Protect yourself when you are at home alone

There are many things that you should be careful with when you are alone at home. Read the following solutions ( 解决办法 ) to protect yourself.

Keep the door locked ( 锁着的 ) when you are alone at home. Many people think it’sthe best way to protectthemselves.

Keep a list of phone numbers to call for help —such as 110, the police station’s or a neighbour’s number.

Look through the peep hole ( 观察孔 ) when you hear the doorbell. If there arestrangers, say “Come back later.” Don’t te

ll them that your parents are away.

Say “Mum’s having a shower or having a sleep.” To ignore ( 不理睬 ) the doorbell is not a good idea. Because sometimes bad people ring doorbells to see if anyone’s at home.

Thief A Thief BAge about 20 about (9) ____

Height quite (1)____ very (10) ____Weigh

tthin (11) ____

Hair black and (2) ______ in colour, quite (3) _____ hair,over his (4)______

(12) ______ hair; black (13)______

Clothes

(5) _____ T- shirt with red (6) ______ on it; old blue (7) ______

dark (14) _____ shirt; red (15) ______

Shoes (8) ______ shoes old white (16) ______

tall

brownlongears

17

short

thinshort

cap

whitewriting

jeans

black

blue

shorts

trainers

Completing notes of descriptions of people

Use the descriptions in A1 to help you find the two thieves among the people below.

Thief AThief B

Mr Wang

LiMing

Here are some questions about Li Ming’s diary. Answer the by writing Y , N or DK.

1. Was yesterday a good and bad for Li Ming?

2.Did Li Ming go to the station with his dad?3. Did Mr Wang see them when they talked to

the thin man?

Y

Y

DK

Mr WangLiMing

Here are some questions about Li Ming’s diary. Answer the by writing Y , N or DK.

4. Did Li Ming hurt his back in the afternoon?

5. Did his parents take him to the hospital?

6. Did the doctor ask Li Ming to take the medicine before dinner?

N

Y

N

Language pointsLanguage pointsHe had to meet a new person from work.他不得不去见一位新同事。 (P38)a new person from work 这里是介词短语， from work 作后置定语修饰名词 person 。类似的表达还有： a tall man with a dark brown shirt一个穿着深棕色衬衫的高个子男士 ;a man with glasses 一个戴眼镜的男士。

根据汉语意思完成下面的英文句子。1. 头上戴一朵花的那个女孩是她的妹妹。

The girl ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ is her sister.2. 把一根手指放在嘴里的那个小男孩是小明。

The little boy ___ ___ ___ ____ ____ ____ is Xiaoming.

with a flower on her head

with a finger in his mouth

We took him to his hotel. 我们把他带到了旅馆。 (P38)take sb to 表示 “带某人到（某地）”。若地点为副词，如 home, here, there 等前面则不用加 to 。

根据汉语意思完成下面的英文句子。3. 我女儿想看电影，所以我带她去了电影院。

My daughter wanted to see a film. So I____ ____ ____ the cinema.

4. 因为他迷路了，所以我把他带回了家。Since he lost his way, I ____ ____ ____ .

took her totook him home

短语收藏夹1. be worried about… 2. take sb. to some place

3. tell sb. to do sth.

4. a quarter of an hour

对……感到担忧带某人去某地

叫某人去做某事十五分钟；一刻钟

根据中文提示完成句子1. I catch a cold easily. My parents ____

______ _____ my health.( 对……感到担忧）2. The film was on ____ ___ ___ ___ ____.

( 十五分钟前）3. Joyce’s parents ___ ___ __ HK Disneyland last

summer holidays.( 带她去）4. My class teacher

___ ___ ___ ___ ____ for ten

minutes every day. ( 叫我们读英语）

areworried about quarter of an hour

ago

took her to

tells us to read English