英语高二下外研版选修8 Module 2教案03（Words and Expressions）
英语：Module 2《The Renaissance》英文教案（3）（外研版选修8）
Section 3 Words and Expressions
work n.
1.sth. created as a result of effort, especially a painting, book or piece of music：The museum has many works by Picasso as well as other modern painters.
the poetic works of Tagore
2 an activity, such as a job, which a person uses physical or mental effort or do, usually for money:
I’ve got so much work to do.
Carrying heavy loads around all day is hard work.
What time do you start/finish work?
Adrian does most of the work around the house.
What sort of work are you experienced in?
She tends to wear quite smart clothes for work.
Roger’s work involves a lot of travelling.
3 the material used by someone at work, or what they produce:
I'll have to take this work home with me and finish it there.
All the furniture is the work of residents here.
v. to do a job, especially the job you do to earn money, or to make someone do a job:
He works at the local hospital.
She worked as a cleaner at the hospital.
Mike works for a computer company.
It’s not unusual for a junior doctor to work a seventy or sometimes an eighty hour week.
Have you any experience of working with children who have learning difficulties?
The instructors worked us very hard on the survival course.
overnight adj. adv.
1 for or during the night:
an overnight stop in Paris
You can stay overnight if you want to.
Don’t forget to pack an overnight bag (= a bag for things that you need when you stay away from home for a night).
2 suddenly and unexpectedly:
She became a star overnight.
The book was an overnight success.
medieval adj.
related to the Middle Ages (= the period in European history from about 600 AD to 1500 AD):
a medieval building/painting/town
a medieval manuscript
frontier n.
a border between two countries, or (especially in the past in the United States) a border between cultivated land where people live and wild land:
Some of the frontier between Germany and Poland follows the course of the river Oder.
Nepal has frontiers with both India and China.
They lived in a town close to the frontier.
perspective n.
the way that objects appear smaller when they are further away and the way parallel lines appear to meet each other at a point in the distance:
In 15th-century Italy, artists rediscovered the rules of perspective.
cathedral n.
a very large, usually stone, building for Christian worship, which is the largest and most important church of a  (= area):
Salisbury Cathedral
motivate
v. 1 [T often passive] to cause someone to behave in a particular way:
Like so many people, he’s motivated by greed.
He is genuinely motivated by a desire to help people.
2 [T] to make someone want to do sth. well:
[+ to infinitive] Teaching is all about motivating people to learn.
n. a reason for doing sth.:
Why would she have killed him? She has no motive.
Does he have a motive for lying about where he was?
What is the motive behind (= the reason for) the bombing?
I think you should examine/question their motives in offering to lend you the money.
She denies that she has has an ulterior (= secret) motive for making the donation.
skilled adj.[:Z§X§X§K]
1 having the abilities needed to do an activity or job well:
My mother is very skilled at/in dressmaking.
2 Skilled work needs someone who has had special training to do it:
Nursing is a highly skilled job.
ornate adj.
1 having a lot of complicated decoration:
a room with an ornate ceiling and gold mirrors
2 MAINLY DISAPPROVING Language which is ornate contains too many complicated words or phrases:
Some students are put off studying his work because of the ornate language of the poetry.
tax
n. (an amount of) money paid to the government, which is based on your income or of the cost of goods or services you have bought:
They’re putting up the tax on cigarettes.
Tax cuts (= reductions in taxes) are always popular.
What do you earn before/after tax (= before/after you have paid tax on the money you earn)?
v. to make someone pay a tax:
Husbands and wives may be taxed independently/together.
reckon v.
1 to consider or have the opinion that something is as stated:
I don’t reckon much UK to/US of their chances of winning (= I do not think they will win).
She was widely reckoned (to be) the best actress of her generation.
2 to think or believe:
I reckon it’s going to rain.
[+ (that)] How much do you reckon (that) it’s going to cost?
“Can you fix my car today?” “I reckon not/so (= probably not/probably).”
anecdote n.
a short often amusing story, especially about sth. someone has done:
He told one or two amusing anecdotes about his years as a policeman.
authentic adj.
If sth. is authentic, it is real, true, or what people say it is:
an authentic 1920s dress
authentic Italian food
reaction to a book or an articleHe was there and saw what happened, so his is the only authentic account.
spokesman n. (ALSO spokesperson)
someone who is chosen by a group or organization to speak officially to the public for them:
a government spokesperson

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