Lesson 21 : Working in Groups
Warming up

Do you like going work? What can you do to help your group work well together?
New words


absent adj. 缺席的；不在的
句式consider doing something 意为“考虑做某 事”，动词consider 后的动词要用动名词形式，也 可加宾语从句。
e.g. Li Hong considers that she will buy a gift for her mother.
Exercise
用括号中所给词语的适当形式填空。 leader (lead) of this group? 1. Who is the __________ 2. Danny, why are you __________ absent (absence) again? 3. You must have _________ (confident) in confidence yourself from now on. 4. How about __________ (share) your room with sharing me? 5. Does she __________ (real) her mistakes?
realize
The remaining exercises in the activity book. The next reading in the student book.
e.g. I don’t like living here because a boy named Wang Bing often makes
loud noise.
3. Yi Han considers telling Ms. Liu about these problems. 伊涵考虑把这些问 题告诉刘女士。
句式look forward to意为“期待、希望”， 后加名词、代词、动名词作介词to的宾语。 e.g. They look forward to going back to tቤተ መጻሕፍቲ ባይዱeir hometown soon.
句中的because a boy named Li Tian is always absent from the group meetings是原因状语从句，其中的 named Li Tian 是过去分词短语作定语，修饰前面的 名词boy；短语be absent from 意为“缺席……”。
confidence是不可数名词，意为 “信心”；短语have confidence in 也表示“对……有信心“，注 意其中介词的搭配。
e.g. What do they say when they meet on a formal occasion?
2. She is not looking forward to working with her group because a boy named Li Tian is always absent from the group meetings. 她不希望和她的小组一起工作因为一个 叫李天的男孩总是在小组开会时缺席。
trouble n. 麻烦；困难 secret n.& adj. 秘密（的）
1. confident
作形容词，意为“自信的、有信心的”， 在句中作定语 或表语。如果表示“对……有信心”用短be confident of，后加名词、代词、动名词作介词宾语。
e.g. Linda is quite confident of herself.