Discuss the questions with your partner..ppt

Unit 3
Discuss the questions with your partner.
1. What do you often do to help your parents at home?
2. Do you think kids should help out with chores at home?
2a
New words
stress n. 精神压力; 心理负担
waste n. 浪费; 垃圾 v. 浪费; 滥用
depend v. 依靠; 依赖
develop v. 发展; 壮大
fairness ; 合理性
since conj. 因为; 既然
prep., conj. & adv. 从……以后;
自……以来
neighbor(=neighbour) n. 邻居
drop v. 落下; 掉下
The Sunday Mail magazine《周日邮报》杂志invited parents to write about whether they think young people should do chores at home. Skim the following letters. Which one agrees and which one disagrees?
2b
Skimming 意为“快速掠过,从中提取最容易取得的精华”。这种读法包含有原词的所有意思——快速读过去,取出读物中关键性的东西。因此,我们可以把这种读法理解为快速浏览课文,领会文章大意。一般而言,通过标题可知道文章的主题。对文章的首段和末段要多加注意,以便发现作者的观点。
阅读策略
1. It is the parents’ job to provide a clean fortable environment at home for their children.
此处代词it仅为形式上的主语, 真正的主语是to provide … for their children。我们也可将It is one’s job (duty, …) to do , 表示“做某事是某人的工作(职责等)”。如:
provide 作动词,意为“提供;供应”。
provide sb. with sth. for
“为某人提供某物”。如:
It’s every teacher’s job to explain things clearly to the students.
把东西给学生讲明白是每一位老师应做的事情。
The movie theater provides us with good service.
His school provided a house for him.
汉译英。他们提供给他钱和衣服。
They provided him with money and clothes.
They provided money and clothes for him.
2. And anyway, I think doing chores is not so difficult.
反正我觉得干点家务也不难。
anyway是一个副词, 若位于句首, 其后往往会有逗号将其与句子的其他内容隔开。anyway在此句中的作用是追加评论, 相当于汉语的“反正; 仍然; 依然”。如: