新概念英语III46课件

Lesson 46 Do it yourself

Comprehension questions

1. Are we becoming less dependent on specialized labour?

2. Why can no one plead ignorance of a subject any longer?

3. What do many newlyweds embark on?

4. What do some really keen enthusiasts do?

5. Do shops run special advisory services for novices?

6. What else do they offer consumers?

7. What do some wives assume that their husbands can do?

8. What are most men supposed to be? Born …?

9. Why did the author's wife suggest that he ‘call in a man’?

10. Had the author repaired it the previous summer?

11. Did the author decide to fix it himself?

12. As far as he could see, did it need a major or a minor adjustment?

13. Why did he decide to dismantle the lawn mower?

14. What was the cause of the trouble?

15. What did he do after he bought a new chain?

16. What did the machine do after he had reassembled it?

17. Is the house now surrounded by a beautiful lawn?

18. And where is the lawn mower?

2_________to take apart a machine or structure so that it is in separate pieces 3_________to fix equipment or furniture into position so that it can be used

4_________to try to make someone do something by continuously complaining 5_________a false belief or opinion about yourself or your situation

6_________(often humorous) as you expect

7_________having a strong and active interest in something

8_________enthusiastic about an activity or idea, etc.

9_________someone with no experience in a skill or job, a beginner

10_________without limits

11_________clever at finding ways of doing things

12_________to stop working because a fuse(保险丝)has melted

13_________a person whose job is to fit and repair water pipes

14_________weak and likely to break

15_________to block something or to become blocked

16_________to look for and find something

17_________to break suddenly with a sharp cracking noise

18_________too large or difficult to deal with

19_________to become covered with rust (绣)

20_________a thick solid that has been cut or broken off something

21_________to give sth as an excuse or explanation

Match the phrases in the left column with those in the right column

1. less dependent on A. to find time to do something

2. plead ignorance of sth B. to start to do something new or difficult

3. embark on C. to say that you don't know anything about

4. lay out D. to provide the things that a particular person needs

5. cater for E. small objects or items of various kinds

6. pent up F. (of feeling, energy, etc.) that cannot be expressed or released

6. bits and pieces F. more independent of

7. get round to G. to arrange things in a planned way

Finish the following sentences with the phrases given

be faced with get round to embark on in despair

be littered with armed with plead ignorance lay out

pent up made up cater for bits and pieces

1. No one can __________________of a subject any longer,…

2. _____________the right tools and materials, newlyweds gaily _______________the task of

decorating their own homes.

3. Men, particularly, spend hours of their leisure time installing their own fireplaces, ____________their own gardens;…

4. Shops _____________the do-it-yourself craze not only by running special advisory services

for novices, but by offering consumers ___________________which they can assemble at home.

5. Such things provide an excellent outlet for ______________creative energy,…

6. …though I promised to repair it, I had never ______________ it.

7. The garden ______soon ___________ chunks of metal which had once ________________

a lawn mower.

8. After buying a new chain I __________________the insurmountable task of putting the

confusing jigsaw puzzle together again.

9. I gave up _____________.

Finish the following sentences with the help of the clues

1. Some really keen ___________(乐衷于…的人) go so far as to build their own computers.

2. Some wives t_________ to believe that their husbands are infinitely resourceful and can fix

anything.

3. When lights f________, furniture gets _________(要散架的), pipes get ________(堵塞), or

vacuum cleaners fail to operate, some women assume that their husbands will somehow put things right.

4. The worst thing about the do-it-yourself game is that sometimes even men live under the

d___________ that they can do anything,…

5. The mower firmly refused to mow, so I decided to _________(拆卸) it.

Analyze the following sentences