内容正文:
To understand and finish a quiz.
To read and understand the passage.
To get the detailed information of the passage.
To master the important words, phrases and sentence structures of this part.
Learning Aims
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Complete the questionnaire and find out if you are fun to be with.
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Check your results.
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Lead-in
a private garden
a circus
a hospital
an amusement park
a busy street
a theatre
Look at the pictures and tick out the places where you would expect to see a clown.
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Where is he? What is his job?
What do you think this clown is doing?
Clown doctors
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【答案】
f — Para 1 a — Para 2 b — Para 3 d — Para 4 e — Para 5 c — Para 6
Match the questions with the paragraphs.
a. Which patient is in need of the clown doctor’s attention and why?
b. What is a clown doctor and why did the author choose to be one?
c. How does the author feel after a day’s work?
d. What are the responsibilities of a clown doctor?
e. How does the clown doctor help the patient?
f. What does this clown doctor wear and what is his working environment like?
What does this clown doctor wear and what is his working environment like?
Para. 1
He wears a white coat, a curly rainbow wig, and a big red nose. His working environment is boring and tense.
Read each paragraph and answer the questions.
Which patient is in need of the clown doctor’s attention and why?
A small girl called Lara is in need of the clown doctor’s attention, because she fell her bicycle and spent her time crying in pain.
Para. 2
What is a clown doctor?
A clown doctor is a specially trained clown who works as part of a programme known as “hospital clowning”; the clown doctor helps people by entertaining them.
Para. 3
Why did the author choose to be one?
The author chose to be a clown doctor because of his frightening and boring experience of going to hospital when he was a kid.
What are the responsibilities of a clown doctor?
A clown doctor visits hospital and other health care facilities, working together with medical professionals to cheer up patients, the families and the hospital staff.
Para. 4
How does the clown doctor help the patient?
He gets the patients’ attention by doing a magic trick — he produces the patient’s sock from out of his pocket.
Para. 5
How does the author feel after a day’s work?
He is still wearing a big smile, as he remembers all the fun and laughter of the day, because he believes that “ laughter is the best medicine”.
Para. 6
health care facilities
nervous, pain or bored
the hospital staff
magic tricks
a friendlier place to visit
Organize information from the passage and complete the job advertisement.
needn’t act as actors but humour is preferred
usually help patients of all ages
give medical prescriptions
relieve patients’ physical pain
put on curly rainbow wigs and big red noses
may have no or little medical knowledge
usually help children
can’t do medical examinations for patients
cheer up patients, their families, and the hospital staff
work in a hospital or other health care facilities
aim to make patients and their family members feel better
Complete the diagram comparing clown doctors and medical doctors.
1. How important do you think clown doctors are?
2. What is your understanding of the saying “laughter is the best medicine”? Do you agree with it? Why?
3. Would you like to work as a clown doctor? Why or why not?
Think & Share
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Words
1. _______ n. 心情 → ________ adj. 喜怒无常的
2. ________ n. 马戏团
3. __________ n. 娱乐,消遣 → _______________ 游乐场
4. _______ adj. 卷曲的
5. _______ n. 假发
6. ________ n. 徽章
mood
moody
circus
amusement
amusement park
curly
wig
badge
7. ______ n. 脚踝
8. ______ n. 小丑
9. __________ v. 使快乐 → _____________ n. 娱乐
10. __________ v. 检查(身体) → ___________ n. 检查,考试
11. ____________ n. 广告 → __________ v. 做广告→ _________ n. 广告人
12. _________ n. 雇主 → __________ n. 雇员→ _________ v. 雇用
ankle
clown
entertain
entertainment
examine
examination
advertisement
advertise
advertiser
employer
employee
employ
Phases
1. _________ 穿上
2. ____________ 浏览
3. ________ 掉落,脱落
4. __________________ 花费时间干某事
5. __________ 疼痛地
6. __________ 充当,担任
7. _____________ 作为……而为人所知
8. ______________ 专为……而设计
put on
look through
fall off
spend time doing sth.
in pain
work as
be known as
be designed for
9. _________ 医疗保健
10. __________(使)高兴起来,(使)振作起来
11. ________________ 往往,通常
12. _____________ 喜欢做某事
13. _____________ 奏效,达到预期效果
14. ______________ 专心于,集中精力于
15. ________ 反过来,转而
16. ________ 脱下,起飞
health care
cheer up
more often than not
feel like doing…
do the trick
concentrate on
in turn
take off
1. mood n. 心情 moody adj. 喜怒无常的
in a good/bad mood 心情好/坏
in the/no mood to do sth. 有/没有干……的心情
in the/no mood for sth. 有/没有干……的心情
知识精析
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单句语法填空
1. I’m not in the mood ____________(disagree) with you.
2. Sorry, I feel sick and _____ no mood for a walk.
3. After his father’s death, Lipson became rather restless and _______(mood).
4. His passing the driving test makes him in _____ good mood.
to disagree
in
moody
a
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2. amusement n. 娱乐,愉悦
amuse v. 逗乐,提供娱乐
amusing adj. 好笑的,有趣的
amused adj. 被逗乐的,感到好笑的
amusement park 游乐场
with amusement 忍俊不禁地
in amusement 高兴地
to one’s amusement 令某人感到好笑的是
be amused by/at 被……逗乐
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用amuse的适当形式填空
1. The book is full of __________ stories about his childhood.
2. Could you think of a few games to ________ the tourists on the journey?
3. To our great ___________, the dog ran off with one of Dad’s slippers.
amusing
amuse
amusement
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3. As I approach the hospital wearing my white coat, I look just like any other doctor.
句式分析
动词的现在分词作状语,表示原因,方式,时间,条件,结果等,与逻辑主语之间是主动关系,表示正在发生的动作。
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单句语法填空
1. European football is played in more than 80 countries, _________(make) it the most popular sport in the world.
2. ________(see) from the top of the hill, we can find that the city looks more beautiful.
3. ________(judge) from his excited voice, we knew that he must have been offered the job.
4. Generally speaking, there are several reasons ___________(account) for this phenomenon.
making
Seeing
Judging
accounting
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4. Although it’s the doctors and nurses who will treat her injury, it’s my job to make her feel better.
句式分析
本句是强调句式。
基本形式:It is/was + 被强调部分(通常是主语、宾语或状语)+ that/ who(当强调主语且主语指人)+ 其他部分。
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强调句的一般疑问形式:
Is/Was it + 被强调部分+ that/ who+ 其他部分
强调句的特殊疑问形式:
特殊疑问词+ is/was + it + that/who + 其他部分
not…until…句型的强调句:
It is/was not until + 被强调部分 + that + 其他部分
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根据划线部分,把下列句子变成强调句
1. We completed the task with their help.
2. The clown doctors work together with medical professionals.
3. I chose this career becuse of my experience of going to hospital when I was a kid.
It was with their help that we completed the task.
It was the clown doctors who/that work together with medical professionals.
It was because of my experience of going to hospital when I was a kid that I chose this career.
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一句多译
直到Tommy完成了所有的工作才回了家。
Tommy didn’t go home until he finished all the work.
Not until Tommy finished all the work did he go home.
It was not until Tommy finished all the work that he went home.
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