1、What characteristics carrots,eggs and coffee have respectively and in what way they can be related.What a passage entitled“Carrots,Eggs and Coffee”will be about.2.Guess the meaning of each of the following words and phrases.You may use a dictionary.fishout ladleout react fragile boiling waterFast re
2、ading:Why did the young womans mother ask her to the kitchen?To make her understand how she should respond to life.1.Read the passage carefully and complete the table with the missing information.The young womans trouble _Things are hard for her and she did no know how she was going to make it and w
3、anted to give up.Her mothers reaction _Her mothers explanation _The lesson learned from the story _She took her to the kitchen.The objects faced the same test-boiling water-but each reacted differently.Change yourself and the situation when you face troubles.2.Read the text again and answer the foll
4、owing questions.1)Why did the young woman go to her mother?Because she had some difficulties in her life and she did not know how to deal with them.2)In what way did the young woman try hard to make a better life?3)How did the mother help her daughter to learn the lesson?And what do you think of the
5、 way?She was fighting and struggling.Her mother took her to the kitchen.4)How would you answer the questions and asked by the mother at the very end of the story?I wanted to be coffee.5)What do you think carrot,egg,and coffee respectively symbolize in the text?The carrot symbolizes people who give u
6、p themselves if they face troubles.The egg symbolizes people who change oneself to solve the problem if they face troubles.The coffee symbolizes people who change oneself and even change the situation if they face troubles.3.Retell the story in your own words with the help of the following phrases.f
7、illwith turn off give up be tired of fish out pull out ladle out pull off4.Find a word or an expression from the text to match each of the following explanations.1)easily damaged or broken _2)to see and notice(sb./sth.);to watch carefully _3)pleasant or sweet smell;scent or perfume _fragileobservefr
8、agrance4)to abandon an attempt to do sth._5)over used for cooking _6)plant with a long pointed orange root _give upstovecarrot7)to flow esp.downwards,in a continuous stream _8)to notice;to observe _pournote5.Interview some of your classmates to find out what they are like:a carrot,an egg or coffee.T
9、hen complete the following table and report your findings to the class.Following questions can help you:What kind of persons do you think you are?Can you give some examples to prove that?When you meet with difficulties in your life,what will you do with them?Most I like the number of the reasons cla
10、ssmates they give CarrotEggCoffeeYour report may begin like this:Yesterday,I made a survey in my class to _.I interview _ classmates altogether._ percent of them think _ because _._ percent of the think _because_.Language points in the passage:1.She did not know how she was going to make it and want
11、ed to give up.她不知道该如何应付，打算放弃。make it 应付，成功You cant make it to the other shore in this weather.这样的天气你是无法成功到达那边的海岸的。2.She was tired of fighting and struggling.她厌倦了打拼和奋斗。fight,war,battle,struggle 的区别fight 战役，战斗，打仗指人与人，动物与动物，人与自然、疾病、困难之间的战斗和斗争。They were fighting against the enemy.他们在和敌人作战。war 战争。指战争的全体，
12、可包括许多战役。The Second World War brought the atomic bomb into being.第二次世界大战让原子弹变成了现实。battle 战争，战役。着重指战争中的一次较大的战斗，但有时也指个人之间的争斗。There was a great battle at sea.海边发生过一场伟大的战役。struggle 挣扎，奋斗。尤指在困境中的抗争。The old man has been struggling with illness.这位老人一直在与病魔斗争。3.She fished the carrots out and placed them in a
13、below.她把胡萝卜捞出来，放到了碗里面。fish out：捞出；掏出；吊出来She fished out a coin from her pocket.她从口袋掏出一枚硬币。4.Then she ladled the coffee out and poured it into a cup.最后用勺舀出咖啡放入一个杯子中。ladle out 舀出;提供She ladled out a bowl of tomato soup.她舀出一碗西红柿汤。He likes to ladle out advice.他喜欢给人提意见。5.Turning to her daughter,she asked,”
14、Tell me,what do you see?”她转向她的女儿问“告诉我，你看到了什么？”turning to her daughter在此处的做的是状语。现在分词短语作状语，其和后面的句子在逻辑上是主谓关系。Having watered the flowers,he began to cut the grass.他把花浇好后，开始割草。Having eaten his dinner,the boy rushed out.那男孩吃完了饭就跑出去了。6.After breaking the shell,she observed the hard-boiled egg.打开壳之后，她注意到煮硬的鸡蛋。“After breaking the shell,”此处介词短语做时间状语，其可以改为一个状语从句的形式“After he broke the shell”.However,after being put into the boiling water,it softened.=However,after the carrot was put into the boiling water,it softened.soften 意为“使松软”。这是 adj.+en=vt.的构词方法。例如：hard-hardenweak-weaken
