1、A dictionary can be a very valuable tool for anyone who is learning a language.What dictionary do you take?What can you find on it?Please compare yours with your partners.What information can you usually get from a dictionary?spellingpronunciationpart of speechpresent participlepast participlepast t

2、ensemeaningsome examples1) Do you often use your dictionary? Yes No2) Do you know how to decide if a dictionary is a good one? Yes No3) Do you know what information a dictionary has besides spellings and meanings? Yes No4) Do you know why you can improve your English by making good use of a dictiona

3、ry? Yes NoAnswer the following questions by ticking Yes or No.How much do you know about dictionaries?Study your dictionary carefully and write down the information you may get from each entry. And compare yours with your partners. My dictionary includes spellings, _, _, _, _, _, _.My partners dicti

4、onary includes _, _, _, _, _, _, _. 中國最早的字典是爾雅。爾雅的字是按意義分類的,全書共十九章。 中國按字的形體及偏旁編排的第一部字典是說文解字,說文解字是研究中國文字學的主要參考書。 How much do you know about this dictionary?How did it come into being? The 1st farm means _ in Chinese. The 2nd farm means _ in Chinese.農場農場務農務農house+wifedivide v. division adj.do the cooki

5、ng, cleaning etc. in a househelp sb. with sth.=help sb. (to) do sth.Della likes helping her mother with the housework. = Della likes helping her mother (to) do the housework. desire to do = want to do in order to= so as tomake a living: keep life going one.g. He works as a teacher to make a living.,

6、but Noah loved to learn so much that his parents let him go to Yale,但是但是Noah是那么的愛學習，以至于他的父母就讓他上了是那么的愛學習，以至于他的父母就讓他上了耶魯大學耶魯大學so that 如此如此 以至于以至于They two graduated from Southwest University in 2006.un+ train+edCrammed means _.A. filledB. calleddifferent+ly adv.skunk n. 臭鼬臭鼬 squash n. 壁球壁球come out= be

7、publishedrather thanAccomplished here means _.A. completed B. wrote1828 edition of Websters AmericanDictionary of the English language copy+ right: n. the right that a writer, publisher, etc. has for his article, book, etc. 版權版權American Americanize v. to make sb./sth. American in character editor n.

8、 edit v.regard asYou dont have to read every sentence. Just find these years and then you can find the needed information quickly.Noah graduated. Noah wrote his own textbook A Grammatical Institute of the English Language.Noah accomplished his dictionary.Noah Webster died.When Noah was 43, he starte

9、d writing the first American dictionary. Scan the text for specific information.TFTTFTHis parents could not afford to send him to college. Because books came from England and childrens learning conditions were poor. Because Americans in different parts of the country spelled, pronounced and used wor

10、ds differently. 4) What did the American people think of Noah Webster?_Noah Webster was considered an American hero.5) What kind of person do you think Noah Webster was? Try to use some words and expressions from the text in your answer.1) skim the text to find out the general theme;2) analyze the t

11、exts structure to divide it into several sections, and write out the main idea of each section briefly with one or two sentences;3) write down the key points for each main idea;4) organize the main points in a logical order with necessary link words;5) correct spelling, vocabulary and punctuation mi

12、stakes.What do adjectives usually end with?What do nouns usually end with?Can you give any examples?keep housedesireaffordmake a livinginstead ofaccomplisheditconsidercovermake a livingaffordkeep housedesireinstead ofeditconsidercoveraccomplishmake a livingaffordkeep housedesireinstead ofeditconside

13、rcoveraccomplishinstead ofkeep houseaffordcoverdesiresaccomplishconsideredmake a livingedithelp withaffordwork forwork asOur teacher helped with our difficult problem.She can afford the diamond ring.She worked for voting rights for women.English works as a bridge between foreign countries and China. Go to the internet and find the story about the first Chinese dictionary, and prepare for a presentation next time.How many kinds of English dictionaries do you know? ReviewIm a bracket bookshelf.詞組keep house go to college make a living instead of work for