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第 PAGE 1 页 共 NUMPAGES 12 页 Period 1: Reading—The D -Day Landing —Passage 1，2 and 3 Objectives ●To learn about war and peace To learn to read with strategies Focus Words Invade, drown, occupy, troop, abandon, wound, overlook, condemn, rescue, drop, campaign, image, courage, sacrifice Expressions occupy many countries, land on the beaches of…, get off the boats, land at the most dangerous place, make breakthrough, fire artillery shells at…, disappear under the water, jump into the water, join a group from…, fight with… Patterns The situation at Omaha Beach was so bad that the US army commanders thought about abandoning the invasion. Eventually, the soldiers made a breakthrough and the D-Day landings were successful. If they had reached the beach, they would probably have been killed. 4. The cemetery and memorial are situated on a cliff overlooking the beach and the English Channel, from where the boats attempted their landings. Procedures ▇Warming up by defining “war” Hi, class. We are living in a peaceful world. But war has never been far away from us. What is war? What is peace? These two words are the topics this week. War must cease to be an admissible human institution. War is a state of widespread conflict between states, organisations, or relatively large groups of people, which is characterised by the use of lethal violence between combatants or upon civilians. Other terms for war, which often serve as euphemisms, include armed conflict, hostilities, and police action (note). War is contrasted with peace, which is usually defined as the absence of war. A common perception of war is a series of military campaigns between at least two opposing sides involving a dispute over sovereignty, territory, resources, religion or a host of other issues. A war to liberate an occupied country is sometimes characterised as a war of liberation, while a war between internal elements of the same state may co