Why Do We Need Dictionaries教案
2. if you want to improve your english, you’d better take every chance to practice using it.
3. your shoes need polishing badly.
4. it’s not astonishing that many people recommended that the temple be restored as soon as possible.
5. the second letter in this word can be omitted.
6. his worried look on his face suggested that he hadn’t found his missing child.
7. it happened when we went to watch the musicians’ rehearsal the other day.
8. the little girl stood beside her father watching him correcting her spelling.
9. last week the young teacher failed to control the class.
10. i managed to spoil some wine on the hostess--- i was so embarrassed.
step 3 match the words in the box with their meanings.
prolific asylum muffled insane solemn forbidding
1. sounding quieter than normal muffled
2. mentally ill insane
3. unfriendly or frightening forbidding
4. very sad and serious solemn
5. producing a lot of work prolific
6. an old-fashioned word for a hospital for mentally ill people asylum
step 4 read the passage 2 carefully and answer the following questions
1. why did james murray want to visit dr w. c. minor?
2. what kind of man do you think he imagined dr w. c. minor to be?
3. why did he think the man behind the desk was the man he had come to visit?
4. was the man behind the desk someone important after all?
5. it is not at all as you suppose. what did the speaker mean when he said this?
step 5 discussion
work in pairs. four students a group. discuss your answers to the questions.
how does the writer imply that the house james murray was visiting impressed him greatly? list the words and phrases he uses.
二、presentation skills
step 1 :read the notice by yourselves and answer the questions
1. do you think this is an announcement to read or to hear? why?
2. who wrote it, and for whom?
3. what kind of style is used—informal or formal/ how can you tell?
4. what differences are there between written and spoken announcements?
sep2 class activity
分小組準(zhǔn)備一個(gè)通知,可以先讓部分同學(xué)展示寫出的文章,然后互相修改。use he following words and phrases to make your announcement to the class.
ask for attention: hey! listen up!
can i have everyone’s attention, please?