1. Unit 17 Lesson 1 Alone in Antarctica

2. Aims To describe people Language points in the text

3. Important Points To describe people Vocabulary: threaten; light Language points: Infinitive used as attributive Be about to do (just) round/around the corner Die down At the top of one’s voice Be in good/bad/poor health

4. Difficult Points Infinitive used as attributive Simple future tense

5. Good morning, everybody? How are u?

6. Who is she? What we know about her? What made her unusual? Do you like her? Why?

7. Maria Skodowska, Marie Curie was born November 7, 1867, in Warsaw, Poland. In 1891, Maria went to Paris. She was ambitious, and was self- taught. In school she had no trouble with her classes and earned a physics degree with ease. Then she went on to get a mathematics degree. A Polish friend introduced her to Pierre Curie. They got married in 1895 and began to work together in the field of science. The Curies were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for their discovery of natural radioactivity. Marie Curie died of leukemia in July, 1934. She was almost blind, her fingers were burnt, and she was stigmatized by "her" dear radium. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Physics. She won it twice, once with her husband Pierre, and once by herself. She worked with radium and discovered ways to treat tumors and cancer with radiation.

8. Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker was born on June 26, 1892, in Hillsboro, West Virginia.Her parents, Absalom and Caroline Sydenstricker, were Southern Presbyterian missionaries, stationed in China, where she spent most of the first forty years of her life.In 1910, Pearl enrolled in Randolph-Macon Woman's College, in Lynchburg, Virginia, from which she graduated in 1914. In 1931, Pearl's published her second novel, The Good Earth. This became the best-selling book of both 1931 and 1932, won the Pulitzer Prize and the Howells Medal in In 1938, Pearl won the Nobel Prize in literature, the first American woman to do so. From the day of her move to the US, Pearl was active in American civil rights and women's rights activities. Pearl Buck died in March, 1973, just two months before her eighty-first birthday. Randolph-Macon Woman's CollegePulitzer PrizeNobel Prize

9. What do you know about Antarctica? What dangers do you suppose you’ll meet when traveling there alone? Let’s take an adventure with another great woman, Helen Thayer, in Antarctica together.

10. Guess their meanings Threaten (just) around/round the corner Die down At the top of one’s voice Be in good health Vi.vt. Warn sth. Would happen Eg: The clouds threatened rain. Very near Become less strong gradually As loudly as one can healthy ←→ be in bad/poor health

11. Difficult Points I was the 1st woman to travel alone at the North Pole. Infinitive used as attributive

12. Another journey of challenge and danger was about to begin. Simple future tense Will do is used generally. Be about to do means immediate action. I was about to go out when he came in. Be going to do means the action is planned. I’m going to see a movie this evening. Be to do means the action is caused by a plan or a command. You are not to communicate with anybody. Be doing only applies to some special verbs which mean movement, such as come, go, leave, start, arrive, stay, return.etc. She is to return tomorrow. Do, simple present verb is used to mean future action, when the action is in schedule. The film begins at 8 o’clock.

13. Light vt. Pt.pp. lit,lit, when it is used as a verb. Pt.pp. lighted,lighted, when the pp. form is used before a noun as an attributive.

14. Homework: Blank Filling (choose the singular/plural form of the verb in brackets) (be) My family _a large one. 10 dollars _enough for him. _anybody going to downtown? The teacher with 3 students _doing an experiment. One more knife and fork _needed. Many a boy and many a girl _made the dame mistake. (have) None of the money _mine. Neither statement _true. There _a lamp and 3 books one the desk. Neither you nor Jane _wrong.