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Misadventures in English
Developing ideas of Book1Unit2
Song Shangju
Designed by:
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Aims
To master the ability to get the
key information by skimming
To enable students to create
a situation and use the key words
and phrases to describe it
To deepen Ss' awareness of
cultural differences in using English
and appreciate the beauty of the
lively English language.
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Developing ideas
Activity 1
What’s up?
ring a bell
small potatoes
toilet water
at sixes and sevens
green fingers
pull up one’s socks
Read the following expressions and guess their meanings.
(What’s going on?)
(to sound familiar)
(something unimportant or insignificant)
(a light perfume that does not have a very strong smell)
(in a confused, badlyorganised, or difficult situation)
(natural ability in growing plants)
(to make an effort to improve your work or behaviour
because it is not good enough)
Fast-reading
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Misadventures in English 英语尴尬事
Last week, our forum asked if you had any funny or strange
stories about using English.
上周,我们在论坛里问大家在使用英语时是否遇到过什么有趣或者离奇的事情。
We didn’t expect to get so many posts.
我们没想到会收到这么多回帖。
Here are some of our favourites,
以下是我们最喜欢的几篇,
to remind us that some of the English we learn in the classroom
它们让我们意识到,有些在课堂上学到的英语
is rather different from the English in the outside world!
和在课堂之外使用的英语真是不太一样!
Yancy: People say that the British always play safe with what they eat.
扬西:都说英国人吃东西很谨慎。
Not true! I went to a summer school in Manchester
才不是呢!我在曼彻斯特参加过一个暑期培训班,
and my English teacher was called Maggie.
我的英语老师叫玛吉。
One day, a different teacher took our class.
有一天,另外一位老师来给我们代课。
He told us that Maggie couldn’t teach that day
他说玛吉老师没法来上课,
COZ she had a frog in her throat.
因为她的喉咙里卡了一只青蛙。
Poor Maggie—but why did she try to eat such a big frog?
可怜的玛吉老师——可是她为什么要吃这么大的青蛙呢?
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