牛津高中英语牛津高中英语 ( 模块十一 · 高三下学期 )

Grammar and usage 板块：教学设计 —— 课件 Unit 2 Idioms

Unit 2 课件描述： 本课件第 4-5 张帮助学生理解书 上介绍的若干成语。第 6 到 11 张通过 创设语境，猜测词意和背诵帮助学 生掌握更多的常用英语成语。最后 向学生介绍了若干中国成语的翻译 方法培养学生向西方介绍中国文化 的能力。

Idioms 1. What is an idiom? What are idioms’ features? Idioms are fixed expressions with meanings that are not obvious. The meaning of idioms is usually different from the meaning of the individual words. 2. Can you say some idioms that we learnt before?

1. Many students complained the test was too hard, while Tom felt it was _____________. 2. I’ll just have to give the speech ___________________. There’s no time to write it down. 3. Instead of _____________________________, he is ____________________ because he has got fully prepared for each question. 4. The secret to our success is _____________—make a good plan and stick to it. 5. Fishing is really not my ____________. That’s the last thing in the world I would ever do. 6. Although regarded as a nut, Thompson is still _______________ that he was once caught by the ET and taken to their spaceship. Learn parts 1-4 and exercise A, and try to complete the following sentences with proper idioms. having butterflies in his stomach off the top of my head a piece of cake cool as cucumber as plain as day cup of tea holding firm

More idioms

blow one’s top means becoming extremely angry A: “Was your father upset when you came home at 3 AM?” B: “He was more than upset. He blew his top!”

“Can you help me with this problem? I’ve been beating my brains out with it, but I just can’t solve it.” beat one’s brains out means trying very hard to understand or do something.

A: “I don’t believe what Bob said. Why is he bad-mouthing me?” B: “He’s probably jealous of your success.” bad-mouth means saying unkind, unflattering, embarrassing (and probably untrue) things about someone.

A: “Is something wrong?” B: “Not really, but I feel kind of down in the dumps.” down in the dumps means depressed and “blue”.

Can you understand the following sentences? 1. If you go business with someone, make sure that you get something in black and white, that way you will not be cheated. 2. Jack did not achieve good grades in school, but his sister was a real egghead. 3. We are leaving for London tomorrow, rain or shine. 4. Do not let Fred work on his own just yet. He only started working here last week and is still wet behind the ears. In writing A very clever person no matter what difficulties we face lacking experience

Chinese idioms in English 1. 井底之蛙 2. 行尸走肉 3. 半途而废 4. 夸大其词 5. 守株待兔 6. 江郎才尽 7. 水深火热 a frog at the bottom of a well a walking corpse give up halfway overstate the fact wait by a tree for a rabbit to come up master Jiang has used up his talent deep water and hot fire