Lesson 6 Smash-and grab 砸橱窗抢劫

【 New words and expressions 】 生词和短语

◆ smash-and-grab         n. 砸橱窗抢劫

◆ arcade                          n. 有拱廊的街道（两旁常设商店）

◆ Piccadilly                      n. 皮卡迪利大街

◆ jewellery                       n. 珠宝（总称）

◆ necklace                        n. 项链

◆ ring                                n. 戒指

◆ background                 n. 背景

◆ velet                              n. 天鹅绒，丝绒

◆ headlight                      n. （汽车等）前灯

◆ blare                              v. 发嘟嘟声，吼叫

◆ staff                               n. 全体工作人员

◆ raid                                n. 偷袭

◆ scramble                      v. 爬行

◆ fantastic                        adj. 非常大的

◆ ashtray                          n. 烟灰缸

 

★ smash-and-grab n. 砸橱窗抢劫

smash vt. break sth. into pieces violently

       vi.  The dishes smashed on the floor.

smash into: 撞击到某处

Eg: The bus smashed into a big tree.

grab : seize suddenly

catch : get hold of sth. / sbb. moving

snatch : catch sth. / sb. suddenly and violently

seize: 强调抓住、抓到的结果 Fear seized her.

grasp: 强调掌握

hold ： 强调抓牢、抓紧 He is holding an umbrella.

 

★ arcade n. 有拱廊的街道（两旁常设商店）

 

★ Piccadilly n. 皮卡迪利大街

★ jewellery n. 珠宝（总称）

★ necklace n. 项链

★ ring n. 戒指

★ background n. 背景

on the background of sth. 以什么为背景

background information

a man of excellent background

★ velet n. 天鹅绒，丝绒

★ headlight n. （汽车等）前灯

★ blare v. 发嘟嘟声，吼叫

★ staff n. 全体工作人员

★ raid n. 偷袭

★ scramble v. 爬行

scramble vi. creep quickly

climb vt. 爬上

mount: 登上

 

★★★ fantastic adj. 非常大的

fantastic: very great / large        a fantastics of money

          strange

          wonderful

 

★ ashtray n. 烟灰缸

 

【 Text 】

§ Lesson 6 Smash-and grab 砸橱窗抢劫

How did Mr. Taylor try to stop the thieves?

 

The expensive shops in a famous arcade near Piccadilly were just opening. At this time of the morning, the arcade was almost empty. Mr Taylor, the owner of a jewellery shop was admiring a new window display. Two of his assistants had been working busily since 8 o'clock and had only just finished. Diamond necklaces and rings had been beautifully arranged on a background of black velvet. After gazing at the display for several minutes, Mr Taylor went back into his shop.

The silence was suddenly broken when a large car, with its headlights on and its horn blaring, roared down the arcade. It came to a stop outside the jeweler's. One man stayed at the wheel while two others with black stockings over their faces jumped out and smashed the window of the shop with iron bars. While this was going on, Mr Taylor was upstairs. He and his staff began throwing furniture out of the window. Chairs and tables went flying into the arcade. One of the thieves was struck by a heavy statue, but he was too busy helping himself to diamonds to notice any pain. The raid was all over in three minutes, for the men scrambled back into the car and it moved off at a fantastic speed. Just as it was leaving, Mr Taylor rushed out and ran after it throwing ashtrays and vases, but it was impossible to stop the thieves. They had got away with thousands of pounds

worth of diamonds.

 

【课文讲解】

本课有许多句型值得模仿

in a famous arcade near Piccadilly 介词短语修饰shops

Eg: The shoe shop in myneighbourhood was just opening.

 

Beijing, our capital, is eveloping enormously (at fantastic speed ).

 

L06-01  end  11’35”

 

L06-02  begin 10’06”

‘After gazing at the display for several minutes, Mr Taylor went back into his shop.’

运用ing 形式结构，其逻辑主语要和主句的主语保持一致

 

本课的重点句式：with 的复合结构

如果宾语和宾语补足语在逻辑上有主谓关系，应该采用动词的ing 形式：

如果是动宾关系，应该采用过去分词形式作宾补

如果表达某事将要展开发生，要用动词不定式to

She sat staring into the distance with tears streaming down her cheeks.

She stood ther with her hands resting on her hips.

He ran into the room with his face covered with tears.

With his homework finished, he felt happy.

He used to sleep with all the windows open.

He went out with his hat on.

With the meeting over, we went home.

He came in with a knife in his hand.

 

L06-02  end 10’06”

 

L06-03  begin    11’13”

Two others with black stockings over their faces jumped out.

With a lot of work to do, he can’t go to the cinama.

总结：

with 用于句首或句尾，常表示状语、行为方式、原因、伴随状况等；如果跟在名词之后，是用来修饰限定该名词

a thief with atocking over his face

a teacher with a book under his arm

a room with the windows open

 

come to 后面常接名词，表示达到

come to a stop, come to an end, come to a decision, come to an agreement, come to an understanding, come to success, come to fame

停车 stop, draw up, pull up

 

at the barbar’s, at the butcher’s, at the baker’s, at the greengrocer’s. at the grocer’s, at the stationer’s, at the tobacconist’s, at the chemist’s

 

help oneself to: 自便

help yourselt to dish

My roommate helped herself to my clothes without asking me.

 

at a fantastic speed / at a tremendous speed / at a high(full) speed / with great speed

 

hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of jewel 数十万美元的珠宝

 

L06-03end  11’13”

 

L06-04  begin  14’29”

 

Word building

前缀构词法

如何运用常见的前缀

dis-

agreeable  disagreeable  content  discontent

graceful dis graceful honest dis honest

satisfactory  dissatisfactory

dis 还可以加在名词前

agreement disagreement

honesty dishonesty

ability disability

grace  disgrace

comfort discomfort

dis 可以加在动词前

agree dis agree

appear  disappear

believe  disbelieve

dis- 还可表示除去、解除， 在名词前加dis- 得到动词形式

courage  discourage

root  disroot

mask dismask

burden  disburden

 

il- 加在以l 开头的形容词之前

legal  illegal    logical illbogical

literate  illiterate

 

im- 加在以b,m,p 开头的形容词之前

possible   impossible

mortal   immotal

moral  immoral

balanced imbalanced

 

ir- 加在以r 开头的形容词之前

regular  irregular   rational irrational

resistible  irresistible

 

in- 主要用于其他字母开头的词之前

human inhuman   correct  incorrect

justice injustice  sinca/ere  insincere

un- 只能手于形容词和动词之前

不

happy  unhappy  friendly  unfriendly

lucky  unlucky

无

conditional  unconditional  limited  unlited

非

official  unofficial   just  unjust

未，主要用于过去分词之前

undecided   unfinished  unexpected  unhurt

用于动词之前表示做相反的动作

lock  unlock  tie  untie

cover  uncover   pack  unpack

dress undress  load  unload

Exercise  P36

Write these sentences again giving the correct opposites of the words in italics

1  He was extremely polite .

2  I agree with you.

3  His handwriting is quite legible .

4  This report is accurate .

5  Have you locked the door?

6  Have you learnt these regular verbs?

 

Key:  1 impolite  2 disagree   3  illegible   4 inaccurate   5  unlocked   6 irregular

 

L06-04  end  14’29”

 

L06-05  begin  13’47”

 

【 Multiple choice questions 】多项选择题

Comprehension

1  While Mr. Taylor was admiring the new window display,        .

a. his two assistants were arranging jewellery in the window

b. some thieves were on their way to raid his shop

c. he was standing inside his shop

d. his staff were finishing their work for the day

 

1. B

on one’s way to do

He is on the way to become a lawyer

 

2  The car headlights were on and its horm blaring       .

a. as the thieves wanted to warn people out of their way

b. as a special signal to ther assistants

c. so the thieves could see where theywere going

d. to break the earlymorning silence

 

2. A

warn sb. out of one’s way

in one’s way

 

3  The thieves chose to raid Mr. Taylor’s shop because        .

a. it was early in the morning and not many shops were open

b. they did not expect Mr. Taylor and his staff to try and stop them

c. it usually had a treat deal of valuable jewellery on display

d. they had a very fast car to get away in

 

3. C

 

Structure

4  The expensive shops in        were just opening. (ll.1-2)

a, Piccadilly’s famous arcade    b. a Piccadilly famous arcade

c. a famous Piccadilly arcade    d. the famous arcade off Piccadilly

名词具有修饰词的时候，语序的排列通常是形容词、名词。

an old village school

4. C

 

5  He        the display for several minutes before re-entering his shop. (ll.7-8)

a. was gazing at    b. gazed at     c. had gazed at    d. had been gazing at

5. B 做句子结构题时要和原文加以对比

 

6  Using bars made        iron, the thieves smashed the shop window. (l.11)

a. of    b. from    c by    d. with

6. A

 

7  He and his staff began        furniture out of the window. (l.12)

a. to throw    b. by throwing    c. and threw    d. the throwing of

begin doing sth. / begin to do sth.

7. A

 

8  Had he not been so busy taking the diamonds, he        the blow. (ll.13-14)

a. would feel    b. had been feeling    c. had felt    d. woud have felt

省略if 的条件状语从句，

8 ． D

 

Vocabulary

9  To make the car ‘roar down the arcade’, the driver must have        . (ll.9-10)

a. accelerated    b. sped    c. run    d. reversed

accelerated 加速

speed 加快动作和工作的进程 speed up

Eg: We’d better speed up, if we want to get there in time.

The driver accelerated to pass the other car.

The car sped along the road

reversed: 倒车

Eg: The car reversed through the gate.

9 ． A

 

10  Two others, their faces        black stockings, jumped out. (ll.10-11)

a. covered with    b. overdressed with    c. overlooked by    d. made up in

two others 和 their faces 同位语关系

overdressed

I fell rather overdressed in this smart suit.

overlooked: 俯瞰

made up in 无这种表达方式

10 ． A

 

11         , Mr. Taylor was upstairs. (ll.11-12)

a. For the time being    b. Meanwhile    c. As it happened    d. For a while

For the time being  = temporarily

Meanwhile = at the same time

As it happened 这类事情的发生  

For a while = for a moment

11. B

 

12  Chairs and tables were        into the arcade. (ll.12-13)

a. flown    b. emptied    c. hurled    d. projected

flown 是fly 的过去分词，vi. 不能用于被动语态 go flying , send sth. flying

Eg: A gust of  wind sent the paper flying in all directions.

emptied  倒空， 与题意不符

hurled ：用力的去投掷

projected ： sent up 发射

 

L06-05 § Lesson 6  end  13’47”

L07-01  § Lesson 7 begin 15’10”