Unit 2 Developing ideas 公开课课件-2022-2023学年高中英语外研版（2019）必修第一册

Unit 2 Developing ideas ——Misadventures in English 四川省芦山中学 卫玉涛 Pre-reading: 1.Read the following expressions and guess their meaning. Ring a bell what’s up? Small potatoes Toilet water At six and seven Green fingers Pull up one’s socks to sound familiar what is going on something unimportant or insignificant a light perfume that does not have a very strong smell in a confused,badly-organised,or difficult situation natural ability in growing plants to make an effort to improve your work or behaviour because it is not good enough. 2.More English expressions that may cause misunderstanding. green hands couch potato horse sense rest room the yellow page a person without rich experience in a certain feild someone who spends a lot of time sitting and watching television common sense a room with a toilet a book that contains the telephone numbers of business and organisitions in an area sth embarrassing in English Reading Read the text quickly 1.Guess the meaning of the title 2.predict the contents of the passage. four different embarrassing things in English Reading : 1.Read the passage to find what the English expressions caused misunderstanding. ( Locate the clue words.Then Think about the real meaning of the expressions.) unable to speak clearly for a short time because your throat is dry or blocked Br.E. the first floor Am.E the ground floor morally wrong and intending to hurt people; (informal) :very good,fantastic pretty good,better than you expected 3. Thinking: Where this passage is likely to be taken from. Internet --forum Post reading: Answer the following questions: 1.which post do you find most interesting? Why? 2.What caused the misadventures in English,according to the passage? 3.How would you deal with the situations described in the post? Reasons for misadventure the diversity of English (AE vs BE) unfamiliar expressions (idoms,slang.etc) polysemy(one world with muliple meaning) take the words too literally Possible sol