Section BPeriod Two

To read, write, and speak about personalities with second conditional sentences

To learn the new words: plenty, circle, listener

ReviewReview

Words and expressions

Read the words and expressions loudly.

bother

annoy

fairly

plenty

circle

listener

v. 使恼怒 ; 打扰v. 使生气 ; 使烦恼adv. 相当地 ; 还算pron. 充足 ; 大量n. ( 有共同的兴趣、职业等的人形成的 ) 圈子 ; 阶层n. 听者 ; 收听者

Words and expressions

plenty of

get along with

not … in the slightest

与……相处一点也不 ; 根本不很多的 ; 足够的

Ask and answer the questions in the personality survey.

How confident are you?

What are you like if you answer c for most questions?

What are you like if you answer a for most questions?

What are you like if you answer b for most questions?

3a Read and fill in the blanks in the results.

aa

bb

Look at activity 2a and write your own personality survey.

Example:

3b

If a friend said something bad about you, would you…

a. talk to the friend right away?b. say nothing?c. think about what he or she said?

If a friend said something bad about you, would you…

If your answer wasa, you are probably an outgoing person;b, are a shy person;c, are a pretty

confident person.

Useful

phrases bother … in …

plenty of…

get along with…

rather …than…

a circle of …

Describe what kind of people you are like.

Write your own personality survey.Write your own personality survey.

1.What would you do if you were arguing with others in a party?

a. accept people as they are. b. make people feel at ease. c. cut others to pieces.

a. have a good word with him / her.b. seldom feel blue and make him / her understand you better.c. often feel blue and decide not to say anything with him / her anymore.

2.What would you do if someone often said something bad about you?

3.If your parents don’t allow you to stay at home on weekends, would you…

a: play computer games at home instead?b: ask your friends to come to your house?c: argue with your parents?

4.If you didn’t finish your homework on time, and your teacher asked you to do it at school after school, would you…

a: run away?b: finish it on time

next time?c: do it right away?

Ask students in your group the questions from your survey. Discuss the results.

A: I asked three students the question from my survey.B: How many people would talk to the friend right away?A: Three. And two people would say nothing. What about your survey?B: I asked …

A: I asked three students the question from my survey.B: How many people would talk to the friend right away?A: Three. And two people would say nothing. What about your survey?B: I asked …

4

You like talking to one or two people rather than to a group. You would also rather stay at home and read a good book than go to a party.【经典习题】根据汉语意思，完成句子。(1) 颜色似乎是绿的而不是蓝色的。 The color seems green _____ ____blue.(2) 我们宁愿睡觉也不看这种电影。 We _____ ______ sleep _____ ______ this kind of movie.

rather than

would rather than watch

【要点点拨】rather than 意为“代替；而不是”，表示在两者中进行选择，用以连接两个并列成分。如： He is a writer rather than a teacher.

(2) would rather do sth. than do sth. 表示“宁愿干……也不愿干……”，相当于 would do sth. rather than do sth. 或prefer to do sth. rather than do sth. 。

如：I would rather walk there than take a taxi.

= I would walk there rather than take a taxi.

= I prefer to walk there rather than take a taxi.

我宁愿步行去那儿也不愿打车。

1. pretty confident fairy confident2. ask one’s permission 3. without permission4. not …in the slightest5. plenty of6. The company of other

people7. get along (well / badly)

with

8. easy to get along with9. wait for sb. to do sth. 10. would rather…than… would… rather than prefer to…rather than11. a small circle of very good friends12. a good listener13. say something bad about you

课时重点回顾

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根据句意和首字母提示写出单词。1. I’m very busy. Don’t b_____ me now, OK?2. We have p______ of time. Don’t worry.3. I’ll study hard. I don’t want to let my p

arents d_____.4. The boy is outgoing and he has a large c

_____ of friends.5. He will live in the mountains to spend th

e r____ of his life.

other

lenty

own

ircle

est

根据汉语意思完成句子，每空一词。1. 我宁愿在家看书也不愿去看电影。 I’d _____ ____ books at home ____ __

to the movies.

2. 我与同学相处得很好。 I ___ _____ ____ ____ my classmates.

3. 汤姆对数学一点也不感兴趣。 Tom is ____ interested in math

__ ____ _______.

rather read than go

get along well with

not

in the slightest

4. 旅游时有他为伴真是愉快。 I enjoyed ___ ________ when I was

traveling.

5. 这个男孩很聪明。他总能提出好点子。 The boy is very clever. He always

_____ ___ _____ good ideas.

his company

comes up with

Peter 是你们班上的一位新同学 , 他来自美国。他的性格内向 , 害怕与老师同学交往 , 晚上无法安睡 , 白天上课时无精打采。他非常苦恼 , 请你给他提一些好的建议。

Homework

To preview the new words and

expressions

To use must, might, could and can’t

for making inferences