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Culture unit 1  Growing up around the world.

[00:05.30]1 Read about Ross.

[00:10.34]Do you have anything in common?

[00:13.98]Fill in the diagram 1.

[00:17.42]Hi! I'm Ross and I live in Washington 2,D.C.,the capital of the U.S.

[00:25.89]Bet you don't know what D.C. stands for!

[00:30.33]It means 3 District of Columbia,named after Christopher Columbus.

[00:37.28]I like Washington because there's so much to do.

[00:42.03]I love going to museums and historical 4 monuments 6.

[00:47.18]Last week, I visited the Aerospace 7 museum.

[00:52.45]You can see rockets that went into space!

[00:57.03]My favorite school subjects are computer science and math.

[01:02.59]I have a lot of homework, but when it's done,

[01:08.23]I enjoy reading science fiction and watching TV.

[01:13.59]On weekends, I spend time with my family.

[01:18.26]We often have a picnic in one of the large city parks.

[01:23.72]I also play football with my friends,

[01:28.16]or we just go down to the mall and hang out.

[01:32.84]My dream is to go to UCLA and study aeronautics 8.

[01:38.90]Then I want to join the US space program!

[01:43.65]4a Read the article.

[01:48.62]Find three ways that Nicky's life is different from yours.

[01:54.36]living in the Outback

[01:57.92]Nicky Logan is 13 years old,and she comes from Australia's Northern Territory 9.

[02:06.09]She lives on a farm with her parents,

[02:10.64]her brothers Martin and Ben,and 50,000 sheep.

[02:16.52]The Logan's farm is in the "Outback".

[02:20.56]Most of Australia is "Outback"—it's very hot and dry

[02:26.73]and not many people live there.

[02:30.88]Sometimes Nicky and her family don't see any other people for weeks.

[02:37.34]So how do Nicky and her brothers go to school?

[02:42.01]Well,they don't go to school—their school comes to them,

[02:47.58]by radio and the Internet.

[02:51.05]They sit at home and use the radio to talk to their teachers and their classmates.

[02:57.29]Their classmates live on other farms

[03:01.45]and their teachers work at the"School of the Air"in a town called Alice Springs.

[03:09.10]When the pupils have to do homework,

[03:12.94]they send it to their teachers by fax or the Internet.

[03:17.98]When Nicky isn't studying,

[03:21.46]she likes to ride her horse and help the farm workers with the sheep.

[03:26.92]It's hard work for a young girl,but she enjoys it.

[03:31.67]Sometimes she plays tennis with her brothers,

[03:36.03]and when it's very hot,she likes to go swimming in the river on the farm.

[03:42.59]"I think I'm really lucky to live on an outback farm, " say Nicky.

[03:48.23]"I love nature and wildlife.

[03:51.89]We have some cool animals — koalas,kangaroos and wallabies.

[03:58.16]But not all the animals are cool.

[04:01.82]There are some poisonous snakes and spiders here.

[04:06.78]They can be dangerous!"The"School of the Air" is only for younger students.

[04:14.04]So next year,when Nicky is 14,

[04:18.48]she will have to go to a boarding school in Alice Springs.

[04:23.55]She will live at the school and visit her family during the vacations.

[04:29.19]I'll miss my parents and my horse,"she says,

[04:33.63]"but my brother Martin will be there.

[04:37.39]I think it'll be good to study with other kids."

[04:42.36]7a Some American teenagers are talking about weekend.

[04:49.62]Listend and circle the things you hear in activity 6.

[05:44.37]7b Listen again.

[05:49.13]What did Brad do?What did Mary do?

[05:54.40]What did Brad and Dave do?  Fill in the chart.

[06:48.24]9a Frank 10 Cull 11 is from Canada- He's talking about his school life.

[06:56.29]In the box, write the things he liked,and the things he didn't like.

[07:02.14]I had to get up at six o'clock every morning

[07:06.68]and ride my bike five miles to school.

[07:11.44]In winter,it was very cold,and in summer it was very hot,but I didn't mind.

[07:20.27]I liked to exercise.

[07:23.72]We wore uniforms to school,not like Canadian kids today.

[07:29.99]Some of the girls liked their school uniform,

[07:34.35]but the uniform for boys looked strange.

[07:39.00]We had to wear crazy straw 12 hats!

[07:43.44]Our school wasn't in a very good place.

[07:47.80]It was next to a train station.

[07:51.56]Sometimes it was difficult to hear the teacher because of all the trains outside.

[07:58.22]The school was small,too,and the classrooms were very crowded.

[08:04.47]There were usually forty or fifty students in every class.

[08:09.80]There was no TV at that time,so we didn't know a lot about the world.

[08:16.35]I remember our geography textbook had beautiful photographs

[08:22.41]from far away places like India,China,and Africa.

[08:28.79]Geography was really interesting for kids in those days!

[08:34.43]Families were poor because it was the time of the Great Depression 13.

[08:40.31]I wore my elder brother's old uniform.

[08:44.67]My shoes had holes where you could see my toes.

[08:49.71]It was terrible!We were poor but we still enjoyed ourselves.

[08:56.97]I loved to play baseball and ice hockey after class.

[09:02.15]But we played ice hockey on frozen 14 ponds.

[09:06.69]Not inside like the kids today.

[09:10.77]Words and expressions in Culture unit 1

[09:20.93]grow                 grow up              Washington D. C.     capital

[09:29.40]v.生长,发育,增长     成长,长大            华盛顿哥伦亚特区     n.首都，首府

[09:37.88]bet                  stand for            mean                 Columbia

[09:45.67]v.打赌               代表,表示            v.表示...            哥华伦比亚

[09:53.45]name after           historical                                monument 5

[10:00.08]以...命名            adj.历史上的,有关历史的                   n.纪念碑,纪念物

[10:06.72]aerospace                                 rocket

[10:10.90]n.地球大气层及其外面的空间,太空           n.火箭,冲天炮

[10:15.08]into                 space                fiction

[10:20.90]prep.进入..之内,向内 n.空间,太空          n.虚构之事,捏造的故事,小说

[10:26.73]science fiction      have a picnic        city park

[10:34.00]科幻小说             去野餐               城市公园

[10:41.28]go down to                                hang out             dream

[10:48.01]从一个地方去另一个地方                    经常出没,闲荡        n.梦;梦想;幻想

[10:54.73]UCLA University of California 15 at Los Angeles

[10:57.71]加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校

[11:00.69]aeronautics          common               in common            badminton

[11:10.01]n.航空学             n.共同的;共有的      共同的;共有的        n.羽毛球

[11:19.34]drama                travel               abroad               travel abroad

[11:28.47]n.剧本;戏剧          v.旅行;游历          adv.在国外;到国外    出国旅行

[11:37.60]move                 move away            outback              northern

[11:46.23]v.移动;搬动;开动     搬走                 adj.&n.内陆;内地(的) n.在北方的;北方

[11:54.87]territory            farm                 on a farm            sheep

[12:03.55]n.领土;区域          n.农场               在农场               n.羊;绵羊

[12:12.24]most of              by                   radio

[12:18.36]大多数               prep.通过;           n.收音机;无线电;无线电广播

[12:24.49]sit                  use                  their                air

[12:32.17]v.坐;坐着            v.用;使用;利用       pron.它(他,她)们的   n.空气;大气

[12:39.85]town                 Alice Spring         send                 fax

[12:48.54]n.镇;城镇;市镇       阿利斯斯普林斯       v.送;寄;派;谴        n.传真

[12:57.22]horse                help sb. with sth.   go swimming          lucky

[13:05.40]n.马                 帮助某人做某事       去游泳               adj.幸运的

[13:13.57]nature               wildlife             kangaroo             wallaby

[13:21.80]n.自然,自然界        n.野生动植物         n.袋鼠               n.小袋鼠

[13:30.03]poisonous            snake                spider               boarding school

[13:38.66]adj.有毒的,有害的    n.蛇                 n.蜘蛛               寄宿学校

[13:47.30]miss                 communicate          change               would like to

[13:55.47]v.怀念,想念          v.交流;沟通          v.改变,变化          想要,愿意

[14:03.65]prefer               eat out              go hiking            mile

[14:12.08]v.更喜欢...          在外面吃饭           去远足               n.英里

[14:20.50]winter               some of              strange

[14:26.43]n.冬天,冬季          一些                 adj.奇怪的;奇妙的;奇特的

[14:32.36]crazy                straw                straw hat            India

[14:40.59]n.疯狂的;狂热的      n.稻草;麦秸          草帽                 印度

[14:48.82]in those days        poor                 the Great Depression elder

[14:57.66]在当时               adj.贫穷的;可怜的    大萧条               adj.年级较长的

[15:06.50]hole                 could                toe                  were

[15:14.08]n.洞,孔,坑           aux. v.能,可以       n.脚趾头             v.(be的过去式)

[15:21.65]still                ourselves            ice hockey           after class

[15:30.34]adv.然而,可是        pron.我们自己        冰球                 课下

[15:39.02]freeze               pond                 transport            at school

[15:46.99]v.结冰;凝固          n.池塘               n.输送;运输;运输工具 在学校