Unit Five

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Unit Five

• Overcoming Obstacles
• Text A
• True Height

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Reference Terms of Track Field    sprint/middl
e-distance/long run ?/?/???? marathon  ???
relay race relay  ??     hurdles hurdle race
??               walking walking race ??
steeplechase ??? high jump ?? pole jump,pole
vault ???? long jump ?? high skip and jump  ???
shot put  ??? discus  ?? weight throw  ??
javelin  ?? decathlon ?????? heptathlon
?????? triathlon ????
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• Writing skills
• Flashback a scene in a film, play, book etc that
  shows something that happened before that point
  in the story
• How to switch between two parts of narrations
  describing events in two different time periods
• To repeat a key word in the last sentence of a
  paragraph in the first sentence of the next
  paragraph.
• To pick up a key idea from a previous paragraph
  and repeat it in the sentence introducing the
  next paragraph.

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Text Organization
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• confront1. if a problem, difficulty etc
  confronts you, it appears and needs to be dealt
  with
• The problems confronting the new government were
  enormous.
• Customers are confronted with a bewildering
  amount of choice.
• 2. to deal with something very difficult or
  unpleasant in a brave and determined way
• We try to help people confront their problems .
• 3. to accuse someone of doing something,
  especially by showing them the proof
• I confronted him with my suspicions, and he
  admitted everything.

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• the stands plural also stand British English
• --a building where people stand or sit to watch
  the game at a sports ground
• In the stands, fifty of Jess's friends and family
  have come to watch her last game.
• a music stand a cake stand
• He adjusted the microphone stand.
• a hotdog stand an exhibition stand
• The shop was crowded with display stands and
  boxes.
• One week three magazines hit the stands (became
  available to buy) with Peace Corps stories.
• stand--a position or opinion that you state
  firmly and publicly
• the Republicans conservative stand on social and
  environmental issues
• She was accused of not taking a stand on feminism
  or civil rights.
• We have to take a stand against racism.

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It combines the grace of a gymnast with the
strength of a body builder. --It requires both
the smooth and elegant movements of a gymnast and
the strength of a body builder.
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• recur--if something, especially something bad or
  unpleasant, recurs, it happens again
• There is a danger that the disease may recur.
• Love is a recurring theme in the book. recurring
  dream/nightmare

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• soar--?IN THE SKY?
• a) to fly, especially very high up in the sky,
  floating on air currents
• She watched the dove soar above the chestnut
  trees.
• b) to go quickly upwards to a great height
• The ball soared to left field.
• --?AMOUNTS/PRICES ETC?to increase quickly to a
  high level
• The price of petrol has soared in recent weeks.
• soaring unemployment

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Where he flew would always coincide with his
mothers stories. --Where he flew in his dreams
would always be the same as what his mother
described in the stories.
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• coincide 1. to happen at the same time as
  something else, especially by chance
• coincide with
• His entry to the party coincided with his
  marriage.
• The show is timed to coincide with the launch of
  a new book.
• 2. if two people's ideas, opinions etc coincide,
  they are the same
• The interests of the US and those of the
  islanders may not coincide.
• The cloth had a natural look which coincided
  perfectly with the image Laura sought.
• 3. to meet or be in the same place
• The journey coincides in part with the Pennine
  Way.

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• hard-core
• --only before noun having an extreme way of
  life or an extreme belief that is very unlikely
  to change
• a hard-core drug addict
• hard-core racists

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• alternate
• 1. if something happens on alternate days, weeks
  etc, it happens on one day etc and not the next,
  and continues in this pattern
• alternate Mondays/weekends etc
• The service runs on alternate days.
• 2. two alternate things are placed one after the
  other in a regular pattern
• alternate blue and red stripes
• Arrange the leeks and noodles in alternate layers
  .
• 3. used to replace another thing of the same type
• the appointment of an alternate director

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• chore
• 1. a small job that you have to do regularly,
  especially work that you do to keep a house clean
• everyday chores like shopping and housework
• We share the domestic chores.
• 2. something you have to do that is very boring
  and unpleasant
• I find driving a real chore.

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• vain--too proud of their good looks, abilities,
  or position - used to show disapproval
• ?synonym conceited
• Men can be just as vain as women.

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• inflated1. filled with air or gas
• 2. inflated ideas, opinions etc about someone or
  something make them seem better, more important
  etc than they really are
• He has a very inflated opinion of himself.
• All this attention has given Carla an inflated
  opinion of herself.
• 3. inflated prices, amounts etc are high and
  unreasonable
• grossly/vastly/hugely inflated company directors
  on grossly inflated salaries
• an inflated budget estimate

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• clear--?GO OVER/PAST? transitive to go over a
  fence, wall etc without touching it, or to go
  past or through something and no longer be in it
• The plane barely cleared the fence at the end of
  the runway.
• Edwards cleared 18 feet in the pole vault.
• The plane cleared Chinese airspace.

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Then it all hit him like a wet bale of
hay. --Then the fact that the runway felt
different struck him unexpectedly and made him
very uncomfortable.
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• deafening1. very loud
• deafening bomb blasts
• Outside there was a deafening crash of thunder.
• When she finished speaking, the applause was
  deafening.
• 2. deafening silence
• --a complete silence, when it is uncomfortable or
  you are expecting someone to say something
• Once again the answer was a deafening silence.