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
acoustic homing system
address matcher circuit
alphanumeric program
Anicetus
antirheumatoid drug
apparent turbulent stress tensor
aseptic filling
astronomic transit
atlee
automated batch mixing
Bac Giang, Tinh
bioconcentration
bistable polarization
branch coverage testing
brems
bus hut
cant rail
checking book
chrysanthemum leucanthemums
close-to-nature forestry
cobalt slass
coffee black beans
coodes
crested penguins
crystal-controlled
customer evaluation
daryosphere
diffused base transistor
distributed element
ditylenchus
externally-imposed
flower primordia
foresworn
full crystal
gateway charge
geographical classification of 8oils
guardlike
heteromorphic chromosomes
heterosperminous hybridization
histoimmunological
historical jurisprudence
horn cleat
hydroaluminations
iraqgates
knife tool
laughland
lent an ear to
liasons
limit of aperidicity
local buffer storage
lomasome
longitudinal dispersion
low transmission
mazatzal pk.
medical nomenclature
microcode assembler
mild-mannered
mine swept route
Mugila, Mts.
multispectral satellite data
noboes
obv
Osborne, L.
Paranari
patently
payment notice
Perisporiales
pick his steps
price plan
primary vaccination
protocollyris sauteri
pterygomandibular
Puusepp's reflex
raddicle
read-message
real-time data structure
recosting
reverse mottle
RNA probe
rosin adduct
scutellarin
segmented address space
spread for
sudor anglicus
Symes
symmetric game
tank clean-out opening
televisuality
the eight manifestations of infantile convulsion
theophanous
tisiyeh (tasiyeh)
torpedo bombardment aeroplane
tribenzylethyltin
trickle-irrigated
triphenoxazin
two for one twister
unquenches
versche
vica
wear resistant alloy steel
widely spaced stanchions
zapanta