模块11 Unit 2 全单元教案(英语周报) Grammar and usage (译林牛津版高三英语教案教学设计)

Teaching Aims:

1. Students are expected to learn idioms in Egnlish.

2. Enable students to understand and use.

Teaching Important and difficult Points:

Develop the students’ ability of using idioms.

Teaching Methods:

Explanation and exercise

Teaching Procedures:

Step1 lead-in

I thought the exam would be a piece of cake, but it was much harder than expected. easy

Sherry really enjoyed chemistry, so writing an essay about it was a child’s play.

Anything that is easy to do.

Noun phrases

This allows you to prepare good answers and means you won’t have to answer

questions off the top of your head during the interview.

Answering sth quickly without having time to think about it.

This allows you to prepare good answers and means you won’t have to answer questions off the top of your head during the interview.

His new business plan looked very good on paper.

Prepositional phrases

Don’t worry about having butterflies in your stomach before the interview.

Nervous feeling

A good interviewer is able to tell very quickly if you have done your homework

about the company.

Find out as much as possible about something.

Verb phrase

If you follow the advice I’ve given you today, landing an interview will be as easy as pie.

very easy to do

It was as plain as day that the young woman was very qualified and had prepared well for the interview.

very clear and obvious

as…as…

more idioms

A: "Was your father upset when you came home at 3 AM?"

B: "He was more than upset. He blew his top!"

blow one's top

become extremely angry

"Can you help me with this problem? I've been beating my brains out with it, but I just can't solve it."

beat one's brains out try very hard to understand or do something.

A: "I don't believe what Bob said. Why is he bad-mouthing me?"

B: "He's probably jealous of your success."

bad-mouth say unkind, unflattering, embarrassing (and probably

untrue) things about someone.

A: "Is something wrong?"

B: "Not really, but I feel kind of down in the dumps."

down in the dumps depressed; "blue."

A. Idiom contest

1. If you are cool as a cucumber, you are____.

A. panic B. calm or relaxed

2. It is raining cats and dogs, you would______.

A. call a vet B. take an umbrella

3. If it is not your cup of tea, you would_____.

A. like it B. do not like it

something costs an arm and a leg, _______.

A. you have to go to hospital. B. it is too dear

5. If life is full of opportunity for you, we say the world is your________.

A. oyster B. crab

6. If someone says, “I have butterflies in my stomach”, they are________.

A. nervous B. having a good meal

7. If you say that someone is holding firm, you are saying that_______.

A. they are holding a hard object.

B. they believe in something very strongly.

Homework:

1. Collect more English idioms.

2. Preview the Task part.