holiness in (It is often Christian used in countries churches to show purity.)
Read the passage again and discuss the following questions:
1. What other meanings do you know of for the colors mentioned in the reading passage? Can you give an example? 2. Are you interested in any other color? What do you know about it?
Discussion
1. What is your favorite color? Why do you like it? 2. What about your partner? Do you like his/her favorite color? Why or why not? 3. Why do different people have different ideas about the same color? zxxk
1. Be careful when you cross this very busy street. If not, you may ______ run over by a car. (2002北京春) A. have B. get C. become D. turn 2. --- How are the team playing? --- They're playing well, but one of them _______ hurt. (2002全国春) A. got B. gets C. are D. were
4. Why do Chinese people like using the color red on many important traditional occasions? 5. What are the colors of the five rings on the Olympic flags? What do the colors represent?
1. Read the passage in Project and try to remember something about the colors.
2. Surf the Internet and gain more information about colors in different cultures.
1. (2004全国) — How about eight o'clock outside the cinema? — That _______ me fine. A. fits B. meets C. satisfies D. suits
2. In most Western countries, white is traditionally a color for wedding celebrations and women get married in a white dress. (P47) 1) get
verb [L + past participle] getting, got, got or US gotten sometimes used instead of 'be' to form the passive:
They're getting married later this year. This window seems to have got broken.
Read the passage again and take note of each color mentioned in the passage. Fill the blanks.
color
Meaning
Positive Country/ Negative Country/
region
region
Japan z。xxk
being Western not countries, brave, such as or a the USA coward and the
UK
peace
India
growth, Ireland envy and
g health and
r the envir-
e e
onment
Project
Reporting on colours and cultures
A short film for appreciation:
What did you see in the film?
It’s a film about colors. We can see different flowers with different colors in the film. It’s a world of colors.
3. As we joined the big crowd I
got ______ from my friends. (2001
全国)
A. separated
B. spared
C. lost
D. missed
Exercises: Translation
我找到了一份工作，对我再合适不过了。 I've found a job that suits me down to the ground.
jealousy
n
Western countries. Such as the USA and the UK
hope and ancient in-
spring Egypt experience
b being cool Western evil
Western
l and elegant countries
Read the magazine article about colors and cultures. Answer the following questions.
1. What does the color red mean in China? 2. Why did women wear yellow ribbons on blouse collars or sleeves in the USA and the UK decades ago? 3. What is green always associated with? 4. What does ‘in the black’ mean? 5. What kind of people is white usually associated with?
Corn is grown a lot in this area — the soil seems to suit it very well. The city lifestyle seems to suit her — she's certainly looking very well.
suited adjective right for someone or sth.: 适合的 With her qualifications and experience, she would seem to be ideally suited to/for the job.
red celebration China and good luck
violence The USA and warning of danger
happiness China sadness
bravery many countries
South Africa
y happiness and joy
我们什么时候会面合适？ What time is suitable for us to meet? 她放弃职业结婚以后有一种失落感。 She experienced a loss of identity after giving up her career to get married.
Homework
Language points
1. Roses are red, violets are blue, but which of the two really suits you? (P46)
1) suit verb [T] to be right for a particular person, situation or occasion: 适合
If two people who have a relationship are suited, they have a good relationship which will probably last, often because they share a lot of interests: They were never suited (to each other) from the start — they've got nothing in common.
Answers: 1. The red is the color of happiness, excitement and good luck. 2. The yellow ribbons were regarded as a sign of hope by women waiting for their husband or boyfriends to come home safely from war. 3. Green represents growth, health and the environment, and it has long been associated with Ireland, where the national flower is green. 4. The idiom conveys the positive meaning of having money or that a business is making a profit. 5. Surgeons, nurses and dentists.