Compound words

air conditioner blood pressure fast food remote control washing machine driving license grey-haired overeat empty-handed Read the following words and guess their meaning. 空调 血压 快餐 遥控 洗衣机 驾驶执照 头发灰白的 吃得太多 一无所获的

Read the following dialogue. A: Did you know that Liu Xiang was the first Asian to win the gold medal for the men’s 110-metre hurdles in the Olympic Games? B: Yes! Everyone knows that he is a very hard-working athlete. He is a well- trained runner.

Questions : 1. Do you know the meanings of the italicized words? 2. Do you know how the words are made?

110-metre(n. / adj.)--- hard-working (adj.)--- well-trained (adj.) (num.) meter (n.) hard (adv.) working (v-ing) well (adv.) trained (v-ed)

A compound word is created when two or more than two words are joined together to form a new word.

Think about other words that are created in this way.

To form compound adjectives Formation Compound (adj.) adj. +n.+-ed adj. +v-ing adv. +v-ing n. +adj. n. +v-ed adj. + v-ed adv. + v-ed warm-hearted, cold-blooded easy-going, ordinary-looking hard-working, long-lasting tax-free, world-famous air-conditioned, man-made soft-boiled, clear-cut well-educated, well-paid, well-done

To form compound nouns Formation Compound (n.) n. + n. n. +v-ing handbag, bookmark, website, motherland sightseeing, window-shopping, housekeeping, day-dreaming

Match the words in column A with the ones in column B to form new words. A 1. black 2. broad 3. every 4. bed 5. blue 6. suit B a. room b. eyed c. cast d. case e. where f. board

A 7. radio 8. bus 9. reading 10.passer 11.play 12.over 13.news B g. ground h. throw i.driver j. by k. paper l. active m. room

Question: When you come across unfamiliar words, do you often use the knowledge of word formation to guess the meaning of the new words? If so, can you think of some examples?

Put the following into English. 1. 项链 2. 雨衣 3. 男朋友 4. 聚会 5. 书店 6. 地震 7. 消防队员 necklace raincoat boyfriend get-together bookstore earthquake firefighter

8. 气象员 9. 金鱼 10. 说英语的 11. 握手 12. 电影制片人 13. 水面下的 14. 伐木工 weatherman goldfish English-speaking handshake film-maker underwater woodcutter

Olympic sports and Events

Loot at the four sports in the textbook. Do you know what they are?

In the long jump, competitors try to jump as far forward as possible. Long jump

The discus involves throwing a flat, round object. discus

golf Hit balls into a series of holes on a course using the fewest number of strokes ( 击打 ) There are 9 or 18 holes in a game of golf.

In archery you need to know how to use a bow and an arrow. archery

Do you know some common Olympic Games? Let’s have a try. Shooting ________ Fencing ________ Gymnastics ________ Weightlifting ________ 射击 剑术 体操 举重

Wrestling ________ Boxing ________ Judo ________ Tae kwon do ________ Canoeing _________ 皮划艇 摔跤 拳击 柔道 跆拳道

shot put 击剑 discus throw 摔跤 javelin throw 悬挂式滑翔 canoeing 举重 ice hockey 冰球 weightlifting 划独木舟 wrestling 掷铁饼 fencing 推铅球 hang-gliding 掷标枪 Match the words correctly.

rings 鞍马 high bar 跳马 side horse 自由体操 vaulting horse 双杆 double bar 吊环 free exercises 单杠

Work in group of four. Discuss the sports listed in Exercise B and put them into the correct category.

The 2016 Olympic Games will hold 28 sports and 38 disciplines in total; golf and sevens rugby ( 七人制橄榄 球 ) were voted into the final two spots of competition, and kitesurfing ( 风筝冲浪 ) replaces windsurfing in the program.

kitesurfing

rugby

While kitesurfing, a relatively new sport overall, will be making its Olympic debut ( 首次露面 ), golf and rugby will be making their Olympic return. Fifteen- man rugby had previously been an Olympic sport, debuting in Paris in 1900, but made its final appearance in the 1924 Games (in Paris, coincidentally). Golf will be making its first appearance in the Olympic programme in 112 years.