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Unit 1 People of Achievement
Period 2 Learning about language
Build up Your Vocabulary
—How can we grasp the meaning of words?
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Teaching objectives:
By the end of this period, you will be able to:
1. grasp the meaning of words with pictures, definitions (定义) and examples.
2. grasp the meaning of words in topic-related context.
3. grasp the meaning based on affixes (词缀) and roots.
4. grasp the meaning of words by a mind map.
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Which words come to your mind when you see the following pictures?
Lead-in
substance
medical properties
药物属性;药用功能
boiling
liquid botanical extracts
液体植物提取物
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1.Write down the word that matches each definition. Then read the sentences containing these words in the text.
_______:
cook something in very hot water
1. They then tried boiling fresh wormwood…
在非常滚烫的水中烹饪
boil
Build up your vocabulary Student’s book P4 Exercise 1
2. She concluded that boiling the sweet wormwood apparently destroyed its medical properties
[bɔɪl]
Tip1: to grasp the meaning of words with pictures, definitions and examples.
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2. _________:
relating to plants
In 1969,she …decided to review ancient Chinese medical texts to find traditional botanical treatments for the disease.
botanical
与植物相关的
Build up your vocabulary Student’s book P4 Exercise 1
1.Write down the word that matches each definition. Then read the sentences containing these words in the text.
[bəˈtænɪkl]
Tip1: to grasp the meaning of words with pictures, definitions and examples.
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3. ___________:
qualities or characteristics of something
Her team examined over 2, 000 old medical texts, and evaluated 280,000 plants for their medical properties.
与品质或特征相关的东西
property
Build up your vocabulary Student’s book P4 Exercise 1
1.Write down the word that matches each definition. Then read the sentences containing these words in the text.
Root:
proper : of one’s own
Suffix:
-ty: the state
Tip1: to grasp the meaning of words with pictures, definitions and examples.