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Unit 2 Exploring English
Misadventures in English
Learning objectives
1、Students can grasp the new words and expressions such as resource、comment、remind、have a frog in one's throat and so on.
2、Students can grasp the general idea for the whole passage.
3、Students will be able to use different basic reading strategies like prediction/skimming/scanning correctly in their reading process.
Warming-up
Your description rings a bell, but I don't think I've ever been there myself.
He's extremely sure he has met the girl before, though her name doesn't ring a bell.
【ring a bell】
Something sounds familiar
听起来耳熟
Using toilet water can help you avoid mosquitos, or flies.
【toilet water】
toilet water is fairly weak and inexpensive perfume.
花 露 水
We are only small potatoes. The manager won't listen to us.
They are small potatoes compared to the real problem.
【small potatoes】
something unimportant in comparison with something else
小 人 物/小事情
His wife was away and the house was at sixes and sevens.
They haven't come back yet, so I'm all at sixes and sevens.
【 at sixes and sevens 】
in a confused, badly organized, or difficult situation
乱七八糟
If you want to win the end-of-year competition, you'll have to pull up your socks.
Pull your socks up and we have to try it again.
【pull up one's socks 】
make an effort to improve one’s work or behavior because it is not good enough
努力向上
She has unbelievably green fingers, she can grow anything.
【green fingers】
be good at making plants grow
园艺能手
more examples
想不到我还如此有用
rain cats and dogs
a living dog is better than a dead lion
hot dog
lucky dogs
dog days
like a dog with two tails
love me, love my dog
couch potato?
horse sense?
rest room?
Yellow Pages?
Someone who spends a lot of time sitting and watching TV
Common sense
A room with a toilet
A book that contains the telephone numbers
Where does the passage most probably come from?
A. A website.
B. A fashion magazine.
C. A science fiction.
D. A guidebook.
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