高中英语Unit 4 Reading Biblical idioms in English牛津版选修

模块九Unit 4 Reading Biblical idioms in English
课题：模块九Unit 4 Reading Biblical idioms in English
教学目的：Help students gain some knowledge about some English idioms, understand their original meanings and practical usage.
Help students practice and reinforce their reading comprehension.
教学重难点：Gaining some knowledge of English idioms, especially in understanding their original meanings and practical usage.
课型：Reading
教学方法：content-based instruction teaching
共3教时，第1教时
Step 1 Greeting
Step 2 Lead-in
Can you guess the meanings of the underlined words?
A：Oh, my God! W hat happened? Why are you black and blue?
B：I got beaten by Peter’s brother
A：That’s a bad apple! Let’s think up a way and teach him a lesson
a bad apple: a bad person
Robert and Janice were supposed to get married last month. At the last minute Robert cancelled the wedding because he was too nervous to get married. He got cold feet.
get cold feet :to become too nervous to act
Don’t tell anybody else that I am looking for a new job. Please keep it under your hat.
keep it under one's hat :to keep a secret
From the above examples, we know that idioms play an important part in learning a language and can enrich the language we use. Now read the following sentences and guess what each idiom means.
Step 3 Fast reading
Go through the passage as quickly as possible and try to find answers to the three questions in part
A on Page 50.
1. What is an idiom?
An idiom is a group of words or an expression whose meaning often can not be understood by looking at the meanings of the separate words in it.
2. Which languages was the Bible first written in？
In Hebrew.
3. Which idiom is often used to describe children?
‘Apple of their parents’ eye’.
Step 4 Detailed reading
Read the passage a second time and complete Part C1.
(1) Why does the Bible have a lot of idioms?
Because the Bible was first written in Hebrew and then translated into Greek, and many idioms are used in both of them. Because the Bible was translated into English hundreds of years ago, many Hebrew or Greek idioms have become part of the English language.
(2) What did ‘by and by’originally mean in the Bible?
Immediately.
(3) What does ‘by and by’mean today?
Before long.
(5) What does ‘feet of clay’mean?
There is a hidden weakness in somebody whom we admire or respect.
(8) How is studying idioms useful in language learning?
You can improve your comprehension and develop a high level of competence in communication skills.
2. Read the article again and complete Part C2.
１Sarah’s grandmother adores her; Sarah is the apple of her grandmother’s eye.
２Wilson was disappointed when he learnt that the coach had feet of clay.
３She knew it might take a long time for her teammates to change their minds, but she believed that the new plan would work by and by.
４The people in my village are very honest and hard-working; they are the salt of the earth.
５When my brother came back home from his trip to Europe, we killed the fatted calf for him. ６She would not say who told her about the surprise party. She just said, ‘A little bird told me.’Step 4 Post reading activites
Discussion
Do you think understanding idioms is an important part of language learning? Why or why not? Discuss the meanings of the following idioms by analyzing the hidden clues and then use them in certain situations.
at the top of a hat an easy job
child’s play having very little money
see eye to eye immediately
on a shoestring to have the same opinion as someone else
1. My sister and I agree about everything from fashion to politics. We see eye to eye on almost
anything.
2. Alex had very little money when he started his first business. In fact he only had a few
hundred pounds. He started his business on a shoestring, but he was very successful.
3. When her friends call, Megan will drop everything to go and meet them. She will leave at the
top of a hat.
4. He is very experienced in this kind of problem. Helping you solve the problem will be child’
s play to him.
Step 5 Consolidation
1. Fill in the blanks with proper words according to the reading material in part E on P55.
An idiom id a ⑴_____ of words that has a special meaning which is not usually apparent. If you already have a good understanding of English and want to polish up and sharpen your language skills, studying⑵______ can be a good way to do so.
Many of the idioms used in English are from the Bible. It is interesting to read how the original meanings of many of these idioms have changed over time. One of the reasons for this is that the Bible was ⑶________ from Hebrew into ⑷____ and later into English. Take ‘by and by’as an example. It originally meant ‘immediately’, but now it means ‘⑸_____’．Idioms can be used to ⑹_________the moral of a story. One idiom about ‘feet of clay’stresses the ⑺______ that things or people that seem perfect, like a person we admire or respect,
can have hidden ⑻_________. Another idiom, ‘a little ⑼____ told me’, is used to say that you know something but you do not want to tell others how you know it. Some Biblical idioms use things related to food such as salt or apples to make a point more clear.
From now on, whenever I read an idiom, I will remember that there could be ⑽______ meaning in it.
Answers:group idioms translated Greek soon
underline concept weaknesses bird hidden
2. Filling the blank
1.The great writer, Ba Jin, left the world forever; ____ ____ ____(换句话说), he died.
2.This passage is not easy to _______ __(翻译)Japanese.
3.The young man made up his mind to ____ ____ ____ (改邪归正).
4.New York City is often _______ __ __(被称作) the City of Apple
5.You should ____ this young man __ __ ____(将视为榜样).
6.If you want to __ __ ____ ____________ __ (很好地了解)English Literature, you can’t miss Shakespeare's works.
7.____ ____ ____(不久), the young lady came to fall in love with the beautiful city.
8.He told me that he ________ __(提高) his spoken English by chatting with native speakers. Answers:
1. in other words
2. translate into
3. mend his way
4. referred to as
5. take as an apple
6. get a good understanding of
7. By and by
8. polished up
Step 6 Homework
Read the article
Complete the exercise in Workbook
板书设计
Reading Biblical idioms in English
a bad apple at the top of a hat
get cold feet child’s play
keep it under one's hat see eye to eye
on a shoestring。