以下为三个话题的外教课备课提纲。第一个、第二个话题的上课提纲是由我替外教写的，以便外教从中了解我的思路和要求，第三个话题的上课提纲就是外教自己写的。为便于家长参考，特翻译成中文。

第一个话题：Places to Visit in the US（美国景点）

◆ Introduce briefly about America 简要地介绍美国

Its population, how many states, geographic location, capital city, etc.. It would be appreciated if an American map can be provided. I will bring a small globe, but everything is written in Chinese.

人口、有多少个州、地理位置、首都等。如果能提供一幅美国地图，我将非常感谢。我会带来一个小地球仪，但上面写的都是中文。

◆ The Statue of Liberty自由女神像

1．Describe the statue. (A woman holding a torch of fire in her hand.) Where is it located? (In New York City.) Does the statue have a symbolic meaning? (A symbol of freedom.) Who built the statue? (A gift of friendship from the French people to the people of the United States.)

And maybe more questions.

描述雕像。（手举火炬的女人。）位于什么地方？（纽约市。）雕像有什么象征意义？（象征自由。）谁建的？（法国人送给美国人表达友谊的礼物。）

可能还可以问更多问题。

2．Say something about New York City. Why is it called the Big Apple?

介绍纽约市，这个城市为什么被称为the Big Apple（大苹果）？

◆ Washington Monument华盛顿纪念碑

1． Where is it located? Why was it built?

位于什么地方？为何而建？

2． Say something about George Washington. (May also tell the story about George Washington and the cherry tree.)

介绍乔治·华盛顿。（还可以说说华盛顿和樱桃树的故事。）

◆ the Gateway Arch大拱门

1． What is known as the gateway to the western half of the United States? (The Gateway Arch.) Where is it located? (In Saint Louis, Missouri, stands next to the Mississippi River.)

被称为通往美国西部的大门的是什么？（大拱门。）位于什么地方？（位于密苏里州的圣路易斯，密西西比河畔。）

2． Say something about the Mississippi River. (The second largest river in the US, only after the Missouri River. And maybe more information.)

介绍密西西比河。（美国第二大河，仅次于密苏里河。可能还有更多信息。）

◆ the Golden Gate Bridge 金门桥

1． One of the largest suspension bridges in the world.Connects San Francisco to northern California.

世界最大悬索桥之一，连接旧金山和加利福尼亚北部。

2． Is the bridge made of gold? Why is it called the golden gate bridge? (It’s a golden gate to trade with the orient.)

这座桥是金子做的吗？为什么叫它“金门桥”？（是通往东方贸易的“黄金之门”。）

◆ Mount Rushmore拉什莫尔国家公园

1． Whose faces are carved into the cliff?谁的脸被刻在峭壁上？

2． Talk briefly about Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln.(And the two wars: the War of Independence, the Civil War.)

简单介绍托马斯·杰斐逊和亚伯拉罕·林肯。（以及两场战争：独立战争、南北战争。）

◆ the Space Needle太空针

In Seattle, and it’s observation tower. Built for the 1962 World’s Fair. And maybe more information.

位于西雅图，是一座瞭望塔，为1962年的世博会而建。也许还可以介绍更多信息。

第二个话题：Traffic（交通）

Ways to deal with traffic jam/congestion解决交通拥堵的方法

◆ General questions一般问题

1．What are public transportation vehicles?

公共交通车辆是指什么？

2．Police cars, ambulances, fire trucks, buses, subways, taxis,and so on. (May find pictures of these vehicles, talk about related information, explain the different uses of these vehicles.)

警车、救护车、消防车、公共汽车、地铁、出租车等。（可以找出这些车辆的图片，谈论相关内容，比如这些公共车辆的不同用途。）

3．Other related questions: What number do people dial in the US when they need help from police, doctors, etc.? Any tips when taking a bus, taxi, subway in the US? Whether you experience something different in taking public transportation vehicles in China? etc. Whatever related information on this topic may be helpful.

其他相关问题：在美国，报警、叫救护车等要拨什么号码？对在美国乘公交车、出租车、地铁有什么建议？在中国乘这些交通工具时，是否感受到和在美国有不同的地方？关于这个话题的任何相关信息都可能会有所帮助。

◆ About traffic problems 关于交通问题

What problems? What caused them? Solutions?

存在什么问题？是什么引起的？怎么解决？

◆ Solutions to deal with traffic problems 交通问题的解决方法

1．Improve public transport system.

改善公共交通系统。

2．Increase greatly the parking fee in downtown areas. (How expensive can it be in New York City if people park their cars in downtown areas?)

大幅度提高市中心的停车费。（在纽约，如果人们把车停在市中心，停车费会贵到什么程度？）

3．Build large parking stations on the outskirts where people can park cars for free, or for only a little money. Encourage them to take public transportation tools rather than driving all the way to the city center.

在郊区建立大型停车场，在这里人们可以免费或花很少的钱停车。鼓励他们乘公共交通工具，而不是一路开车到市中心。

4．Build more overflies/overpasses.

建更多的过街天桥/立交桥。

5．Car-pooling: this is not very common in China. How about in the US?

拼车：这在中国还不是很普遍，在美国怎么样？

第三个话题：Environment（环境）

◆ What is the environment? Why is it important?环境是什么？为什么重要？

1．The ENVIRONMENT is everything that is around us — nature(the mountains, oceans, sky and animals all around us) and also the HUMANS that are all around us.

环境是我们周围的一切事物——大自然（山、海洋、天空和周围的动物）以及我们周围的人。

2．We need our environment to be stable so that we can survive; we need water and food to survive. For these things we need land that can be farmed and water that is safe to drink. We must protect our environment so that our children can continue to survive happily.

我们需要稳定的环境，才能生存下去；我们需要水和食物来维持生命。为了获得这些东西，我们需要可耕种的土地和安全的饮用水。为了我们的孩子能够继续幸福地生活，我们必须保护我们的环境。

◆ Climate change 气候变化

1．How is the climate changing? The world is (on average)getting warmer.

气候是怎么改变的？地球（总体上）在变暖。

2．Why is this important? If the earth warms just a few degrees, the ice at our polar caps could melt, raising sea levels. This would flood many cities and towns that are on the coast. If the global temperature increases， this also changes the WEATHER. There might be more severe weather patterns — like droughts and big storms (like Hurricane Katrina in the United States).

为什么这个很重要？如果地球仅变暖几度，极地冰冠就可能融化，抬高海平面。这将会淹没沿海地区的很多城镇。如果全球温度升高，这还会改变气候，可能会产生更加严峻的天气模式——像干旱和大风暴（如美国的卡特里娜飓风）。

3．What are the reasons for climate change? We will talk about that more later.

气候变化的原因是什么？我们会在后面谈论这个问题。

◆ Energy 能源

1．What is energy?

能源是什么？

2．Why is it important for the environment?

它对环境为什么重要？

3．How do we get most of our energy right now? We get it through FOSSIL FUELS. This is a name for energy that is formed over millions of years (the decomposition of things that lived millions of years ago). The three main fossil fuels are natural gas, oil and coal. The good thing about these is that they contain a high amount of energy, so that when they are burned they are very efficient at giving us energy that we can use (to power our cars, lights, computers, etc.).

现在我们的大多数能源是怎么获得的？我们通过化石燃料获得能源。化石燃料是经过几百万年以上形成的能源的名称（生活在几百万年以前的物质的分解）。三大主要的化石燃料是：天然气、石油和煤炭。这些东西好的一面是：它们含有大量的能源，因此，当它们燃烧时，能够有效地给我们提供我们可能用到的能源（给汽车、电灯、计算机等提供动力）。

4．What is bad about fossil fuels? There are two main problems with fossil fuels.

化石燃料不好的一面是什么？化石燃料有两大主要问题。

a. They are NON-RENEWABLE. This means that because they took millions of years to create, when we use them all up (and we will eventually use them all up), we cannot make any more of them. This is why people are trying to find new "ALTERNATIVE" energies to use. They are called ALTERNATIVE energies because we are looking for alternate ways to create energy and power.

它们不可再生。这就意味着，因为它们需要几百万年才能产生，当我们把它们用完时（我们最终会把它们用完），我们不能再生产。这就是为什么人们正在努力寻找新的“可替代”能源以供使用。这些就叫作“可替代能源”，因为我们在寻找另外一种产生能量和动力的方法。

b. The other bad thing is that scientists think burning fossil fuels is causing CLIMATE CHANGE. Fossil fuels are made mostly of carbon , and when they are burned this carbon is released into the atmosphere. This carbon is warming the surface of the earth and creating GLOBAL WARMING. Scientists are not sure what will happen if the earth continues to warm as quickly as it has been, but they think it could be very bad.

另外一个不好的方面是，科学家认为，燃烧化石燃料正在引起气候变化。化石燃料主要由碳组成，当它们燃烧时，碳会被释放到大气中。碳正在让地球表面变暖，并引起全球变暖。科学家还不能肯定，如果地球持续像过去那样快速地变暖，会发生什么事情，但他们认为结果可能会很糟糕。

◆ China 中国

1．Unique problems with China

中国特有的问题

a. Large and rapidly growing population: more people means cities need more development (more buildings and highways and housing). This requires ENERGY. Also each person uses a lot of energy just to live, and the amount of energy they need is getting greater and greater. Just hundreds of years ago (not very long, for the age of the world), people didn’t need energy to live — they didn’t have cars and electric appliances. Even though we love these things now for all the conveniences they give us,they also use up a tremendous amount of energy.

庞大并快速增加的人口：更多的人口意味着城市需要更多的发展（更多的建筑物、高速公路和住房）。这就需要能源。而且，每个人生活都需要消耗很多能源，且他们对能源的需求量正变得越来越大。就在几百年以前（对地球的年龄来说，并不很久），人们生活并不需要能源——他们没有汽车和电器。尽管我们喜欢这些东西，因为它们给我们提供各种便利，但它们还会消耗掉大量的能源。

Exercise: Can you list all the things in your home that use energy?

练习：你能列举出你家里需要能源的东西吗？

b. China relies mainly on COAL for energy. It is using coal to power the development of its cities. The use of coal can be very bad because it is using up a natural resource and also because burning coal is bad for the environment.

中国主要依赖煤炭提供能源，人们使用煤炭给城市发展提供动力。使用煤炭可能会很不好，因为它正在把一种自然资源消耗殆尽，而且烧煤对环境不利。

c. Air pollution: China’s air pollution is a problem; this can be seen in many of the cities like Beijing — you can see the pollution in the smoggy grey skies. The main reasons for air pollution are power plants and cars that emit harmful substances. Air pollution is bad because it can lead to many respiratory (breathing) and heart diseases.

空气污染：中国的空气污染是个问题，这在很多城市（比如北京）已经显现——在烟雾弥漫、灰蒙蒙的天空中你可以看见污染。空气污染的主要原因是排放有害物质的电厂和汽车尾气。空气污染的害处在于它可能引起很多呼吸系统和心脏方面的疾病。

d. Water pollution: Clean water is important for people to have access to, for drinking, washing, and cooking. But in some countries in the world, people is hard to get clean, safe water.

水污染：人们能够获得干净的水，用于饮用、洗涤和烹饪，这是很重要的。但是在世界有些国家，人们很难获得干净、安全的水。

2．Solutions for China

中国的解决方案

a. Fewer people/population control

减少人口/人口控制

b. Different kinds of energy (more ALTERNATIVE ENERGIES)

不同种类的能源（更多可替代能源）

c. More “energy efficient” things (computers and refrigerators can be made now that use much less energy)

更多“高效节能”的东西（现在已经可以生产出耗电量低很多的电脑和冰箱）

3．What are some of YOUR ideas?

你有一些什么想法？

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