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NSEFC Book 6 —— Unit 5 Teaching Aims To learn some new words and phrases. To learn some complicated sentence patterns. Teaching Important Point How to help the students to master the usage of some useful words, expressions and sentences. Teaching Difficult Point How to enable the students to grasp and remember the detailed information of the reading material. Teaching Procedure Step1 Revision 1. Check the answers to Ex. 1 on page 35. 2. Check the answers to Ex. 2 on page 36. 1．The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD took people in Pompeii by surprise. It was so quick and so severe that the town was soon covered in _____ and ______. Many houses in the town were __________________. It was an ________ disaster for many people who could not get away in time. A writer named Pliny, who was there during the ________, described how lava was thrown into the air like a ________. ______________ many of the townspeople, _________at the _________ sight of Vesuvius eruption, stayed too long and failed to escape in time. Keys: 1. bored; 2. volcano 3. made my way 4. compare with

5. erupt 6.impressive 2．The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD took people in Pompeii by surprise. It was so quick and so severe that the town was soon covered in _____ and ______. Many houses in the town were __________________. It was an ________ disaster for many people who could not get away in time. A writer named Pliny, who was there during the ________, described how lava was thrown into the air like a ________.

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______________ many of the townspeople, _________at the _________ sight of Vesuvius eruption, stayed too long and failed to escape in time. Keys:

ash;

lava; burnt to the ground;

absolute;

eruption Fountain; Unfortunately; amazed; fantastic Step 2 Language Points 1．volcano n. pl. volcanoes

an active volcano

活火山

an extinct volcano

死火山

a dormant volcano休眠火山

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火山学

volcanology

-logy: “…… 学/论。”

oceanology

climatology 火山学家

volcanologist

-ist “……学家

”

pianist

physicist 2. Have you ever considered how weak humans are compared with a volcano, hurricane or earthquake?

consider大致有两种含义。含义不同，用法有别。

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①consider作“考虑”解，常用于以下句型：

consider+名词/代词/动名词

consider+从句或“疑问词+不定式”。

You’d better__________________________.

你最好考虑我的建议。

I’m _________________abroad some day. 我一直考虑有一天出国。

Have you considered_________________? 你们考虑他的建议了吗？

We must consider________________.

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我们必须考虑下一步要做什么。

Keys: consider my suggestion

considering going

what he suggested;

what to do next ②consider作“认为”解时，常用于以下句型：

consider sb. /sth+ (as) +形容词/名词

其中，as可以省略。

consider +sb./sth.+不定式

其中，不定式通常是to be (可以省略) 或其他动词的完成式。

consider +it+形容词/名词+不定式短语

consider+宾语从句

At first they considered me___________________. 起初他们认为我是医生。

We consider this matter________________________________.我们认为这件事很重要。

We all consider him _______________the bike.我们都认为他偷了自行车。

We________________________________________. 我们认为学好英语很难。

I consider____________________________________________.

我认为帮助你学习英语是我的职责。

We________________________________________________. 我们这首音乐很值得一听。

Keys: (as) a doctor

(to be) very important

to have stolen consider it hard to learn English well

it my duty to help you with your studies

consider that the music is well worth listening to 3. Sometimes working indoors…, I’m never bored. bore vt 使(人)厌烦

---I am sorry I spoke for so long ---I hope I didn’t bore you.

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bored adj. (人) 厌烦的

boring adj. （物）令人厌烦的

Are you getting bored of doing the same thing everyday? The movie was so boring that I fell asleep

The life is more and more boring, so many people become more and more bored. 生活越来越无聊,所以很多人也变得越来越无聊

4. Many houses have been covered with lava or burnt to the ground.

burn to the ground (楼房等)完全烧毁

他无处栖身因为他的房子被烧掉了. He has no place to live in because his house has been burnt to the ground.

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burn up

烧完; 烧尽; 烧光;烧旺起来

burn down烧成平地(烧毁,烧光) burn off烧掉

burn out烧掉

Don't leave the gas on you might burn the house down. 别忘了关煤气炉--不然会把房子烧掉的. The house burnt down in half an hour. 那所房子在半小时之内就被焚为平地. All the wood has been burnt up. 木柴全部烧光了。

burn off

烧掉

Burn the old paint off before re-painting the door. 先把门上的旧漆烧掉再上新漆. burn out

烧掉

The hotel was completely burnt out. 该旅馆毁於大火. If he doesn't stop working so hard, he'll burn himself out. 他继续这样拚命地工作，就会累垮的。

5. We slowly made our way to the edge of the crater.

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make one’s way （向某地）走（去）

make one's way in life 事业有所成就

make way (for) 让路，让位

He made his way through the crowd to greet us. 他穿过人群向我们打招呼。

All the traffic has to make way for a fire engine. 所有的车辆都得给救火车让道。

If you want to make your way in the world, you must learn to work hard

while you are still young. 你若想要有

出息，趁年轻的时候要学会发奋。

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feel one’ way摸索前进

push one’s way挤过

find one’s way找到路，设法到达

go one’s way走自己的路，我行我素

fight one’s way奋勇前进

wind one’s /its way蜿蜒前进

lose one’s way迷路

6. Today, I am just as enthusiastic about my job as the day I first started.

be enthusiastic (about) 感兴趣的，热心的

He is enthusiastic about helping others .他热心助人。

I'm really very enthusiastic about it.我对此真的非常热心。

Despite all our efforts we still lost the game. 7. She made an effort to be nice to her boss. effort n. 努力; 力气; 努力的成果

make an effort to do sth

努力做某事：

It took a lot effort to lift the boxes.

抬起那些箱子要花很大的力气。

Despite all our efforts we still lost the game. 尽管我们尽了全力，我们还是输掉了比赛。

Put more effort into your work.

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你要更加努力地工作。

Your success lies upon your effort. 你成功与否取决于你的努力。

He made an effort to arrive on time 他尽量准时到达。

8. Having collected and evaluated the information, I help other scientists to predict where lava from the volcano will flow next and how fast it will flow. 本句为–ing形式的完成式作状语。如果分词表示的动作在谓语动词表示的动作之前发生，该分词用完成式。

例如：

Not having met the man before, I couldn't recognize him at first.

Having finished my homework, I went to play football.

______ the programme, they have to stay there for another two weeks. (C) Not completing

B. Not completed

C. Not having completed D. Having not completed Step 3 Homework 1. Master and go over the use of the words and phrases above. 2. Pre-view the usage of –ing form.

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