(共38张PPT)
Unit 1 Food for thought
Developing ideas
Cold Truths
What’s in your / your family’s fridge
Discuss
There is/are ... in my fridge.
What’s in the fridge
fruit and vegetables
frozen food and semi-finished food
meat and sausages
milk, juice and canned food
eggs, an apple, broccoli toast and yoghurt
Read for main idea
What does the passage mainly talk about
A. Five persons’ jobs
B. Five persons’ hobbies
C. Five persons’ lifestyles
D. Five persons’ families
Reading for details
Read the passage and match the pictures of the
fridges to their owners.
Ellie
Jenny
Ted
Mike
Max
Junior doctor
teacher
construction worker
chef
college student
Who are they
From my point of view, fridge...may belong to..., because, as a... he/she may...
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Task 1宏观建构·把握文脉
1. Skim the passage and
fill in the blanks.
lifestyle
busy and tiring, not eating regularly
vegetarian, cooking fresh foods at home
tiring work, a big meat eater
busy, not cooking much at home, buying frozen food for convenience
busy, no time to eat regularly,not eating fresh food
Explain the possible problems with their lifestyles and make suggestions about how they can improve their lifestyles.
Ellie
not eating regularly
vegetarian
Jenny
Suggestions
Proper rest is necessary; She should eat regularly
She can eat proper meat and milk.
Problems
Read for suggestions
Ted
eating too much meat
He’d better eat some fresh fruits and vegetables with your meals.
Mike
Max
Suggestions
Problems
not doing much cooking at home, buying lots of frozen and ready food
He should cook fresh meals for family.
no time to eat regularly,not eating fresh food
He’d better eat regularly and eat some fresh food, and keep the fridge clean.
1. “There is a lot of food from my workplace in
our fridge.”
2. “You might find bean products in our fridge,
but hamburgers Never!”
3. “My fridge is a total mess! All I do is party and
hit the books.”
4. “There isn’t really much in my fridge. I’m just
too busy and tired to cook at home!”
5. “If you’re someone who avoids animal
products, you wouldn’t find anything to eat in
my fridge!”
study hard
2 Find out who might say the sentences below.
your health
your mood
your behaviour
Therefore, in order to be fit and healthy, you need to eat fresh and healthy food.
Thinking
What do you think the saying “You are what you eat” means
the food that you eat reflects(反映):
your personality
living environment
How could we understand the title of the passage “Cold Truths”
The passage arouses our attention to our unhealthy eating habits and life styles through the cold truths, which encourages us to reflect on our own eating habits so as to make a change for a healthier life.
Actions speak louder than words !
Significance:
It is a truth that the cold food in the fridge reflects people’s lifestyles greatly.
It is a truth that the unhealthy eating habits and lifestyles have great influence on people's health.
Can you guess [which fridge belongs to which person] Maybe you can recognise your own fridge here!
v. 认识,辨认出
belong to 属于……
宾语从句
recognition n. 认出,识别;承认
Healthy you!
Language points
1.Can you guess which fridge belongs to which person?
你能猜出哪个冰箱属于哪个人吗?
belong vi.属于,为……的一员 belong to 属于 注意:belong to不用于被动语态,也不用于进行时态,其中的to为介词,后跟名词或代词作宾语。
belongings n.财产;所有物
单句语法填空/补全句子
①China is a developing country,which belongs ________ the Third World.
②She packed her few ____________ (belonging) in a bag and left.
③As we all know,Taiwan __________________.
众所周知,台湾是中国的一部分。
belongings
belongs to China
to
1. There’s not enough room to swing a cat in my small apartment, so I don’t cook very often.
我的小公寓连转身的空间都没有,所以我不常做饭。
v. 摆动,摇摆
not enough room to swing a cat
空间/地方小得无法转身;连转身的空间都不够
swing-swung-swung(/sw /)
2. My fridge is usually half empty and I’m often too tired to eat much anyway.
我的冰箱通常都是半空的,反正我也经常累得吃不下多少。
adv. 无论如何,反正 (支持、补充说明先前的陈述)
too...to
太……以至于不能……
半空的
Language points
4. I often end up saving part of my meal for the next day.
我经常把一部分饭留到第二天吃。
end up(尤指经历一系列意外后)终于处于,到头来
end up with 以……结束 end up in 在(地点)……结束
end up doing 以做……结束
单句语法填空
①If you don’t slow down,you’ll end up _____ hospital.
②She ended up her speech _______ a short poem.
③You could end up ________ (run) this company if you can deal with these problems.
in
with
running
6. Cooking together gives us a chance to relax and catch up on each other’s days.
give sb a chance to do sth给某人一个做某事的机会
have a chance to do sth有机会做某事
短语填空
①这次活动将能让你有机会更好地了解海南饮食文化。
This activity will give you a chance to know better about Hainan food culture.
③I wish that I could ________________ to learn traditional Chinese culture further.
have a chance
动名词做主语
6. catch up 打听(不在时所发生的事情), 别后叙谈
(教材原句)Cooking together gives us a chance to relax and catch up on each other’s days. 一起做饭让我们有机会放松身心, 了解对方一天的生活。
(应用文之邀请信)Come over for a chat so we can catch up on each other’s news.
过来聊一聊, 了解一下彼此的近况。
【精要必记】
catch up on sth. 了解(已发生的事情)
catch up(with sb. ) 赶上(某人);(在标准、进度、水平上)追上(某人)
catch sight of. . . 看见……
catch sb. doing sth. 当场发现某人在做某事
catch on 受欢迎, 流行起来;理解
be/get caught in 被困住, 突然遭遇
活用·练透 用catch短语填空/单句语法填空
①The ladies spent some time _______________each other’s health and families.
②The thought that they could _____________the astronaut was exciting.
③Gemma turned around and caught the stranger ________(look) at her intently.
④________(catch) in the heavy snow, he was late for the meeting.
catching up on
catch sight of
looking
Caught
美句·锻造 完成句子
尽管他的同学们都领先于他, 但他正在非常努力地学习以便追赶上他们。
Though his classmates are well ahead of him, he is studying very hard ___________
__________.
to catch up
with them
7. If we have children,I want to bring them up just like us,but my husband says that everyone should be able to make their own lifestyle choices.
bring up培养;抚养;养育;教育;提出;呕吐
写出下列句中bring up的含义
①Born into a family with three brothers,David was brought up to value the sense of sharing.________
②He brought up a practical plan in the meeting,which brought down the cost of production.________
③He was drunk and brought up what he had eaten at midnight._______
④Brought up in a big city,he found it quite difficult to fit in the countryside.____________
教育
提出
呕吐
抚养;养育
If we have children, I want to bring them up just like us, but my husband says that everyone should be able to make their own lifestyle choices.
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句意:如果我们有孩子,我想把他们像我们一样抚养成人,但是我丈夫说每个人都应该能够选择自己的生活方式。
【句子结构分析】
if 引导条件状语从句
that引导宾语从句
转折连词
make one’s choice 选择,作出抉择
2. When I get back home, there’s nothing more satisfying than a big meat dinner.
回家后,什么都比不上一顿肉食大餐更让人心满意足了。
3. I guess [I’ve always been a big meat eater ]and in this house, no family meal is complete without some form of meat.
肉食者
no ... without... 没有...的是不....
我想我一直都挺爱吃肉的,在我家一顿没肉的饭是不完整。
宾语从句
1. Each day at the construction site is more or less the same – tiring!
建筑工地上每天都差不多——累!
几乎,差不多,大约
建筑工地
satisfying adj.令人高兴的,令人满意的
satisfy vt.使满足,使满意 satisfaction n.满足,令人满意的事
(1)be satisfied with 对……感到满意
be satisfied to do sth 对做……感到满意
(2)to one’s satisfaction 令某人满意的是 with satisfaction 满意地
单句语法填空
①I’m not very satisfied _______his explanation of this sentence.
②The old couple are satisfied ________(live) in the countryside.
③To her ____________(satisfy),they dealt with the matter soon.
④This journey is a __________(satisfy) experience, which will always stick in my mind.
【注意】 be satisfied with=be pleased with/be content with/be happy with表示“对……满足或满意”。
with
to live
satisfaction
satisfying
不过,我还是觉得什么也比不上我妈妈做的香肠。
4. I still don’t think that anything can beat my mum’s homemade sausages, though.
v. 打败,战胜
n. 节拍,心跳
自制的
adv.【置于句末】然而,可是
beat-beat-beat/beaten
convenient adj. 方便的, 便利的
(教材原句)I know we should eat more fresh fruit and vegetables, but ready meals are so convenient.
convenient作表语时, 不可用人作主语, 而要用物作主语或用it作形式主语。“当你方便的时候”应翻译成“when it is convenient for you”或“at your convenience”, 而不是“when you are convenient”。类似的形容词还有important, necessary, possible等。
【精要必记】
(1)if/when it is convenient to/for sb. 如果某人方便/当某人方便时
It’s convenient for sb. to do sth. 某人方便做某事
(2)convenience n. 方便, 便利(反义词inconvenience)
at one’s convenience 在某人方便的时候
at one’s earliest convenience 在某人方便的时候尽早
活用·练透 单句语法填空
①Will it be convenient for you ________(take) care of my dog while I’m away
②(应用文之求助信)I would appreciate it if you could reply ____your earliest
convenience.
③It’s very ___________for me to go shopping and there is a ____________store near
my home. (convenient)
to take
at
convenience
convenient
1. There are five of us living in our shared student house.
我们五个人共住一间学生公寓。
2. My mum says I need to have three healthy meals a day, but I’m too busy studying and meeting friends!
be busy doing sth / be busy with sth 忙于做某事
动名词短语作后置定语
宾语从句
3. We don’t really buy fresh food, and I suppose the fridge could be kind of cleaner…I daren’t let my mum see this photo!
有点儿(表程度)
= sort of
认为,假设
宾语从句
情态动词
Ⅲ. 核心短语—互译
1. _________ 解决, 算出
2. _______ 以防万一
3. ________ 拿起;捡起;学会;买, 购买
4. _________ 属于
5. _______ 最终处于, 到头来
6. _________ 打听, 别后叙谈
7. bring up _______________
work out
in case
pick up
belong to
end up
catch up
教育;养育;提出
8. more or less _________
9. be busy doing sth. ____________
10. such as _____
11. share. . . with. . . ________________
12. try out ___________
或多或少
忙于做某事
例如
同……分享……
试用, 试验
Task 4语篇总结·主题深化
We ask five people to open their fridge doors and talk about their lifestyles. Here
1. _____(be) their answers.
24-year-old junior doctor Ellie doesn’t cook very often. Her fridge is 2. ________
(usual) half empty and she is often too tired 3. _______(eat) much anyway. She often
ends up saving part of her meal for 4. _____next day.
31-year-old teacher Jenny and her husband avoid all products 5. _____come from
animals. Cooking together gives them a chance to relax and catch 6. ____on each
other’s days.
are
usually
to eat
the
that
up
35-year-old construction worker Ted works at the construction site. He thinks
there’s nothing more 7. __________(satisfy) than a big meat dinner and no family meal
is complete without some form of meat.
49-year-old chef Mike has a big family with five 8. _________(child). He doesn’t
really do much cooking at home. Once a week, he and his wife do a big shop and buy
a lot of 9. _______(freeze) food.
19-year-old student Max shares a student house with four other students. Max’s
mum says he needs to have three healthy meals a day, but he is so busy 10. _________
(study) and meeting friends that he doesn’t really buy fresh food.
satisfying
children
frozen
studying
freeze--froze--frozen--freezing