新概念英语L1辅导讲义Lesson 8 The best and the worst 教师版
Lesson 8 The best and the worst 阅读理解
1. Who has the best garden in the town?
Joe Sanders has the best garden in the town.
2. Is the writer’s garden beautiful, or is it terrible?
It is terrible.
单词详解
1. competition n. 比赛，竞赛
词组：boxing competition 拳击比赛
beauty competition 选美比赛
派生：compete v. 竞争
competitor n. 竞争者
2. neat adj. 整齐的，整洁的
3. path n. 小路，小径
4. wooden adj. 木质的
词组：wooden furniture 木质家具
派生：wood n. 木头（不可数）woods 树林
5. pool n. 水池
词组：a swimming pool 游泳池
课文解析
1. Joe Sanders has the most beautiful garden in our town.
●the most beautiful 为形容词最高级（详见语法重点）
2. Nearly everybody enters for ‘The Nicest Garden Competition’each year, but Joe wins every time.
●单词：nearly 表示几乎，差不多= almost
●辨析：enter V.S. enter for
enter v. 进入= go into
enter for 报名参加（活动）= take part in
选词填空：How many people have entered for the match?
Everyone stood up when he entered the room.
●everyone / everything等不定代词作主语，谓语用单数
●单词：win v. 赢，获胜(win – won – won)
词组：赢了奖品/比赛win a prize / a match
3. Bill Frith’s garden is larger than Joe’s. Bill works harder than 【思考1】
还有哪些词可以表示“比赛”？
race, game, match, contest, …
【思考2】
表示“道路”的词还有哪些？road / avenue / street / lane
【思考3】
work和works也有相似的规律，你知道它们的意思分别是什么吗？
work [U] 工作
[C] （书籍、音乐、艺术）作品；著作；works 作品集
【思考4】
“赢了某人”怎么说？可以用win sb.吗？
不可以。win后只能加sth.
Joe and grows more flowers and vegetables, but Joe’s garden is more interesting.
●larger为形容词比较级（详见语法重点）
●辨析：work hard努力地工作（动词词组）
V.S. hard work 艰难的工作（名词词组）
V.S. hardworking 勤劳的（形容词）
填空：Our boss works hard so he likes hard-working employees who can accept hard work.
4. He has made neat paths and has built a wooden bridge over a pool.
●词组：a wooden bridge 木桥
●单词：over表示在……正上方
词组：fly over the mountain 飞跃山头
5. I like gardens too, but I do not like hard work. Every year I enter for the garden competition too, and I always win a little prize for the worst garden in the town!
●词组：win a prize for sth. 为某事获奖
●worst是形容词最高级，原级为bad
●辨析：too放于肯定句句末，表示“也”；
either放于否定句句末，表示“也”
选词填空：– I like swimming.
– I like swimming, too.
–I don’t like swimming.
–I don’t like swimming, either.
根据课文内容，完成下表：
要表达“赢了某人”可以用beat sb. (at sth.) / defeat sb.
【趣味知识1】
In spoken English, if you say something is neat, you mean that it is very good.
e.g. The new apartments are really neat.
【思考5】
worst还是哪些形容词的最高级？
badly / ill, worse, worst
【趣味题】
你能否在空白处画出三种花园的样子？
你心中最美的花园是什么样子的？
语法重点
形容词和副词的比较级和最高级
●构成方式：
1. 单音节词和少数双音节词在词尾加er, est
hard – harder – the hardest
2. 以e结尾的单音节词直接加r, st
large – larger – the largest
3. 以辅音字母＋y结尾的双音节词要去y＋ier, iest
busy – busier – the busiest
4. 最后三个字母为：辅＋元＋辅，双写最后的辅音字母，再加－er, est
big – bigger – biggest
5. 少数多音节词及多音节词通常在前面加more, most
beautiful – more beautiful – the most beautiful
6. 不规则形式
good – better – best
bad – worse – worst
far – farther / further – farthest / furthest
little – less – least
many – more – most
much – more – most
（教学说明：可让学生游戏接龙以上比较级最高级内容。【学生版不出现】）
用法：
1. 在比较级中，比较两项内容，后者需要用介词than。
翻译：她比他更年轻。
She is younger than him.
我比Joy跑得快。
I can run faster than Joy.
2. 最高级限定范围内容一般用of, among, in等介词词组，最高级前要加the。
翻译：他是三个男生中最高的。
He is the tallest among the three boys.
春天是一年中最好的季节。
Spring is the best season of the year.
【Challenge yourself!】
【Easy】Multiple choices.
( B ) 1. Peter is sixteen and his sister is two years _______, but she is in a higher grade.
A. young
B. younger
C. old
D. older
( C ) 2. He has made ________ progress this term than before..
A. little
B. less
C. fewer
D. much
【Medium】Find the mistake in the sentences and correct them.
3.The Sahara Desert is biggest desert in the world.
The Sahara Desert is the biggest desert in the world.
4. Which one is the most popular, the radio or the movie?
Which one is more popular, the radio or the movie?
【Hard】Complete the sentences without changing its original meaning.
5. She is the best in her class.
= She is better than any other student in her class.
= No other student in her class is better than she.
= No other student in her class is as good as she.