从教材英语到高考英语，熟词生义对很多学生都是难点。现在，学生的英语阅读材料来源广，原汁原味，但由于阅读量不足，语境意识没有形成，很多他们熟知的词让他们犯难。今天，学生提到的两个词值得说道说道，一个是dress, 一个是sharp。
一学生问我：At dinner, mother dressed a chicken for my friends, 晚饭时，招待我的朋友，妈妈为什么要打扮一只鸡？我告诉他：dress 除了有穿衣服的意思外，还有好几个意思，比如，dress在这个句子中的英文意思是prepare food for cooking or eating，也就是这只鸡是现杀的，在拔毛破膛，洗干净后烹制出来。之后，我给他写了几个句子，让他根据语境猜猜dress都是什么意思。
1. My wife is expert at dressing cold dishes.
2. Before the Spring Festival, most of us will dress our house.
3. After the fighting，the nurses were busy dressing the wounds of the wounded soldiers.
4. What they have done these days is seen as window dressing.
一天早读时，几个学生问我听力材料中下面这句话中的sharp是什么意思：
A bus will pick up the students at the school gate at 1 o’clock. The game will start at 3 sharp.
“sharp”有十多个意思，但好些学生见到这个词，脑子就想着“锋利”这个意思。看来明天的课上要专门讲讲sharp,看看sharp们是不是都“锋利”？
在第二天的课上的第一个环节，我给出下面包括“sharp”用法的十句子，抛出“Sharp锋利吗？”这个问题。这节课的效果是令人满意的。
1.Shops are reporting a sharp rise in sales of organic produce.
2.The warm weather was in sharp contrast to
last year‘s cold temperatures.
3.He has a sharp wit and a wicked sense of humour.
4.Cut the melon in half using a sharp knife.
5.Sharp words were exchanged.
6.He was left a sharp sense of
disappointment with her girl
friend leaving her. He thought he
was the king of sorrow.
7.My new TV has a very sharp picture.
8.That cheese is too sharp for me.
9. Tod looks really sharp in his new
shirt,drawing a lot of attention in
his office.
10. It had been a frosty morning, to be sure, a
sharp frost, which hardly one man in a
thousand could stand the test of.
作 者 简 介
刘少文，西安83中英语高级教师。陕西省“国培”、“省培”专家。从教36年。2009年起，参与40多期“国培”、“省培”教学,与全省5000多名教师面对面交流。2011年起，积极参加支教送教活动，在省内外开展教学讲座近三百场，深受同行欢迎。
2012年，刘少文老师将在留学英国期间写的三万多字的英文日记编写成校本教材《旅英日记》，并成功开设此课。
自2010年以来，刘少文老师先后获得“西安市课改先进个人”、“首届全国中小学外语教师名师”、“陕西省教育厅中小学教师省级培训项目”优秀教师、“陕西教学能手”、“红烛奖”西安年度教育人物教育创新奖、陕西省首批中小学幼儿园教师培训专家、“西安市中小学优秀班主任”、陕西省“我身边好教师”2018年度人物等荣誉称号。
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