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2024年4月12日发(作者:未识别targetframework)

Unit 1 Living Green

Reading & Interacting

I. Understanding the Text

1. Text Organization

Parts Paragraphs Main Ideas

The writer and her family wanted to slow

Part One Paras. 1-4 things down and decided tomove to a property

that was off the grid.

Living off the grid, the writer’s family had

Part Two Paras. 5-10 to deal with a lot of big challenges,and yet

meanwhile gained many benefits.

Conclusion: Going off the grid was a great

Part Three

Para. 11

experience for the writer’sfamily.

2. Comprehension Check

2.1 Focusing on the main ideas

Key: the countryside, off the grid, utilities, generating, hauling, the

adjustment, the importance of conservation, how to live green

2.2 Digging into detail

1. Her daughter wanted a horse. Her husband wanted property. Her son wanted a

dirt bike. Thewriter herself wanted her family to be more self-sufficient.

2. The property was off the grid. It was actually not connected to any

utilities —power, water or a sewer system.

3. They generated electricity by wind and solar power, and stored it in 16 golf

cart batteries. Waterhad to be hauled in from a nearby town and stored in two

tanks located on the property.

4. In her view, one of the greatest benefits was teaching her children the

importance of conservation.

5. Other changes included reducing the amount of trash by recycling and

composting, growing theirown organic vegetables and reusing things that they

would normally toss away.

2.3 Understanding difficult sentences

1. A 2. B 3. B 4. A 5. B

II. Focusing on Language in Context

1. Key Words & Epressions

1.

Key:

1. whatsoever

2. available

3. slow down

4. is familiar with

5. put in

6. organic

7. Self-sufficient

8. set about

9. agent

10. utilities

11. system

12. learned of

13. ins and outs

14. accomplish

1.2

1. consist of 2. tossed 3. overall 4. hauling 5. went out 6. in use


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