Unit 5 Listening & speaking and Presenting ideas课件-2022-2023学年高中英语外研版（2019）必修第一册

Unit 5 Into the wild Listening & speaking + Presenting ideas Tips “Butterflies in one’s stomach” is an informal way to express a very nervous feeling before doing something. Animal idioms Look at the pictures and complete the idioms with animal names. as busy as a(n) _______ kill two ______with one stone bee birds 忙得不可开交 一石二鸟；一箭双雕；一举两得 When the cat’s away, the _____will play. hold your _______ mice horses 猫儿不在，老鼠翻天； 山中无老虎，猴子称大王 [非正式用语]且慢；请三思 It’s raining _______ and _______ . cats dogs [口语]下倾盆大雨 Complete the paragraph with the animal idioms. English idioms are a way of adding colour to the language. For example, instead of saying “It’s raining heavily”, you could say “1______________________”. Another reason to use idioms is that they are concise. For example, to describe someone who is always working or busy doing something, we can say they are 2 ________________ . It’s raining cats and dogs as busy as a bee concise adj. 简明的；简练的 If they’re rushing into something and should wait and be patient, you could say “3 ______________ ”. Learning idioms can be fun, especially when we compare them to Chinese equivalents. Take, for example, “4 ___________ _____________________ ” (people do what they want and have fun when someone in authority is absent) and “5 ________________________ ” (solve two problems with one action) – are there corresponding idioms in Chinese? hold your horses equivalent n. 对应词 When the cat’s away, the mice will play kill two birds with one stone corresponding adj. 相应的；相关的 A: She’s as busy as a bee. B: What makes you say that? A: She is currently doing three part-time jobs. I haven’t seen her for three months./She’s trying to complete her assignment by the weekend… Work in pairs. Find more animal idioms. Choose an idiom and describe a situation with it. sample Love me, love my dog. 爱屋及乌。 He is a lucky dog. 他是个幸运儿。 Every dog has his day. 人人皆有得意时。 Let sleeping dogs lie. 勿惹是生非。 A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.双