Lesson 1 A puma at large,Objective: Get familiar with the usage of simple, compound, and complex statements,I Warm up on the picture,What can you see in the picture? (A man, a Tree) What is the man holding in his hand? (A walking stick, a rope for a pet) Whats hiding in the tree? (An animal looks like a lion.),I Warm up on the picture,Whats falling down from the tree? (Half of a neckband.) What happened between the man and the animal? (Maybe the animal escaped from the man and hid in the tree.),II New words resist separation 依靠保持亲近；防止分开 phrase：cling to sth eg. 小猴子紧紧偎着它妈妈。 The baby monkey clung to its mother. We clung to each other in the storm. 我们不应墨守陈规。 We should not cling to outdated customs.,II New words convince sb that eg. How can I convince you of her honesty? 她所说的使我相信我弄错了。 What she said convinced me that I was mistaken.,II New words “when” introduces an adverbial clause of time; inside the clause “that” introduces an appositive clause to modify “reports”. 全句为复合句。“When”引导时间状语从句，时间状语从句内又出现了“that”引导的同谓语从句来修饰“reports”。,III Text Study,Explain the text: (2)Phrase: take sth seriously sth be taken seriously 认真对待 eg. We should take the childrens words seriously. 这个问题要认真对待。 This problem must be taken seriously.,III Text Study,Explain the text: However, as the evidence began to accumulate, experts from the Zoo felt obliged to investigate, for the descriptions given by people who claimed to have seen it were extraordinarily similar. Structure: “for” introduces a compound statement; the former half of the compound statement contains an adverbial clause of time introduced by “as”; the latter half contains a past participle phrase “given by people” used as attributive to modify “the descriptions” and an attributive clause led by “who” to modify “people”. 全句为“for”连接的的并列句，并列句的第一个分句内出现了“as”引导的时间状语从句，后一个分句内又出现了一个过去分词短语“given by people”做定语修饰“the descriptions”和一个由“who”引导的定语从句来修饰“people”。,III Text Study,Explain the text: (2) Phrase: began to accumulate: began to pile up, gathered gradually extraordinarily similar: very alike, surprisingly alike claim to do 声称要做 claim to have done 声称做了 eg. He claimed to revenge on me. 他声称要报复我。 The thief claimed to have robbed the bank. 那个贼声称抢了银行。,III Text Study,Explain the text: It immediately ran away when she saw it, and experts confirmed that a puma will not attack a human being unless it is cornered. Structure: “and” introduces a compound statement; the former half of the compound statement contains an adverbial clause of time introduced by “when”; the latter half contains an objective clause led by “that” after verb “confirmed”; and the objective clause is made of an conditional clause introduced by “unless”. 全句为“and”连接的的并列句；并列句的第一个分句内出现了“when”引导的时间状语从句；后一个分句内又出现了一个由“that”引导的宾语从句作动词“confirmed”宾语；这个宾语从句里又出现了 “unless”引导的条件状语从句。,III Text Study,Explain the text: As no pumas had been reported missing from any zoo in the country, this one must have been in the possession of a private collector and somehow managed to escape. Structure: The whole sentence is a complex statement. “As” introduces an adverbial clause of reason; and the main clause is a compound statement joined by “and”. 全句为复合句。 “As”引导原因状语从句，主句是一个由“and” 连接的并列句组成的。,III Text Study,Explain the text: (2)Phrase: must have been: certain guess about the past event, must have belonged to 对过去的肯定的猜测，肯定是 in the possession of sb.：属于 eg. It must have rained last night, for the ground is wet. The house is in my brothers possession / in the possession of my brother.,III Text Study,Explain the text: (2)Phrase: managed to (escape): succeeded in (running away despite difficulties) 终于设法成功(逃跑了) eg. Ill manage to finish this task, though its late at night. Although it was raining heavily, he managed to come to work on time.,IV Drills read the text of lesson 2 for three times.,Song: Right here waiting,我们的共同目标!,追求人生的美好!,