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　　Unit 3 Australia
　　Teaching Aims:
　　1. Topics : History and geography of Australia/ Wildlife/ Tourism/ s and culture
　　2. Reading: a. Glimpses of Australia b. Australia’s dangerous creatures c. Greenhill High School Notice Board.
　　3. Grammar: The Predicative (words, phrase, nonfinite, clauses)
　　Special Focus:
　　1. enlarge vocabulary: associate, associate with, Canberra, barrier, brochure, adequate, ecology, autonomous, federal, defense, citizenship, celebration, tolerate, toleranigrant, via, superb, rusty, tropical, splendor, heritage, aboriginal, out of respect, fortnight, reservation, highway, cradle, rainfall, agriculture, sow, bachelor, correspond with, enclosure, desperate, shrink, barbecue, talk…into, wind, limb, paralyze, recover, funnel, snatongst, vinegar, unconscious
　　2. practice reading skills: learn to get the main idea of a passage in a few minutes; learn to analyze the structure of an essay.
　　3. improve writing ability
　　Additional materials:
　　From Text to Test 高考链接
　　1． On 26 January, Australia Day, in over 200 locations across the nation, more than 9,000 people will bee Australian citizens. (P22)
　　across 用作介词或副词，意为“横过；穿过”。是指从“从一边到另一边”穿过/横过一个平面。
　　[拓展]注意across和over、through的区别：over强调“越过/跨过”高的物体；through着重指从物体中间“穿过”。例如：
　　He helped the old lady across the road.
　　She bed over the fence.
　　The train went through the tunnel.
　　He pushed his way through the crowd to the door.
　　[高考示例]