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 Unit One Changes in the Way We Live  大学英语全新版 综合教程 第三册 TeachingOutline TeachingOutline Pre-reading tasks Questions related to the theme (P5—7) Discussion (P8—10) Background Information (P11—15) Pre-reading tasks Answer the following questions: 1. What is the song about ? 2. How is the song related to the theme of this unit? Answers taking a break from city life, escaping from the crowd. Answers The singer needs a break because the pace of life has quickened, the environment has been changed, and the old life style is gone. Discussion topics 1. Why do so many migrant workers move form the country to the city? 2. Why so city people buy apartments or houses in the suburbs, even in the countryside? Discussion topics 3. Why are tours of Zhou Zhuang, Li Jiang or any other old towns so popular? Why are tourists willing to pay to spend a day in a farmer’s house? Answers People change their places of living because they look for things that their previous life is unable to provide. However, once life has been changed, they miss the good old days. Culture Notes Cultural Notes The countryside: The countryside of Britain is well known for its beauty and many contrasts: its bare mountains and moorland, its lakes, rivers and woods, and its long, often wild coastline. Fahrenheit scale: a scale of temperature, first established by Culture Notes German physicist，Gabriel Fahrenheit in 1715. No longer used in scientific work, Fahrenheit temperatures still feature in everyday language; hot days “in the eighties”, for example. To convert a Fahrenheit temperature to Celsius (centigrade), subtract 32, then multiply by 5/9. Culture Notes Celsius scale: a scale of hotness, or temperature, first established by the Swedish scientist Anders Celsius(1701-1744) in 1742. The Celsius scale was formerly commonly known as the centigrade scale because of the 100 divisions betw