北师大高二英语Unit17 Laughter LanguageAwareness2.ppt

Language Awareness 2 Grock 北师大版 Unit 17 Teaching Objectives Read the short passage adapted from Groucho and Me. Answer the questions independently. Lead the grammatical item ---- Continuous and Simple Finish off all the exercises. 1 Read the story and answer these questions. 1. What kind of problems had the man been having ? Work and marriage problems. 4. Why was the doctor’s suggestion not very helpful ? 2. How had he been feeling ? down / depressed. 3. What physical problems did the man have ? slightly high blood pressure and breathing quickly, but nothing very serious. Because the man is the circus clown. Notes to the text: Many elders always feel down after they retired. 许多老人退休以后觉得心里空洞洞 Eddie felt down after being criticized by the boss. 被老板批评后,艾迪情绪低落。 Don’t feel depressed. Things will improve with time. 不要那么不开心。时过境迁，一切都会好起来的。 1. feel down 情绪消沉 ；闷闷不乐（＝下文的feel depressed ） 2. go wrong 出错 In the two months before the election, some things could still go wrong for the president. 在大选前的两个月中，总统仍然可能在一些事情上犯错。 Im going to call in a plumber this afternoon. 今天下午我会打电话叫一个管道工。 How many friends will you call in ? 你邀请了多少朋友？ But early in the new year, things started to go wrong for the family. 但今年早期，这个家庭里有些事开始出问题。 3. call in 叫（某人）进来；邀请 4. examine vt. （仔细）检查 We examine the wording in detail before deciding on the final text. 我们彻底仔细地检查了措词后才最终定稿。 Doctors examine their patients thoroughly in order to make a correct diagnosis. 为了作出准确的诊断，医生会对病人进行彻底的检查。 5. do sb. good / do good to sb. 给某人带来好处 A week’s vacation will do you a lot of good. 休一周的假对你有很多益处。 Fill in the blanks below with their correct forms. 2 This story is about a middle-aged man who was feeling very 1 . Everything had been going wrong for him. He had had problems at work and his wife had left him to go off with a lion tamer. So, after he 2 (depress) for