Unit 2 Exploring English Developing ideas Reading 课件-2023-2024学年高一英语外研版（2019）必修第一册

Unit 2 Period 4 Reading 新 课 导 入 Can you guess the meanings of these expressions? Have a try! church mouse Now I am as poor as a church mouse. 我现在真是一贫如洗啊。 dog day The dog days will arrive soon. We’d better install an air conditioner. 三伏天就要来了，我们最好装一个空调。 go bananas The drugs have made him go bananas. 毒品使他神魂颠倒。 课 堂 学 习 1 Read the following expressions and guess their meanings. What’s up? ring a bell small potatoes (What’s going on?) (to sound familiar) (something unimportant or insignificant) toilet water at sixes and sevens green fingers pull up one’s socks (a light perfume that does not have a very strong smell) (in a confused, badly-organised, or difficult situation) (natural ability in growing plants) (to make an effort to improve your work or behaviour because it is not good enough) 2 Read the passage and find the words or expressions that caused the misunderstandings. 1 What English expressions caused misunderstandings? 2 What were their puzzles accordingly? Last week, our forum asked if you had any funny or strange stories about using English. We didn’t expect to get so many posts! Here are some of our favourites, to remind us that some of the English we learn in the classroom is rather different from the English in the outside world! 366 325 comments share favourites So many likes and comments Yancy Sophie Julien Zheng Xu People say that the British always play safe with what they eat. Not true! I went to a summer school in Manchester and my English teacher was called Maggie. One day, a different teacher took our class. He told us that Maggie couldn't teach that day COZ she had a frog in her throat. Poor Maggie—but why did she try to eat such a big frog? Yancy Misadventures in English English expressions: Maggie couldn’t teach that day COZ she had a frog in her throat. Puzzle: People say that the British always play safe with what they eat. But why did she try to eat such a big frog? Reason: Her throat was unable to speak clearly for a short time