book3 unit2 新.ppt

Unit 2 Why My Great-uncle Gave Up the Ministry Teaching Objectives Topic: Describing people and their behavior Grammar points: Expanding a sentence with infinitive to- structure and the structure for( doing) something expressing “ purpose Vocabulary: jolly, beloved, concern, clumsy, inadvertently, panic (v.), Devastated, bring oneself to do something, resolve to, retire, knock over, grope, in search for, retrace one s steps, smudge, crisp, mount, fixture, rip … from, clutch, topple, rise to on feet, demolish, reverence Writing: Describing people Part I Listening and Speaking Activities 1 Brainstorming Aims: Preparing the students for speaking activities Familiarizing the students with basic vocabulary for describing general impressions of a person, someone’s emotional changes, behavior, social positions, titles and commenting on personalities Questions According to your observations, which of the words are more suitable to describe a person you would make friends with? According to your observations, which of the words are more suitable to describe a person you wouldn’t like to make friends with? Expressions for describing general impressions of a person: Positive expressions: polite, smart, cute, nice, a good leader, gentle, charming, wise man, optimistic, hospitable, generous, creative, integrated, upright, capable, quick-witted, graceful, charming Negative expressions: clumsy, rude, careless, stupid, a follower, (somebody) have more age than experience, wise guy, coarse, underhand (阴险的), sneaky（卑劣的）, dishonorable, deceitful, violent, gossiper, like the devil, evil, devilish（如恶魔般的）, devious (不坦率、不光明正大的) Neutral expressions: funny (When used in an neutral way, the word means that someone’s behavior is laughable; but the expression can be slightly negative when it means that someone’s behavior is strange, abnormal, as in the saying: funny ha-ha or funny peculiar? This saying is used when someone says somebody is funny.) sensitive, forgetful, outs