Unìt 4 language poìnts.ppt

Unit 4 Language points 1 poem, poetry ,poet poem 可数名词 ，指具体的诗文 汤姆写了一首诗。 Tom has written a poem. 你觉得这首诗怎么样。 What do you think of this poem? Poet: 诗人，可数名词 She is a great poet of her time. 在那个时代，她是个伟大的诗人。 Poetry:不可数 （1）指诗， 韵文 的总称 （2）作诗的技巧，诗歌的艺术 （2）诗意 诗情 Shakespeare and Milton were masters of English poetry. 莎士比亚和米尔吨是英国的诗歌艺术大师。 他喜欢写诗和背诗。 He is fond of writing and reciting poetry. 你不懂得生活的诗意。 You don’t understand the poetry of life. 2 Whether buses or trains or boarding aeroplanes, there wasn’t a door she would get through. 无论汽车或火车或是想把飞机上，他都无门可入。 Whether…or…无论…还是…..，引导让步状语从句 Whether you go or not, I will go. 不论你去不去，反正我要去。 不论他成功还是失败，我们都支持他。 Whether he succeeds or fails, we shall support him. 3 I think it will be too difficult to … 我认为这件事做起来太难了。 Too:“太”, 修饰形容词或副词，一般不与very,pretty, fairly等词连用，可以与much, rather, far, a little, a bit, 等连用。 Too…to…太 而不能, 可与 so…that…, enough to 互换 He is too old to do any work. (he is so old that he can’t do any work.) He is not young enough to do any work. At the moment, I felt too weak to move a step. 此刻我感到虚弱得一步也走不动了。 天气太暖和，水无法结冰。 The weather was too warm for water to freeze. （2）too…to结构中，用形容词kind, ready, anxious, glad, pleased, easy, willing, eager等时，表肯定含义与just, only, all, but, simply等词连用。 他太想知道结果了。 He is too anxious to know the result. 能够帮助你，我太高兴了。 I am only too glad to help you . Can’t/ can never….too/enough不可能太…“再…也不为过”“越 越好” You can’t watch your accounts too carefully. ………………………………….carefully enough. 帐再仔细也不为过。 当你穿过拥挤的街道时，怎么仔细也不为过。 You can’t be too careful when you cross the crowded street. 1More than any other form of literature, poetry plays with sounds, words and grammar. 诗歌胜过任何其他的文化形式，它灵活运用声音，词汇，和语法。 more than any other比较级结构表达最高级 The emperor cared more about new clothes than anything else. 国王最喜欢新服装 他们假装比以前任何时候干得起劲。 They pretended to work harder than ever before. No one knows more about the history of my hometown. 没有人比我爷爷更了解我故乡的历史了。 2 Poetry also calls up all the colors, feelings, experiences and curious images of a dream worl