牛津高中英语模块一 unit2 Word Power.ppt

It’s useful for us to know some differences between British English and American English. Look at the following tables: Change the underlined words and phrases from American English to British English. Answers: 1.__________ 2.___________ 3.__________ 4.___________ 5.__________ 6.___________ 7.___________________ 8._____ Colloquialisms You are telling me I’m lazy. Ha, look what a mess your room is! That is like the pot calling the kettle black ! Don’t worry. It’s a piece of cake! 1. a piece of cake 小菜一碟 容易的事 e.g. No sweat. This project will be a piece of cake.  没问题,这项计划不费吹灰之力。 We need not have worried about the math exam. It was a piece of cake.  我们本不必担心数学考试,实际上很 容易。 2. If Huston rockets can win this basketball game by twenty points, I will eat my hat. eat my hat: You are 100 percent certain that something will happen. 拓展：eat (one’s) words: to retract something that one has said. 食言：对自己说的话又反悔 3. I have never expected Lily to act as cool as a cucumber in the traffic accident. as cool as a cucumber: very calm and controlled in difficult situations. 像黄瓜一样凉爽 就是当一个人碰到困难和麻烦时很冷 静、很放松。 1. Try your best to keep the examples of American English and British English in your mind. 2. Find more colloquialisms if you like. 3. Revise the play and find the sentences with attributive clause. ① We kids probably make a lot of noise when we are playing, but we are all ears when Irma sits down and begins to read to us. 我们这些孩子去玩耍时也许是吵吵嚷嚷的,可一当爱玛坐下来开始给我们讲故事时，我们就聚精会神地专心倾听。 ② “I couldn’t sleep a wink last night,” Andy said. “I was all ears listening to the sounds outside my tent in Country Park.”“昨晚我一点儿也没睡着，”安迪说，“我专心听着帐篷外郊野公园的动静。 4. to pull one’s leg 逗别人，开别人玩笑 e.g. My roommate said this girl had told him she