Unit 6 Streets full of heroes

• I. Lead-in• Background information• II. Language Points • Sentence Study• Word Study • III. Guided Writing • IV. Presentation and Exercises

Lead-inBackground Information Firefighter’s response

• Complete the paragraph about a firefighter’s response in emergency with the correct form of the words in Activity 5, P 85.

chaotic extinguish heroism nightmare toll tragedy utmost

Firefighter’s response

• For a firefighter arriving on the scene of a fire the first few minutes are usually the most (1)________. He has to (2)______________ the fire, he also needs to find out if human lives are in danger. When people are trapped inside a building he must act swiftly to prevent (3)__________, or, —in the (4)_____________ scenario — to keep the death (5)_______ to a minimum. Actions like these require the (6)________ degree of (7)__________.

chaotic

extinguish

tragedy

nightmare toll

utmost

heroism

Richard Picciotto

Chief Richard “Pitch” Picciotto, the highest-ranking firefighter to survive the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and the collapse of the Twin Towers

The author of Last Man Down

Last Man Down a tribute to the 343 firefighters and some 3,000 civilians that lay dead in the rubble that surrounded Richard Picciotto on 9/11 attack

a heartfelt remembrance of a day of infamy (臭名昭著 ) and profound humanity

an immediate New York Times Best Seller upon its May, 2002 release.

Language Points Sentences Study Sentences 1

• I thought how we firemen were always sayin

g to each other, “I’ll see you at the big one.” O

r, “We’ll all meet at the big one.” I never knew

how it started, or when I’d picked up on it mys

elf, but it was part of our shorthand. Meaning,

no matter how big this fire is, there’ll be anoth

er one bigger, somewhere down the road. We’l

l make it through this one, and we’ll make it th

rough that one, too.

• Translate the sentences into Chinese.

• Key:Key: 我想起我们消防员平常总互相打趣说：

“在大火中见吧。”或者是“我们肯定会在大火中碰面的。” 我不知道这种说法是怎么来的，或者我自己是从什么时候开始说起这种话来的，但这就是我们的暗语。意思是不管这场火有多大，以后在别处还会有比这更大的。我们能安然无恙地度过这场火，也会安然无恙地度过下一场火。

Sentences 2• Translate the sentences into Chinese. • I always said it, at big fires, and I alway

s heard it back, and here I was, thinking I would never say or hear these words again, because there would never be another fire as big as this. This was the big one we had all talked about, all our lives, and if I hadn’t known this before – just before these chilling moments – this sick, black noise now confirmed it.

Key:Key: 遇到一场大火时，我总是这么说，也总听别人这么说，可现在，我呆在这儿，想着自己再也不会说这样的话了，或听到别人这么说了，因为再也不会有比现在更大的火了。这会是我们大家一辈子都在说的那场大火，如果以前——就在这一个个令人胆战心惊的瞬间之前——我没有认识到这一点的话，现在这浑厚的、不祥的响声印证了这一点。

scenario n.

a situation that possibly happens

Examples:• The most likely scenario is that Brooks will

resign.• I am trying to think of all the possible

scenarios.• Scenario planning provides a way for

people to rehearse the future.

extinguish vt.fml to make a fire or cigarette stop burning

Work in pairs and answer the following questions.

Do not extinguish with water.

1. What does this picture mean?

2. What does extinguish mean in the sentence I bet I can extinguish my ego before you extinguish your ego?to stop a feeling or idea from continuing to exist

ego: 自我价值感 , 自我

Examples:

• If the alarm sounds, all students should evacuate immediately.

• We were all evacuated because of a bomb scare.

• Over 10,000 refugees have now been evacuated to neighbouring countries.

evacuate vt.

to leave a building or other place because it is not safe

evacuate v.Work in pairs and answer the following questions.

2. What is the worst-case scenario to the guy in the picture? He must evacuate now but he is stranded in an isolated island with no evacuation facilities.

1. How to evacuate from a building?

Walk quickly towards an exit, DO NOT RUN!

evacuate v.Work in pairs and answer the following questions.

3 What does this picture mean? What actions can we take if we find this logo on?

It means:EVACUATE A danger inside or near the building.

Actions:• LEAVE the building, don't use elevators• ASSIST the disabled.• TAKE valuables and cell phone with you.• PROCEED to assembly area outside. 

chaotic a.happening in a confused way, without any order or organization (n. chaos)

Work in pairs and make sentence with the following collocations.

total chaos

total chaos

complete chaoscomplete chaos

utter chaos

utter chaos

absolute

chaosabsolute

chaos

The new road construction has caused total chaos in the city.

e.g. The situation at the border was chaotic, with thousands of evacuees arriving everyday.

gratitude n.

a feeling of being grateful because they have given you sth or done sth for you

• Gratitude is the fairest blossom which spring from the soul. —Henry Ward Beecher

• Sometimes even an ocean of gratitude still is not enough. Thank you! Thank you!

trustworthy a.able to be trusted as being honest, safe or

reliable

Work in pairs and translate the following into Chinese.

news-worthy

news-worthy

creditworthycreditworthy

noteworthy

noteworthy

quoteworthyquoteworthy

praiseworthy

praiseworthy

roadworthyroadworthyairworthyairworthy

seaworthyseaworthy

具有新闻价值的

具有新闻价值的

信用可靠的信用可靠的值得注意的值得注意的

值得引用的值得引用的

值得表扬的值得表扬的可安全行驶的可安全行驶的

适合飞行的适合飞行的

适宜航海的适宜航海的

Steel oneself (against sth)to prepare oneself for sth unpleasant

Work in pairs and translate the following into Chinese.

Steel yourself against computer mishaps by preparing a back-up strategy.

Steel yourself against the inevitable disappointment.

做好备份准备，让你能应对电脑的小事故。

让自己坚强起来，与不可避免的失望抗争。

Guided Writing

When we are writing an essay, we can use quotations for a variety of reasons, such as:

• to support a claim we have just made

• to present someone else’s idea which we want to contradict

• to draw attention to a particularly elegant phrase or well-expressed idea

Some ways to introduce quotations

• …claims that …

• As … puts it,

• In the words of …, …

• According to …

• …suggests that …

• …points out …

Presentation and Exercises