【2017年整理】新标与准高职高专公共英语综合教程1教师用书Unit12.ppt

BR_Background Information1;BR_Background Information2;BR_Video Clip1;BR_Video Clip2;BR_group discussion;BR_spot dictation;GR_Part Division.. ;Why did the young boy believe that “Information Please” was an amazing person? When the boy dialed the operator at the airport many years later, why did he ask the question “Could you tell me please, how to spell the word ‘fix’?”;DR_text1-2_S;DR_text3-9_S;DR_text10-14_S;DR_text1-2_W;DR_text3-9_W;DR_text10-14_W;DR_text1-2_S_There was… 1;DR_text1-2_S_There was… 2; “I hurt my finger…” I cried into the phone. “Isn’t your mother home?” came the question. “Nobody’s home but me,” I sobbed. “Are you bleeding?” “No,” I replied. “I hit it with the hammer and it hurts.” “Can you open your fridge?” she asked. I said I could. “Then break a little piece of ice and put it on your finger. That will stop the hurt. And don’t cry, you’ll be all right.” After that, I called Information Please for everything. I asked her for help with my lessons. I even called her for comfort because my pet bird died. When I was nine, we moved from Seattle to Boston and I missed my friend deeply. Information Please belonged to the old home, and I never thought of trying the new phone on a small table in the hall.;DR_text10-14_S_I hadn’t …;DR_text10-14_S_Your finger …; When I was quite young, my family had one of the first telephones in our neighborhood. Soon I discovered that somewhere inside that wonderful device lived an amazing person -- her name was “Information Please” and there was nothing she did not know. My mother could ask her for anybody’s number; when our clock stopped, Information Please gave us the correct time at once. One day while my mother was visiting a neighbor, I hit my finger with a hammer. The pain was terrible and there was no one home to offer sympathy. So I ran for the telephone and said “Information please” into the mouthpiece. After a moment, a small, clear voice spoke into my ear. “In