Unit 8 A more enjoyable school life Phrases & sentences
1. a more enjoyable school life
2. my ideal school
3. conduct a survey
4. have modern science laboratory
5. do more experiments
6. organize more sports activities
7. Children, I want you to find out what changes the younger students
would like to see in our school?
8. That’s a good idea.
9. What changes would you like to see in our school?
10. I’d like to have swimming pool in our school.
11. What changes would you like to see in our school?
12. I’d like to have more computer lessons.
13. I’d like to have more activities and trips to other places.
14. I’d like to have an air-conditioned classroom.
15. I’d like to have less homework.
16. ideas about the future of our school
17. What do you think of the suggestions?
18. It would be possible to have more books in our library.
19. It would be impossible to have a swimming pool in our school.
20. It would be difficult to have less homework.
21. It would be nice to have more computer lessons in our school.
22. Our classroom looks old, untidy and uninteresting.
23. Can you make some changes to it yourselves?
24. We can decorate the display board ourselves.
25. Peter and Jill can put up some posters on the wall themselves.
26. I can sweep the floor myself.
27. Alice can clean up the desks herself.
28. Shall we help Joe put the books on the shelves?
29. No. He can do it himself.
English meaning:
1. clean up --- make something clean or tidy
2. enjoyable --- giving joy; pleasant
3. ideal --- perfect, just as on wishes
4. impossible --- not able to be or happen
5. laboratory --- a building or room containing scientific
apparatus and in which a scientist works
6. modern --- belonging to the present time
7. necessary --- needed
8. organize --- plan and arrange an event
9. put up --- raise
10. unnecessary --- not needed or more than is needed Transformation
1. enjoy v. --- enjoyable adj. --- joy n.
2. conduct v. --- conductor n.
3. change v. / n. --- changeable adj. --- changing adj.
4. activity n. --- activities n. --- active adj.
5. air-conditioned adj. --- air-conditioner n.
6. science n. --- scientist n. --- scientific adj.
7. experiment n. --- * experimental adj.
8. organize v. --- organization n.
9. suggest v. --- suggestion(s) n.
10. possible adj. ←→impossible adj.
possibly adv. ←→impossibly adv. * possibility n.
11. necessary adj. ←→unnecessary adj.
12. difficult adj. --- difficulty n.
13. myself; yourself; herself; himself; itself;
ourselves; yourselves; themselves
14. untidy adj. ←→tidy adj.
15. uninteresting adj. ←→interesting adj.
16. library n. --- librarian n.
Grammar
1. have a good/ great/ wonderful time = have an enjoyable time
2. What changes would you like to see in our school?
I’d like to have ……
would like to do = want to do
would rather do
3. It would be possible/ impossible to ……
It would be necessary/ unnecessary to ……
It would be nice/ difficult to ……
It would be essential/ important to ……
It would be enjoyable/ pleasant to ……
4. reflective pronouns
myself; yourself; herself; himself; itself ourselves; yourselves; themselves
反身代词以-self(单数)或-selves(复数)结尾。第一、二人称的反身代词由物主代词加-self构成。第三人称的反身代词由代词宾格加-self
构成。反身代词有三种不同的用法:
一、非强调用法
这种用法通常表示反身代词与句中的主语是同一人。它在句中作宾语,不能省略,否则该句是一个意义不完整的错句。例如:
(1)Jane is too young to look after herself.(简太小,以至于不能照看自己)
(2)I teach myself English.(我自学英语)