Unit 2

Word power

----Emotions

Unit 2

Word power

----Emotions

Emotions: Noun:

excitement ; happiness; frustration; sadness; fear; disappointment; joy…

Adjective:

excited; happy; frustrated; sad; fearful; disappointed; joyful…

Fill in the form with the adjective Fill in the form with the adjective form of the words.form of the words.

Noun excitement happiness

Adjective

Noun frustration sadness fear

Adjective

excited happy

frustrated sad fearful

More words: Noun:

joy; satisfaction; madness; delight; depression; confusion

Adjective:

Joyful; satisfied; mad; delighted; depressed; confused

Some of your classmates are Some of your classmates are talking about their feelings. Help talking about their feelings. Help them choose the correct form of them choose the correct form of the word to complete the sentencesthe word to complete the sentences1. I was very anger / angry. I was anger / angrier than ever before.2. I felt contentment / content after the match. I knew I had tried my hardest, and a feeling of contentment / content came over me.

• 3. I sense some frustration / frustrated from you. Are you frustration / frustrated because you did not win?

• 4. I was so fright / frightened during the horror film! I am still recovering from the fright / frightened.

• 5. I know that many people are concern / concerned about me. I have received letters from so many people, all expressing their concern / concerned.

• 6. I’m jealous / jealousy of her success but I am trying to replace my jealous / jealousy with happiness for her.

A.

I was very anger/angry. I was anger/angrier than ever before.

I felt contentment/content after the match. I knew I had tried my hardest, and a feeling of contentment/content came over me.

I sense some frustration/frustrated from you. Are you frustration/frustrated because you did not win?

I was so fright/frightened during the horror film!I am still recovering from the fright/frightened.

I know that many people are concern/concerned about me. I have received letters from so many people, all expressing their concern/concerned.

I’m jealous/jealousy of her success but I am trying to replace my jealous/jealously with happiness for her.

B:

When I first heard about the speech competition, I was full of_ ________ I knew I wanted to go for it, but I was also _____ that I would not win.

I spent many hours practising my speech and trying to improve it. My friends all said I had a lot of courage. They said they would be very ______ if they had to speak in public.

excitement

fearful

frightened

After the competition was over, I felt I had done a good jog. When I found out I was not the winner, I was filled with __________ and _________ of the boy who came first. Even after all my hard work, someone else did a better job than I did!

frustration jealous

I felt many different things. First, I was ______with the judges. Then I became very _____. I cried a lot, and couldn’t feel________ about anything. My parents were very _________ about me. They felt I was thinking too much about winning, and not enough about my personal performance.

angrysadhappy

concerned

They were right. I now realize that the boy who won made a better speech, but I did the best I could. I am ______ with second place, because I know that I tried my hardest, and that is more important than winning.

content

C: There are many English idioms about emotions. Fill in the spidergram with idioms from the box below.

emotions

saddown in the dumps

happyangry

feel blue

fly off the handle hot under

the collar

over the moon

on cloud nine

Language pointsLanguage points

1. Expanding the number of words in your vocabulary related to emotion can help you to express exactly how you feel. (P22)

1)expand ： verb [I or T] to increase in size, number or importance, or to make something increase in this way:

The air in the balloon expands when heated.

They expanded their retail operations significantly during the 1980s.

1. Expanding the number of words in your vocabulary related to emotion can help you to express exactly how you feel. (P22)

2) related ： adjective connected:We discussed unemployment and related issues.Experts believe that the large number of cancer cases in the area are directly related to the new nuclear power station.

2. All of these words have adjective forms as well. (P22)

as well: also 也，还，和If you have no pen, a pencil will do

as well. It is just as well to be careful. I'll take this one as well. Yvonne is learning French and

English as well.

as well as: 1) and also 和He has experience as well as

knowledge. She's clever as well as beautiful. He has experience as well as

knowledge. Scott has a flat in London as well as

a house in Edinburgh.

as well as: 2) in as good a way as 同样；同样好地 I, as well as you, know that. He said he could sing as well as the

birds. He can speak English as well as you

do.

相关高考题

Unlike watching TV, reading is a highly active process ( 过程 ) ________ it requires attention as well as memory and imagination.

A. until B. but C. unless D. for

Homework: Prepare for the next period.