【英语趣味课堂】早餐-Breakfast
时间：2019-01-25 作者：英语课 分类：英语趣味课堂
英语课
Todd: Hello!
Kentaro: Hello!
Todd: Did you have breakfast this morning Kentaro?
Kentaro: Yeah!
Todd: Really! What did you have?
Kentaro: I had a traditional Japanese type of breakfast, natto and miso soup and rice, white rice, and fish.
Todd: Wow! Do you eat that every day?
Kentaro: Yeah, maybe five days a week I will eat Japanese style breakfast.
Todd: Oh, really! OK. Nice. And do you eat it at home or at a restaurant?
Kentaro: At home.
Todd: At home?
Kentaro: Mm-hm.
Todd: OK. Do you make it yourself?
Kentaro: Mm-hm.
Todd: Oh, really. OK. What is a typical American breakfast?
Kentaro: Well, I would say something like just toast and/or cereal 1 and orange juice or milk.
Todd: OK. Great and have you ever had breakfast in bed?
Kentaro: In bed?
Todd: Yeah!
Kentaro: No, not really.
Todd: No, OK. And what time do people usually eat breakfast in Japan?
Kentaro: Well, I would say but maybe 7to 8. Something around that.
Todd: Around 7 or 8. OK. Great. Thanks a lot.
Kentaro: Thanks.
学习内容：
Learn Vocabulary from the lesson
five days a week
Five days a week, I usually eat a Japanese-style breakfast.
If you do something 'five days a week' then you do it five out of the seven days during the week. We can adjust 2 this phrase 3 and adjust the number to show how frequently 4 we do something. Notice the following:
I only have night class two days a month.
She goes to the gym six days a week.
make (it) yourself
Do you make your breakfast yourself?
If you 'make something yourself' you do it without anyone else helping 5 you and nobody does it for you. Notice the following:
They make this bread themselves.
She makes a lot of her clothes herself.
typical
What is a typical American breakfast?
Something 'typical' is normal or common. In this case we are talking about what is normal for a certain group of people, Americans. Notice the following:
He is a typical lawyer.
What is a typical day like in your life?
breakfast in bed
Have you ever had breakfast in bed?
'Breakfast in bed' is when you eat your first meal of the day without leaving your bed. Many times this means 6 that someone else prepares the meal and brings it to you in bed. Notice the following:
Do you want me to make you breakfast in bed?
She brought her husband breakfast in bed on his birthday.
not really
[Have you ever done that?] No, not really.
When we say 'not really' this means 'not exactly' or we have not done exactly what the person is asking. Notice the following:
Do you like broccoli 7? "Not really."
Do you think she likes her job? "No, not really."
n.谷类，五谷，禾谷
- I have hot cereal every day for breakfast.我每天早餐吃热麦片粥。
- Soybeans are handled differently from cereal grains.大豆的加工处理与谷类的加工处理不同。
vt.调整，使适应于，校准；vi.调整，适应于，校准
- Foreigners take some time to adjust to our way of life.外国人要花一些时间才能适应我们的生活方式。
- It is difficult to adjust one's habits to someone else.一个人很难使自己的习惯适于他人。
n.短语，词组；成语，习语
- The phrase was caught on and immediately became popular.这个短语被采用后很快就流行了。
- That's exactly the phrase I was looking for.这就是我一直找的那个短语。
adv.常常，屡次，经常地，频繁地
- Please write to me frequently.请经常给我来信。
- I like that you should call on me frequently.我喜欢你经常来拜访我。
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的
- The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
- By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
n.方法，手段，折中点，物质财富
- That man used artful means to find out secrets.那人使用狡猾的手段获取机密。
- We must get it done by some means or other.我们总得想办法把它干完。