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給中小學生的世界地理: 美國最會說故事的校長爺爺, 帶你用旅行者的眼光發現世界 (英語學習版)

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內容簡介 【台灣唯一，經典英語學習版】跟著美國最會說故事的校長爺爺，一起擴充你的英語字彙！全美中小學生指定讀物，西方家庭必備經典50位教育人士、讀者一致推薦，國中小學生必讀「跨領域」、「知識性」讀物◎本書榮獲入選「影響中國孩子一生的十大圖書」連續兩年入選中國教育部推薦「小學生基礎閱讀書目」「中小學生優良課外讀物推介評選活動」獲選書籍香港誠品童書類暢銷榜TOP10◎台灣唯一，經典英語學習版，讓你從故事中擴充重要的英文字彙。◎全球超過10,000,000人讀過的世界地理，遍及美國、韓國、日本、中國◎1924年首印後，不斷再版，至今仍然是美國卡爾維特學校的明星課程讓擅長將知識化做篇篇動人故事的校長爺爺，以孩子的視角、旅行者的眼光講述世界地理，瞬間拉近地圖與孩子的距離；本書更新增：各大洲小檔案，簡單查閱世界五大洲的重要地理概念；國家小檔案，輕鬆了解不可或缺的世界各國知識；重點複習，整合統整各個國家的重點學習觀念；動動腦，想想看，讓孩子檢查是否真正了解地理訊息！一本書，結合地理知識的快樂旅行，讓孩子從旅行的角度，輕鬆愉快的了解世界地理，嚴肅的地理也瞬間變成可愛有趣的事情了！世界這麼大，地球上有好多個國家，要記住這麼多世界知識，是不是覺得很難呢？其實，地理也可以學得簡單又有趣！你知道，只要伸出左手，就可以輕鬆理解墨西哥灣旁邊的地理概念嗎？你知道，只要把歐洲地圖轉半圈，就可以看見一個愛踢足球的老奶奶嗎？你知道，冰島雖然叫「冰」島，上面卻有許多火山與溫泉嗎？你知道，「阿根廷」是銀子之都的意思，但當地的銀礦資源卻很少？《給中小學生的世界地理》帶你一起旅行五大洲、七大洋，讓地理不再枯燥無味、讓知識變成可愛的故事！讓學習地理就像旅行，輕鬆、愉快、豐富、完整！1. 美國知名校長爺爺帶你快樂學英語本書作者為美國知名的校長爺爺，運用對孩子來說簡單、有趣的英文用詞描述對世界各地的所見所聞。用經典作品學習英語，加強孩子的英語字彙、學習生活實用用語。2. 西方家庭必備經典書本書運用簡單、易懂的地理分類，讓大人也能從書中發現自己所不知的地理知識。當孩子有學習上的問題與困難時，家長也可以利用這本書，解答孩子的疑惑。3. 以孩子能否理解為書寫標準作者寫這套書時，將重點放在：知識講述要符合孩子的認知方式，並通過它讓孩子建立地理的印象。所以在書中，作者並不著重在我們認為「重要」的地理知識，如：氣候、貿易、工業等。這種與眾不同的思維，讓這套書變得更生動有趣。4. 以孩子的視角進行描述作者運用可愛、有趣的方式，並且用孩子能理解的話語與生活概念，結合地理知識，讓孩子快樂閱讀的同時，也能輕鬆，卻深度的了解地理知識。圖像性的思考模式，拉近孩子與地理學習間的距離。5. 結合地理知識和快樂旅行作者從北美洲出發，沿著南美洲、歐洲、亞洲、非洲、大洋洲的順序，最後再回到出發地。這趟環遊世界的過程中，他一邊遊玩一邊以說話的方式，將山川河流、風景特色，都描述的趣味橫生，彷彿讓人身歷其境，構成了一本有趣的地理讀物。●簡單、具故事性的文章，了解世界的同時，學習重要的英語運用。●運用簡單、有趣的口吻，讓孩子在輕鬆閱讀的同時，增進地理知識。●就像親切的爺爺在講古，每一個地理故事都彷彿身歷其境，加深孩子的學習印象。●聽故事就能秒懂全世界，讓枯燥無味的課程都能靈活運用在生活知識上。

作者介紹

作者介紹 ■作者簡介維吉爾‧希利爾（Virgil Mores Hillyer）美國傑出教育家，畢生從事中小學教育，酷愛歷史和藝術，喜歡旅行。出生於麻州韋茅斯鎮。哈佛大學教育系畢業後，在紐約的白朗寧學校教了兩年書，隨後遷往巴爾地摩，擔任卡爾維特學校的第一任校長。希利爾創建的小學函授教育系統，即「卡爾維特學校體系」，惠及世界各地的政府雇員、領事、軍官和傳教士的子女。 當希利爾校長於1899年到美國卡爾維特學校（Calvert School）走馬上任時，他還是一個年僅24歲的年輕人。然而，他有天生的教學異能，了解孩子需要什麼，知道如何講孩子才能聽明白，以及孩子成長的規律。 希利爾校長認為，孩子們寫作、閱讀和數學的基礎必須紮實。在此基礎上，他認為學生應當接受歷史、藝術、地理和科學的系統教育，意在培育熟悉周遭世界得全方位學生。希利爾深感傳統教科書的枯燥無味，立志為孩子編寫一套讀起來興味盎然的歷史、地理和藝術讀物，這便是這套書的由來。

產品目錄

產品目錄 1. The World Through a Spy-Glass2. The World is Round, for I've Been Round It3. The Inside of the World4. The Endless Parade5. The 13 Club6. Next-door Neighbors7. The War-God’s Country8. So Near and Yet so Far9. Pirate Seas10. North South America11. Rubber and Coffee Land12. Silver Land and Sliver Land13. The Bridge Across the Ocean14. The Land of the Angles15. The Land of the Angles (continued)16. The Land of the Angles (continued)17. Parlez-vous Français?18. Parlez-vous Français? (continued)19. The Land Below the Sea20. Castles in Spain21. Castles in Spain (continued)22. The Boot Top23. The Gates of Paradise and the Dome of Heaven24. The Dead and Alive City25. A Pile of Ashes a Mile High26. The Land of the Gods27. The Land in the Sky28. “Made in Germany”29. The Great Danes30. Fish, Fiords, Falls, and Forests31. Fish, Fiords, Falls, and Forests (continued)32. Where the Sun Shines all Night33. The Bear34. The Bread-Basket35. The “IA” Countries36. The Land of the New Moon37. The Ship of the Desert38. A “Once-was” Country39. A Land Flowing with Milk and Honey40. The “Exact Spots”41. The Garden of Eden42. The Land of Bedtime Stories43. The Lion and the Sun44. Opposite-Feet45. Opposite-Feet (continued)46. The White Elephant47. Where the Thermometer Freezes Up48. A Giant Sea-Serpent49. Picture Post-Cards50. Dragon Land51. Dragon Land (continued)52. Man-Made Mountains53. Robber Lands and Desert Sands54. Afraid of the Dark55. Zoo Land56. The End of the Rainbow57. Fortune Island58. Cannibal Islands59. Journey's End

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內文 : 【摘文1】The World Through a Spy-Glass



YOU have never seen your own face.

This may surprise you and you may say it isn’t so—but it is so.

You may see the end of your nose.

You may even see your lips, if you pout out—so.

If you stick out your tongue, you may see the tip of it.

But you can’t go over there, outside of yourself, and look at your

own face.

Of course you know what your face looks like, because you have seen it in a mirror; but that’s not yourself—it’s only a picture of yourself.

And in the same way no one of us can see our own World—all of it—this World on which we live.

You can see a little bit of the World just around you—and if you go up into a high building you can see still more—and if you go up to the top of a high mountain you can see still, still more—and if you go up in an airplane you can see still, still, still more.

But to see the Whole World you would have to go much higher than that, higher than any one has ever been able to go or could go. You would have to go far, far above the clouds; way, way off in the sky where the stars are—and no one can do that, even in an airplane.

Now you cannot see the World in a mirror as you can see your face. So how do we know what the World looks like?

A fish in the sea might tell her little fish, “The World is all water—just a huge tub; I’ve been everywhere and I know.” Of course, she wouldn’t know anything different.

A camel in the desert might tell her little camels, “The World is all sand—just a huge sand pile; I’ve been everywhere and I know.”

A polar bear on an iceberg might tell her little polar bears, “The World is all snow and ice—just a huge refrigerator; I’ve been everywhere and I know.”

A lion in the jungle might tell her little lion cubs, “The World is all woods—just a huge forest; I’ve been everywhere and I know.”

In the same way, once upon a time, people used to tell their little children, “The World is just a big island like a huge mud pie with some water, some sand, some ice, and some trees on it, and with a glass cover we call the sky over us all; we’ve been everywhere and we know.”

When some inquisitive child asked, “What does the flat World like a mud pie rest on?” they really truly said, “It rests on the backs of four elephants.”

But when the inquisitive child asked, “And what do the elephants stand on?” they really truly said, “On a big turtle.”

Then when the inquisitive child asked, “What does the turtle stand on?” no one could say—for no one could even guess farther than that—so the turtle was left standing—on nothing.

That’s the old story that parents long ago used to tell their children as to what the World was like. But just suppose you could go way, way off above the clouds; way, way off in the sky, sit on a corner of nothing at all, dangle your feet over the edge and look down at the World far, far below. What do you suppose it would really look like? I know—and yet I have never been there.

The World from way off in the sky and through a spy-glass would look just like a full moom—round and white; not round like a plate, but round like a huge snowball. Not exactly white, either, but bright—for the sun shines on this big ball, the World, and makes it light just as the headlight on an automobile shines on the road at night and makes the road light. Of course, the sun can shine on only one side of this big ball at a time; the other side of the World is dark, but the World keeps turning round and round in the sunlight.

If you looked at the World through a telescope—you know what a telescope is: one of those long spy-glasses that make things seem closer and bigger—as men look at the moon, you would see on one side of the World two big patches that look like queerly shaped shadows and on the other side of the World twice as many big patches, four queerly shaped shadows. These patches which look like shadows are really land and are called by a long name: con-ti-nents. These continents have names, and if their names were printed across them in letters a thousand miles high—which they are not—so that the man with a spy-glass could read them, he would read on one side of the World



NORTH AMERICA

SOUTH AMERICA



and if he waited until the World turned round, until the other side showed in the sunlight, as I’ve seen the World do in “the movies,” he would read on this continent EUROPE and on that continent ASIA and on the other continent AFRICA, and the smallest one would have the longest name, AUSTRALIA.

We call one side of a piece of money “the head,” because there is usually the head of someone on that side, and the other side we call “the tail,” as that is opposite from the head. It would be easy to tell which side of the World was which if we could call one side heads and the other tails. But there are no heads or tails on the World—only these queer shadows—so we use two big words instead of “heads” and “tails” to tell which side of the World is which. We call one side the “Western Hemisphere” and the other side we call the “Eastern Hemisphere.” Whew! Why don’t they call it something easy?—well, let’s call it “Half-a-Ball,” for that is what Hemisphere means. The Western Half-Ball has two continents and the Eastern Half-Ball has four continents.

The tip top and the very bottom of the World are called the Poles, although there are no poles. Around the top and bottom Pole it would be all white—snow and ice—for the Poles are so cold there is snow and ice there all the time.

The part of the World that isn't patches of shadow or snow is water. The water all around the continents is the ocean, and though of course there are no walls nor fences dividing it into different parts, its different parts are called by different names.

Do you know your right hand from your left? Of course you do if you’re over six years old. But do you know the west side from the east side? If you are over nine years old you should. The east is where the sun rises, the west is where it sets. And if your right hand is east, your left hand is west, your face is north and your back is south.

The Atlantic Ocean is on the east side of North and South America. The Pacific Ocean is on the west. The ocean entirely in the Eastern Hemisphere is called “Indian.” No, it is not named for our Indians. At the top of the World is the Arctic and at the bottom the Ant-arctic Ocean. The Arctic and Antarctic Oceans are mostly ice, for it is so cold there the water freezes and stays frozen. If we wanted to put names on the oceans so that a man off in the sky could read them, we would have to stick huge signs in the water, as we can't paint letters on the ocean.

There is no reason why I should show you the World turned this way with America on top. I might just as well show it upside down or sideways, for there is no upside nor downside on the World. I suppose the reason the north side is always shown on top is because the people who made maps and geographies all lived in the north part of the World and they wanted their part of the World on top.

So this is our World. You may wonder, “Are there any other Worlds besides ours?” Some have guessed that there may be—that some of those sparks in the sky that look like stars at night may be other Worlds like ours with people living on them. But no one knows, for the strongest telescope is not strong enough for us to see what is on those far off sparks, so we can only guess about them.



【摘文2】The Endless Parade



DID you ever see a parade—a very long one? I once saw a parade of soldiers that took all day to pass by. Tramp, tramp—tramp, tramp—tramp, tramp, hour after hour, all day long. I never had seen so many men in my whole life. There must have been a hundred thousand of them. It didn’t seem possible that there were so many people in the World. But if all the people there are in the World should pass by in one long parade, it would take not one day but a lifetime for them to pass by, for there are nearly two billion people in the World.

A hundred new people—babies—are born every minute of the day and of the night; many are born while you are reading this, and with every tick of the clock someone has died. But more people are born than die each day, so that the World is getting fuller and fuller of people all the time.

The people on the World are all about the same size and shape. Only in fairy-tales are people as big as your thumb or as tall as a church-steeple. None have wings instead of arms or wheels instead of legs. They all have one head, one nose, one mouth; they all have two ears, two eyes, two arms, and two legs. And yet in all these two billion people there are no two alike, there is not a single person exactly like any other one. Even twins are not exactly alike.

The chief difference in people is their color. Most of the two billion are white, but a great many are black and the larger number are halfway between white and black—they are sort of yellow-brown. These three colors of people we call “races.”

Each race used to live by itself in its own part of the World, but many have wandered away to other parts. Most of the people in our part of the World are white, but there are also many black and a few yellow-brown.

Suppose you had been born black.

Suppose you’d been born yellow or red.

Suppose you had been born in

Africa or

Asia or

Australia.

Suppose you had been born with another father and mother.

Suppose you had been born in another world instead of this World.

Suppose you hadn’t been born at all—where would you be now?



There are only six continents, but on each continent there are several countries. A country doesn’t mean the country. A country means cities, towns, villages and country under one ruler. There are two hundred countries on the World. Some countries are small with only a few thousand people in the whole country, and some countries are large with many millions of people. Our country, the United States, has over three hundred million people, but there are several countries larger. China, which is on the o

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