Objectives

After finishing this unit, students will be able to

● talk about drug abuse

● get an idea of the overall organization of both passages

● learn to use key word and expressions

● adopt the reading skill Text Cohesive Devices while reading

● develop a paragraph by cause and effect

I. Duty report

II. Lead-in

Listen for three times. First, listen to get the main information of the passage. (Play) Second, listen and fill in the blanks (Play and Pause) Third, check, and learn

III. Presentation: group discussion

    Suppose you were a member of an anti-drug unit. Make up a short story about one action you took with the help of the pictures below.

Sample: I’m a member of an anti-drug unit. One day, I was walking along the street when I saw two young men squatting at the corner of the street and doing sth. furtively. What was up? I tiptoed to them quietly. Oh, drug traffic on streets? I reported to the higher authorities immediately. Then we Anti-drug Unit started in action. We surrounded the two suspects quickly. “Freeze!” we shouted. The two suspects tried to escape, but they failed. We caught them and escorted them to the police station. One journalist came to me and asked me to say sth. to the young adults in front of the TV screen. I said, “ undoubtedly, drugs are not good for our bodes or mentality. Drugs will lead to disastrous consequences to our society, and drug traffic is a very serious crime. We police hope that everyone should be far away from drugs.”

V. Dialogue 1: The Death of a Promising Actor & Practice (Communicative Task 1)

Dialogue 1:

Listen and answer: What is the reason for the death of the promising actor? Why do stars turn to drugs?

Listen and follow:

Go through the dialogue and explain some difficult language points

1. promising: (a.) showing signs of likely future success.大有前途的；

2. horizon (n.)地平线；水平线；界限； on the ~ 显现；已露端倪

3. in the fast lane快节奏

4. Nothing’s out yet目前还没有消息传出

5. ridiculous(a.)可笑的，荒唐的

Read and practice:

Communicative task 1:

Work in groups and make dialogues (Row 1&3,etc. )

VI. Dialogue 2: What is Drug Abuse & Practice (Communicative Task 2)

Listen and answer: What is one of the causes of drug abuse? (it is biological.)

Listen and follow:

Go through the dialogue and explain some difficult language points

1. slow suicide 慢性自杀

2. Ectasy 摇头丸

3. cocaine  可卡因

4. That’s not my point我不是那个意思

5. disastrous consequence灾难性后果

Read and practice:

Communicative task 2:

Work in groups and make dialogues (Row 1&2,etc. )

VII. Consolidation and Asignment:

1. make new dialogues about drug abuse.

2.preview Passage A and do some preparations about the culture notes

Passage A  Agony from Ecstasy

I. Warming-up (group work)

Discuss in groups about the information on drug and drug abuse, then choose one group leader to collect the answer and report to the whole class.

Findings of the 2001 National Household Survey on Drug Abuses on illicit drug use in the USA”

In 2001, an estimated 15.9 million American aged 12 or older were current illicit drug users.

Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug. In 2001, it was used by 76% of current illicit drug users.

Rates of use of most drugs in 2001 were higher among youths and young adults compared with older adults.

Other kinds of drugs are : ecstasy, cocaine, 冰毒，白粉，even coffee or cigarettes.

II. Pre-reading Qs (pair-work)

Work in pairs and discuss the following questions:

1. What kind of people are easier to turn to drugs? Why do people use drugs like Ecstasy?

(Young people who like adventures and experiencing new things tend to turn to drug. They do it because they consider it as fun and they are totally ignorant of its damaging effect.)

2. What do drugs like Ecstasy do to the people who take them?

(They will damage our health. Besides, those people who take them will lose their strength, motivation, dreams, friends, apartment, money and most of all, their sanity. )

III. Global-reading (class work)

1. Skim the text and summarize the main idea in short sentences.

The author who was addicted to the Ecstasy used her personal experiences to warn others of its dangerous effects.

2. Text analysis:

Part I (para. 1—4) Why was the author addicted to Ecstasy.

Part II (para 5—10) Her great changes after using Ecstasy and agony from Ecstasy.  (the 2 pictures)

Part III (para11—13) Her struggling against Ecstasy.

IV. Further-reading

Comprehension questions on p142 Ex 2 & 3

Discussion: First list the things that led to the author’s drug abuse, and then talk about how we should avoid doing things that appear to be pleasant at first but will turn out to be really harmful. ( p 144 Ex 8)

Summary   Here the writer uses her personal experiences with the drug Ecstasy to warn others of its dangerous effects. She a normal young woman, grew up, in a small town in the state of Pennsylvania but moved to New York to try to realize her dream of working in theater and it was there that she first came into contact with drugs. Many of her acting school friends were drug users and, in an effort to fit in, she began to use them too. Her story is typical of many drug addicts. She went from someone who used drugs for fun to someone who couldn’t live without them. Finally she had some kind of a breakdown. Luckily for her, her mother drove to New York to rescue her and she ended up back in Pennsylvania in hospital. She recalls her horror at seeing a brain scan which the doctors bad done and which showed that Ecstasy had had permanent effects on her brain.           

V. Language focus

Difficult sentences

1. In five months, I went form a person living somewhat responsibly while pursuing my dream to a person who didn’t care about a thing—and the higher I got, the deeper I sank into a dark, lonely place.

2. On this night, I was sitting on the couch with my friends, watching a movie and feeling normal when suddenly, I felt as if I needed to jump out of my skin.

Key words and expressions

1. agony (n.) extreme pain or suffering极度痛苦，苦恼；感情上突然爆发

be in ~ 痛苦不安  agonize (v.) 深感痛苦   agonizing (a.) 使痛苦的

e.g. The injured soldiers lay screaming in agony.

We agonized for hours about which wallpaper to buy.

2. bliss (n.) 洪福；极乐

e.g. What a bliss! I don’t have to go to work today.

He’s in _____ that he ‘s won the Nobel Prize.

A. ecstasy非常高兴，以致心醉神迷。正式用语    B. bliss 多用于文学和比喻中，        

C. rapture 注意力完全被吸引，表现非常喜悦     D. transport 常复数，被强烈感情所激动而高兴    (B)

Cf: ecstasy (n.)

be in ecstasies over 对…心醉神迷       get into ecstasies 兴奋到极点；狂喜  

  in an ecstasy of delight 欣喜若狂

3. creep (v.) to move slowly, quietly and carefully, often with the body close to the ground

e.g. The naughty child creep up behind his father and suddenly yelled “Boo!”

give sb. the creeps 使人毛骨悚然；creep in 悄悄爬进  creep away 偷偷离开

creep on （时间）悄悄过去；  creep over （蔓等）爬上；偷偷逼近

4. expose (v.) 暴露；揭露；

  expose…to…: to cause to be unprotected from使处于…作用下

expose soldiers to gunfire 使士兵遭炮火攻击    

the dangers of exposinging children to violence and sex on TV 儿童接触有关暴力和色情的电视节目的危害

expose people to new ideas 使人们接触新思想

5. illusion: an idea or belief that is not true or not what it seems to be 幻想；错觉

e.g. College students tend to have illusins about how easy their life will be after graduation.

    The magician tricked the audience with skillful optical illusions, making things appear and disappear.

6. sanity (n.) the quality of being healthy in mind神志正常；心智健康； ----insanity（反）

e.g. He’d been behaving so strangely that they began to doubt his sanity.

  sane (a.) healthy in mind  ---insane (反)

e.g. In the doctor’s opinion he was sane at the time of murder.

7. throb: (v.) 心脏跳动，悸动，

e.g. His head throbbed, i.e. He had a bad headache.

My heart was ________ with excitement.

A. throbbing        B. pounding         C. striking        D. knocking     (A)

8. look down on/upon: to regard with scorn; despise

  e.g. The disabled shouldn’t be looked down upon.

      When she married a millionaire, she started putting on airs and looking down on the office girls she had worked with.

9. on top of: in addition to

  e.g. On top of the discount, the store tried to attract customers with nice gifts.

     We missed the train, and on top of that we had to wait for two hours for the next one.

10. chip away at: 从某物上不断除去小块；一点一点解决；

e.g. He kept chipping away at the problem until it was solved.

VII. consolidation and assignment

1.         Review , prepare for the dictation

2.         Written work: general writing

Passage B  Drug Warriors

I. Warming-up (group work)

Discuss in groups the pictures on p146, then choose one or two groups to demonstrate their questions and answers about the changes before and after the police cracked down on drug gangs .

II. Pre-reading Qs (pair-work)

Work in pairs and discuss the following questions:

1.       Have you heard of the war on drugs?

2.       How are the wars on drugs? (tough, dangerous, fierce, )

III. Global-reading  (class work, individual work)

1.       Skim the passage and find out the main idea: It is about a big and successful coordinated drugs bust in the city of New Haven. After the bust, New Haven has become a safer place to live in

2.       Text analysis:

Part I (para 1) Billy White and the New Haven Drug Gang Task Force.

Part II (para 2—5) the battle process of the drug bust.

Part III (para 6) the great success of the task force’s operation

IV. Further-reading (group work)

Scan the passage and find out the answers to these questions:

1. What happened in New Haven and for what reason about 300 police gather there?

The New Haven Drug Gong Task Force gathered there to carry out a coordinated drugs bust.

2. Was the police successful in carrying out their mission?

Yes, in fact, the task force’s operation have proven to be so successful that they have attracted the national attention.

3. What was New Haven like in the 1960’s?

It was a peaceful and safe town in the 1960’s with a few criminal offence.

V. Read and explore:

1. Retell the text

2. Reading skill practice

Summary  This article uses the personal experiences of Lieutenant Billy White, a police officer and leader of the New Haven Drug Gang Task Force, to talk about the war on drugs in the United States. White’s hometown, New Haven, is presented as a typical town – safe and peaceful in 1960 but a drug war zone by 1990. The text describes a big and successful coordinated drugs bust involving not just a national security task force made up of the police, US marshals, the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) and the DEA (Drugs Enforcement Agency) but also overseas operations such as in Cali (Columbia). Since the bust New Haven has become a safer place to live in and White is confident that the war on drugs can be won.

VI. Language focus

Difficult sentences

1. These were his people, his soldiers, the ones who would be by his side on the front lines.

2. Born and raise in New Haven, White still remembered a time when New Haven was considered a peaceful town.

Key words and expressions

1. arrest: (n) 逮捕，拘留

arrest sb. for sth. 因某事而逮捕某人 

e.g. The governor was arrested for bribery.

be under arrest 被捕 

e.g. The leaders of the demonstration were not under arrest.

2. designate: (vt.) 指示，指明；指派；选定

e.g. The chairman has designated John as his successor.

3. execute: (vt.) to do or perform(sth.) esp. in a planned way;实施；执行；履行

e.g. The whole play was executed with great precision

to kill (sb.) as a legal punishment处死；处决 

e.g. The prisoner will be executed tomorrow.

4. incident: (n.) 发生的事；小事件；（C）

e.g. a quite ordinary incident of daily life（政治性）事件，事变；

不愉快的情况；(C) (U)  e g: a most painful incident;  without (an) incident一切顺利

  cf. incident生活中发生的事情；政治事件；accident 意外/不幸的事 event 重大的历史事件

    case  用法较随便，多指小事情，情形，病例；  affair 多指重大事务

e.g. On New Year’s Eve, New York City holds an outdoor ______which attracts a crowd of a million or more people. (event)

5. innocent: (a.) 1）(of)清白的，无罪的，2） 幼稚的，天真的，3）无害的，没有恶意的，

be innocent of 没有做…       play the innocent 假装清白    

as innocent of evil as a child 儿童般清白的人

an innocent-looking man  外貌天真的人    

an innocent remark  没有恶意的话       innocent fun 无害的娱乐

6. intelligence: (n.) information gathered esp. about an enemy country, or the group of people who gather it. 情报，消息，

e.g. It is reported that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had predicted the attack 15 days before it happened.

      ability to learn and understand 智力；理解力；聪明；

  e.g. Compared to monkeys, dogs have a fairly low intelligence.

7. raid (n.) a sudden visit by the police, in search of criminals or illegal goods; an attack by criminals, esp. one aiming at looting valuables

e.g. Millions of dollars were stolen in a bank raid.

        (v.) to attack on a raid; to carry out a raid  e.g. The soldiers raided the enemy camp.

Cf. attack 袭击，以暴力攻击；严厉的批评；  invade 侵略

Assault: make a surprise assault on  对……进行突袭，

take a town by assault强占一座城市

As a result of ______the three people were charged with possessing illegal drugs. ( raid)

8. suspect (vt.) to think of believe (sb.) to be guilty of a crime or to have done sth. wrong 猜想，感觉到；怀疑，不相信；   suspect sb. of sth. / doing sth.

  e.g. What she said sounded convincing, but I suspect it to be a lie.

      The police suspect him of murdering his multi-millionaire wife.

(n.) a person who believed to have committed a crime 有嫌疑的人，可疑分子

9. warrant (n.) 许可证；委任状；搜查证；(vt.)保证

e.g. You can’t search my house without a search warrant.

   The judge issued a warrant for the arrest of the drug dealer.

10. on the edge of: 1) on the outer or furthest point

   e.g. They built the church on the edge of the village.

   2) very close to (a certain state)

   e.g. It was reported that the oil company is on the edge of collapse.

11. lay out: to arrange (a plan, garden, town, pattern, etc.) 布置，安排

   e.g. We must lay out a thorough plan before we launch the campaign.

      The shopkeeper laid the goods out neatly on the racks.

12. give oneself up to : to surrender (to)向……投降，投案自首

e.g. The gunman gave himself up to the police after three hours of resistance.

    The soldiers were wounded, hungry and thirsty, but they had no intention of giving themselves up.

13. split up 1) to divide (into separate groups or parts)

   e.g. The book consists of eight chapters and each chapter is split up into five sections.

2) to end a relationship with

e.g. I hear Nancy has split up with her boyfriend.

14. pull off: to succeed in doing (sth. difficult or unexpected)

   e.g. It’s an elaborate plan and he may have a chance of pulling it off.

     Chinese scientists pulled off the expedition to the Antarctic.

VII. Consolidation and assignment

1.         grammar:

2.         written work: practical writing