedness, which is very common among Chinese teenagers today. 1. Make a survey of short-sightedness in class. You may focus on the following points: number of students who wear glasses comparison of the number to the last year’s figure reasons for the problem solutions to the problem 2. Listen to the tape and finish Part A on page 26. Tapescript TV Reporter: Here I am in China, investigating a problem that is common among Chinese teenagers today. I am sure that you have noticed an increasing number of eye doctors in the streets. The reason for this is that the number of Chinese teenagers with short sightedness is increasing. According to the result of a national investigation into students’ health, the short sightedness rate for Chinese primary school students is twenty-two point eight percent. Among junior high school students the number increases to fifty-five point two percent, and by the time students get to senior high school, seventy point three percent of them need to wear glasses. Figures in other cities show this increase. Let’s take Taiyuan in Shanxi Province for example. In two years the number of junior high school students with short-sightedness in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province increased from sixty-one point three to sixty-four point two percent, and for primary school students, the number increased from twenty-one point five to thirty-two percent. These high figures worry both teachers and doctors. But first, what exactly is short-sightedness? Short-sightedness is caused when the e