1、Learning about LanguageDiscovering useful words and expressions1.Choose the correct words to complete the passage.centigrade competent allocate booklet recipe in detail slow down frequent consult caption1.Sally was so excited that Mary couldnt understand what she was saying.Mary told her to _ and te
2、ll her again.Then sally told her she had been _ an apartment close to the university.slow downallocatedMary congratulated her and said she knew those apartments well because her best friend lived there and she was a _ visitor.She told Mary about them _ and Sally became even more excited about living
3、 there.frequentin detail2.I consider myself a _ cook so I usually dont _ a recipe book.I just remember what I did last time.One day my daughter brought home from school a small _ with easy recipescompetentconsultbookletin it and asked me to help her cook something.There were pictures of each step in
4、 the recipe with _ underneath to tell you what to do,so I let her follow the _ on her own.captionsrecipeWhen she had finished,she proudly put her cake into the oven to cook.About ten minutes later we smelt burning.I opened the oven to find may daughters cake on fire,and it was all my fault.I had hea
5、ted the oven to 250o _ instead of 150o!centigrade 2.Practice working out the meaning of words using the context.Read the sentences and work out the meaning of the words printed in bold.1).Bob was very poor and his clothes were shabby because he had had them a long time.looking old and worn out,not i
6、n good conditionshabby2).It rained all morning,then the sun suddenly appeared from behind the clouds and we saw a beautiful rainbow in the distance.a many-colored arch that appears in sunlight afterrain has fallenrainbow3).The brewery in Oldtown makes better beer than the one in our town.a factory w
7、here beer is madebrewery4).His hearing is so acute that he can even hear a pin drop.very good,accurateacute5).My glasses are bent because I left them on my bed and then sat on them.bentforced out of shape6).I had so much luggage to carry that I had to catch a cab from the airport to my hotel.cabAnot
8、her name for a taxi(used mainly in the US and Australia）7).I went to the bank to change my RMB into American currency.money that used in a particular countrycurrency8).The Lotus Blossom Restaurant offers both Chinese and French cuisine.a style of cookingcuisine9).Some three hundred educators attende
9、d a seminar on second language acquisition.a person who educates or teacheseducatorsA meeting where people come to study or learn sth from expertssomething that has been obtainedseminaracquisition3.Play a word puzzle games in this part.One defines a word and the other guesses it.efficient manual ado
10、pt diameter digest assess beneathLearning about LanguageDiscovering useful structures1.Complete the sentences by using the subjunctive mood in the object clause.1).They demanded that the best food _.(cook)be cooked 2).He suggested that the twins _ to a ballet school.(send)3).She asked that all the p
11、hotographs she took recently _ in an album.(keep)be sentbe kept4).They insisted that _ _ _.5).We urge that _ _ _.the noisypassenger be taken off the planeall students beallowed to choose what subject to study6).He advise that _ _.7).They recommend that _ _ _.all suitcases bechecked for bombsthecompu
12、ter be turned off whennot in use 8).I suggest that _ _.9).We intended that _ _ _.10).He requested that _ _.all mobile phones beturned off during the meetingall students betold the exam at least one monthin advancehis clothes bewashed by 10 oclock that evening 2.Read the conversation and underline th
13、e use of the subjunctive mood.A:Suppose you never needed to sleep.What would you do?B:Wouldnt that be good?Id spend my time going to movies and visiting friends.C:Dont you think youd get bored?Id rather use the time for more study.A:I wouldnt.Id get job and earn some money.What would you do,Tim?D:Id
14、 probably still sleep,even if I didnt need to.I love sleeping.In fact,I wish I had more time to sleep,not less.3.Discuss the following questions in your group,using the subjunctive mood.1).If you had three wishes,what would they be?2).If the world was one big country with one government,how would ev
15、eryones life be different?3).If you cold spend six months in a foreign country to improve your English,which country would you choose and why?What kind of things would you do to improve your English?Learn the new words of this unit by heart.If three were only 3 days for you to survive,suppose what w
16、ould you do within these 3 days.Write a short passage to list your ideas using subjunctive mood.HomeworkIf there were only 3 days left for me,I would 合理合理“采取采取”adopt从从a-c中找出与每句话中中找出与每句话中adopt相符合的含相符合的含义。义。1.She was forced to have her baby adopted.2.Hes adopted a remarkably light-hearted attitude tow
17、ards the situation.3.The council is expected to adopt the new policy at its next meeting.b.收养收养c.采取采取a.正式通过正式通过点拨点拨 adopt用作动词，意为用作动词，意为“收养收养,领领养；采取（方法养；采取（方法/态度）；表决采纳，正态度）；表决采纳，正式通过式通过”。联想联想 adopt与与adapt词形相近，但词形相近，但adapt意为意为“使适应；使适应；改编改编”。拓展拓展 adopted是形容词，意为是形容词，意为“领养的；领养的；被采取的；所选择居住的，移居的被采取的；所选择居住的
18、，移居的”。如：如：an adopted son(daughter)养子养子（女）；（女）；America is her adopted country.美国是她移居的国家。美国是她移居的国家。小试小试 翻译下列句子。翻译下列句子。1.他们没有自己的孩子，就收养了一个他们没有自己的孩子，就收养了一个孤儿。孤儿。2.这位年轻教师想尝试采用一种完全不这位年轻教师想尝试采用一种完全不同的教学方法。同的教学方法。The young teacher would like to try adopting a completely different teaching method.As they had no children of their own,they adopted an orphan.
