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Unit 6
I.
Greetings
II.
Listening & Speaking Activities
Other man live to eat, while I
eat to live.
( Socrates )
Task 1 Word
Study
Directions:
People
rely
on
all
kinds
of
food
everyday.
Try
to
see
if
you
happen
to
know
the following food.
Grape
Kiwi
pineapple
Lemon
capsicum
carrot
eggplant
Cereal
Wheat
Barley
Maize
Oat
Rice
Millet
Meat
Pork
Beef
Lamb
Chicken
Mutton
Turkey
Beverages
milk shake
coca-cola
Spirits
orange juice
soft drinks
mineral water
beer
Task 2
Listening Practice
Listen to a passage
about
obesity
and complete
the following by filling in the blanks.
Words you need to know
obesity (
肥胖
)
alarmingly
(
令人担忧地
)
globally
(
全球的
)
fatality
(
不幸
)
preventive
(
预防性的
)
The
World
Heart
Federation
says
children
are
increasingly
_adopting
unhealthy
lifestyles. It
says the leading causes of heart disease and
stroke, namely, obesity, poor
diet,
smoking and physical inactivity now are being seen
at an alarmingly early age.
The
Federation's executive director, Janet
V
oute, says action must be taken to
protect
children from these risks.
The
World Health Organization reports heart disease
and stroke kill 17 million
people a
year. This is
almost one-third of all deaths globally. By 2020,
it predicts,
these
twin
diseases
will
become
the
leading
causes
of
both
death
and
disability
worldwide. The
WHO
warns the number of fatalities will
increase to
more than
24
million a year by 2030, if preventive
measures are not taken now.
Task 3
Riddles on Food
What letter
in English is a kind of drink? And what is a kind
of vegetable?
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What fruit can mean a VIP? And what can
mean a humble person?
A small potato
A big banana
What
food is never alone?
A pear (a
pair)
What room
has no walls, no windows and no one to live in?
Mushroom
What
stays hot even if put in a refrigerator?
Pepper
What do we
call a chicken running down the street?
Fast food
What
k
ind of dog doesn’t bite or
bark?
Hot dog
Task 4 Role Play
Eating out is expensive but may help us
enjoy different kinds of food. Work with your
group
members
to
role
play
a
conversation
in
a
restaurant.
Try
to
use
the
useful
expressions given.
Useful expressions:
餐厅点餐篇
I'd like to have some local food.
我想尝尝特色食品
May I
have a menu, please
？
请给我菜单。
May I
order, please
？
我可以点餐了吗？
What is
your specialty
？
餐厅最特别的菜式是什么？
How
do you like your steak
？
你的牛排要如何烹调？
Well
done (medium/rare), please.
全熟<
/p>
(
五分熟
/
全生
)
。
餐厅用餐
Check,
please.
麻烦请结帐。
May I have
some more bread, please.
请再给我一些面包。
Could
you check it again
？
可不可以麻烦再确认一次帐单？
Can I have some fruit instead of the
dessert
？
可不可以不要甜点改要水果？
Could you tell me how to eat
this
？
请告诉我如何食用这道菜？
Restaurant English
Customer:
What do you recommend?
Waiter:
We have a daily
chef’s special of fried chicken.
Customer:
What
side dish comes with the special?
Waiter:
A side salad
and your choice of a baked potato or steamed rice.
Customer:
I will have the special with a salad
and potato.
Waiter:
Anything else?
Customer:
Yes, a glass of iced
water.
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Task 5
Video Clip
Chinese
people
and
Americans
show
obvious
differences
in
their
eating
habits.
In
American restaurant, the dish order
usually goes like this: (1)drink, (2)soup, (3)
salad,
(4)main course, (5)dessert.
Watch the video , in
which Susan, Harry
are eating in a
restaurant, then try to
make out some special food they had mentioned.
Task 6
Proverbs and Sayings
Life is not all beer and skittles.
人生并不全是吃喝玩乐。
Always taking out of the meal-tub and
never putting in, soon comes to the bottom.
坐吃山空。
Don’t put all your eggs in one
basket.
不要把一切希望寄托在一件事情上。
It’s no use crying over split
milk.
不要为打翻的牛奶而哭泣。
III.
Reading
Activities
1.
Reading questions
1
）
Can you give
the reasons why the cow is regarded as food taboo
in India?
1.
Cows help plow the fields.
2.
Cow manure
can be used as fertilizer.
3.
Cow manure
can be dried
and burned to make a cooking fire.
2
）
Are you able to
offer the reasons why dogs are viewed as food
taboo in the
United States?
1.
Dogs serve as
companions for people.
2.
Dogs serve as protection against
thieves.
3
）
Can
you provide the reasons
why
the pork is
seen as food taboo in
ancient
Egypt and Israel?
1.
Pork cooked
insufficiently may spread disease.
2.
People did not
want to stay in one place.
2.
Text structure
1
）
People from
different cultures eat different kinds of food.
( Para. 1)
2
）
The
reasons why people have preference to different
foods.
( Para. 2~6)
A.
Food likes and dislikes do not always
seem related to nutrition.
(Para. 2~3)
B.
In some
cultures, certain foods are taboos.
(Para. 4~6)
(Para. 4)
In India, eating beef is a
taboo.
1) Cows help plow the
fields.
2) Cows’ manure can be used
as fertilizer.
3) Cows’ manure
can be dried and burned to make a cooking
fire.
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(Para. 5)
In
the United States, eating dog is a taboo.
1)
Dogs serve as companions for people.
2) Dogs serve
as protection against thieves.
(Para.
6)
In Ancient Egypt & Israel, eating pork
is a taboo.
1) Pork cooked insufficiently may
spread disease.
2) People did not want to
stay in one place.
3
）
Anthropologists
believe that most food likes and dislikes are a
result of the ways of
life of different
people.
(Para.
7)
3.
Words &
phrases
1. sick
(Line 5, Para. 1) (Line 9, Para.
2)
adj. 1) (predicative only)
(
此义仅用于表语
) be sick: throw up
food from the stomach
恶心，
（想）呕吐
She felt quite sick
at the sight of some bloody scenes of
that horror movie.
她看到那部恐怖片中的几个流血的场景后感到非常恶心。
我妹妹晕车很厉害。
My sister becomes seriously sick in the
car.
He has been
sick several times today.
他今天吐了好几次。
2)
unwell;
ill
不适的；患病的（在英国英语中，表此义多用
ill
和
unwell
两词；
在美国
英语中，
sick
更为常用）
她的新工作是照顾那个病人。
Her new job was taking care
of that sick man.
我们的经理患流感已经半个月了。
Our manager has been sick with
influenza for two weeks.
相关短语：
be sick
of…: be very annoyed about
对
……
感到厌烦
I’m getting si
ck
of the same routine every day.
我对每天一成不变的生活感到厌倦了。
让我感到吃惊的是，她对上网聊天儿已经感到厌烦了。
To my surprise, she has
already been sick of the online
chatting.
2.
regard…as…
(Line 7, Para. 1)
think of…as…
把
……
看成
……
I
am
a
college
student
now.
But
my
mother
always
regards
me
as
a
little
kid
who
counts for nothing
（把我当成算不了什么的小孩子）
很多年轻人把模特看作是非常时尚的职业。
Many youngsters regard
model as a very fashionable profession.
regard…as…
同样意思的词
组还有
:
see…as
.
..
/
list
…as...
/
look
on(upon)…as…
/
view…as…
/
interpret
…as…
/
label…as…
/
take…as… / think of…as… etc.
3. appropriate
(Line 7, Para. 1)
adj.
correct or suitable for a particular time,
situation, or purpose
适当的
,
恰当的
应该在适当的时间公布事情的真相。
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The
truth of the matter should be released at an
appropriate time.
It
is
reported
that
the
Pr
esident’s
speech
to
the
black
voters
was
quite
appropriate
for/to the occasion
（非常符合时宜）
That fund raising show staged various
wonderful programs appropriate to the theme
of the show
（符合演出的主题）
vt. 1) put on one side for a special
purpose
拨（款等）做某种特殊用途
学校准备为那项研究计划拨款。
Our school was prepared to appropriate
money for that research program.
vt. 2)
take and use as one’s own
占用，侵吞；盗用，挪用
你不应该剽窃他的创意。
You should not appropriate his
originality.
任何人都不应该侵害集体利益。
No one should appropriate common
benefit.
4. nutrition
(Line
12, Para. 3)
n. the process of
supplying and receiving nourishment; the science
of food values
营养（作用）
；营养学
今天的人们越来越关注食品的营养与保健功能。
Today’s people pay more and more
attention to the nutrition and health care of
food.
形容词形式：
nutritious adj. nourishing; having high
value as food
营养的；多滋养的
The nutritious foods of that brand
moved off recently.
那个品牌的营养食品十分畅销。
nutritive adj. serving as food; of
nutrition
用作食物的；营养的
Biologists of that
laboratory are researching the nutritive values of
agarics.
那个实验室的生物学家们正在研究木耳的营养价值
。
名词派生词：
nutritionist
营养学家
5.
forbid
(Line 19, Para. 4)
v. order somebody not to do
something
禁止
Cameras are forbidden.
禁止拍照。
Smoking is forbidden in the auditorium
礼堂内禁止吸烟。
他的父亲不让他去游泳。
His father forbade him to go swimming.
禁止某人做某事
< br>用法
1
：
forbid
somebody from doing something
Anybody
is forbidden from taking pictures of those
precious antiques in the exhibition
hall.
任何人都不得对展厅内的珍贵文物拍照。
用法
2
：
forbid
somebody to do something
Chinese national diving team forbids
all the team members to participate in too many
commercial activities.
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中国跳水队不允许队员参加过多的商业活动。
词义辨析：
forbid
与
p
rohibit
prohibit
是正式用语，指制定正式的规章或发布命令，以
法律或者官方行为禁
止，并含有强制执行的意味。该词后很少接不定式，一般
常用
prohibit somebody
from
doing something
的结构。
Anyone is prohibited from
riding bicycles on the sidewalk.
任何人都不得在人行道上骑自行车。
forbid
常指直接或私人下令，或制定规则加以禁止，并
希望他人遵循，比较通
俗。
Students are forbidden the use of the
elevator of the teaching building.
学生不能使用教学楼的电梯。
6.
protection
(Line 42, Para.
5)
n. the act
of protecting from harm or being kept from harm
保护
他的
风衣
(dustcoat)
能够很好地为他挡雨。
His dustcoat provided
him with good protection against rain.
That
newly-upgraded
virus-killing
software
gave
her
computer
strong
protection
against all kinds of computer viruses
那款新升级的杀毒软件可以很好地保护她的电脑不受各种电脑
病毒的攻击。
动词形式：
protect
vt.
keep safe (from danger,
enemies; against attack)
保护
（
常与介词
from
或
against<
/p>
连用）
请将例句
1,
2
改用动词
protect
。
< br>他的风衣
(dustcoat)
能够很好地为他挡雨。<
/p>
His dustcoat
protected him against/from the rain.
那款新升级的杀毒软件可以很好地保护她的电脑不受各种电脑
病毒的攻击。
That newly-upgraded
virus-killing software could protect her computer
from/against
all kinds of computer
viruses.
7. apparently
(Line 45, Para. 5)
adv. obviously, evidently,
seemingly
Apparently, the
email services are still the most important
function of the Internet.
很明显，电子邮件服务仍然是因特网的最主要的功能。
That
woman
was
apparently
relieved
when
she
heard
the
news
that
her
son
had
already
been set free by the kidnappers.
很明显，当听到绑匪已经释放了自己的儿子的消息后，那位妇女感到如释重负。
形容词形式：
apparent
adj.
clearly
seen or understood
明显的；
显而易见的；明白的
It
was
apparent
that
the
US
government
knew
nothing
about
its
Chinese
counterpart’s
efforts on the protection of the Intellectual
Property Right (IPR).
很明显，美国
政府对于中国政府在保护知识产权方面的努力知之甚少。
8.
occur
(Line 47, Para. 6)
vi. 1) take place; happen
发生
那起谋杀案是什么时候发生的？
When did that murder occur?
不要让这种错误再次发生。
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Don’t
let the mistake occur again.
2) (with to) come into
one’s mind
（与
to
连用
）
想起；想到
哈利
.
波特
很快想到了一个新的主意。
Instantly a new
idea occurred to Harry Potter.
我从未想到他竟反对得如此厉害。
That he should have some deep personal
objection had never occurred to me.
9. sufficiently
(Line 50,
Para. 6)
adv.
enough or adequately
足够地
完成下面的句子。
In
my
opinion,
Mr.
Jin
Yong’s
reputation
and
popularity
as
an
excellent
kungfu
novelist is sufficiently qualified for
him to get the Nobel Prize for
Literature.
在我看来
，
金庸先生作为一位优秀武侠小说家的声望和受欢迎度使他有足够的资
< br>格获得诺贝尔文学奖。
形容词形式：
sufficient
adj. adequate; enough
足够的，充分的，充足的
你昨晚睡够了吗？
Have you
had a sufficient sleep last night?
词义辨析：
sufficient
和
enough
enough
通常用于指数量或分量，是针对物
质方面的欲望而言，可放在所修饰的
复数或集体名词前后，但必须放在可数名词的单数之
后。
enough
可作为副词来
修饰形
容词和副词，做后置修饰语。
enough
后面用的结构通常为
enough+(for+
宾语
)+<
/p>
不定式。
enough
也可用作表语或补
语。
sufficient
只能放
在名词之前，语气较
enough
正式，多用于书面语中，且通
常指程
度，是针对物质和精神两方面的需求而言。
请选择
“enough”
或
“sufficient”
的适当形式填空。
1. Tom has enough money to buy a new
Mp3 player.
2.
We need sufficient proof to prove that she is
innocent.
3. He
didn’t study hard
enough
,
so he failed in the final
exam
4. He has acquired sufficient
proficiency to read English literary works.
5. It’s late
enough
for us to stop today’s work.
6. We have people enough to finish the
task on time.
10. raise
(Line 53, Para. 6)
vt.
grow or produce (crops); breed (sheep, etc.);
bring up (a family)
种植或
出产（作物）
；饲养（羊等）
；养（家）
；抚育（子女）
她是在哪儿长大的？
Where
was she raised?
Raising that kind of sheep needs some
professional knowledge.
饲养那种绵羊需要一些专业知识。
我们想将孩子养育成体面的人。
We
want to raise our children to be decent men and
women.
通过例句了解
raise
的其它含义：
1. The car raised a dust as it went by.
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