Teaching methods

a) Explaining

b) Discovering

c) Practicing

Teaching steps

Step 1 Revision

Revise the words learned yesterday by doing some translation exercises.(C to E or E to C).

Step 2 language study

1.The teacher is a very enthusiastic woman called Ms. Shen.

这个非常热情的女老师是沈老师。

called Ms. Shen 是过去分词短语作定语，与所修饰的词之间存在着逻辑上的被动关系，相当于定语从句who/that was called Ms. Shen。 如：

We visited the new library built three weeks ago.

我们参观了三周前建成的图书馆。

The first textbooks written for teaching English as a foreign language came out in the 18th century.

最早为外语教学而写的英语课本出现在十八世纪。

Most of the artists invited to the party were from South Africa.

被邀请来参加聚会的大多是南非艺术家。

注：短语一般放在被修饰词之后，单个过去分词放在被修饰词之前

2.And we have fun. I don't think I will be bored in Ms. Shen's class!

我们上课上得很开心，我认为我不会对沈老师的课厌烦的。

(1)have (great) fun 玩得开心

=have (a lot of) fun

= have a wonderful time

=enjoy oneself 如：

The children were having a lot of fun with the building blocks.

孩子们玩搭积木玩得很开心。

You're sure to have some fun tonight.

今晚你一定会玩得很开心。

They had a lot of fun chatting on the net.

他们在网上聊天聊得很开心。

fun/,是不可数名词，常用于be fun 结构中，相当于interesting。如

Seeing monkeys in the zoo is great fun.

在公园看猴子非常有趣。

What fun it is to play a game after work!

工作之余活动一下多么有趣!

注: 此处的what fun不能用how funny代替，因为"funny"是“滑稽的，好笑的”的意思。

[拓展]for fun=in fun 开玩笑地

make fun of 嘲笑，取笑。如

I'm not saying such a serious thing for fun.

我说如此严肃的事情绝不是开玩笑。

It's bad manners to make fun of the blind.

取笑盲人是不礼貌的。

(2) 我们要注意本句英汉表达的区别。英语中有些动词，如think, believe, expect, suppose, feel, guess, imagine 等，当它们后面接一个具有否定意义的宾语从句时，通常要把主句的动词变为否定式，而宾语从句中的谓语动词用肯定形式。这种现象称为否定的转移。如：

We don't think there is anything interesting in your pictures.

我们认为你的画并没有什么有趣的地方。

I don't believe what he said is true.我认为他说的不是真话。

I don't suppose they will object to my suggestion.

我想他们不会反对我的建议。

He didn't imagine that she would go abroad.

他料想她不会出国了。

I don't feel the food can last us through the winter.

我认为这食物是不够我们过冬的。

注：在反意疑问句中，若陈述部分是第一人称，think等词用一般现在进，则疑部部分需与从句中的主语和谓语保持一致，否则要与主句的主语和谓语保持一致。如：

I don't think it's going to rain tomorrow, is it?

我认为明不会下雨，对吗?

You don't think I have made mistakes, do you?

你并不认为我犯了什么错误，是吗?

3 In other words, there are three times as many girls as boys.

换句话说，女孩是男孩的三倍。

(1)in other words 意为“换句话”，在句中用作插入成分。如：

In other words, she must give up singing.

换言之，她必需放弃唱歌。

I'm not used to the way you speak to me. In other words, I don't want to continue our conversations.

我不习惯于你对我谈话的方式。换句话讲，我不想继续我们的谈话了。

Beethoven wrote many world-famous musical compositions. In other words, he was a great musician.

贝多芬写过许多世界著名乐曲。换句话讲，他是一位伟大的音乐家。

①A + be+倍数 +as+ adj. +as+B

Asia is four times as large as Europe.

亚洲是欧洲的四倍大。

②A+be+倍数+ 比较级+than+B

Asia is three times larger than Europe.

亚洲比欧洲大三倍。

③A+be+倍数+the size/length/height/depth/width+ of+ B

Asia is four times the size of Europe.

亚洲是欧洲的四倍大。

注: time 表示倍数，一般只限于表示基数词在内的三倍或三倍以上，若表示两倍可用副词twice 或形容词double。 time 表示的倍数也可以用分数，百分数或某些表程度的副词替换。

The street is twice the length of that one.

这条街是那条街的两倍长。

Ten is double five.十是五的二倍。

This pencil is a quarter as long as that one.

这枝铅笔是那枝的四分之一长。

Our room is 60% the size of theirs. 我们房间的面积是他们房间面积的60%。

4 I'm looking forward to doing it!我非常渴望去做。

look forward to sth./doing sth. 意思是“期待着某事/做某事”，其中“to”是介词。

I look forward to hearing from you as early as possible.

我期待着早日收到你的来信。

Boys and girls are looking forward to Children's Day.

孩子们期盼着儿童节的来临。

I'm looking forward to his return just as much as he himself seeing me.