三峡Reading.ppt

A Trip Along the Three Gorges While-reading Note making: A Trip Along the Three Gorges Time: __________________________ Passengers: _______________________ _________________________ Means of transport: _______ a holiday for Spring Festival a young American teacher of English and his colleague by boat Language points 1. He and a colleague were to spend two years there teaching English at a teacher training college. be to do something 表示“按照计划或根据安排将要进行的动作”。 1) We were to go to the Great Wall next week. 比较： 2) I was about to leave, when the doorbell rang. 2. … they had four weeks off for the spring festival. have…off 有…假期 take…off 休假… ask for …off 请假… 翻译句子 1. 我下周有三天假。 I’ll have three days off next week. 2. 去年她因生病休息了六个星期。 Last year, she had/took six weeks off for her illness. 3. 杰克因头疼请了一个月的假。 Jack took a month off because of his headache. 3.adj.-v., 表示“使…” 1) The gorge narrows to 350 feet as the river rushes through the two-mile-high mountains. 2) The boss wanted to better the working conditions for his workers. 3) The nurse is calming the child in hospital. 4) The little boy’s mother warned him not to dirty his clothes. (使…变窄) (改善; 使…变好) (使…平静) (使…脏; 把…弄脏) 4. At Wushan we made a detour up the Daning River to see some of the smaller gorges. 1) make a detour 绕路而行, 绕道行走 2) up逆流而上; 表示 “顺流而下”, 则用down 翻译句子: 1) We have to make a detour to walk up the hill. They rode bamboo rafts down the river and finally found the village. 3) Take a boat up the river and you can see more beautiful scenery. 5. be heavy with 装满; 背负 1) The air is heavy with the good smell of the flowers. 空气中溢满花香。 2) 树上缀满了果实。 The trees are heavy with fruits. 6. On a distant mountain was a sign in 20-foot characters. 此句为倒装句, 正常语序为： A sign in 20-foot characters was on a distant mountain. 句型转换： On the top of the mountain stands a white pagoda. A white pagoda stands on the t