话题三 居住环境(Living environment)
一、 重点短语归纳
1. life in the future/ past 未来/过去的生活
2. in twenty years’ time =(in twenty years) 在 20 年后
3. make friends (with sb) (和某人)交朋友
4. be able/unable to do sth 能/不能做某事
5. not …any more (=no more )不再…
6. have a lot of free/ spare time 有许多空闲时间
7. sth come true 某事变成现实/ sb realize sth 某人实现某事
8. heavy rain/ snow 大雨/大雪
9. traffic jam 交通阻塞
10. not only…, but also … 不仅…, 而且…
11. go across/ through 穿过平面/ 空间
12. go along / down … (to) 沿着…走到…
13. turn left/ right (into) …向左/向右(进入)…
14. pretty good 非常棒
15. the best way / time to do sth 做…最好的方式/时间
16. take the underground / taxi/ bus/ train/ plane to 乘地铁/出租车/ 公交车/ 火车/
飞机去…
17. get on / off the boat / bus 上/下船/公交车
18. in fact /actually 实际上,事实上
19. in the 1980s 在 20 世纪 80 年代
20. in the east/ west/ south/ north of England 在英格兰的东部/西部/ 南部/ 北部
21. be famous/ well-known for /as 因为/作为…而闻名
22. any time of the year 一年中的任何时候
23. have a large / small population 人口很多/少
24. deal with ordinary diseases 处理一般的疾病
25. be busy doing sth 忙于某事
26. used to do sth 过去常常做某事/ be used to doing sth 习惯于做某事
27. speak up 大点声说
28. in the winter cold/ in the summer heat 在寒冷的冬天/在炎热的夏天
29. all one’s life 某人的一生
30. have a good education 受到良好的教育
31. get married (to sb) (与某人)结婚
32. hundreds of millions of 数以亿计的
33. what’s more 而且,还有
二、 重点句式总结
1. The only thing ( that) … is … 仅有的一件 (……)事是……
Eg: The only thing I don’t like , though is that there’s so much more traffic.
2. There will be no more…将不会再有…
Eg: There will be no more light rain and cold wind in spring.
3. It has a population of 数字 它有……人口
Eg: It has a population of about seven and a half million, so it is bigger and busier
than Cambridge.
4. 主语+be 动词+ adj./adv. 比较级+ than …. …比…更…
Eg: It’s taller than many other buildings in Shenzhen.
5. I suppose that’s because … 我认为这是因为 …
Eg: I suppose that’s because more people have cars, and they walk or use their
bikes less.
6. 主语+谓语+as +adj./ adv. 原级+as … 和…一样…
Eg: Some day it will become as busy as Hong Kong. I’m sure..
三、 渗透式话题写作
表示问路与指路的佳句
1. Excuse me! Can you tell / show me the way to…? =Could you tell me how get
to …?=Could you tell which is the way to…? = Could you tell me how I can get
to …? = Excuse me! Where is…? = Excuse me. How can I get to …? = Excuse
me! Is there … near here?
2. Why not ask the policeman over there?
3. Go across Dong Chang’an Jie, go along the street and turn left at the third street
on the left.
4. Go along the street and you ‘ll see an underground station.
5. Take the underground to the Olympic Sports Centre, or you can take a bus or a
taxi.
6. It’s opposite… between… and… / next to … on your right.
表示居住环境的佳句
1. What will life be like in the future?
2. Working hours will be short so people will have long holidays.
3. Do you think that life is better today than in the past?
4. People are wealthier today, and they live longer than they did in the past.
5. There’s less fear of getting ill because we know how to deal with the ordinary
diseases.
6. More wealth sometimes means less health.
7. But people don’t take as much exercise as they used to.
8. I suppose that’s because more people have cars, and they walk or use their bikes
less.
9. Generally speaking, I think life is better today. We eat better and we live longer.
基础训练三
一、 用括号中做给词的适当形式完成下列句子。
1. Although it rained ________, the farmers went on working in the field. ( heavy)
2. Then he slowed down as the _________ became stronger and the waves got higher.
( windy)
3. When I crossed a road on my ________ day in Dalian, I heard a bell ring. ( three)
4. Chinese _______ is one of the oldest art forms in the world.
5. If you tell your mother the _________, she won’t be so angry with you. (true)
6. People all over the world hope to live a peaceful and ________ life. ( wealth)
二、 用方框内所给短语的适当形式填空。
go through, come true, all one’s life, used to, what’s more
7. The book is very useful. ___________, it isn’t expensive.
8. Mary has tried to be an honest person ___________.
9. The River Thames _________ London , the capital of Britain.
10.I hope his dream of becoming a teacher will __________ one day.
11.He ___________ go swimming on Saturday, but now he doesn’t.
三、 用方框内做所词的适当形式完成下面短文。 每词限用一次。
little, hard, double, simple, fear
Now we’re discussing whether life is better today than in the past.
Some people think life in the past was 12. ________ and healthier than today.
More wealth sometimes means 13. _________ health. When the number of cars is 14.
_________, the pollution is also doubled, or even worse.
People work as 15. _________ as they did fifty years ago, and they sometimes
work harder. People seldom say they have enough spare time. However, people today
know more about medicine and there’s less 16. ________ of getting ill.