大本钟英语课

偶记得新概念英语第二册还是第三册里有一篇课文介绍大本钟的，搜来看看吧

是不是图片中的这一课

翻译：

李燕的父母将要带她去世界公园去学习关于一些世界上的名胜古迹。

妈妈：你能看到在那边的大本钟和伦敦塔桥吗？它们坐落在伦敦。

李燕：哇，它们太神奇了。

爸爸：这里是美国，首都是华盛顿特区。我相信你会喜欢迪斯尼乐园的，它是世界上最大的游乐园之一。

李燕：太棒了，我们要去迪斯尼乐园。纽约怎么样？

爸爸：嗯，你会喜欢纽约的。它是美国最大的城市之一。然后我们可以去尼亚加拉大瀑布，它位于加拿大。

李燕：哦，它真有趣。爸爸，那是什么？

爸爸：那是多伦多CN塔，它是世界上最高的塔。

妈妈：你愿意去澳大利亚吗？你会喜欢悉尼歌剧院。

李燕：当然，我想看遍所有这些著名的景观。

爸爸：好的，我们去迪斯尼吧，好吗？

李燕：耶，太棒了！

我记得有一篇文章是关于 新年的。 a cold welcome.写了关于钟的，但是不是大本钟。

Big Ben is the nickname for the great bell of the clock at the north-eastern end of the Palace of Westminster in London.[1] The nickname is often also used to refer to the clock and the clock tower.[2] This is the world's largest four-faced, chiming clock and the third largest free-standing clock tower in the world.[3] It celebrates its 150th birthday in 2009,[4] during which celebratory events are planned.[5] The nearest London Underground station is Westminster.Contents [hide]1 Tower 2 Clock 2.1 Faces 2.2 Mechanism 2.3 Malfunctions and breakdowns 3 Bells 3.1 Great Bell 3.2 Chimes 4 Nickname 5 Significance in popular culture 6 Awards 7 See also 8 References 9 External links Tower The Palace of Westminster, the Clock Tower and Westminster BridgeThe tower was raised as a part of Charles Barry's design for a new palace, after the old Palace of Westminster was destroyed by fire on the night of 22 October 1834.The new Parliament was built in a Neo-gothic style. Although Barry was the chief architect of the Palace, he turned to Augustus Pugin for the design of the clock tower, which resembles earlier Pugin designs, including one for Scarisbrick Hall. The design for the Clock Tower was Pugin's last design before his final descent into madness and death, and Pugin himself wrote, at the time of Barry's last visit to him to collect the drawings: "I never worked so hard in my life for Mr Barry for tomorrow I render all the designs for finishing his bell tower & it is beautiful."[6] The tower is designed in Pugin's celebrated Gothic Revival style, and is 96.3 metres (315.9 ft) high.The bottom 61 metres (200 ft) of the Clock Tower's structure consists of brickwork with sand coloured Anston limestone cladding. The remainder of the tower's height is a framed spire of cast iron. The tower is founded on a 15-metre (49 ft) square raft, made of 3-metre (9.8 ft) thick concrete, at a depth of 4 metres (13 ft) below ground level. The four clock faces are 55 metres (180 ft) above ground. The interior volume of the tower is 4,650 cubic metres (164,200 cubic feet).Because of changes in ground conditions since construction (notably tunnelling for the Jubilee Line extension), the tower leans slightly to the north-west, by roughly 220 millimetres (8.66 in) at the clock face, giving an inclination of approximately 1/250.[7][8] Due to thermal effects it oscillates annually by a few millimetres east and west.ClockFacesThe clock faces are large enough to have once allowed the Clock Tower to be the largest four-faced clock in the world, but have since been outdone by the Allen-Bradley Clock Tower in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. However, the builders of the Allen-Bradley Clock Tower did not add chimes to the clock, so the Great Clock of Westminster still holds the title of the "world's largest four-faced chiming clock".The face of the Great Clock of Westminster. The hour hand is 2.7 metres (9 ft) long and the minute hand is 4.3 metres (14 ft) long.The clock and dials were designed by Augustus Pugin. The clock faces are set in an iron frame 7 metres (23 ft) in diameter, supporting 312 pieces of opal glass, rather like a stained-glass window. Some of the glass pieces may be removed for inspection of the hands. The surround of the dials is gilded. At the base of each clock face in gilt letters is the Latin inscription DOMINE SALVAM FAC REGINAM NOSTRAM VICTORIAM PRIMAM, which means O Lord, keep safe our Queen Victoria the First.Mechanism The Clock Tower at dusk, with The London Eye in the backgroundThe clock is famous for its reliability. The designers were the lawyer and amateur horologist Edmund Beckett Denison, and George Airy, the Astronomer Royal. Construction was entrusted to clockmaker Edward John Dent, who completed the work in 1854. As the Tower was not complete until 1859, Denison had time to experiment: Instead of using the deadbeat escapement and remontoire as originally designed, Denison invented the double three-legged gravity escapement. This escapement provides the best separation between pendulum and clock mechanism. The pendulum is installed within an enclosed windproof box sunk beneath the clockroom. It is 3.9m long, weighs 300 kg and beats every 2 seconds. The clockwork mechanism in a room below weighs 5 tons.The idiom of putting a penny on, with the meaning of slowing down, sprang from the method of fine-tuning the clock's pendulum.[9] On top of the pendulum is a small stack of old penny coins; these are to adjust the time of the clock. Adding or subtracting coins has the effect of minutely altering the position of the pendulum's centre of mass, the effective length of the pendulum rod and hence the rate at which the pendulum swings. Adding or removing a penny will change the clock's speed by 0.4 second per day.During The Blitz, the Palace of Westminster was hit by German bombing, on 10 May 1941, a bombing raid damaged two of the clockfaces and sections of the tower's stepped roof and destroyed the House of Commons chamber. Architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott designed a new five-floor block. Two floors are occupied by the current chamber which was used for the first time on 26 October 1950. Despite the heavy bombing the clock ran accurately and chimed throughout the Blitz.Malfunctions and breakdownsNew Year's Eve 1962: The clock slowed due to heavy snow and ice on the long hands, causing the pendulum to detach from the clockwork, as it is designed to do in such circumstances, to avoid serious damage elsewhere in the mechanism—the pendulum continuing to swing freely. Thus it chimed in the new year 10 minutes late.[citation needed] 5 August 1976: First and only major breakdown. The speed regulator of the chiming mechanism finally broke after 100+ years of torsional fatigue, then the fully-wound 4 ton weights dumped their entire potential energy into the chiming mechanism in one go. It caused a great deal of damage; the Great Clock was shut down for a total of 26 days over nine months - it was reactivated on 9 May 1977; this was its longest break in operation since it was built. During this time BBC Radio 4 had to make do with the pips.[10] Friday, 27 May 2005: the clock stopped at 10:07 pm local time, possibly due to hot weather (temperatures in London had reached an unseasonal 31.8 °C (90 °F)). It restarted, but stopped again at 10:20 pm local time and remained still for about 90 minutes before restarting.[11] 29 October 2005: the mechanism was stopped for about 33 hours so the clock and its chimes could be worked on. It was the lengthiest maintenance shutdown in 22 years.[12] The south clock face being cleaned on 11 August 20077:00 am 5 June 2006: The clock tower's "Quarter Bells" were taken out of commission for four weeks [13] as a bearing holding one of the quarter bells was damaged from years of wear and needed to be removed for repairs. During this period, BBC Radio 4 broadcast recordings of British bird song followed by the pips in place of the usual chimes.[14] 11 August 2007: Start of 6-week stoppage for maintenance. Bearings in the clock's drive train and the "great bell" striker were replaced, for the first time since installation.[15] During the maintenance works, the clock was not driven by the original mechanism, but by an electric motor.[16] Once again, BBC Radio 4 had to make do with the pips during this time. BellsGreat BellThe main bell, officially known as the Great Bell, is the largest bell in the tower and part of the Great Clock of Westminster. The bell is better known by the nickname Big Ben.[17]The original bell was a 16.3-tonne (16 ton) hour bell, cast on 6 August 1856 in Stockton-on-Tees by John Warner & Sons.[1] The bell was never officially named, but the legend on it records that the commissioner of works, Sir Benjamin Hall, was responsible for the order. Another theory for the origin of the name is that the bell may have been named after a contemporary heavyweight boxer Benjamin Caunt. It is thought that the bell was originally to be called Victoria or Royal Victoria in honour of Queen Victoria,[18] but that an MP suggested the nickname during a Parliamentary debate; the comment is not recorded in Hansard.Since the tower was not yet finished, the bell was mounted in New Palace Yard. Cast in 1856, the first bell was transported to the tower on a trolley drawn by sixteen horses, with crowds cheering its progress. Unfortunately, it cracked beyond repair while being tested and a replacement had to be made. The bell was recast at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry as a 13.76-tonne (13½ ton) bell.[19] This was pulled 200ft up to the Clock Tower’s belfry, a feat that took 18 hours. It is 2.2 metres tall and 2.9 metres wide. This new bell first chimed in July 1859. In September it too cracked under the hammer, a mere two months after it officially went into service. According to the foundry's manager, George Mears, Denison had used a hammer more than twice the maximum weight specified.[1] For three years Big Ben was taken out of commission and the hours were struck on the lowest of the quarter bells until it was reinstalled. To make the repair, a square piece of metal was chipped out from the rim around the crack, and the bell given an eighth of a turn so the new hammer struck in a different place.[1] Big Ben has chimed with an odd twang ever since and is still in use today complete with the crack. At the time of its casting, Big Ben was the largest bell in the British Isles until "Great Paul", a 17 tonne (16¾ ton) bell currently hung in St. Paul's Cathedral, was cast in 1881.[20]ChimesClick to hear BBC World Service announce itself, then play Westminster Chimes and the 12 strikes of Big Ben as broadcast at exactly 00:00:00 GMT on 1 January 2009.Along with the Great Bell, the belfry houses four quarter bells which play the Westminster Quarters on the quarter hours. The four quarter bells are G sharp, F sharp, E, and B (see Note). They were cast by John Warner & Sons at their Crescent Foundry in 1857 (G sharp, F sharp and B) and 1858 (E). The Foundry was in Jewin Crescent, in what is now known as The Barbican, in the City of London.The Quarter Bells play a 20-chime sequence, 1–4 at quarter past, 5–12 at half past, 13–20 and 1–4 at quarter to, and 5–20 on the hour (which sounds 25 seconds before the main bell tolls the hour). Because the low bell (B) is struck twice in quick succession, there is not enough time to pull a hammer back, and it is supplied with two wrench hammers on opposite sides of the bell. The tune is that of the Cambridge Chimes, first used for the chimes of Great St Mary's church, Cambridge, and supposedly a variation, attributed to William Crotch, on a phrase from Handel's Messiah. The notional words of the chime, again derived from Great St Mary's and in turn an allusion to Psalm 37, are: "All through this hour/Lord be my guide/And by Thy power/No foot shall slide". They are written on a plaque on the wall of the clock room.[21][22] On-the-hour chimes Size: 88 KB --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Problems listening to this file? See media help. NicknameThe nickname Big Ben is the subject of some debate. The nickname was applied first to the Great Bell; it may have been named after Sir Benjamin Hall, who oversaw the installation of the Great Bell, or after boxing's English Heavyweight Champion Benjamin Caunt.[1][17][23][24] Now Big Ben is used to refer to the clock, the tower and the bell collectively, although the nickname is not universally accepted as referring to the clock and tower.[2][25][26][27] Some authors of works about the tower, clock and bell sidestep the issue by using the words Big Ben first in the title, then going on to clarify that the subject of the book is the clock and tower as well as the bell.[28][29]Significance in popular cultureThe clock has become a symbol of the United Kingdom and London, particularly in the visual media. When a television or film-maker wishes to quickly convey to a non-UK audience a generic location in Britain, a popular way to do so is to show an image of the Clock Tower, often with a Routemaster bus or Hackney carriage in the foreground.[30] This gambit is less often used in the United Kingdom, as it would suggest to most British people a specific location in London, which may not be the intention. The Clock Tower is often polled as the Most Iconic London Film Location.[31]The sound of the clock chiming has also been used this way in audio media, but as the Westminster Quarters are heard from other clocks and other devices, the unique nature of this sound has been considerably diluted.The Clock Tower during the 2008/2009 New Years Eve Celebrations.The Clock Tower is a focus of New Year celebrations in the United Kingdom, with radio and TV stations tuning to its chimes to welcome the start of the year. Similarly, on Remembrance Day, the chimes of Big Ben are broadcast to mark the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month and the start of two minutes' silence.ITN's News at Ten opening sequence features an image of the Clock Tower with the sound of Big Ben's chimes punctuating the announcement of the news headlines, and has done so on and off for the last 41 years. The Big Ben chimes continue to be used during the headlines and all ITV News bulletins use a graphic based on the Westminster clock face. Big Ben can also be heard striking the hour before some news bulletins on BBC Radio 4 (6 pm and midnight, plus 10 pm on Sundays) and the BBC World Service, a practice that began on 31 December 1923. The sound of the chimes are sent in real time from a microphone permanently installed in the tower and connected by line to Broadcasting House.Londoners who live an appropriate distance from the Clock Tower and Big Ben can, by means of listening to the chimes both live and on the radio or television, hear the bell strike thirteen times on New Year's Eve. This is possible due to what amounts to a offset between live and electronically transmitted chimes since the speed of sound is a lot slower than the speed of radio waves. Guests are invited to count the chimes aloud as the radio is gradually turned down.The Clock Tower has appeared in many films, most notably in the 1978 version of The Thirty-Nine Steps, in which the hero Richard Hannay attempted to halt the clock's progress (to prevent a linked bomb detonating) by hanging from the minute hand of its western face. It was also used in the filming of Shanghai Knights starring Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson, and was depicted as being partially destroyed in the Doctor Who episode "Aliens of London". An animated version of the clock and its inner workings were also used as the setting for the climactic final battle between Basil of Baker Street and his nemesis Ratigan in the Walt Disney animated film The Great Mouse Detective, and is shown being destroyed by a UFO in the film Mars Attacks!.AwardsIt was announced on 9 April 2008 that a survey of 2,000 people found that the tower was the most popular landmark in the United Kingdom.[32]

第二册的a cold welcome

小学阶段各科是没有单独的课程标准，小学的各年级课程标准是和初中课程标准总体排列在一起，小学课程标准和初中课程标准整和在一起，统称为义务教育阶段课程标准。但在实际的教学实践中，可不能把小学和初中整和到一起，小学是一个独立的教学阶段，所以统一在一起的课程标准在使用的时候会出现各种各样的不方便。 这里是单独整理出来的小学各科课程标准，以方便小学生、家长和老师们使用。 义务教育阶段英语课程标准小学英语的课程目标，分为三类： 一、总目标， 二、分级目标， 三、分级标准。 在英语课程分级目标体系中，总目标和分级目标是小学六年级毕业时应该达到的要求。 一是总目标 总目标适用于义务教育阶段的所有年级（即1-9年级），其内容是通过英语学习，使学生形成初步的综合语言运用能力，促进心智发展，提高综合人文素养。综合语言运用能力的形成，建立在语言技能、语言知识、情感态度、学习策略和文化意识各方面整体发展的基础之上。 二是分级目标 分级目标是针对总目标应达到的五个方面的具体表现。小学阶段需要达到的是义务教育阶段（1-9年级）课程标准中的一级和二级目标（内容如下）： 一级： 1.对英语有好奇心，喜欢听他人说英语。 2.能根据教师的简单指令，做动作，做游戏，做事情 (如涂颜色、连线）。 3.能做简单的角色。 4.能唱简单的英文歌曲，说简单的英语歌谣。 5.能在图片的帮助下听懂和读懂简单的小故事。 6.能交流简单的个人信息，表达简单的感觉和情感。能模仿范例书写词句。 7.在学习中乐于模仿，敢于表达，对英语具有一定的感知能力。 8.对学习中接触的外国文化习俗感兴趣。 以上八个方面即是一级目标。 二级： 1.对继续学习英语有兴趣。 2.能用简单的英语互致问候，交换有关个人、家庭和朋友的简单信息，并能就日常生活话题做简短叙述。 3.能在图片的帮助下听懂、读懂并讲述简单的故事。 4.能在教师的帮助下表演小故事或小短剧，演唱简单的英文歌曲和歌谣。 5.能根据图片、词语或例句的提示，写出简短的描述。 6.在学习中乐于参与、积极合作、主动请教，初步形成对英语的感知能力和良好的学习习惯。 7.乐于了解外国文化和习俗。 这也即是小学高年级段（五、六年级）需要达到的标准，家长朋友在指导孩子学习的标准只能是有过之而无不及，在平时学校制定的试卷及教学安排等，也完全是按照以上课程标准来一步步的设计。 三、分级目标标准 分级标准按着总目标中对于语言技能、语言知识、情感态度、学习策略、文化意识五个方面较分级目标而进行的更加全面的阐述： 语言技能： 一级目标标准，分为听做、说唱、玩演、读写和视听五个方面。 听做：4条 1. 能根据听到的词句识别或指认图片或实物。 2. 能听懂课堂简短的指令并作出相应的反应。 3. 能根据指令做事情，如指图片、涂颜色、画图，做动作等。 4. 能在图片和动作的指示下听懂简单的小故事，并作出适当的反应。 说唱：7条 1. 能根据录音模仿说话。 2. 能相互致以简单的问候。 3.能相互交流简单的个人信息，如姓名、年龄等。 4. 能表达简单的情感和感觉，如喜欢或不喜欢。 5. 能根据表演猜测意思、说出词语。 6. 能学唱英语儿童歌曲和歌谣15首左右。 7. 能根据图、文说出单词或短句。 玩演：2条 1. 能在教师的指导下用英语做游戏，并在游戏中进行简单的交际。 2. 能做简单的角色表演。 读写：5条 1. 能看图识词。 2. 能在指认物体的前提下认读所学词语。 3. 能在图片的帮助下读懂简单的小故事。 4. 能正确书写字母或单词，能模仿范例写词句。 视听： 能听懂语言简单的英语动画片或程度相当的英语教学节目，课堂视听时间每学年不少于10小时(平均每周20~25分钟)。 二级目标标准，分为听、说、读、写、玩演视听五个方面。 听：4条 1. 能借助图片、图像、手势听懂简单的话语或录音材料。 2. 能听懂简单的配图小故事。 3. 能听懂课堂活动中简单的提问。 4. 能听懂常用指令和要求并作出恰当的反应。 说: 5条 1. 能在口头表达中做到发音清楚，语调基本达意。 2. 能就所熟悉的个人和家庭情况进行简短对话。 3. 能运用一些最常用的日常用语(如问候、告别、道歉等）。 4. 能就日常生活话题作简短叙述。 5. 能在教师的帮助和图片的提示下描述或讲述简单的小故事。 读：6条 1. 能认读所学单词 2. 能根据拼读的规律，读出简单的单词。 3. 能读懂教材中简短的要求或指令。 4. 能看懂贺卡等所表达的简单信息。 5. 能借助图片读懂简单的故事或小短文，并养成按意群阅读的习惯。 6. 能正确朗读所学故事或短文。 写：3条 1. 能正确地使用大小写字母和常用的标点符号。 2. 能写出简单的问候语和祝福语。 3. 能根据图片，词语或例句的提示，写出简短的词句。 玩演视听：4条 1. 能按要求用简单的英语做游戏。 2. 能在教师的帮助下，表演小故事或小短剧。 3. 能学唱简单的英语歌曲和歌谣30左右(含一级的要求)。 4. 能看懂程度相当的英语动画片和英语教学节目，课堂试听时间每学年不少于10小时(平均每周20~25分钟)。 语言知识: 这项没有一级目标标准，只有二级的。 二级目标标准分为：语音、词汇、语法、功能、话题五个方面。 语音：4条 1. 正确读出26个英文字母。 2. 了解简单的拼读规律。 3. 了解单词有重音，句子有重读。 4. 了解英语语言，包括连读、节奏、停顿、语调等现象。 词汇：3条 1. 知道单词是由字母构成的。 2. 知道要根据单词的音、义、形来学习词汇。 3. 学习有关本级话题范围的600~700个单词和50个左右的习惯用语，并能初步运用400个左右的单词表达二级规定的相应话题。 语法：2条 1. 在具体语境中理解以下语法项目的意义和用法：名词的单复数形式和名词所有格；人称代词和形容词性物主代词；一般现在时，现在进行时，一般过去时，和一般将来时；表示时间地点和位置的常用介词；简单句的基本形式。 2. 在实际运用中体会以上语法项目的表意功能。 功能：理解和运用有关下列功能的语言表达形式：问候、介绍、告别、请求、邀请、致谢、道歉、情感、喜好、建议、祝愿等。 话题：理解和运用有关下列话题的语言表达形式：个人情况、家庭和朋友、身体与健康、学校与日常生活、文体活动、节假日、饮食、服装、季节与天气、颜色，动物等。 情感态度：7条。 没有一级目标标准，只有二级。 1. 能体会到英语学习的乐趣。 2. 敢于开口，表达中不怕出错误。 3. 乐于感知并积极尝试使用英语。 4. 积极参与各种课堂学习活动。 5. 在小组活动中能与其他同学积极配合和合作。 6. 遇到困难时能大胆求助。 7. 乐于接触外国文化，增强祖国意识。 学习策略：11条 没有一级目标标准，只有二级。 1. 积极与他人合作，共同完成学习任务。 2. 遇到问题主动向老师或同学请教。 3. 会制定简单的英语学习计划。 4. 对所学内容能主动复习，并加以整理和归纳。5. 在词语与相应事物之间建立联系。 6. 在学习中集中注意力。 7. 在课堂交流中，注意倾听，积极思考。 8. 尝试阅读英语故事，及其他英语课外读物。 9. 积极运用所学英语进行表达和交流。 10. 注意观察生活或媒体中使用的简单英语。 11. 能初步借助简单的工具书学习英语。 文化意识：8条 没有一级目标标准，只有二级。 1. 知道英语中最简单的称谓语，问候语和告别语。 2. 对一般的赞扬，请求道歉等作出适当的反应。 3. 知道世界上主要的文娱和体育活动。 4. 知道英语国家中典型的食品和饮料的名称。 5. 知道主要英语国家的首都和旗帜。 6. 了解主要英语国家的重要标志物，如英国的大本钟等。 7. 其了解英语国家中重要的节假日。 8. 在学习和日常交流中，能初步注意到中外文化异同。以上就是义务教育阶段英语课程标准中对小学英语课程目标的设置。 各位老师和同学们在英语学习的过程中，可以对照参考以上指标进行学习和训练。 希望能对您有帮助，谢谢阅读！

我记得有一篇文章是关于新年的。acoldwelcome.写了关于钟的，但是不是大本钟。