Grammar

Oxfam trailwalk- er organi zed timeaimWho Fund -raising event by Oxfam HK In November every year Raise money to help poor people People over 18

A tough hike 100-kilometre two days and walk through 8 country within two nights parks and over hours without sleep hills and mountains It is tough to finish the hike.

team spirit plan everything together walk together to finish support and help each other It is necessary to support and help each other before and during the event.

have support teams bring food and drinks warm and dry clothes (Keep you comfortable) It is useful to have support teams to bring you food and drinks. Each team

It is tough to finish the hike. It is necessary to support and help each other before and during the event. It is useful for you to have support teams to bring you food and drinks. It is necessary for trailwalkers to have warm and dry clothes to keep you comfortable. It’s necessary that you start training before the walk.

do donate give help join keep meaningful the Tree-planting Club It is meaningful to join the Tree- planting Club.

do donate give help join keep important parks clean It is important to keep parks clean.

do donate give help join keep polite seats the elderly It is polite to give seats to the elderly.

do donate give help join keep good blind people cross the road It is good to help blind people cross the road.

do donate give help join keep helpful money to charities It is helpful to donate money to charities.

do donate give help join keep fun voluntary work It is fun to do voluntary work.

This structure is used to express how we think about something. It is +adjective + to do sth.

It is + adj. + for sb. to do

It is necessary for you to train yourself before the walk.

It is useful for you to have support teams to bring you food and drinks.

It is necessary for you to support and help each other both before and during the walk.

Asking about Oxfam Trailwalker important for Benimportant for us impossible for younecessary for people meaningful for me Lucy: What is Oxfam Trailwalker? Lily: Oxfam Trailwalker is a tough charity walk. It’s __________________ to finish it within 48 hours. Lucy: What’s a charity walk? Lily: It is a fund-raising event. It’s ________________to support Ben. His team needs to raise at least HK$6,500.

Lucy: Can I join it too? Lily: No, you can ’ t. You ’ re not 18 years old yet. It is_______________ to join Oxfam Trailwalker. Lucy: What are you going to do for Ben? Lily: I am going to donate my pocket money to support Ben. It ’ s_________________ to help him. Lucy: I want to help Ben too. I can give him my bottle of milk. Lily: What for? Lucy: It ’ s ___________________ to drink milk to keep fit. Lily: Thank you,Lucy, but I think Ben can exercise to keep fit.

It is necessary that you start training before the walk. It is + adj. + that - clause

It is + adjective + that surprising/ bears/ play tennis sad/ so many people/ be poor It is surprising that bears can play tennis. It is sad that so many people are poor.

It is + adjective + that funny/ dogs/ be dressed up as hotdogs strange/ a policeman/ be riding a pig It is funny that dogs are dressed up as hotdogs. It is strange that a policeman is riding a pig.

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for sb. to do sth. that-clause It is + adj.+ to do sth. We can use the structures to express our feelings and opinions.

It is + adjective + to-infinitive. 1. It is meaningful to help people in need. It is + adjective + for … + to –infintive. 2. It is meaningful for us to help people in need. It is + adjective + that clause. 3. It is meaningful that we can help people in need.

It is + adj. + for sb. to do sth. It is + adj. + of sb.+ to do sth.

It’s very silly of you to make such a mistake. It’s kind of Jim to bring the homeless cat home. It’s impossible for you to finish the work today. It’s not easy for you to be a top student in such a short time. It is + adj + of sb. + to do sth. --- 形容人本身的特点, 介词用 of. It is + adj + for sb. + to do sth. --- 形容 to do sth 这个动作的特点, 介词用 for.

Task 1 Say something you usually do and practise with your partner like this: A:What do you usually do after school? B:I usually do my homework,but sometimes I watching TV instead. A:Oh,it is important to do homework after school. (It is interesting for me to watch TV) (necessary meaningful meaningless tough sad boring great wonderful important unimportant possible impossible…)

Task 2 Please look at the pictures and talk about it with your partner. Make sure you use the three patterns.

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Homework: 1.Recite Lucy and Lily ’ s conversation;(p101) 2. Do exercises in the Assessment Book.

Language points: 1.feel about sth. 2.train yourself before the walk 3.have your own support team 4.look down on/upon blind people means: consider yourself better than others 5.there are other ways to help people = there are other ways of helping people 6.join the Tree-planting Club

7.keep parks clean (keep you comfortable) 8.give seats to the elderly 9.do voluntary work 10.(not) need to do 11.Lily’s younger/elder sister 12.What … for? = Why? 13.drink milk to keep fit (fitness n.) 14.exercise to keep fit