UNIT TWO Friends Part I LANGUAGE SKILL PART II LANGUAGE IN CONTEXT PART III TOWARD PRODUCTIVE LANGUAGE 若出现禁用 宏 和 ActiveX 对话框 请选择 启用 UNIT TWO KEY WORDS MADE EASY KEY EXPRESSIONS IN USE Part I LANGUAGE SKILL BACK UNIT TWO KEY WORDS MADE EASY Read aloud the following sentences and figure out what each italicized word means The Clue in the parentheses will help 1 When Henry Ground died all his relatives attended his funeral family members 2 Right after he came back from abroad he bought a very posh car luxurious 3 All the guests listened to the joke with an expression of amusement look 4 Everyone was waiting expectantly Colin opened the will hopefully 5 The preacher read out Henry Ground s words in a singsong voice monotonous BACK UNIT TWO KEY WORDS MADE EASY A Read aloud the following sentences and figure out what each italicized word means The clue in the parentheses will help 6 In his testament Henry left all his money to his 12 friends will 7 Henry Ground made an evil reputation for himself as a good for nothing fame 8 Henry had invested his money very wisely and was in fact worth at least three quarters of a million put 9 The one who gets most laughter will inherit Henry s fortune take lawfully 10 Her giggles were like an infection and soon the whole class roared with laughter influence BACK UNIT TWO A Study the following expressions stay keep in touchhaving information about to stay 保持联络 in communication with hold sth oneself inrestrain control or check sth oneself 约束 抑制 cover uphide conceal 掩盖 掩饰 隐匿 sink inbe fully understood 被理解 被领会 settle downbecome calm 平静下来 专心致志于 KEY EXPRESSIONS IN USE BACK UNIT TWO B Read aloud each of the following sentences See how these expressions are used 1 Henry and I were in the same class in Canterbury two summers ago and since then we ve stayed in touch 2 While Henry managed to appear so serious his friends were incapable of holding themselves in and burst out laughing 3 To compete for the best joke all the contestants tried their best to cover up their laughter by making a lot of noises 4 Judging from her recent performance it seems that your advice hasn t sunk in 5 Colin paused for a while waiting for the excited company to settle down KEY EXPRESSIONS IN USE BACK UNIT TWO PART II LANGUAGE IN CONTEXT READING SELECTION TEXT A STUDY AND PRACTICE BACK UNIT TWO Preview Questions Work in pairs or groups and discuss the following questions 1 What kind of man do you think Henry Ground was 2 Why didn t anyone feel sad in Henry s funeral 3 What did Henry s friends think of Henry before he died 4 Can you imagine how Henry s friends felt when they finally learnt that Henry had left all his fortune to them BACK READING SELECTION TEXT A Lead in QuestionsLead in Questions What kind of man do you think Henry Ground was Tips Apparently he was a joker who never took anything seriously but by nature he was a kind hearted good humoured man who loved his friends and tried his best to make them happy Lead in QuestionsLead in Questions Why didn t anyone feel sad in Henry s funeral Tips Because they did not regard Henry s death as a great loss Lead in QuestionsLead in Questions What did Henry s friends think of Henry before he died Tips They regarded him as a good for nothing Lead in QuestionsLead in Questions Can you imagine how Henry s friends felt when they finally learnt that Henry had left all his fortune to them Tips They began to feel sorry and sad when they finally learnt that their friends loved them so much Background InformationBackground Information About the Author Jake Allsop Modern educator and short story writer As an educator Jake has written several of the popular Test Your Grammar titles He believes in putting the student not the language at the heart of teaching language learning is about people As a short story writer he has published several collections of his very short stories including Ladybirds and Other Elementary Very Short Stories In Authentic English with Exercises 1996 Wild Mushrooms and Other Very Short Stories 1997 and Happy days and Other Very Short Stories 1998 StructureStructure Para 1 3 Henry Ground died People who attended his funeral did not feel sad People began to talk about the jokes he had given them when he was alive Para 4 8 In Henry s testament he left a large sum of money to his friends and he also set them a competition of joke telling Para 9 16 In order to inherit Henry s fortune solely every one of the twelve guests held in his her laughter But at last they came to realize that they had been wrong in taking money so seriously Para 17 21 When the guests learned that they were to share Henry s fortune they began to feel sad about their dear friend s death Main Idea UNIT TWO BACK READING SELECTION TEXT A UNIT TWO BACK READING SELECTION TEXT A 1 It was a very happy funeral a great success Even the sun shone that day for the late Henry Ground Lying in his coffin he was probably enjoying himself too Once more and for the last time on this earth he was