Cool words.ppt

Cool words Hit the books A: Oh, my god ! It’s only one week before the final exam.B: Yes, you must hit the books right now. No sweat A: How is your English test?B: It is no sweat. I pass it. On thin ice A: I got up late. So Im late for school. B: Dont be late again. Youre really on thin ice. Around the clock A: When does the supermarket close? B: Dont worry. It is open around the clock. big shot A: Who is the guy with the blue T-shirt?B: Its James, a big shot. He is the table tennis champion at our school. Butterfingers A: Look, Sam drops (丢掉) his keys again.B: Yes, he is a butterfingers. He drops things all the time. The Missing Piece -Shel Silverstein One time it seemed to have found  the perfect piecebut it didnt hold tightly enough and lost it. Another time it held too tightly and it broke. So on and on it rolled,having adventuresfalling into holes and bumping into stone walls. * 用功读书 No sweat字面意思是不出汗，没有汗， 引申为一点儿也不困难，不麻烦， 不费吹灰之力。 sweat另一个常用短语是Don’t sweat it， 意思是别担心，不要着急， 和Don’t worry用法相同。 on thin ice用来形容一个人处于不利 或危险的状况。 Around the clock 意思是日夜不停，夜以继日地。 我们为完成作业夜以继日地学习。 We study around the clock to finish our homework. Big shot是大人物,大腕的意思， 指在某一方面很突出的人， 它和small potato(小人物) 相对。 Butter 是黄油的意思，在手上抹上黄油， 手变得油腻腻的就不容易抓住东西。 所以butterfingers 就是指那些手脚笨拙， 经常会把东西掉在地上的人。 It was missing a piece. And it was not happy. So it set off in search of its missing piece. And as it rolled it sang this song --Oh, Im looking for my missing piece Im looking for my missing piece Hi-dee-ho, here I go, Looking for my missing piece. Sometimes it baked in the sun but then the cool rain would come down. And sometimes it was frozen by the snow but then the sun would come and warm it again.And because it was missing a piece it could not roll very fast so it would stop to talk to a worm or smell a flowerand sometimes it would pass a beetleand sometimes the beetle would pass itand this was the best time of all.And on it went over oceansOh Im looking