Lesson 2
Name Stories
1. What sort of names do you think is popular in China in 1960s, in 1970s, in 1980s?
2. Among some of the Chinese celebrities, whose names do you like? Why?
Brainstorm
3. Are you satisfied with your name?
4. If you had a choice to make a name for your children, what name would you like to make? Why?
specific
significance
abnormal
vivid
hardship
violinist
name…after
come across
adj.
详细的,特定的
n.
重要性,意义
adj.
反常的,不正常的
adj.
生动的,逼真的
n.
艰苦,困苦
n.
小提琴家
以
……
命名
偶然遇见
hold up
count on
origin
figure out
discourage
end up
put up with
suffering
支撑起
依靠
n.
起源,开端,出身
理解
vt
.
使泄气,使灰心
以
……
结束,以
……
告终
容忍,忍受
n.
痛苦,困难
musical
musical instrument
admirable
tease
suspension bridge
videophone
in particular
adj.
音乐的
乐器
adj.
令人钦佩的,极佳的
vt
.
嘲笑,取笑
吊桥
n.
可视电话
特别,尤其
1. My parents want me to grow up
to be a _________________
someone who helps to build a
better future for society.
Guess the meanings of the under lined words or phrases:
“pillar of society”
2. He is a very ________ man,
who can deal with all kinds
of difficult situations .
capable
3. A blacksmith is somebody who
makes things from ______, but
not wood or rubber.
metal
4. Do you think that monkeys are
the _________ of man?
5. When it turns cold, the birds
will________ to the South.
6. what is your _______ goal in English learning?
ancestors
migrate
specific
7. Doing some voluntary work for
the community is of great ___________ to one’s growth.
8. a physically _________ child
9. The students who have gone to
America during summer
significance
abnormal
holiday give us a _______
description of the skyscrapers
in New York.
vivid
Some birds _______ for winter or food with the change of seasons.
migrate
--- Do you know anything about
the job of ___________ ?
--- Yes, they make things from
metal entirely by hand.
blacksmiths
The cute monkey is believed to be human ________. In other words, humans developed from monkeys.
ancestor
_______ play an important part in women’s make-up.
Almost every woman wants to ________ some.
Jewels
possess
---It’s natural to ___________ new
words in reading.
How do you deal with this
situation?
---Try to guess the meaning from
the context.
come across
Pandas are rare animals living in
the world. Their survival __________our help and protection. However, children should learn to live independently
from a young age.
counts on
Can you play any of these musical
__________ ?
instruments
--- Look! These people are awarded
prizes. They must have done
well in their working fields.
--- Right. They are ______ of our
country and society.
So are university students.
pillars
The SARS vaccine(
疫苗
)was ________ on 18 monkeys,
which died in the experiment _________
tried out
eventually
Life of these _______ women is not always full of smiles. They have to pay more than men to achieve success.
capable
Nowadays , love on line is popular. I can’t _________why so many people are interested in virtual reality.
figure out
Children in poor mountain areas suffered great ________ in learning.
hardship
---You can ______ anybody on
April fool’s day.
--- But some tricks are hard to
___________ sometimes.
tease
put up with
Listen to the three students talking
about their names. Do the matching
in Exercise 3.
1. Wang
Jiannan
2. John Evans
3. Heather Smith 4. John Evans
5. Heather Smith 6. Wang
Jiannan
My name is Wang
Jiannan
and like many Chinese names,
Jiannan
means several things at once. When my parents were __________ a name for me, they __________ the character “Nan”. “N” is a type of wood that is used to
looking for
came across
________the roof in the construction of traditional Chinese houses. Therefore my parents chose this character for me because they wanted me to _______to be _______________ someone who helps to build a better
hold up
grow up
a pillar of society
future for society. But, as well as having meaning from the characters that are used for writing, Chinese names can also have
___________
_ according to their ______. ________,
significance
sounds
In my case
Jiannan
sounds like ___________________, but I don’t…
good and capable boy
My name is Heather Smith. “Smith” is one of the most
_______
names in Britain. The _____ of “Smith” is “black smith”. A blacksmith is somebody who makes things from _____. I guess there were many of them in
common
origin
metal
Europe in the days when ______ were the fastest form of land __________and riders _________ the service of blacksmiths for metal horse shoes. Well there are very few blacksmiths these days and no one in my family can
horses
counted on
transport
_______ which ________ was a blacksmith but I suppose we must have had one sometime in the past. My first name is easier to explain. “Heather” is a ______flower that grows a lot in certain parts of the country. My
ancestor
figure out
purple
mother comes from a place in northern England where heather turns whole hillsides purple every ____. But when she had me, she was living in London …
July
My name is John Evans. It is a very common name that doesn’t ________anywhere and you wouldn’t think it had a story to it, but I believe that when you _____ deep enough every name has a story to it. “Evans” is a very
stand out
dig
common
_____
name and I am not sure exactly what it means, only that there are many “Evans” in Wales and all around Britain. My grandfather
_______
_from a farm in Northern Wales to look for work.
Welsh
migrated
He was seventeen and he _
________
in the industrial city of Manchester. He __________ a lot of hardship all his life to provide a good future for his ____________and I am _______ for that. “John” is just about the most common boy’s name in England. You might think…
ended up
put up with
descendents
grateful
come across hold up
grow up stand for
count on figure out
look like end up
put up with
Can you guess their meanings now?
Read the passage in Exercise 5 and fill in the blanks with the phrasal verbs.
Read through the Function File and predict what the missing words are.
Listen to the Function File and fill in the blanks.
I believe
to express one’s beliefs
I suppose
to express one’s assumption
I guess
to express one’s guesses
Exercise 1 on page 54
Exercise 2 on page 54
Think about stories attached to your parents’ names. Use the question cues to write notes.
What characters are used to write
their names?
What do these characters mean?
Were they named after anybody in particular?
If so, who and why?
What do their names mean to you?
If they could choose other names, what do you think they would be?
Why would they choose them?