Unit 2 Developing ideas Misadventures in English 讲义-2023-2024学年高中英语外研版（2019）必修第一册

Misadventures in English (讲义）

misunderstand误解    mislead误导     misuse滥用   mistake错认，误解

misbehavior不良行为   misinformation虚假消息     mistrust猜疑

 

Read and answer the questions.

1. Where might the text be taken from?  Give your reasons.

 

 

2. What words and expressions caused the misunderstandings? Who shared the examples?

 

 

 

 

Read again and find out the meanings. Give supporting evidence.

1. had a frog in her throat
2. the first floor
3. wicked
4. Not bad

Read the idioms and guess their meanings. (A1, P26)

习语 a group of words whose meaning is different from the meanings of the individual words

What’s up?

ring a bell

small potatoes

toilet water

at sixes and sevensz

green fingers

pull up one’s socks

读例子，猜上面习语的意思

1.“What's up?”, I said to him.

“Nothing much,” he answered.

2 James Carson ------- the name rings a bell, I’ve heard it before.

3. He’s just a small potato in the company; nobody pays much attention to him.
4. a hot potato

a problem, situation, etc. that is difficult and unpleasant to deal with