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新编英语教程 4. For your promising future. Unit Five. Objectives. 1. to get familiar with ways of making introduction to a celebrity. 2. to grasp the usage of the words such as turn out to be, access and cash in on. Teaching Tasks and Process. I. Pre-reading questions.
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新编英语教程4 For your promising future
Objectives • 1. to get familiar with ways of making introduction to a celebrity. • 2. to grasp the usage of the words such as turn out to be, access and cash in on.
Teaching Tasks and Process • I. Pre-reading questions
How do you think of the internet. Is it conducive or detrimental to university students as well as to the whole society?
美眉让我们网恋吧Girl, Please Fall in Love with Me After the self-study class at night, I opened the computer. I sorted out the male net friends to the Frog Concentration Camp and several unlovely girls I’ve seen to the Dinosaur Concentration Camp. Then I began chatting with the three girls left.
Me: Honey, let’s fall in love!Talented girl: OK. Are you a Party member?Me: No, I’m not.Talented girl: Are you a League member?Me: Well, no.Talented girl: Well, are you a member of China Young Pioneers?Me: I used to be one many years ago. But why do you bother asking such questions?Talented girl: Then I can’t promise you. At all events, I’m the team leader of our class.…Recalling the painful experience, I still have two girls to chat with.
Me: Girl, let’s fall in love!Lonely girl: Good. After all, I can fall in love.Me: Well, didn’t you love someone before?Lonely girl: No. They always said I was a dinosaur.Me: Umm, in this case, we’d better break up at the moment.Lonely girl: No, I don’t agree. It’s my first love…55555555555…Now the last girl left, I would especially cherish her.Me: Girl, don’t you want to fall in love with me?Jiaojiao: I think it’s OK, but I’d like to ask for my father’s advice. Me: My God! You asked your father this kind of thing? You surely don’t have your own definite idea!Jiaojiao: It’s not like that. I am just 5 years old and haven’t learnt to type. It is my father who types for me.Me: …Then I said: Hello, uncle.
The internet itself is of no harm nor benefit. It is the uses to which it is applied that determine its value.
1. It turns out you can “enquire” about nearly anything…— It happens that you can ask about almost anything… • Turn out meaning “happen to be, or be found to be” is usually followed by a noun or an adjective. It may also be followed by a that clause.
Examples: • Much to his disappointment, his experiment turned out a failure. • After a long spell of rain, it turned out to be fine and sunny on the day of our sports meet. • It turned out that the unexpected visitor was one of my mother’s former students.
2. …access to the Internet— the opportunity to use the Internet. Access meaning “the means or opportunity or right to use or see something” is followed by the preposition to.
Examples: • In a university library, we have access to large numbers of academic books. • In our country every child has access to education.
3. Thomas Edison got credit for the light bulb—Thomas Edison received recognition for the light bulb. Credit for something is the recognition or respect or praise given to someone because of something they have done or achieved.
Examples: • We gave Wang credit for his remarkable achievements in biotechnology. • Tim Berners-Lee should be given credit for the creation of WWW. • Credit should go to Frank for the team’s success.
4. It started, of all places, in the Swiss Alps. • Of all places, of all things, or of all people are used to suggest that a particular place, thing, or person seems surprising or unlikely when there are many other places where something might happen, many other things which might be expected to be done, or many other people who might be present or be doing something.
Examples: • Of all places, they went vacationing in an unknown village. • Of all things, she bought an ordinary bowl as a souvenir. • I can’t understand why she, of all people, should speak to us about how to use the computer.
5. … that dealt with information in a “brain-like” way —that handled information in the way as the brain does. Deal with is used in different ways with different meanings.
Examples: • Mark is very smart. He can deal with (handle) all kinds of difficult situations. • Recently I read an article which dealt with (concerned / was concerned with) the latest developments in computer science. • Be cautious about what kind of business firms you deal with (do business with).
6. keep track of all the random associations one comes across… • Keep track of means “keep oneself informed about something” or “pay attention to something so that one knows what is happening.”
Example: • We read newspapers every day to keep track of current events. • The opposite of keep track of is lose track of. Example: • We’ve lost track of him since he left Shanghai for home. • Random means “unplanned, unintentional, aimless, purposeless, etc.”
Examples: • While everyone was discussing the question seriously, John made a few random remarks now and then. • He was whiling away his time by putting down some random thoughts on paper. • At random is used adverbially. Examples: • He put the books on the bookshelves at random (i.e., without putting them in any order). • She chose a number of books at random to lend to her neighbor.
7. The rest of the world may be trying to cash in on the Web’s phenomenal growth…—Other people may be trying to take advantage of or make a profit from the unusually fast development of the Web… Cash in on means “take advantage of or make a profit from a situation in a way that is unfair.”
Example: • The only shop in that out-of-the-way village cashed in on the shortage of everyday necessities by putting up prices.
Discussion/Exercises • Free debate • Had computer not been invented, the world would be a better place for people to live in. do you agree or disagree with the above statement. Use specific reasons and examples to illustrate your ideas.
Assignments • Translation • The study of words That if your vocabulary is limited your chances of success are limited.That one of the easiest and quickest ways to get ahead is by consciously building up your knowledge of words.The vocabulary of the average person almost stops growing by the middle twenties .And that from then on it is necessary to have an intelligent plan if progress is to be made. No haphazard hit-or-miss methods will do.The study of words is not merely something that has to do with literature. Words are your tools of thought. You can't even think at all without them.
Try it. If you are planning to go downtown thin afternoon you will find that you are saying to yourself, "I think i will go downtown this afternoon. "You can't make such a simple decision as this without using words.Without words you could make no decisions and from no judgments whatsoever. A pianist may have the most beautiful tunes in his head, but if he had only five keys on his piano he would never get more than a fraction of these tunes out.
The study of words is not only to improve the processes of your mind. I t will give you assurance; build your self-confidence; lend color to your personality; increase your popularity. Your words are your personality. Your vocabulary is you. And your words are all that we, your friends, have to know and judge you by. You have no other medium for telling us your thoughts-for convincing us, persuading us, giving us orders.
