Unit 13 Flying Gets Cheaper

(b) Listen & Make a note of the comparative and superlative adjectives they use.
Examples faster， most enjoyable
1.3 Listen & Number them in order.
a. an announcement for passengers waiting to get on the plane 3 b. a security announcement to all passengers 4 c. a request to a passenger 1
The Musé d’Orsay e
Today， the Musé d’Orsay is one of Paris’s most e famous art museums， and it has over two million visitors a year. Yet it began life not as a museum but as a train station and hotel. Like the Eiffel Tower, it was built for the World Exhibition of 1900, and until 1939 was one of the city’s main stations. Then trains started to get longer and more powerful, and the platforms at the Orsay Station were too short, so after 1939 it was used only for local trains. During World War II it became a mailing center for sending packages to prisoners of war. After the war it served as a welcome center for prisoners returning home. It was then used in several film sets, including Orson Welles’film of Kafka’s The Trial.
increased and it became more efficient to produce electricity in other ways. The architect of the power station also designed the famous British red telephone box! Seventy architects, including some of the best-known in the world, entered the competition to design the museum. Two young Swiss architects were the winners. Work began in 1995 and Tate Modern opened to the public on 12 May 2000.
Think about travel
to work for business trips to your English lesson for holidays for evening activities at weekends
2.2 Work in groups. Tell your classmates about your best or worst travel experience. Then answer their questions about it.
2.3 Work in groups. Choose a topic. Talk about the topic for one minute.

1) My most recent flight 2) Why I fly/don’t fly 3) Airports I like/dislike
celebrate / 'selibreit / v. 庆祝,祝贺 millennium / mi'leniəm / n. 一千年\ spectacular / spek‘tækjulə / a. 公开展示的 contemporary / kən‘tempərəri / a. 同时代 construction / kən'strQk∫ən / n. 建设,建造
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Contents Aims Unit 13 Flying Gets Cheaper Being able to talk about travelling, write a reservation letter; know about comparative & superlative of adjectives. Knowing how to talk about travelling and write a reservation letter; Talking about travelling orally and writing a reservation letter correctly with all the information needed. Preview the lessons and get ready for dictation; Finish exercises.
Passage one -Vocabulary:
platform / 'plætf:m / n. 平台,月台 package / 'pækidV / n. 包裹, prisoner / 'priznə / n. 囚犯 demolish / di'mli∫ / v. 破坏,粉碎 architecture / ‘ɑ:kitekt∫ə / n. 建筑学 convert / kən‘və:t / v. 使转变
2.4 Work in groups. Choose a topic from the list and tell your classmates about it.
· museum you know a · museums you would like to visit in the future · you like/dislike art · building you like/dislike a

Notes:
1--- Orson Welles：奥森· 威尔斯（Orson Welles ，原名乔治· · 奥森 威尔斯，George Orson Welles，1915年5月6日-1985年10月10日），
Orsay Museum, seen from the right bank of the Seine river
Tate Modern In the year 2000 London got its first modern art museum, Tate Modern. It was a project to celebrate the Millennium and is now one of London’s most popular museums. It is, however, very different from other modern art museums like the spectacular Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao or the Pompidou Centre in Paris. Both of these are contemporary buildings, designed to be museums of art. Tate Modern started life not as a museum but as a power station， producing electricity for London. Construction began in 1947 and it was used as a power station until 1981 when the price of oil
d. a last call to two passengers
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1.4 Listen and answer what does she say about
1) people’s opinions of the buildings? 2) the space inside the museums? 3) their loБайду номын сангаасations?
Key Points
Difficult Points Homework
1.1 （a）Listen & answer what does she say about
1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) methods of selling? tickets? number of flight attendants? type of aircraft? turnaround time? airports?
(b) Work in pairs. Compare your answers for (a). (c) Listen to the interview again. Check your answers.
1.2 (a) Listen & Complete the table.
Travel by Speaker1 Speaker2 plane business trips，holidays holidays train underground car bus motorbike bike
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