Lesson 8 教师版

Lesson8The best and the worst

阅读理解

1.Who has the best garden in town?

Joe Sander has the best garden in town.

2.Is the writer’s garden beautiful,or is it terrible?

It is terrible.

单词详解

petition n.竞争

e.g.boxing competition拳击比赛

beauty competition选美比赛

compete v.竞争

Some companies compete with each other for the contract/to gain the contract.相互竞争competitive:adj.有竞争性的

这是一个竞争性的社会，充满竞争。我们不得不与别人竞争。

This is a competitive society and is full of competition.We have to compete with others.

2.neat:adj.整洁的in an orderly way/tidy

e.g.(进入整洁的房间感叹)What a neat room!

反义：What a mess!

她穿戴整洁。She is a neat dresser.

3.path n.小径

e.g.a winding path leads to quiet seclusion（基础口译）曲径通幽

近义：lane

4.wooden:made of wood a.木质的

e.g.木质家具wooden furniture

wooden wedding结婚五年

wood n.木质woods树林

单词加上S变为另一个单词，意思发生变化：

irons：脚镣手铐

greens：绿色蔬菜

waters：水域

the works of Shakespeare莎士比亚作品集

5.pool n.水池

e.g.游泳池a swimming pool

课文解析

The best and the worst

1.Joe Sanders has the most beautiful garden in our town.

the most beautiful为形容词最高级（详见语法重点）

2.Nearly everybody enters for'The Nicest Garden Competition'each year,but Joe wins every time.

●nearly表示几乎，差不多=almost

●enter V.S.enter for

enter v.进入＝go into

enter for报名参加（活动)=take part in

选词填空：

How many people have entered for the match?

Everyone stood up when he entered the room.

●everyone/everything等不定代词作主语，谓语用单数

●win赢，获胜

赢了奖品/比赛win a prize/a match

他在比赛了赢了我。He beat me in the match.

3.Bill Frith’s garden is larger than Joe's.Bill works harder than Joe and grows more flowers and vegetables,but Joe's garden is more interesting.

●larger为形容词比较级（详见语法重点）

●work hard动词短语V.S hard work名词短语

我们老板很努力地工作。Our boss works hard.

我们老板喜欢努力的工作。Our boss likes hard work.

4.He has made neat paths and has built a wooden bridge over a pool.

●a wooden bridge木桥羊毛裤woolen trousers丝袜silk socks

●over表示“在…正上方”fly over the mountain cook over the fire

5.I like gardens too,but I do not like hard work.Every year I enter for the garden competition too,and I always win a little prize for the worst garden in the town!

●win a prize for sth为某事获奖

奖金prize money在比赛中赢得一等奖win the first prize in the competition

●worst是形容词最高级，原级为bad

●too放于肯定句句末，表示“也”；either放于否定句句末，表示“也”

e.g-I like swimming.–I like swimming,too.我也喜欢游泳。

-I don’t like swimming.–I don’t like swimming,either.我也不喜欢游泳。

根据课文内容，完成下表：

Joe’s garden Bill’s garden My garden Description more interesting larger/

worst

works harder/

more flowers and

vegetables

语法重点

形容词和副词的比较级和最高级

●构成方式：