课程名称：新概念英语三系列课（第四课）
上课时间：2008-09-13 19:00:00
上课教师：nicky1983
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新概念英语三第三课（上次课程教案，本次课程教案课前公布）
一． Ask and answer
Listen to the passage and see if you can answer this question: How did the archaeologists know that the status was a goddess?
二language points
1. explore v. to travel into or through (a place) for the purpose of discovery. 探险；探测
eg: exploring the Amazon jungle
to examine( a subject or question) carefully in order to find out more 仔细检查；研究（尤指一主题或问题）
eg: we must explore all the possibilities.
n. exploration explorer考察者探险者
2. prosperous adj (经济上)繁荣的，昌盛的
eg: our finance is prosperous
thriving adj. 昌盛的，兴旺的 thriving business
booming adj. 蓬勃的，景气的 a booming market
flourishing adj. 繁茂的，健康的 those plants are flourishing
3. classic adj 第一流的，标准的，著名的，典型的。
Eg: this is the classic example of love at the first sight.
Classic. n. 杰作，经典之做。
Eg: that joke is a classic; it's really funny.这个笑话确属一流，真是妙趣横生。
3. construct vt. 构造，建造，组织（通过装配或组合部件而构成）
construct a sentence/ construct a statuary
construction n. 建设，建造
constructive1 adj 有教育意义的
constructor n. 建造者，建设者。
setup/establish/found 建造
setup students' union
establish a school/ establish a rule
found a country
4. hip2 n. 臀部，屁股
hip n.（口）在服用兴奋剂，宗教信仰方面赶时髦的人；消息灵通人士
adj. 通晓的，见闻广的。
Eg: Mary is a real hip. Mary是个爱赶时髦的人
The guy isn't a hip 这个家伙设么都不懂
Joined at the hip. 表示交情及厚的
??those two are joined at the hip.
Shoot at the hip 信口开河
-----sorry, I said I shouldn't have shot from the hip
5. full-length adj (群衣) 拖地长的，全长的，全身的
??a full-length dress 拽地长裙
full-grown adj. 生长完全的，发育完全的
full time 专职，全部时间
二． 语言点
1. some time ago, an interesting discovery was made by archaeologists on the Aegean island of Kea
some time经过若干时间、在未来的某时
sometime adv. 在某一时候，曾经，某一天
sometimes adv. 不时，有时
2. An American team explored a temple which stands in an ancient city on the promontory3 of Ayia Irini.
3. the city at one time must have been prosperous, for it enjoyed a high level of civilization.
4. houses-often three storeys higth-were built of stone. They have large rooms with beautifully decorated walls.
5. the city was equipted with a drainage system, for a great many clay pips were found beneath the narrow streets.
6. the temple which the archaeologists explored was used as a place of worship from the fifteenth centuryB.C. untial Roman times.
7. in the most scared room of the temple, clay fragments of fifteen statues were found.
Each of these represented a goddess and had, one time, been painted.
8. the body of one statue was found among the remains4 dating from the fiftth century B.C.
9. Its missing head happened to be among the remains dating from the fifth centuryB.C.
10.This head must have been found in classical times and carefully preversed.
It was very old and precious even then
When the archaeologists reconstructed the fragments, they were amazed to find that the goddess turned out to be a very modern-looking woman.
11. she stood three feet high and her hand rested on her hips5.
12. she was wearing a full-length skirt which swept the ground.
despite her great age, she was very graceful6 indeed, but, so far, the archaeologists have been unable to discover her indentity.
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