Make Euro Disney More
European
Unit 9
Stage 1,Warming-up Activities
Stage 2,Reading-Centred Activities
Stage 3,After-Reading Activities
Stage 4,Listening-and-Speaking Practice
Warming-up Activities
Group work
Questions for thought and discussion
Background information
Enriching your vocabulary
Comparing the following words
Group work
Go over the preview,the pre-
reading questions and the title
of the text before listening to
the summary of the story and
anticipate what we are going to
read,
Questions for thought and
discussion
Listen to a short passage
carefully and then answer
the following questions,
Background information
Euro Disneyland,an
extremely large amusement
park,run by the Walt
Disney Company,just
outside Paris in France,It is
based on Disneyland and
Disneyworld in the US,
theme park,Also known as
amusement park,it is an outdoor area
containing amusements,such as
games of skill and big machines to
ride on,which are sometimes all
based on a single subject,for example,
space travel,The first theme park was
Disneyland,at Anaheim,California,
opened in 1955 and based on Walt
Disney’s cartoon characters,
TGV,The name,Train à Grande Vitesse
(TGV)” translated into English means high
speed train,The TGV is a system which
comprises train,track,and signalling
technologies that when combined make high
speeds (typically 300 km/h,or 186 mph)
possible,The TGV system is owned and
operated by SNCF,the French national
railways,and is an integral part of French rail
travel,The TGV program was launched in the
late 1960s,In its early stages,the program was
considered a technological dead end,
Conventional wisdom at the time held that steel
wheel on steel rail technology had been explored
and understood to its fullest,and it was time to
move on to more innovative technologies like
magnetic levitation and jet-powered hover
trains,As a result,the project did not originally
receive any government funding,Today,there
are three major trunk lines radiating out of
Paris,the most recent one being the Nord-
Europe line,opened in 1993 and connects Paris
to Lille,Belgium,the Netherlands,Germany,
and Britain through the Channel tunnel,
Extensions continue to be built,
although budgetary constraints have
slowed the momentum of the TGV
expansion,
Sleeping Beauty,a fairy-tale heroine
who slept for 100 years until
wakened by the kiss of a prince.
Snow White,the main character in an old fairy
tale,Snow white is a beautiful princess who has a
jealous stepmother,The stepmother owns a
magic mirror which when asked,Mirror,mirror,
on the wall,who is the fairest of us all?” always
answers that she is the most beautiful,until one
day it says,Snow White”,The stepmother is very
angry and sends Snow White into the forest to be
killed,Snow White does not die,but finds and
lives with seven Dwarfs,Her stepmother tries to
kill her with a poisoned apple,but instead of
dying she goes to sleep until a prince kisses her
and wakes her,and they live happily ever after,
Peter Pan,the main character in a story titled
Peter and Wendy by James M,Barrie (Scottish
playwright and novelist,1860 — 1937),a young
boy who never grows up but lives in a magic
land called Never-never Land,In the story,
three children,Michael,John,and Wendy,go
with Peter Pan and Tinkerbell to stay in the
Never-Never Land,where they have many
adventures,Peter Pan’s enemy in the story is
Captain Hook,an evil pirate who has a metal
hook in the place of one of his hands,Captain
Hook lost his hand in a fight with Peter Pan,
and Peter Pan threw the hand into some water,
It was eaten by a crocodile,who liked the taste
so much that it then followed Captain Hook
around trying to catch and eat the rest of him,
Pinocchio,The international classic of
childhood literature,Pinocchio” was written
by Carlo Lorenzini (Italian journalist and
writer,1826 — 1890),under the pen name of C,
Collodi,and first published in Rome in 1881,
Its hero Pinocchio is the little wooden puppet
who walks and talks,and whose nose grows
every time he tells a lie,
Mickey Mouse,Mickey Mouse is
probably the most famous of the Disney
cartoon characters,Making his debut in
“Steamboat Willie” at the Colony
Theatre in New York City on November
18,1928,Mickey went on to star in over
120 different cartoons,He also starred in
“The Mickey Mouse Club” television
show of the 1950s,Mickey Mouse’s
original drawings used circles for his
head,body and ears,
1939's,The Pointer” saw a bold,new design
for Mickey as his body became more pear-
shaped and pupils were added to his eyes to
increase his range of expression,Later on,
animators of the 1940s would add a
perspective aspect to his ears,giving them a
three-dimensional effect,This change,
however,was short-lived,The Mickey Mouse
of today appears much as he did in the early
days with the exception of a costume change
here and there,
Originally,Mickey was voiced by Walt
Disney himself,Later,those duties were
assumed by Jim Macdonald and today
Wayne Allwine provides Mickey’s
distinctive voice,Mickey Mouse has
appeared on thousands of merchandise
items,and currently holds the esteemed
title of Chief Greeter at the Disney theme
parks.
Magic Kingdom in California,the name
of a theme park sometimes used instead
of Disneyland in California,
Walt Disney World in Florida,a very
large amusement park opened in 1971,
featuring many of the characters from
Disney films,Both Disneyland and
Disney world are very popular holiday
places for tourists,especially those with
children,
Jules Verne (1828—1905),He was a
French writer and a pioneer of the
science fiction genre,His most famous
books are Journey to the Centre of the
Earth,Twenty Thousand Leagues Under
the Sea,and Around the World in Eighty
Days,Verne was born in Nantes to
attorney Pierre Verne and his wife
Sophie,The oldest of the family's five
children,he spent his early years at home
with his parents,on a nearby island in
the Loire River,
This isolated setting helped to strengthen
both his imagination and the bond
between him and his younger brother
Paul,At the age of nine,he and his
younger brother were sent to boarding
school at the Nantes lycée,Verne’s
fascination with adventure asserted itself
at an early age,inspiring him at one point
to stow away on a ship bound for the
Orient,His voyage was cut short,
however,as he found his father waiting
for him at the next port.
After completing his studies at the lycée,Verne
went to Paris to study for the bar,About 1848,
in conjunction with Michel Carre,he began
writing librettos for operettas,For some years
his attentions were divided between the theatre
and work,but some travellers’ stories which he
wrote for the Musée des Families seem to have
revealed to him the true direction of his talent,
the telling of delightfully extravagant voyages
and adventures to which cleverly prepared
scientific and geographical details lent an air of
verisimilitude,
When Verne’s father discovered that his
son was writing rather than studying the
law,he promptly withdrew his financial
support,Consequently,the author was
forced to support himself with the income
from his work,which he found to be a
difficult proposition with his limited
contacts,During this period,he met the
authors Alexandre Dumas and Victor
Hugo,who offered him some advice on
his writing.
It was during this period that Verne met and
married Honorine Morel,a widow with two
daughters,At his father’s urging,Verne took a
job as a stockbroker,though with his wife’s
encouragement he continued to write,In 1861
his son,Michel Jean Pierre Verne,was born,
Verne’s situation improved when he met Paul
Hetzel,a publisher specializing in books for
young people,Hetzel read a draft of Verne’s
story about the balloon exploration of Africa,
which had been rejected by other publishers on
the ground that it was,too scientific”,
With Hetzel’s help,Verne rewrote the story
and in 1862 it was published in Hetzel’s own
Magazin d’Educationas Cinq semaines en
ballon (Five Weeks in a Balloon),The story
was an enormous success,and was
republished in a number of languages,
Verne became wealthy and famous,From
that point on,and for nearly a quarter of a
century,scarcely a year passed in which
Hetzel did not publish one or more of his
stories,The most successful of these include:
Voyage au centre de la terre (Journey to the
Center of the Earth,1864); De la terre à la
lune (From the Earth to the Moon,1865);
Vingt Mille Lieues sous les mers (20,000
Leagues Under the Sea,1869); and Le tour
du monde en quatre-vingts jours (Around the
World in Eighty Days),which first appeared
in Le Temps in 1872,Verne died at Amiens,
His brother,Paul Verne,contributed to the
Transactions of the French Alpine Club,and
to his brother's collection of Voyages
Extraordinaires in 1874.
The Louvre art museum,the most
famous French museum of art located in
Paris and has many important paintings,
including the Mona Lisa
Minnie Mouse,a cartoon character,a
female mouse who is the partner of
Mickey Mouse,
Mona Lisa,(also Monna Lisa; Italian,La
Gioconda; French,La Joconde) by Leonardo
da Vinci,is perhaps the most famous painting
in the world,going so far as to be iconic of
painting,art,and even visual images in
general,No other work of art is so
romanticized,celebrated,or reproduced,The
work,which was accomplished between 1503
and 1506,measures 77 x 53 cm and is an oil
painting on wood,It was brought to France by
Leonardo when King Francois I invited the
great painter to work at the Clos Lucé near
the king’s chateau in Amboise,
As a result,the Mona Lisa today hangs in the
Louvre in Paris,and is the museum’s star
attraction,The identity of the lady in the
painting is not known for certain,except that
she was a wealthy Florentine,The most
probable suspect is Madonna Lisa del Giocondo,
Although it is definitely difficult to view the
painting critically and ignore all the mythology
behind it,it does display a technical mastery
that more or less unquestionably seats it
amongst Leonardo's masterworks (although
some count The Last Supper as a greater work),
The compelling nature of the image has been
the subject of reams of discussion,In general,
it can be stated that the vividness and
ambiguity of the facial expression is due to
Leonardo's use of sfumato (a term coined by
Leonardo da Vinci to refer to a painting
technique which overlays translucent layers
of colors to create perceptions of depth,
volume and form),blurring the most
expressive portions of the face (the corners of
the eyes and mouth) to give the picture
greater mystery,
Indeed,the eyes appear to follow the viewer
around the room,and the enigmatic smile
is the picture's most famous feature (giving
us the expression,“a Mona Lisa smile”),
The painting was also one of the first
portraits to depict the sitter before an
imaginary landscape,One interesting
feature of the landscape is that it is uneven,
The landscape to the left of the figure is
noticeably lower than that to the right of
her,This has led some critics to suggest
that it was added later.
The painting has been restored numerous
times,unfortunately,several details have
been lost in the process,including Lisa's
eyebrows and (possibly) a pearl necklace
she was wearing,On August 22,1911,
Louvre employee Vincenzo Peruggia,who
at first believed the Italian painting
belonged to Italy and shouldn’t be kept in
France,stole the painting by simply
walking out the door with it hidden under
his coat,
However,greed got the better of him
and the Mona Lisa was not returned
to the Louvre until 1913 when
Peruggia attempted to sell it to a
Florence art dealer,The Guinness
Book of Records counts the painting
as the most valuable object ever
insured,
Enriching your vocabulary
Read the sentences carefully
and guess the meaning of the
italicized term in each sentence
according to the context and
your own experiences,
It has been contended that the reality
of the social process is quite different
from its appearance,we need to go
beyond the misleading surface
appearance to recognize its nature,
As Crawford contended with
heartbreak in his private life,his
career soared to greater heights,
据称与 … 搏斗
The attendance has increased
steadily over the years and the
conference attracts more and more
international participants,
Addressing social policy,the plan
contemplated workers' profit-sharing
schemes,increased taxation,
compulsory retirement at 60,
pension reforms,and educational
reforms,
参加者考虑
A wealth of legends and folk tales have
been recorded,many of which relates to
particular sites in the countryside,
Most professional male swimmers shave
off their body hair to make them more
streamlined and thus swim faster,
If your debtor has money and no excuse
for not paying what he owes you,the
only solution may be to take him to court.
传说剃起诉他
He puts his health before all other
considerations,
It happened in a flash,although in
retrospect everything seemed to occur in
slow motion,
The ship had come into service only weeks
before the rescue mission,
Meanwhile,health campaigns have
largely failed so far to change their
behavior,
比 … 重要眨眼间开始投入使用到目前为止
For all their high intelligence and
exceptional reading ability,they were still
two little girls and the world was often a
puzzle to them,
This scheme started in the 1980s,in
response to the demand from older people
who were unable to find an appropriate
insurance company,
Since their work focused on certain topics it
was natural that they particularly looked
for evidence relating to these topics,
尽管回应集中在
Homework
Learn the new words and
expressions of the text by heart,
Go over the text and try to get
the main idea of the text,
Analyze the structure of the text,
Reading-Centred Activities
1,Global Reading Task
Reading Skills,
Text structure analysis:
2,Detailed Reading Task
Language points
Simulated writing
Summary of the text
After-Reading Activities
Vocabulary Exercises
Translating and Writing
Listening and speaking
activities
Talking about the topic
or retelling the text
Listening and speaking
practice in XP center
European
Unit 9
Stage 1,Warming-up Activities
Stage 2,Reading-Centred Activities
Stage 3,After-Reading Activities
Stage 4,Listening-and-Speaking Practice
Warming-up Activities
Group work
Questions for thought and discussion
Background information
Enriching your vocabulary
Comparing the following words
Group work
Go over the preview,the pre-
reading questions and the title
of the text before listening to
the summary of the story and
anticipate what we are going to
read,
Questions for thought and
discussion
Listen to a short passage
carefully and then answer
the following questions,
Background information
Euro Disneyland,an
extremely large amusement
park,run by the Walt
Disney Company,just
outside Paris in France,It is
based on Disneyland and
Disneyworld in the US,
theme park,Also known as
amusement park,it is an outdoor area
containing amusements,such as
games of skill and big machines to
ride on,which are sometimes all
based on a single subject,for example,
space travel,The first theme park was
Disneyland,at Anaheim,California,
opened in 1955 and based on Walt
Disney’s cartoon characters,
TGV,The name,Train à Grande Vitesse
(TGV)” translated into English means high
speed train,The TGV is a system which
comprises train,track,and signalling
technologies that when combined make high
speeds (typically 300 km/h,or 186 mph)
possible,The TGV system is owned and
operated by SNCF,the French national
railways,and is an integral part of French rail
travel,The TGV program was launched in the
late 1960s,In its early stages,the program was
considered a technological dead end,
Conventional wisdom at the time held that steel
wheel on steel rail technology had been explored
and understood to its fullest,and it was time to
move on to more innovative technologies like
magnetic levitation and jet-powered hover
trains,As a result,the project did not originally
receive any government funding,Today,there
are three major trunk lines radiating out of
Paris,the most recent one being the Nord-
Europe line,opened in 1993 and connects Paris
to Lille,Belgium,the Netherlands,Germany,
and Britain through the Channel tunnel,
Extensions continue to be built,
although budgetary constraints have
slowed the momentum of the TGV
expansion,
Sleeping Beauty,a fairy-tale heroine
who slept for 100 years until
wakened by the kiss of a prince.
Snow White,the main character in an old fairy
tale,Snow white is a beautiful princess who has a
jealous stepmother,The stepmother owns a
magic mirror which when asked,Mirror,mirror,
on the wall,who is the fairest of us all?” always
answers that she is the most beautiful,until one
day it says,Snow White”,The stepmother is very
angry and sends Snow White into the forest to be
killed,Snow White does not die,but finds and
lives with seven Dwarfs,Her stepmother tries to
kill her with a poisoned apple,but instead of
dying she goes to sleep until a prince kisses her
and wakes her,and they live happily ever after,
Peter Pan,the main character in a story titled
Peter and Wendy by James M,Barrie (Scottish
playwright and novelist,1860 — 1937),a young
boy who never grows up but lives in a magic
land called Never-never Land,In the story,
three children,Michael,John,and Wendy,go
with Peter Pan and Tinkerbell to stay in the
Never-Never Land,where they have many
adventures,Peter Pan’s enemy in the story is
Captain Hook,an evil pirate who has a metal
hook in the place of one of his hands,Captain
Hook lost his hand in a fight with Peter Pan,
and Peter Pan threw the hand into some water,
It was eaten by a crocodile,who liked the taste
so much that it then followed Captain Hook
around trying to catch and eat the rest of him,
Pinocchio,The international classic of
childhood literature,Pinocchio” was written
by Carlo Lorenzini (Italian journalist and
writer,1826 — 1890),under the pen name of C,
Collodi,and first published in Rome in 1881,
Its hero Pinocchio is the little wooden puppet
who walks and talks,and whose nose grows
every time he tells a lie,
Mickey Mouse,Mickey Mouse is
probably the most famous of the Disney
cartoon characters,Making his debut in
“Steamboat Willie” at the Colony
Theatre in New York City on November
18,1928,Mickey went on to star in over
120 different cartoons,He also starred in
“The Mickey Mouse Club” television
show of the 1950s,Mickey Mouse’s
original drawings used circles for his
head,body and ears,
1939's,The Pointer” saw a bold,new design
for Mickey as his body became more pear-
shaped and pupils were added to his eyes to
increase his range of expression,Later on,
animators of the 1940s would add a
perspective aspect to his ears,giving them a
three-dimensional effect,This change,
however,was short-lived,The Mickey Mouse
of today appears much as he did in the early
days with the exception of a costume change
here and there,
Originally,Mickey was voiced by Walt
Disney himself,Later,those duties were
assumed by Jim Macdonald and today
Wayne Allwine provides Mickey’s
distinctive voice,Mickey Mouse has
appeared on thousands of merchandise
items,and currently holds the esteemed
title of Chief Greeter at the Disney theme
parks.
Magic Kingdom in California,the name
of a theme park sometimes used instead
of Disneyland in California,
Walt Disney World in Florida,a very
large amusement park opened in 1971,
featuring many of the characters from
Disney films,Both Disneyland and
Disney world are very popular holiday
places for tourists,especially those with
children,
Jules Verne (1828—1905),He was a
French writer and a pioneer of the
science fiction genre,His most famous
books are Journey to the Centre of the
Earth,Twenty Thousand Leagues Under
the Sea,and Around the World in Eighty
Days,Verne was born in Nantes to
attorney Pierre Verne and his wife
Sophie,The oldest of the family's five
children,he spent his early years at home
with his parents,on a nearby island in
the Loire River,
This isolated setting helped to strengthen
both his imagination and the bond
between him and his younger brother
Paul,At the age of nine,he and his
younger brother were sent to boarding
school at the Nantes lycée,Verne’s
fascination with adventure asserted itself
at an early age,inspiring him at one point
to stow away on a ship bound for the
Orient,His voyage was cut short,
however,as he found his father waiting
for him at the next port.
After completing his studies at the lycée,Verne
went to Paris to study for the bar,About 1848,
in conjunction with Michel Carre,he began
writing librettos for operettas,For some years
his attentions were divided between the theatre
and work,but some travellers’ stories which he
wrote for the Musée des Families seem to have
revealed to him the true direction of his talent,
the telling of delightfully extravagant voyages
and adventures to which cleverly prepared
scientific and geographical details lent an air of
verisimilitude,
When Verne’s father discovered that his
son was writing rather than studying the
law,he promptly withdrew his financial
support,Consequently,the author was
forced to support himself with the income
from his work,which he found to be a
difficult proposition with his limited
contacts,During this period,he met the
authors Alexandre Dumas and Victor
Hugo,who offered him some advice on
his writing.
It was during this period that Verne met and
married Honorine Morel,a widow with two
daughters,At his father’s urging,Verne took a
job as a stockbroker,though with his wife’s
encouragement he continued to write,In 1861
his son,Michel Jean Pierre Verne,was born,
Verne’s situation improved when he met Paul
Hetzel,a publisher specializing in books for
young people,Hetzel read a draft of Verne’s
story about the balloon exploration of Africa,
which had been rejected by other publishers on
the ground that it was,too scientific”,
With Hetzel’s help,Verne rewrote the story
and in 1862 it was published in Hetzel’s own
Magazin d’Educationas Cinq semaines en
ballon (Five Weeks in a Balloon),The story
was an enormous success,and was
republished in a number of languages,
Verne became wealthy and famous,From
that point on,and for nearly a quarter of a
century,scarcely a year passed in which
Hetzel did not publish one or more of his
stories,The most successful of these include:
Voyage au centre de la terre (Journey to the
Center of the Earth,1864); De la terre à la
lune (From the Earth to the Moon,1865);
Vingt Mille Lieues sous les mers (20,000
Leagues Under the Sea,1869); and Le tour
du monde en quatre-vingts jours (Around the
World in Eighty Days),which first appeared
in Le Temps in 1872,Verne died at Amiens,
His brother,Paul Verne,contributed to the
Transactions of the French Alpine Club,and
to his brother's collection of Voyages
Extraordinaires in 1874.
The Louvre art museum,the most
famous French museum of art located in
Paris and has many important paintings,
including the Mona Lisa
Minnie Mouse,a cartoon character,a
female mouse who is the partner of
Mickey Mouse,
Mona Lisa,(also Monna Lisa; Italian,La
Gioconda; French,La Joconde) by Leonardo
da Vinci,is perhaps the most famous painting
in the world,going so far as to be iconic of
painting,art,and even visual images in
general,No other work of art is so
romanticized,celebrated,or reproduced,The
work,which was accomplished between 1503
and 1506,measures 77 x 53 cm and is an oil
painting on wood,It was brought to France by
Leonardo when King Francois I invited the
great painter to work at the Clos Lucé near
the king’s chateau in Amboise,
As a result,the Mona Lisa today hangs in the
Louvre in Paris,and is the museum’s star
attraction,The identity of the lady in the
painting is not known for certain,except that
she was a wealthy Florentine,The most
probable suspect is Madonna Lisa del Giocondo,
Although it is definitely difficult to view the
painting critically and ignore all the mythology
behind it,it does display a technical mastery
that more or less unquestionably seats it
amongst Leonardo's masterworks (although
some count The Last Supper as a greater work),
The compelling nature of the image has been
the subject of reams of discussion,In general,
it can be stated that the vividness and
ambiguity of the facial expression is due to
Leonardo's use of sfumato (a term coined by
Leonardo da Vinci to refer to a painting
technique which overlays translucent layers
of colors to create perceptions of depth,
volume and form),blurring the most
expressive portions of the face (the corners of
the eyes and mouth) to give the picture
greater mystery,
Indeed,the eyes appear to follow the viewer
around the room,and the enigmatic smile
is the picture's most famous feature (giving
us the expression,“a Mona Lisa smile”),
The painting was also one of the first
portraits to depict the sitter before an
imaginary landscape,One interesting
feature of the landscape is that it is uneven,
The landscape to the left of the figure is
noticeably lower than that to the right of
her,This has led some critics to suggest
that it was added later.
The painting has been restored numerous
times,unfortunately,several details have
been lost in the process,including Lisa's
eyebrows and (possibly) a pearl necklace
she was wearing,On August 22,1911,
Louvre employee Vincenzo Peruggia,who
at first believed the Italian painting
belonged to Italy and shouldn’t be kept in
France,stole the painting by simply
walking out the door with it hidden under
his coat,
However,greed got the better of him
and the Mona Lisa was not returned
to the Louvre until 1913 when
Peruggia attempted to sell it to a
Florence art dealer,The Guinness
Book of Records counts the painting
as the most valuable object ever
insured,
Enriching your vocabulary
Read the sentences carefully
and guess the meaning of the
italicized term in each sentence
according to the context and
your own experiences,
It has been contended that the reality
of the social process is quite different
from its appearance,we need to go
beyond the misleading surface
appearance to recognize its nature,
As Crawford contended with
heartbreak in his private life,his
career soared to greater heights,
据称与 … 搏斗
The attendance has increased
steadily over the years and the
conference attracts more and more
international participants,
Addressing social policy,the plan
contemplated workers' profit-sharing
schemes,increased taxation,
compulsory retirement at 60,
pension reforms,and educational
reforms,
参加者考虑
A wealth of legends and folk tales have
been recorded,many of which relates to
particular sites in the countryside,
Most professional male swimmers shave
off their body hair to make them more
streamlined and thus swim faster,
If your debtor has money and no excuse
for not paying what he owes you,the
only solution may be to take him to court.
传说剃起诉他
He puts his health before all other
considerations,
It happened in a flash,although in
retrospect everything seemed to occur in
slow motion,
The ship had come into service only weeks
before the rescue mission,
Meanwhile,health campaigns have
largely failed so far to change their
behavior,
比 … 重要眨眼间开始投入使用到目前为止
For all their high intelligence and
exceptional reading ability,they were still
two little girls and the world was often a
puzzle to them,
This scheme started in the 1980s,in
response to the demand from older people
who were unable to find an appropriate
insurance company,
Since their work focused on certain topics it
was natural that they particularly looked
for evidence relating to these topics,
尽管回应集中在
Homework
Learn the new words and
expressions of the text by heart,
Go over the text and try to get
the main idea of the text,
Analyze the structure of the text,
Reading-Centred Activities
1,Global Reading Task
Reading Skills,
Text structure analysis:
2,Detailed Reading Task
Language points
Simulated writing
Summary of the text
After-Reading Activities
Vocabulary Exercises
Translating and Writing
Listening and speaking
activities
Talking about the topic
or retelling the text
Listening and speaking
practice in XP center
