Unit13,Lesson 4

First Impressions

Objectives

☆ To practise reading for inference.

☆ To practise making opposites of

adjectives using a prefix.

☆ To practise talking and writing

about one’s experience of meeting

someone for the first time.

1. What words can we use to describe

a person’s personality?

2. Have you ever met someone you

didn’t like but became your friend

later?

3. What were your first impressions

on him/her?

Lead-in

Fast reading The main characters in the story are _____ and ______. They met in the _______ for the first time. ______ was preparing for an important _____ while ______ was reading and _______. ____ was angry and left but she left her most important ________ behind. ______ found the book and returned it to ______. They became good _______.

Jane Jennylibrary

examJane

Jenny

singing Jane

friends

textbook

Jenny

Jane

1) Where does the story take place?

2) What kind of books does Jenny like?

3) What exam was Jane studying for?

Read the text carefully and answer

the questions.

In the local library.

Poetry.

An important science exam.

5) What kind of person do you think

Jenny is?

6) How did Jenny get Jane’s phone number?

4) What was the last straw for Jane?

She heard someone singing behind her.

Friendly, warm-hearted, forgiving.

She asked a librarian and got it

from the library files.

7) Do you think that Jane overreacted

in the library? Have you ever

experienced a similar situation when

you were studying?

You can answer this question

according to your own experiences.

1) Jane was pleased when Jenny

started singing.

Example 1 = pleased, singing

2) Tennyson must be a famous poet.

Use the Reading Strategies and

underline the important words in

the sentences below.

FFTT

4) Jane was upset that she had left her

book in the library.

5) Jane didn’t feel that it was necessary

to apologise.

3) Jane first saw Jenny near “English

literature” section. TT

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How did Jane’s feeling change?

• I was getting more and more _________...• I turned around and ________ the

person...• … it made me even _______...• I picked up my books, ________ her

and ________________ …• I was so _____ that I almost cried.

annoyedglared at

angrier

glared at

whispered angrilyupset

• I signed with _____ ...I was so

________.

• I was _____ with shame and

__________ several times for my

rude behaviour.

• I felt so ______.

relief

grateful

filled

apologized

guilty

How can we describe the feeling of being upset / angry?

• full of anxiety• get annoyed• the last straw• glare at • think angrily• steam coming out of one’s ears• whisper angrily• be upset

Language points

1. I was getting more and more

annoyed and of course, the more

displeased I got, the less I was able

to concentrate.

我变得越来越心烦意乱，当然了，我越不高兴，就越难集中注意力。

more and more 越来越… , 如： He became more and more i

nterested in playing tennis.

他越来越喜欢打网球。

E-commerce has become more and mor

e popular as people have discovered the

advantages of online shopping.

电子商务越来普及，因为人们发现了网上购物的好处。

2. I turned around and glared at the

person who was humming.

我扭过头，怒视着那个哼唱的人。

The fighting men were glaring at ea

ch other.

两个打斗的男人愤怒地对视着。 The angry father glared at his son.

愤怒的父亲瞪着儿子。

glare at 恕视。如：

3. The fact that she looked like a

sensitive, friendly girl didn’t wipe the

frown off my face however, if anything,

it made me even angrier.

她看起来是个善解人意的友善的女 孩，但这并没有拂平我紧皱的眉头， 而是令我更加恼火。

Mr. Wang , the father of one of my

co-workers, is 94 years old and is still

healthy.

王先生，我同事的父亲，今年 94 岁了还很健康。

句中 that 所引导的是一个同位语从句。紧跟在名词之后并说明该名词是指何人何物的词语称为同位语。如：

同位语从句与定语从句在结构上很相似，但同位语从句是用来解释先行词，表示其内容的；而定语从句则是用来修饰先行词，说明其性质和特征的。如：

句中 the father of one of my

co-workers 是 Mr. Wang 的同位语。

I made a promise that if anyone set

me free I would make him very rich.

我许下一个诺言：谁能还我自由，我就使他富有。（同位语从句）The mother made a promise that pl

eased all her children.

母亲许了一个使孩子们全都非常高兴的诺言。（定语从句）

if anything 如果有什么不同的话。如：If anything, my new job is harder than

my older one.

如果有什么不同的话，我的新工作比原先的工作更累了。No, it isn’t better; it’s worse if anything.

没有好起来，如果有什么不同的话，那就是更糟糕了。

4. I couldn’t help chuckling at this

and I invited her back to my

apartment for a quick cup of tea.

我止不住轻声发笑，并邀请她到 我的公寓里来喝杯茶。help doing 禁不住要做某事。如：

Look at those lovely dresses. I c

an’t help buying one.

看看这些漂亮的裙子！我真忍不住要买一件。 I could not help laughing.

我禁不住笑了起来。

本句中使用了虚拟语气。虚拟语气表示的事情并非事实，因此需要使用与陈述语气不同的动词形式。在表示现在或未来的虚拟条件句中，谓语如下（斜体部分）：1) 表示现在或未来的虚拟形式。如：

If I were you, I would teach him a go

od lesson.

我若是你，我就要好好教训他一顿。（我不可能是你。）

2) 表示过去的虚拟形式。如：If the weather had been nice yesterday,

we would have gone for the picnic.

如果昨天天气好的话，我们就去野餐了。（事实是昨天天气很坏。）

☆ Complete the paragraph below with the

correct form of the following words.

glance, annoy, recognize, concentrate,

disturb, whisper, glare, selfish

grateful

Post-reading

Janet was 1) ____________ on writing an

essay when a noise 2) _________ her. She

3) _________ her brother’s whistling. “S

hh” she 4) __________, 5) ________ at hi

m quickly. The noise didn’t stop. Janet 6)

_______ at him angrily. “Please stop it, S

imon.

concentrating

disturbed

recognised

whispered glancing

glared

You are being very 7) ______,”

she said. But still he didn’t stop. Janet

was now very 8) _______. Just then her

father called Simon out of the room.

Janet smiled, feeling 10) ________ to

her dad.

selfish

annoyed

grateful

☆Vocabulary: Job-related suffixes

You can often change job-related

words into the name of a job by

adding a suffix.Example: library—librarian

astronomy-astronomer

1. Who will be the ____________

(photograph) at your wedding?

2. The man refused to answer any

questions until his ______ (law) came.

3. As an experienced ___________

(account), my father has gained the

respect of his colleagues.

photographer

lawyer

accountant

4. Professor Taylor is generally

recognised as one of the state’s

most respected ________ (educate).5. Young Chinese _______ (piano)

Lang Lang has won one of Europe’s

most prestigious classical music

awards.6. The only way we could figure out

what they were saying was through

an _________ (interpret).interpreter

educator

pianist

7. It is important that you have the

opportunity to learn about how the

political system works and what it takes

to become a _________ (politics).

8. Sixteen Chinese__________ (geology)

were rewarded and honored in Beijing

for their outstanding performance in

research, field work and education.

politician

geologists

Writing and speaking

☆ Make notes about the first time

you met someone.

Who/when/where you met

Xiaoming (my new neighbour),

last month, in the street

What he/she was doing

Picking up a button that had

come off his shirt

What he/she said or did

asked about my family/showed

me his pet parrot in its cage

What he/she seemed likecheerful, a bit shy