Unit1 Festivals around the world课堂导学
基础巩固
一、词汇详解
1.Discuss when they take place,what they celebrate and one thing that people do at that time.
讨论它们是什么时间举行，庆祝的是什么事件，并说出人们在那天所做的一件事。
要点提示：
take place是不及物动词，无被动式，意思为“发生”，常指经过安排的事情。
典型例句：
The interview is well planned and it is to take place on time.
采访计划周密，会按时进行的。
相关链接：
happen发生，碰巧(指偶然性);chance碰巧发生，偶然发生(同happen),正式用语。例如：
I happened to be here when you were in trouble.
当你有困难时我碰巧在那儿。
She chanced to be in the park when I was there.
我在公园时碰巧她在那儿。
应用探究
选择填空
(1)We may never discover what ______ that night when you left for Beijing.
A.happened
B.chance
C.take place
D.took place
解析：从时间状语来看应使用过去时态，took place 虽为过去时，但它的意思是有计划、有安排地进行，题意应指那天夜里突然或偶然发生了什么事，故应使用A项happened。
答案：A
(2)—When does the ceremony ______?All the lovely boys and girls in our school are waiting for it.
—Sorry,I have no idea,but in my opinion, 8 a.m.
A.happen
B.chance
C.take place
D.took place
解析：文中所提到的ceremony一定是有计划作出了安排的，故应使用C项take place。
答案：C
2.They would starve if food was difficult to find,so they celebrated when they had food.
如果食物难以得到，他们会挨饿，因此，一旦有了食物，他们就开怀欢庆。
要点提示：
starve作动词时除了有“饿死，饥饿，使饥饿”的意思外，还有“渴望做某事”的意思。
典型例句：
What’s for dinner?I’m starving to death!
晚饭吃什么?我饿死了!
She failed again,starving for success.
她又失败了，渴望成功。
相关链接：
starving adj.饥饿的;受饿的
the starving饥民
starvation n.挨饿;饿死
starvation diet极少量的食物
句型转换
(1)A：The proud man said he preferred to suffer from hunger rather than beg for food.
B：The proud man said he ______ ______ ______ ______ beg for food.
(2)A：Those motherless children were longing for affection.
B：Those motherless children ______ ______ ______ affection.
填空
(3)The ______ (starve) people of this area were suffering from the terrible ______ (starve) and many people lost their lives.
答案：
(1)would starve rather than
(2)were starving for/were starved of
(3)starving;starvation
3.Some festivals are held to honor the dead,or satisfy and please the ancestors,....
有些节日是为了纪念死者、或者取悦祖先，使他们得到满足，……
要点提示：
satisfy 为动词，在本句中意思有“满足，使满意”之意。另有“符合”之意。如:satisfy a definition 符合定义。
典型例句：:
My brother felt that nothing he did could satisfy his boss.我弟弟感到他所做的事情没有一件令老板满意。
相关链接：
其形容词satisfying相当于satisfactory令人满意的，多用来修饰物体;satisfied adj.感到满意的，多用来修饰人。
常用短语:be satisfied with对……感到满意或满足;be satisfied to do对做……感到满意或满足。
完成句子
(1)This kind of job ______ ______ ______ ______ (我不满意),so I left the company and went out to find a suitable job.
(2)Every one of the team ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ (不满意我们受到的待遇) at that party on Miss Smith’s eighteenth birthday.
(3)The story you told had an attractive beginning and a ______ (令人满意的)end.
答案：
(1)does not satisfy me
(2)wasn’t satisfied with our treatment
(3)satisfying
4.The festival of Halloween had its origin as an event in memory of the dead.
万圣节起源于纪念亡者的祭事活动。
要点提示：
in memory of意思为“纪念”，在本单元中还出现另一词组to the memory of，它们意义和用法相同。
典型例句：
We sang the song in memory of the dead.
我们唱歌以纪念故去的人们。
思维拓展:
have a good/bad memory for擅长/不擅长记……
within sb.’s memory 就某人记忆力所及
memorize v.记住（某事物）
完成句子
(1)Grandmother ______ ______ ______ ______ (祖母的记忆力很好);she can remember things which happened many years ago.
(2)This has been the hottest summer ______ ______ ______ (就我所记得的)during my seventy years in the world.
(3)I wrote a long poem ______ ______ ______ (纪念)Robert,who used to be my old friend as well as a good teacher.
答案：
(1)has a good memory
(2)within my memory
(3)in memory of
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