新标准大学英语1Unit2AR1

1、Get familiar with how to express ones feelings Make good use of some expressions and grammar points from the text Expand vocabulary on food Food and drinks Seafood Food and drinks everyday Food/Drink associations Discussion Traditional Chinese dishes Food and drinks everyday People rely on all kinds

2、 of food everyday. Try to see if you happen to know the following food. More Food and drinks everyday Fruits Apricot StrawberryPineapplePeach LemonPlum Pitaya More Food and drinks everyday Vegetables Cauliflower Eggplant Carrot Cabbage Asparagus More Food and drinks everyday What food do I eat for b

3、reakfast? More Milk A piece of toast covered with fried egg Sandwich Food and drinks everyday What food do I eat for supper? Steak Salad Pizza Spaghetti Seafood Oysters Crab PrawnLobster click click click click In its first five years of life, a young lobster sheds its shell numerous times, in a pro

4、cess called molting. As the rate of growth slows, molting slows down as well, until the lobster molts around once a year. Left unmolested, a lobster can live to be over 100 years old, and it can get quite large, feeding on various small marine animals. Lobsters prefer the bottom of the ocean, which

5、means that most live on the continental shelf. Lobster Seafood BackBack click Oysters were an important food source in all coastal areas where they could be found, and oyster fisheries were an important industry where they were plentiful. Overfishing and pressure from diseases and pollution have sha

6、rply reduced supplies, but they remain a popular treat, celebrated in oyster festivals in many cities and towns. Oyster Seafood BackBack click Prawn has 10 legs. It can be found in salt and fresh water all over the world, typically swimming in search of food. Prawns tend to stay near the ocean. clic

7、k Prawn Seafood BackBack Crabs are animals that live mainly in the sea. They have many pairs of legs. Their bodies are jointed, like your elbow. Crabs use feelers for touching, feeling and smelling. click Crab Seafood BackBack Traditional Chinese dishes Please match the word or phrase in the left bo

8、x with its meaning in the right one. 1. salted vegetables 2. fried eggs with tomato 3. home-style bean curd 4. steamed buns 5. baked pancake 6. cold noodles 7. soybean milk A. 番茄炒蛋 B. 家常豆腐 C. 腌菜，泡菜 D. 豆浆 E. 凉面 F. 烧饼 G. 馒头 1. Spring Festival; 5. your grandparents home; 2. your childhood; 6. life at c

9、ollege; 3. a summers day; 7. being in love. 4. the end of the working day; click More Food/Drink associations Example: chocolate candy a cup of tea ice cream jiaozi large family meals self-service toffee apples Task: Work in pairs and talk about what food or drink do you associate with. Spring Festi

10、val your childhood a summer day the end of the working your grandparents home life at college being in love I associate Jiaozi with Spring Festival. Whenever I eat a toffee hawthorn stick, I remember my childhood. I think about an ice lolly on a summer day. I associate the end of my working day with

11、 a pint of beer. I relate all nice food to my grand-parents home. I link eating boring sandwiches (buns, soup noodles) to my life at college. I long for chocolate when I am in love. Food/Drink associations Discussion Please discuss the following questions: What is the table manner when eating wester

12、n food? Please discuss with Each other. Text organisation Text exploration Text evaluation Comprehending the text Giving extra information Text organisation Read the text quickly and fill in the flow chart to understand the structure of the text. More Text organisation Setting Character Plot My fath

13、er asked me to taste an oyster but to me it was nasty. click Climax Resolution My father continued persuading me to eat an oyster. Thinking of eating it, I cant help feeling homesick for my mothers home baking. I ate the oyster, but I never ate it again. In a French seaside resortMy father and I cli

14、ck click click click Comprehending the text Look at the photos and the title of the passage. Which sentence from the passage contains the main idea? More 1 . my father had decided to take me, his ten- year-old son, to lunch, and to mark an important event in my life, as important to my father as com

15、ing of age: my first oyster. 2 What on earth must the first man to eat an oyster have been thinking about? 3 My father continued to eat his way through the mountain of seafood. 4 Finally, my father picked up the oyster again, and I knew it was all over. More Choose the best way to complete the sente

16、nces. 1. The boys father wanted his son to taste his first oyster because _. (a) it was a tradition for all the male members of the family (b) he hoped his son would like oysters as much as he did (c) it was a special lunch (d) the boys mother was absent at the time, and she might have stopped him C

17、omprehending the text More Choose the best way to complete the sentences. Comprehending the text 2. The boy felt especially unhappy because _. (a) the weather reflected how he was feeling (b) he had never tasted oysters, and he didnt like the look of them (c) he didnt like seafood (d) he was very hu

18、ngry More Choose the best way to complete the sentences. Comprehending the text 3. The attitude of the boys father was _. (a) kind but firm (b) generous and loving (c) kind and ready to compromise (d) firm but ready to compromise More Choose the best way to complete the sentences. Comprehending the

19、text 4. When the boy finally ate the oyster, _. (a) his father was pleased with him (b) it reminded him of his mothers home baking (c) it made him realize how much he loved his father (d) he knew his father had convinced him about the taste of oysters Choose the best way to complete the sentences. C

20、omprehending the text 5. For the boy, the memory of his first oyster _. (a) has taught him to love all kinds of seafood (b) reminded him how difficult his father was (c) has stayed with him all his life (d) made him remember the salt and the sea 1 The father thought his son should try new things bef

21、ore he refused them. 2 The boy thought men were more foolish than women. 3 The boy couldnt tell how oyster tasted by looking at them. 4 The boy was nervous about eating his first oyster. 5 His father thought oysters tasted salty like the sea. 6 The boy enjoyed the taste of the oyster even though he

22、didnt try it again. u Check ( ) the true statements. Giving extra information More When we want to give extra information to a sentence, we use a non-defining relative clause with who for people, which for things, and where for places. We put the extra information immediately after the person or thi

23、ng it refers to. We separate the extra information from the main information with commas, or a comma and a full stop if its at the end of the sentence. More Relative pronouns in non-defining clauses. PersonThingPlace Subjectwhowhich ObjectWho whom whichwhere Possessivewhose Giving extra information

24、1. My grandmother, _ is dead now, came from the North of England. 2. The elephant looked at the tree, under _ she had often sat. 3. We stopped at the museum, _ wed never been into. 4. Ive just met Susan, _ husband works in London. Complete the sentences with words in the column. whom which whose who

25、 which which whose Giving extra information More 1. Chocolate first came to Europe in the 16th century from Central America. It must be one of the worlds most popular foods. 2. The Aztecs were conquered by the Spanish in 1521. They were natives of Mexico. 3. Dove Chocolate is manufactured by Mars, U

26、SA, and sold in China. Its the most popular chocolate bar in China. click click click Giving extra information Look at the sentences and rewrite. More More Work in pairs. Look at the sentences and answer questions. Giving extra information More Work in pairs. Look at the sentences and answer questio

27、ns. Giving extra information 1. The restaurant was in a seaside resort by the Atlantic Ocean. You get excellent seafood from the Atlantic Ocean. The restaurant was in a French seaside resort by the Atlantic Ocean, where you get excellent sea food. Please rewrite the sentence More Work in pairs. Look

28、 at the sentences and answer questions. Giving extra information My father, who wanted me to try my first oyster had decided to take me for lunch to a restaurant. 2. My father had decided to take me for lunch to a restaurant. He wanted me to try my first oyster. Please rewrite the sentence More Work

29、 in pairs. Look at the sentences and answer questions. Giving extra information 3. The oyster was unlike anything I have ever tasted before or since. It was slippery. The oyster, which was slippery, was unlike anything I have ever tasted before or since. Please rewrite the sentence Work in pairs. Lo

30、ok at the sentences and answer questions. Giving extra information 4. The worlds best-selling type of chocolate, milk chocolate, didnt appear until the end of the 19th century. Milk chocolate is sweeter and smoother than dark chocolate. The worlds best-selling type of chocolate, milk chocolate, whic

31、h is sweeter and smoother than dark chocolate, didnt appear until the end of the 19th century. Please rewrite the sentence Text evaluation 1. Has anyone ever made you eat or do something that you have never tried before, and that made you nervous? I did not like raw onion. But my father asks me to e

32、at it because thinks it is good for my health. More Text evaluation 2. Do you think its sometimes better to remain innocent, or should we always try every possible experience in life? Personally, I should try everything that comes my way. It is sometimes wise to remain innocent. For some things, suc

33、h as drugs, wed would better never try them. More Text evaluation It depends 3. Which tastes or experiences have been so important to you that you would make your child try them at all costs? I hated to eat carrots when I was a child. Now I really like them. If I had a child, I would make him or her

34、 try carrots at all costs. I would say this depends on the thing to be tried. It may be dangerous to ask a child to try things at all costs. More Text evaluation 4. Which experiences do you think people from other cultures should try when theyre in China? I think they should try some local street fo

35、od, such as stinky tofu (臭豆腐). Summarising Talking point Nutritious food Talking about food Summarising My father was enjoying an oyster, he persuaded me to have a taste of the Atlantic Ocean. But _, it is nasty to me. In a _ of France, I cant help feeling _ for my favorite dish. But with the clear

36、_ I could have I understood I should eat that oyster with my father _ and raised his glass. At that time, I thought about my mothers home baking and tear _. Finally, I ate the slippery oyster, which was unlike anything I have ever tasted _. But, I never ate oyster again. Summarise the text by fillin

37、g the blanks. homesick to be frank seaside resort pausing every mouthful perception slid down my cheek before or since More Nutritious food Discussion Discuss with your group members and list some nutritious food. Nutritious food More They say that an apple a day keeps the doctor away, but many of u

38、s still dont eat them. That doesnt mean we shouldnt be eating them, however. Pound for pound, fruits are among the healthiest foods a person can consume, offering numerous benefits (from antioxidants to vitamin C to potassium to fiber) in huge quantities that other foods dont come close to. But whic

39、h fruits offer which specific health benefits? Thats the question of the day, so lets dive in! Nutritious food More pear apple orange banana watermelon peach pineapple blueberries apricots cherries mangoes blackberries pomegranates purple grapes Please discuss with your group members to figure out t

40、he ten most nutritious food. Nutritious food apple banana blueberries apricots cherries blackberries mangoes pomegranates purple grapes Please discuss with your group members to figure out the ten most nutritious food. 10 most nutritious fruits Talking about food Task: Work in pairs to discuss which

41、 food items you like to eat? The following additional words may help you to express reasons for liking or disliking particular food item. More Talking about food Talk about the physical effects of the food you like. Which of your favorite foods are good for you, and which ones are bad? e.g. Bean spr

42、outs are good for me. Stinky tofu is an acquired taste. More Talking about food Talk about the physical effects of the food you like. Which of your favorite foods are good for you, and which ones are bad? Food which are good for youFoods which are bad for you is healthy and nutritious. gives you ene

43、rgy. has excellent food value. is part of a well-balanced diet. is basically junk food. isnt really nutritious. has poor food value. has too much sugar / too much salt. Information related Difficult sentences Words to note Language in use Preview 1. There was no hope left, the only feeling was hunge

44、r, and the only emotion was the fear of lost innocence as I realized there could be no escape from my first oyster. (Para 7) 2. , striking a note of compromise for the first time during the whole meal. (Para 9) 3. But with the clear perception which only a ten year-old boy can have, I still understo

45、od that the compromise included eating that oyster, sitting on the side of my fathers plate. (Para 10) click Difficult sentences click click 1. There was no hope left, the only feeling was hunger, and the only emotion was the fear of lost innocence as I realized there could be no escape from my firs

46、t oyster. (Para 7) Here the writer realized that he had to eat the oyster so he felt the emotion of fear, not about the oyster as such, but about losing innocence. There is a little sadness here as well as humour: Is eating an oyster really that important and is trying the first oyster really losing

47、 innocence? 没有希望，只感觉饿，只担心失去纯真，因为我意识到没有希望，只感觉饿，只担心失去纯真，因为我意识到 这第一只牡蛎我今天非吃不可了。这第一只牡蛎我今天非吃不可了。 click click Difficult sentences Translate the sentence. Analyze the sentence. BackBack 2. striking a note of compromise for the first time during the whole meal. (Para 9) “to strike a note of something” means

48、 to speak in a particular manner or tone. Here, the father indicated a compromise or bargain: If the son ate an oyster, he could choose some other food which he liked. 吃了这么长时间的饭，他的话中第一次有了妥协的吃了这么长时间的饭，他的话中第一次有了妥协的 意思。意思。 click click Difficult sentences Translate the sentence. Analyze the sentence. Ba

49、ckBack But with 在整个句子中引导伴随状语从句，而在整个句子中引导伴随状语从句，而which only a ten year-old boy can have 在句中修饰在句中修饰perception 做它做它 的定语。的定语。 但是，尽管清晰地感觉到了他的妥协但是，尽管清晰地感觉到了他的妥协只有一个十岁的男只有一个十岁的男 孩才有这样的感觉，我仍然明白这妥协包含着吃掉那只牡蛎，孩才有这样的感觉，我仍然明白这妥协包含着吃掉那只牡蛎， 那只放在我父亲的盘子边上的牡蛎。那只放在我父亲的盘子边上的牡蛎。 click click Difficult sentences Translate

50、 the sentence. Analyze the sentence. BackBack 3. But with the clear perception which only a ten year-old boy can have, I still understood that the compromise included eating that oyster, sitting on the side of my fathers plate. (Para 10) New Words 1. to be frank 2. come of age 3. a battery of Expres

51、sions 1. cling 2. complain 3. discard 4. despair 5. enormous 6. frown 7. gloomy 8. mouthful 9. slippery 10. tease Words to note cling Translate the following sentences. (1) We cling to the beliefs of our fathers. 我们坚持祖先的信仰。我们坚持祖先的信仰。 (2) 他的湿衬衣紧紧贴着身体。 His wet shirt clung to his body. v. to stick to s

52、omeone or something, or seem to surround them; to hold someone or something tightly, specially because you do not feel safe v. to say that you are annoyed, not satisfied, or unhappy about something or someone She _ the exam was too hard. Some workers _ this way of management. Our staff _ being under

53、paid and overwork. Neighbours _ the police about the dogs barking. complained that complains about complained of Complete the sentences with words in the column. complain to Complain about complain of Complain that complained to complain discard Translate the following sentences. (1) 我们应该抛弃旧观念。 We s

54、hould discard old beliefs. (2) 我们将不再使用这些旧书。 We will discard the old books. v. to get rid of something despair n. a feeling that you have no hope at all e.g. Despair gives courage to a coward. 谚狗急跳墙，人急造反。 Please match the word or phrase in the left box with its meaning in the right one. 1. fall into

55、despair 2. drive sb. to despair 3. despair of 4. in despair A. 陷入绝望 B. 对感到绝望 C. 绝望地 D. 使某人陷于失望 e.g. They overlooked the enormous risks involved. 他们忽略了其中牵涉的极大危险。 adj. very big in size or in amount enormous A. 巨大的花费 B. 巨大的贡献 C. 巨大的权力 D. 巨大的挑战 enormous expenses enormous contribution enormous power enor

56、mous challenge Please match the word or phrase in the left box with its meaning in the right one. e.g. She frowned as she read the letter. v. to make an angry, unhappy, or confused expression, moving your eyebrows together frown Figure out the meaning of margin in the following sentences. 1. Mattie

57、frowned at him disapprovingly. 皱眉皱眉 2. Even though divorce is legal, it is still frowned upon. 不同意，不被认可不同意，不被认可 collocation: frown at; frown on / upon sb. / sth. gloomy adj. making you feel that things will not improve Match the expressions with their meanings. (1) The report paints a gloomy picture

58、 of the economy. (2) Anne dismissed these gloomy thoughts from her mind. (3) It was a gloomy room with one small window. A. 阴暗的；幽暗的 B. 沮丧的 C. 悲观的 C mouthful n. the quantity that can be held in the mouth Translate the sentence. Michael told his story between mouthfuls. 迈克尔一口一口地喝着酒讲完了他的故事。迈克尔一口一口地喝着酒讲

59、完了他的故事。 She spoke through a mouthful of chicken. 她说话时嘴里含着一块鸡肉。她说话时嘴里含着一块鸡肉。 swallow sth at a mouthful from mouth to mouth 一口吞下一口吞下 口口相传口口相传 adj. causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide; not to be trusted slippery Translate the sentences. 意外因路滑而引起。意外因路滑而引起。 The accident was caused by slip

60、pery roads. 他是个油滑的家伙。他是个油滑的家伙。 He is a slippery guy. A slippery bar of chocolate tease v. to laugh at someone and make jokes in order to have fun by embarrassing them Make sentences with tease. Whenever anyone tease joe about his weight, he see red. 每当有人对他的体重开玩笑时，乔就勃然大怒。每当有人对他的体重开玩笑时，乔就勃然大怒。 colloca