1. Unit 10  Week 11 Class  May 2015

2.  Listening  and  Translation

3. News Words  high school seniors 高三学生  waiting list: a roster of those waiting to obtain sth. 候补名单；等候批准的申请人名单 e.g. There were 20,000 people on the waiting list for a home.

5. Part 1 Dialogue  Insulating Your Home

6. New Words  cavity wall [ 建 ] 空心墙  get enormous fuel bills 燃料费账单  dread 惧怕；担心 —dreadful  like mad 疯狂地；猛然地；极度地  loft 阁楼；顶楼  draught 气流；通风 ；草稿  handyman 手巧的人；杂务工  plastered wall 抹灰的墙 —exposed wall  contractor 承包人；立契约者  make condensation less of a problem  radiator 散热器；暖气片；辐射体 —boiler 锅  for one 举个例说；作为其中一个

7. Part 2 Passage  Plan Your Home’s Interior Design Before You Buy

8. New Words and Expressions décor 装饰 layout furnishing: furniture, curtains, carpets and decorations such as pictures savvy: wits, understanding 悟性；见识 predominant color 主色调 accent color 强调色指起强调作用、具有醒目视觉效 果的色彩 monochromatic 单色的 tint: a small amount of color 色调, 色泽 shade: 色度 texture 质地；纹理 fret: worry; to be troubled 烦恼；焦急；磨损

10.  News Items

11. News Item 1 frenetic: lively, energetic ratify: officially approve START—Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty expire—expiration date deploy—deployment nuclear warheads finalize: complete the arrangements for sth.  Negotiators from the three countries finalized the agreement in August.

13. News Item 2 The Knesset 以色列议会 skeptical: having doubts about sth. counterweight 平衡力；平衡物 fig leaf 遮羞布；无花果树叶 portfolio 部长职务 ; 证券投资组合 pragmatism 实用主义 unsullied 清白的；无污点的 –sully 玷污；使丢脸

14. News Item 3 alternative: allowing a choice; pertaining to unconventional choices  an alternative plan/life style scrub: cancel, eliminate  scrubbed the flight because of bad weather  scrub the subsidies say: (noun). an expression of opinion  Have the final say. motion 动作；移动；手势；请求；意向 assent: agree  I assented to the request of the American publishers to write this book. fuss: a quarrel about petty points  I don’t know what all the fuss is about.

15. To be done by next class  Complete the exercise on page 113-116.