Unit 10Teaching Objectives:1.Grasp the main idea of the two passages;2.V ocabulary practice: locate, light, double, case, concern3.Word formation: 1) create, creation, creative;2) destroy, destruction, destructive;3) remove, removable, removal;4) employ, employment, unemployment;5) industry, industrial, industrialize.4.Grammar: adverbs5.Translation and Writing6.Listening and speakingTime allotment:8 periods: Text A & Exercises 2 periodsText B & Exercises 2 periodsTranslation & writing 2periodsListening 2 periodsText A Icehotel Attracts Tourists1. Pre-reading Tasks1.1. Background InformationAntarcticaIn Antarctica, the landscape is reduced to its barest elements: ice, rock, water and sky. But within those elements are surprising variations, both subtle and dramatic. Ice appears in endless shapes, forms, colors----from floes and bergs to sheets and shelves.It’s no exaggeration to call Antarctica the coldest, windiest and driest p lace on Earth. The average continental temperature is around –36 degree centigrade.Ice, volcanoes, snow, birds (including albatross), mountains, penguins (seven species), elephant seals, glaciers, whales and fascinating barren scenery are Antarctica’s mai n attractions.1.2. Pre-reading questions1) Do you like traveling? Why?2) Have you ever lived in a house made of ice? If not, would you like to live in one?3) Can you imagine what would happen to you if you would like to live in a house made of ice? List the things you may need.2. While Reading Tasks2.1. Read the new words twice loudly and correctly.2.2. Scan the text once and try to answer the following questions.1) Why do people from all over the world come to Sweden’s far north?----Because they want to sleep in a hotel entirely carved from ice.2) What is special about the bar in the Icehotel?----Guests at the Icehotel can drink in the bar with glasses made of ice.3) In what way does the Icehotel help local people?----Every year the Icehotel attracts so many visitors that it creates hundreds of jobs. 4) How do we know that it is very cold in the area?----The temperatures drop to –45 degrees centigrade and the sun barely rises so that guests in the Icehotel have to spend the night in sleeping bags and fur hats.5) How did most people in the town make living 11years ago?----Most people there made a living by working in the iron mining industry at that time.2.3. Read the text once again and finish Exercise A and B.2.4. Study the text in detail.1) Drinks served in the bar come in a glass made of ice. (para.1)----You can get drinks from the bar that are given in a glass carved from ice.▲served in the bar 和made of ice 都是过去分词短语，作定语，分别修饰drink 和glass。

相当于定语从句which are served in the bar和a glass which is made of ice.▲s erve:v. ①. to give someone food or drink as part of a meal: [近] supplye.g. What kind of wine should we serve?This dish will serve 8 people.②to work (faithfully) for:e.g. We should serve our motherland2)Tourists from all over the world rush to Sweden’s far north. (para.2)▲rush: v. to hurry; to act quickly:e.g. There is plenty of time; we needn’t rush.n. a sudden rapid hasty movement: [近] hurry.e.g. Someone shouted ―fire!‖, and there was a rush towards the do or.★rush hour: one of the 2 periods in the day when people are traveling to and from work and the streets are crowded: 高峰时间，交通拥挤时间e.g. She usually gets to work before the rush hour.3)Arctic Circle (para.2)▲Arctic: n. the very cold most northern part of the world.北极, 北极圈a. 北极的, 北极区的.★Antarctic: n. the very cold most southern part of the world. 南极区, 南极圈a. 南极的; 近南极的Arctic Circle 北极圈; Antarctic Circle南极圈4)The hotel has 35,000 visitors a year and creates hundreds of jobs. (para.3)----35,000 people from all over the world come to visit the Icehotel every year and that provides the local people with hundreds of jobs.▲create: v. ①. to cause to exist; to bring into being, or to produce through artistic or imaginative effort: 创造,创作e.g. We've created a beautiful new house from an old ruin. [近] foundcreate a poem [近] compose②. to give rise to; produce:引起, 造成, 产生[近] produce, make,e.g. It's bound to create trouble sooner or later.★creation n. / creature n. / creative adj. / creator n.4) 30,000 cubic metres of snow. (para.3)▲cube: n. ①.. Solid objects with six equal square sides立方体，立方形e.g. Cut the carrot into cubes.②.the number made by multiplying a number by itself twice立方，三次幂e.g The cube of 2 is 8.★cubic a. 立方(体)的5) More people would leave our town if we hadn’t started our business. (para.4) ----There would be fewer people in the town if we hadn’t built the Icehotel and started tourism.▲business: n. ①. The activity of buying and selling goods and services；commerce 商业，买卖e.g. It’s a pleasure to do business with you.She wants to go into business when she leaves college.I’m here on business, not for pleasure.②. a particular money-making activity or place, such as a shop or factory.行业，事业e.g. He runs a small business in the town.to start a new business★come to business (=get down to business)开始认真工作; 开始干正事; 言归正传★Mind your own business. 少管闲事。