Unit 9 Saving the earth
Period 3
(reading to)
Teaching Aims:
1.Improve the students’ reading ability;
2.Learn some useful words and expressions
Teaching Important Points:
1.Improve the students’ reading ability;
2.Master the useful words and expressions
Teaching Difficult Points:
1.How to help the students master the usage of the useful words and phrases in the passage;
2.How to improve the students’ reading ability
一、知識(shí)歸納
1、alone做形容詞時(shí)用法歸納
（1）alone做形容詞時(shí)，意為“單獨(dú)的，獨(dú)自的”，一般只做表語，不做定語。
Her parents were dead and she was alone.
她雙親死了，留下她獨(dú)自一人。
Alone as he is ,he doesn’t feel lonely.
他雖然獨(dú)居，卻不感到孤寂。
（2）alone做定語，意為“只有”。通常用在名詞或代詞后面，可換用only.
The key alone will open the door.
只有這把鑰匙能開這個(gè)門。
He alone knows the seerer.
只有他一人知道秘密。
Mr.Smith alone knows what happened.
只有史密斯先生知道發(fā)生了什么事。
He alone knows it .=He is the only person who knows it.
他是唯一知道此事的人。
2、impress用法歸納
（1）impress為及物動(dòng)詞，意為“使……明白重要性，留下了深刻的印象”。
The film impressed me deeply.
那部影片給我留下了深刻的印象。
His words impressed deeply on my memory.
他的話深深的印在我的腦海里。
What impressed me most was their brave spirit.
給我印象最深的是他們的無畏精神。
（2）其被動(dòng)式be impressed很常用，后可接with/by.
I was greatly impressed by/with the headmaster’s speech.
我被校長(zhǎng)的話深深的感動(dòng)了。
She was deeply impressed by/with the scenery in Guilin.
桂林的景色給她留下了深刻美好的印象。
（3）impress sth. on/upon one’s mind意為“把……牢記在心”
Please impress what you see on your mind.
請(qǐng)把你見到的牢記在心。
3、以ly結(jié)尾的常見形容詞歸納。
下列以ly結(jié)尾的不是副詞，而是形容詞，使用時(shí)需當(dāng)心，不要誤用。
friendly友好的---a friendly smile友好的微笑
lovely可愛的---a lovely girl一位可愛的姑娘
lively活潑的---a lively child一位活潑的小孩
lonely孤獨(dú)的---a lonely traveller一位孤獨(dú)的旅客
deadly致命的---a deadly blow致命的一擊
silly傻的，無聊的---a silly question愚蠢的問題
orderly秩序的---an orderly mind有條不紊的頭腦
manly男子氣概的---a manly person具有男子氣概的人
fatherly像父親的---a fatherly teacher一位父親式的教師
daily每日的---daily work日常工作
weekly每星期的---a weekly magazine周刊
yearly每年的---a yearly income年收入
二、詞語辨析
1、compare…to, compare…with
compare…to “把……比做……”，著重注意兩者間的相似點(diǎn)，compare…with “拿……與……相比較”，側(cè)重于兩者間的區(qū)別。即，compare之后接to是比作，with是比較，不能混淆。
He compared the noisy children to monkeys.
他把吵鬧的孩子比作猴子。
Chairman Mao compared young people to the sun at eight or nine in the morning.
毛主席把青年人比作早晨八、九點(diǎn)鐘的太陽。
He likes to compare his pupils with his son.
他喜歡拿自己的學(xué)生和兒子比。
No one can compare with him in English.
在英語方面無人能和他相比。
2、summit, conference, meeting, meet
四個(gè)詞均可指“會(huì)議”，但使用場(chǎng)合不同。summit指“最高級(jí)會(huì)議、首腦會(huì)議”；conference也比較正式，指重大、規(guī)模較大的會(huì)議或?qū)I(yè)性較強(qiáng)的學(xué)術(shù)(研討)會(huì)議；meeting為普通用詞，指一般性會(huì)議；meet在美國(guó)用，多指“集會(huì)”。
Chinese President Hu Jintao arrived here on Monday afternoon for a three day state visit to Russia.During his stay in Russia, he will take part in the third summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization members states to be held in Moscow.
國(guó)家主席胡錦濤周一下午到達(dá)這里，對(duì)俄羅斯進(jìn)行三天的國(guó)事訪問。在俄羅斯期間，主席將要參加將在莫斯科舉行的上海合作組織成員國(guó)第三次首腦會(huì)議。
The International Economic Conference was hekd in Shanghai last week.
國(guó)際經(jīng)濟(jì)會(huì)議上周在上海舉行。
Our headmaster has gone to Beijing to attend the conference on education.
我們校長(zhǎng)去北京參加教育工作會(huì)議了。
We have a class meeting every Monday.
每周一我們有班會(huì)。
When is the school sports meet/meeting going to be held?
校運(yùn)會(huì)什么時(shí)候舉行？
3、cause, reason, excuse
cause意為“起因，原因”，指引起某種結(jié)果的必然原因，即主要事實(shí)方面的原因。reason指在事實(shí)的基礎(chǔ)上通過邏輯判斷推出來的理由，常與for連用。excuse指為免受指責(zé)和推卸責(zé)任而找的“理由，借口”。
Heart trouble is one of the most serious causes of death among old people.
心臟病是導(dǎo)致老年人死亡的最重要的原因之一。
Tell me the reason for changing the plan.
告訴我你改變計(jì)劃的原因。
A bad excuse is worse than no excuse.
與其作個(gè)差勁的辯解，不如不辯解。