Lesson2

Name Stories

寿县安丰高级中学 邱晶晶

• My name is Chenhua. The character of my first name “Hua’ has two parts. It has a “Ma” meaning a horse on the left and “Hua” meaning china on the right. The character as a whole means a fast black horse and it’s pronounced “hua”

Warm-up

• The character of my first name has two parts. The upper part is a sun symbol, while the lower part represents the horizon. In other words, the character indeed stands for “the sun rising on the horizon”

1.What’s your name? 2.What does it mean? 3.And why did your parents give you the name?

Pair work

Exercise 3 page 8 1. Fins are a feature specific to fish.

2. Doing some voluntary work for the community is of great ___________ to one’s growth.

3. It is abnormal for a man to walk in his sleep.

4. The students who have gone to America during summer holiday give us a _______

description of the skyscrapers in New York. 5. Children in poor mountain areas suffered

great ________ in learning.

significance

vivid

hardship

particular

importancevery unusual

lively

difficulties

Can you play any of these

musical instruments ?

--- Do you know anything about

the job of ___________ ?

--- Yes, they make things from

metal entirely by hand.

blacksmiths

--- Look! These people

are being awarded

prizes. They must

have done well in

their working fields.

--- Right. They are

pillars of our country

and society.

So are university

students.

Heather is an evergreen plant .

Listening Exercise 4

Listen to the three students talking about their names. Which of them matches the following descriptions?

1. Look at the pictures and make some prediction

2. Read through the descriptions

3. Listen to the tape.

1. This student has parents who wanted their child to be a “pillar of society”.( )

2. This student has a grandfather who moved from northern Wales to Manchester.

( )

3. This student probably has an ancestor who made things from metal. ( )

4. This student has parents who were inspired by the great violinist Itzhak Perlman. ( )

5. This student is named after a purple flower. ( )6. This student has parents who wanted their daught

er to be as strong as any boy. ( )

Wang Jiannan

Issac Evans

Heather Smith

Issac Evans

Heather Smith

Wang Jiannan

Listening 1.Listen to the tape for the second time.

2.Take down notes

3. Retell the name stories

Wang Jiannan:

Heather Smith:

Issac Evans:

“Nan” –wood ， pillar of societyJiannan- “heathy boy” “bulit in the south”

Smith –ancestor metal Heather- purple flower, home, grandmother

“Evans” –Wales grandfather“Isaac”--violinist

1 He ended up in Manchester.

He put up with a lot of hardship and suffering all his life to provide a good future for his family .

2 Although she was delighted to have a new baby girl, she was also discouraged because she missed her home .

• Other family names with the same origin includes Smithers and Smythe.

3 As well as having meaning from the characters that are used for writing, Chinese names can also have significance according to their sounds.

• It is a type of wood that is used to hold up the roof in the construction of traditional Chinese houses.

Heather Smith

Wang Jiannan

Issac Evans

Nowadays , love on line is popular. I

can’t _________why so many people

are interested in virtual reality.figure out

To come to understand

Exercise 5 Phrasal Verbs

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

to rely upon, trust, or expect

---You can ______ anybody on

April fool’s day.

--- But some tricks are hard to

___________ sometimes.

tease

put up with

make fun of playfully

to tolerate, suffer through, or allow, esp. something annoying

1. I _____________ an interesting name story when I visited my cousin in Henan Province.

2.My cousin ________ next door to a girl called Li Shichun.

3.The “Chun” part of Li Shichun _________spring. That’s when she was born. But that’s not all. She’s also named after a Sui Dynasy engineer,Li Chun.

4.Her father thought he was admirable because he built bridges you can really ___.

came across

grew up

stands for

count on

Exercise 5 Phrasal Verbs

5. She was worried that her daughter would have to __________ too much teasing with a man’s name.

6. So they ________ a way to change it.7. that was lucky because she ________

her grandmother anyway.8. she changed her studies and

________ becoming an engineer.9. She became quite famous when she

invented a new way of _________ suspension bridges during the building process.

figured out

looks like

ended up

holding up

put up with

Homework

Language Power page 54

Exercise 3,4

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