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Pair Work
1. They liked girly toys such as a miniature kitchen, and Barbies. 2. To convert a gas-guzzling SUV into a hybrid electric vehicle.
3. Because she didn’t know anything about cars and was afraid of being
cheated by the mechanic.
4. She was craving independence and wanted to live away from home for some
time.
5. It helped her earn six engineering credits, which of course made it easier for
her to become an engineering major. 6. Five years.
7. In her view, if you find a subject is difficult to learn, it does not mean you’re
not good at it. It just means you have to set your mind and work harder to get good at it.
8. Because he had confidence in her abilities believing she could have done
better if she had studied more.
9. No, she wasn’t always confident. She had moments of panic, worried that as
a woman she would be unable to understand thermodynamics. 10. She considers it wrong because it is based on a faulty premise. 11. It is flexible and more powerful than we imagine.
12. What she means is not to accept others’ opinions blindly but to use one’s own
judgment.
Text Organization Working On Your Own
1.
Part One: The author describes how she stumbled into engineering.
Part Two: The author writes about how she has overcome obstacles, including the bias against women, on her way to success.
Part Three: The author draws the conclusion that women can do anything men can so long as they believe in their own abilities. 2.
1) she was not a tomboy.
not to an engineering department.
she didn’t know the first thing about engineering. because she craved independence from her parents. already earned her six credits in engineering. 2) math and design.
she participated in a national competition to convert an SUV into a hybrid electric vehicle. work harder at it.
that she should study more.
had to work hard at courses she found difficult, which encouraged her to
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keep going.
Language Sense Enhancement
1.
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5)
limit denying favor others relevant
(6) translating
(7) hard and fast conclusions (8) focus
(9) incredibly flexible
(10) consider the possibility
Vocabulary I
1.
1) 2) 3) 4) 2.
1)
2) 3)
cultural/culture indication miniature ironic
5) 6) 7) 8)
stumbled into decent buzzing abnormal
9) mechanical 10) Shuddering 11) implied 12) leap
4) 5) 3.
1) will not panic/feel panic; ’ll be at a disadvantage 2) hybrid; transmissions
3) crave; One indication; to distinguish
convert RMB into US dollars in the foreign exchange office at the airport.
didn’t know the first thing about cooking as she looked puzzled as to how to cook rice with the rice cooker.
their faulty equipment the team had accomplished some very useful work.
allowing me to work flexible hours as long as I work eight hours a day. couldn’t help thinking the book must be quite fascinating.
II. Synonyms in Context
1. also
2. as well/too 3. too
4. also
5. as well/too 6. too
7. also 8. Also
III. Usage
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
I’ve had enough
When I was old enough to work and earn money can’t got enough sleep at night has so far collected enough of them have strong enough arms
have just enough money to live on
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Comprehensive Exercises I. cloze
1.
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) 2.
(1) (2) (3) (4)
stumbled into
not know the first thing about mechanical
when it comes to hybrid
gritted her teeth chair force secrets
painstaking
(5) (6) (7) (8)
(7) premise
(8) at a disadvantage (9) panic (10) cultural (11) flexible (12) imply
(9) women (10) tutor (11) inspired (12) unless
recognized steered essentially observations
II. Translation
1.
1) He is a man of few words, but when it comes to playing computer games,
he is far too clever for his classmates.
2) Children who don’t know any better may think these animals are pretty
cute and start playing with them.
3) There is no way to obtain a loan, so to buy the new equipment, I’ll just
have to grit my teeth and sell my hybrid car.
4) The hunter would not have fired the shots if he had not seen a herd of
elephants coming towards his campsite.
5) I find it ironic that Tom has a selective memory---he does not seem to
remember painful experiences in the past, particularly those of his own doing.
2.
Nancy Hopkins is a biology professor at MIT. She craves knowledge and works hard. However, as a scientist, she could not help noticing all kinds of indications of gender inequality on campus. Men and women professors did the same work, but when it came to promotion the administrators were rather selective. It was ironic that after so much cultural progress, women were still at a disadvantage in institution of higher education. When her request for more lab space was refused, she knew she had to fight. So she gritted her teeth and complained to the President. The fight ended in victory and Nancy was converted into a gender-equity advocate.
Unit7 Learning about English
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Part II Reading Task
Comprehension Content Question Pair Work
1. It has borrowed and is still borrowing massively from other languages.
Today it has an estimated vocabulary of over one million words.
2. They don’t like borrowing foreign words. They try to ban words from
English.
3. Old English or Anglo-Saxon English.
4. The Germanic tribes brought it to the British Isles in the 5th century. 5. They are usually short and direct.
6. They use words derived from Old English.
7. An English judge in India noticed that several words in Sanskrit closely
resembled some words in Greek and Latin. A systematic study later revealed the Indo-European parent language. 8. Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, English, etc.
9. There were three languages competing for use in England.
10. Words from Greek and Roman classics came into the English language.
11. The great principles of freedom and rights of man were born in England,
then the Americans carried them forward.
12. No. English is and has always been the tongue of the common people. There
should not be any fence around it to protect its so-called purity.
Text Organization Working On Your Own
1.
Part One: Massive borrowing from other languages is a major feature of the
English language.
Part Two: the history of the English language from the Indo-European parent
language to modern English.
Part Three: Tolerance, love of freedom, and respect for the rights of
others---these qualities in the English-speaking people explain the richness of their language.
2.
Paras. 10-11: Germanic tribes came to settle in Britain and brought Anglo-Saxon
words---Old English.
Para. 12: The Christian religion enriched English with words from Greek and
Latin.
Para. 13: the Vikings from Scandinavia came with words from Old Norse.
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