1. Lesson 4 Car Culture

2. What happened? What’s your feeling about this? Traffic jam

4. What happened? Traffic accident. What did it bring to us? It may cause death to us. And maybe we will get stuck or hurt in the accident.

5. What’s this? Is it bad for us ? What disadvantages did it bring to us? Carbon monoxide

6. Traffic words: zebra crossing construction works speed limit highway pavement crossroads traffic lights

7. Reading Traffic In Britain number of cars increasing rate Road deaths produce of Air pollution some types of cancer it use legs: under two miles use Public transport cars Don’t believe situation consequences advice 25 million 30% over 30,000 per year car engines 99% carbon monoxide 25,000 deaths per year are related to global warming climate change over 25% think before you go share advertisements take action somehow

8. Post-reading Read the text again and answer these questions: 1. What are the A10, the M11 and the M25? Roads.

9. 2. What effect does traffic have on people?. 3. Why do people make excuses? Makes them angry and stressed Because they want to continue using their cars.

10. 4. What does Jenny Trowe think about car advertisements on TV? They present an untrue picture of driving and cars.

11. 1. get stuck 陷入, 卡住 Use a dictionary if you get stuck. 2. How often do we arrive at work or school stressed out, tired, and angry? 有多少次我们极度焦虑、疲惫、恼怒 地到达办公室和学校？ Language points

12. stressed out, tired, angry 是形容词 做状语。 He went to bed, cold and hungry. 他又冷又饿地上床睡觉去了。 The thief was caught red-handed. 小偷被当场抓住。

13. 3. compared…to (with) 与 …… 相比 Compared to (with) a student grant, the pay is quite good. 与学生的补助金相比, 这份收入相当不 错了。 Compared with most of the women at that time, she was lucky.

14. 4. go up to 上升至 The new building is going up to fifty stories. The number of the visitors today has gone up to 3,000.

15. go up by 以某种速度 ( 比例 ) 上升 Industrial production went up by nearly two-fifths in the past three years. 过去的三年中工业生产上升了 2/5 。

16. 5. One in seven children in Britain suffers from asthma. 在英国, 每 7 个孩子中就有 1 人患哮 喘病。 in 此处表示在 ( 几个 ) 人之中。 One in every four children examined had bad teeth.

17. 6. be addicted to 对 …… 上瘾, 对 …… 有瘾 It does not take long to become addicted to drugs. My kids are all addicted to TV cartoons.

18. 7. on average 平均起来, 一般来说 On average we received ten junk e- mails every day. These youth are on the average better educated and smarter than the ones you have already hired.

19. In English, some words often go together to form common expressions. Match the words below. Exercise 1

20. 1 to make a) the corner 2 around b) traffic 3 to go up c) in a traffic jam 4 to get stuck d) by 20% 5 heavy e) an excuse

21. 6 a short f) fit 7 to keep g) journey 8 to have h) transport 9 public i) twenty minutes 10 to take j) a conversation

22. Exercise 2 destruction, be addicted to, be/get stuck in, stressed out, compare to, cost, confess, occupy, complain about Useful vocabulary

23. 1.The floods brought death and __________ to the area. 2. The boat __________ the mud. 3. Workers who had lost their jobs ________________the way they had been treated. destruction was stuck in Use the words or phrases from above to complete the sentences. complained about

24. 4. Occasionally people ______ to crimes they haven’t committed just to get attention. 5. I tried to give up smoking several times before I realized I ___________ __ it. 6. Three companies _______ the new building. confess had addicted to occupy

25. 7. ___________ our small flat, Bill’s house seemed like a palace. 8. Studying for exams always _____________. 9. This doesn’t include the ___ of repairing the damage. Compared to stresses me out cost

26. Homework Write an article about the advantages and disadvantages of having a car according to the text.