Around Yushan National Park Unit Four 1-3 SITUATION BEFORE READING READING VOCABULARY OR TERM EXTRA READING SENTENCE PATTERN LANGUAGE SKILL DIALOGUE

Around Yushan National ParkAround Yushan National Park

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SITUATIONHomeHome

Your tour group has a two-day trip around Yushan National Park. Before starting the trip, you would like to brief them about the park.

Tip: Determine who is in your group -- more animals or plants for children, and m

ore historical background for adults.

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SITUATIONHomeHome

國家公園按區域內現有土地利用型態及資源特性之分區有五：

(1) 一般管制區 (2) 遊憩區 (3) 史蹟保存區 (4) 特別景觀區 (5) 生態保護區

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BEFORE READINGHomeHome

Change the following numbers to kilometers or meters into miles or feet, or vice versa.

a. 20 km b. 300 km

C.1000 meters d. 300 meters

e. 20 miles f. 300 miles

g. 1000 feet h. 300 feet

a. 12.43 miles b. 186.42 miles

c. 621.39 miles d. 91.44 feet

e. 32.19 km f. 482.79 km

g. 304.8 meters h. 91.44 meters

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Check the following plants which can grow up to 5 meters.

You could refer to the following website:

http://english.ysnp.gov.tw/Publication.aspx?CurrentNodeID=20&Level=1 2007/8/3

玉山國家公園英文網站保育搜尋引擎Or, search for them on-line yourself, and discuss them with your classmates.

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▉ conifer fir▉ spruce fir▉

▉ juniper hemlock▉ □ dwarf bamboo

□ Azalea alpine fir▉ □ shrub

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GUIDE REMINDERHomeHome

The Yushan's location, height, name, ecology and exploration.

The Most Magnificent Park --Yushan

Located in the center of the island, the main peak of the Yushan (Jade Mountain) rises to nearly 4,000 meters (about 13,000 feet) in height. Because of this majestic height, many people in Taiwan worsh

ip the mountain as the spirit of Taiwan.

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The top of the highest peak is often covered with thick snow, making the entire peak shine like bri

ght jade. That is it got its name.

As you stand at the top of Yushan peak, on a clear day you can overlook the Taiwan Strait on the west and the Pacific Ocean on the east.

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Ecology and Historical Exploration

Batongguan Historic Trail was built by the Chinese during the Ching Dynasty, and maintained by the Japanese during their occupation of the island. Some construction sites from those times still remai

n.

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The ancient of the Bunun aboriginal people had left behind many traces of their old tribal sites, as well as evidence of fighting against the Japanese invaders.

In the park, various kinds of conifer or fir can be found, such forests of spruce fir, juniper, hemlock fir, and so on. There is one particularly gigantic hemlock fir in Tatajia Recreation Area, and it has been an attraction and a rest stop for tourists for years.

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VOCABULARY OR TERMHomeHome

Read the following words out loud with a teacher, or read them on your own.

The Most Magnificent Park-Yushan

range

--To arrange or dispose in a particular order, especially in rows or lines.

[ rendI ] v.

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worship

-- To honor and love as a god.

landscape

-- The land characteristics of a particular region.

[ 'w"N0p ] v.

[ 'l$nd`skep ] n.

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overlook

--To look over or at from a higher place.

icy

--Covered with ice.

[ `ovQ'luk ] v.

['A0s0] adj.

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frosted

--To cover with frost (frost: minute ice crystals formed when water vapor condenses at a temperature below freezing).

['frCst0d] adj.

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mudflow

--A downhill movement of soft wet earth and stone, made by flowing rain or melted snow and often building up great speed.

[ 'mKdflo ] n.

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landslide

--The downward sliding of a relatively dry mass of earth and rock.

['l$nd`slA0d] n.

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landslide

--The downward sliding of a relatively dry mass of earth and rock.

['l$nd`slA0d] n.

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Ecology and History Exploration

hike

--To go on a walk for pleasure or exercise.

[ hA0k ] v.

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impressive

--A strong feeling; striking or remarkable.

exploration

--The act of searching or traveling for the purpose of discovery.

[0m'prGs0v ] adj.

[ `GksplD'reNDn]n.

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trail

--A marked or beaten path, as through woods or wilderness.

dynasty

--A succession of rulers from the same family or line.

[ trel ] n.

[ 'dA0nDst0]n.

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occupation

--Taking and controlling another nation¡¦s territory by foreign armed forces.

construction site

--The location of building activity.

[`AkjD'peNDn ] n.

[ kDn'strKkNDn sA0t]n.

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trace

--A visible mark, such as a footprint, left by the passage of a person, animal, or thing.

[ tres ] n.

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tribe

--A unit of sociopolitical organization consisting of a number of families or other groups who share a common ancestry and culture.

invade

--To enter by force.

[ tra0b ] adj.

[ 0n'ved ] v.

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gigantic

--Very large or extensive.

frigid

--Extremely cold.

[ dIA0'E$nt0k] adj.

[ 'fr0E0d] adj.

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vegetation

--The plants of an area or a region.

attraction

--A person, place, thing, or event that is intended to attract.

[ `vGdID'teNDn] n.

[ D'tr$kNDn ] n.

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intersperse

--To distribute among other things.

[ `0ntQ'sp"s ] v.

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mammal

Any of various warm-blooded animals of

--The class Mammalia, including humans, characterized by a covering of hair on the skin and, in the female, milk-producing for feeding of the young.

[ 'm$ml] n.

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SENTENCE PATTERNHomeHome

a. I am interested in

I like to

Example:

I am interested in collecting leaves.

I like to collect leaves.

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Ving.N

Ving.

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SENTENCE PATTERNHomeHome

b. You’d better V

Example:

You’d better arrive at the camp by sunset.

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LANGUAGE SKILLHomeHome

Give your clients proper instructions.

Warning your clients about traveling in a park.

1. Excuse me! Please don’t feed the animals in the park.

2. Don’t walk too close to the edge of the cliff.

3. Any plants or flowers are not allowed to be taken off the park. a

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LANGUAGE SKILLHomeHome

Giving instructions to the tourists traveling around a park.

1. We will meet here in one hour. It’s ten o’clock now, so please be back here by eleven o’clock.

2. Along this way, it takes about 50 minutes to walk upward to Tatajia mountain ascent. And do not enter the ascent, because a mountain pass is required.

3. And this way, you can get to Mt. Lulin and to the end to the road, there is a wood cabin around a dwarf bamb

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GRAMMAR TIP

much + afraid, alone, ahead, aware, alive, alike, asleep(the adjectives cannot be modified with very)

E. G.ˇ The two kinds of firs look much alike. × The two kinds of firs looks very alike.ˇ Most of the foreign tourists are much afraid of eating “pig blood.” × Most of the foreign tourists are very afraid of eating “pig blood.”

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Around Yushan National Park Unit Four 1-3 SITUATION BEFORE READING READING VOCABULARY OR TERM EXTRA READING SENTENCE PATTERN LANGUAGE SKILL DIALOGUE