课程内容
高中英语《发明和发明家 Unit 3 Inventors and inventions (part 3)》（选修8）
Reading:
The Problem of the Snakes
Do you remember?
1.打电话    call up
2.有时，偶尔     now and then
3.摆脱，赶走      get rid of
4.使自己扬名，显摆自己      distinguish oneself
5.生物      living creatures
6.一种新方法     a new approach
7.着手，开始     set about
8.决定      decide on
9.把它们引入陷阱    attract them into a trap
10.一个制作冰淇淋的器具     an ice-cream maker
11.同时     at the same time
Points in paragraph 4
Placed the frozen bowl/cover...with a large bucket
Abruptly/a convenient hole/adjust my plan
6.They abruptly disappeared into a convenient hole in the wall.
1)abruptly   adv.突然地，唐突地
abrupt  adj.突然的；意外的
e.g  这条路有很多急转弯
The road is full of (abrupt turns）.
这会议突然就结束了。
The meeting came to (an abrupt end.)
我们的讨论突然给缩短了。
Our discussion was (abruptly)curtailed.
2)convenient  adj.便利的，方便的
be convenient for sb./sth.    对某人/某物便利/方便的
It is convenient for sb. to do sth.
对某人来说做某事是方便的。
译：三点钟对你方便吗？
e.g  Will 3'oclock be convenient for you?
译：明天开始工作对你方便吗？
e.g  Will it be convenient for you to start work tomorrow?
convenience [U] 方便，便利[C]方便的事
at one's convenience   在某人方便的时候
e.g  Please do this job at your convenience.
1.Come and see me whenever(C).
A you are convenient
B you will be convenient
C it is convenient to you
D it will be convenient to you
2.If it is quite (A)to you,I'll visit you next Tuesday.
A convenient    B fair    C easy   D comfortable
POints in garagraph 5
Attempt/temperature/with great cantion/
Bent down/poisonous
but once picked up,they tried to bite me
Points in paragraph 6
Attemot/procedure/in the expectation/monitor/
a small net used for catching fish/according to/
Passive/merrily/realease
Points in paragraph 7
Pressed by...,I.../seize the opportunity to.../
Get recognition/the criteria are.../
Only after you have had that recognition can you say that you are truly an inventor.
Get new ideas accepted/novel/in addition
13.passive  adj.被动的，消极的；不抵抗的；不活跃的
e.g He played a passive role in the marriage.
14.Only after you have had that recognition can you say that you are truly an inventor.
only 修饰状语，置于句首，主句的语序需要倒装。
e.g   Only by working hard can we pass the exams.
15.Nor will you recive a patent until a search has made to find out that your product really is different from everybody else's.
以否定词no,not,never,hardly,seldon,neither,little等开头引导的句子，句子的主句要部分倒装。
e.g   Never can you pass the exam if you don't devote yourself to your study.
Never have I seen such an exciting film.
Little did I know what was about to happen.
重点句型
1.The next morning I got up early before the sun was hot.
第二天早上趁天还不太热，我就早早地起来了。
2.But once picked up,they tried to bite me.
但是它们一被捡起来，就试图咬我。
3.Only after you have had that recognition can you say that you are truly an inventor.
只有在你获得了那种认证后，你才能说是一个真正的发明家。
Homework
Revise the key sentences!