Unit 5 MUBAN.pptVIP

Table of Contents I. Comprehension Questions II. Background Knowledge III. Language Points 2) (of speech and feeling) suitably and pleasantly expressed 雅的，得体的 He made a graceful speech accepting the award. She finally apologized, but she was not very graceful about it. 她最后道了歉,但却不够有风度。 There is a chart on the wall showing the heights of the children. The chart showed a decline in the company’s sales during the year. 图表显示公司本年度的销售量下降了。 Chart of Population Growth “ Sorry for the delay, but there’s car preceding our bus.” called the driver through his intercom. 2) be earlier than 在…之前 Thousands of people traveled to America to escape hardship in the years that immediately preceded (before)the Second World War. cf. proceed: to begin and continue Tell us your name and then proceed with your story. The area was constantly hit by flood these years. The smell of rice burnt hit me when I opened the door. 我一开门就闻到一股饭烧焦的味道。 hit a man when he’s down （俗）落井下石 Dental decay in children in Britain has almost reached epidemic levels. What made the Roman Empire decay? The house is in decay (fall into decay). creeping (slow down) political decay…  They’d dug a shallow pit and left the rubbish in it.  I’m trying to avoid all these pits in the road.  The ground floor of the museum is taken up by the skeleton of a gigantic whale / dinosaur (恐龙).  A long illness made a skeleton out of him.  2) the outline to which details are to be added 梗概, 提要 I’ve written the skeleton of my report, but I have to fill in the details. a skeleton hand --- as thin as a skeleton, a skeleton crew/ staff * * B.3New Horizon Graceful Hands Unit 5 1. What does the author mean by graceful hands as the topic?2. What type of dying are most people expecting? Comprehension Questions II. Background Knowledge Euthanasia, often called “mercy killing or painless killing” in most of the countries is illegal, except in Holland.Argument will contin