文档介绍：Unit Seven Learning about English
Part I (period 1-5) Intensive Reading (Text A)
Step One Introduction (15-30’)
How do you like English ? Is English easy or difficult ? Someone says English is the easiest human language throughout the human history ? Do you think so? What is the most difficult aspect when you learn English, ics, pronunciation, intonation, grammar, vocabulary, or something else ? In any case, for a Chinese student, learning English well is not just a piece of cake. So what makes it so troublesome for us to learn English ? Now, let’s read a short passage about English, you may have something new in your mind. Ok, Class, let’s move on to page 306.
( Teacher reads the passage sentence by sentence, and asks students to illustrate the meaning of some idioms, if necessary, teacher can give some hints.)
* Ham --- A cut of meat from the thigh of a hog.
火腿肉从猪大腿上切下来的肉.
* hamburger ---A sandwich made with a patty of ground meat usually in a roll or bun.
汉堡包一种三明治,通常在面包卷或小面包中夹入这种碎牛肉饼制成.
*a fat lot Slang *fat chance Slang
很少,根本没有: Very little or no chance.
Very little or none at all: 很少或没有机会
a fat lot of good it will do him.
对他一点好处也没有
Now, we have finished the passage, what’s your feeling ? Miraculous, right ? In fact, in Chinese, there are many examples alike, such as “很行” and “银行”, foreigners can not make it clear why does the same character “行” have tot