Unit 2 language Reading学案

一、双基提要

（1）To the west and off the European Continent, there are several thousands of island on the continental shelf(大陆架). They are generally called the British Isles( 大不列颠岛). Of all the isles, the largest one is called the Great Britain. The name Great Britain was not applied to this large area island until the 17th century, its southern part adopted the name England in the 5th century when groups of invaders fro Northern Europe, traditionally called the Angles, Saxons and Jutes, were taking possessing of this area. Their language, the English language, spread far and wide and later became the official language of the nation. The "Engl-" part of the word comes from the word Angles while the "-ish" part means "belonging to". The word English means "the language that belongs to the Angles".

（2）要点提挈

1 confuse

They confused me by asking so many questions. 他们提一大堆问题，把我都弄糊涂了。

Don't confuse Australia with / and Austria.

confused (表示人)糊涂的 All your changes of plan have made me confused.

confusing (表示物) 莫名其妙的 难以理解的The instructions on the box are very confusing.

2 be made up of Animal bodies are made up of cells.

consist of The committee consists of ten members.

3 mix sth with sth Oil doesn't mix with water. mix A and B together

You're always mixing me up with my twin sister. 你老是把我和我孪生妹妹弄混了!

4 句型

That's why / because ... It's certain that ...

... we sometimes find if hard to decide which words or phrases to ues.

6 contribute

contribute sth to / towards sth

The volunteers contribute huge amounts of their own time to the project.

Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize for his contribution to Quantun Theory. (量子理论)

Day centers for the elderly make a valuable contribution to the overall service.