Senior 3 Unit 8 Period 4Senior 3 Unit 8 Period 4Language PointsLanguage Points

惠安三中　　　杨萍萍

1.p65 (Wang Lei)Reading something in English, I always get stuck when I come across a new word.

( 1) get + p.p

get trapped get beaten get paid get drunk get burnt get married

•get hurt get lost get dismissed

•get going / moving / weaving 行动起来

• Our report is late, we must get _______.• A to go B going C went D gone

• If you go there alone after dark you might get ___ and ___.

• A attacked and robbing• B attacked and robbed• C attacking and robbing• D arracking and robbed

• When you get __him, you’ll find he is very nice.

• A to know B knowing

• C known D knew

• Get to do

• 1) 逐渐做……， 随着时光的流失• He’s getting to be an old man now.

• 2) 得以 ; 有机会 , 被允许做• If I get to see him I’ll ask him about it

• get sth. done = have sth done

• 做（该做的事） ; 找人做（某事）• I'll just get these dishes washed and

then I'll come.

• I must get the television fixed.

• Get sb to do

• I got him to help when I moved the furniture.

(2). stick v.I can’t stick waiting around like this.She stuck her fork into the meat.思维拓展：stick around stick at stick outstick to

徘徊；逗留；等待坚持不懈地做伸出；探出 杰出遵守；坚持

2. make progress2. make progressWith the help of his English teacher,

Tom _____in English in the past few weeks.

A. made great advances

B. has been greatly progressed

C. has made a rapid progress

D. has made much progress D

3.p66. (Zhao li )Learning English is fun.

fun [U.] n.------ 区别 funny adj.

Seeing monkeys in the zoo is of great fun.

What fun it is to have a game after work!

May you have great fun.

in fun= for fun 娱乐 , 消遣

He couldn’t say such a serious thing for fun.

Look at the funny person with a strange

hat on. ( 滑稽可笑）

4.receive formal instruction / education

instruct = teach ,educate （教 , 教导 , 命令 , 指示 , 通知）

1) Mr. Zhang instructed a maths lesson.

2) The captain instructed his men to fight

bravely.

3) He often instructs me in English (studies).

instructor （教师 , < 美 > 讲师） instruction

instructive ( 有教育意义的 )

5.Instead we learnt or acquired our mother tongue by communicating with…(p66.para1)

1 ） acquire.“ 取得，获得”指通过漫长的过程逐步获得或学到。

e.g. She acquired a knowledge of French.

He has acquired a good knowledge of history in these few years.

2 ） acquired adj. 获得的 , 后天的 Drinking is an acquired taste( 爱好 )for

him.3) acquisition n. 获得 He devotes his time to the acquisition

of knowledge.This book is my latest acquisition.

6. make sense of make sense

make no sense in a sense

Can you make sense of the abstract theory?

Talking after the accident makes no sense.

what he said is reasonable in a sense ( 在某种意义上 ).

7.Some believe that we are equipped with a special ability to learn language and that our brain adjusts itself to the language … (p67.para1)

sb be equipped with . 本身具有（必要的学问、能力之类。 )

The children are equipped with some special skills.

• ____ with many new facilities( 设备 ), the libraries are better than ______.

• A Equipped ; the past

• B Equipping; the past

• C Equipped; those of the past

• D Equipping; that of the past

(1)adjust (oneself) to vt. 使自己适应。

e.g. She soon adjusted (herself) to his way of life.

We will have to adjust ourselves to new conditions.

(2) adjust+ 名＋ (to sth) （为配合而）调整；调 节…，校正…

e.g. Will you please adjust the clock? It’s slow.

You can adjust this desk to the height of any child.

8. and that what we are born with is a general ability to learn and adapt, not a language specific…(p67.para1)

adapt. (1)adapt(oneself) to Vt. =adjust oneself to 适应…… e.g. He is quick to adept (himself)

to new circumstance.

(2)adapt+sth.+(to sth). e.g. He could not adapt his way

of life to the company. (3) 改编，改写；修改…… ( 为……

用） e.g. It is hard to adapt this story

for children. 要将这小说改编为适合小孩子很

困难。

. adjust adjust / adapt… to

1) You shouldn’t adjust your computer

without any instruction. （调节） 2) He adjusted his errors and continued his

research work. （校正误差） 3) You should adjust your expenditure （支出） to your income 。（使适合） 4) When you go to a new country, you must

adapt / adjust yourself to new circumstances（使适应）

9.Regardless of their theories , …

regardless of =paying no attention to

不顾，不管。

e.g. He says what he thinks, regardless of other people’s feeling.

他想到什么就说什么，毫不考虑别人的感受。

The coal boss risked making money regardless of workers’ safety.

Give my __________ to your parents.

I wrote a letter ____________my daughter's school examinations.

regards

regarding

• regardless• adv.• 无论如何；不管；不顾• I must make the decision regardles

s.• 不管怎样我得做决定。• _______________ the bad weather we e

njoyed our holiday.Despite/in spite of

10 .case 事例 ; 实情 ; 案件；诉讼；病例 ; 情况1) Is this the case that you have lost

your money ? (= Is it true)

2) If that is the case,you’ll have to work harder.

3) The case was settled out of court.

4) There are three cases of fever in school.

5) It may rain---- you’d better take an umbrella

in case （以防） .

6) In case of fire （万一） , ring the alarm bell.

7) In this/ that case （如果是那样的话） , none can escape.

11. in other words11. in other words

have a word with sb. （和某人谈一两句话 , 和某人谈谈）

have words with sb. （和 ... 争论 / 争吵）

• break / keep one‘s word （食言 / 失信）• beyond words （无法用语言表达）word for wordword by wordword came that…

逐字地；原原本本地

消息传来

(1 ). ______________, he walked away with

a smile.

( 2 ). It’s no use to promise _________, but

in deed. （口头上） (3 ). ____________, you are a very good boy. （总之） (4 ).I don’t know how to explain this ______

(5). I soon found that the work I was doing

had been done by someone else. _________ I was wasting my time.

With the words

in word

In a word

in words

in other words

12 put…to use = make use of （利用 ; 使用） come into use （开始被使用） in use （正在用 ; 通用） out of use （不用） 1) You should put what you have to (a) better

use.

= You should make better use of what

you have.

2) When will the technology come into use?

3) Something in use today will be out of

use soon.

13.The less anxious and more relaxed the learner, the better their language acquisition. …The+ 比较级…… ,the+ 比较级…… , 越… ... 就越…… e.g. The more novels you read, the more you want to read.The harder you study, the more you can learn. The easier the text is, the happier they will be.

14. take a risk / take risks

take the risk of doing sth

at the risk of

risk doing

be at risk=in danger

In our lives, we have to take so many risks

to succeed.

He took the risk of losing his life to save

the drowning boy.

He saved the boy at the risk of losing his life.

15. We should try to adopt some of the study habits and characteristics described above . …

adopt: (1) 采用；采取；采纳 ; 吸取，e.g. Our school has adopted a new teac

hing method. We’d like to adopt your idea.

(2) 收养（某人）e.g. They are not my real parent

s, I am adopted. adopted son/daughter 养子 / 养女

Bye bye!