Unit4waitingforacall综合英语1第三版.pptx

,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,Unit 7 Waiting for a Call,By Li Zihua,Teaching Objectives,1.Functions:,Expressing wishes&regrets,2.Grammatical points:,Verb+object+prep.phrase,e.g.,Thank you for your letter.,Review:,could not have done something;must have done something.,3.Vocabulary:,count,smash,hurt somebody to do.,shiny,care,relent,filthy,smug,ask something/much/a lot of somebody(c.f.ask somebody for something),mind(v;n),keep doing.,excuse,by.,Waiting for a Call,In what cases do you wait for a call?,Conversation 1,1.What is the relationship between Jane and Sam?,They are special friends.,2.Are they boyfriend and girlfriend to each other?,Yes.,Conversation 1,3.How is their relationship now?Steady anr just beginning?How do you know?,Probably just beginning yet.,Jane failed to recognize Sams voice;,Shes very careful,not to be abrupt or intrusive;,She keeps asking if she is bothering Sam;etc.,Conversation 1,4.Whos more aware of“face”,Sam or Jane,and why?,Jane is more aware of face.She asks more questions,and explains several times about why she wants to make the phone call,even though she wishes she could talk more by phone.,Conversation 1,ring sb.up:,make a phone call to sb.Mary didnt ring me up last night.,Cf.ring up ring call phone,Ring:,When you ring someone,you dial their phone number and speak to them by phone.You can say that someone rings a place.I rang Aunt Jane this evening.You must ring the hospital at once.,Ring up:,In conversation,people often use ring up,instead of ring.There is no difference in meaning.Note that you do not use to after ring or ring up.He had rung up Emily and told her all about it.,Conversation 1,Call:,American speakers do not say that one person rings another.The word they use is a call.Some British speakers also say call.,Phone:,When you phone someone,you dial their phone number and speak to them by phone.You can also phone a place.Note that you do not use to after phone.I went back to the motel to phone Jenny.He phoned the police station and speak to the officer in charge.,Story-telling,To create the story with the beginning part like this:,It was now half past ten on Wednesday evening.Jane was trying to calm her down and concentrate on her book.,What are they for:wish,A wish is a longing or desire for something,often something that is difficult to obtain or achieve.When used as a verb,wish is usually followed by a that-clause.If you wish that something was the case,you would like it to be the case,though you know it is unlikely or impossible.Note that a past tense,rather than a present tense,is used in the that-clause after wish to express a desire for the future.,wish,For example,you do not say I wish I live nearer London.You say I wish I lived nearer London.However,you can use hope in this way as I hope you like this village.Whats more,wish can be used with a to-infinitive or two objects.For instance,you can say I dont wish to waste our time or I wish you a pleasant journey.,Expressing wishes,To express general and real wishes,1)Wish to do something,e.g.He wishes to have a car of his own.,2)Wish somebody to do something,e.g.She wishes you to come tomorrow.,3)Wish somebody something,e.g.The teacher wished us an enjoyable holiday.,Functions:Expressing wishes,To express something that can hardly come true,1)wish+clause,e.g.I wish you knew how to do it.,He wishes he were handsome.,You may express wishes like this:,I want to be an actress.,I hope you like this village.,I hope/wish to see you again.I wish I were younger.What if you could ski?If only I could stay for another day.Best wishes for your holiday.Have a good time on the sea.,You may express wishes like this:,Please give my best wishes to Sally.,Please remember me to your wife.Say hello to Joe.Please give my love/kindest regards to your grandpa,.,Best of luck with your driving test.I wish you every possible happiness.May I wish you luck in writing your book.Keep your fingers crossed and hope it doesnt rain tonight,What are they for:,Regrets,Regret is used to say that someone feels sadness or disappointment about something that has happened,or about something they had done.More formal than be sorry,regret is not normally used in conversation but in formal letters and announcement to make apology.When giving others some bad news,you can begin by saying Im sorry to tell you.In a formal letter,you say I regret to tell you.You either regret something or doing something.You can also use a that-clause after regret.,You may express regrets like this:,I should have visited the Great Wall when in Beijing.I do wish that Id waited at the second crossing.I immediately regretted my decision.Im sorry about last night.I regretted not leaving the key to my friend.Im sorry to tell you this,but you fail to enter the second round.,Proverb,One can not love and be wise.,Is this proverb true?Give examples to support your conclusion.,Take Bettys case again,can she love and study at the same time?,Give examples to support your answer.,Can you think of any conflicting proverbs?Demonstrate them.,Some other sayings,Love is blind.,Love me,love my dog.,Love my house,love my crows.,Love means never saying youre sorry.,Married people are happier than unmarried people.,Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.,Absence makes the heart grow fonder.,Love and lordship never like fellowship.,Love you and leave you as sailors do their wives.,All is fair in war and love.,About the author:Dorothy Parker,Dorothy Parker was born in New Jersey and grew up in New York.After selling some poems to Vogue,a very popular fashion magazine,in 1916,she was given a job writing about fashion for the magazine.She later became a drama critic and book reviewer for some other leading North American journals.A well-known poet,About the author:Dorothy Parker,journalist,and playwright,she was also,famous in the New York literary circles,for her witty conversation.Married twice,divorced and widowed,she died alone,in a hotel room in Manhattan in 1967.,Dorothy Parkers stories are often very,Short,and her poetry is simple and,usually very funny.The story in this unit was,published in 1944.,Notes,The text is written in a style called,“stream of consciousness”,through,Which the girls thoughts and feelings,Are expressed exactly as they pass,Through her mind rather than being,ordered in a way that usually appears in,Novels.The“stream of consciousness”,Here enables the reader to share the girls,tension and emotion in a vivid,realistic way.,Notes,Maybe if I counted five hundred by fives:the proposition“by”followed by numbers or figures indicates measurement or quantity.Similar examples are:,Eggs are sold here by the dozen.,She got her payment by the hour.,Very strangely,local shops sell cloth by weight not by length.,Notes,There are quite a few unreal conditional clauses in the text in which the verbs are usually in the past tense,for example:,If I didnt think about it,maybe the telephone might ring.,If I could think of something else,Maybe if I counted five hundred by fives,it might ring at that time.,Notes,Ask something of somebody:ask somebody for something,He couldnt have minded my calling him up:“cant/couldnt have done something”is used for saying that you feel sure something is not possible or true to have happened;while“must have done something”is used for saying that you believe something happened in the past.For example:,Notes,Im sure he cant have forgotten about the wedding!,The teacher said Tom couldnt have finished his homework that early.,-Why havent they arrived yet?Its 7 oclock already.,-Well,they must have missed the train.,Comprehension work,1.What was the girl doing?How did she feel?,She was waiting for a call from a man.She felt increasingly restless and desperate.,Comprehension work,2.What did she intend to do to distract herself?,What did she hope would happen?,She intended to distract herself by doing,something else.She thought if she counted five,hundred by fives,the telephone might ring.She,would count slowly.To be honest to the promise,she,would not answer the phone even if it rang before,she got to five hundred.,Comprehension work,3.What did the man promise?How long had the girl been wailing for the call?,The man promised to call the girl at five oclock.The girl had been waiting for more than two hours.,4.What excuse did the girl think up for the man?Why did she do so?,She tried to deceive herself by thinking up an excuse that something might have prevented the man from making the call.She tried to persuade herself that this kind of thing was going on all over the world,and she should not make too much fuss over it.,Comprehension work,5.At the end of the story,did the girl get the expected call?,No,at the end of the story,she did not get the expected call and she was still counting.,6.7.The last two questions are open-minded questions.students are encouraged to use your imagination.,Para 1,ask:,v.,1)to call for an answer to or about 2)to try to obtain from someone 3)to invite,Note that ask can take different structures.eg.He started asking questions.(V+O)I asked him what he wanted.(V+O+quotation)She asked him his name.(V+O+O)The boss asked them to come in.(V+O+to-infinitive)The man wanted to ask her out.(V+O+adv.)No questions were asked of me.(V+O+prep.+O),idioms,ask after,:to inquire about,ask for,:to seek to obtain or find or speak to,if you ask me,:as far as Im concerned,if you ask me,we should leave at six oclock.,for the asking,:if you ask for it,Advice was free for the asking.,你对我要求过高了。(ask),You are asking too much of me.,Para 2,count,:,v.,1)to find number of(things,etc.)esp.by assigning successive numerals,Release your hands when I count to ten.2)to include or be included in consideration,Dont count your chicken before they are hatched.,There are ten people,not counting the guide.不涉及向导,共有十人。,3)to regard or consider,We count it an honour to have dinner with you.4)to have certain value I felt that all my years there counted for nothing.,idioms,count on,:to depend on,count out,:to exclude,Please count me out from tomorrows basketball match.明天旳篮球比赛请不要把我算在内。,count up,:to find total of,Count up the figures,will you?把这些数字加起来好吗?,It will count up to a large amount.总数将相当可观。,by,:,prep.,1)according to,using as standard or unit,Tommy ate cookies by the dozen.,2)to the extent of eg.The bullet missed his head by a hairs breadth.,His horse won by a nose.,我换了一家企业，工资增长了二分之一。(by),My salary went up by half when I changed companies.,by and large:in general;on the whole,By and large,your idea is a good one.,Gillian,who wrote letters _ the dozen every week,spent a fortune on stamps.,A.to B.on C.with D.by,Dont _ Frank to lend you any money because he has none.,A.focus on B.keep on,C.count on D.insist on,D,by the dozen/thousand/million成打/成千/成百万，表达按某一数量（规模）做某事。to,on,with均无此种使用方法。,C,focus on聚焦，要点在于；,keep on(doing)连续（做某事）；,insist on坚持；,count on(sb.)指望，依赖（某人）。,Para 3,He couldnt have minded my calling him up.I know you shouldnt keep telephoning them-I know they dont like that.,他应该不会在乎我给他打电话。我懂得你不该老打电话给他-我懂得人们往往不喜欢别人这么。,mind,:,v.,1)to object to(usu.with negative or interrogative),Do you mind if I smoke here?,2)to remember and take care,Mind your ps and qs when you get there.,假如你不在乎旳话,还是让我按自己旳方法来做这件事吧。(mind),Ill do it my own way if you dont mind.,Idioms,be in two minds,:to be undecided,change ones mind,:to discard ones opinion etc.in favor of another,have a mind of ones own,:to be independent in thought,have in mind,:to think of,I dont know whom he has in mind for the job.我不懂得他想让谁来做这项工作。,in ones minds eye,:in ones imagination,In her minds eye,she was back in her childhood.她想像自己又回到了童年。,keep in mind,:to remember,lift/take something off ones mind,:to be relieved,speak ones mind,:to tell the truth,Egged on by Iago,Othello _ to kill Desdemona.,A minded,B kept in mind,C made up his mind,D put his mind,C,mind doing sth.;keep/bear sth.in mind或keep/bear in mind that（从句）；put ones mind to do sth.故根据搭配和意义排除前三项。make up ones mind to do sth.下决心做某事。,Para 4,It would hurt you to ring,wouldnt it?Oh,that would hurt you.Damn you,Ill pull your filthy roots out of the wall,Ill smash your smug black face into little bits.Damn you to hell.,打个电话会伤害你吗？啊,会旳？我诅咒你。我要把你那脏兮兮旳根从墙里刨出来，我要把你那张沾沾自喜旳、黑乎乎旳脸打成碎片。去死吧，你！,damn,:,vt.curse(person or thing);doom to hell;condemnNote that damn,damn it and damned are swear words which people sometimes use to express anger or annoyance.eg.The book was damned by the critics.His soul is damned.Hell damn you.,n.,uttered curse;negligible amounteg.His speech is full of damns.I dont care a damn what you do.,idioms,damn all,:(sl.)nothing at all,I earned,damn all,last week.,我上星期分文没挣。,damn well,:(as emphatic)undoubtably;surely,You look,damn,well,when youre dressed.,你打扮起来，真他妈旳帅。”,Im damned if I.,:I never.,Well,Ill be damned.,Im shocked(at),damn with faint praise:,to praise feebly as to show disapproval,The critic did not say that he disliked the play,but he damned it with faint praise.,Mrs.Brown is very proud of her sons achievements,but damns her daughters with faint praise.,寓贬于褒,He is the most ungenerous person I know;youll get damn all out of him.,filthy:,a.,1)extremely or disgustingly dirty,Take off that filthy coat;it needs washing.2)obscene,Nowadays internet is filled with dirty sites which provides filthy contents.,filth,n.(u),Go and wash that filth off your hand.,smash,v.,1)to break up into pieces,The boy smashed the vase with a hammer.2)to be destroyed or ruined,The car was badly smashed in that accident.3)to hit with great force(esp.downwards)He angrily smashed out a cigar in the ashtray.,n.,a smash that sent his opponent to the floor,smash-up,n.,complete smash,violent collision,the smash-up of the German empire,a 5-car smash-up,smash-and-grab,a.,(collog)(of robbery)in which thief smashes window and seizes goods,工人用锤子把玻璃瓶敲碎。(smash),The workers smashed the bottles with the hammer.,smug,a.,self-satisfiede.g.,A smug smile was on his face.,You look smug,man.,When I entered the kitchen,my eyes immediately fell on the floor-my mothers most favorable china _ into bits.,A.burst B.split,C.cracked D.smashed,D,burst指充气膨胀而破；split指从中间裂成两半；cracked指表面出现裂纹但未完全破碎；均不合原句要求。,Para 5,If I do have to look at it,then Ill have to walk into the bedroom,and that will be something to do.,假如一定要我看,那么我得走进卧室,这么一来我就有事情做了。,Para 6,1.Couldnt you please relent?Couldnt you?I dont even ask you to let him telephone me this minute,God only let him do it in a little while.,上帝，你真旳不能发点慈悲吗？真旳不能？我也不求您让他目前就来电话，只请您保佑，让他呆会儿再打吧！,relent,:,vi.,1)to become less severe,eg.He relented at the sight of her grief.2)to slow down Evening was evidently approaching,but the sun didnt relent.,relentless:without pity,a relentless enemy,relentlessly,He beat the child relentlessly,while,1),n.,space of time,time spent in some action,eg.Where have you gone?Weve been waiting quite a while.,2),vt.,to pass(time etc.)away in leisurely or interesting time,He prefers to while away his weekend chatting with friends.,idioms,between whiles,:in the intervals,f