Unit Nine

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Unit Nine

• Culture Shock

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Table of contents

• Warm-up activities
• New words and expression
• Detailed studies of the text

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Warm-up Activity

• 1. please imagine what you might find strange in
  the US.
• 2. have you ever tried American food? how do you
  like the food in McDonalds and Kentucky?
• 3. American food and things related

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• Hot dog hamburger French fries
• Pork sausage mustard ketchup
• Bread roll sandwich dessert ground beef
  salad onion lettuce cucumber
• Canned chicken plum jam bread and butter
  peas fruit pie ice cream sugar potato
  tomato plate knife fork spoon

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New words and expressions

• 1. honeymoon
• A. holiday taken by a newly-married couple
• E.g. they went to Italy for their honey moon.
• B. period of enthusiastic good will at the start
  of an undertaking, a relationship, etc
• E.g. the honeymoon period for the new government
  is over, and they must now start to tackle the
  countrys many problems.
• On ones honeymoon

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• falling in love at the first time-----dating----
  proposal--- wedding---honeymoon---marriage
• church/cathedral Father bridal page
• bride/bridegroom bridesmaid/ best man
• a wedding anniversary
• wedding feast wedding ring
• 2. irritate
• 1) make sb angry, annoyed or impatient ??????????
• It irritates me to have to shout to be heard.
• ????????????,????????
• He was irritated of being awakened so early.

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• 2) cause discomfort ??
• Acid irritates the stomach lining.
• ????????
• 3) make sore or inflamed ??????
• The smoke irritates my eyes.
• ?????????
• irritation n.
• 3. punctual
• Be punctual for an appointment

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• E.g. the tenants are punctual in paying the
  rent.
• 4. annoy sb with sth/ by doing sth
• E.g. dont annoy your mother with noise. Be
  annoyed at/with
• E.g. we were annoyed at losing the order.
• 5. superficial
• More superficial than real
• E.g. you are too superficial to appreciate great
  literature like this.

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• Have only a superficial knowledge of the subject
• 6. homesick for Chinese food
• 7.symptom
• E.g. I have symptom of appendicitis/
• rheumatism/ influenza.
• 8. vary in
• E.g. they vary in their opinions.
• The charge varies from 5 yuan to 10 yuan.

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• 9. depressed
• E.g. he is depressed at the election result.
• Depress make (esp. trade) less active
• Depress a market
• A rise in oil prices depressed the car market.
• 10. vague about
• E.g. I am still vague about what you want.
• 11. assumption of sth
• E.g. their assumption of an air of confidence
  fooled nobody.

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• We are working on the assumption that the rate of
  inflation will not increase next year.
• 12. make sense
• E.g. what you say makes no sense.
• It makes sense to buy this cheaper coat.
• Make sense of sth
• E.g. can you make sense of this poem?
• A sixth sense
• E.g. a sixth sense told her that he would be
  waiting for her when she got home.

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• In a sense
• E.g. what you say is true in a sense.
• 13. semi- semifinal semiconductor semimonthly
• Mono-- monocracy
• Bi-- bi-lateral bi-functional bi-monthly
• Tri-- triangle
• Penta-- pentagon
• Deca-- decade decathlete
• Multi-- multilateral
• 14. leisure
• E.g. we have been working all week without a
  moments leisure.

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• At leisure without hurrying
• E.g. I will take the report home and read it at
  leisure.
• At ones leisure when someone has free time
• 15. reverse
• E.g. statistics showed that a reverse trend to
  that recorded in other countries.
• In/into reverse order
• E.g. put the letters in madam into reverse
  order and they still read madam.

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• 16. curable
• E.g. some types of cancer are curable.
• Cure sb of sth
• E.g. the doctor cured her of cancer.
• Ministers hoped that import controls might cure
  the economys serious inflation.
• 17. fry meat, fish, vegetables can be fried in
  shallow oil.
• Boil we boil vegetables, eggs, rice by covering
  them with water and beating it.

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• Stem we stem fish, puddings by placing the food
  above boiling water.
• Roast we roast large pieces of meat, potatoes.
• Brake we brake bread, cakes in the oven.
• 18. stand structure ( a table or kiosk) from
  which goods are sold.
• Newsstand a water-melon stand
• 19. appetite
• When I was ill I completely lost my appetite.
• Dont spoil your appetite by eating sweets before
  meals.
• He had no appetite for meat.

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• 20. stuff sth into sth cram sth tightly into sth
• E.g. stuff feathers into a pillow
• Stuff sb/oneself with sth fill with food
• E.g. she sat stuffing herself with biscuits.
• 21. see service
• A. serve in the armed forces
• E.g. he has been service in many different parts
  of the world.
• B. be very useful
• E.g. these old boats have seen some service.

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• At ones service ready to help sb
• E.g. if you need service, I am at your service.

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• 1. the International Students Guide to the ..
• guide to books for travelers, tourists
• A guide to Italy
• E.g. we engaged a guide to show us the way
  across the mountains.
• 2. no one can tell you how to adjust to life
• adjust to to change slightly
• E.g. he adjusted to the heat of the country.
• The eyes need several minutes to adjust to
  dimness.

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• 3. you experience a period
• experience
• (u), knowledge or skill which comes from practice
  rather than books.
• E.g. he had wide business experience.
• (c), something that happens to one and has an
  effect on ones mind and feelings.
• E.g. he wrote a book about his experience in the
  war.
• V. to feel, suffer, pr know as an experience
• E.g. after experiencing so many defeats, victory
  is so sweet.

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• 4. always act as though they are in a hurry
• As though
• e.g. he behaved as if/ though nothing had
  happened.
• he treated me as if I were a stranger.
• 5. or that you are unable to smoke without
• E.g. you couldnt turn on the television without
  seeing a woman demonstrating lipstick.

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• 6. this stage has beenn compared to a morning
• compare A and/ with B
• E.g. if you compare her work with yours, you
  will find hers is much better.
• compare A to B
• E.g. Ancient Egyptians compared the rising of
  the sun to the beginning of life, and the setting
  of the sun to the ending of life.
• compare with sb/sth
• he can't compare with Shakespeare as a writer of
  tragedies.

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• 7. then another change comes over you
• E.g. what has come over you? You dont seem to
  be quite yourself.
• A fit of stubbornness came over him and he
  refused to have anything further to do with them.
• 8. whereas you organize the events of your day
• whereas but
• E.g. they want a house, whereas we would rather
  live in an apartment.

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• He is diligent, whereas she is lazy.
• Wise men love truth, whereas fools shun it.
• 9. there is nothing to do but close your eyes.
• e.g. Mary did nothing but clean the dishes.
• The soldier had no choice but to obey.
• 10. being invited to dinner is a big threat
• Invite sb to do sth
• Invite sb to/ for sth
• E.g. I invited her to go for a walk after
  dinner.
• I was invited to/ for the party last weekend.

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• 11. must be praised to skies
• To praise sb to the skies
• E.g. all the girls praised the new dancer to
  skies.
• 12. eating it made me feel like vomiting
• Feel like
• E.g. I dont feel like beet tonight.
• When he was among the students, he felt like a
  boy.
• I felt like a fool when I found I had made such
  silly mistakes.
• 13. which is murder to eat
• E.g. it is murder to travel on overcrowded
  trains.
• It is murder to find a parking place for the car.