China 高一 English

1. Compulsory 1

Welcome Unit · Teenage Life · Travelling Around · Sports and Fitness · Natural Disasters · Languages Around the World

• Physical Fitness – Physical fitness is the body's ability to do daily work, play and sport with energy to spare. It has five health-related components (heart-lung endurance, muscular strength, muscular endurance, flexibility, body composition) and six skill-related ones (speed, agility, power, balance, coordination, reaction time). We improve it with a planned programme using FITT (frequency, intensity, time, type) and training principles like overload, progression, specificity, rest and reversibility.
• Natural Hazards – A natural hazard is a natural event that can harm people and property, such as an earthquake, volcano, landslide, flood, drought or cyclone. It becomes a disaster when it hits people who are not ready. Geological hazards come from inside the Earth; meteorological (weather) hazards come from the air and water. Risk = hazard × vulnerability ÷ capacity to cope, so warning systems, strong buildings and trained people cut the damage.

2. Compulsory 2

Cultural Heritage · Wildlife Protection · The Internet · History and Traditions · Music

• Cultural Heritage – Cultural heritage is everything a community receives from the past, values today and wants to pass on: buildings and monuments, objects in museums, languages, music, dance, festivals, crafts, food and knowledge. Tangible heritage can be touched (immovable like temples and bridges, movable like coins and manuscripts); intangible heritage is lived and practised; natural heritage covers special landscapes and wildlife. Heritage gives identity, teaches history, brings income through tourism and links people across cultures. It is threatened by weathering, pollution, crowds, careless development, neglect and conflict, and is protected by conservation, laws, museums, heritage lists, education and local communities.
• Biodiversity and its Conservation – Biodiversity is the variety of life at three levels: genetic, species and ecological. It is highest near the equator and grows with area (log S = log C + Z log A). Every species matters, like rivets on a plane. We are losing species fast because of the 'evil quartet': habitat loss and fragmentation, over-exploitation, alien species invasions and co-extinction. The IUCN Red List (Red Data Book) ranks species from Least Concern to Extinct. We protect life in situ (hotspots, national parks, sanctuaries, biosphere reserves, sacred groves, Ramsar wetlands) and ex situ (zoos, botanical gardens, seed and gene banks).
• Internet Basics: How the Internet Works – The Internet is a huge network of networks. Devices join a router, routers join an ISP, and ISPs join the backbone cables. Data travels in small packets, each with an IP address. DNS turns names like example.org into IP numbers. Services such as the web, email, video calls and cloud storage run on top of it. To use it well: search with good keywords, check sources, protect your privacy, respect copyright, and save work in the right file format.
• Music Appreciation: How to Listen and Understand Music – Music appreciation means listening with attention, noticing what is happening in the music, and being able to talk about it. Every piece is built from a few elements: pitch and melody, rhythm and tempo, dynamics (loud and soft), timbre (tone colour), texture (how many layers) and form (the plan of the piece). Knowing these words helps you compare music from any culture, from a symphony to a raga to a film song, and explain why you like it.

3. Compulsory 3

Festivals and Celebrations · Morals and Virtues · Diverse Cultures · Space Exploration · The Value of Money

• Space Exploration – Space exploration means sending rockets, satellites, probes and people beyond Earth's air. Rockets rise by pushing gas down (action–reaction). At about 7.9 km/s sideways a craft keeps falling around Earth in orbit; at 11.2 km/s it escapes. Since 1957 space has been a place of rivalry and cooperation, and it gives us weather forecasts, navigation, communication and new science.
• Money and Credit – Money is a medium of exchange that removes the need for a double coincidence of wants. Banks take deposits and give loans. Credit can help people grow, or trap them in debt, depending on its terms. Formal loans from banks and cooperatives are cheaper and regulated; informal loans from moneylenders are costly. Self-Help Groups bring cheap credit to poor women.

4. Language knowledge (standard)

Grammar: tenses, passive, non-finite verbs, clauses · Discourse types; practical writing, summary and continuation writing

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