Unit 2 Healthy eating(Period 3 Learning about language: Grammar)
give students about four minutes to find the suitable words and expressions. then check the answers with the whole class.
suggested answers:
alternative words and expressions words and expressions from the text
should ought to
run away after doing something wrong get away with
something to make you thin by eating it slimming foods
wish to know about something curiosity
get rid of something throw away
alternative words and expressions words and expressions from the text
parts of plants that help food move quickly through the body fibre
changing food into something the body can use digestion
proper amount of different kinds of food needed for good health balanced diet
→step 2 leading-in by revision
translate the following sentences and explain how each of these modal verbs is being used in the situations.
1. he could hardly support his family before he found the new job.
2. where could/can the boy be now?
3. may/might i come in?
4. you may/might catch sight of the sunrise from here when you get up before 5 in the morning.
5. you must hurry up or you’ll be late.
6. whatever you want, you shall have.
7. we should read english aloud every morning.
8. he would sit there for hours, doing nothing at all.
suggested answers:
1. 他在找到那份新工作前几乎无法养家糊口。(ability)
2. 那孩子现在能在哪儿呢？(guessing)
3. 我可以进来吗？(ask for permission)
4. 你在早晨五点钟以前起来, 或许能从这儿看到日出。(possibility)
5. 你必须得快点儿, 不然会迟到的。(necessity)
6. 你想得到什么, 你就可以有什么。(promise)
7. 我们应该每天早晨朗读英文。(duty)
8. 他总是在那儿一坐就是几个小时, 什么都不干。(past habit)
→step 3 grammar learning
1. reading and discovering
ask students to turn back to page 10 to read through the passage come and eat here, let them pick out the sentences using modal verbs and translate them into chinese.
suggested answers:
1)by lunchtime they would all be sold.
到午饭时分, 它们都会卖完。
2)by now his restaurant ought to be full of people.
到了这个时候, 他的餐馆本该宾客盈门的。
3)what could have happened?
发生了什么事呢？
4)nothing could be better.
再没有比这些更好（吃）的了。
5)something terrible must have happened if li chang was not coming to eat in his restaurant as he always did.
要是李昌不像往常那样来他的餐馆吃饭, 那问题就严重了。
6)he could not believe his eyes.
他简直不能相信他的眼睛。
7)perhaps he should go to the library and find out.
也许他应该去图书馆查查清楚。
8)he could not have yong hui getting away with telling people lies!
