Unit 15 A famous detective
Lesson 57
Step 1 Revision
1. Check the homework exercises.
2. Ask the students some questions quickly about their daily life.
Step 2 Presentation
1. Read the introduction aloud. Ask the students to listen to the tape and then answer the questions: Why did Mr. Ball call on Mrs. Zhu? How much do you know about Dr. Zhang?
2. Let the students to answer the questions in pairs and check with the whole class.
(1. To him a massage about the date for the conference; 2. He lives in Guangzhou; is on a visit to Beijing; has some personal affairs to see to; is visiting some relatives.)
3. Ask the students to guess the meaning of the new words.
Step 3 Dialogue
1. Play the tape for the students to listen and follow.
2. Go through the dialogue briefly and make sure the students understand it.
3. Play the tape again, and the students to listen and repeat.
4. Ask the students to practise in pairs.
Step 4 Language points
1. Mr. Ball has just called on Mrs. Zhu to give her a massage.
* call on: to visit sb. formally 拜访，去会见某人; call at 拜访某地
I hope to call on you at your office at 3 o’clock today.
She called on the old teacher once a month.
We often call at the place of interest.
* drop in at/ on : visit unexpectedly or informally顺便拜访
Drop in and see me when you are next in Beijing.
He often drops in for coffee.
He often drops in at my place on his way home.
We dropped in on our teacher when we went to town.
2. Do come in.
* do 用在祈使句中或肯定句中加强语气．
Do come and jion us.
Please! Do be quitet a moment.
I do hope you will go with us.
3.
I’ve got some personal affairs that I have to see to.
* have got = have 拥有，具有
I have got a new car.
Have you got any money with you?
She hasn’t got much time for the moment.
* see to = deal with 处理（某事），负责做（某事），照顾（某人）
I have got a lot of things to see to this afternoon.
Who is seeing to the arrangements for the next meeting?
I’ll see to the guests when they arrive.
4. It’s time I went and pick up my little girl from school.
* It’s time +主语+动词的过去式. “是某人该做某事的时候了”, 虚拟语气.
It is time you went to bed.
It is time they did cleaning.
It is high time that you studied hard.
* It is time for sth. / It is time to do sth. / it is time for sb. to do sth.
It is time for supper.
It is time to go to school.
It is time for us to go to school.
* pick up
1) 拾起,捡起. He picked up a wallet on the ground and handed it in
2) 采摘They are picking up the apples on the trees.
We must try our best to prevent children picking up the flowers in the garden.
3) 获得,学会. She picked up English when was in Beijing in the 1930s.
We picked up so much knowledge when we were in the countryside.
4) 看到,测知,收听到. My radio can pick up BBC. We couldn’t pick up the news yesterday evening.
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高二unit 15 A Famous Detectative