New Era Interactive EnglishViewing, Listening & Speaking

Unit 11 Somewhere Around Here

Learning Objectives

• You will use the vocabulary and grammar of this unit to:

• describe places: Mount Everest is the highest mountain.

• Compare places: It’s the most beautiful place in the country.

• Luis and Kate are browsing in a bookstore. They are in the travel/ geography section, and Kate is looking at a map in a book.

• Kate: Luis, where are you from?

• Luis: San Francisco, you know that!

• Kate: No, no. I mean, where is your family from?

• Luis: Oh, my parents are from Mexico.

• Kate: But where in Mexico?

• Luis: Colima.• Kate: Calina?

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•Notes: Americans often ask each other where their families are from. Many Americans have parents or grandparents who came from a different country.

• Luis: That’s close.

• Kate: Where is that?

• Luis: It’s in western Mexico.

• Kate: Is it close to Mexico City?

• Luis: Not far. Here, I’ll show you. It’s somewhere around here…here.

• Kate: Oh, Colima! What’s it like there?

• Luis: It’s near the ocean and the mountains. I think it’s the most beautiful place on Earth!

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• Terms like the 1950s and the 1960s refer to a period of 10 years. The 1950s are 1950-1959 and the 1960s are 1960-1969.

• Luis: How about you? Where’s your family from?

• Kate: Well, I was born in California. My father moved here from Georgia in the 1950s.

• Luis: Oh?• Kate: And my mother moved

here from Texas in the 1960s.• Luis: Uh-huh. • Kate: They met and they got

married…and here I am!• Luis: Wow! Everyone’s got a

story, huh?

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Discuss the video in groups

• 1. What are the two persons talking about?

• 2. Where is Luis from?

• 3. Where is kate’s family from?

Stress for understanding

• Where are you going TONIGHT?

• But WHERE in China?

• But where is your FAMILY from?

Oral Practice• 1. Practice the following dialogue:• A: Where are you from?• B: I’m from Los Angeles. You know that.• A: But Where is your family from?• B: Oh! My parents are from Los Angeles.• A: My parents are from L.A, too. Do your parents still live there?• B: Yes. Do yours?• A: Yes, they live in Beverly Hills.• B: My parents live in Beverly Hills, too---on Sunset Bo

ulevard.• A: My parents live on Sunset Boulevard, too. Can you be

lieve it? • B: No! The same street! Let’s introduce them.

Further Study of the Vocabulary and Usage

• Somewhere: =someplace

– get somewhere 取得一些成就 [ 进展 ]

– see sb. somewhere 要某人滚蛋 , 要某人见鬼去

– somewhere about 在 ... 附近 大约 – somewhere else 别的地方 – somewhere or other [ 口 ] 某个地方

• somehow: 设法 ; 不知道怎样 , 莫名其妙地 • She somehow got lost. • 她不知道怎么竟迷了路。• somehow or other 不知是什么原因 由于某

种原因 , 以某种方式

• Sometime: (someday)• 1) 有朝一日 ; 日后 ; 改天• It happened sometime last month. • 这件事发生在上个月的某一个时候。

• sometime or other 迟早 , 总有一天• 2) 曾经是…的；从前的；昔日的• Mr X, the sometime professor of physics.

X 先生，前任物理学教授。

• Sometimes: at times, now and then

– sometimes rich, sometimes poor

– 有时富 , 有时穷

• Somebody: 某人 , 重要人物• think oneself to be (a) somebody • 自以为是个大人物• nobodies posing as somebody• 冒充大人物的小人物• 习惯用语

– or somebody ... 之类的人 – somebody else 别人 , 了不起的人物 – somebody or other 某一个人 ( 不知道是

哪一个 )

• Somewhat:

• 一点儿 , 几分• He is somewhat of a musician.

• 他可算是个音乐家。• 习惯用语

– more than somewhat [ 口 ] 非常 – somewhat of [ 口 ] 有点 ; 相当

• I was somewhat surprised.

• 我有点惊讶。

英语“方位”表示

• 2. Introduce a few places of interest in your hometown.Use the expressions you’ve learnt.