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课件网) English in Mind 4 Second edition Unit 7 Peacemakers Lesson 1 04 Literature in mind 01 Read and listen 02 Grammar & Vocabulary CONTENTS 03 Listen 05 Write 01 Read and listen Do you recognise the people in the photos What do you know about them 01 Read and listen 1 How did Alfred Nobel make his money 2 Why did he decide to start the Nobel Prizes By making explosives, including dynamite. He saw his own obituary and he didn’t want to be remembered only as the man who had invented a destructive weapon. Read the text quickly and answer the questions. 1 Why did the people in the photos win the Nobel Prize 2 If you could award a Nobel Peace Prize, who would you give it to Why Discussion box 01 Read and listen 01 Read and listen Read the text again and add the sentences. Listen and check. CD2 T12 1 Alfred was determined to invent a safer explosive. 2 The five awards he created were for physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and, most significantly, peace. 3 Ironically, of course, the Nobel family fortunes had been built on mines. 4 Alfred had always hated war and considered it to be ‘the horror of horrors and the greatest of all crimes’. 5 And what do they have in common A __ B __ C __ D __ E __ 1 Alfred started working with his father. 2 Alfred read about his own ‘death’ in a newspaper. 3 Alfred’s brother Emil died in an accident. 4 Dynamite killed many people during the First World War. 5 Alfred created the Nobel Prizes. 6 Alfred invented dynamite. 7 Dynamite was used to build the Panama Canal. Read the text again and put these events in order. 01 Read and listen 1 6 2 5 4 3 7 Complete these sentences from the text in Exercise 1. 02 Grammar & Vocabulary * Past perfect passive 1 One day he arrived home to find that his brother _____ killed in an explosion. 2 When the war ended four years later, dynamite _____ used to take away the lives of thousands of young men. Circle the correct options to complete the rule. RULE: We form the past perfect passive with the past perfect form of the verbs be / have plus the infinitive / past participle of the main verb. had been had been On 11 November, 1918, a treaty, called an armistice, that ended the fighting in the First World War 1 was signed / had been signed in a railway carriage. When the war ended, all the soldiers 2 were sent / had been sent home, but millions of men 3 were killed / had been killed in the fighting and vast amounts of money 4 were spent / had been spent. Large parts of the French countryside were in terrible condition, and many towns and cities 5 were destroyed / had been destroyed by the guns of the opposing armies. Because of the destruction, a decision 6 was taken / had been taken in 1919 to start the League of Nations, to make sure that such a war would never happen again. The idea of a League 7 was discussed / had been discussed for several years, but it was the First World War that made it happen. Unfortunately, the ... ...
