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Unit 2 Exploring English
Developing ideas:
Misadventures in English
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Learning
Objectives.
1. Understand this passage, including expressions in it.
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2. know online forums and features of online posts.
3. Retell misadventures in the posts based on story lines.
4. Pay attention to slangs(俚语) in English contexts(语境).
What are phrases, idioms and slangs?
While Reading
Guess what the English expressions mean?
-- What’s up?
-- Nothing much.
-- How’s everything?
-- Not much, same old.
What’s up?
What’s going on? / How’s everything?
While Reading
Guess what the English expressions mean?
His name rings a bell. But I can’t remember where we met.
I think I have heard his name. But I can’t remember where we met.
ring a bell to sound familiar
While Reading
Guess what the English expressions mean?
In the long river of history, we are all small potatoes.
In the long river of history, we are all unimportant people.
small potatoes
Something unimportant or insignificant
While Reading
Guess what the English expressions mean?
In summer, mothers like to put toilet water in the bath basin.
In summer, mothers like to put some perfumed(有香味的) liquid(液体) in the bath basin.
toilet water
A light perfume that does not have a very strong smell
While Reading
Guess what the English expressions mean?
When we entered the classroom after a long holiday, everything was at sixes and sevens.
When we entered the classroom after a long holiday, everything was in a mess.
at sixes and sevens in a mess
In a confused, badly-organised, or difficult situation
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If you want to be a successful gardener, of course you have to have green fingers.
If you want to be a successful gardener, of course you have to have ability in growing plants.
green fingers
natural ability in growing plants
While Reading
Guess what the English expressions mean?
We need to pull up our socks t