Unit 2 Developing ideas Reading 知识点课件-2022-2023学年高中英语外研版（2019）必修第一册

Developing ideas Misadventures in English watch a vedio It’s a no-brainer! 很简单；显而易见 have a guess —You know what, the guy we were talking with is a big potato in our company. —You don't say!(不会吧？ 真的吗？) big potatoes: very important figures or someone of a high status in a field. dumb as a wooden chicken 呆若木鸡 as timid as a mouse 胆小如鼠 a lucky dog 幸运儿 Love me, love my dog. 爱屋及乌 white night 不眠之夜 Seeing is believing. 百闻不如一见。/眼见为实。 mess around 摆烂 finger heart 笔芯 Chinglish--Chinese English One, two, three, go! Look before you leap. 三思而后行。 No see no go! See you there! 不见不散！ You di da di da me, I hua la hua la you. A drop of water should be returned with a spring. 滴水之恩，当涌泉相报。 Good good study, day day up. Study hard and make progress every day. 好好学习天天向上。 No zuo no die! Don’t ask for trouble! 不作不死！ 1st reading Read the passage quickly to find out the expressions that caused the misunderstandings in the passage. have a frog in her throat the first floor wicked Not bad ! have a discussion Work in groups, discuss and find out the true meaning of these expressions have a frog in her throat the first floor wicked Not bad ! have a frog in one’s throat unable to speak clearly because your throat is dry or blocked; it doesn’t really mean there’s a frog in your throat 据说以前人们常从小溪中直接取水饮用，可能无意中将青蛙的卵吞下肚子里。当时人们就相信，卵会在人们的喉咙里化成青蛙，哽住你的喉咙，使你说不出话来，因此就产生了这样一个词语。 the first floor (BrE) the floor of a building above the one at ground level; (AmE) the floor of a building at ground level. Wicked very good, fantastic (informal) Not bad! pretty good, better than you expected 2nd reading--fill the blank name where misadventure Retell Who? Where? What happened? Yancy studied in Manchester. One day her English teacher’s throat was blocked, but Yancy misunderstood the meaning of ‘have a frog in her throat’. So he was curious about why her English did this thing. Think and speak What caused these misadventures? cultural dif