new horizon college english

New Horizon College English

Book 1 Unit 6

Contents

Warm-up Activities

Section A

Section B

Writing

Test Yourself

Audio-oral Activities

Warm-up Activities

What makes life perfect?

Understanding the passages

Tower of Babel

Class Talk

Section A

• Useful Collocations

• Useful Sentence Patterns

• Comprehension

• Summary

Section B

• Useful Collocations

• Comprehension

• Learning Idioms

• Topic for Discussion

• Questions About the Text

Audio-oral Activities

• A Game

• Invitation

• What Job Is It?

• Listen for Jobs

• Tongue Twisters

A SMALL TRUTH A SMALL TRUTH TO MAKE LIFE TO MAKE LIFE

100% 100%

If

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

is equal to

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22

23 24 25 26

Hard work

H+A+R+D+W+O+R+K 8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11 =

98%

Knowledge

K+N+O+W+L+E+D+G+E 11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5 =

96%

Love

L+O+V+E

12+15+22+5 = 54%

Luck

L+U+C+K

12+21+3+11 = 47% (don't most of us think this is the most important???)

Then what makes 100%?

Is it Money? ... NO!!!!! [M+O+N+E+Y = 13+15+14+5+25 = 72%]

Leadership? ... NO!!!! [L+E+A+D+E+R+S+H+I+P = 12+5+1+4+5+18+19+9+16 = 89%]

Every problem has a solution, only if we perhaps change

our attitude.

To go to the top,

to that 100%,

what we really need to go further...a bit more...

ATTITUDE

A+T+T+I+T+U+D+E 1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5 =

100%

It is OUR ATTITUDE towards Life and Work that makes OUR Life

100%

Let’s learn what the Bible tells us:

Class talk:

1. Watch a chapter of the movie “Finding Nemo”( 海底总动员 ). Lack of communication is often the root of generation gap. Do you have this problem? What do you think of Nemo and his father?

2.2. Survey:Survey: where do people more likely communicate with their neighbors, in the country or in city? ( 问卷调查：乡下还是城里的邻里关系更加和谐？ ) What are the possible causes?

3. Mobile phones are increasingly popular nowadays. Do you think they make personal communication easier or harder? What are the reasons?

In this unit, you’ll learn one way of communication—to appreciate what the writer is trying to pass on to you through his writing.

First of all, let’s discuss:

When you have done something wrong, you feel …

ashamed of yourself

guilty

embarrassed

When you fail to do something, you feel …

upset

helpless

hopeless

frustrated

When you run into something unexpected, you feel …

surprised

scared

amazed

shocked

How many words and phrases of emotion do you know and would you like to share with us some of them?

However, do we always have to be that straightforward?

Is it possible for us to share our feelings with others in another way, in this case, through reading, and later through writing?

Certainly!

But HOW?

Let’s take Passage A from this unit for example. Read the passage once more and figure out:

What kind of feeling the widow shared with Elizabeth Jolley in Cabin Fever?

OR: What would be the answer to Paragraph Two: Why are these lines so painful?

She loved and missed her husband very much.

What message do you get from Paragraph 4, specifically the following sentence “One sat in a car, crying; another stood surrounded by sympathizers offering pity.”?

Some of the couple’s relatives, including the mothers, regarded their marriage as a great loss of the families and therefore were upset even at the wedding ceremony .

Try to work on the rest of the passage and passage B in the unit and share more feelings with the widow and the trashman.

Next, we are going to read part of a passage, telling a tragedy that happened on a father. Do the first reading and produce as many words as you know to describe the father’s emotional status.

Passage

surprised, confused, shocked, broken-hearted, passionate, helpless,…

Now have a second look at the paragraphs respectively to have some further appreciation of the discourse.

1 My wife Tina and I were preparing for an evening out in the Spanish resort of Torremolinos when the phone rang. At first I hardly recognized the voice of my eldest daughter Susannah. She was extremely upset and barely coherent. She could tell us only, “Andrew and Alexander; they’ve been found dead.”

Have a close study on the underlined parts and tell the class how do you think the father must have felt ?

He was surprised to get the unexpected call. (… WHEN…)

He was confused about the way his daughter talked over the phone. ( SHE WAS EXTREMELY UPSET AND BARELY COHERENT.)

The news he got was unbelievable –Andrew and Alexanderhad died and no one knew why yet. ( …FOUND DEAD.)

2 My son Andrew, 26, and his 17-year-old half-brother Alexander Woodcraft, my former wife’s son, had been staying the night at Andrew’s flat in Lincoln. The two had been to a pub concert. At first the news did not sink in. Tina and I were stunned as we got the first available flight home four hours later. It had to be a mistake. After we landed we drove straight to Lincolnshire to my ex-wife’s house. It was only then that I found out that the boys had been shot. How would you interpret the underlined parts?

Shocked as they were, the father and his wife would not accept the fact until they hurried home and learned the tragedy in person from his ex-wife. ( DID NOT SINK IN; WERE STUNNED; THE FIRST AVAILABLE FLIGHT; IT WAS THEN THAT …)

3 Before working as a legal assistant for Bedfordshire County Council, I had spent 30 years in the police—20 of them as a detective. Working on many gruesome murder cases, drugs investigations, regional crime, antiterrorism and robbery, I thought I had witnessed just about the full range of human violence and misery. I was now to find out that nothing prepares you for the death of one of your own children.

As an experienced police who had coped with all sorts of crime, he had regarded himself as tough; still, facing the tragedy, he appeared so weak-- he had to admit that he could never be ready to witness the death of his loved ones.

He had found another “HE” inside him. What is it?

4 Andrew, a brilliantly gifted writer, had already had one volume of verse published, and nearly finished another. All hopes, dreams and ambitions lay wasted in the pale lifeless body of my much-loved son that I had to identify in the hospital mortuary. I could hardly speak as I gave him a last kiss.

A vivid picture of a broken-hearted father-- when giving his son a last kiss, he realized helplessly that his beloved, promising son, had left the world for good, taking away with him all his hopes, dreams and ambition.. (A BRILLIANT, GIFTED WRITER,.. ALL HOPES, DREAMS, … LAY WASTED IN THE PALE, LIFES BODY OF …)

What has come into your mind as you read this paragraph?

So, communication can be carried out not only through speaking, but also through reading and writing. Would you like to have a try?

• Suggestions on further practice:

1. Do more readings from the NHE series and try to communicate with the writers to appreciate more of the language they use.

2. Write a passage telling your first experiences at college, try to avoid using specific words of emotion but describe your experience in such a way that your readers will share your feelings on your first few days at college. Since you are writing your experiences, keep in mind the time sequence structure mentioned on page 134.

Useful collocations1. read considerably 大量阅读2. store quotations in a note book

在笔记本上作很多摘抄

3. experience the deep-felt wish

感觉到深切的愿望

4. an intense wish 一个强烈的愿望5. a worn wedding album

一本旧结婚相册

6. the bride and groom 新娘新郎

Useful collocations7. everything is a blur 一切都模糊不清

8. guests file past 客人都鱼贯而过

9. cheerful good wishes 令人愉快的美好祝愿

10. sympathizers offering pity

同情者表达着遗憾

11. want only the best for sb. 只希望某人过得最好

12. support the family 养家

Useful collocations13. a short, portly, elderly lady

一个矮胖的、上了年纪的妇人

14. money loaned by sb. 从……借来的钱

15. afford a honeymoon 支付蜜月的费用16. message conveyed by sb.

由某人传达的信息

17. scan for sth. in… 仔细察看……来寻找….

18. church bulletins 教堂的布告栏

Useful collocations19. with the passage of time

随着时间的流逝

20. as time and opportunity allowed

当时间和条件允许的时候

21. restrain the desire to do sth.

抑制着想做某事的渴望

22. bring up the curiosity regarding sth.

提起对某事的好奇心

23. attend one’s wedding 参加某人的婚礼

Useful collocations

24. a worn fading envelope 一个破旧退色的信封

25. rest one’s eyes 休息眼睛

26. What matters is this… 最重要的是……

Useful collocations

Thomas Jefferson is a wealthy planter who read considerably in the popular books of the age.

托马斯 · 杰弗逊是一个富有的农场主，大量阅读了那个时代流行的书籍。

Useful collocations

Driven by my intense wish to help this friendly patient who trusted me, I traveledas fast as I could.

在一种想帮助对我深信不疑的患者的强烈愿望驱使下，我急速快跑。

Useful collocations

I want only the best for my child, but I don't want to take away his choices.

我只想让我的孩子过的最好，但我不想剥夺他选择的权利。

Useful collocations

He finished his university education with the money loaned by banks.

他向银行借钱完成了大学教育。

Useful collocations

Can’t afford a honeymoon? Here are some tips for cutting wedding cost.没钱度蜜月是吗？这里有些节约结婚费用的小建议。

Useful collocations

Ease your mind and scan your PC for viruses.

不必担心，给你的电脑扫描病毒。

Useful collocations

When time and opportunities allowed I would like to travel to Tibet.

时间和条件允许的话，我想去西藏旅游。

Useful collocations

What matters most in English classrooms is how to make students speak more.

英语课上最重要的事情是让学生讲更多的话。

What matters is this • matter as a verb is usually used in negatives or int

errogatives. In affirmatives, it usually requires a subject of it or a clause. Put the following into English:

• 这关系重大。• It matters a lot.• 你本人是否参加会议并不重要，重要的是会议

讨论这件事。• Whether you personally attend the meeting

does not matter; what matters is that the meeting will discuss on this matter.

Useful Sentence Patterns

• so…that

• for…

• it seems to sb.

Useful sentence patterns 1 ） So intense is this wish that if I write the

word husband on a piece of paper ， my eyes fill with tears. (L 4)

So + adj. + be + n. + that … (clause).

(Or: To such a degree / an extent + be + n. + that …) … 如此……以致……

Useful sentence patterns

So intense was his wish to study aboard that he spend a lot of time learning English.

他是如此想到国外读书，所以他花了大量时间学英语。

So intense is this wish that • This is an inverted sentence. What is the normally-

ordered sentence?• This wish is so intense that if I write the word husband

on a piece of paper, my eyes fill with tears.• Why is the sentence inverted?• so is put at the beginning of the sentence.• Why does the author put so at the beginning?• To emphasize the idea of intense.• Do you have other ways to emphasize the idea of

intense?• very: This wish is very intense and if I …

So intense is this wish that• Now use so…that and inversion to rewrite the foll

owing sentences:• I was very surprised at the result and I didn’t kno

w what to say.• So surprised was I at the result that I didn’t kno

w what to say.• He spoke English very quickly and we didn’t cat

ch a single word of his.• So quickly did he spoke English that we didn’t c

atch a single word of his.

to such a degree / extent expresses the similar meaning with so… that. Rewrite the following sentences with so…that.

To such a degree was his interest in computer games that he failed half of his final exams this term.

So interested was he in computer games that he failed half of his final exams this term.

Rewrite the sentence with so…that

To such an extent was my love for music that I even wondered whether I should not make a career of it.

So much was my love for music that I even wondered whether I should not make a career of it.

Useful sentence patterns Then quickly ， for such a short portly ， elderly person ， she disappeared. (L. 25)

For (all)+n., main clause.

尽管……但是……


尽管困难重重，我们一定会战胜洪水。

For all the great difficulties, we will win the war against the flood.


尽管我不知道我的大学生活会怎样，在驶往厦门的火车上我的心充满了激动。For all uncertainties about my university life, my heart was filled with excitement on the train to Xiamen.


It has always seemed to me that she was the wrong shape for a heavenly messenger. (L.56)

It seems / appears to sb. that … （从句）在某人看来／某人觉得，……


在我看来英语学习最难的部分是词汇。 It has always seemed to me that the most difficult part of English learning is vocabulary.

Paragraph 1

Alone now, the widow reads considerably. She used to underline favorite passages to share with her husband. Now, in a notebook, she stores quotations like this one from Elizabeth Jolley's Cabin Fever: "I experience again the deep-felt wish to be part of a married couple, to sit by the fire in winter with the man who is my husband. So intense is this wish that if I write the word husband on a piece of paper, my eyes fill with tears."

A question about Paragraph 1• Why did the widow write down the quotations like

this one? A. Because she read a lot. B. Because she wanted to share them with her husband. C. Because she had a habit of writing quotations in a notebook. D.Because these quotations are touching.

• Key: D

Paragraph 3• We begin with a worn wedding album.

In the first picture, the bride and groom are facing, with uncertain smiles, a church filled with relatives and friends. The bride did not wear glasses that day, so everything was a blur of candlelight and faces.

• Read the paragraph and determine whether the following statements are true or not.

Paragraph 4• They walked to the back of the church

and stood at the door as their guests filed past. From colleagues and old schoolmates came cheerful good wishes clothed in friendly jokes. Some relatives, however, were not pleased. One sat in a car, crying; another stood surrounded by sympathizers offering pity. Both these women-mothers of the bride and groom-would have insisted they wanted only the best for their children but they defined "the best" as staying home to help support the family.

Paragraph 8

• Soon they departed, in a borrowed car. With money loaned by the groom's brother, they could afford a honeymoon at a state-park lodge. Sitting before a great oak fire, they recalled the events of the day, especially the strange message conveyed by Aunt Esther Gubbins.

Paragraph 13

• The couple's life together was very ordinary. Peculiarly, neither ever asked "Whose job is this?" or asserted "That is not my responsibility!" Both acted to fill their needs as time and opportunity allowed.

Paragraph 15

• Occasionally, usually around their anniversary, they would bring up the old curiosity regarding Aunt Esther Gubbins. He would insist the elderly woman did attend their wedding accidentally. But she knew "Aunt Esther" was on some heavenly mission.

Paragraph 19• The next morning she saw he had written b

elow her message: "Wife, I missed you. You thought I was asleep, but I was just resting my eyes and thinking about that peculiar woman who talked to us in church a long time ago. It has always seemed to me that she was the wrong shape for a heavenly messenger. Anyway, it's time to stop wondering whether she came from heaven or a nearby town. What matters is this: whoever she was, Aunt Esther Gubbins was right."

to sit by the fire in winter• Why did Elizabeth Jolley

mention this particular place in this context?

• A fireplace is a comfortable and cozy place for a family gathering in winter, a symbol of family warmth in the Western tradition.

• What is the similar symbol of family warmth in Chinese tradition?

to sit by the fire in winter

• kang • an exercise

I experience again the deep-felt wish to be part of a married couple, to sit by the fire in winter with the man who is my husband.

Write a sentence following the pattern of the sentence above.

I experience again the longed-for relaxation at home, to sit on the kang, smoking and watching my cat.

Questions for Para. 3• The wedding pictures were blur because the

bride did not wear glasses.

• Wrong. We don’t know whether they took pictures at the wedding. Everything was blur is the result of the bride not wearing glasses: to the shorted-sighted bride, everything was blur. But to others with a normal sight, everything was clear.

Questions for Para. 3• The couple had a wedding album that was

worn because of its long time.

• Not sure. We don’t know whether the couple took pictures of their wedding and put them into an album. Album in the text is a metaphor, referring to history.

Questions for Para. 3• The couple at the wedding did not know for

sure whether they loved each other.

• Wrong. They were certain of their love but uncertain of blesses of their mothers

From colleagues and old schoolmates came cheerful good wishes clothed in friendly jokes.

• Express the sentence again, avoiding using clothed.

• From colleagues and old schoolmates came cheerful good wishes in the form of friendly jokes.

• From colleagues and old schoolmates came cheerful good wishes in friendly jokes.

Both these women-mothers of the bride and groom-would have insisted they wanted only the best for their children • A grammatical rule we have learned before says that

the clause following insist needs a subjunctive mood in the form of should + infinitive. Why does the author use wanted instead of want in the clause? Does she break the rule?

• No. The subjunctive mood in such a case indicates a strong opinion. In this case, the clause is the opinion of the mothers, but not necessarily a strong opinion.

With money loaned by the groom's brother, they could afford a honeymoon at a state-park lodge. • What does the word state-park tell you

besides the fact that it is a beautiful place?Low cost. Here is an extract from the California State Park website:

Day Use Fees Effective as of July 1 2004 Reservations and Fees At most parks, Day Use Fees are charged for parking only. There is no charge to walk or bike into these parks. Most historical parks and museums charge a Day Use Fee per person.

neither ever asked "Whose job is this?" or asserted "That is not my responsibility!"

• Can you use said instead of asserted in this sentence?

• Yes. What other words we can use to replace asserted?• declare, announce, state, insist on

But she knew "Aunt Esther" was on some heavenly mission.

• 他到上海出公差。• He went to Shanghai on a business mission.• 上个世纪初她祖父来中国传教布道。• At the beginning of the last century, her gra

ndfather came to China on a religious mission.

• 他被派往海外执行一项秘密任务。• He was sent abroad on a secret mission.

• Put the following sentences into English:

It has always seemed to me that she was the wrong shape for a heavenly messengerDescribe the right shape for a heavenly messenger.

• A cute child with a pair of wings.

• What is the English word for this?

• angel• What job does an

angel do in Western culture?

It has always seemed to me that she was the wrong shape for a heavenly messenger

• Convey heavenly messages; prove the existence of God, etc.

• What is a Chinese angel?• 善财童子，天女

It has always seemed to me that she was the wrong shape for a heavenly messenger

Now why does Aunt Gubbins have a wrong shape?

short, portly, elderly

Summary

• Write a summary of the text, using as many useful collocations you’ve learned in this unit.

(See the next page for the sample)

Summary

• Widowed now, the old lady was thinking about what has been mattered most （最重要的事情 ) in her life. She experienced again the deep-felt wish（再一次感觉到深切的愿望） to be with her husband.

Summary

• On their wedding day, relatives and guests filed past （鱼贯而过） with cheerful good wishes（令人愉快的美好祝愿） . There was a mysterious, short and portly（胖的） lady who called herself Aunt Esther came up to them and said to them that they were going to live a happy life together. The lady turned out to be a relative （亲戚） to neither the bride or the groom. （新郎新娘）

Summary

• During their long ordinary married years, they both acted to fill the needs of the family when time and opportunities allowed （如果时间和条件允许的话） . Every now and then they would bring up the old curiosity regarding （提起有关……的好奇心） the mysterious lady.

Summary

• Alone, old and not left with much fortune now, the widow knows very well there is nothing to save from her old home other than an old and fading envelope（一个退色的旧信封） , which she has kept for so long. There is a short note folded in the envelope. On the note is her old husband’s handwriting which reads: it is time for us to stop wondering who the peculiar lady was. Whoever she is, what she said is right. We have had a good and happy life together.

Useful collocations

1. haul trash 扛垃圾

2. do sth. for four solid hours 做某事整整四个小时

3. my shoulder hurt wickedly 肩膀疼得厉害

4. legs occasionally tremble 腿偶尔打战

5. the hours flew by. 时间过得飞快

6. head to the street 朝着马路走

Useful collocations

6. on the route 在……的路上

7. make the rounds 按照一定顺序走

8. look approachable 看起来可接近

9. lengthy talks 长时间的谈话

10. exchange greetings 互打招呼

11. go with 与……相配

Useful collocations

13. get a direct reply 得到直接的答复

14. look sb. in the eye 直视某人的眼睛

15. most often 多数情况下

16. a surprised stare 吃惊的眼神

17. come around the corner of 从……拐弯过来

18. at the sound of 一听到……声音19. gather her housecoat tightly about her

把家居外套紧紧地裹在身上

Useful collocations

20. retreat quickly indoors 很快就回到房间里了

21. turn coldly away 冷漠地转过身

22. rage spontaneously about sth.

不由自主地因……发脾气

23. Who are you to say what goes?

你算什么东西竟敢说什么可扔？

24. my wife’s folks 我妻子的亲友

Useful collocations

25. come right out 直接说出来

26. be ashamed of 因……而感到羞耻27. go around boasting about sth.

到处吹嘘

28. yell at sb. 向某人喊

29. stay away from sb. /sth. 远离某人 / 某物30. have a lot of sympathy for sb. 对某人充满同情

Useful collocations

31. stay at this employment 继续做这个工作

32. do an essential task 完成重要的任务

33. be in for trouble 免不了麻烦

34. hold water 站得住脚

35. go a step further 进一步36. called for 号召

Understand the collocations by more examples

• I thought this might mean more exchanges as I made the rounds today.


• We made the rounds to see what thebig wine suppliers had to offer.

• AIDS workers make rounds at arts fest Tuesday. The festival, which brings together around 2000 delegates from 27 countries in a small space, offers great opportunities to spread the AIDS prevention message.


• A society which praises its philosophers and looks down on its plumbers is in for trouble.


• Fans may be in for disappointment today. Michel Jordon is not going to appear in today’s match because of his knee wound.

• Christmas goods are be in for discounts today.


• There wasn’t time for lengthy talks but enough to exchange greetings that go with civilized way.


• These wines go with seafood perfectly.


• If someone comes right out and asks, “Do you drive for a garbage company?

Understand the collocations by more examples (a song)

• Do I have to come right out and say it, • Tell you that you look so fine? • Do I have to come right out and ask you to

be mine? • If it was a game I could play it, • Trying to make it but I'm losing time • I got to bring you in, you're overworking m

y mind.

The Trashman A trashman is a person

who collects trash from people. Besides trash, do you know other words that mean the things shown in the picture?

trash: rubbish garbage litter junk

Here are some common things associated with trash. Learn their English expressions:

Paragraph 2 I could not have imaged there would b

e joy in this. Dump. Lift. Walk. Lift. Walk. The hours flew by.

Paragraph 3 Saturday meant most adults were at home o

n the route. So were school-age children. I thought this might mean more exchanges as I made the rounds today. Many people were out-doors working in their gardens or greenhouses. Most looked approachable enough. There wasn't time for lengthy talks but enough to exchange greetings that go with civilized ways.

Paragraph 5 I said hello in quite a few yards before the

message registered that this wasn't normally done. Occasionally, I got a direct reply from someone who looked me in the eye, smiled, and asked "How are you?" or "Isn't this a nice day?" I felt human then. But most often the response was either nothing at all, or a surprised stare because I had spoken.

Paragraph 8

"The way most people look at you, you'd think a trashman was a monster. Say hello and they stare at you in surprise. They don't realize we're human."

Paragraph 9

• "One lady put ashes in her trashcan. I said we couldn't take them. She said, 'Who are you to say what goes? You're nothing but a trashman.' I told her, 'Listen, lady, I've got an I.Q. of 137, and I graduated near the top of my high school class. I do this for the money, not because it's the only work I can do."

Paragraph 12

I had originally planned to stay at this employment for only two days but now I'm going to continue. The exercise is great; the lifting gets easier with every load, even if my shoulder muscle is sore. I become faster and neater each day. I'm outdoors in clean air. And, contrary to what people think, I don't get dirty on the job.

Wastebasket废纸篓

垃圾桶 garbage bingarbage cantrash canwaste bin

垃圾场 dump

垃圾袋 garbage bag

垃圾食品 junk food

I could not have imaged there would be joy in this. Can you use thought or believed to replace imaged

in this sentence?i.e. I could not have thought there would be joy in this. I could not have believed there would be

joy in this.

Yes

Rewrite the sentence, avoiding using I could not have imaged.

Conclusion: I could not have imaged = not

There was no joy in this.

Put the following into English, using I could not have imaged:

在这种学校我们能学到什么真东西 ?

I could not have imaged there would any real learning in such a kind of school.


我说多记两个生词有什么难。

I could not have imaged there would be any difficulty in learning two more new words.


我看吃食堂的饭对健康无益。

I could not have imaged the food in the dinning hall would be beneficial to our health.

I thought this might mean more exchanges as I made the rounds today.

What does exchanges refer to?

Greetings

Rewrite this sentence, avoiding using this might mean more exchanges.

I thought I could say hello to people as I made the rounds today.

I thought this might mean more exchanges as I made the rounds today.

collection of trash.

Trashmen make the rounds when they work. Do you know other people who also make the rounds in their work?

What does make the round mean?

make the rounds

The policeman caught the suspected when he made the rounds in the neighborhood.

警察在周围巡视时抓住了嫌犯。

make the rounds

The postman makes his rounds

邮递员来回送信。

make the rounds

The supervisor made his rounds in the room, eagle-watching over the examinees.

监考老师在考场内来回巡视，密切注视着考生。

Most looked approachable enough.

Can you use other words instead of approachable?

polite

friendly

nice

hospitable

I said hello in quite a few yards before the message registered that this wasn't normally done.

What does message refer to?

The look on people’s face.

What message can you get from these looks?


What words can you use to substitute for registered?

showed

told

displayed

indicated

demonstrated

conveyed


Are you able to rewrite this part without using words of message, register, normally, done?

• I said hello in quite a few yards before ….

their look told me that they were surprised.

What message?

surprise

happy

excited

What message?

worried

concerned

at loss

What message?

expect eager long for

The way most people look at you, you'd think a trashman was a monster.

the way introduces an adverbial clause, serving a function like when, where, etc.

Join the following ideas into sentences, using the way:

talk about itknow it

They must have known it the way they talked about it.

Join the following ideas into sentences, using the way:

play the balllose the game

They will lose the game the way they play the ball.

Who are you to say what goes?

All luxuries will have to go.

必须放弃一切奢侈行为

Who are you to say what goes?

This car must go.

这辆车必须卖掉。What does go mean here?

To be given up, discarded or abolished

I had originally planned to stay at

this employment for only two days

Do you have a word to substitute for originally?

I had first planned to stay at this employment for only two days.

Put the following sentences into English, using originally:

我不知道他头桶金是怎样淘的。

I don’t know how he originally made his money.


这本书原先卖 50美元。

The book was originally sold at 50 dollars.


这可不是我们原先想要做的。

This is not what we originally set out to do.

Learning Idioms

The meaning of idiomatic expressions can be very hard — even impossible — to guess. Word formations in dictionaries don’t always help, and can even fool us entirely! Idioms grow out of events and usage within the specific culture, which is why learning the cultural behavior is as important— and maybe more important in some instances —as ( than ) learning the words if we are to achieve truly effective communication.

Learning Idioms

• Sometimes we can try to understand idiomatic expressions in a reading passage through context clues.

• But most often it does not work. Idioms contain a lot of cultural elements. So we have to expose us to more reading and listening to English songs and watching English movies can help us a lot understanding idioms as well as understanding more cultural matters.

Learning Idioms

• bend over backwards: try very hard to please sb.

• They'll bend over backwards to find a room for you. They give excellent service.

• She bends over backwards when she sees her mother-in-law.

Learning Idioms

• cough up: give unwillingly

• He coughed up some money for his children’s tuition.

Learning Idioms

• Ok, ok don’t jump down my throat! It was a simple mistake.

Learning Idioms

• Stop bothering someone

• I wish my mom would get off my back about cleaning my room.

Learning Idioms

• bad-mouth: say unkind, unflattering, embarrassing (and probably untrue) things about someone.

• A: "I don't believe what Mary said. Why is she bad-mouthing me?"B: “She's probably jealous of your success."

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Learning Idioms

• be a piece of cake: be very easy.

• Bob said the test was difficult, but I thought it was a piece of cake.

Learning Idioms

• be all ears: be eager to hear what someone has to say.

• A: "I just got an e-mail message from our old friend Sally."B: "Tell me what she said. I'm all ears!"

• Now tell us all about your adventures in Africa last summer. I'm all ears.

Learning Idioms

• be broke: be without money.

• "No, I can't lend you ten dollars. I'm completely broke until payday."

Learning Idioms

• be fed up with (with someone or something): be out of patience (with someone or something);be very tired of someone or something.

• "Bill, you're too careless with your work. I'm fed up withapologizing for your mistakes!"

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Learning Idioms

• be in and out: be at and away from a place during a particular time.

• "Could we postpone our meeting until tomorrow? I expect tobe in and out of the office most of the day today."

Topic for discussion

•“A society which praises its philosophers and looks down on its plumbers is in for trouble. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.”

• Do you think present Chinese society is like the society mentioned above? Use examples to support your idea.

Answer the following questions with the words given?

1. Describe how the trashman felt when he did his job. Hauled, continuously, wickedly, barrel, trembled, heading

2. How did the woman in a housecoat respond when the trashman came around the corner of her house? Startled, at the sound of , greeting, gather tightly, retreated, indoors

Answer the following questions with the words given?

3. How did Steve feel when he, also a trashman, knew about people’s reaction to the trashman?

(raged, spontaneously, on the long ride to the dump)

4. What did the trashman decide to do when he realized people’s prejudice towards him?

(had originally, stay at, employment, continue, exercise, great, lifting, gets easier, every load, even if, muscle, sore, faster, neater, contrary to , don’t get dirty)

Test Yourself:

I. Vocabulary

II. Translation

1. I wanted to ask you to tell me _______ if you think it worth while for me to continue.

A. elderly B. portly

C. heavenly D. frankly

D

2. Heaven knows what the board of directors does with our production figures. ______ them away somewhere, I suppose.

A. File B. Pile

C. Fill D. Folk

A

3. To develop national _______ rapidly, it is very important to practice ________. A. economy / economic B. economics / economist C. economy / economy D. economist / economy

A

4. After a lengthy and careful discussion, they came up with a well ________ plan. A. considering B. considered C. considerate D. considerable

B

5. It was really ______ for them to find this ancient treasure house. At that time, they were digging the ground to build a water irrigation project.

A. curious B. peculiar C. accidental D. spontaneous

C

6. If he knew what was good for him,

he should ________ those drug-

abusing friends of his.

A. stay at B. stay away from

C. save from D. share with

B

7. The little boy was so poor that the

________ jeans were not only his

favorite but also his only pair.

A. worn fading B. worn fade

C. wearing fading D. wearing faded

A

8. We thought it ______ for the boy to live in such a terrible condition, and were _____ to learn that there are more than fifty such AIDS orphans in one county.

A. shock / shocking B. shocking / shocked C. a shock / shocked D. shocked / shocking

B

Translation:

人很特别，对家人，伙伴，甚至是生活中大量的事情，都会油然产生情感和思想。我们可能兴高采烈，也可能情绪低沉，可能同情于人，可能抑制感情，也可能倍受伤害。因此，我们要学会尊重别人的感情，包括分享别人的快乐，避免伤害他人。如果大家都公正文明地待人待己，我们的世界就很可能充满快乐。

Human beings are peculiar. We have spontaneous feelings and thoughts towards our family, mates and even considerable things in our life. We may be cheerful or depressed, sympathized or restrained, or even deeply hurt. So, we must learn to respect others’ feelings, including sharing happiness with others and avoiding hurting others. If we all treat each other fairly and in civilized ways, our world is likely to be filled with pleasure.

Guessing who is it

I am thinking of a person and you guess who the person I’m thinking of is through asking me yes-no questions. For example:

• Is it a woman?• Is he/she alive?• Does…?• Did…?• Has…?• ………………..

Elizabeth Taylor• Now we are going to see a part of a film in

which Elizabeth Taylor acts the leading role in the story.

Film

Try to understand the couple’s talking about love and family.

Discuss the following topics

• 1.Describe the lover/spouse you want to have.2.Some qualities are conveyed to “ love” such as responsibility, knowledge, understanding,care, concern, giving rather than taking, intense feeling or action, etc. Are they equally important in your mind? Why or why not?

• 3. Love is blind

• 4. Love endures only when the lovers love many things together and not merely each other.

• Listen to the following dialogue about invitation. The sentences are incomplete. Fill in the blanks orally according to your own idea.

Listen to the passage.

Listen to individual sentences Michael: Well, do you feel like going to ________? Susan: Oh, that’s _________. Michael: Great. What about having __________? Susan: Sure, why not? Where do you want to meet? Michael: Why don’t I ____________________? Susan: Ok, what time? Michael: Is _____ o’clock OK? Susan: Fine. Well, see you at______. Michael: Right. So long for now. Susan: _______.

Listen and Check

Listen to the whole dialogue and check with your answers.

Susan: Hello.• Michael: Hi, Susan. It’s me, Michael.• Susan: Oh, hi, Michael. How’re you doing?• Michael: Oh, not bad. Say, are you doing anything Satur

day night?• Susan: No, nothing special. Why?• Michael: Well, do you feel like going to ?• Susan: Oh, that’s .• Michael: Great. What about having ?• Susan: Sure, why not? Where do you want to meet?• Michael: Why don’t I ?• Susan: Ok, what time?• Michael: Is o’clock OK?• Susan: Fine. Well, see you at .• Michael: Right. So long for now.• Susan: .

that new discoa terrific idea

a pizza first

pick you up at your house

sevenseven

Bye

Role Play

• Choose one of these situations and practice in pairs.

• 1. Invite a friend to see film.

• 2. Invite a friend to have hotpot.

• 3. Invite a friend to go shopping.

• 4. Invite a friend to go to dance.

• 5. Invite a friend to attend your birthday party.

• 6. Invite a friend to have barbecue.

Job 1

Helen works in a hotel. She receives people in a hotel. She is a .

receptionist

Job 2

James works in a company. He repairs electrical apparatus. He is an .electrician

Job 3

a nurse or a woman doctor

Teresa works in a hospital. She takes care of the patients. She is

Job 4

an actor

Tony works in a theatre. He acts a part in a play. He is .

Job 5

an mechanic

Paul works in a factory. He repairs machines. He is .

Job 6

a shop-assistant

Amanda works in a shop. She sells cameras. She is .

Job 7

a cook

Anna works in a restaurant. She prepares pizzas. She is .

Job 8

a baker

Fay works in a bakery. He bakes bread and cakes. He is .

Job 9

a builder

Jeff works in a company. He builds houses. He is .

Job 10

a musician

Wu Jiang works in a theatre. He writes music and sings. He is .

Job 11

a cleaner

Rita works in a school. She cleans windows. She is .

Job 12

a painter

Maria works in an advertising company. She paints pictures. She is .

Job 13

a computer operator

Rosie works in a computer center. She works on a computer. She is .

Job 14

manager of a job center

Penny works in a center. He interviews people for jobs. He is the .

Job 15

a sports teacher

Tom works in a teenage summer camp. He teaches children how to play football, tennis and golf. He is .

Listening for information

• Listen to two people talking about jobs. Write the jobs you hear

Tape Script

Man: Hello, Jane. How are you?Woman: Fine. It’s good to see you. How are you?Man: Well…not bad. I’ve got a new job. I’m a teacher now.Woman: A teacher? But you’re an actor. You love acting.Man: Oh, you know. It’s difficult to find work. I tries other jobs. I was a taxi driver, then a painter---but now I’m a teacher. What about you?Woman: Well, I’ve got two jobs. I’m a shop assistant.Man: A shop assistant?Woman: Yes, but only in the mornings. I’m still a musician the rest of the time!

Comparing Cultures

These surnames are also the names of jobs. Do you know the meaning of the following words?

thatcher

book

baker

smith

carpenter

butcher

Pronunciation practice

Read the following 2 tongue twisters aloud.

I thought a thought.

But the thought I thought was not the thought I thought I thought.

She sells seashells on the seashore.

The shells she sells are seashells, I'm sure.

Paragraph Writing

Order in Narration (time sequence)

Good order in narration can make a paragraph logical and effective. You may present series of actions in exactly the order in which they occurred, moving from beginning to the end, from first event to last.

Sample paragraph (paras.18~19 unit 6)• One evening her husband had fallen asleep whil

e reading a spy novel. She wrote a note on the envelope and left it on his book: “ Husband, I have gone next door to help Mrs. Norton with her sick children. ”

• The next morning she saw he had written below her message: “Wife, I missed you. You thought I was asleep, but I was just resting my eyes and thinking about that peculiar woman who talked to us in a church a long time ago. It has always seemed to me that she was the wrong shape for a heavenly messenger. Anyway, it’s time to stop wondering whether she came from heaven or a nearby town. What matters is this: whoever she was, Aunt Esther Gubbins was right.”

Sample paragraph (para.5 unit 2)• Sandy walked into the bathroom and

turned on the shower. At first, the water felt cold. It helped her wake up. Then, as the water got hotter, she thought, “ This shower feels great and in here I can be alone and sing. No one disturbs me in here. ” She grabbed the soap and washed thoroughly, including her hair. If she stayed in the shower too long, her mom or dad usually banged on the door to rush her so she grabbed a towel and dried off.

Please find out the time markers from the two sample paragraphs above.

• One evening, the next morning, and , at first, then

• Could you think of some frequently-used time markers?

• 1) before, prior to, after, when, while, until• 2) first, then, next, finally• 3) the first thing, the second thing, …, the last thing.• 4) firstly, secondly, thirdly, …, finally• 5) last year (month, week, day, minute, moment), • 6) the next morning (afternoon, evening), the

following • day, etc.• 7) later, at the same

time(meanwhile)immediately(soon),

Now write one short paragraph with a set of actions organized according to the order of their sequence. Use time signals whenever possible. The topic has a detailed

outline that you can follow. • Topic : How to take good notes ?• Detail outlined: Before the lecture begins: make

some preparation for the lecture, be more likely to predict the organization of the lecture.

have a proper attitude. Be prepared to be open-minded to what the lecturer may say even though you may disagree with it.

During the lecture : Be brief in your note taking,Summarize your notes in your own words, not the instructor's. At the end of the lecture, ask questions about points you did not understand.

After the lecture: revise your notes quickly, immediately after the lecture since at that time you will still remember the lecture.

Sample paragraph: • Freshmen tend to ask how to take good notes

in their studies. Here are some tips. Before the lecture begins: make some preparation for the lecture so that you will be more likely to predict the organization of the lecture. And then have a proper attitude: be prepared to be open-minded to what the lecturer may say even though you may disagree with it. During the lecture: be brief in your note taking, summarizing your notes in your own words, not the instructor's. At the end of the lecture, ask questions about points you did not understand. After the lecture: revise your notes as soon as possible, preferably immediately after the lecture since at that time you will still remember a good deal of the lecture.

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