Unit 3
Section A: Fashion Forest
Teaching Objectives:
1. 理解课文 A 和 B 的文章大意，学习服装、发型等时尚元素，了解对待时尚的正确态度。
2. 理解和正确运用重点词汇、短语和句型 It is… that…；in +衣服／鞋／帽／颜色等；祈使句和反义疑问句。
3. 掌握元音 /e/ 和 /eɪ/ 的不同发音。
4. 学会正确使用动词（Part I）。
5. 了解中国旗袍的发展历史。
Teaching Procedures:
Part 1: Warm-up Activities
1. Matching：Learn the following words and phrases about different clothing styles, and match them with the pictures.
2. Listen to the conversation. Then practice with your partner, using the words
and phrases provided on the right.
Part 2: Text A: Fashion Forest
Ⅰ. Background Information
1. Pedro’s fables
The collection consists of twenty-five children’s stories, in English, written by Pedro Pablo Sacristán. This timeless collection of short bedtime stories, fables, and fairy tales is entertaining and educational, with all sorts of funny and dramatic characters and situations. This is a great educational resource for parents and teachers.
Ⅱ. Words and phrases
1. come by
pass 经过；路过
She came by the house. 她路过这栋房子。
2. try on
put on sth. to see if it fits and how it looks 试穿
Try on the shoes before you buy them. 买鞋前请试穿。
I’d like to try on that blue wool coat. 我想试穿那件蓝色的羊毛大衣。
当 try on 的宾语是名词或名词词组时，宾语可以放在 try 和 on 之间或 try on 之后，但如果宾语是代词，则只能放在 try 和 on 之间。
3. fit
a. v. be the right shape and size for sb./sth. 适合；合身
The clothes fit me very well. 衣服很合身。
The key doesn’t fit the lock. 这把钥匙打不开这把锁。
b. v. put clothes on sb. and make them the right size and shape 使合身
I’m going to be fitted for my wedding dress today. 今天我要去试婚纱。
c. v. put or fix sth. somewhere 安装；安置
They fitted a smoke alarm to the ceiling. 他们在天花板上安装了烟雾报警器。
The rooms are all fitted with smoke alarms. 房间都安装有烟雾报警器。
fit 的过去式和过去分词可以是 fitted，也可以是 fit。
4. attention
a. n. interest that people show in sb./sth. 兴趣，关注
Films with big stars always attract great attention. 巨星参演的电影总是备受瞩目。
As the youngest child, she was always the centre of attention. 作为最小的孩子，她一直是关注的焦点。
b. n. the act of listening to, looking at or thinking about sth./sb. carefully 注意力
An article in the newspaper caught my attention. 报纸上的一篇文章引起了我的注意。
Don’t pay any attention to what they say. 别在意他们说的话。
5. snag
a. v. catch or tear sth. on sth. tough; be caught or torn on sth. tough （被）钩住；（被）钩破
I snagged my sweater on the wire fence. 我的毛衣被铁丝网钩住了。
The fence snagged my sweater. 篱笆钩破了我的毛衣。
The nets snagged on some rocks. 网被几块礁石钩住了。
b. n. problem or difficulty, especially one that is small, hidden or unexpected 问题；麻烦
Let me know if you run into any snag. 要是你遇到麻烦，告诉我一声。
6. mid-
prefix middle 中；中间；中部；当中
a mid-morning coffee break 上午（十点左右）喝咖啡休息时间
She’s in her mid-thirties. 她三十五岁左右。
7. plummet
v. fall suddenly and quickly from a high level or position 暴跌；速降
Share price plummets to an all-time low. 股价暴跌至历史新低。
8. stick
a. v. become fixed in one position and unable to move 卡住；动不了
The key has stuck in the lock. 钥匙卡在锁眼里了。
The drawer keeps sticking. 抽屉老爱卡。
b. v. push sth., usually a sharp object, into sth. else; be pushed into sth. 刺入；插入
The nurse stuck the needle into my arm. 护士把针扎进我的手臂。
9. stick
c. v. fix sth. or become fixed to sth. else, usually with a sticky substance 粘；贴
He stuck a stamp on the envelope. 他在信封上贴了张邮票。
Her wet clothes were sticking to her body. 湿衣服紧紧贴在她身上。
10. slip
a. v. slide a short distance accidentally so that you fall or nearly fall 滑倒；滑跤；失脚
She slipped over on the ice and broke her leg. 她在冰上滑倒，把腿摔断了。
b. v. slide out of position or out of your hand 滑落；滑离；脱落
The fish slipped out of my hand. 鱼从我手中滑落了。
c. v. pass into a particular state or situation, especially a difficult or unpleasant one 陷入
He began to slip into debt. 他开始欠债了。
11. drown
a. v. die or make sb. die for being under water for too long（使）淹死；溺死
The two children drowned after falling into the river. 那两个小孩掉进河里淹死了。
They drowned the unwanted kittens. 他们把没人要的小猫淹死了。
b. v. make sth. very wet; completely cover sth. in water or another liquid 浸透；淹没；浸泡
The fruit was drowned in cream. 水果浸泡在奶油中。
12. casualty
a. n. a person who is killed or injured in a battle or an accident 受伤者；伤员；死者；遇难者
There were 46 casualties. 有四十六人伤亡。
b. n. a person that suffers or a thing that is destroyed when sth. takes place 受害者；毁坏物；损坏物
Small shops have been a casualty of the recession. 小商店深受经济萧条之害。
13. prescription
a. n. a piece of paper where a doctor writes the type of medicine his patient should have 药方；处方
They are not available without a prescription. 它们是处方药。
b. n. medicine that your doctor has ordered for you 医生开的药
The pharmacist will make up your prescription. 药剂师会依处方为你配药。
c. n. a plan or suggestion for making sth. happen or for improving it 计划；建议；秘诀
It is a prescription for happiness. 这是快乐的秘诀。
Ⅲ. Sentences:
1. Once upon a time, there was a forest where all the animals lived happily together. (Para. 1)
从前，有一片森林，动物们在那里一起快乐地生活。
这是一个复合句，主句为 there was a forest，后面由 where（= in which）引导的是定语从句，修饰 a forest。
2. Before long, in that forest, there began appearing squirrels in shirts, rabbits in boots, moles with hats on, and even a bird wearing underpants! (Para. 2)
很快，森林里开始出现身穿衬衫的松鼠、脚穿靴子的兔子、头戴帽子的鼹鼠，甚至一只穿着内裤的鸟儿。
这是一个倒装句，主语 squirrels in shirts, rabbits in boots, moles with hats on, and even a bird wearing underpants 由四个名词分别加介词短语或现在分词短语组成，谓语为 began appearing，其他部分为时间状语和地点状语。
3. Even the racoon, thanks to his brightly coloured socks, slipped from one of the river rocks and almost drowned. (Para. 4)
就连那只浣熊，“多亏”穿了色彩鲜艳的袜子，也从河边岩石上滑下，差点淹死。
本句中的 thanks to his brightly coloured socks 为插入语，前后用逗号隔开，是一个相对独立的成分，与句中其他部分没有语法上的关系，去掉后不影响句子的完整性。它在句中的作用是说明浣熊从河边岩石上滑下而差点淹死的原因。thanks to（幸亏；由于；因为）通常是一个褒义词组，表示引起好结果的原因。然而，在本句中，thanks to 则表示引起了坏结果的原因，这种修辞手法叫反语，具有强烈的感情色彩，含有否定、讽
刺、嘲弄等意思。在翻译反语时，可以直接翻译出字面意思，然后加上双引号，表示与字面意思相反的意思。例如：Quitting smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I’ve done it hundreds of times. 戒烟是世界上“最简单”的事儿。我已经戒了几百回了。
4. Starting to wear them had been very silly, and they had only done it to make others envious of them, and to get attention. (Para. 6)
开始穿衣服实在太傻了，而且他们这么做也只是为了引人羡慕和关注罢了。
这是一个并列句，第一个逗号后的 and 连接两个分句。在前一个分句中，动名词短语 starting to wear them 做主语；在后一个分句中，有两个并列成分，即 to make others envious of them 和 to get attention，仍由 and 连接，表示目的。特别需要注意的是：动名词做主语表示事物化、抽象化的概念，谓语一律用单数。例如：Collecting good books is a good habit. 收藏好书是个好习惯。
Ⅳ. Exercises
Ⅴ. Pronunciation: comparison between /e/ and / eɪ /.
Tips:
由于发 / eɪ / 时先发 /e/，因而很多人容易混淆这两个音。其实两者音质不同：/ eɪ / 是双元音，发音时明显有两个音的滑动，但并无停顿，且音质饱满；/e/ 是短元音，发音时没有两个音的滑动，音质单一、短促。
Ⅵ. Grammar: Parts of Speech
请看下面句子，学习动词的用法：
a. All the animals talked about the racoon’s new look, and some of them were a bit envious that he was getting so much attention. (Text A)
b. From boys not wanting to kiss me when we played games to being called “the mop”, I suffered for my unruly hair. (Text B)
以上两个例句中都用到了动词。例句 a 中的 talked 和例句b 中的 wanting、suffered 都用做不及物动词，而例句 a 中的getting 和例句 b 中的 kiss、played、called 都用做及物动词。值得注意的是：及物动词和不及物动词是相对一定语境而言的，并不是绝对的。
Part 3: Text Analysis
Ⅰ. 1. Writing style
This text is a fairy tale, which is a form of narration associated with children’s literature. Talking animals and the presence of magic seem to be more common to the fairy tale than fairies themselves.
In the text, the author uses short and plain words to tell his story, which are more appropriate to fairy tales. Its concise sentences and short dialogues constitute a reader-friendly style. Along with only a few compound and complex sentences, they give a vivid description of what happened in the forest and what
the characters of several animals were like. In terms of figures of speech, besides the personification in the whole text, irony is applied in “thanks to his brightly colored socks” (Para. 4), which not only satirizes the raccoon’s behavior but also makes the expression humorous and witty.
Ⅱ. 2. Text summary
This text is about how the animals reacted to fashion. A racoon happened to find a pair of socks, thus triggering a trend of fashion in the forest. The animals didn’t take their clothes off as Doctor Bear suggested until they suffered too much. They finally realised that it was silly to wear clothes only for others’ attention. It is a fairy tale that arouses the readers’ reflection on fashion.
Part 4: Exercises
Part 5: Cultural Focus: Qipao—Traditional Chinese Dress
Homework :
1. Review the language points of the whole passage
2. Be ready for the dictation
3. Finish learning text B
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