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Unit 1 Knowing me, knowing you
Section A Starting out & Understanding ideas
Pre-class
embarrassed
puzzle, bewilder, confuse, embarrass, perplex, baffle, confound, distract
这些动词均有"使困惑,迷惑,糊涂,伤脑筋"之意。
puzzle: 侧重使人难于理解、困惑、伤脑筋。
bewilder: 语气强烈,指因迷不解或惊愕而慌乱,不知所措,无法清醒地思考。
confuse: 语气较弱,指由于混淆、混乱而糊涂。
embarrass: 常指因处境或困难问题而感到窘迫、局促不安或焦急而不知所措。
perplex: 除困惑外,还含焦虑或缺乏把握之意,因而难于作出决定,无从下手处理。
baffle: 语气最强,多指遇见奇怪情景或复杂困难情况时所产生的惶恐困惑心理。
confound: 常指人惊慌失措和狼狈不堪。
distract: 主要用于注意力分散、思想矛盾或过分激动时产生的昏乱。
练习:Its statistics look ______.
embarrassing
ashamed
词性:_________ 意思:________
同义词辨析
ashamed, shameful
这两个形容词均含"羞愧的"之意。
ashamed:用于人,指因干了错事、坏事或傻事等而感到羞愧。
shameful:指人或人的行为本身不光彩、不道德。
练习:I'm_____ to say that I lied to her.
ashamed
concentrate
词性:_________ 意思:________
同义词辨析
concentrate, focus
这两个动词均有"集中,聚集"之意。
concentrate: 指把人或物集中在一起,也可指把精力或注意力集中于某一事物上。
focus: 侧重指把光、热、射线等集中于一点,也可指把思想或精力等集中于某人或某事情上。
concentrate on…集中注意力于……
常见搭配
concentrate one's mind/attention/energy on…集中某人的注意力/精力于……
练习:_____ on food while eating.
Concentrate
approach
词性:_________ 意思:________
with the approach of… 随着……的临近/来临
an approach to… ……的方法;通往……
练习:The club has made an _____ to a local
company for sponsorship.
approach
Activity 1
Look at the problems you may face at school. Discuss which you think is the most difficult to overcome and why.
bad performance in a subject
pressure to look good
conflict with classmates
difficulties fitting in with others
While-class
Agony Aunt
An agony aunt is a British advice columnist who gives advice to people who send in personal problems to the advice column of a newspaper or a magazine. The image presented was originally of an older woman offering comforting advice and maternal wisdom.
Nowadays, the advisor is not necessarily female.
It may turn out to be a male (Agony Uncle) or even a team. In American English, “advice columnist" is used.
Activity 2
Read the letters and find out what kind of problems Ben has and who he turns to for help.
Ben believed one of his teammates let down the whole