Lesson 47 Get a Good Education

1. Lesson 47 Get a Good Education

2. Fill in each blank with the proper word from the brackets: • I encouraged her __________(work) hard and to try for the examination. • Monarch ___________(butterfly) are very beautiful. • Not only this dictionary but also those books _________(belong) to me. • Your brother as well as you ______(be) very kind to me. • My friend doesn’t know what happened just now. He looks _________(puzzle). • Thank goodness! We’ve finished the hard work ____________(complete). • The butterflies ______________(freeze) already. • The boy put down the football and _______(lie) on the grass to have a rest. • The hen _________(lay) an egg yesterday. • It seems that the hen ___________(lay) en egg now. • My father is a lot _______(tall) than me. to work butterflies belong is puzzled completely have frozen lay laid is laying taller

3. 汉译英： • 当这位生物学家穿过森林时,这些奇怪的花引起了他的注意。 • The strange flowers ______ the __________ __________ when he was walking through the forest. • 2. 越来越多的树已经被砍倒了。 • More and more trees have already _____ ______ _____. • 3. 昨天他离开北海前往南宁。 • Yesterday he _______ Beihai _________ Nanning. • 4. 我姐姐不仅喜欢唱歌而且喜欢弹钢琴。 • My sister likes playing the piano____ _____ ______ singing. • 5. 我校学生多达3000人。 • There are _____ _____ ___ 3000 students in our school. • 6. 这个孩子能数到100吗？ • Can the child count ______ ______100? • 7. 这条河6米宽。The river is 6 _______ ________. drew biologist’s attention been cut down left for as well as as many as up to meters wide

4. A task: Choose any job you are interested in. Describe it to a group of students, but don’t name it. Ask them to guess which job you have chosen. They can ask questions like, “In this job, do you ______?” or “Is it _____ ?”

5. Think about it! • Who is Jack Hall? • Why does Danny want to meet with Jack Hall? • 3. When and where will they meet?

6. Read Danny’s diary carefully and answer the questions: • When and where did Danny meet with Jack Hall? • How did Jack Hall grow up to be an astronaut? • Why does Jack Hall think Danny can’t be an astronaut? • How did Danny feel when he heard this? • What did Jack Hall say to comfort(安慰) Danny?

7. Language notes: 1. This evening, I had a meeting with Jack Hall, the Canadian astronaut. have a meeting with sb.＝　meet with sb. “和某人会面” 2. I asked him how he grew up to be an astronaut. He laughed, and said that he had always planned to visit space. plan n. & v. planned planned planning planner plan to do sth. “计划/打算去做某事” 我们计划到桂林度暑假。 We plan to spend our summer holiday in Guilin. 3. To get ready, he studied science and mathematics all through school. all through school “在整个求学过程中”

8. Language notes: 4. After he graduated from university, he got a job with the Canadian Space Agency. graduate from … “从……毕业” Canadian Space Agency “加拿大国家级航天局” Chinese Space Agency “中国国家级航天局” 如果你想在中国国家级航天局工作, 你必须努力学习。 If you want to work with the Chinese Space Agency, you must study hard. after引导时间状语从句。after引导的从句表示主句的动 作发生在从句动作之后。 分析时态: After he locked the door, he left. After he had finished his homework, he played chess with his father. I’llhelp you after he leaves.

9. Language notes: 5. He still had to work hard for twelve years before getting a chance to go into space. get a chance to do sth. “获得做某事的机会” I’ll get a chance to go to the moon if I work with the Chinese Space Agency. 6. I said that I didn’t, but that I would try to like it in the future. in the future “在将来，在未来” in future = from now on “今后，往后” I’ll get up early in future. 今后我要早起。 What do you want to be in the future?

10. Language notes: 7. Then I asked him if he thought I might make a good astronaut. make vt. “（因有某特点、品质等而）足以成为， 可发展为，可转变为，宜用作” Peter and Mary certainly make a handsome couple. Wood makes good paper. 8. He explained that the inside of a spaceship is very small. There would be no room for someone as big as me. inside n. adj. prep. adv. from the outside to the inside inside clothing inside the gate There is nobody inside.

11. Language notes: room n. [C] “房间“ n. [U] ”空间；空位“ Please make room for me. There is no room for move. 9. That’s not fair. That’s unfair. fair unfair adj. 10. Very few of them ever become astronauts. But we are all part of the same team. very few “很少” 表示否定意义，very用来加强语气 only a few “仅有一些” 表示肯定意义，only用来加强语气 The math problem is so difficult that very few students work it out. The math problem is so difficult that only a few students work it out.

12. Language notes: 11. Perhaps I’ll work in the space program, even if I can’t be an astronaut. even if 相当于even though “即使，纵然“ 引导让步状语从句 He will visit his uncle even if it rains tomorrow. Even if we could afford if, we wouldn’t go abroad for our holidays. 12. He said that I should get a good education. educate v. education n. get an education “受到教育” get a good education “受到良好教育” How do they get an education? As a young student, the most important thing is to get a good education.

13. Language notes: 13. Then, when I’m grown up, I’ll be ready for anything. I’m grown up = I grow up grown 是过去分词作形容词用 be/get ready for …= be prepared for “为……做好准备” when while as conj. “当……时候” 引导时间状语从句 如果主句表示的是短暂的动作,而从句表示的是持续的 动作,三者可通用 I met an old friend of mine as/when/while I was walking along the street.

14. Language notes: when和as既可与短暂性动词连用,也可与延续性动词连 用。而while只能与延续性动词连用。 It was raining hard when we got there. as强调主句与从句的动作同时发生,常译作“一边……一 边……”; while强调主句表示的动作持续于while所指的 整个时间内,经常用于表示同时进行的两个延续性动作相 伴随而发生，或用于两个同类动作相对比的主从句中。 when可指主句与从句所表述动作同时或先后发生。 He sang as he went along. Please write while the teacher reads. When he got home, his mother was waiting for him.

15. Fill in each blank with the proper word from the brackets: • It’s _________(fair) to ask so little a boy to do such hard work. • We’re happy to know that we’ll have a _________(meet) with the great scientist. • Xio Ming, you should wash your hands before ________ (have) meals. • You can get a chance _________(go) abroad if you work hard. • We eat more vegetables __________(make) us healthy. • It’s very important for you to get a good __________ (educate). • All the visitors come from __________. They are _________. (German) • 8. We are ___________(prepare) for the coming exams. unfair meeting having to go to make education Germany Germans prepared

16. Correct the mistakes: • There isn’t enough rooms for the piano in our house. • After school the students were going home while they saw an accident. • As many as 200 millions birds spend the winter here. • The piece of forest in only ten kilometres widely. • They planed to finish their homework on time. • The math problem is so difficult that only few students can get the right answer. • What will he do after he will graduate from university? _____ room ____ when ______ million _____ wide ______ planned _______ only a few ___________ graduates

17. 根据汉语意思完成句子，每空一词： • 他们中很少有人到过长城。 • ______ ______of them have been to the Great Wall. • 2. 人们希望将来能到其他星球上居住。 • People hope that they can live on the other planets _____ ______ ________. • 3. 这故事听起来不错。 • This story ______ ______ a good one. • 4. 即使明天下雨，我也要准时到那儿。 • I will get there on time _______ __________ it _______ tomorrow. Very few in the future sounds like even if/though rains

18. A task: • Write in your diary about your parents’ job. • Do they want you to have the same job? • Do you want to do the same job? • Tell whether or not you like their jobs and why.