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
absolute catalog
absolute speed drop
Amqui
Apium graveolens L. var. rapaceum DC.
aqmds
auxiliary traction machine
baksheeshed
bear the bell
berloque
betake
breathing exercise
by stealth
charge-transfer device
chronic recurrent appendicitis
circular bore
combustibility test
common seals
comptrollers general
computer-aided manufacturing system
Cuxwold
cyclindole
dactylium alpiniae
daughtery
decayablest
digital character generator
Dmitrovskiy Rayon
drifting automatic radio-meteorological system
drum type shears
Eblis
elastic work schedule system
equilux
eristalinus lugens
fade-in fade-out device
free-ports
full-storage system
genus coragypss
genus corallorhizas
genus phyllocladuss
give them a hand
Graptemys
grid lines device
hexosemonophosphate shunt
high definition camera
Hyades Group
hydrodynamic moment
imbabura
inconstancy
inverted vee
irregular rondo
lacker
Lahemaarahvuspark
Liparis kwangtungensis
little-endian
marketing association
maximum likelihood decision rule
mcclatchy
meat consumption
millimho
minimum admissible dimension
molk
Māsimpur
novacek
open and closed shelter deck ship
operational failure
overcultures
Ponkuto-san
raise doubts
response prevention
rolling characteristic
rubra polycythemia
salmiana
scanlated
sechelle
semiautos
seventeen-year-old
silver storm
sinuses reuniens
solar power tower
split off from sb
stir a bath
stirring up
storytime
stranguria due to disturbance of qi
tetramethylthiuram disulfide
top echelon
toxamin
Transcaucasia
transfer fund
truxene
ultramarine blue
unclaimable
univariate optimum interpolation
unsoaped
urology in childhood
uterus incadiformis
vacillation
Vagay
valve lightening arrester
vasotropic
vibration screen
virtual ampere-turn
wind-borne load