大学英语综合的教程Unit6.ppt

Unit Six 上海交通大学出版社 1. Starter focus1starter Look at the following suicide pictures and discuss in pairs what can be the cause of people’s committing suicide. There can be various causes for people to commit suicide, for instance, suffering from an incurable disease like cancer or extreme poverty or depression, being deep in debt, being insulted or too much ashamed of something, being unfortunate in love or having lost one’s beloved, religious or political beliefs, esp. cult-like ones, etc. One thing in common for suicides is despair. B. Listen to a passage and fill in the blanks. focus1starter 上海交通大学出版社 1. Starter Mind Map deliberate a. 故意的 the National Center for Health Statistics 美国国家卫生统计中心 rank vt. 排名，列为 underestimate n. 低估 suicidal a.有自杀倾向的 verbal a.口头的 focus1starter 上海交通大学出版社 1. Starter 1. Suicide affects people of all ages, especially _______________________. The National Center for Health Statistics ranked suicide as ___________________ of adolescent death, as it claimed the lives of approximately 5,000 American teenagers and young adults in the mid-1990s. Direct verbal threats such as “I am going to kill myself,” or “I am going to swallow a bottle of aspirin” ____________________________ and should be taken seriously. teenagers and young adults the third leading cause leave nothing to the imagination Suicide and Clues Suicide is defined as the deliberate killing of oneself. Tragically, suicide is a problem that affects people of all ages, especially teenagers and young adults. In fact, suicide is the most rapidly growing cause of death among youth between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four. In the mid-1990s, the National Center for Health Statistics ranked suicide as the third leading cause of adolescent death, as it claimed the lives of approximately 5,000 American teenagers and young adults. In addition, the number of recorded deaths by suicide is apparently an underestimate of reality since a large number of complete