Unit 1 That must be a record!教案
n. 雇傭，租用，租金
特別注意區別：hire；employ；rent；appoint
we intend to hire the hall for a week.
④ record vt.記錄，錄制 n. 記錄；唱片（注意讀音）
keep a record 保持記錄 set a new record 創新記錄
break/beat a record 打破記錄 make a new record 刷新記錄
keep a record of 保存…的記載 make e record 錄制/制作唱片
more than 60，000 new records are sent into the book each year, but they cannot all be printed. instead, the editors of the book set① down the records and keep track of② them in other ways.the records are put into different categories.guinness book of world records has chapters on the human body，amazing feats，the natural world，science and technology，arts and the media，model society，travel and transport，and sports and games.you can learn that the oldest person is a woman who lived to be③ 122 years and 164 days，that the longest moustache reached a length of 1.6 metres and that the longest poisonous snake is 5.71 metres long. there are also strange records, like the englishman who balanced④ a small car weighing 159.6 kilogrammes on his head for thirty-three seconds!每年送來6,000多個記錄，但它們不能都出版。然而編輯們記下這些記錄，并以其他方式繼續了解情況。這些記錄被分成不同的目錄。《吉尼斯世界大全》關于人體的篇章、令人驚嘆的偉績篇章、自然世界篇章、科學技術篇章、藝術和媒體篇章、現代社會篇章、旅游和交通篇章以及體育和娛樂篇章。你可以了解到年紀最大的人是一個活了122年164天的婦女，最長的胡須長達1.6米，最長的毒蛇有5.71米長。書中還有令人不可思議的記錄，如一個英國人頭頂重159.6公斤的小汽車長達33秒鐘。
① set sth. down 寫下來
why don’t you set your idea down on paper?
set sb. down 停車讓人下車
the bus stopped to set down an old lady.
i’ll set you down on the corner of the street.
短語聯想：
set about sth./doing sth.做手某事/做某事＝set out to do開始干
set off 出發 set aside 不理會；擱置；存儲＝put away
set foot in/on 踏上 set fire to sth./set sth on fire 防火燒掉…
set up 成立；建造 be set in 以…為背景
② keep track of 記錄；掌握…的線索；保持對…的聯系
keep track of sb./ sth. = keep in/lose touch with 與…保持/失去接觸
be on sb’s track/be on the track of sb.=be after sb.追蹤某人
make tracks for…＝go towards 走向
in one’s tracks =there and then當場，立刻
it’s hard to keep track of all one’s old school friends.
lose track of 失去的…線索；失掉對…的聯系
lose track of time 說不準現在的確切時間
歸納拓展
keep off 遠離,不接近,避開 keep away from sb 遠離某人
keep out 使在外,勿入 keep back 阻止;扣留;忍住