时间:2018-12-25 作者:英语课 分类:情景英语口语100主题


英语课
074 cities

Words
Noisy pollution traffic jam shopping centre pedestrian 1 zone bus stop inner city suburb apartment block busy street advertisement facilities stress light park ring road airport train/bus station
Entertainment theatre cinema bar and club market

Phrases
In a nice part of town
In a run-down area
Public traffic
Get stuck in traffic
Find your way around
Hustle 2 and bustle 3
One-way traffic system
Find a parking space

Beginner
A: is your city a historical place?
B: not rally 4. 200 years ago, it was just a small insignificant 5 village.
A; how did it grow into such a large place?
B: large deposits 6 of coal were found nearly and so many industries located themselves here. The village quickly grew into a key industrial centre.
A: as the city grew, it must have absorbed many village nearby.
B; yes, it did. The names of those village survive as the names of parts of the city.
A; I see. Are there any building more than 200 years old in your city?
B; oh, yes. Several of the buildings from the villages still survive. Many of them were inns for travelers and today survive as pubs. There was a castle near one village, so our city has a castle too.
A; really? So your city does have some old history after all.

Intermediate 7
A: what’s your city like?
B: it’s quite an interesting place to live. The best thing to do in my city is go shopping. There are several indoor and outdoor markets, department stores and shopping malls.
A; is the traffic bad in the city centre?
B; not really. Cars are not permitted in several parts of city centre, especially in the main shopping areas. The public transport system is pretty good.
A; what about restaurants and entertainment?
B: there are restaurants with food from all over the world. We have a small china-town near the city centre. There are many Indian,thai, and Italian restaurants all over the city centre. There are many sports events in my city. We have several sports venues 8 for football, rugby, and cricket-even ice-skating and ice hockey.
A; is there a lot of nightlife in your city?
B; there are several good clubs near the city centre. Many people in my city prefer something more’cultural”, so we several theatres and venues for classical music concerts and operas.
A; it sounds like a really exciting city to live in.
B: it is. I hope you’ll have time to come for a visit soon. You really should come during the summer, when the weather is better and there’s more happening outdoors

1 pedestrian
n.行人,步行者;adj.徒步的,呆板的,通俗的
  • The criminal pushed a pedestrian down and ran away.罪犯推倒了一个行人逃跑了。
  • The city built a pedestrian overpass over the highway.城里在公路上建了一座过街天桥。
2 hustle
v.推搡;竭力兜售或获取;催促;n.奔忙(碌)
  • It seems that he enjoys the hustle and bustle of life in the big city.看起来他似乎很喜欢大城市的热闹繁忙的生活。
  • I had to hustle through the crowded street.我不得不挤过拥挤的街道。
3 bustle
v.喧扰地忙乱,匆忙,奔忙;n.忙碌;喧闹
  • The bustle and din gradually faded to silence as night advanced.随着夜越来越深,喧闹声逐渐沉寂。
  • There is a lot of hustle and bustle in the railway station.火车站里非常拥挤。
4 rally
n.集会,公路汽车赛;v.集合,恢复,振作
  • The grand mass rally was held on the square.广场上举行了盛大的群众集会。
  • The team captain vainly tried to rally his troops.队长试图振作部队的士气,但没有成功。
5 insignificant
adj.无关紧要的,可忽略的,无意义的
  • In winter the effect was found to be insignificant.在冬季,这种作用是不明显的。
  • This problem was insignificant compared to others she faced.这一问题与她面临的其他问题比较起来算不得什么。
6 deposits
存放( deposit的名词复数 ); 订金; 寄存处; 储蓄
  • Only a small fraction of a bank's total deposits will be withdrawn at any one time. 任何时候,一家银行的总存款只有少量会被提取。
  • There are rich deposits of gold in those hills. 那些丘陵里埋藏着丰富的金矿。
7 intermediate
adj.中间的,居间的,中级的;n.中间体,媒介物
  • This country is now at an intermediate stage of development.这个国家目前正处于发展的中间阶段。
  • Gray is intermediate between black and white.灰色介于黑色和白色之间。
8 venues
n.聚集地点( venue的名词复数 );会场;(尤指)体育比赛场所;犯罪地点
  • The band will be playing at 20 different venues on their UK tour. 这个乐队在英国巡回演出期间将在20个不同的地点演出。
  • Farmers market corner, 800 meters long, 60 meters wide livestock trading venues. 农牧市场东北角,有长800米,宽60米的牲畜交易场地。 来自互联网
学英语单词
acapella
Accommodative Monetary Policy
air cylinder valve stem
aluminia
amakebe
Atremata
average period-end quantity on hand
balse (mexico)
banana water lily
banhus
be contemporary with
beachgoer
benign symmetric lipomatosis
bertossaite
bundeskanzler
captureth
class builder utility
clayeyness
constant-deviation prism
Crosfields
cross switch
crowd sail s
cylindrocarpon tonkinense
Daubechies wavelet
defilings
delivery authority
determiners
digital speed indicator
disk test
Duisburg
DYANA (dynamic analyzer)
epitome
factor reflection
facultative saprophytism
flecking
full-value letter of credit
fuzzy information retrieval
garett
gas maturity level
gas propulsive
genus Alosa
gross claim
hare checklist
house-hold
Hydroromeite
hypnum subimponens ulophyllum
iceberg detection
iced up
index to boundaries
infant car seat
Itapinima
Katharevusa
keep warm
LARPer
latchkey child
leakoff system
lemonweed
limoneer
linget
long-heralded
lupidi
man tramming
Maurer's dots
mesorhizobia
methylene blue test
microbenchmarks
Neolitsea howii
nice weather for ducks
non-moisture absorbing dust
nuptialis tabulae
olgun
Oligon
oxalaceto
panatella
paraenetical
pelelith
pinion file
pit pony
pitch and putt
potassium copper(ii) nitrite
protein-based
pyrochlorite
reduced gravity
reef cringle
rentered
roller-skater
sedded
sheath miles of fiber
statistical mechanical
Strategic Defense Command
test of ventilation hole on hydrogen inner cooled rotor
tranquilize,tranquillizing
triangle exercise
tricolour darkroom lamp
underground bunker
uplandish
UV image
V/VI
vortex theory
wheat-producing area
whelpless
ziya