高职高专英语第一册(校编)教案：Unit 7 The First Chinese

Unit 7 The First Chinese
I. Teaching Objectives:
After the learning of this text, the students will be able to
1. understand the main idea of the text;
2. learn to analyse long difficult sentence patterns;
3. grasp the key words, language points and grammatical structures in the text;
4. conduct a series of reading, speaking and translation exercises related to the text. II. Time Allotment:
Eight periods (six for intensive reading and two for Exercises)
III. Text Analysis
1. China is the oldest living civilization in the world.
living : existing; alive now活着的
e.g. Wages were sixpence a week within living memory.
周工资为六便士的年代, 人们记忆犹新.
He is believed to be one of the best living painters.
他被认为是在世的最好的画家之一。

2. People in China were living civilized lives…
英语中，动宾词组中，宾语全部或部分地重复动词意思，这个宾语被称作是同根宾语。

e.g. sing a song
dream a dream
think some unkind thoughts
fight a good fight
die a miserable death
一些动词，通常是不及物动词可以加同根宾语，并且该宾语常有定语来修饰。

e.g. He lived a bitter life as a child laborer in a factory.
Old as he is, he lives the life of a young man.
She told me she had dreamed a sweat dream.
I have never spoken a word to him, but every time he sees me he smiles a strange smile.
3. No one is sure...—a useful expression
e.g. No one is sure what to do next.
No one is sure when his seemingly endless speech will come to an end.
4. We do know that the bones of some of the first people to exist have been unearthed near Beijing, the capital of China, near the Yellow River valley.
In colloquial English, “do” is sometimes used simply to st rengthen a statement, and this demands special intonation.
e.g. I do hope you’ll stay here for another two or three days.
He does speak English well!
unearth: 1) to find out the truth about something 揭露；发现
e.g. The reporter had unearthed some important secrets about her.
记者已发现了有关她的一些重要秘密。

2）to find something after searching for it, especially something that has been buried under the ground 发掘，掘出（尤指埋藏于地下的东西）
e.g. Many unearthed cultural relics were exhibited at the museum.
博物馆展出了许多出土文物。

the capital of China 在句子中作插入语，进一步说明解释一下前面出现的Beijing。

5. One legend tells of the appearance in the sky of ten suns, which scorched the earth.
tell of: 描述
e.g. His hands tell of heavy labor.
他的双手显示他干的是粗活。

scorch: make very hot and dry使烧焦,变焦
e.g. The walls had been blackened and scorched by the fire.
这些墙被大火烧黑了。

I scorched my new shirt with the iron.
我用熨斗把新衬衫给烫焦了。

6. Shun promised all his kingdom to anyone who could harness the rivers.
promise: to tell someone that you will definitely do something or that something will happen 保证，答应
promise sth to sb :
e.g. I can’t give you the book—I’ve promised it to Tom.
我不能把这本书给你—我已经答应给汤姆了。

promise to do sth
e.g. I promise to return your bicycle on good condition.
我答应一定完好无损地还你的自行车。

promise sb sth = promise to give someone something 答应给某人某物
e.g. The company promised us a bonus this year.
公司答应今年给我们发奖金。

harness: to control and use the natural force or power of something 治理利用（自然力等）：e.g. We can harness the power of the wind to make electricity.
我们可以利用风力发电.
7. Every time he passed by, he hear d his children…
Every time 可以用作从属连词用来引导一个时间状语从句，还有each time, next time, the first time, by the time, the moment, the minute, the instant, the day, the month, the year等等。

IV. Exercises
Reading Comprehension
Vocabulary
Structure
Fast Reading
V. Grammar
VI. Word-building。