1、Unit 16 stories(10) Culture Corner and Bulletin Board Tips: Everything is good when new, but friends when old. Learning aims(学习目标 ): Have a knowledge of the origins of english surnames from Culture Corner Practise reading skills. Important and difficult point: How to understand the passage to the fu
2、llest (学习重点、难点) Learning procedures(学习过程): Step New words (用工具书查以下单词的意思 ) A 级:cook_ baker_ butcher_ gardener_ B 级 : smith_ shepherd_ tayor(tailor) _ carpenter_ Step Important phrases and sentences in Culture Corner（ B 级） (在文中找出这些短语和句型 ,从 语境 中理解 ) 1.put up with _ 2.even though _ 3.by the wood _ 4.(a)
3、 part of _ 5.over the years _ 6. distinguish A from B _ 7.The chinese were the first nation of people to use surnames about 2,500 years ago. 译：_ 划线部分在文中做_成分.（C 级） 8.and only a few popular names were available,such as William,Henry,John,Roberts,Richard and Thomas. available 意思为: _(B 级) 9.Sometimes pe
4、ople took place names,perhaps the name of their villages for example, for a surname. (D 级) 本句译文： take for意思为：认为，把当作 练一练 你以为我是傻瓜吗？ Step Skimming(跳读 )and scanning(快速浏览 )(B 级 ) (Read Culture Corner fast and then answer the following four questions.) 1. When did people in England first start using surna
5、mes? 2. Why did people start using surnames? _ 3. What are the four main types of English surnames? 4.用英语描述下列英文名字的构成(D 级) Robert Roberts,ThomasThomson _ Cook,Smith,Gardener,Baker Hill,John Hill,Field,Wood,Jack Wood William Tall,William Long,John Short,John Little Step Important phrases and sentences
6、 in Bulletin Board 1.issue of 的出版，发行 2.be proud to do _(B 级) 3.My name is easy to understand.是否可以写成 My name is easy to be understood?为什么？(D 级) 4. The best thing about it though,is that my birthday is always on a holiday so I never have to celeberate it at school! (C 级) that 引导_ 从句， （做 /不做）成分， （有/ 没有
7、）实在意义，但（可以/不可以） 省去。 Step Reading comprehension.(C 级 ) There was a river with a small town on either side of it. The towns were linked by a bridge. One day, a hole appeared in the bridge. Both towns agreed that the hole should be mended. However, disagreement came up as to who should mend it. Each to
8、wn thought that it had a better reason for the other to mend the hole. The town on the right bank said that it was at the end of the road, so the left-bank town should mend the hole. The town on the left bank, on the other hand, insisted that all the traffic came to the right-bank town, so it was in
9、 their interest to mend the bridge. The quarrel went on and on, and so did the hole. The more it went on, the more the hostility between the two towns grew. One day a man fell into the hole and broke his leg. People from both towns questioned him closely about whether he was walking from the right b
10、ank to the left or from the left bank to the right, in order to decide which town should be blamed for the accident. But he could not remember, since he got drunk that night. Some time later, a car was crossing the bridge and broke an axle（轴）because of the hole. Neither town paid any attention to th
11、e accident, as the traveler was not going from one to the other, but was merely passing through. The angry traveler got out of the car and asked why the hole was not mended. On hearing the reason, he declared, “Ill buy this hole. Whos the owner? ” Both towns at once declared that they owned the hole
12、. “One or the other, whoever owns the hole must prove it. ” “How shall we prove it? ”asked both sides. “That s simple. Only the owner of the hole has the right to mend it. Ill buy the hole from whoever mends the bridge. ” People from both towns rushed to do the job while the traveler smoked a cigar
13、and his driver changed the axle. They mended the bridge in no time and asked for the money for the hole. “What hole? ”The traveler looked surprised. “I cant see any hole. Ive been looking for a hole for several years now. Im prepared to pay a good price for it, but theres no hole here. Are you pulli
14、ng my leg or what? ” He got into his car and drove off. 1. What did the two towns quarrel about? A. Which of them should mend the hole. B. Whether the hole should be mended. C. Why there was a hole in the bridge. D. When they should mend the hole. 2. The man who had fallen into the hole failed to an
15、swer any questions because he _. A. had one of his legs broken B. was busy changing the axle C. had drunk too much wine D. was afraid to blame anybody 3. Both towns rushed to mend the hole in order to prove that _. A. they owned the whole bridge B. they had the right to sell the hole C. they were able to mend the hole D. they could afford to mend the hole 4. In “Are you pulling my leg or what? ”, the phrase pulling my leg refers to _. A. trying to stop me B. laughing at me C. putting me in trouble D. making fun of me 学后反思： _ _ _
