在某人的支配(控制)下

1、Teaching Plan of Unit Ten in Book IIITeaching Aims:In this unit students are required to:1. Practice reading strategies such as predicting, skimming, guessing, etc.2. Grasp some new words and expressions to enrich students vocabulary;3. Do some oral work such as pre-reading questions, role play and

2、interaction activities to help to develop the students oral communicative abilities;4. Appreciate the two texts in this unit and learn some writing skills and practice it along with letter writing;5. Do some other after-class exercise including listening and translation to improve students comprehen

3、sive skills.Teaching Emphasis: 1. The comprehension and appreciation of Text I;2. New words and expression: duck; wince; placatory; indefensible; negligently; studious; shrug; wry; dissolve; guffaw; nail down; trail away; be shocked to the core; every nook and crannyProcedure: (4 hours)1. Review the

4、 main points of last class;2. Begin the new unit:1) Answer the pre-reading questions orally;2) Allow students 3 minutes for rapid reading to get the main idea of Text I; 3) Do the guesswork of vocabulary;4) Study Text I intensively;5) Answer the questions of Text I both in SB(students book) and WB(w

5、orkbook) orally;6) Listen to the tape and study Text II extensively to enlarge their vocabulary and widen the scope of their knowledge;7) Do oral work;8) Study the main points of guided writing, including the paragraph writing of narration, and the letter writing as to show ones thanks;9) Homework,

6、finish all the exercise both in SB and WB.supplementKnowing the certain phrases of “thumb”: under your thumb: under your control 在某人的支配（控制）下    I cant tell you what pain I feel when I see how much my mother is under my fathers thumb.all thumbs (fingers): clumsy, unable to hold it

7、, fingers feel like thumbs (手指不靈巧,笨手笨腳)When I try to sew a button on my shirt, Im all thumbs.have ten thumbs=be all thumbsgreen thumb: good gardener, naturally good with plants (綠手指, 指種植花木蔬菜的高超技能)    Willie is the green thumb in our group. Hes the gardener.by thumb: to somewhere by st

8、opping the driver to give you a lift 以免費搭車的方式    He traveled to other parts of the country by thumb.thumb down: reject , not accept 否定，反對    He tends to thumb down all my best ideas.thumb up: approve, be for sth. 贊成    The chairman thumbed up our plan.twi

9、ddle ones thumbs: to do nothing while you wait impatiently for sth. to happen閑著無事    For the next half hour I was twiddling my thumbs, waiting for my friends to arrive.thumb through: turn the pages of a book, magazine etc without reading much of it 快速瀏覽    She thumbed t

10、hrough the guidebook, looking for somewhere to visit in the afternoon.thumb ones nose (at): behave in a way that you do not care what they think 蔑視    He has always thumbed his nose at the media.stick out like a sore thumb: very noticeable because they are unusual or inappropriate 顯得十

11、分不自然，顯得很不合適    The ugly painting stuck out like a sore thumb in the art gallery.rule of thumb: rule that you follow which is not based on exact calculations but rather on experience (根據(jù)實際經(jīng)驗的經(jīng)驗法則)    A good rule of thumb is that a broker must generate sales of ten times

12、his salary if his employer is to make a profit. For learning more English idioms, visit:Language points: 1  a succession of: a number of persons or things following on one after the other 一系列, 一連串 A succession of unexpected visitors came to our department on the first day of school. 開

13、學(xué)第一天, 一個接一個的不速之客來到我們系里。Last summer there was a succession of uncomfortably hot days. 去年夏天接連好幾天天氣很熱， 令人不舒服。The worst misfortune that befell her was to bear a succession of girls. 她遭到的最倒霉的事就是一連生了好幾個女兒。2  nail down （not fml.）:be sure about 確定，弄清Hard figures are impossible to nail down. 確切的數(shù)字無法弄清。A

14、n agreement has been nailed down by the partners of the firm. 公司的合伙者已擬訂了一項協(xié)議。3  make out: to see or understand with difficulty （勉強地）看出，辯認出，聽出 Can you make out his handwriting? 你能辯認出他寫什么嗎？She spoke in such a soft voice that I could hardly make out what she said. 她說得這么輕聲細語，我?guī)缀醪荒苈犌逅f什么。4 . ta

15、ke （no） notice （of）: 注意（到），察覺（到）Take no notice of what they are saying about you. 別去理睬他們對你的議論。Please take particular notice of the road signs. 請?zhí)貏e注意道路標志。It has come to my notice that she is making great progress. 我注意到她正在進步。5. to the core 直至核心，透頂?shù)?，十足的She is English to the core. 她是個地道的英國人。Her refusal

16、shocked us to the core. 她的拒絕使我們驚呆了。He is honest to the core. 他這人真是誠實到家了。6. get nowhere：make no progress, accomplish nothing （口）（使）無進展，（使）不能成功Are you getting anywhere in computer science? 你在電腦學(xué)科方面有何進展？She practiced the piano so hard that she was really getting somewhere. 她狠練鋼琴，真的進步很大。7. consist of 包括

17、，包含A year consists of twelve months. 一年有12 個月。The committee consists of ten members. 委員會有10 個成員。8.  a note of in ones voice   note: a quality of voice 語氣，口氣There was a note of desperation (warning, envy, sarcasm, respect, nostalgia) in what he said. 他的話帶有一種絕望（警告，羨慕，譏諷，尊敬，懷舊）的口氣。His voice heldcarried a menacing note. 他說話時帶有一種威脅的口吻Language points for Text II1.filter: 1) pass a liquid through a filter Eg: All drinking water must be filtered. 2) in/out/through: become known gradually eg: New ideas are slowly filtering into peoples mind.(深入人心)2.