高中英语Unit 1 Breaking records Reading

Unit 1 Breaking records
Part One: Teaching Design
Period 1: A sample lesson plan for reading
("THE ROAD IS ALWAYS AHEAD OF YOU")
Aims
To help students develop their reading ability
To help students learn about breaking records
Procedures
■Warming up by l earning about “records”
●be a matter of record
if a fact is a matter of record, you know it is true because it has been written down. His views on immigration are
a matter of record.
●be on record
●go on record - to publicly and officially tell people your opinion about something. Both doctors are on record as saying the drug trials were an unqualified success. (often + as + doing something)
●for the record
something that you say when you are about to tell someone something important that you want them to remember. Just for the record, I've never been to his house and I've only met him a few times, whatever the media is saying.
●go on record
to publicly and officially tell people your opinion about something. Are you prepared to go on record as supporting the council on this issue? (often + as + doing something)
●off the record
if you say something off the record, you do not want it to be publicly reported. She made it clear that her comments were strictly off the record and should not be included in the article.
●off-the-record
off the record - if you say something off the record, you do not want it to be publicly reported. It's not a good idea to make these off-the-record remarks too often. (always before noun)
●on the record
●off the record - if you say something off the record, you do not want it to be publicly reported. None of the company directors were prepared to comment on the record yesterday.
●put/set the record straight
to tell the true facts about a situation in order to show people that what they believed previously was not correct. She is writing her memoirs to set the record straight once and for all.
●a track record
all of the past achievements or failures of a person or organization. We like to recruit managers with a strong track record. They have a strong track record in rescuing ailing companies. (often + in)
■Warming up by Guinness World Records
Hello, class. Have you ever heard of Guinness World Records? Here are some of the latest world records listed in Guinness World Records.
●Arranging A Deck Of Cards - Fastest Time
Kunihiko Terada (Japan) arranged a shuffled deck of cards in order (Ace through Ten, Jack, Queen, King for Diamonds, Clubs, Hearts and Spades), in his hands only, in 40.36 sec at the Hard Rock Cafe, Tokyo, Japan on January 25, 2004.
●Coin Spinning
The longest time a coin has been spun until coming to a complete rest is 19.37 seconds. It was accomplished by Britain's Scott Day at Earl's Court, London, UK, as part of BBC TV's Tomorrow's World roadshow. The record was first set in April 2004 with a spin of 16.7 seconds by Scotland's Sean Farrell at the Edinburgh Science Festival.
To know more about breaking records turn to page 1.
■Warming up by looking and talking
Good morning, boys and girls. Look at the
pictures and listen to me telling you
about something interesting.
I.
Pre-reading What is hula hoping?
The hula hoop is a toy hoop that promotes physical activity. Today it is often made of plastic and twirled around the waist or limbs.
What is jumping jack?
1. A toy figure with jointed limbs that can be made to dance by pulling an attached string.
2. Sports A physical exercise performed by jumping to a position with the legs spread wide and the hands touching overhead and then returning to a position with the feet together and the arms at the sides.
What is somersault?
A somersault (sometimes somerset) is an acrobatic feat in which a person tucks in mid-air and moves the feet over the head. The somersault can be performed either forwards or backwards and is synonymous with a flip (or, if performed backwards, backflip).
The word originates from the obsolete French word sombresault.
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Reading
On page 2 there is an article entitled "THE ROAD IS ALWAYS AHEAD OF YOU"
You are going to read it to the recording.
Now read the text again to: cut/ the sentence into thought groups, blacken the predicative, darken the connectives and underline all the useful expressions.
III．Copying expressions form "THE ROAD IS ALWAYS AHEAD OF YOU"
IV. Transforming information
You are to read the text once more to fill in the table with necessary information.
V. Closing down by listening to a radio interview of Ashrita Furman
LINDA WERTHEIMER, Host: Over the weekend, on a high school track in Jamaica, in the
borough of Queens, New York, a 37-year old health food store manager named Ashrita Furman,
walked 64 miles in 18 hours and 10 minutes with a 9-pound brick pinched between his fingers.
This feat added yet another to Furman's dozen Guinness Book world records, from 27 hours of
continuous yodeling to 307 games of hopscotch played in 24 hours. Bob Garfield spent some time
with Furman recently while he was training for the brick-carrying record attempt. He has this
report.
ASHRITA FURMAN: It's very tough. I mean, after a while you just stop losing your grip. But the idea to me is to concentrate on using different fingers, different muscles, until the point where you do that for 5 to 6 hours and eventually for 17 hours. So, it's tough, it's really tough.
GARFIELD: It's not just tough, though, it's something more than tough, Ashrita. It's really, really stupid. FURMAN: [laughter] Yeah, it is. But, you know, what can I tell you. This is how I get my kicks. GARFIELD: He doesn't mean longest since brick pinching perse, he means any display of unimaginable stamina in unimaginably pointless athletic endeavors. During the past 14 months alone, he has done 1659 squat thrusts in an hour, performed 3000 plus deep knee bends in an hour in a hot air balloon, and for the second time established the endurance record for juggling cannon balls under water in scuba gear for 65 minutes. He might have done more, but he got a nasty case of dysentery while traveling, possibly while pogo sticking for three hours and forty minutes with a snorkel eyeball deep in the Amazon River.
FURMAN: I had a rope tied to me just in case the piranha's attacked. The piranha's were there like 30 feet away, but it was great. It was so much fun, it was a great adventure.
GARFIELD: Digging into his tofu is a broad-shouldered muscular 38- year old athlete, arguably one of the greatest athletes in the world. Hard to believe that 20 years ago Furman was a clumsy, bookish weakling. FURMAN: Your typical nerd, I mean, down to the plastic pen holder in my pocket. In fact, I got beat up the first day at high school, because I was such a wimp. And I really- I mean, as far as I was concerned I really didn't have much of a life.
GARFIELD: That's when he was Keith Furman, a nice Jewish boy from Queens, who everyone assumed would follow his father's footsteps in corporate law. In high school, however, he began to believe that there was something of importance beyond the National Honor Society. He read Sedartha [sp] by Herman Hesse, which led him to Eastern philosophy which lead him to transcendental meditation which lead him a mile from his house to a Jamaica street called Parsons Boulevard. There he discovered an enclave of disciples of Sri Chinmoy, an Indian holy man who teaches a particularly strenuous path to spiritual enlightenment.
SRI CHINMOY: He knows philosophy, the physical and the spiritual must go together if we want to achieve something, and more achievement if we want to inspire people, then we have to renew in the inner world of inspiration as well.
GARFIELD: Along the way to self transcendence, Sri Chinmoy's students combine spiritual and physical culture. They run ultra marathons, climb the mountains, and swim the English Channel in pursuit of inner peace. In 1970, Keith Furman, now Ashrita Furman, decided this would be his path. By 1979, having accepted Sri Chinmoy's teachings of self denial and celibacy, he was ready to tap his dormant capacities. Marathoning seemed a bit quixotic, but he had always been a pretty good pogo sticker, so into Central Park he ventured determined to break the endurance record of 100,000 pogo jumps in 15 1/2 hours. Remarkably, despite excruciating pain and
unbearable fatigue, he reached 100,000 within 13 hours.
FURMAN: For me it was like a spiritual experience, because right at the moment that I broke the record of 100,001 jumps, I was in Central Park and this peacock started like screaming at 3 o'clock in the morning, and like in Indian mythology that's like a victory cry, kind of. It was like a very kind of cosmic thing.
GARFIELD: Or maybe just peacock indigestion. Ashrita went on to do 130,001 pogos and submitted his feat to the Guinness Book, which informed him that he had taken his rest periods at improper intervals and summarily disqualified him. But, Ashrita was undeterred, he simply changed events and, after another false start, did 27,000 jumping jacks in July 1979 to finally break an established Guinness mark. He has been doing it ever since and, because he also arranges tours for Sri Chinmoy disciples all around the world, Ashrita gets to break records in exotic places such as Zurich where he established my favorite Ashrita record for walking distance while balancing a pint bottle of milk on his head - 61 miles, 15 hours. A feat exceeded in its difficulty only by its ridiculousness and also, perhaps, by a certain kind of vanity that at first blush seems out of place.
FURMAN: Maybe there is a certain part of me that enjoys the attention, I'm not going to deny it. OK, I'm trying to lead a monkish, spiritual type of life, but I'm a human being and also there is a way for me to get something of a message as far as meditation to people. I, I really believe in it and I like to tell people about it and I think they're wasting their own capacities if they don't practice meditation.
GARFIELD: Clad in his orange silk doti [sp], Sri Chinmoy is presiding over his Friday hour of meditation. The session ends with a chant of Sri Chinmoy's own composition where upon he walks serenely into an adjoining room to contemplate Ashrita's achievements. His favorite is the milk bottle walk, too.
SRI CHINMOY: Because it demands constant, constant attention. If he left even for a fleeting second then the bottle will drop and he is disqualified. Concentration is of paramount importance, we cannot succeed without it in any field.
GARFIELD:Ashrita, we're walking around the track, you're carrying a 9-pound brick in your hand, are you getting closer to God?
FURMAN: Yeah, I think so. I mean, it's, you know, very gradual, let's put it that way, but, yeah, I think it does intensify my spiritual life. For instance, after 10 hours of this you're almost forced to like start praying to God, or you try to feel God inside of you.
GARFIELD: You're sure that's just not cramping?
FURMAN: [laughter] No. I really do believe that my body has the capacity to go a certain distance, let's say, and after that it's sort of like my mind, or you might say my soul or whatever, my deeper part, takes over. GARFIELD: As it turns out, take control his deeper part would. After 64 miles and 18 plus hours of cramping, shin splints, and bloody blisters, Ashrita would own another record - self transcendence, yet again. Inner peace achieved, at least for a while. There's a backwards unicycling record out there - 46 miles - and by September it will have to be broken. I'm Bob Garfield.。