Unit5新编综合英语教程.ppt

Look at the following pictures and share with your desk-mates your opinions about: 1. The most beautiful scenery I’ve ever seen. 2. Disasters that can destroy the beautiful nature. 3. Disasters you’ve ever experienced. 4. How to survive natural disasters. 1982 as a writer on world affairs. Since then he has traveled widely and written seven works of non-fiction and two novels． Having grown up a part of—and apart from English, American and Indian cultures, he became a travel writer. He writes often of his delight in living between the cracks and outside fixed categories. Most of his books have been about trying to see from within some society or way of life, but from the larger perspective an outsider can sometimes bring. In between his books, Iyer writes up to a hundred articles a year for magazines on several continents. A regular essayist for Time since 1986, he writes on literature for The New York Review of Books; on globalism for Harper’s; on travel for the Financial Times; and on many other themes for the New York Times, National Geographic, TLS and many other publications. His books have appeared in languages such as Turkish, Russian, and Indonesian, and he writes regularly on sports, film and religion—and especially on the places where mysticism and globalism converge． Main works of Pico Pyer: 1. The Recovery of Innocence (July 1984) 2. Falling off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World (April 1993) 3. Tropical Classical: Essays from Several Directions (May 1997) 4. The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, the Search for Home (February 2000) 5. Abandon: a Romance (February 2003) 6.Sun after Dark: Flights into the Foreign (April 2004) The great forest fire in Santa Barbara In late June 1990 three disastrous forest fires broke out within a week in the U.S., and two of them happened in California, one of which was vividly described by Pica Iyer in his In the Blazing Eye of the Inferno. The fire killed 1 resident and destroyed more