[00:08.39]Lesson 21
[00:12.54]1.Read and act
[00:16.90]Which foreign country would you like to see,Alex?
[00:22.18]Um,that's difficult to say. I think I'd like to go to brazil.
[00:28.53]Why would you choose Brazil?
[00:32.05]Because I'd like to look for the Amazon Forest Monster!
[00:37.12]And what about you?
[00:40.88]Which foreign country would you like to see?
[00:44.83]I think I would like to go to Scotland.
[00:49.66]Why Scotland?
[00:52.58]Because I'd like to take a picture of the Loch Ness Monster!
[00:58.54]3.Read and learn
[01:02.38]Joyce,do you know that there's an island named after a holiday?
[01:08.83]I've never heard of that.I don't think there is such an island.
[01:14.89]Yes,there is.Hey,Roberto,come here.
[01:20.46]Yes,Han Mei?What's up?
[01:24.51]Is there an island named after a holiday?
[01:28.76]Yeah,it's called Easter Island.
[01:32.53]It's part of my country,Chile.
[01:36.78]Well,we can learn something new every day.
[01:45.56]Lesson 22
[01:48.80]2.Read A great Mystery
[01:54.47] Easter Island is a great mystery.
[01:59.51]It is named easter Island because it was found on Easter Day.
[02:05.99]It is in the Pacific Oceam,2,200 miles west of Chile.
[02:13.85]On many parts of the island,
[02:17.80]there are huge robot-like stone statues called Moai.
[02:24.67]No one knows for sure how the Moai came to be.
[02:30.60]Some think that people from Peru made the Moai thousands of years ago.
[02:38.43]Others think that aliens from space made the Moai
[02:44.88]and left them as some kind of message.
[02:49.64]The island also has many kinds of rock carvings
[02:55.39]written in a kind of language that exists only in this part of the world.
[03:02.94]And this written language appeared many years ago,
[03:08.89]perhaps even before written Chinese took shape!
[03:14.46]It is thought that at one time,
[03:18.43]the population of Easter Island was over 10,000.
[03:24.96]This destroyed the ecosystem of the island.
[03:30.21]Many trees were cut down to plant crops
[03:35.67]and to make it easier to move the Moai around the island.
[03:42.15]the people never knew that cutting down the trees
[03:47.71]would cause an ecological problem.
[03:52.15]Pretty soon they started fighting with each other and many of them died.
[03:59.39]Those who were left knocked the Moai down.
[04:04.53]then came people from other countries to the island
[04:09.57]bringing illnesses that the islanders had never had before.
[04:15.76]Many more people died and by the 1800s
[04:21.62]there were only a little more than 100 islanders alive.
[04:27.68]After Easter Island became part of Chile in 1888,the population increased.
[04:35.75]Now there are about 2,000 people living on the island.
[04:41.50] People have started raising the Moai again,
[04:45.86]even thought no one knows why they are there.
[04:50.93]Many people from all over the world come to see the Moai,
[04:56.67]because they are such a mystery.
[05:01.04]No matter what the reason,
[05:04.67]whether they were set up by people from Peru or by aliens from space,
[05:11.80]they are still looking out over the ocean--mysteriously!
[05:21.18]Lesson 23
[05:24.52]1. Read and act
[05:28.99]What are you doing with that,that....What is that?
[05:34.45]It's a kind of radio for sending messages out into space.
[05:40.40]Why do you want to do that?
[05:44.24]What if aliens put up the Moai to send us a message?
[05:49.70]I'd like to let them know that we want to talk to them too.
[05:54.85]Do you really think that there are aliens about there?
[05:59.58]Well,I'm not sure.
[06:03.23]But what if there are? Then they may get my message.
[06:08.59]Well,yeah. By the way,what is your message?
[06:14.26]"Earth is a cool place!
[06:17.78]If you get this message,please write me back."
[06:26.12]Lesson 24
[06:29.49]3. Solve the mystery
[06:33.74]Rachel came into the classroom Monday morning and there was a note in her desk.
[06:40.82]It said,if you want to have run,meet me in room 306 after school.
[06:50.36]Rachel looked around
[06:53.88]She was the first one in the classroom.
[06:58.56]No one else was there.
[07:02.40]After the first class,she showed the note to Jim and said,
[07:08.96]"I'd like to know who sent me this note.
[07:13.92]Did you give it to me?"
[07:17.58]Jim read the note and told Rachel that he hadn't written the note.
[07:24.42] They next class began.
[07:28.08]Rachel had a difficult time listening to the teacher
[07:33.54]because she kept wondering about the note.
[07:38.50]She always cleans her desk before she leaves for home.
[07:44.14]Yesterday she didn't see the note in her desk.
[07:49.73]This morning,she was the first one in the class.
[07:55.38]There was no one around,so how did the note get in her desk?
[08:02.22]After class she asked Li Lei about the note.
[08:07.68]He said that he hadn't written the note,either.
[08:12.85] Rachel wasn't sure if she should go after class to meet this person.
[08:19.41]Maybe it wasn't safe.
[08:23.46]At lunch she showed all her friends the note.
[08:28.92]They all said they hadn't written the note.
[08:33.91]They all tried to think of who wrote the note
[08:38.77]and why the person wanted to meet Rachel.
[08:43.49]The day went on as usual and finally the last class of the day was finished.
[08:51.15]Rachel took the note,and went with her friends to roon 306.They found.... |