Unit 3 The Million Pound Bank Note- Vocabulary and Useful Expressions 学案重点单词1. amount【课文原句】A rich person gives you a large amount of money to use as you like.What will you do? (P17)【名师点拨】amount n. 通常用 amount of sth，表示“数量；数额”，一般修饰不可数名词，作主语时谓语动词用单数形式。如：The amount of the money that he has wasted is about $10,000。【知识拓展】a large amount of 与 a large number of 都可表示“大量的”，但是 a large amount of 修饰不可数名词；a large number of 修饰可数名词，作主语时谓语动词用复数。In fact, a large amount of fresh water is wasted. A large number of issues have been raised at the meeting.2. permit【课文原句】Permit me to lead the way, sir. (P17)【名师点拨】permit 表示“允许；许可”，是及物动词，后接名词或代词；接动词时要用动词-ing形式，即 permit doing sth；但其后接复合宾语时，要用 permit sb to do sth，表示“允许某人做某事”。如：The guards permitted the prisoners three hours’ exercise a day. We don’t permit talking loudly in the reading-room. Her parents didn’t permit her to go to the concert by herself.【知识拓展】permit 作名词时，意为“执照；许可证”。permission 是其名词形式，with / without sb’s permission = with / without the permission of sb 表示“经过 / 未经某人允许”。如： When the police asked him why he had a gun, he took out a permit to hunt. With the teacher’s permission, she went home earlier than usual.3. stare【课文原句】His eyes stare at what is left of the brothers’ dinner on the table. (P18)【名师点拨】stare 表示“盯；凝视”，是不及物动词，表示“盯着……看”要用 stare at sth；stare也可作及物动词，但只能用在固定短语中。如： The old man was staring, thinking.用心 爱心 专心1 Do you like being stared at in public? Don’t stare him in the face. He is a little nervous.【易混辨析】star...
