1. Enable students to gain some knowledge about idioms, understand their original meanings and learn about their practical usage in English.

2. Practice and reinforce their reading comprehension and improve their overall ability.

1.  Gain some knowledge about idioms.

2.  To learn how to understand analogies.

【预习导航】

1. Go through the passage and try to find answers to the three questions in Part A.

(1). What is an idiom?__________________________________________________________

(2). What languages was the Bible first written in? ___________________________________

(3). What idiom is often used to describe children?____________________________________

【课堂互动探究】

Activity 1: Skimming (Analysis about the structure)（5mins）

Divide the passage into 4 parts with the help of the main ideas of each part.

Part 1  (Para__________) What is an idiom? 

Part 2  (Para__________) Why does the Bible have a lot of idioms?

Part 3  (Para__________) What are the features of Biblical idioms?

Part 4  (Para__________) Why should we learn idioms well?