1、Unit 2 The New Singles,Background Vocabulary,1. Group Discussion,Before the wedding: dating; engagement; legitimate age for marriage; certain medical requirement; diamond ring for engagement; wedding announcement; wedding invitation; marriage settlement,1. Group Discussion,During the wedding: church

2、; marriage bureau; wedding ceremony; bride and groom; the best man; groomsman; bridesmaid; bridesman; rings; wedding dress; wedding march; wedding cake; double ring exchange ceremony; flower girl; wedding breakfast; wedding dinner; wedding feast; wedding reception,2. Pair Work,Work in pairs and disc

3、uss the following questions Viewpoints can be used in the pair discussion: 1. Many single people get badgered by others who refuse to accept that they choose to be alone. However, a growing number of professionals are doing just that. Theyre exploring careers, indulging in the joys of travel, redisc

4、overing pastimes and kindling new passions. Most say they want to get marriaged someday, but they feel content being single until they meet the right person.,2. Pair Work,2.More eligible people aspire to marry but remain single for the moment. Its not that theyve abandoned the value of marriage, but

5、 that they are taking longer to get married, perhaps due to expectations of what it should be like or a lack of desirable propects.,2. Pair Work,3. Marriage is a fundamental social institution. It is central to the nurture and raising of children. It is the “social glue” that reliably attaches paren

6、ts to children. It contributes to the physical, emotional and economic health of men, women and children, and thus to that of the nation as a whole.,2. Pair Work,4. When a woman is around 30 or above, people around her might begin to panic. Some folks try to fix her up. Others show their good intent

7、ions with harsh questions and judgments:” Whats wrong with you?” “You go to that big company and you still cant find an ideal guy?” “Youre going to have a baby with a handicap if you wait until youre too old before giving birth. Sometimes even strangers join the action. If they spot her eating alone

8、, they might ask, ”Do you want some company?”,Clutch: v. / n The mother clutch her baby tightly. v. Clutch at sth. He clutched desperately at the branch as her fell. n. be in sbs clutches get into (out of) the clutches within the gravitational clutch of the earth make a clutch at sth. a clutch of eg

9、gs/ a clutch of new trainees,rave v. /n. /adj. While she had the fever, she raved for hours. v. rave wildly against sb. rave about /Everyone was raving about the new singer. rave at up a rave of a play rave-up Adj. His new play has been getting rave notices in the papers,meditation: serious thought

10、or study What is the outcome of your meditation? Do you think its a good idea? As a young man, he spent a lot of time meditating the purpose of life. meditate Ana: think, study, ponder, muse, ruminate, contemplate, consider meditate, mediate, medicate, meditation, mediation, medication, religious me

11、ditations / be deep in meditation,embrace: accept enthusiastically; include sth which forms an important part 擁抱，抓住， 接受，信奉，著手 Youd be a fool not to embrace an opportunity as good as that. Linguistics embraces a diverse range of subjects such as phonetics and stylistics. Ana: accept, receive, seize,

12、grasp, take, Con: reject, refuse, repudiate,2. comprehend, include, involve, imply, subsume The small village I was born was located in a valley with beautiful scene embraced by forests. The report he is going to deliver tonight embraces many important points we have never heard of before. Ana: cont

13、ain, hold, accommodate, embody, incorporate Con: exclude, rule out, shut out, debar, eliminate,momentum: the force that keeps an object moving or an event developing after a start has been made with the of an avalanche The firm has been growing rapidly, but you cant keep that kind of momentum up for

14、ever. In an attempt to give new momentum to their plans, the committee set a date for starting detailed discussions. Ana: impetus, speed, velocity, pace, headway momentary, momentous,wreak: cause sth to happen in a violent and often uncontrolled way No one can wreck the militant friendship between u

15、s. Changes in the climate have wrecked havoc with the citys usual weather pattern. Experts say that ecological damage wreaked by pollution is increasing rapidly. Ana: destroy, demolish, injure, damage, impair, ruin, dilapidate Con: save, preserve, conserve,track: one of he several songs or pieces of

16、 music on a CD or other musical recording The band ended their concert with the title track from their latest album. The album includes four previously unreleased tracks. trace, track, tract tracing , tractable, tractive, traceable,foster: 1. nurse, nurture 養(yǎng)育，撫養(yǎng) son daughter father mother parent 2.

17、 encourage the development or growth of ideas or feelings 培養(yǎng)，激勵，促進(jìn) Im trying to foster an interest in classical music in my children. They were discussing the best way to foster democracy and prosperity in some countries. Films and pictures about recent wars sometimes foster angry memories and feeli

18、ngs of hatred between nations. foster a desire for revenge,savvy: 1. understand, comprehend 理解，醒悟，懂 A: Savvy? B: no savvy. 2. experienced and well-informed, intelligent , practical knowledge and ability; understand or comprehend 精明，理解，見識 political Wheres your savvy? She will need all the political s

19、avvy she can muster to win the next election. You think you are wise, but theres a lot of things you dont savvy.,Hefty : large and powerful The judge imposed a hefty fine. a hefty blow a hefty man a hefty majority a hefty sum heftily,connotation: a feeling or idea that is suggested by a particular w

20、ord although not necessarily a part of the words meaning, or sth suggested by an object or situation A possible connotation of “home” is a place of warmth, comfort and affection. Foreigners frequently are unaware of the connotation of the words they use. Ana: suggestion, implication, intimation Con:

21、 denotation,allot v. divide and give as shares They allotted us three weeks to finish the job. allotted seats to the press allot 10 minutes for the speech within the allotted time allotment Ana: assign, apportion, allocate Con: retain, deny, withhold,Strain v. make excessive demands upon I think its

22、 rather strain the truth to say hes handsome. strain every nerve strain ones eyes strain ones voice strain the meaning of a word strain the law strain wine strain at the oar strain under a heavy burden strained / Ana: stretch, tug / Con: relax, slacken,Vista : a view An endless vista of tedious days

23、 and nights streched before us. Shady vista of elms a vista of the lake a vista of the future look back through the vista of the past -vis- visage / vision / supervision / Vistaed adj. = outlook , scene,gentrification: process by which a street or area formerly lived by poor people is changed by peo

24、ple of a higher social class going to live there The increasing gentrification of the neighborhood has resulted in property values and rents rising and the poorer residents and local stores being driven out. He told me quite sadly that most of the area in which he had grown up had now been modernize

25、d and gentrified, and had lost all its old character. When a part of a town is gentrified, it is changed from being a poor area to a richer one, by people of a higher social class moving to live there.,bicker: disapprove; quarrel or argue about unimportant matter Theyre always bickering with each ot

26、her about their personal problems. He left the company because he couldnt stand the constant bickering between the staff and the managers. Ana: quarrel, wrangle, altercate, squabble, bickering, spat, tiff,hypothetical: supposed to be so This is only a hypothetical example, but it will help us to con

27、sider the problem When asked if there were any circumstances under which they would declare war, he dismissed such questions as purely hypothetical. hypo-: 在 下，hypodermic , hypogastrium, hypogeal, 低下，次，亞 hypocrisy, hypocrite, hypoeutectic, hypotension, hypothermia, hypso-: 表示“高度” hypsography, hypsometer, hypno-: 睡眠，催眠術(shù) hypnogenesis, hypnosis, hypnotherapy, hypnotism,Compact adj./ v. /n. The soil was so compact that I was hardly able to force a spade i