Unit 4 language points(英版)
Transcript of Unit 4 language points(英版)
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Language Points
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Thanks for your letter, which tooka fortnight to arrive.
e.g.a fortnight ago
I finally got a holiday,
in other words I will be away for 2weeks.
Please come back in 2 weeks, that is,
.
--two weeks
fortnight's
in a fortnight's time
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Words for some length of time!
During the Easter vacation he spenta f_________working in London.
Judith has spent over two d_______building her business.
The school trip has become ana_____event.
ortnight
ecades
nnual
hourly/daily/weekly/monthly/bimonthlyuarterl etc millennium centur
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I know youredying to hear all about mylife here, so Ive included some photos
which will help you picture the places I talk
about.
be dying to: want very much to do sth.have a strong desire to do sth.
e.g. What are you dying to do now?I am dying to know what has happened.I am dying a glass of water.
picture vt.imagine, form a picture of sb. or sth. in the
minde.g. Can you picture what it is like to live on
the remote village in PNG?
for
I am dying ______ hunger/thirst.
of
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ore p rases w e: die out, die down, die away, die off
1. She waited until the footsteps had .2. Don't worry, the gossip will soon .3.All of Johns family , leaving him
alone in the world.
4. The wild population of koalas is in dangerof .
die away: if sound, wind, or light dies away, it becomes
gradually weaker until you cannot hear, feel, or see itdie down: if something dies down, it becomes less strong,active, or violent
die off: if a group of people or animals die off, they dieone by one until there are no more of them
die out: to disappear or stop existing completely:
died away
die down
died off
dying out
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When I reach the school groundsthere are lots ofgood mornings for
me from the boys.
Many of them have walked a longway, sometimes up to two hours, toget to school.
How can you combine the 2 sentences?
,
many of whom
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Science is my most challenging subject asmy students have no concept of doingexperiments.
e.g.The idea of a soul is a religious
concept.
In 'Utopia', Plato describes his concept
an ideal society.
Do you understand the concept
we are citizens of one world.
an idea of how something is,or how something should be done
ofthat
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The other day I was showing the boys theweekly chemistry experiment when, beforeI knew it, the mixture was bubbling over
everywhere.
SueI heard from Sue the other day.
before sb. know it, e.g. Ten years passed .
a few days ago, recently
before I knew it
Th b h h d
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The boys who had never come acrossanything like this before
to meet, find, or discover sb. or sth. by chance
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ome mes won er ow re evanchemistry is to these students
We received all the relevant information.
What experience do you have that
this position?Don
t talk about anything towhat we are studying in class.
closely connected with the subject or problem
being discussed or considered
irrelevant
is relevant to
T b h I d b h h I ki
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To be honest, I doubt whether Im makingany difference to these boys lives at all.
Please make up more sentenceswith similar structures.
To be true/be frank/tell the truth
I doubt whether/ dont doubt that
Make a/no/any difference
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It was my first visit to a remote village.
In which of the phrasesdoesremotemean the same?
A. a remote border town
B. the remote time when dinosaurswalked the earth
C. a fire in a remote mountain area
D. There is a remote chance that youwill catch him before he flees.
E. She is quiet and remote, and had an
annoying air of superiority.
distant
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Tombe's father, Mukap, led us to his housea low bamboo hut with grass sticking out of
the roofDont stick your arm out of the
car window.
She stuckout her tongue at
me.
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The hut was dark inside so it tooktime for our eyes to adjust.
They'll soon settle in - kids are very good at
.
It took a few seconds for her eyes to
the darkness.
My parents had trouble adjusting to ian apartment.
It took time to adjust myself to motherhood
adjust yourself to something
Taste the soup and adjust the seasoning.
adapt
adjusting
adjust to
living
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I sniffed the food; it smelled delicious.
What is the difference?
He opened the milk and sniffed it.
The dog was sniffing at the carpet.
Otto looked around quickly to makesure no one was looking and thensniffed hisarmpits().
The dog was rushing aroundexcitedly, __________the ground.
He ________ his hand again, then
shook his head.
sniffing at
sniffing at
sniffed
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T b ld h h
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Tombe told me that the can washeated to dry out the leftover food.
so the food is dried up in the can
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Otherwise they dont waste anything.
Complete the sentences:
Put your coat on, otherwise
.You'll have to go now, otherwise
.
We were delayed at the airport.
Otherwise we (come)
earlier.
you'll get cold
would have come
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It was such a privilege to have spent aday with Tombes family.
It is my privilege .
We are lucky today because we have theprivilege .
I am to give you the lecture.
He had no special privileges and wastreated just like every other prisoner.
something that you are lucky to have thechance to do, and that you enjoy very much
privileged
to hear her play
to hear her play/ of hearing her..
Tombe with his grandfather whos
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Tombe with his grandfather whosdigging up peanuts.
1. They're digging up the road just outside
my flat.to remove the surface of an area of ground, road etc, or tomake holes in it
2. I'll dig up that plant and move it.to remove something from the earth using a spade
3. They tried to dig up something from hispast to spoil his chances of being elected.
to find hidden or forgotten information by carefulsearching
In which sentence does dig up mean thesame as in the text?
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Dont interrupt. Just hear me out
before you start talking.
to listen to all of what someone wants to
tell you without interrupting them
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Many of them have walked a long way,sometimes up to two hours, to get to school
up to=as many as or as much ase.g. He can earn as much as 50,000 yuan a year.What does up to mean in the following
sentences? She lived at home up to she got married.
up until
Im not sure if she is really up to that job.
good enough for sth. Its up to her to decide whether or not to go on
the course.
be responsible for a particular duty or sb. candecide about sth.
up to
The boys who had never come across
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The boys who had never come acrossanything like this before
The situation should never have .How is your work ?
A bus should any minute now.
Christmas will soon be .
to meet, find, or discover sb. or sth. by chance
come about
coming along
come along
coming (a)round
come about coming alongcoming (a)round
More phrases:
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Match the phrases with the meanings
A: to happen, especially in a way that isnot planned
B: to be developing or making progresssynonym progress:/ to appear or
arriveC: if a regular event , it
happens as usual
come about come alongcome (a)round
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Dry out / dry up
Relevant
Stick out
Tombe told me that the can was
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Tombe told me that the can washeated to dry out the leftover food.so the food is dried up in the can
dry out dry off dry up
sort out take off use up
help out get off eat up
carry out fall off give up
run out turn off clean up
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to be further out than something else or come
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to be further out than something else or comethrough a hole; to push something further outthan something else or through a hole
His ears stick out.
She stuck her tongue out at me.
Don't stick your arm out of the car
window.