时间:2019-02-16 作者:英语课 分类:英语趣味课堂


英语课

 Todd: OK, Clare we're going to talk about your house.


 
Clare: OK.
 
Todd: OK, do you live in a big house or a small house?
 
Clare: I live in quite a big house.
 
Todd: A big house. Really!
 
Clare: Mm!
 
Todd: OK, how many rooms does it have?
 
Clare: About 12.
 
Todd: Jeez! 12 rooms.
 
Clare: Yeah.
 
Todd: Wow. Is it a new house or old house?
 
Clare: It's about 80 years old.
 
Todd: Wow. OK. I guess. well that's old for America, but that's probably not very old.
 
Clare: That's not very old for England.
 
Todd: Wow. OK. What is in your kitchen?
 
Clare: A big round table and a cooker.
 
Todd: OK. And what is in the living room?
 
Clare: A TV and a video.
 
Todd: OK. Do you watch TV a lot?
 
Clare: Yes.
 
Todd: OK. Uh, what do you watch on TV?
 
Clare: Anything. I don't really like watching sport.
 
Todd: Oh.
 
Clare: I like watching TV series 1.
 
Todd: Oh, wow, that's the only thing I like is sports
 
Clare: Some sports are OK. I don't like watching golf, snooker, and sports like that.
 
Todd: Yeah. OK. Great. Thanks.
 
 
学习内容:
 

Learn Vocabulary from the lesson
room
 
How many rooms does the house have?
 
Usually when talking about "rooms" in a house we are referring to bedrooms, or places for people to sleep. Notice the following:
 
There were seven people living in the house and only four rooms.
His room was across the hall from mine.
new house
 
Is it a new house or an old house?
 
A "new house" has recently been built and has never been lived in by another person or family.  Notice the following:
 
She decided 2 to buy a new house because she didn't want any problems with the structure 3.
They building a lot of new houses near the highway.
old for America
 
That's old for America.
 
Because America a young country a building or house that was built 150 years ago is very "old for America," even though it is not old for a lot of countries in Europe where the buildings are 400 years old.  Notice the following:
 
This building is very old and traditional for America.
The company has a history of 100 years, which is old for America.
round
 
A big round table.
 
A "round" table is a table in the shape of a circle.  Notice the following:
 
The new office building is round and has a lot of windows.  
The round table made it easy for everyone to be part of the conversation.
series
 
I like watching TV series.
 
A "series" is where each episode 4 is related 5 to the other episodes 6 and together they tell a story.  Notice the following:
 
I always watch my favorite series on Thursday night.
Is there any series that you really enjoy?

 
 

n.连续;系列
  • The students have put forward a series of questions.学生们提出了一系列问题。
  • He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
n.结构,构造,建筑物;v.构成;
  • Doctors study the structure of the human body.医生研究人体构造。
  • A flower has quite a complicated structure.一朵花的结构相当复杂。
n.(作品的一段)情节,插曲,系列事件中之一
  • The episode was a huge embarrassment for all concerned.这段小插曲令所有有关人员都感到非常尴尬。
  • This episode remains sharply engraved on my mind.这段经历至今仍深深地铭刻在我的心中。
adj.有关系的,有关联的,叙述的,讲述的
  • I am not related to him in any way.我和他无任何关系。
  • We spent days going through all related reference material.我们花了好多天功夫查阅所有有关的参考资料。
插曲,片断( episode的名词复数 ); 一集
  • The novel deals with the romantic episodes of her early life. 小说叙述了她早期生活的浪漫插曲。
  • Three episodes have been telescoped into a single programme. 把叁集的内容压缩成了一个节目。
学英语单词
adaptation syndrome
advanced industrial country
aglaonemas
alipoidic
Arkhangel'skoye
arteriograrm
atomist theories
backing of rafters
black ink figure nation
bunkums
bus-rod
Carex orthostachys
cartagenas
cognovit judgment
cold-pressing
common sequence
commutation zone
cutesy-pie
Dianhydrodulcitolum
drive sb potty
eirene
equal validity
Eradex
Esk.
ex officio magistrate
externa bark
fascial sheath of prostate
fast color
front elevation drawing
furacana(e)
Garciaz
general Cayley algebra
go off the boil
hard cosmic ray
Hemandifoline
highwayman
hybrid signature
i remember
imperial preferential tariff system
in a flutter
indium oxide
initial operation
Institution of Electronics
intensifer
kapaa
Keenania tonkinensis
Lancang
lesser curvature(stomach)
light diaphoretic prescription
living environment
lysionotin
meitneriums
microinfusion
miniatus
Muhlenberg, Frederik Augustus Conrad
non-experiences
non-prosecution
nonstandard bearing
off-street parking
ognissanti
os1 carpale distale secundum
palmicolous
phoneticism
plain hook
Poa attenuata
position dialing
postmodern campaign
pre-defense
precalcination
press corrector
pseudotuberculosis aspergillaris
pulsed aerosol generator
quality of tobacco
recombiner
register wheels
reserve protein
retailed
reverse multiple
rochate
roman churches
rudiments of tank gunnery
Schesaplana
self-revealings
short-lived radioactive substance
shottage
single event effects
sintered ferrous product
sleepy sicknesses
smaller whole tone
sonar optimum frequency
specific storage
spiderwick
Spinacia oleracea L.
tenoch
the top of the market
undiversifiable risk
Unitarian Universalism
unscheduled downtime
volumetric correction factor
Vostochnaya Litsa
water locust
whitemarsh