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Unit 4 I used to be afraid of the dark.
Section A 3a-3c 教学设计
Class Type
Reading and writing
Key words & phrases:background, interview, Asian, dare, ton, private,
guard, require, deal with, take up, be prepared to
Key sentences:
1. I didn’t use to be popular in school.
Objectives 2.—You used to be short, didn’t you?
—Yes, I did. / No, I didn’t.
Difficulties and points:
To learn to read the passage about Candy and then write a short
passage to talk about someone’s change.
Key
1. I didn’t use to be popular in school.
structure
2.—You used to be short, didn’t you?
—Yes, I did. / No, I didn’t.
Difficulties To learn to read the passage about Candy and then write a short passage to talk
about someone’s change.
Vocabulary
background, interview, Asian, dare, ton, private, guard, require, deal with,
take up, be prepared to
Period 2
Procedure
Do some free talk by using the following sentence pattern:
I used to be afraid of....
Lead-in
Then go on more free talk by using the structure:
Use “used to” and “but now” to describe someone.
Warming up:
Try to guess what the passage is about according to the picture and the title.
A: A girl’s hobbies.
B: A girl’s school life.
C: A girl’s experience（经历）.
Tips: We can get some information from the title（题目）and the
picture.
Step 1
Activity 3a Listen to the article and identify the paragraphs [1-3] in which the following
information appears.
____ how Candy’s life has changed
____ Candy’s advice to young people
____ Candy’s backgroundTips: “Topic sentence”(主题句) is often at the beginning or the end of
each paragraph.
Read the first paragraph and answer the questions.
1. How old is Candy Wang?
2. What was she like?
3. Why did she take up singing?
4. What’s she like now?
Read paragraph 2 and fill in the chart about how Candy’s life has changed.
How Candy’s life has changed
Good things Bad things
1. Being able to travel and meet 1. She always has to worry about how she
new people all the appears to others.
time.
2. She has to be careful about what she
says or does.
2. She gets tons of attention 3. Don’t have much private time anymore.
everywhere she goes.
4. There are always guards around her.
Read Para.3 and fill in the blanks.
Advice to young people:
1.Young people have to be prepared to _____________________.
2.The road to success is so ___________.
3.They really require _______________________________.
4.Only a small number of people __________________
Think: Candy says that the road to success is difficult, do you think so?
Try to retell the passage with the title Cindy Wang has changed a lot.
Asian pop star/ used to be.../ took
background
up singing/dare to...
good things:
travel and meet ...
/get tons of attention...
life has changed bad things:
Candy Wang
worry about...
be careful about…
don't have private time...
be prepared to .../ the road to
advice to young
success... /require... /make it to the
people
top
Activity 3b Read the article again and complete the sentences about Candy.
1. She used to be shy, but now she’s not shy _________.
2. She didn’t use to be ___________ in school, but now she gets lots of
attention.
3. She used to _________ with friends, but it is almost impossible now.
4.She didn’t use to ________ how she appears to others, but now she does.
Step 2 Language points:
知识点 1: For this month’s Young World magazine, I interviewed 19-
year-old Asian pop star Candy Wang.
考点1: interview /'ɪntə(r)vjuː/ v. 采访；面试 (to ask sb. questions)； n.
面试；访谈
e.g. As a reporter, he interviews many people every day.
作为记者，他每天要采访很多人。考点2: 19 -year-old 19 岁的，形容词结构；19 years old 19岁，数量
词短语
e.g. Tony is a 19 year old young man.
托尼是个十九岁的年轻人。
Tony is 19 years old. 托尼19 岁了。
典例1
We used to have ________ summer holiday when we were very young.
A. two month B. two-month
C. two-months D. two months
【点拨】用语法判定法解题。根据空格后为名词，并结合选项可知，空
格处应填形容词。“数词+ 连字符+ 名词（单数）”相当于一个形容词，
在句中作定语。
知识点 2: Candy told me that she used to be really shy and took up
singing to deal with her shyness.
考点3 take up 学着做，开始做
(1) take up doing sth. 开始从事，后可接名词、动名词(短语)
e.g. Lisa took up playing the piano when she was 12 years old.
莉萨在12岁时开始弹钢琴。
(2) 占据
e.g. This desk takes up too much space in my room.
这张桌子占据了我房间很大的空间。
典例2
—Hi, Tina! What are you going to do for the coming summer holiday?
—I am going to ________ traveling because I like taking photos a lot.
A. take down B. take up C. pick up D. clean up
【点拨】用短语辨析法解题。答语句意为“我将要开始学习做饭，因为
我喜欢吃好吃的食物”。take down放下；记下；take up 从事，开始( 学
习或某种爱好)；pick up 拾起；clean up 清扫。
考点4 deal with 处理; 应对
e.g. He’s good at dealing with these terrible things.
他善于处理这些糟糕的事情。
辨析：deal with 与do with
deal with 应对，处理, 侧重于处理问题的方式、方法, 常与疑问词
how 连用。
do with 也意为“应对; 处理”, 侧重于处理的对象, 常与疑问词what
连用。
典例3
—I don’t know how to ________ the old books.
—You could give them away to poor children or sell them in a low price.
A. hand out B. give up
C. deal with D. take up
【点拨】用短语辨析法解题。句意为“——我不知道如何处理这些旧
书。——你可以把它们捐赠给贫穷的孩子们或者低价出售”。hand out 分
发；give up放弃；deal with 处理；take up 占据。联系下文可知，此处指
如何处理这些书。
shyness 名词，意为“害羞；腼腆”是形容词 shy 加后缀-ness 构成的名
词。
► He can’t get over his shyness.
拓展：sad —— sadness 悲伤
happy —— happiness 幸福
ill —— illness 疾病
kind —— kindness 善良考点5 in front of 意为 “在......的前面”。
►There is a little child in front of the house.
房前有一个小孩。
辨析 in front of 与 in the front of
in front of : 在……前面，强调在某一物体外部的前面。
in the front of :“在…… 的前部”，强调在某一物体内部的前面
Our English teacher is standing _____________________ the classroom.
There is a big tree ________________ the old house.
知识点 3: As she got better, she dared to sing in front of her class,
and then for the whole school.
考点6 dare /deə/v. 敢于；胆敢
e.g. How did you dare to tell a lie to your mother?
你怎么敢跟你妈撒谎呢？
dare to do sth. 敢于/胆敢做某事
dare not to do sth. 不敢做某事
典例4
Tony is very brave. He _______ alone at night because he is afraid of the dark.
A. dares not to sleep B. dares not sleeping
C. doesn’t dare sleeping D. dared to sleep
【点拨】用排除法解题。根据前一句的句意“托尼很勇敢。”可知后一
句应该是他敢于晚上独自在河里游泳，故排除 B、C，且无dare doing 的
用法。
考点 7 whole 形容词，意为“整个的；全部的”，常用结构为
“the+whole+单数名词”。all也有此意，但语序不同：all用于冠词、所
有格或其他限定词之前；whole用于冠词、所有格及其他限定词之后。
all the time=always 总是; 一直
the whole time 全部的时间
all my life 我的一生
my whole life 我的一生
1）如果没有冠词或其他限定词，whole不能与单数名词连用。
► The whole city was burning. 整个城市都在燃烧。
2）whole一般不与不可数名词及物质名词连用。
（误）the whole money/water
（正）all the money/water
知识点 4: … like being able to travel and meet new people all the
time. ……像总是能旅行和结识新朋友。
be able to 与 can 都可表示能力，意为“会；能（够）”。
be able to: 表示经过努力达到目的，可用于各种时态。
can :表示有能力做某事，仅用于一般现在时和一般过去时。
知识点 5: I didn’t use to be popular in school, but now I get
tons of attention everywhere I go.
过去我在学校里默默无闻，但是现在无论我走到哪里，都得到太多的
关注。
tons of 意为“很多的；大量的”，是英语中一种夸
张的表达方式。ton的本义为“吨”。
►He has been to Henan tons of times.他去过河南很多次了。
get…attention 意为“得到/引起……注意”。
►The baby is trying to get the attention of her mother.
这个婴儿正试图引起她妈妈的注意。
知识点 6: be prepared to give up your normal life.
“嗯”她缓缓道来，“你得准备放弃正常的生活”。(1) prepare 在此处用作及物动词，意为“准备；预备”。 常用搭配有：
prepare sth. “准备某物”。
►Mum was preparing dinner when I got home yesterday evening.
昨天下午我回到家的时候，我妈正在准备晚餐。
prepare sb sth. 表示“给某人准备某物”也可用prepare sth for sb.
► She prepared us a nice breakfast.
= She prepared a nice breakfast for us.
她给我们准备了可口的早餐。
prepare to do sth. 表示“准备做某事”=be ready to do sth
►They were preparing to go to the cinema when the telephone rang.
他们正准备外出看电影的时候，电话响了。
知识点 7:
考点11 not... anymore 不再
e.g. I wasn’t angry with him anymore. 我不再生他的气了。
I will no more do it. 我不会再那样做了。
辨析：not... anymore 与not... any longer
not... anymore=no more 一般修饰短暂性动词，表示动作发生的次
数、频率不再延续。
not... any longer=no longer 一般修饰延续性动词，表示动作、状态或
时间不再延续。
e.g. He does not live here any longer. 他不再住在这里了。
典例5
—Excuse me, is this Mr. Brown’s office?
—I’m sorry, but Mr. Brown doesn’t work here ________. He left about three
years ago.
A. anymore B. any longer
C. anyway D. any time
【点拨】not... anymore 不再，一般修饰短暂性动词；not... any longer 不
再，一般修饰延续性动词；anyway 无论如何；any time 任何时候。答句
意为“对不起，但是布朗先生不再在这儿工作了，他大约三年前就离开
了”。句中work是延续性动词。
知识点 8: Only a very small number of people make it to the top.
考点12 a small number of 一小部分
e.g. There are a small number of students reading in the classroom.
一小部分学生正在教室读书。
辨析：a number of 与the number of
a number of 许多；大量 后加可数名词复数；作主语时，谓语动词
用复数。
the number of ......的数量 后加可数名词复数；作主语时，谓语动词
用单数。
典例5
1. A large number of students in our school ___________ from UK. (be)
2. The number of students in my class ____________ fifty. (be)
典例6
The number of the volunteers ________ 100 now. And a
small number of them __________ already gone to the workplace.
A. is; have B. are; have C. is; are D. is; has
【点拨】本题用语法判定法解题。the number of 表示“……的数量”，后
接复数名词作主语时，谓语动词用单数；而a number of 意为“许多；大
量”，后接复数名词作主语时，谓语动词用复数。
考点13 make it 获得成功；及时赶到；约定时间
e.g. I can make it if I run faster.我如果跑得更快一点就能及时到达。
You needn’t worry. He will make it.
你不必担心，他会成功的。
Let’s make it at 7：00 on Tuesday morning.
我们把时间定在星期二早上七点吧。
典例 7
1. China is ________ Asian country while England is _________ European
country.
A. an; an B. a; a C. an; a D. a; an
【点拨】考查冠词辨析。用读音分析法解题。Asian 是以元音音素/eɪ/ 开
头的，所以冠词需要用an。而European 是以/j/ 开头的，所以冠词需要用
a。故选C。
2. There _________ a number of books in the library and the number of them
_________ increasing.
A. has; is B. have; are C. are; is D. is; are
Summary:
短语互译
1. 对付；应付 ______________
2. 公开地 ______________
3. take up singing ______________
4. tons of ______________
5. fight on ______________
6. give a speech _____________
根据课本内容，完成下列句子。
1. 我以前很矮。
I ______ ____ be short.
2. 我以前在学校不受欢迎。
Step 3
I ______ _____ to be popular in school.
3. 保拉以前的确不爱说话。
Paula _____ ____ be really quiet.
4. 她以前不喜欢小测验。
She _____ ___ ___ like tests.
5. 你以前很矮，不是吗？
You used to be short, ______ _____?
是的，我是。/ 不，不是。
Yes, I _____. / No, I _______.
6. 他以前戴眼镜吗？
____ he _____ ___ wear glasses?
是的，他戴。/ 不，他不戴。
Yes, he _____. / No, he ______.
4a Write sentences about the past using used to.
1. Grace/watch a lot of TV/watch a lot of movies
___________________________________
___________________________________
【点拨】将第一个动作用肯定句来描述过去常进行的活动；将第二个动作用否定
句来描述过去不常进行的活动。
2. my mom/have curly hair/have straight hair
______________________________________
______________________________________
3. Jerry/read books on European history/ read books on African culture______________________________________
______________________________________
4. Sandy /teach British English / teach American English
__________________________________
__________________________________
4b Look at the information and write sentences about Emily.
Five years ago Now
didn’t eat a lot of vegetables loves carrots and tomatoes
listened to pop music enjoys country music
watched scary movies hates scary movies
didn’t read a lot of books reads at least six books a year
e.g. Emily didn’t use to eat a lot of vegetables, but now she loves carrots and
tomatoes.
Homework:
Step 4 Write a short passage to talk about how Emily has changed.
