9A Unit 2 Colour Reading

★ How do you know about colors? ★ What’s the usage of colors? Make things more beautiful and attractive. ★ Do you know the relationship between colors and moods?

1. When you wear red clothes, what’s your feeling? 2. When you see people in black, what’s your feeling? Discussion

3. Imagine you are in a house painted blue, what do you feel?

Listen to the tape and answer the following question: How do colors affect us? Colors can change our moods and make us feel happy or sad, energetic or sleepy.

1. Blue is a calm and peaceful colour. 2. You should wear green clothes if you are feeling stressed. 3. Blue can represent sadness and purity. T F F Read the text again and do T&F questions:

4. Orange is one of the warm colours. It represents joy. 5. If you are somebody who needs physical strength, you should wear red clothes. 6. It’s good to use yellow stationery when you study for exams. T T T

Match the following feelings with the colours Warm and sunny Joy Relaxed and peaceful Energetic Powerful and strong Purity  Orange  Red  Yellow  Green  White  blue  Orange  Red  Yellow  Green  White  blue

Language points 1.Did you know that colours can affect our moods? 1) affect 作为及物动词，意为 “ 影响 ” 、 “ 感动 ” 等。 The climate affected the amount of rainfall. Dark light can affect our eyes.

2) effect 用作名词, 意为 “ 结果 ” 、 “ 影 响 ” 。 常见搭配为 : have effect on sb the effect of sth This kind of medicine has little effect on the old lady. I am suffering from the effect of too little sleep.

2. Colours can change our moods and make us feel happy or sad, energetic or sleepy. 1) sleepy 用作形容词, 意为 “ 欲睡的 ” 、 “ 困 乏的 ”, 在句子中可以作表语或定语。 I am too sleepy to watch the film. ( 表语 ) He always has a sleepy expression. ( 定语 )

2) asleep 是形容词, 意为 “ 入睡的 ” 、 “ 睡 着的 ”, 表示一种状态, 在句中作表语, 不可以放在被修饰名词前作定语。 I was very tired and soon fell asleep. ( 表语 ) 你会填吗？ Jim was so _______. He fell ______ when he was on bed. (sleep) asleepsleepy

3. It could be because the walls were painted blue, a calm and peaceful colour. 1) calm 作为形容词, 意为 “ 镇静的 ” 、 “ 沉 着的 ” 、 “( 天气 ) 无风的 ” 、 “( 海洋等 ) 风 平浪静 “ 。 It was important to keep calm when you were in trouble. It was a calm, cloudless day.

2) calm 作为动词，意为 “ 使平静 ” 、 “ 镇 静 ”, 常见搭配为 : calm down Try to calm down when you meet an emergency. The sea calmed down.

4. Wearing blue clothes or sleeping in a blue room is good for mind and body because this coulor creates the feeling of harmony. 1) be good for “ 对 …… 有好处 ” Doing morning exercise is good for our health. 反义词组为 : be bad for “ 对 …… 有害 ” Eating too much is bad for our health.

2) create 用作动词, 意为 “ 创造 ” 、 “ 造成 ” 、 “ 创作 ” Man creates himself. The news created some difficulties for me. Zhou Jielun has created another new song.

3) 注意 invent 与 create 的区别 invent 用作动词, 意为 “ 发明 ”, 指得是创 造出前所未有的东西, 尤其是指科学技 术上的发明创造。 Edison invented the light bulb. Bell invented the telephone. 4) harmony 用作名词, 意为 “ 和谐 ” 、 “ 协 调 ” 。常见搭配为： live in harmony “ 和睦相处 ”

5. Some colours can make you feel warm. make 后面可以接 “ 宾语＋补足语 ” 的结 构, 该补足语可以由名词、形容词、动 词不定式 ( 不带 to) 或过去分词充当。 We made him the chairperson of our school. ( 名词 ) My father made the room beautiful. ( 形容词 )

What he said made us laugh happily. ( 动词不定式 ) 特别提示 : 如果 make 用作被动语态, 动词不定式 to 不可以省去。 Mr Li was made to sing an English song at the farewell.

6. These colours give you a happy and contented felling. 1) contented 用作形容词, 意为 “ 满足的 ” 、 “ 高兴的 ”, 相当于 satisfied, 在句中作表 语或定语。 She always seems very pleased and contented. ( 表语 ) He looks at me with a contented smile. ( 定语 )

(2) content 用作形容词, 意为 “ 满意的 ” 、 “ 心满意足的 ”, 在句中只能作表语，不 作定语。 I was content to stay at home looking after my little brother.

特别提示： be satisfied with… 意为 “ 对 …… 感 到满意 ” be pleased with … 意为 “ 对 …… 感 到满意 ”

7. Orange can bring you success and cheer you up when you are feeling sad. 1) cheer (up) 用作及物动词时，意为 “ 使 振奋 ” 、 “ 使高兴 ” ， up 可以省去。 The good news cheered (up) everybody who heard it.

(2) cheer up 用作不及物动词时, 意为 “ 感到振奋 ” 、 “ 感到高兴 ”. Bob cheered up when his father promised to buy a computer for him as the birthday present.

8. Yellow is the colour of the sun, so it can remind you of a warm, sunny day. remind 用作及物动词, 意为 “ 使 …… 想 起 ” 。 常见搭配为 (1) remind sb. of sth. (2) remind +that 从句.

The photo on the wall reminded me of the wonderful trip in Nanjing. You reminded me of my mother. The letter reminded me that I must write an to him.

9. For example, they may use yellow stationery. 1) for example 意为 “ 例如 ” 。一般只举同 类人或物中的一个为例。可以放在句 首、句中或句末。 For example, Nanjing is a city with a long history.

Tom, for example, is my brother's classmate. I know many famous people in the USA---Lincoln, for example.

2) such as 也有 “ 例如 ” 之意, 用来列举同 类人或物。但所列举的同类人或物中 的几个 ( 不是全部 ), 常放在被列举的事 物之前, 并且后面不加逗号。 I know lots of colours, such as yellow, black, purple and indigo.

10. It is the colour of nature, but it is also the colour of money and envy. envy 用作名词, 意思是 “ 嫉妒 ” 、 “ 羡慕 ” 。 the envy 意思为 “ 令人羡慕的人或东西 ”, 后面常跟 of 连用。 Our swimming pool is the envy of our neighbours. Ann is the envy of the girls in her class.

11. Wearing red makes it easier for you to take action. take action 意为 “ 采取行动 ” If we don’t take action to protect wild animals, we will have no animals in the future. If you take action to change your lifestyle, your health will be better and better.

12. This can help you when you are having difficulty making a decision. (1) have difficulty (in) doing sth 意为 “ 在 做某事方面有困难 “ 。短语中的 difficulty 通常用作不可数名词 ; 短语 中的 in 可以省去不写。 Do you have any difficulty (in) doing your homework?

(2) make a decision 意为 “ 做出决定 ” 、 “ 下决心 ” After the discussion, we made a decision to go to Xuan Wu Lake.

colours feeling calm warm energetic strong blue white orange yellow green red relaxed and peaceful happy and contented, warm and comfortable energetic powerful colour

calm blue white represent warm orange yellow energeticgreen strong red sadnessharmony purity joysuccess sunwisdom new life and growth nature, money, envy power heat strong feelings

What colour do you need if you have the following feeling? 1. If you are tired, you need ____ to help you relax yourself. 2. If you are stressed, you may like to wear ___ clothes. 3. If you want to get a higher mark, you can use ______ stationery to help you. blue red yellow

4. If you often feel tired or weak, you should wear _____ clothes. 5. If you feel stressed, wearing _____ clothes can help you. 6. When you feel sad, you may say “ I’m feeling ____. ”At this time, you can use ______ to cheer you up. green white blue orange

Read each paragraph and complete the following charts. Calm colours It’s a ______ and ______ colour. It creates the feeling of ___, so wearing blue clothes or _______ is good for the mind and body. It also represents _______. It’s the colour of _____. It can help you when you are feeling ______.

Warm colours (They can give you a ______ feeling. ) It represents _____. It can bring you ___. It can ______ when you are feeling sad. It’s the colour of ____and ____. Some people like to use it when they ___.

Energetic colours It represents _____, so it can give you _____ when you feel tired or weak. It’s the colour of ____, but it’s also the colour of money and _____.

Strong colours It represents _______ and it’s also the colour of _________. When you need ____, red can help you. Wearing red can make it easier for you to ________.

Interview some of your friends and complete the following table. A BC D What colour do you like best? What do you think it represents?

ABCD How do you feel when you are wearing something in this colour? What colour do you dislike? Why don’t you like it?

black tea red letter day blue Monday blue films white elephant green hand brown paper 红茶 纪念日 倒霉的星期一 黄色电影 徒劳的 新手 牛皮纸 Do you know these idioms about colors:

例如 宁愿 … … 而不 … … 做出决定 影响情绪 感到放松 和谐感受 带给你成功 释放能量 for example prefer…to… make a decision affect moods feel relaxed the feeling of harmony bring you success give energy Phrases

Exercises 1. Blue can make us feel and p_______. 2. Orange can make us feel w_____. 3. Green can make us feel e_______, because it represents life. arm eaceful negetic

4. I like to use yellow stationary when I study for exam, because it’s the colour of w______. 5. Bob is too weak, he needs too much p______ training. isdom hysical

1. --Bob, what about going out for a picnic? -- Sorry, I’d rather ____ than go out. A. to stay at home B. stayed at home C. stay at home D. to staying at home There’s ____ wrong with my watch. It can work well. A. anything B. nothing C. something D. everything

3. Listen to me carefully. Don’t ____ the window. A. look out B. take out C. look out of Why don’t read today’s newspaper? --- Because there’s ____ in it. A. nothing interesting B. anything interesting C. interesting something D. interesting anything

5. I ____ living in the country to the city. A. liked B. enjoyed C. loved D. would rather 6. “I am feeling blue.” means I am ____. A. sad B. relaxed C. happy D. unhappiness

7. Do you have any difficulties ___ the work in two days? A. to finish B. finishes C. finished D. finishing 8. When I saw the photo, it ____ me of the wonderful trip in Nanjing. A. called B. asked C. recommend D. remind

9. Joe looked ____ when he saw in the sofa watching TV. A. happily B. relaxed C. exciting D. sadly

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