Unit 9 Saving the earth
Period 3
(reading to)
Teaching Aims:
1.Improve the students’ reading ability;
2.Learn some useful words and expressions
Teaching Important Points:
1.Improve the students’ reading ability;
2.Master the useful words and expressions
Teaching Difficult Points:
1.How to help the students master the usage of the useful words and phrases in the passage;
2.How to improve the students’ reading ability
一、知识归纳
1、alone做形容词时用法归纳
(1)alone做形容词时,意为“单独的,独自的”,一般只做表语,不做定语。
Her parents were dead and she was alone.
她双亲死了,留下她独自一人。
Alone as he is ,he doesn’t feel lonely.
他虽然独居,却不感到孤寂。
(2)alone做定语,意为“只有”。通常用在名词或代词后面,可换用only.
The key alone will open the door.
只有这把钥匙能开这个门。
He alone knows the seerer.
只有他一人知道秘密。
Mr.Smith alone knows what happened.
只有史密斯先生知道发生了什么事。
He alone knows it .=He is the only person who knows it.
他是唯一知道此事的人。
2、impress用法归纳
(1)impress为及物动词,意为“使……明白重要性,留下了深刻的印象”。
The film impressed me deeply.
那部影片给我留下了深刻的印象。
His words impressed deeply on my memory.
他的话深深的印在我的脑海里。
What impressed me most was their brave spirit.
给我印象最深的是他们的无畏精神。
(2)其被动式be impressed很常用,后可接with/by.
I was greatly impressed by/with the headmaster’s speech.
我被校长的话深深的感动了。
She was deeply impressed by/with the scenery in Guilin.
桂林的景色给她留下了深刻美好的印象。
(3)impress sth. on/upon one’s mind意为“把……牢记在心”
Please impress what you see on your mind.
请把你见到的牢记在心。
3、以ly结尾的常见形容词归纳。
下列以ly结尾的不是副词,而是形容词,使用时需当心,不要误用。
friendly友好的---a friendly smile友好的微笑
lovely可爱的---a lovely girl一位可爱的姑娘
lively活泼的---a lively child一位活泼的小孩
lonely孤独的---a lonely traveller一位孤独的旅客
deadly致命的---a deadly blow致命的一击
silly傻的,无聊的---a silly question愚蠢的问题
orderly秩序的---an orderly mind有条不紊的头脑
manly男子气概的---a manly person具有男子气概的人
fatherly像父亲的---a fatherly teacher一位父亲式的教师
daily每日的---daily work日常工作
weekly每星期的---a weekly magazine周刊
yearly每年的---a yearly income年收入
二、词语辨析
1、compare…to, compare…with
compare…to “把……比做……”,着重注意两者间的相似点,compare…with “拿……与……相比较”,侧重于两者间的区别。即,compare之后接to是比作,with是比较,不能混淆。
He compared the noisy children to monkeys.
他把吵闹的孩子比作猴子。
Chairman Mao compared young people to the sun at eight or nine in the morning.
毛主席把青年人比作早晨八、九点钟的太阳。
He likes to compare his pupils with his son.
他喜欢拿自己的学生和儿子比。
No one can compare with him in English.
在英语方面无人能和他相比。
2、summit, conference, meeting, meet
四个词均可指“会议”,但使用场合不同。summit指“最高级会议、首脑会议”;conference也比较正式,指重大、规模较大的会议或专业性较强的学术(研讨)会议;meeting为普通用词,指一般性会议;meet在美国用,多指“集会”。
Chinese President Hu Jintao arrived here on Monday afternoon for a three day state visit to Russia.During his stay in Russia, he will take part in the third summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization members states to be held in Moscow.
国家主席胡锦涛周一下午到达这里,对俄罗斯进行三天的国事访问。在俄罗斯期间,主席将要参加将在莫斯科举行的上海合作组织成员国第三次首脑会议。
The International Economic Conference was hekd in Shanghai last week.
国际经济会议上周在上海举行。
Our headmaster has gone to Beijing to attend the conference on education.
我们校长去北京参加教育工作会议了。
We have a class meeting every Monday.
每周一我们有班会。
When is the school sports meet/meeting going to be held?
校运会什么时候举行?
3、cause, reason, excuse
cause意为“起因,原因”,指引起某种结果的必然原因,即主要事实方面的原因。reason指在事实的基础上通过逻辑判断推出来的理由,常与for连用。excuse指为免受指责和推卸责任而找的“理由,借口”。
Heart trouble is one of the most serious causes of death among old people.
心脏病是导致老年人死亡的最重要的原因之一。
Tell me the reason for changing the plan.
告诉我你改变计划的原因。
A bad excuse is worse than no excuse.
与其作个差劲的辩解,不如不辩解。