大学英语_My Stroke of Luck.pptVIP

Unit 3 My Stroke of Luck 1. Do you believe in luck? Why or why not? Any personal experiences? 2. Can you list some phrases including “luck” or “lucky”? 3. How important love is for an “unlucky” person, esp. someone who has lost good health? 4.Can you predict what will happen in the story? Although I am blind, I can be happy Words related to disability Language points: 1. stroke: 1) a sudden occurrence or result a stroke of luck / fortune一桩意外的幸事/运气 a stroke of misfortune/ a stroke of lightening a stroke of genius / inspiration 聪明之举/绝妙的主意 Pun : a figure of speech; a play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words. 双关一种文字游戏，有时利用同一个词的不同意思,而有时利用不同词的相近意思或发音 Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana. 2). Seven days without water make one weak.(谐音双关) 3). He is not a grave man until he is a grave man. 4).Seven days without 7-up make one week(weak)． 5).Try our sweet corn．You’11 smile from ear to ear． 12).She wore a new hairpiece every day and was considered a big wig. 13).Old math teachers never die, they just become irrational. 14).When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds. 15).He drove his expensive car into a tree and found out how the Mercedes bends.(benz) 空对着，山中高士晶莹雪；终不忘，世外仙姝寂寞林。 杰拉尔德·R·福特（1913年出生）是美国第38任总，他说话喜欢用双关语 “我是一辆福待，不是林肯” 众所周知，林肯既是美国很伟大的总统，又是一种最高级的名牌小汽车；福特则是当时普通、廉价而大众化的汽车。福特说这句话，一是表示谦虚，一是为了标榜自己是大众喜欢的总统。 Language Points 2. give sb. a ride: give a free journey to sb. 3. collide: to hit each other accidentally Two supertankers collided in the rough seas. Derivation: collision n. head-on collision 4. survive: to not die in an accident or war or from an illness Collocation: survive sth. Derivation: survivor n. ---How are you? ---Oh, surviving. 5. insist: to say or do sth. firmly Collocation: insist + on insist that + (should) v. if you insist (inf.) L.A. ---Los Angeles A.