Unit 3 Australia

Unit 3 Australia

一、目标浏览

[重点词语]beyond, camp, faith, elder, starve, birth, task, curiously, fix up, die of,

be known as, live by, feed on, hand down, rather than, by heart, tie sth. to…,

round up, be experienced a t…, intend to do sth.

[重点句型]…times + as + adj. / adv. + as…

catch sb. doing sth.

[语法焦点]动词+ing形式作宾语补足语与状语

[口语交际]禁止和警告

[能力指导]写作训练(三): 练习描写某地的巨大变化

[听力指导]听力试题的题型及特点

二、课文导学

[课文背景介绍]

Australia is an island and it is a continent. It is the largest island in the world but it is the smallest continent. It is almost 7.7million square km. Compare this with China, China is about 9.7 million square km.

Australia is in the south of the world. It lies between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. The Indian Ocean is to the west and the south. The Pacific Ocean is to the east .

Most of the half of Australia is highland. But it is not very high, and the land is rather flat. High flat land is not called mountains. It is called Plateau（高原）.The west of Australia is called the Western-Australian Plateau. It is about 300 m . high.

There is high land in the east of Australia, too. Some of it is plateau and some of it is mountains. The highest mountain is in the southeast. It is called MT Kosciusko. It is 2,228 m. high. This high land in the east is sometimes called the Great Dividing Range. It has this name because it divides the east coast from the rest of the country. Between the Great Dividing Range and the western Australian Plateau the land is low. This part of the country is called the Central Lowlands.

The only big river in Australia is the River Murray. It begins in the mountains in the southeast of the country and it runs westward into the Indian Ocean.

[释疑解惑]

1．Yang Pei and Jackie are going camping in the Australian bush with some other friends.

杨培和杰基准备同几个朋友到澳大利亚的丛林里去露营。

句中的going camping属于go +doing的结构，表示“去干某事”的意思，多指从

事与体育、娱乐有关的活动。例如：

go boating 去划船go camping 去露营

go climbing 去登山go dancing 去跳舞

go fishing 去钓鱼go hunting 去打猎

go swimming 去游泳go shopping 去买东西

2．Will you help me fix up this sheet？

请你帮我把这个布蓬搭起来好吗？

fix up“搭起”，“安装”，“修理”解。在本句中fix up=put up（搭起）

They fixed up a simple operation table at one end of the room.

他们在房间的一头搭起了一个简单的手术台。

They are busy fixing up the lights.

他们正忙着装灯哩。

3．Their spiritual faith and their gods were very important to them, and knowledge, customs and memories were handed down by the elders of the race.

他们的宗教信仰和他们所信奉的神对他们来说是非常重要的；他们的知识、风俗习惯以及他所怀念的事情都是由他们的祖先传授下来的。

句中的短语动词hand down(=pass down)作“相传”、“传给”解，意思是“（从上代）传下来（给后代）”。例如：

The old house has been handed down for three generations.

这座老房子已经传了三代了。

This custom has been handed down since the 18th century.

这种风俗是从18世纪传下来的。

4．They invented different kinds of fishing nets, also a curiously shaped piece of wood for hunting which could be thrown and which would return to the thrower if it did not strike anything .

他们发明了各种各样的渔网，还发明了一种用木头制成的外形奇特的捕猎器，这种捕猎器可以投掷出，如果没有击中目标，它又会回到投掷者手中来。

在a curiously shaped piece of wood (一块形状奇特的木头)这个短语中，shaped是过去分词，作定语，修饰后面的piece of wood。这种作定语的过去分词前，还可以带副词作状语。

下是几个类似的例子：

a widely used language 一种广泛使用的语言

a wrongly pronounced sound 一个发错了的音

highly praised deeds 受到高度赞扬的行为

5．They became experienced at finding underground springs.

他们对寻找地下泉水逐渐有了经验。

be / become experienced at sth ./doing sth .

对某事/做某事有经验。短语中的at也可以用in。

形容词experienced(有经验的)也可以作定语。例如：

She is an experienced teacher. 她是一位有经验的教师。

He is very experienced at repairing cars. 他修理汽车很有经验。

He is quite experienced in this kind of work. 他干这类工作相当有经验。

6．Education was intended for white settlers only, and until very recently no school lessons held in languages rather than English.

教育只是为白人殖民者而办，而且直到最近以前，还没有一所学校使用英语以外的语言进行教学。

rather than短语意思是“与其；不是”。例如：

I rather than you ,should do the work.

该做这项工作的是我而不你。

I think I’ll have a cold drink rather than coffee