Period 2 Language points

A team competition

• Each team can get one point if any of your team can answer the question correctly.

Answer each question by using the correct new word or

phrases in U.1:1. What is the action of making something

suitable for a new use?2. How would you feel if someone kept

talking when you were trying to read?

3. How would you feel if you got all the answers in the test wrong?

4. If someone gave you some small, colourful fish, where would you put them?

adapt

annoyed

stupid

tank

5. What kind of instrument does a doctor need to examine viruses in blood?

6. What do you call the musical instrument you strike with sticks or hands?

7. How would you say if you are going to repeat what you have said in a different way?

8. What would you say if you are going to repeat what you have said in a different way?

microscope

drum

out of breath

in other words

9. You may say “Don’t _______________ people” to somebody who likes making fools of others.

10. What do you call someone who is always knocking things over or dropping them?

make fun of

clumsy

Useful words and expressions:• producing favourable

effects or useful results

• make or become suitable for new needs, different conditions, etc.

• make sb. a little angry or impatient, esp. by troublesome actions

• beneficial

• adapt

• annoy

Useful words and expressions:

• on the whole

• make a fool/fools of sb.

• be short of breath

• all in all

• make fun of

• be out of breath

Useful words and expressions:1. beneficial a. 有利的，有益的1) be beneficial to sth./sb. 有益于e.g. Sunshine is beneficial to plants. His holding has had a beneficial effect.2) benefit n.e.g. That experience was of great benefit

to me. Give up smoking for the benefit of

your health.

3) benefit vt./vi.e.g. We benefit from daily exercise. The rapid development of science

benefits the whole world.2. adapt vt. （使）适合，适应；改编e.g. When he moved to Canada, the

children________________________ （很能适应变化） These books have （ 为小学生改编

的。） _______________________________

adapted to the change very well.

been adapted for the primary school pupils.

词义辨析： adapt, adjust, fit, suit, match

• adapt: 指修改或改变以适应新条件• adjust: 多指“调整，调节”使之适应• fit: 多指“大小适合”，引申为“吻合”• suit: 多指“合乎要求、口味、性格、情况”• match: 指“大小、色调、形状、性质”等

相配或相称

Exercises:1. You can’t see through the telescope

until it is ________ to your eyes.2. The shoes ______ me well.3. A red jacket doesn’t ______ green

trousers.4. No dish ______ all tastes.5. You should ______ yourself to the

new environment.

adjusted

fitmatch

suitsadapt

3. annoy vt. 使烦恼 / 生气e.g. These flies are annoying me. I was annoyed with him because he kept

interrupting.( be annoyed with sb. 对某人生气 )4. all in all = on the whole, in all 总而言之e.g. All in all, we had a good time during the winter

vacation. 辨析：• In all• above all• after all 总共，总而言之

尤其是，重要的是毕竟

5. make fun of = make a fool/fools of sb., play a joke on sb. 取笑

e.g. It’s bad manners to make fun of disabled people.辨析： laugh at sb. • play a trick on sb.6. out of breath 上气不接下气相关短语：• hold one’s breath• lose one’s breath• catch one’s breath• get one’s breath • below / under one’s breath

屏息喘不过气来

松一口气小声地

喘过气来

嘲笑捉弄

Important sentences• Find out three sentences containing

clauses used as adverbial of comparison.• Paraphrasing:1. I used to dream that one day I would be a

famous football player and represent my country in the World Cup.

I used to _______ _______ one day _______ a famous football player and __________ my country in the World Cup.dream about/ofbeing

representing

Important sentences2. To work in the computer industry when I grow up is

my ambition. My ambition is ______ ______ in the computer

industry when I grow up. 3. I don’t have time to sit around and felt sorry for

myself. I don’t have time to sit around ______ sorry for

myself.4. Just having a disability doesn’t mean your life is

not satisfying. Just _______ ________ doesn’t mean your life is

not satisfying.

to work

feeling

being disabled

• Wb. P. 48. 1.– 3.

• Preview Using Language: A Letter to an Architect and try to finish Comprehending exercise 1 on P. 9.