1. Unit 21 Karl Marx
Lesson 81 Dialogue

2. Words and expressions:
1. idiom
:a phrase which means something
different from the meaning of separate words
2. woodcutter
: a person who cuts wood
3. come across also come upon
:meet or discover by chance
4. cut up
: cut…into little pieces
5. progress make progress
6. vocabulary :all the words known to a
particular person

3. Do you have any problem in learning English?
Yang Mei
Sara
I find ….

4. Listen to the record:

5. Multiple choice: How are Yang Mei’s English lessons getting on? ( D )
A. Badly. B. Quite good. C. Quite bad. D. Quite well.
2. Which is wrong?
A. Yang Mei knows the differences between “have a cold”
and “catch a cold”.
B. Yang Mei makes her grammar better but she finds it
hard to learn idioms and useful expressions.
C. Not all the little words have their own meanings.
D. There are differences between “cut this tree down”
and “cut this tree up”.
( D )
( C )

6. Read the dialogue and answer the following questions:
If you meet with a new word, you’d better ______.
A. stop reading in order to look up the
word in the dictionary
B. ask your teacher about it
C. try to guess the meaning
d. ask your deskmate about it
( C )
Read the dialogue and answer
the following questions:

7. Questions: --- What are Yang Mei and Sara talking about?
--- How is Yang Mei getting on with her English studies?
--- What’s Yang Mei’s problem in her English studies?
--- Does she know the differences between “have a cold”
and “catch a cold”?
--- What are the differences between “cut this tree down”
and “cut this tree up”?
--- Why are little words like “up” and “down” difficult
to learn?
--- Why does Sara tell Yang Mei the story of the
woodcutter?

8. Unit 21 Karl Marx Lesson 81 Dialogue I.Language points:
1. have a talk with sb.
have a word with sb.
talk with/to sb.
speak to sb.
say something to sb.

9. 2. come across also come upon
:meet or discover by chance
In the forest we came across scores of monkeys.
In the course of the experiments they
came cross a series of problems.
3. cut down:
a: bring down by cutting
to cut down a tree with an axe
b: persuade someone to reduce a price
At first they wanted 100 pounds but we
cut them down to 65 pounds.

10. 4. cut up 5. progress 6. have a problem with… : cut…into little pieces
an uncountable noun
make good/fast/great/much/little progress in…
---I have made much progress in my
English studies this term.
---Jane is still sick in hospital but
she’s making progress.
---The building of the bridge is in progress.
6. have a problem with…

11. Homework I. Read the dialogue and try to learn it by heart.
II. Say something about Yang Mei’s
studies of English.
III. Do Ex.2-3 on page 79.