高二外研版必修五Module2-Introduction+and+reading课件.ppt

Read part 2 and part 3 and answer the questions 1. Why has the death toll fallen ? 2. What happened to him when he was working as a lorry driver ? Because Timoteo worked as a human traffic signal to direct the traffic. He was driving a lorry load of bananas when he came off the road at a bend and fell three hundred metres down the mountain. Translation of difficult sentences in the text. 1.On one side the mountains rise steeply ; on the other side there is a sheer drop, which in places is hundreds of meters deep. 2. In theory, the road can only be used by traffic coming uphill from 8 in the morning , and by traffic coming downhill from 3 in the afternoon. 在路的一边,山体高耸险峻,另一边悬崖陡峭,有些地方足有几百米深. 按理,这条路上从早上8 点开始只准许上山的车通行,下午3 点以后 下山的车通行. 3. And so every morning , week in , week out , from dawn to dusk, Timoteo takes up his place on the bend and directs the traffic . 于是每天早晨,铁穆特欧都来到路的拐弯处站好自己的位置,开始指挥来往车辆,从拂晓到黄昏,一周又一周. summary La Paz is at high ______ , where mountains make _____________ difficult . The roads are in bad________ and accidents are frequent .But thanks toTimoteo, who works as a human traffic_________, the death toll has _______. But most drivers take his efforts for ________. Timoteo once had a close _________ with death when he was driving a lorry load of ___________. A few years later , he was called out to help pull people out of a bus , which had a profound _______ on him. He felt it his _________ to help others . altitude communications condition signal fallen granted encounter bananas effect mission Language points: 1. Many roads are in bad condition and accidents are frequent. ? 许多路况不好，事故频繁发生。 in ….condition 处于…… 状况 The car is in very good condition. He’s in excellent condition for a man of his age. 他就其年龄而言，身体极好。 这辆汽车情况良好。 The ship is not in a condition /is in no condition to make a long voyage. 此船的现状不宜远航。 我已多时没运动了，现在的健康状况欠佳。 I have had no exercise for ages; I’m really out of condition. on con