51RXModule9Unit2Usinglanguage.ppt

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选修九
tear-tore-torn
tear sth apart
1. The dogs tore the fox apart.
2. Racial strife is tearing our country apart.
3. His ill tore me apart.
to destroy sth violently, especially by pulling it to ,撕碎
to make people in a country, anization or other place fight or argue with each other.
使四分五裂,使分崩离析
to make sb feel very unhappy or worried使不快,使担心
tear at sth
He tore at the meat with his bare hands.
to pull or cut sth violently so that it tears.
撕裂,扯开,撕破
tear oneself/sth away from
She was unable to tear her eyes away from him.
to leave somewhere even though you would prefer to stay there; to take sth away from somewhere依依不舍地离开;忍痛离去;把...拿走
tear sth down
to pull or knock down a building, wall 拆毁,拆除(建筑物,墙等)
tear sth up
She tore up all the letters he had sent her.
to destroy a document, etc. by tearing it into ,撕碎(文件等)
tear into sb/sth
1. 攻击,袭击,抨击(attack sb/sth)
2. 积极投入(to study doing sth with a lot of energy)
Unit 2
Sailing the oceans
Using language
The greatest navigational journey
A lesson in survival
“True” or “False”?
1. I joined the captain in the small boat
because I think the journey to be
challengeable.
2. The only instruments the captain
was allowed to take were pass
and a quadrant.
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T
Fast reading
3. We couldn’t get a correct reading
from the quadrant as the weather
was bad.
4. Working out our position took us
a great deal of time which made us
worried.
5. The extreme lack of water was the
hardest to cope with.
F
F
T
6. The captain was determined not
to give up although he is extremely
weak.
7. After 30 days, we arrived in Timor.
T
F
Get into groups of four and discuss these questions.
1. Why do you think this
writer describes his journey
as one of the greatest in
navigational history? Do you
agree? Give your reasons.
Careful reading