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Phrasal Prepositions
Unit 12
Grammar
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To understand the use of phrasal prepositions.
Learning objectives
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Complete the Word Builder with phrasal prepositions. What other phrasal prepositions do you know?
Phrasal Prepositions
1. _______________ 21, when Hawking spent his first
year at the University of Cambridge …
2. His theory was that there was a sort of hole __________ a black hole.
3. _____________ trying to find one big new explanation,
scientists should …
4. _____________ his disease, Hawking didn’t consider
himself an unlucky man.
Word builder
At the age of
in the centre of
Instead of
In spite of
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Use the phrasal prepositions below to complete the webpage below on Stephen Hawking.
instead of with the help of in spite of as a result of
After the Operation
In 1985, Hawking had to have an operation on his throat.
1. ______________ the operation, he couldn’t speak at all. However, 2. ________________ not being able to talk, he was still able to communicate by raising his eyebrows when someone pointed to the right letter on a spelling card.
As a result of
in spite of
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A computer expert heard of Hawking’s problem and sent him a computer programme. 3. _________________ this programme, Hawking could choose words from a menu on a screen. 4. ______________ pressing a switch in his hand, he could control the programme by making a head or eye movement. At first, he could run the programme on a desktop computer, but then a man called David Mason fitted a small portable computer to his wheelchair.
With the help of
Instead of
instead of with the help of in spite of as a result of
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Complete the questions with a preposition.
1. What are you interested ________?
2. In your family, who do you have a good relationship
_________?
3. What are you afraid _______?
4. What are you proud _______?
5. What’s the most serious problem that’s ever happened
______ you?
6. How did you deal _________ your problem?
in
with
of
of
to
with
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短语介词
1. 动词+介词,如come across, consist of, look after, result from, stick to, wait for。
2. 名词+介词,如devotion to, doubt about, interest in, struggle against。
3. 介词+名词,如by chance, in debt, on purpose。
4. 介词+名词+介词,如by means of, on behalf of, in spite of, in terms of。
5. 形容词+介词,如confident in, different from, fond of, good at, satisfied with。
Summary
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选用方框内合适的短语并用其正确形式完成下面短文(每个短语限用一次)。
as a result of, in spite of, with the help of, in addition to
It's easy to think that successful innovators just have some gift that the rest of us don't. The fact is that they follow some ways to become more innovative every day.
★They don't doubt their crazy ideas.
The crazy ideas are where the world's most successful innovations come from. Take Elon Musk for example. He admitted, “I thought both Tesla and Space X would fail at the
Exercises
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beginning.” 1. ________________ this, he kept trying and threw much of his money and time into these crazy ideas. 2. _________________ his efforts, he finally succeeded.
★They learn about anything and everything.
This philosophy shone through in Steve Jobs' revolutionary work. As biographer Walter Isaacson wrote: “He connected the humanities (人文学科) to the sciences, creativity to technology, arts to engineering.”
Jobs learned a lot of things. 3. __________________ fields directly related to his work, he followed passions and interests that might not make sense and dived into areas he knew nothing about.
as a result of, in spite of, with the help of, in addition to
In spite of
As a result of
In addition to
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as a result of, in spite of, with the help of, in addition to
★They surround themselves with heroes.
Successful innovators know that they can't do it alone. They surround themselves with people who contribute revolutionary ideas. 4. __________________ such people, they can find solutions to problems more efficiently.
During her time at Google, Marissa Mayer shared, “We have this great internal list where people post new ideas and everyone can go on and see them. It's like a voting pool where you can say how good or bad you think an idea is. Those comments lead to new ideas.”
With the help of
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1. Review Grammar.
2. Complete Activity 6 on page 90.
Homework
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