Unit One This Year It’s Going to Be Different I. Interaction activities Invite students to talk about their experience during summer vacation, their comments on the 2004 Olympic Games, and their personal plan/resolution for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. This section takes about 30 minutes. The students discuss resolutions for the new years and for the college life. Also they comment on their results (whether are satisfied with the results or not, if not, why? And the reasons for their failures). (Students’ book Page 16) (20 minutes) II. Assignment task 1 The students think about their resolutions for Intensive English Course as specifically as possible and write down at least 8 of them on a piece of decent paper. The teacher will collect, comment and keep them for the purpose of checking the students’ performance at the end of the semester. Ask students a series of questions based on Text I to check their preview work and let them have a general idea of the text. (the questions are about the characters, story background, the father’s resolutions and the results, and the ending of the story as well) (20 minutes) Answer questions from the students. Discuss the new words, phrases and give examples to illustrate their usages. Explain the difficult sentences in Text I and ask some students to paraphrase them in class. (about one hour and a half) III. Words & Phrases 1. Judging by / from …: often used as an independent element in a sentense. e.g. Judging by the response of the audience, the speech was quite a success. Judging from what she is wearing, she may be a fashion model. 2. be blessed with: to have something such as ability, a good quality 3. boundless — without limit, limitless, infinite 4. spontaneous: producing from natural feelings, natural a spontaneous expression of admiration The eruption of a volcano is spontaneous. 5. shiek: yell, scream shrilly 6. sneak up on: creep on/upon 7. wander off: drift, stray away from 8. jovially: joyfully, merrily 9. be about to do sth. 10. get tired of … 11. zest: relish, gusto “At 53 he retains all the heady zest of adolescence”(Kenneth Tynan) “五十三岁的他仍保持着青年时强烈的热情”(肯尼思·泰南) 12. approach: begin to deal with 13. establish some kind of rapport 14. touch on 15. throw in the sponge: admit defeat 16. about two thirds done His new novel is about two fifths thicker than his previous one. By the end of this year the construction project will be finished by four fifths. 17. take down a tree put up a tree 18. dread — fear greatly 19. take over 20. The kids have been impossible all day. Impossible: hard to bear, unpleasant 21. swear 22. be in a poisonous mood 23. cross-examine — cross-question, question somebody severely 24. commotion — tumult 25. assemble take apart 26. uneasy — ill at ease, uncomfortable 27. even-tempered 28. snarl: yell, shriek 29. 30．on tiptoe full of anticipation; eager: 满怀期待的；急切的： The children were on tiptoe before the birthday party. 孩子们都急切地等待着生日晚会的开始 31. compliment She received many compliments on the design of her new dress. David complimented Mary on her new job. Extend my compliments to your parents 32 strike up: start The orchestra struck up a waltz. 管弦乐队开始演奏圆舞曲. 33. be sprawled on sprawl: to sit or lie with the body and limbs spread out awkwardly. sprawling on the sofa 平躺在沙发上 suburbs that sprawl out into the countryside 乱七八糟向乡间扩展的市郊 Quiz 1 Name ___________ Score ______________ I. Write down a word or phrase for each item according to the given explanation. 1. a rough drawing _______________ 　 2. cry out with a high sound 　____________ 3. without limit 　 _______________ 　 4. finish successfully, succeed 　____________ 5. jacket and trousers for sleeping in 　　_____________ 6. stretch out oneself or one’s limbs in a lying or sitting position ____________ 7. great and noisy confusion or excitement _____________ 8. in a friendly way, good-humoredly 　　　______________ 9. thoughtful as far as the feelings or needs of others are concerned ___________ 10. waste material _______________ II.　Explain the following words, phrases or sentences with your own words. 1. The kids have been impossible all day. 2. throw in the sponge: 3. resolution: 4. cross-examine 5. Meet your children at his own level. 6.The most trivial chore can prove rewarding if approached with zest. 7. You get out of them what you put in. 8. uneasily: 9. wander off: 10. dread: III. Fill in the following blanks according to Text I in Unit 1. 1. I ______________ a conversation with Kit, trying to establish some kind of __________. I _____________ hippies, pop music and so on. She _____________ very little. 2. To ___________ the situation, I picked up her ___________ sweater from the floor and put it over a chair. 3. I _____________ and kissed her on the back of the neck. (Be _________ in showing affection.) 4. I make every effort to be a good father, and this is the thanks I get. The fact is, you don’t ___________ the father you’ve got. 5. I __________ out to steady a lamp I had __________ with my sleeve. IV. Translate the following into English, trying to use the words or phrases from Text I. 从观众的反应判断，演出很成功。演员们极有天赋。 总裁坚持我们公司应不失时机地接管这家时装厂。 汤姆蹑手蹑脚，溜到妹妹的身后，想给她一个惊喜。 ４．五岁的迈克拆开了DVD机，却不能重新装好，心情遭透了。 ５．他以自己的名誉发誓，他今后会与妻子分担家庭琐碎杂务并善待小孩与老人。 IV. Assign students homework on Workbook. Supplementary Reading Stephen Butler Leacock 1869 – 1944 He was born 30 December 1869 at Swanmore, county of Hampshire, England.? In 1876 he emigrated to Canada with his family and settled on a farm near the hamlet of Egypt, south of Sibbald Point on Lake Simcoe. Leacock was educated at Upper Canada College, Toronto.? He completed a degree in modern languages at the University of Toronto in 1891.?? Inspired by Thorstein Veblen's The Theory of the Leisure Class, he enrolled at the University of Chicago, receiving a Ph.D. in political economy and political science under Veblen in 1903.?? Concurrently he joined the Department of Economics and Political Science at McGill University, Montreal. In 1906 he published his first and most profitable book:? Elements of Political Science, a university textbook.? Twenty-seven other books of non-fiction followed.?? In 1908 he became head of his department at McGill, helped found the University Club and began developing Old Brewery Bay.?? The first of his thirty-five books of humour, Literary Lapses was published in 1910.? Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town followed in 1912 and in 1914 Arcadian Adventures of the Idle Rich.?? Leacock was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 1919 and in 1921 made an extensive lecture tour of the United Kingdom.? In 1935 he received the Mark Twain Medal.? He retired from McGill in 1936. Stephen Butler Leacock died 28 March 1944 at Toronto from throat cancer and was buried, across the lake from Old Brewery Bay, in the Leacock family plot at St. George's Church, Sibbald Point.  Words and expressions: 1. rattle: The windows were -ling in the wind. 风吹在窗上发出格格的响声。 The car rattled along at great speed. 那辆车以极快的速度驶过。 rattlesnake 响尾蛇 2. prompt What prompted you to do such a thing? 什么促使你做出这样的事来？ The man confessed that poverty prompted him to steal. 这个男子承认是贫穷促使他偷窃的。 3 shamble The tired old man shambles. 那个疲倦的老人蹒跚而行。 reckless: be reckless of the consequences 毫不顾及后果 be reckless of expenditure 乱花钱