Book 1 Lesson Twelve

1. Book 1 Lesson Twelve

2. Word study Word Study • booking office: an office where tickets are sold • book report: • buyer: a person who buys • counter: a flat, table-like surface • curiously: interested in knowing about things • Dacron: artificial fiber used widely in the manufacture of clothes (These shirts don’t have to be ironed because they are made of Dacron.) • dream: a group of thoughts, images, or feelings experienced during sleep

3. Word study • drill: a repetitive practice exercise • excitement: the condition of being excited • glance: to give a rapid look • glove: a covering for the hand with a separate part for each finger and thumb (c.f. mitten: a glove that covers the fingers together and the thumb separately) • group: a number of people or things placed together • hunger: a strong wish

4. Word study • in the way: in a position that blocks traffic or keeps people from passing • interpreter: a person who says in another language the words of a speech that is being, or has just been, given • intonation: the level of the voice • leather: the skin of cattle, sheep, etc. • lust: a strong usu. evil desire • mosque: Muslim building of worship • no more: no longer, never again

5. Word study • offer: to present (an amount) as price one will pay or accept • pearl: a smooth, white, round object formed within oysters and • peso: the monetary unit of Chile, Columbia, Cuba, Mexico, etc. • polyester: a synthetic resin used in making plastics, fibers, etc. • rayon: smooth, shiny cloth made from wood fibers • reach: to arrive at; get to • related: connected • roommate: someone who shares the same room

6. Word study • Sahara Desert: desert region N Africa N of the Sudan region extending from the Atlantic coast to Red sea or, as sometimes considered, to the Nile • sheep: a grass-eating animal that is kept for its wool and its meat • shelf: a flat long and narrow board fixed against a wall or in a frame, for placing things on • shine: to give off light; look bright • silence: absence of sound; stillness

7. Word study • soil: the top covering of the earth in which plants grow; ground • spread: the act or action of stretching out, becoming widely known • stadium: a large usu. unroofed building with rows of seats surrounding a sports field • swimmer: a person who swims • talk over: to consider (something) thoroughly; speak about • threaten: to express or be a warning to • the Tigris: river 1150 m Iraq & SE Turkey flowing SSE & uniting with the Euphrates to form the Shatt-al-Arab

8. Pattern Drills Pattern drills Read dialogues and explain some expressions. Students do substitution exercises with his or her partner. Students make dialogues of their own following the situation.

9. Pattern Drills Drill A: Explanation Practice the substitutions with your partner and then make a dialogue of your own.

10. Pattern Drills • Drill B: • Explanation • be made of / be made from • see somebody do / doing something • smart: • His son is a very smart boy; he is first in his class. (able to think well, intelligent) • The child made a smart remark to her father, so she was sent to bed without dinner. (somewhat rude) • He wore a smart suit with new shoes. (fashionable and neat) • Practice the substitutions with your partner and then make a dialogue of your own

11. Pattern Drills Drill C: Explanation be crowded: be full of people Practice the substitutions with your partner and then make a dialogue of your own. Drill D: Explanation Practice the substitutions with your partner and then make a dialogue of your own.

12. Pattern Drills Drill E: Explanation will be beginning I wonder where Li Ming is. turn up: to arrive be nowhere to be seen forget about something and forget something

13. Text Learning Text A

14. Text Learning after John Steinback after: in the manner or style of Steinback: Note 1. be remembered for… wrath: anger parable: a short, simple story teaching a moral lesson

15. Text Learning He set out for the nearest town to sell it. set out for a place: leave for a place He then set out on a two-week trip. He set out for Beijing the next day.

16. Text Learning He needed money… Urgently: badly Medical help for somebody …who had been stung by a scorpion The news that Kino had found… Note 2. Pearl of the World: the biggest pearl in the world The news swept a place. Sweep: to move (over or past something) quickly; rush A storm swept over the country. Fear swept over him.

17. Text Learning So, curiously he became every man’s enemy. Curiously: a disjunct Before Kino reached town… Reach a place Reach town ( not reach the town) Somehow: in some way; by some means He was coming: He was on his way to town.

18. Text Learning The old man’s heart… = The old man was so amazed when he saw the pearl that his heart missed a beat: the movement of something stopped heart miss a beat: the beat of heart stopped take care not to do something = Try one’s best not to do something show one’s excitement

19. Text Learning He looked at it… With a sad smile: (oxymoron矛盾修饰, contradictory terms are used together to produce a special effect) The coach had to be cruel to be kind to his trainees. She read the long-awaited letter with a tearful smile. Go and show it to… Down the street: along the street Or I can: or = if not, otherwise

20. Text Learning Oral and Written Work 1. Pair work: Ask each other questions about these pictures according to the model 2. Read, decide and give reasons cornflakes: small flakes (a light leaf-like little bit) made from coarsely crushed corn, usu. Eaten at breakfast, often with milk, sugar, and fruit added toast: sliced bread made brown and crisp by heat husband and wife / in a family situation, calling by the first name, the topic of the man and the woman

21. Text Learning Oral and Written Work 3. Listen and answer questions get somebody something buy something for somebody 4. Retell the story (playing the part of Kino, Kino’s wife or one of the pearl buyers 5. Dramatize the text and act it Divide students into small groups of five (play the part of Kino, the old man, the first, second and third buyers). They dramatize the text first and then act it.

22. Assignment Assignment Put the verbs in the correct tense. Put prepositions in the blanks. Translate the following sentences into English. Choose the best word for each sentence Write down the noun form of the verbs according to the model. Translate the sentences according to the models. Rewrite using words or expressions listed below.