unit8 listening and vocabulary.pptVIP

Vocabulary  Listening Vocabulary 1. acquire: to get for oneself by one’s own work, skill, action, etc. He has acquired an extraordinary command of the English language. Paul acquired hundreds of books. 2. make sense of 搞清……的意思 Can you make sense of what he says? 3. in other words I soon find the work I was doing had already been done by someone else --- in other words, I was wasting my time. 4. instruct: give knowledge or information to His teacher instructed him in how to do it. 5. secure: sure to be won or not to be lost His election is secure. 6. take risks/take a risk You have to take a lot of risks in my job. 7. experiment with In order to discover the crops most suited to the soil, they are experiment-ing with various kinds of grain. 8. adopt: to take and use as one’s own I adopted their methods of making the machine. Review motivation n. correction n. effective adj. instruct vt. patience n. association n. acquire vt. awful adj. broaden vt. widen vt. deepen vt. sharpen vt. awaken vt. enliven vt. Word study 1. extremely bad or unpleasant; terrible 2. someone whose job is to change one written language into another 3. to gain knowledge or learn a skill 4. the ability to go on doing something for a long time without getting angry or annoyed 5. feeling worried and uneasy 6. not feeling worried or troubled 7. information or facts with numbers for making decisions Suggested answers to Ex.2 on P69 1. acquisition 2. academic 3. translator 4. adopted 5. instruct 6. experienced with 7. data 8. adapt 9. take risks 10. awful 11. make sense 12. acquire 词语辨析 1. awful, terrible, dreadful, horrible, horrid awful具