Unit 10. Happy New Year.

Part 1. Warming up.

A. Keywords. millennium, celebration.

Vocabulary. chime, millennium, prospective, gala, countdown, fanfare,

Kiribati, Vietnam, Hanoi, Bangkok, Egypt.

The world has entered the 21st century, here are some reports of happy new millenium celebrations.

Now listen and enjoy, supply the missing words.

The world is greeting the year 2000 with much celebrations.

The first nation to celebrate was Kiribati in the Pacific Ocean.

In China, President Jiang Zeming lit a fire to represent thousands of years of Chinese civilization.

The traditional Chinese new year begins in February.

Russia covering two continents will have the world's longest new year celebrations.

Welcome from London, welcome from the BBC World Service to the 21st century.

The year 2000 has arrived in Britain when the chimes of London's Big Ben signaled midnight.

Huge crowed cheered as spectacular fireworks displays went along several kilometers of the Thames.

New Zealand is greeting the new millennium with fireworks and parties.

As the clock struck midnight, thousands of people braved rain showers to attend midnight celebrations, fireworks and concerts.

In Australia, a firework display lit up the sky over Sydney's famous harbor at the stroke of midnight.

Earlier, the new century began its 24 hour march around the globe in the tinny South Pacific island nation of Kiribati.

Joyous celebrations took place across Asia to celebrate the turn of the century and the start of the new millennium.

In Hong kong, tens of thousands of people started the new year at the race track, where a horse race began just after midnight.

More than 360,000 people lined Singapore's Orchard Road to cheer the new century while hundreds of balloons were released into the sky.

In Vietnam, hundreds of thousands of people crowed the streets of Hanoi and Hu zhiming City.

2000 couples from around the world gathered in Thailand today to mark the new year with a mass wedding.

The day-long ceremony began in the morning with grooms meeting with their prospective brides and exchanging gifts in the convention center in the captial of Bangkok.

In Japan, millions of people wished for good fortune in the Year of the Dragon.

In Tokyo's waterfront area, 10,000 people enjoyed a gala countdown to the New Year.

People across the world are welcoming the year 2000 with fanfare and celebration.

The spectacular dusk-to-dawn light show is marking the beginning of the new century at the Pyramids in Egypt.

Just over an hour ago, millions of people in western and central Europe welcomed the new year with fireworks and open air parties.

B. Keywords. capital, country.

Vocabulary. drill.

You will hear 15 capital names, locate them in the list and write them down in the blank spaces, then draw lines to match the capitals with their corresponding countries.

Knowledge about names of countries, their capitals and some other cities or areas is important in new stories.

This drill is for practice in identifying place names of some capitals and their countries.

1. Washington, The United States.

2. Madrid, Spain.

3. Warsaw, Poland.

4. London, The United Kingdom.

5. Rangoon, Burma or Myanmar.

6. Brussels, Belgium.

7. Moscow, Russia.

8. Mexico City, Mexico.

9. Colombo, Sri Lanka.

10. Vienna, Austria.

11. Kampala, Uganda.

12. Rome, Italy.

13. Berlin, Germany.

14. Ankara, Turkey.

15. Bangkok, Thailand.

C. Keywords. place name, captial.

Vocabulary. respond, pronunciation, identify.

Listen to 10 names of countries and their capital cities, draw lines to match the capitals in column B with their corresponding countries in column A.

Many students lack the ability to respond quickly to the English pronunciation of some place names.

Therefore, they need to be repeated and practice in identifying place names.

1. Ottawa is the capital of Canada.

2. The capital of Afghanistan is Kabul.

3. The captial of Argentina is Buenos Aires.

4. What is the capital of Denmark? It's Copenhagen.

5. Addis Ababa is the capital of Ethiopia.

6. Athens is the capital of Greece.

7. Do you know what the capital of India is? Yes, it's New Delhi.

8. Jakarta is the capital of Indonesia.

9. The capital of Iran is Tehran.

10. What's the capital of Iraq? It's Baghdad.