高二英語 Unit 5 The British Esles 知識精講教案
the city of salisbury has two important kinds of produce and trade, which employ the poor of great part of the country round—namely, making cloth and sheets, called salisbury.
i want to talk today about a major threat facing our society, namely aids.
arabic is written in the opposite direction to english, namely, it is written from right to left.
6. approach：接近；與……打交道；著手處理問題；入門；途徑，方法。
he left london to travel to the east, and then continued south, going westwards along the coast. he approached salisbury from the east.
they had approached us about working for their company.
you could feel the approach of winter.
all approaches to the town were blocked.
we need a new approach to this problem.
（三）閱讀材料的難點句解釋及重點結構的總結
1. they think it is just a matter of looking at maps carefully and remembering all the names of cities and provinces.
他們認為那不過是一個仔細查看地圖，然后記住所有省市名稱的簡單問題。
要點：a matter of…：一個……的問題。
it’s only a matter of time before the police get him.
success in business is simply a matter of knowing when to take a chance.
2. within great britain for many years now, there has been a growing movement to make the most of its cultural diversity—to see it as it really is: a nation of different countries held together by a common language and culture.
多年以來，在英國國內一個開發多種文化的運動正在蓬勃發展。目的是要看到英國的真實面貌—共同的語言和文化維系起來的多國民族體。
要點：
（1）make the most of =make use of…
（2）as it is=as it happens / as it stands: 事實上。
her teacher said she was a slow-learner, but as it actually was she was partially deaf.
（3）held together by a common language and culture.過去分詞短語做定語。
3. the largest island is called britain, which is separated from france by the english channel, which at one point is only 20 miles wide.
最大的島叫不列顛島，英吉利海峽將其與法國分開。海峽最窄的一處僅20英里寬。
要點：
（1）be separated from：與……分開。
（2）at one point：在某處；一度 at one point in the meeting she nearly lost her temper.
4. the result of this french influence was that the english language ended up with many french words such as table, animal and age.
法語的影響導致英語里存在了大量的法語單詞比如：table, animal 和 age.
要點：end up with：以……結束。
if we goon in this way, we shall end up with millions of unemployed.
比較：end up as/in：最后成為：
after much discussion about holidays abroad, we ended up in cornwall.
5. they realize that it is of great value to record and teach them to the younger generation.