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Unit 1 text A

Unit 1 text A. The Icy Defender. Objectives:. Grasp the main idea and structure of the text; Learn and practice the use of comparison and contrast in a way to provide evidence; Appreciate the coherence achieved in the introduction

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Unit 1 text A

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  1. Unit 1 text A The Icy Defender

  2. Objectives: • Grasp the main idea and structure of the text; • Learn and practice the use of comparison and contrast in a way to provide evidence; • Appreciate the coherence achieved in the introduction • Master the key language points and grammatical structures in the text.

  3. Presentation of Group 1 ? • Background information: Talk before and after listening • Napoleon • Hitler

  4. About the Idea & Structure of the Text • Main Idea of the Text : The story is about ---. To prove his point, the author ---in detail ---and ---respectively. He then draws --- from ---and --- that---. • Structure of the Text

  5. Appreciating Coherence • Talk about the structure of the 1st two paragraphs: similar or different? • Any devices to link the two paragraphs together and the sentences in the same paragraph together?

  6. Sentence & Structure, and Words & phrases • Questions?

  7. Sentences & Structures 1. The parallel structure in the 1st paragraph; *a good and impressive beginning 2. L. 5 “ --- the devastating enemy that met him” --- *Why not “he met”?

  8. 3. L.33 lay dead or wounded L.48 fell dead L.48 became stuck L. 49 “Soldiers took ill and frozen to death.” L. 90 “--- lay buried in the heavy snow banks.” Any other way to express the same idea? Do Ex III on P18

  9. Words & phrases • Words & phases about the Russian winter

  10. P. 2 in the case of --- The sooner, the better, in the case of correction of a mistake/an error ------ Poverty depresses most people; in the case of him it was otherwise

  11. P. 2 stand/get/be in the way --The men stood in the way and would not let us enter the building. --I don’t think the students have as much fun as we used to. Heavy workload keeps getting in the way of their development.

  12. L. 8 might He swung the axe again with all his might. • L. 9mow down The soldiers were mown down by machine gun fire.

  13. L22 be/get bogged down --The truck was/got bogged down in the mud. --The local government got bogged down in the problem of how to deal with the shortage of water.

  14. L24 be faced with --We were faced with an exceptionally difficult situation. --Students are all faced with the same problem of improving their English. • L. 26 retreat advance L. 28 pursue 敌进我退,敌退我追

  15. L. 30 take a gamble --The producer took a gamble of using an inexperienceddirector. However, the film was very successful. --The lady is taking a gamble investing all her money instocks.

  16. L 30 press on/ahead ----Though extremely tired after a whole day’s journey, they still press on. ----If we want to arrive before it is dark, we must press on towards the town.

  17. L 39. Bide one’s time ---We must not get impatient; if we bide our time the chance will come. --She was biding her time until she could get her revenge.

  18. L. 50 drag on --He walked slowly, his legs dragging on with each step. --At 12:30 the meeting finally dragged on to a finish. • L. 53 --- “swollen river”

  19. L. 54 by a stroke of luck: luckily * stroke of luck/fortune --- In a stroke of luck, a suitable organ donor became available * at a stroke: with a single sudden action --- At one stroke the country lost two outstanding leaders. * on the stroke of : at exactly ---She arrived home on the stroke of midnight.

  20. * stroke of genius/inspiration: a very good idea about what to do to solve a problem --- It was a stroke of genius to film the movie in Toronto

  21. L. 55 the cost of --We must cherish experience acquired at the cost of our own blood. --He finished the work at the cost of his health

  22. 12. L. 71 catch sb. off guard --The robbery on the street caught me off guard. --The thief stole the woman’s purse while she was looking in a store window; he caught her off guard. ---President Bush was caught off guard by the question. *be on your guard: be cautious These men are dangerous so you’ll need to be on your guard.

  23. 13. L. 73 “--- rendered useless.” --- Thousands of people were rendered homeless by the tsunami. --- The old man was rendered speechless by the news. --- The blow rendered him unconscious. --- The medicine will rendered a night’s sleep.

  24. 14. L.84 “General Mud”

  25. 15. L. 91 bring to a halt --The policeman brought the carto a halt. --Severe flooding has brought trains to a halt

  26. 16. L. 102 “--- turned the tide against Hitler.” --- L. Soviet victory in Stalingrad turned the tide of the war in Europe. ----We were losing the game until Jack got there. His coming turned the tide for us, and we won.

  27. 17. L. 103 “ --- over, thanks in part to the Russian winter.” * “because of” better or worse?

  28. 18. L. 114 be reckoned with --The cost mustbe reckoned with before you decide. --- He is certainly a man to be reckoned with.他确实是一个不可忽视的人物。 ---这是一股不可低估的力量。 It is a force to be reckoned with. * reckon without: --- we had hoped to hold the garden party this weekend, but we reckoned without the weather.

  29. 19. L. 116 take its/a toll --The famine took a toll of 3,000,000 lives. --The war took aheavy toll in dead and wounded. *A toll is charged on some specially constructed mountain roads. * tollv. For whom the bell tolls? * Toll vs. casualty

  30. Tasks after class • Go over words and phrases in Text A, unit 1of Integrated course • group 8 in class 50 must hand in one short story next week • Practice self-study according to the teaching plan Thank you & Good bye!

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