新视野大学英语（第三版）读写教程B1U1 Section B-What we wish.ppt

Step 3 Write a letter to your parents and try to use the words and expressions you learned in your writing. Enhancing your skills Language learning 1. take sb. / sth. seriously (Para.3 ) Detailed learning of key vocabulary If you don’t take your own life seriously, never will you achieve anything. believe that sb. or sth. is worth your attention or respect 认真对待某人 / 某事 Enhancing your skills Language highlighting Task 3 Translation: 如果你不认真对待自己的生活，你将一事无成。 1. take sb. / sth. seriously (Para.3 ) Can you think of any phrases that have similar or opposite meaning? attach importance to 重视、认为…很重要 take sb. / sth. lightly 轻视、掉以轻心 Enhancing your skills Language highlighting 2. despair (Para.3 ) vi. (fml.) feel that there is no hope at all 绝望；感到无望 We despair of ever finding the lost jewelry again. Translation: 我们对找回丢失的珠宝已丧失信心。 Enhancing your skills Language highlighting 2. despair (Para.3 ) n. a feeling that you have no hope at all 绝望 At the end of the month, she still had no job and was close to despair. Translation: 到了月底，她还是没有找到工作，她几乎绝望了。 Enhancing your skills Language highlighting 3. give sb. the benefit of the doubt (Para.3 ) accept what sb. tells you even though you think they may be wrong or lying, but you cannot be sure 姑且相信某人 Enhancing your skills Language highlighting Question Under what condition, will you give somebody the benefit of the doubt? If I cannot find any further evidence, I will give him or her the benefit of the doubt. 3. give sb. the benefit of the doubt (Para.3 ) Pair work Make up a dialogue of at least eight sentences with your partner by using this phrase with a proper plot. Enhancing your skills Language highlighting 4. assured (Para.4 ) a. confident and certain 有把握的、自信的、放心的 I have assured mom I will try hard to reap the greatest benefit of my university. Enhancing your skills Language highlighting Translation: 我向妈妈保证一定会在大学学有所获。 You may be __________ that everything is alright. The teaching assistant lacked __________