文档介绍：讲课人: Kevin Smith
Unit 15: Correcting and Explaining
New Fashions
Contents
Weekly Proverb and Conversation Topic
Part A: Way to Speak
Look at these patterns
Part B: Challenge to Speak
Part C: Topic to Discuss
Part D: Fun to Speak
Weekly Proverb and Conversation Topic
Weekly Proverb
Live and learn.
Conversation Topic
This school year.
Review Chapter 14 Wedding Vocabulary
Part A: Way to Speak Dialogue 2
A: Haven’t you finished those illustrations, Xiao Wang?
B: Not yet. There’s one left, about the Rose parade. To be frank, I know very little about it.
A: Oh, the Rose Parade? It’s a famous New Year’s Day parade in America.
B: Could you please tell me about it?
A: Well, to celebrate the first day of the year, people drive floats elaborately decorated with flowers and plants material through Pasadena, California. So it’s called the “ROSE PARADE”. Later that day, in the same city, there is a college football gamed called the “Rose Bowl” game.
B: Thanks, Alex. You are really a great help to me.
Part A: Way to Speak Dialogue 4
A: Good God! Have you read today’s newspaper, Mom?
B: Yes, I read it just now. What’s happened?
A: A new-born baby in our city was found to be infected with the AIDS virus!
B: But what does AIDS mean?
A: Uh … it’s the abbreviation for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome of the human body.
B: Oh, I just know the name from TV.
A: It’s called “supercancer” as well, because this is a disease very difficult to cure. No physician has found any effective cure for it.
B: God! That poor baby!
Look at these patterns
Making an explanation
What does … mean? What do people me by…?
The phrase means …
What do you mean by that?
What / All I mean is that …
What are you trying to say?
What / All I’m trying to say is …
What are you getting at?
What I’m getting at is …
Part B: Challenge to Speak
Practice 2 Harry has the following questions. Make dialogues with your partner and try to explain to him:
1. the meaning of the phrase “to feast one’s eyes on someth