Chapter 4 Tom Sawyer Paints the Fence
chapter 4 tom sawyer paints the fencei. teaching aims: to learn the vocabulary items
ii. teaching important points: the usage of the words and phrases.
iii. teaching difficult points: to use the new vocabularies to make sentences
iv. teaching procedures:
pre-task activity: daily talk: a success story of….
while-task procedure
new words 1
1. encourage (v.) : persuade; lead sb. to do sth. in a friendly way
encourage sb. to do sth.
e.g., my friend has a good voice. i will encourage him to take up singing.
miss chen always encourages us to study harder.
2. bright (adj.) :
1) (shining) 明亮的
e.g. the sun was very bright
2) (intelligent; clever) 聰明的
e.g. a bright idea
3) (light) 鮮艷的
e.g. bright red
3. depressed (adj.) :
e.g. he was depressed by the loss of his job.
depress (v.)
depression (n.) 沮喪, 消沉
e.g. a holiday will help his depression.
depressing (adj.) 壓抑的,沉悶的
e.g. a depressing thought
4. yard n.
(unit of length, equal to 0.9144 meter)
e.g. give him an inch and he'll take a yard !
can you still buy cloth by the yard in britain?
5. dip (v.) : put sth. slowly into a liquid--dipped; dipping
e.g. i dipped my pen into the ink.
i dipped my toe into the water, but it was very cold so i did not go swimming.
6. section (n.) : part of something
e.g. one section of the class was reading and the other section was writing.
7. make fun of sb. / sth. : laugh at sb. in a nasty way
e.g. he thought his friends would make fun of his new hair style.
the kids at school always made fun of jill’s clothes.
8. funny (adj.) : amusing
e.g. he has funny habit of blinking when talking with others.
fun (n.) : enjoyment; amusement
e.g. have fun at the party tonight.
what fun it will be when we all go on holiday together!
9. go on doing sth. :
e.g., you can’t go on drinking so much.
the party went on until 3 a.m.
go on to do
e.g. the teacher went on to tell a story after he worked out the problem.
10. ignore (v.) : do not look at or talk to sb..
she saw him coming but she ignored him.
11. guess (v.) : imagine; think
e.g., i guess i will go swimming at the weekend if the weather is nice.
12. a bit (a small degree; somewhat)
(much, a lot, a little, even, still, far)
e.g. a bit warmer
that's much better.
felt a little better
it's even colder than yesterday.