新目标初中英语九年级--Unit 2 I used to be afraid

Unit 2 I used to be afraid of the dark.

[00:05.80]SECTION A

[00:08.86]1b Listen.Bob is seeing some friends for the first time in four years.

[00:18.21]What did his friends use to look like?

[01:30.96]2a Listen and check the words you hear.

[02:06.33]2b listen again and fill in the blanks with the words you hear.

[02:41.78]SECTION B

[02:48.02]2a Listen and check the sentences you hear.

[03:26.99]2b Listen again.What do the girl and the boy say about things in the past and now?

[03:37.34]Fill in the chart.

[04:12.89]3a Read the story about Rose Tang's problems and then complete the chart.

[04:21.07]My biggest problem

[04:24.23]My biggest problem is that I'm too busy.

[04:29.09]When I was young,I used to have so much time,

[04:34.55]but these days I get up early and stay in school all day.

[04:40.19]Then I go right home and eat dinner.

[04:44.55]Before I started high school,

[04:48.08]I used to spend a lot of time playing games with my friends,

[04:53.33]but I just don't have the time anymore.

[04:57.48]In the eveing,I used to watch TV or chat with my grandmother,

[05:03.54]but I just don't have to study.

[05:07.02]I love music,and my father used to take me to concerts.

[05:12.48]These days,I hardly ever have time for concerts.

[05:17.62]I do my homework and go to bed.I really miss the old days.

[05:23.87]READ                 E-mail English

[05:31.42]Do you speak English?Yes?Well,do you speak e-mail English?

[05:39.28]Maybe not.

[05:42.05]E-mail English is a new kind of English that many people use to save time.

[05:48.71]A lot of e-mail English words come from a computer program called ICQ,

[05:55.66]which means 1 I seek you.

[05:59.73]ICQ is an e-mail chatline that people use to send messages quickly.

[06:06.99]Ian Lancashire,a Canadian teacher,likes ICQ.

[06:12.85]"People can use ICQ to talk with each other using computers.

[06:18.59]But,you have to be able to type quickly or the other person willbe bored.

[06:25.54]Using e-mail English helps."

[06:29.07]A message in e-mail English mostly uses two kinds of new words.

[06:35.44]The first kind is made up of the first letters of other words.

[06:41.01]These are called acronyms 3.

[06:44.66]The second kind is bomophones,

[06:48.82]letter combinations 4 and symbols that sound like other words.

[06:54.28]Acronyms in an e-mail save space and time.

[06:59.32]It takes a long time to write by the way.BTW is much faster.

[07:06.48]Other acronyms are F2F which stands for face to face,

[07:12.95]CSL for can't stop laugbing and DBEYR for don't believe everybing you read!

[07:22.91]Some of the acronyms look like strange words,

[07:28.26]such as SWAK.But this one really means sealed with a kiss.

[07:36.20]Homophones often use letters and numbers that  sound like words or parts of words.

[07:43.36]For example,8 sounds like-eat in great,so to save time,people write gr8.

[07:53.70]Another example is CU for see you,or sometimes CU 18r(see you later).

[08:04.78]The number 2 is used for to or too and the number 4 is used instead of for.

[08:13.53]Another part of e-mail English is emotives,

[08:18.81]symbols which make faces when you look at them sideways.

[08:24.56]The most common emotive is the happy face:)

[08:29.41]It's made with a colon 5 and a right bracket 6

[08:34.09]Other punctuation 7 marks,such as commas 8,

[08:39.05]help add other parts of the face and indicate different expressions.

[08:45.22]E-mail English is fun.

[08:48.56]An e-mail message with lots of e-mail English starts to look like secret code 9.

[08:55.33]Your best friend will probably understand it,

[08:59.69]but your parents and teachers might not.

[09:03.76]Actually,many teachers don't like e-mail English.

[09:08.91]It's not just because they can't comprehend 10 what it means.

[09:14.24]It's because students start to use e-mail English in their everyday writing.

[09:20.01]E-mail English is great for writing quickly.

[09:24.27]But most teachers say that e-mail English should only be used in e-mails to one's friends.

[09:31.64]Words and Expressions in Each Unit 2

[09:39.40]used to              dark                 be interested in     sure

[09:43.52]过去经常             黑暗                 对...感兴趣          无疑

[09:47.65]terrify              be terrified 11 of      on                   spider

[09:51.97]使害怕               害怕....             开着的               蜘蛛

[09:56.30]insect               chew                 gum 12

[10:00.07]昆虫                 嚼                   口香糖

[10:03.85]right                comic

[10:05.92]立即                 连环漫画

[10:08.00]Reading

[10:10.46]save                 seek                 chatline             type

[10:14.09]节省                 寻找                 热线交谈服务         打字

[10:17.72]bored                mostly               be made up of        acronym 2

[10:22.35]厌倦的               多半                 由...组成            首字字母拼词

[10:26.99]homophone            combination          sound like           take sb...to do sth

[10:31.56]同音异义词           组合                 听起来像...          花费某人去做某事

[10:36.13]can't stop doing     seal                 kiss                 instead of

[10:40.55]禁不住做某事         封                   吻                   代替

[10:44.96]emotive              make faces           sideways             colon

[10:49.43]表情等号             做鬼脸               斜着                 冒号

[10:53.90]bracket              punctuation          mark                 indicate

[10:58.83]括号                 标点                 等号                 标示

[11:03.77]expression           secret               code                 comprehend

[11:07.85]表示                 秘密的               代码                 理解

[11:11.92]consist              consist of           describe

[11:19.20]由...组成            由...构成            描绘