Lesson 24 Dream Houses Houses cottage flat detached

Lesson 24 Dream Houses 伦教中学 高波

Houses cottage

flat

detached (独立的） house

semi-detached house

Mansion（大厦）

wood cabin

Grand palace

Rooms sitting room

hall

bedroom

bathroom

dining room

kitchen

games room

cellar (basement)地下室

attic 阁楼

Balcony（阳台）

The author: Sandra Cisneros is one of the most interesting ‘Latina’ writers in the USA. Her father was Mexican and her mother was ‘Chicana’. She is both a poet and short story writer. Conveying(传递) the riches of the Latin American Culture is the writer’s literary goal.

An introduction to the book The House on Mango Street was about a dissatisfied little girl named Esperanza, the main character of the novel. She was brought up in a poor family.

Esperanza was a young girl of many hopes and dreams. One dream she had was to leave her childhood memories behind one day and live in a rich family with a nice husband family. One remarkable thing about Esperanza was that she wanted to make herself different from all the other female genders(女性).

Read to Learn Step 1 Read the text quickly. Which of these things did the girl’s dream house have? a swimming pool a big garden (yard) with trees a balcony

running water a games room three bathrooms(washrooms) ‘real’ stairs a cellar(basement)

Step 2 Read the text again and answer these questions: 1. How many places has the girl lived in? A lot / She can’t remember.

2. Where did she live before Mango Street? Why did they leave? A third floor flat on Loomis. They had to leave because the water pipes broke and the landlord wouldn’t fix them. 3. Why did the girl want at least three bathrooms? If so, when she took a bath, she wouldn’t have to tell everybody.

4. Who did Mama and Papa talk to about their dream house? To the children. 5. What do you think was the biggest problem with the house in Mango Street?

Language points 1. But what I remembered most is moving a lot. what 用来引导名词性(主语, 宾语, 表语）从句 , 同时在句中又担句子成分, 译为“…的” moving a lot 在句中作表语 e. g. The teacher’s job is teaching his students knowledge. 系表结构

e. g. 1. What he bought yesterday are three books. (主语从句)

2. Each time it seemed (that ) there’d be one more of us. It seems/seemed that… =sb. seems. /seemed to do e. g. It seems that he has been ill. He seems to have been ill. It seemed that you had heard of it. You seemed to have heard of it.

It seems as if/though… 好象… e. g. 1. It seems as if you are the first one to be here. (与事实可能相符) 2. It seemed as if he had just stepped out of a fairly book. (与事实不相符)

That’s why he spoke French so funnily. That’s because you’re doing too much. reason 作主语时, 表语从句一般用that引导 The reason (why he was late for school ) was that he suddenly fell ill.

6. And our house would have running water and pipes that worked. running water 自来水 running是v-ing形式作定语 a sleeping boy 正在睡的孩子 boiling water 沸腾的水 区别：boiling water/boiled water falling leaves/ fallen leaves

8. Our house would be white with trees around it “with + 宾语 +宾补” adj. adv. V-ing V-en Preposition phrase He looked at us, with his mouth open. 他张着嘴看着我们.

He fell asleep with the lamp burning. 他烧着油灯睡着了. He went out to play basketball with his homework done. 他作完作业出去打篮球去了。 We saw a white house with beautiful flowers in front of it. 我们看见一个村子周围有成排的树.

11. Out back is a small garage for the car we don’t own yet = A small garage for the car we don’t own yet is out back. 倒装结构 we don’t own yet, 是定语从句，修饰名词 the car.

e. g. 1. 金字塔里面是国王和王后们的 墓室和通往墓室的长长的通道. Inside the pyramids are the burial rooms for the kings and queens and long passages to these rooms. 2. 房子的前面是花园，后面是树林。 In front of the house is a garden, at the back of it is a forest.

Group Work In group of four, design a house that you think is perfect and do the drawing on a piece of paper. Then describe it to other students. Try to use the key words on page 42 to help you.

Homework Write a composition about your dream house.