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Unit 5 Using language (listening) Love me, love my dog. Don’t ride the high horse. Never offer to teach fish to swim. Fine feathers make fine birds. 爱屋及乌。 勿摆架子。 不要班门弄斧。 人凭衣裳马凭鞍。 Guess the meanings of the following proverbs about animals. 01 Lead-in 2 1. as busy as a (n) _ 2. kill two _ with one stone 3. When the cat’s away, the _will play. 4. hold your _ 5. It’s raining _ and _. mice horses dogs cats 1 2 3 4 5 bee birds Look at the pictures and complete the idioms with animal names. 01 Lead-in 3 1. It’s raining heavily. — 2. someone who is always working or busy doing something — 3. You should wait and be patient when you’re rushing into something. — 4. People do what they want and have fun when someone in authority is absent. — 5. solve two problems with one action — It’s raining cats and dogs. as busy as a bee hold your horses When the cat’s away, the mice will play. kill two birds with one stone Find Synonymous sentences from the animal idioms. 01 Lead-in 4 1. as busy as a (n) _ 2. kill two _ with one stone 3. When the cat’s away, the _will play. 4. hold your _ 5. It’s raining _ and _. mice horses dogs cats 1 2 3 4 5 bee birds Look at the pictures and complete the idioms with animal names. 忙得团团转 正下着滂沱大雨 耐心一点; 稍安勿躁; 慢慢来; 猫儿不在,鼠儿成精 一石二鸟 01 Lead-in 5 Complete the paragraph with the animal idioms in Activity 4. English idioms are a way of adding colour to the language. For example, instead of saying “It's raining heavily”, you could say “_”. Another reason to use idioms is that they are concise. For example, to describe someone who is always working or busy doing something, we can say they are_. If we are rushing into something and should wait and be patient, you could say “_”. Learning idioms can be fun, especially when we compare them to Chinese equivalents. Take, for example, “_”(People do what they want and have fun when someone in authority is absent) and “_”(solve two problems with one action)-are there corresponding idioms in Chinese? It is raining cats and d