Unit 2 Growing pains
Reading (2) Language focus
Learning aims:
1. To learn some important knowledge and sentence structure.
2. To enable students to use them correctly.
Step 1 Language focus
1. Mom and Dad arrive back from vacation a day earlier than expected.
◆ than expected 比预期的，比预料的。是一种省略结构。又如：
You did better in the exam than (you had been) expected.
The project was finished later than (it had been) expected.
◆ expect 预期，预料；期望；指望
expect sb.／sth．
expect sb. to do sth．
expect to do sth．/there to be
