College of Foreign Languages of NUAA

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College of Foreign Languages of NUAA

• The Lesson Plan
• Unit 5, Book II
• A New English Course

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Language Structures

• Indirect speech reporting a command / instruction
• The teacher told the naughty boy to stop
  disturbing his desk-mate.
• Indirect speech reporting advice
• The dentist advised to me to brush my teeth up
  and down.
• Indirect speech reporting a request
• My younger brother asked me to put up the photo
  for him.
• Indirect speech reporting a reminder
• The mother reminded the child several times to go
  back home immediately after school
• Indirect speech reporting a question
• Philip wanted to know why a tiny silicon chip can
  store so much information.

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Giggle

• v. to laugh with repeated short, spasmodic sounds
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• 
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• The girls were giggling in class.????????????
• Stop giggling.?????
• n. a short, spasmodic laugh C ?????????
  ???,??
• He bursts into s. ??????????
• The child only did it for a . ?????????????

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giggle chuckle laugh snicker titter

• Laugh ?????????????????????
• The children are ing and jumping.
• He ed his content.
• Chuckle ?????????????????
• I could hear him chuckling to himself as he read
  that funny article.
• Giggle ????????????????,???????????
• ??,???????
• The children giggled at the clowns antics.
• Titter ?????????
• The student gave a nervous . ?????????????
• Snicker ??,??
• It raises in him a of derision. ???????????

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sideways

• adv. adj. toward one side, from one side
• took a step
• look at sb.
• a painting lit ????????
• turn to show the profile ???????
• a glance
• pressure ??
• a view ??
• Sideway n. ??, ??,???

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Words and Expressions

• Get on with ones work
• On ones own
• A sweet tooth a decayed tooth
• A medicated toothpaste a fluoride toothpaste
• Stiff-bristled toothbrush soft-bristled
  toothbrush
• To resist decay
• Brush your teeth up and down / sideways

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Dialogue I

• Communicating by Pay Phone Call in the United
  States

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Warm-up Questions

• How do you usually communicate with each other or
  with your parents?
• Have you ever had the experience of making a
  pay-phone call?
• Do you know how to make a pay-phone call?

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Questions

• How many dinks of long-distance call are there in
  the US?
• Whats the difference between dial-direct and
  operator-assisted call? What are they?
• How many kinds of phone books are there in the
  States? What are they?
• Where can information on long-distance rates be
  found?
• Do pay phones in the States have numbers? What
  advantage does this have?
• How does one make a long-distance call by pay
  phone in the States?
• What is a toll-free call? For what purpose do
  people make such a call?
• Compare the telephone service in China with that
  in the States.

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Expressions concerning phone calls

• Long-distance call / trunk call local call
• Collect call / reverse-charge call toll-free
  call
• IP phone (International Protocol)
• Telephone box / kiosk / booth
• Telephone subscriber, telephone directory / book
• Area code/ code number
• Receiver, mouthpiece,
• Dictograph, cordless telephone
• Central exchange, extension

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• Wong number. / The number is out of service.
• Number engaged. / The line is busy.
• Put through a call, cannot get through
• Leave a message for sb.
• Hold on a minute. / Hold the line.
• The connection is bad.
• The line is dead.
• A dialing tone, an engaged tone

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Words and Expressions

• Its (quite) some time since ???
• ?????????????????,????????????
• Why dont we go to see a film tonight? I last
  saw one.
• ????,Richard??????????
• since Richard had his last physical.
• Philip?Robbie ???????????
• since Philip and Robbie took their last fishing
  trip.

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It feels good to do

• ?????,??????,??????????,????????
• to talk of everything under the sun with
  friends while cracking sunflower seeds and
  drinking/having cups of tea.
• ?????,????????,???????,??????????????????????
• You get exhausted and all dirtied up, what with
  the sweat and dust, after playing football. But
  to have a shower afterwards

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Vague vagu.er, vagu.est

• Not clearly expressed inexplicit.
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• a idea ????? a answer?????
• Not thinking or expressing oneself clearly
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• Xiao Li is so that I can never understand what
  hes trying to say.
• 
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• Lacking definite shape, form, or character
  indistinct ???????????????
• 
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• saw a outline of a building through the fog.
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• 
  
• Indistinctly felt, perceived, understood, or
  recalled hazy?????????????????
• uneasiness.
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Dialogue II

• Asking for Permission and Giving Warnings

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Words and Expressions

• Hitch v ????They ed across Europe.
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• ???,?? a rope over the pole
  ???????? ?
• get hitched ??
• Hike n C ??,????go on a ???????
• v ??????????? ??
• a hiking holiday ????????
• You have to park your car outside
  and in.
• hiker n ?????
• hitchhike vI (-iked,-iking) ?????????
• Hitch a hike / ride / lift a hitch-hiker

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Reading I

• Americas National Parks, Part I

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What do you expect to learn from the passage
after reading the title?

• How many national parks are there in the US?
• Where are they located?
• What can visitors expect to see in those national
  parks? What can visitors do there?
• The facilities for the convenience or safety of
  the visitors.
• Who are responsible for the maintenance of these
  national parks?

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Questions

• What is the purpose of a recreation area and that
  of a national park?
• Whose effort is it that contributes directly to
  the protection of national parks from the
  exploitation of business interests?
• Why were lumberjacks so angry about park
  conservation efforts?
• What does the Land of the Free mean?
• What is the Yellowstone National Park most famous
  for?????
• Give at least two examples to show that work has
  been done to keep American national parks as
  natural as possible.
• Why are strict rules imposed which prohibit
  tourists from feeding animals with cookies and
  candies?

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Words and Expressions

• priority
• ? U the state, quality, position or right of
  being first in position or
• earlier in time??,??,???
• take of ??? give to hold
• The badly wounded take/receive for medical
  attention over those only slightly hurt.
• is given to education.
• You must give this matter .
• ? C sth. that needs attention, consideration,
  service, etc., before
• others??????
• The arranging of this business agreement is a top
  .
• You should learn to get (es) right.
• Buying a new car was first on my list of (es).
• ? U the right of a vehicle to go forward while
  others must wait ?????
• ???
• Fire engines and ambulances have over other
  traffic.

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• conservation
• n.(??)
• The act or process of conserving.
• ??????????
• Preservation from loss, damage, or neglect
• ???????????????
• Valuable manuscripts were saved from
  deterioration under the program of library
  conservation.
• ???????????,????????????????
• The controlled use and systematic protection of
  natural resources, such as forests, soil, and
  water systems.
• ???????????????????????????????????

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Conserve, preserve, reserve, protect
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• Say n.
• A turn or chance to speak ?????,???
• Having had my , I sat down.????????
• The right or power to influence or make a
  decision????????????????
• ?????????????
• Citizens have a in the councils of government.
• ??????????????
• All I want is some in the matter.

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• Devastate v.tr.
• To lay waste destroy.????,????
• To overwhelm confound stun??????
• She was devastated by his rude remarks.
  ???????????

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Reading II

• Americas National Parks, Part II
• ???

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Questions

• What sort of people are there to take care of the
  national parks?
• What are rangers? What is their job?
• Why the national parks make few concessions to
  tourists?
• What are visitors to the national parks warned
  of?
• What is the biggest problem for the
  conservationists?
• If you want to camp at Yosemite, what do you have
  to do before hand? Yosemite yosemite National
  Park (National Park Service).files

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ranger

• A wanderer a rover.??????
• A member of an armed troop employed in patrolling
  a specific region.
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• Ranger A member of a group of U.S. soldiers
  specially trained for making raids either on
  foot, in ground vehicles, or by airlift.
• Ranger ????,?????????????????,???????????????????
  ???
• A warden employed to maintain and protect a
  forest or other natural area.
• ????????????????????????
• Chiefly British The keeper of a royal forest or
  park.
• ??????? ???????????????????

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Learned Learn.edly adv. Learn.edness n.

• Possessing or demonstrating profound, often
  systematic knowledge erudite.???,
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• A professor a man
• Directed toward scholars ????
• a learned journal.????
• Acquired by learning or experience
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• learned behavior a learned response.??????????

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learned, erudite, scholarly

• The central meaning shared by these adjectives is
  having or showing profound knowledge
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• a learned jurist
• ??????
• an erudite professor
• ?????
• a scholarly treatise.
• ????

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precipice

• An overhanging or extremely steep mass of rock,
  such as a crag or the face of a cliff.
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• The brink of a dangerous or disastrous situation
• ???????????????
• on the precipice of defeat.
• ???????
• stand on the edge of a precipice
• ??????,????
• precipice
• bluff cliff palisade slope

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• ferocious
• adj.(???)
• Extremely savage fierce. See Synonyms at cruel
• ?????????? cruel
• Marked by unrelenting intensity extreme
• ?????,???
• ferocious heat.
• ???
• ferociously
• adv.(??)
• ferociousness
• n.(??)

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• ferocious
• bloodthirsty brutal cruel fierce ruthless
  savage vicious wild
• gentle meek mild obedient

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• herbivorous/ herbivore (From New Latin
  herbivorus, Latin herba vegetation)
• adj. feeding on plants plant-eating.
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• animals
• Rabbits are slions are not. ???????,??????
• carnivorous/ carnivore (from French
  meat-eating, from Latin carnivorus)
• Feeding on animals, flesh-eating
• Wolfs are flesh-eating animals sheep are not.
• Any of various predatory, flesh-eating mammals,
  including the dogs, cats, bears, weasels, hyenas,
  and raccoons.
• ???????????????,????????????????
• An insectivorous plant.
• ????

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fatal

• Causing or capable of causing death. ????????,
  ???????
• Causing ruin or destruction disastrous????
  ???????????
• Such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely
  fatal to my theory (Charles Darwin)
• ?????????,??????????????(???
  ???)
• Of decisive importance fateful.
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• Determining destiny controlled by
  fate.????????????????

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• fatal, deadly, mortal, lethal
• These adjectives apply to what causes or is
  likely to cause death.
• Fatal describes conditions, circumstances, or
  events that have caused or are destined
  inevitably to cause death or dire consequences
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• a accident a illness.
• It is to enter any war without the will to win
  it (Douglas MacArthur).
• ??????????,???????
  ?(????????)
• Deadly means capable of killing ????,?????
• a weapon a poison.
• Mortal describes a condition or action that has
  produced or is about to
• produce death
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• a mortal wound.????
• Lethal refers to a sure agent of death that may
  have been created solely for
• the purpose of killing
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• execution by lethal injection????????

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Note writing

• Invitation-declining note
• Appreciation for being invited
• Reason for not being able to come or attend
• Regret for missing such an occasion
• Extending felicitation, etc., should the occasion
  require

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Key to Exercises

• The headmaster plays an important role in the
  effective administration of a school.
• It is my mother who has the final say in family
  affairs.
• Biology, microbiology in particular, had
  fascinated him from his earliest student days.
• Has she said anything that appeals to you
  especially?
• Under such complicated conditions, not one can
  tell who will win the next election.
• Here is 100 pounds that should cover all your
  expenses.
• The work of an engineer requires intelligence
  plus experience.

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• Lisa Listen, this is something you should read.
• Harry Oh, yes? Whats that?
• Lisa Its a warning to smokers.
• Harry Another one? What does it say/
• Lisa It tells you to smoke a brand of cigarette
  from a lower tar group.
• Harry But I always do.
• Lisa It also tells you to smoke fewer
  cigarettes. And it warns you not to inhale.
• Harry They make it all sound very easy, but Ive
  tried all that.
• Lisa It tells you to take fewer puffs from each
  cigarette and warns you not to smoke the
  cigarette to the end. Oh, and then it tells you
  to take the cigarette out of your mouth between
  puffs.
• Harry Thanks for the warning. Im sure you are
  right. Ill give it a try.

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Passage Dictation
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