Unit 3

Father Knows Better

Discussion:

When did the story happen?

What’s your happiest moment being with your parents?

Spot Dictation

The English language contains dozens of words that describe the dog, yet not alone seem ___. Loving, loyal, ___, amusing, spirited, tireless. How they enchant us, delight us and brighten our days. How they work for us. Down through history, no other animal has served us as in many ways. For by one philosopher “___ .” The dog is at work on farms and pastures around the world.

Across The ___ of the frozen north; as comrades on the battlefields of war. Seeking even the ___ of the buried victims of the disaster or a hiker who’s lost his way. As the years’ devoted servant to the ill, elderly and handicapped. We will never know exactly how ___ came about or when. But one story tells us. In the beginning God created man but, ___ , he gave him a dog.

Transcript The English language

contains dozens of words that describe the dog, yet not alone seem entirely adequate. Loving, loyal, devoted, amusing, spirited, tireless. How they enchant us, delight us and brighten our days.

How they work for us. Down through history, no other animal has served us as in many ways. For by one philosopher “the noblest beast that God ever made.” The dog is at work on farms and pastures around the world.

Across The forbidden reaches of the frozen north, as comrades on the battlefields of war. Seeking even the faintest scent of the buried victims of the disaster or a hiker who’s lost his way. As the years’ devoted servant to the ill, elderly and handicapped.

We will never know exactly how this unprecedented partnership came about or when. But one story tells us. In the beginning God created man but, seeing him so feeble, he gave him a dog.

know better

Parents should know better than their children, but they don't always necessarily do.

You are old enough to know better than to swear around.

You ought to know better than to linger along the railroad.

我们要同甘共苦。We will stay together for better or for

worse.

unison

Management and workers must act in unison to compete with foreign business.

do it together because they agree with each other

Down

Down with the government!Down

Wait tables

wait tablesAmerican English to work in a

restaurant serving food and drink to people at their tables

I spent the summer waiting tables.

Uh-ohAh hah!!!Mmmmm,Tsk! Tsk! Oops!Shhh…

PHEW!

Uh-huhHumphf!Hah!Huh-uh.Whew!Phew! Hmmm.

Paralanguage

address

The two letters are addressed to MR. Parker.

Send a stamped, self-addressed envelope.

She addressed her remarks particularly to the young people in the crowd.

Sam Walton would like to be addressed as Sam.

5. address yourself to something Marlowe now addressed himself to t

he task of searching the room.

Gettysburg Address

6.(Formal) if you address a problem, you start trying to solve it

address a problem/question/issue etc Our products address the needs of real users.

short

short-sightedshort-temperedshort-termshort-circuit Short-cut

Come over somebody

if a strong feeling comes over you, you suddenly experience it

A wave of sleepiness came over me.

I'm sorry about that - I don't know what came over me (=I do not know why I behaved in that way) .

Get sth. over with

Reach the end of wth (necessary but unpleasant)

You’ll be glad to get your operation over with.

spelling bee

[countable]American English a competition in

which the winner is the person who spells the most words correctly

verb

1. to explain something clearly and in detail

spell out how/what etc.The report spelled out in detail what t

he implications were for teacher training.

Noun1. a magic spellThe kiss of the prince broke the

spell (=stopped the magic from working) .

be under a spellThe whole town seemed to be

under a spell.

2. After a brief spell in the army, I returned to teaching.

spell of

a spell of bad luckWater the young plants carefully

during dry spells. He began to suffer from dizzy

spells .

I fell under the spell of her charm.

It is still an ancient city that still casts its spell over travelers

A cartoon satirizes British physician Edward Jenner, who is shown injecting patients with cowpox virus

Unit Noun or Noun+ noun structure

… carrying on with his line of thought.

Only by division of labor can an increase in production be achieved.

A bead of perspiration stood out on his forehead.

He had to play by ear because he couldn’[t read a note of music.

When he saw the flames. He had the presence of mind to ring the fire brigade.

He must have nerves of steel to be able to withstand such an ordeal.

The recent turn of events in Iran has been rather disturbing.

His obese body shook in a fit of laughter.

She shook her head as a gesture of refusal.

I didn’t have a wink of sleep last night.

He hasn’t done a stroke of work, so he deserves no pay.

On the spur of the moment he decided he would go to Spain for his holidy.

When you interrupted me, you broke my train of thought

There was never a shadow of a doubt that he was innocent.

He caught his bus in the nick of time.

Irony

Oh, how I love queuing up!We are lucky. It’s the other side on

the thirteenth of December. That makes us feel real good. (David Parks: G I. Diary)

Simile

1. O my love’s like a red, red rose2. Maggie’s hand is as limp as a fish,

and probably as cold, despite the sweat.

3. I am the way my daughter would want me to be : a hundred pounds lighter, my skin like an uncooked barley pancake.

Metaphor

1. Imperialism is paper tiger. 2. All the world’s a stage, and all the

men and women merely player. 3. The hallway was zebra-striped with

darkness and moonlight. 4. I see that small group of villainous

men who plan, organize, and launch this cataract of horrors upon mankind.

Analogy

The chess-board is the world; the pieces are the phenomena of the universe; the rules the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.

To the man who plays well, the highest stakes are paid, with that sort of overflowing generosity with which the strong shows delight in strength. And one who plays ill is checkmated-without haste, but without remorse.

Personification

1. She knows she not bright. Like good looks and money, quickness passed her by.

Metonymy( 借喻）

1. His purse would not allow him that luxury.

2. Sword and cross in hand, the European conquerors fell upon the Americans.

3. We have rid the earth of his shadow and liberated its peoples form his yoke.

Synecdoche 借代

1. The farms were short of hands during the harvest seasons.

2. He had to earn his daily bread by doing odd jobs.

3. Australia beat Canada at cricket.

Antonomasia:-a name standing for an idea

1.Solomon a wise man2. Judas a traitor3. Uncle Tom a black who compromise

and conforms with the Whites. 4. Tom is a Hercules (extremely powerful

and muscular man)5. But that is a mistake. I know even

before I wake up. Who ever knew a Johnson with a quick tongue?

Climax

It is an outrage to bind a Roman citizen; it is a crime to scourge him; it is almost parricide to kill him; but to crucify him—what shall I say of this?”

Anticlimax

“Among the great achievements of Benito Mussolini's regime were the revival of a strong national consciousness, the expansion of the Italian Empire, and the running of the trains on time.”

“Seldom has a city gained such world renown, and I am proud and happy to welcome you to Hiroshima, a town know throughout the world for its-oysters.”

Paradox

My heart leaps up when I behold.A rainbow in the sky:So was it when my life began,So is it now I am a man,So be it when I shall grow old Or let me die!The Child is father of the a ManAnd I could wish my day to be Bound each to each by natural piety.

Oxymoron: Juliet:

O Serpent heart, hid with a flow’ring face!Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical?Dove-feather’d raven! Wolfish-ravening lamb!Despised substance of divinest show!Just opposite to what thou justly seem’st,A damned saint, an honourable villain!

Oxymoron: 1. A living death Conspicuous absence Tearful joy Jarring concord2. Cold pleasant manner Poor rich guys 3. Dully bright Mercifully fatal4. Hasten slowly Shine darkly5. A love-hate relationship

Hyperbole\overstatement

He almost died laughing. On hearing that he is married to that girl, I

whispered to myself, “ He’s the luckiest man in the world.”

… with her hoarse voice and her clumsy limping walk and her grimy cotton dresses that were always miles too long.

Understatement

It took a few dollars to build this indoor swimming pool.

I didn’t half like that.

Transferred epithet

1. I found myself was driven by the boring speech into a sleepy corner of the auditorium.

2. I was ashamed , ashamed of my own timidity, the frightened tendency to look the other way.

Euphemism

Alliteration

Other rhetorical devices

Rhetorical questions: 1. I have to make the

declaration,but can you doubt what our policy will be?

Parallelism

Repetition