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课件网) Unit 5 Into the wild Listening Have a free talk: look at the idioms and guess the meaning. Love me, love my dog. Have a free talk: look at the idioms and guess the meaning. Never offer to teach fish to swim. Animal idioms 1 as busy as a(n) . Look at the pictures and complete the idioms with animal names. 2 kill two with one stone 3 When the cat’s away, the will play. 4 hold your . 5 It’s raining and . bee birds mice horses cats dogs match the meanings with the animal idioms. 1. It’s raining heavily. — 2. someone who is always working or busy doing something — 3. You should wait and be patient when you’re rushing into something. — 4. People do what they want and have fun when someone in authority is absent. — 5. solve two problems with one action — It’s raining cats and dogs. as busy as a bee hold your horses When the cat’s away, the mice will play. kill two birds with one stone Animal idioms Complete the paragraph with the animal idioms English idioms are a way of adding colour to the language. For example, instead of saying “It’s raining heavily”, you could say1 . Another reason to use idioms is that they are concise. For example, to describe someone who is always working or busy doing something, we can say they are2 . If they’re rushing into something and should wait and be patient, you could say “3 ”. Learning idioms can be fun, especially when we compare them to Chinese equivalents. Take, for example, “4 ” (people do what they want and have fun when someone in authority is absent) and “5 ” (solve two problems with one action) -- are there corresponding idioms in Chinese. It’s raining cats and dogs as busy as a bee hold your horses When the cat’s away, the mice will play kill two birds with one stone concise adj. 简洁的 rush into 冲进 equivalent n.等同物 authority n. 当权，权力 correspond v. 与...相对应 Eg. I can do nothing except for swimming in the dog days of summer. the dog days of summer Eg. He has been leading a dog’s life since he was fired in such a big city. lead a dog's life Eg. It’s a dog-eat-dog world. You gotta man up! dog-eat-dog world Dogs were first domesticated over 14,000 years ago. Sheep, cows and pigs have been kept at home as sources of food for around 7,000 years. Did you know To make a wild animal used to living with or working for humans 驯养，驯化（动物） domestic adj. 国内的；家庭的；驯养的 domestic affairs/politics 国内事务/政治 livestock n. 牲畜，家畜/ la vstɑ k/ Poultry n. 家禽/ po ltri/ The oldest zoo in the world is in Vienna, opened in 1752. The oldest zoo in China is Beijing Zoo, which was founded in 1906. Look at pictures of animals in circuses and in natural parks. Can zoo animals survive in the wild Can zoos offer animals their natural environment Should we keep wild animals in the zoo Should we educate people more about animals Tips: In a debate, first listen out for the main topic. This is usually a statement or ques ... ...
