Unit 3 A taste of English humour Reading (Ⅱ)课件

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Unit 3 A taste of English humour
Reading（Ⅱ）
1. To guess the meaning of the words or expressions according to the context.
2. To discover and learn to use some useful words and expressions.
3. To discover and learn to use some useful structures.
Learning aims
Leading-in
语境填词(根据提示用适当的单词或短语填空)
was content with
comedy
outstanding
particularly
humorous
entertaining
Unfortunately
cut off
reacted
Up to
now
badly off
overcame
Language points
1.up to now 直到现在
Up to then, we had finished the second volume of War and Peace.
直到那时，我们才读完《战争与和平》的第二卷。
Then haven’t appeared up to now as they promised.
他们直到现在也没按他们承诺的那样出现。
up to now/then 作时间状语时，常与完成时态连用
【即学活用】
Up to now, the program ___________ thousands of
children who would otherwise have died.
到目前为止，这项计划已经拯救了数千名儿童，如
果没有这项计划他们可能会失去生命。
have saved
2. content adj. 满足的，满意的，知足的
He made people laugh at a time when they felt depressed, so they could feel more content with their lives.
每当人们感到失望的时候他总能令人发笑，因而他们能对自己的生活感到更满足一些。
【知识拓展】 be content with sth.对……满足
be content to do sth. 满足于做某事
1. Are you content_______your present salary
2. She is quite content ________(stay) at home looking
after her children.
【即学即练】语法填空。
with
to stay
3. astonishing adj. 令人感到惊讶的
You may find it astonishing that Charlie was taught to sing as soon as he could speak and dance as soon as he could walk.
令人感到震惊的是，当查理刚会说话和走路的时候就被教以唱歌和跳舞。
astonish vt.使惊诧， 震惊。比 surprise的语气要强。
astonished 吃惊的；震惊的
astonishment n. 惊异；惊愕；惊奇
in astonishment 愕然， 吃惊地
to one’s astonishment 令某人惊奇的是
【知识拓展】
【即学即练】
用astonish的适当形式填空。
①To my ____________, the man lifted the rock.
②The boy __________ us with his skilled English.
We can know that the news is ___________from his ___________look.
(2017·江苏高考)Human beings will continue to adapt to the changing climate in both ordinary and ___________ways.
astonishment
astonished
astonishing
astonished
astonishing
4. worse off 愈加贫穷的;每况愈下的
Unfortunately his father died, leaving the family even worse off.
不幸的是，他父亲去世了，这令这个家庭更加潦倒。
badly off 缺少的，穷的，其反义短语是well off，句中的worse off 为其比较级形式。 例如：
The refugees are badly off for blankets, and even worse off for food.
难民们需要毯子, 更需要食物。
1.As modern farming methods have been brought in, the villagers are _____(well) off than before.
2.Even now some universities are ______(bad) off for English teachers.
【即学即练】语法填空
better
badly
5.entertain vt&vi 使欢乐；款待
A museum should aim to entertain as well as Educate.
博物馆应旨在集教育和娱乐于一体。
Barbecues are a favourite way of entertaining friends.
烤肉野餐是最受人喜爱的招待朋友的方式。
entertain sb. with sth. 以某物逗乐某人
entertain sb. to sth. 以某物款待某人
【知识拓展】
entertaining adj. (令人)愉快的；有趣的
entertained adj. (感动)愉快的
entertainment n.娱乐；消遣
【即学即练】用entertain的适当形式填空。
1.There isn’t much_____________ for young people in this town.
2.Children’s TV nowadays is much more
______________.
entertainment
entertaining
6. failure n.
① 失败（者）
She said she was a failure as a manager.
她说她是一个失败的经理。
His first attempt at ice-skating was a miserable failure.
他第一次尝试滑冰的结果很糟糕。
② 失败；不成功。
All of my efforts ended in failure.
我所有的努力都以失败告终。
Failure is the mother of success. 失败是成功之母。
【即学即练】
Mr Tom is _________as a teacher. But as a businessman,
he is____________.
汤姆先生是一位成功的老师，但作为商人，他是一个失
败者。
a success
a big failure
【知识拓展】
failure指失败的人或事时，属于抽象名词具体化，有此种用法的抽象名词还有：
success a success
danger a danger
surprise a surprise
beauty a beauty
comfort a comfort
【即学即练】 完成句子。
Being able to afford ______drink would be
_______comfort in those tough times.
在那艰苦的岁月里能够买得起一杯饮料将会是一种安慰。
a
a
在此句中，drink指“一杯或一种饮料”；comfort 表示“一件令人安慰的事”。
7. overcome v. “克服（困难等）；战胜（敌人等）”
过去式overcame; 过去分词overcome
He overcame a bad habit.
他克服了一项恶习。
搭配: be overcome with/by… 被（悲哀、恐怖等）打倒， 因为……而崩溃/垮掉。
She was overcome with/by grief.
她因为悲伤而崩溃了。
8. cut off 切断；断绝
Charlie cuts off the leather top of the shoe and shares the shoe with the other fellow.
查理把鞋子上端的皮子切下来，和另一个人一同分享这只鞋。
① 切下；割下，砍下。
Her little finger was cut off in an accident at the factory.她的小指是在工厂的一次事故中被切掉的。
② 切断电话线使某人通话中断。
We were cut off in the middle of our conversation.
我们的通话中途被切断了。
【知识拓展】
cut down 砍倒；减少；缩减；改小或缩短衣服
cut in 打断别人的谈话，插嘴
cut up 切碎；使痛苦
2. (2016 浙江高考)When their children lived far away
from them , these old people felt ________from the
world.
一旦他们的孩子们住得很远，这些老人就会觉得与整
个世界切断了联系。
【高考链接】用cut短语完成句子。
1. (2016·北京高考) The town was _______from
the rest of the world due to heavy snow.
由于大雪这个小镇与外面的世界隔绝了。
cut off
cut off
9. pick out 挑出；辨别出
Then he picks out the lace of the shoe and eats it as if it were spaghetti.
然后，他挑出鞋带来吃，像是吃意大利面条一样。
① (从同类当中) 选出……；选择
She picked out a pink dress for her daughter.
她给女儿挑了一件粉红色的连衣裙。
② (在许多人当中)看出；辨别出……
Can you pick out your mother in this crowd
你能在这群人中找到你母亲吗？
【知识拓展】与pick有关的短语:
pick off 去除；剪除
pick oneself up（倒下的人）站起来
pick up 拾起，（用车、船）搭载客人，（驾车）去接（人），接收（信号、广播、电视节目），
学会（语言）
pick up with 偶然认识（人）
10. as if 就像……似的；仿佛……似的
He tries cutting and chewing the bottom of the shoe as if it were the finest steak.
他试图切下鞋底并咀嚼，好像在吃最好的牛排。
该句中as if it were the finest steak 用作状语。as if相当于as though，用来引导方式状语从句，从句中应用虚拟语气。当第一、三人称单数作主语时，从句中常用were。
He looks as if he were sick.
他看起来好像是病了。
【名师点津】 在现代英语中常用was来代替were，甚至用is，am取代。
They treated the boy as if he was their own child.
他们像待自己的亲生孩子一样待这个男孩。
It looks as if it is going to rain.
看起来好像要下雨。
此外，as if后还可直接跟不定式。
He opened his mouth as if to speak.
他开口好像要说话。
【即学即练】
1.Don’t handle the vase as if it _______made of steel.
别把这个花瓶拿的跟它好像是用钢做的似的。
2.Jack wasn’t saying anything, but the teacher smiled
at him as if he ________ something very clever.
杰克没说一句话，但老师却对他微笑，好像他做了什
么聪明事似的。
were
had done
相反他和另一个人在暴风雪来临时躲在一个小屋里
挨饿。
with nothing to eat 是“with+宾语+to do” 构成的复合结构，此结构在句中作状语。
I couldn’t go to see the film, with a lot of work to do.
由于有许多工作要做， 我不能去看电影了。
The teacher came in with a smile on the face.
老师进来了，脸上带着微笑。
11.Instead he and another man are hiding in a small hut during a snowstorm with nothing to eat .
were astonished at
badly off
pick him out
Class exercises
Ⅰ完成句子
(1)We __________________ the news of her sudden
death. 她突然去世的消息使我们震惊。
(2)I have got a big room so I’m not too__________. 我有一个大房间，所以住得还不坏。
(3)It’s easy to ______________ in a crowd because
he is very tall. 很容易从人群中辨认出他，因为他个子很高。
Preview grammar by finishing exercises on
Page 21.
Homework
Man struggles upwards; water flows downwards.
人往高处走，水往低处流。