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Unit 2
Explore English
Developing ideas
Read the following expressions and guess their meanings.
What's up?
ring a bell
small potatoes
toilet water
at sixes and sevens
green fingers
Guessing Games
pull up one’s socks
Lead-in:
1. “What’s up? Why are they crying?”
What’s up? =What’s going on?
What's up?
2. Her name rings a bell but I can’t remember
whether I’ve met her.
ring a bell: to sound familiar
ring a bell
3. Her business was small potatoes.
small potatoes :sth unimportant or insignificant
small potatoes
4. In summer, many people prefer toilet water
which is not very strong.
toilet water :a light perfume that does not have a
very strong smell
toilet water
5. I’m at sixes and sevens about what to do.
Your room’s all at sixes and sevens.
at sixes and sevens:
in a confused, badly-organized, or difficult situation
at sixes and sevens
6. My grandfather has green fingers, and his garden
is very beautiful.
green fingers:
natural ability in growing plants
green fingers
7. We need to pull up our socks to win the
coming game.
pull up one’s socks:
to make an effort to improve your work or behavior
pull up one’s socks
Read the following expressions and guess their meanings.
What's up?
ring a bell
small potatoes
toilet water
at sixes and sevens
green fingers
Guessing Games
pull up one’s socks
怎么回事?
听起来耳熟
小人物,小角色
花露水
乱七八糟
园艺高手
努力工作,重新再做
— How did you make it in guessing the difficult words and expressions?
— By using context clues. (语境 、上下文线索 )
Read the four posts quickly and find out what puzzled Yancy, Sophie, Julien and Zheng Xu?
She had a frog in her throat.
the ground floor
/ the first floor
wicked
Not bad
[wɪkt , ˈwɪkɪd]
Read to find out misunderstood expressions:
What are the meaning of the misunderstood words or expressions in their stories? Can you figure them out? Can you tell me the clue words?
Read to guess the correct meanings of the confusin