Unit 8 High days and holidays

• I. Lead-in• Background information• II. Language Points • Sentence Study• Word Study • III. Guided Writing • IV. Presentation and Exercises

Lead-inBackground Information

blinis• made with yeast, flour and milk.

• formed into pancake shapes and then baked in an oven or fried in a pan.

corn bliniswith smoked salmon

caviar

• fish eggs eaten as food, usually spread on bread.

• In many countries caviar is considered to be a special and expensive food, eaten mainly by rich people.

Red Caviar Salad Red Caviar Salad

International Women’s Day

The 1932 Soviet poster. The text reads: “8th of March is the day of the rebellion of the working women against the kitchen slavery” and “Down with the oppression & narrow-mindedness of the household work!”

Language Points Sentences Study Difficult sentence 1• Their husbands, with much cursing and clat

tering of pans, cook breakfast for the family; by ten o’clock they proudly serve their wives a charred and shrivelled egg.

Trans 她们的丈夫则要为家人做早饭，他们嘴里骂骂咧的，弄的锅碗瓢盆叮当乱响。十点的时候他们非常自豪的把煎得焦糊糊皱巴巴的鸡蛋端到妻子跟前。

Sentence 2•Beside the woman’s plate will be a bunch of flowers and a little gift, a bottle of scent perhaps, or a pair of tights, which she will exclaim over until the children, scarlet with fury, insist that their mother makes them their proper breakfast.

Trans 盘子边上会有一束鲜花，一份小礼物，可能是一瓶香水或是一双裤袜。妻子会高兴得大呼小叫，而这时孩子们已经气得满脸通红，跑过来要妈妈给他们做一顿像样的早餐。

Word Study lounge v. & n.

v. to lie, sit, or lean in a relaxed or lazy way

Work in pairs and translate the collocations.

to lounge on sofato lounge against the wallDon’t lounge around all day!

懒懒地斜卧沙发上懒洋洋地靠在墙上不要整天闲荡！

v. to lounge around/about: to spend time relaxing or doing nothing when you should be doing sth

Banana Mary says: Lounge around.

lounge v. & n.n. a comfortable room in a house where people sit and relax n. a room or area in a place such as an airport where people can sit and wait

Work in pairs and translate the collocations.

雅座酒吧 休息躺椅

lounge chair

沙发音乐

fury n. a feeling of very strong anger that usually does not last

very long

• Examples:

• with fury: She was speechless with fury.

• fury at: Workers expressed their fury at the tax increases.

• fly into a fury (=suddenly become very angry): Rob flew into a fury and left the room.

fury n.Work in pairs and answer the following questions.

The Sound and the Fury ( 喧哗与骚动 ).

1 What is the famous novel by William

Faulkner, the American writer?

2 What does fury mean in the phrase do sth like fury?to do sth with a lot of energy and determination

sneak v.sneak, sneaked, snuckWork in pairs and match the sentences with the meanings.

1. to move somewhere quietly and secretly so that no one can see you or hear you

2. to take someone or sth secretly or illegally3. infml to tell someone about sth wrong that

someone else has done

a. The other kids sneaked on him.b. Let’s sneak some pizza into the cinema. c. While his parents were busy, Joe sneaked off to

play.

1c 2b 3a

sneak v.More examples:• She sneaked into the house by the back

entrance.• While his parents were busy, Joe sneaked off to

play.• I sneaked the book out of my father’s study.• sneak someone something: She managed to

sneak him another piece of cake.• sneak someone/something into something:

Let’s sneak some pizza into the cinema.

dump v.

• 1 infml place sth carelessly

• 2 get rid of sb or sth that you no longer want or need

• 3 end relationship• 4 sell goods at a very

low price in a foreign country in order to keep prices higher in your own country

a. Dump an old friend.

b.Nolan was angry at being dumped from the team.

c. Dumping and anti-dumping

d.Where can I dump the rubbish since there is No Dumping sign here?

Work in pairs. Match the sentences with the meanings.

dump v.

• More examples:

• Over 150,000 tons of waste are dumped annually along the coastline.

• She dumped her bags on the floor and flopped onto the bed.

• Brady’s really upset – his girlfriend’s just dumped him.

vacuum n.& v.

• n. 1 a piece of eletrical equipment that cleans floors by sucking up dirt

• 2 a feeling that sth is missing, or a situation in which sth is missing

• v. to clean a room using a vacuum cleaner

Work in pairs and match the pictures with the meanings.

vacuum n.& v.Work in pairs and find more collocations.• n. 3 an enclosed

space that has had all the air and any other gases removed from it

diode vacuum

tube

二极管

vacuum pumpvacuum

cup vacuum flask

vacuum n.

More examples:

create a vacuum:

• The collapse of the dictatorship created a vacuum in which criminal gangs flourished.

fill a vacuum (=replace something):

• They need something to fill the vacuum left by the end of Marxism.

advisable a.

Work in pairs. Look at the picture and work out the answer.

If sth is advisable, it is good idea to do it, especially in order to avoid problems

Q: What is the most advisable act from the fashion catalogue?

A: Burberry Handbag.

Q: What is it advisable to wear when out in the sun?

A: It is advisable to wear sun-screen.

beloved a.(mainly literary) loving very much(old-fashioned)someone who is loved very much by someone else

Work in pairs and translate the following into Chinese.well-beloved 很受人爱的； 深受爱戴的人

immortal beloved 永远的爱人

Beloved (1987) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison.

《宠儿》（ 1987 ）是诺贝尔桂冠得主托妮 · 莫里森获普利策奖的小说。

gossip v. & n.• v. to talk about other people or about things that

are not important• n. conversation about unimportant subjects,

especially people’s private lives

• Work in pairs and translate the following into Chinese.

• gossip cloumn• gossipmonger• a morsel of gossip• I hate gossip.

漫谈专栏

一点儿谣言

饶舌之人

我不喜欢说三道四。 绯闻少女

bump into

Work in pairs and complete the sentences related to the pictures.

We are lucky enough to bump into our Mr/_____ Right under the ___________ in the Zhongshan Park.

It’s impossible to _______ through modern Rome and not to bump ________ the Colosseum.

to meet someone unexpectedly; to accidentally hit against sth

Mrs

The Roman Colosseum

stroll

rainbow

into

bump into

More examples:

• I bumped into your mother at the supermarket.

• I bumped into an old friend in town today.

• I bumped my head into a low stone.

• As I turned round, I bumped into a filing cabinet.

fill up with

雪夜林畔驻马 罗伯特 · 弗罗斯特

我想我知道这是谁的树林，他的家虽在那边乡村；

他看不到我驻足在此地，伫望他的树林白雪无垠。

Recite the poem by Robert Frost.Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

By Robert FrostWhose woods these are I think I know. 

His house is in the village though;He will not see me stopping here

To watch his woods fill up with snow.

to become full of sth

stick around• infml to remain in a place for than you

originally intended, especially in order to wait for sth to happen

• Work in pairs and translate the following into Chinese.

• Stick around, we may need you. • • Let’s stick around until their performance is o

ver. • • Please do stick around for a cool summer

here.

不要走远，我们可能需要你。

先不要走直到他们的表演结束。

请一定留下来在这过一个凉爽的夏天。

Guided Writing

• The purpose of both narrative and description is to create a picture of a person, a place, or an event.

• First of all, it’s useful to describe the origins of a festival, custom or tradition using a more factual style.

• It’s also important to set a mood or create an atmosphere as well as give information.

• One way to do this is to choose effective vocabulary.

• We can also bring the situation to life with detailed descriptive language including sights, smells and sounds.

• We often use the future simple will or the present tense to describe customs.

Presentation and Exercises