3.8《Unit 3 Using language》.ppt

It should be able to help you with your English homework because it is such a marvelous language learner! It stays in one place most of the time as it finds moving so painful. When it has to move, it rolls over and over like a ball. Moddocks live alone and never go to school. They don’t need to, as they are good observers and quick learners from others. It really likes humans and as we are now friends, it wants to become a human being too.  Read the passage on Page 21 and try to fill in the chart. I Have Seen Amazing Things in space search (some place) for sth. light of any kind assist (sb.) in sth./ doing sth. go soft from side to side depend on 辨析: divide与separate divide往往指把某个整体划分为若干部分; separate指把原来连在一起或靠近的事物分隔开来。如: He separated the big balls from the small ones. 他把大球和小球区分开来。 3. So you can imagine how exciting that is! 可以想像那是多么刺激！ [开放思维] I can imagine the scene quite clearly. 我想很清楚地想像出那一情景。 You can imagine how surprise I was. 你能想像出我当时是多么惊奇。 Try to imagine you’re alone on a desert island. 试想一下你孤身一人在一个荒岛上的情形。 Try to imagine staying alone on a desert island. Try to image you staying alone on a desert island. imagine后接的宾语是否定意思的从句时, 通常要发生否定转移。在imagine后可用代词so (not) 代替前面的名词, 动名词和从句, 而不用it. －Dose she know what kind of tables she has taken today? 她知道她今天取的是什么种类的桌子吗？ －I imagine so. 我想应该知道吧。 －Do you imagine they will help out? 你想他们会帮助我们吗？ －I imagine not. 我想不会。 4. They have assisted in the discovery of planets round the fourth star in the Pleiades system. 他们已发现了围绕昴宿系中的第四颗星旋转的行星。 assist v. to help or support assist + n./ pron 帮助 assist sb. to do sth. 帮助某人干某事 assis