Unit

1

ReadingLanguage

pointsGoing

to

a

British

high

school

for

one

year

was

avery

enjoyable

and

exciting

experience

for

me.動名詞做主語Eg.玩火是一件危險(xiǎn)的事。Playing

fire

is

a

dangerous

thing.experience

n.

v.～

in/of1)vt.體驗(yàn)，經(jīng)歷2)/u/n.

經(jīng)驗(yàn)/c/n.

經(jīng)歷3)experienced adj.有經(jīng)驗(yàn)的聯(lián)想記憶：有經(jīng)驗(yàn)的（experienced）人必定有豐富的經(jīng)歷（experience）和經(jīng)驗(yàn)(experience)I

was

very

happy

with

the

school

hours

inBritain

because

school

starts

around

9

a.

m.and ends

about

3.30

p.m.be

happy

with：對…高興、滿意This

means

I

could

get

up

an

hour

later

than

usual

as

schools

in

China

begin

before

8

a.

m.mean:vt.意味著??mean

to

do

sth.mean

doing

sthas…

引導(dǎo)原因狀語從句，as表示 “由于”，“因?yàn)椤保绕匠４蛩阕瞿呈乱馕吨璗ranslate the

firstparagraphOn

the

first

day,

all

of

the

new

studentsattended

an

assembly

in

the

school

hall.attend:vt.&vi.出席,參加出席會議上學(xué)/上課聽講座attend

to:

看護(hù)，看管參加集會attend

the

meetingattend

school/classattend

a

lecture易混辨異attend,

join,

join

in,

take

part

in(1)attend是正式用語,一般指參加會議、典禮、婚禮、葬禮、及去上課、聽報(bào)告、講座等。Mary

didn’t

attend

her

wedding.(2)join指參軍、入黨；加入某組織、一群人或某社會團(tuán)體等。join

the

army,

join

thepartyjoin

the

club,join

sb.(3)join

in通常指參加某種活動,尤指和其他人一起參加某項(xiàng)活動。May

I

join

in

the

game?(4)take

part

in指參加會議或群眾性活動等,重在說明句子主語參加該項(xiàng)活動并在活動中發(fā)揮作用。We’ll

take

part

in

social

activities

during

thesummer

vacation.即學(xué)活練Did

youA.join

inC.take

partinany

club

last

year?B.joinD.attendCome

and

join

us!BI

sat

next

to

a

girl

whose

name

wasDiana.whose

引導(dǎo)定語從句?？拷ぶ鳧uring

the

assembly,

theheadmastertold

us

about

the

rules

of

the

school..tell

sb.sth.告訴某人某事tell

sth.to

sb.把某事告訴某人tell

sb.(not)to

do

sth

告訴某人(不要)去做某事我告訴過他不要熬夜。He

also

told

us

that

the

best

way

to

earn

respect

was

to

devote

ourselves

to

studyand

achieve

highgrades.做某事的方法：the

way

to

do

sth.the

way

of

doing

sth.He

also

told

us

that

the

best

way

to

earn

respect

was

to

devote

ourselves

to

studyand

achieve

highgrades.earn

respect:獲得尊重earn/make

a/one’s

living:謀生devote

vt.致力于；獻(xiàn)身devote

sth.to

(doing)sth:把…獻(xiàn)給；致力于…devote

oneself

to

(doing)sth

…獻(xiàn)身于…;致力于…我致力于學(xué)習(xí)，因?yàn)槲蚁胍A得尊重，并且在將來得以謀生。I

devote

myself

to

studying,

as

I

want

toearn

respect

and

earn

a

living

in

the

future.He

also

told

us

that

the

best

way

to

earnrespect

was

to

devote

ourselves

tostudyand

achieve

high

grades.

This

sounded

like

my

school

in

China.achieve

success：achieve

one’s

goal：sound

like:achieve

vt.贏得,取得；實(shí)現(xiàn)achieve

high

grades:

取得高分取得成功實(shí)現(xiàn)目標(biāo)聽起來像…Translate

the

second

paragraphI

had

many

teachers

in

the

past

year.

Mr

Heyword,

myclassteacher,

was

veryhelpful.同位語：是在名詞或代詞之后的名詞性短語,對前者加以限定，解釋說明的成分。在過去的一年班主任This

is

about

theaveragesize

forBritishschools.

We

had

to

move

to

differentclassrooms

for

different

classes.average

adj.平均的，一般的,普通的n.平均,平均數(shù)；on

(the)averageabove

averagebelow

average必須,不得不搬到,移到平均起來，一般，通常平均水平以上平均水平以下We

also

had

different

students

in

some

classes,so

it

was

a

struggle

for

me

to

remember

all

the

faces

and

names.struggle:n.1，奮斗，掙扎2，難事vi.奮斗，斗爭，努力struggle

for…為…奮斗it

is

+

adj./n.

+(

for

sb).

to

do

sth.對某人來說，做某事…I

found

that

the

homework

was

not

asheavyas

what

I

used

to

get

in

my

oldschool.as…as

像

…一樣(原級)not

as…

as不如…I

found

that

the

homework

was

not

asheavyas

what

I

used

to

get

in

my

oldschool.used

to

do:be

used

to

do:be

used

to

doing

sth.:過去常常做…被用來做…習(xí)慣于做…動詞填空：1.You’llsoongetusedto

(live)in

the

country.2.

I

never

used

to (eat)

cakes,livingeatbut

I

eat

a

lotnow.I’m

not

used

to

being

treated

(treat)

likethis.When

I

was

younger

I

was

used

to

walking

(walk)

long

distances.Iusedto

go

(go)

swimming

onSaturdays.Didn’tsheuseto

be

(be)

fat?However,

it

wasa

bit

challenging

for

me

atfirst,…..I

felt

lucky,

as

all

my

teachers

gave

me

muchencouragementand

I

enjoyed

all

mysubjects:a

bit“有點(diǎn)兒；稍微”，可修飾動詞、形容詞、比較級等Will

you

please

turn

down

the

radio

a

bit?Her

mother

feelsa

bit

better

today.Translate

thefourth

paragraphMy

English

improved

a

lot,

as

I

usedEnglish

every

day

and

spent

an

hour

eachday

reading

English

books

in

the

library.

spend

+時間/精力/金錢

+on

sth.spend

+時間/精力/金錢

+

(in)doing進(jìn)步很大注意人稱，時態(tài)spend,cost,pay,take的區(qū)別(spent-spent)sb

spend

st/sm (in)

doing

sthon

sth(cost-

cost)sth

cost

sb

sm(paid-

paid)sb

pay

forsth(took-

taken)ItIt

takes

sb

st

to

do

sth午飯休息時間I

usually

went

to

the

computer

club

duringthe

lunch

break,

so

I

could

sende-mails

tomy

family

and

friends

back

home

forfree.免費(fèi)be

free

to

do

sth.：自由，不受拘束的做某事I

also

had

an

extra

French

class

on

Tuesday

evenings.

Cooking

was

reallyfunas

I

learnt

how

to

buy,

prepareand

cookfood.prepare

to

do

sth.

準(zhǔn)備做…prepare

for

sth.為…做準(zhǔn)備make

preparation

for:為…做準(zhǔn)備adj.額外的，外加的挑戰(zhàn)。As

I

entered

high

school,

I

madep當(dāng)re我p進(jìn)ar入at高ion中s，fo我r

就an做y

好ch了al準(zhǔn)len備g迎e.接一切At

the

end

of

term

weheld

a

class

party

and

we

all

had

to

cook

something.

I

wasglad

that

all

my

classmates

were

fond

ofthe

cake

that

Imade.在…的末尾/盡頭喜歡…舉行班級派對at

the

end

of…The

school

is

at

the

end

ofthisroad.in

the

endHe

tried

many

times

and

succeeded

in

theend.by

the

end

of…I

had