Unit 7. Your education is your future.ppt

I had nothing in common with other kids my age. other kids my age= other kids of my age He is my age. 他和我同岁。 At my age I would find it hard to get another job. I went back to school and determined to succeed. determine: vi. If you determine to do something, you make a firm decision to do it. 下定决心，决意 vt. If a particular factor determines the nature of a thing or event, it causes it to be of a particular kind. 是…的决定因素 He determined to rescue his two countrymen. The size of the chicken pieces will determine the cooking time I knew I was working for my life, for my future. What or who do you work for? Whats your motivation / goal / dream? If the dream is big enough, the facts dont count. My decision to go back to school was the best Ive ever made. 译成中文，然后再译成英文 I decided to go back to school and this is the best decision I have ever made. Nominalization 名词化使得句子更紧凑 The discovery of the existence of bacteria in the mouth by scientists in a laboratory in Chicago was reported last month. Decide to be the best you can be. the best you can be中间含有一个省略了引导词that的定语从句。意为“最优秀的你”。 RIGHT or WRONG? The letter I received was from my brother. I don’t know the boy you talked with. 关系代词省略的情况： 1. 关系代词作宾语时的省略。关系代词在定语从句中用作动词宾语或位于句末时的介词宾语时，可以省略。如：Is there anything (which) you wanted? Who is the man (that / who / whom) you were talking to? 2. 关系代词作表语时的省略。如：China is not the country (that) it was. 3. 关系代词作宾补时的省略。如：I’m not the madman (that) you thought me. Education is a key--- to jos, to power, to money, to enriching the lives of others. Imitation: 读书足以怡情，足以博彩，足以长才。 Reading is the key --- to delight, to ornament and to ability. What rhetoric device is used here? And its function? Parallelism is used here to emphasize the importance of education. More examples of parallelism 1. Faith sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible.(predicate clause) 2. Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country