时间:2018-12-31 作者:英语课 分类:新西兰英语


英语课

   The 10 most popular girls’ names for 2012 in New Zealand were Olivia, Sophie, Emily, Charlotte, Ruby 1, Ella, Amelia, Sophia, Ava, Chloe. In 2011, the most popular girls’ name was Ruby.


  The 10 most popular boys’ names for 2012 were Jack 2, Oliver, William, Liam, Mason, Samuel, Jacob, Lucas, Ethan and Noah. In 2011, the most popular boys’ name was Liam.
  You must register your baby’s name with the Department of Internal Affairs before your baby is 2 months old. There are some rules about names: it cannot be more than 100 characters long, it must not cause offence and it cannot be a title such as President, Emperor, King, Prince or Royal.
  It is interesting that there are fashions in names. Margaret was popular for about 800 years but went out of fashion about 50 years ago. Not many babies are called Margaret today. However, some names come back into fashion many years later. Both Ruby and Jack were popular about 100 years ago, then lost popularity but are quite common today. The novelist who wrote ‘Wuthering Heights’ was Emily Bronte. She was born nearly 200 years ago. Emily is now number 3 on the girls’ list. William Shakespeare was born in 1564. William is number 3 on the boys’ list.
  Vocabulary
  ?popular (adj), popularity (n) – common and well liked
  ?characters – letters of the alphabet
  ?offence (n), offend (v) – make people angry or embarrassed e.g. a rude name
  ?go out of fashion / come back into fashion – useful idioms
  ?lose popularity, gain popularity – useful idioms
  ?novelist – writer of novels
  Questions
  1.What are popular names in your culture?
  2.Are there fashions in names in your culture? Think about your grandparents’ generation, your parents’ generation and people of your age. Are the same names still popular?
  3.Do you have some of these English names in your language?
  4.How do people choose a baby’s name in your culture?

n.红宝石,红宝石色
  • She is wearing a small ruby earring.她戴着一枚红宝石小耳环。
  • On the handle of his sword sat the biggest ruby in the world.他的剑柄上镶有一颗世上最大的红宝石。
n.插座,千斤顶,男人;v.抬起,提醒,扛举;n.(Jake)杰克
  • I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
  • He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。
学英语单词
acera
ADACC
antitubercular agent
APRS (automatic production record system)
balance lug
ball cage
banks is.
baryta coated paper
begartered
benzer
bhattacharya
bill of lading freight
bloemspruits
boring machines
breckon
carbon dioxide refrigerating machine
churchill downss
cleaning cell
Cnephia
common mode input
convergency of symptom
country rock alteration
cut price offer
cystoscopic(examination)
D and D
Dahomey
decentralization of purchasing
delitos
dicolic
digestibleness
double head latch needle
Dover Castle
electronic time relay
facia
fern allies
flat iron
fleet streets
fraternal birth order effect
galumphing
gear driven pump
gross line
hughied
hybrid vigour
hydrated electron dosimetry
ICAM Definition Method
individual study
infeoffment
insulated value
justificatory
Kanniyakumari
knokke (knocke)
kokodo
largeend
lead by the nose
mallenders and sallenders
measure of area
method of reverse osmosis
Mohawk Valley
multi-drum winch
Nefretete
normal activity
onie
ozerov
panic grasses
parity drive
persevere in
platen
positive conditioned stimuli
pressure calibration
progressive wave motion
prolonge
pulse-free signal
quadrature hybrid
radiation measurement assembly
Radix motoria
read noise
red-graier
redioimmunoelectrophoresis
relay characteristics
rest-home
rototranslational
Salix opsimantha
scan image
scaningmgcroscop
screen-gri
scroll sheet liner
seable
sennin
spanne
strongly monotonic function
subsistence theory of wages
Sunipia bicolor
surrebutted
tea makers
Tenebrionoidea
thermometer correction
time fuse
travers-tile
tropical plant
undergeneralizing
working fluid heater efficiency
xylota formosana