honourable

humour

favourite

theatre

kilometre

metre

sombre

centre

travelling

labelling

cancelling

controlled

licence

offence

practise

defence

organisation

T：Sometimes，they even use different prepositions. Let’s move to exercise 4.

(Suggested answers：In Am. English：on;on;of;on;from;on;In Br. English：in;at;to;into;at)

T：Excellent. Just now you said that British and American English use different words to express the same meaning. Let’s move to exercise 5 and find out the different words that mean the same. S：sweets and candy;lorry and truck;autumn and fall

T：So nice! Now please practise reading them in pairs，paying attention to the sentence stress and intonation.

(Practice reading for a few minutes.)

Step 3 Language points

T：Then I’ll explain some useful words and expressions in warming-up and comprehending to you.

1.include v.(never progressive) if one thing includes another，it has the 2nd thing as one of its parts.包含，包括

e.g. The price includes dinner，beds，and breakfast.

Durable goods includes such items as cars computers and electrical appliances.

including prep.

Included adj.(never before nouns)

The bill came to $450，including tax.

The bill came to $450，tax included.

contain v.(never progressive) if sth. contain sth. else，it has that thing inside it or as part of it.包含;含有;容纳

e.g. This drink doesn’t contain any alcohol.

There were four or five books containing toys and books.

The information you need is contained in this report.

container n.容器，集装箱

2.play a role 扮演;起作用

play (a role/part) as... in...在??中扮演??

e.g. Monitor plays an important role in managing a class.

The role he played as a hero in that movie won him many prizes.

3. the number of... ??的数量(谓语动词为单数形式)

a number of...大量的;修饰可数名词

The number of homeless people has increased.

Huge numbers of animals have died.

A large number of problems have been raised.

表示“许多”的词语归纳

①只能修饰可数名词的有

many，a good/great many，a (large/great) number of，many a (+n.)

②只能修饰不可数名词的有

much，a great/good deal of，a great amount of

③可数和不可数均可修饰的有

a lot of，lots of，plenty of，a large/great quantity of;quantities of

4. even if

even though 即使

He didn’t take her advice，even though he knew it to be true.

Even though he has got a good job，he still wants to look for a better one.

5. not everything

not与every，each，both，all，everything，everybody等连用为部分否定，全部否定用no one，none，neither，nothing，nobody，not any等。

e.g. Not every student enjoys playing football.

→Every student doesn’t enjoy playing football.

→Some students enjoy playing football while others not.

No student enjoys playing football.

6.come up (to)：(1)move toward 走到跟前，走近 (2)to appear above the soil破土而出

(3)被提出，被讨论

e.g. Strangers come up to him and say how much his books are.

The subject came up in the conversation.

→Someone came up with the subject in the conversation.

The seeds are just beginning to come up.

7.communicate：vt.&vi.(1)传达;通知;communicate + n.(to sb.) (2)communicate with 与某人联系或交流

e.g. He communicated his intention to me.

We communicate with each other by letter.

8. base vt.

base sth. on/upon sth. 以??为基础

What are you basing this theory on?