英语教学课件人教必修三unit1 Learning about language

高一人教新课标版必修三

Unit 1Festivals around the worldLearning about language

Discovering useful words and expressions1 Which of these words can become adjectives with the –ous or –al ending? Which can become nouns with the –(a)tion ending? Choose the correct ending for each word then write the new word. Use the dictionary to help you.

religion religious danger dangerous

season origin

seasonal

originalproduction education celebration prediction

humour humourous produce courage courageous educate culture cultural nation national celebrate predict

2 Complete the passage below with the words and expressions in the box. as though, belief, celebration, Christians, custom, have fun with, origin, religious

Many people think that Christmas is a western celebration __________, but in fact it is really a worldwide holiday. Christmas actually as a ________ religious festival Christians around the world. Its celebrated by _________ ______ origin is around the 3rd or 4th century AD, custom of remembering Jesus’ birth when the _______ on December 25th first started. Today, of course, as though it many people celebrate Christmas __________ have fun with family, were just a holiday to ______________ belief rather than a holiday about a _______.

3 Complete each of the sentence with a suitable word or phrase from the box in its correct form. custom, admire, feast, harvest, trick, belief, starve, gather, gain, look forward to

forward to 1. Don’tlook _______________the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you know you’ll be dead. –Tennessee Williams 2. A dog _________ starving at his master’s gate predicts the ruin of the state. – William Blake 3. I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by ________. custom – Gerry Spence

4. ______ Gather you rosebuds while you may, old time is still a-flying, and this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying. – Robert Herrick 5. However big the fool, there is always admire him. a bigger fool to ________ – Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux 6. ______, Belief then, is the great guide of human life. – David Hume

7. Other people’s ________ are always harveststhe best _________, harvests but one’s own children are always the best children. –Unknown 8. There is no ______ feast on earth does not end in parting. –Unknown

9. Everyone has some ______ tricks they can do, but each has his own way of doing them. –Unknown gain ; 10. Those who can lose shall _____ those who wish for _____shall lose. gain --Unknown

GrammarModal verbs

情态动词主要表达说话人的看法、态度 等。从用法上来说，有这样几个特点： 一是情态动词自身都有一定的意义， 但不能表示正在发生或已经发生的 事情，只表示期待或估计某事发生。 二是情态动词除ought和have外，后 面必须接不带to的不定式。 三是情态动词没有人称和数的变化, 也没有非谓语形式。

只作情态动词的: can/could, may/might,

ought to, must可情态可实义的: need, dare/dared 可情态可助动词的: shall/should,

will/would相当于情态动词的: have to, used to

1. must, can’t 1) must 表示必须、必要, must表示主观多一些 而have to则表示客观多一些。回答must引出 的问句时, 如果是否定的回答, 不能用mustn’t, 而要用needn’t或don’t have to。如： — Must we hand in our exercise books today? — Yes, you must. (No, you don’t have to.) 2) can’t在口语中代替mustn’t时，表示禁止 或不准。如: You can’t play football in the street.

3) must 表示推测时, 只能用于肯定句。 There must be something wrong with the computer. 这个电脑肯定出了问题。 You have worked hard all day. You must be tired.你努力学了一整天了，一定累了吧。 4) must +be doing/do 表示对现在的动作进行 肯定推测。如: 他现在一定在看小说。 He must be reading novels now. They have bought a new car. They must have a lot of money. 他们买了一辆新车, 他们一定很有钱。

5) must +have done 表示对过去发生的事情

作出的肯定判断。他们在玩篮球，他们一定已经完成了作业。

They are playing basketball, they must havefinished their homework.

路是湿的， 昨天晚上一定下雨了。The road is wet. It must have rained last night.