对话 (一)

A: Where were you on Sunday?

B: I went to New York.

A: Oh really? Why?

B: I visited my grandmother. It was her birthday.

A: That was nice. How old is she?

B: She is 90 years old.

A: Wow!

课文解释

Where were you on Sunday? 你星期日在哪﹖“Were”是“to be”的过去式。

“Were”这个字放在“you”你﹐你们﹐或许多人 ﹑“They” 或 “we”的后面。

其他代词后要用。“was.”比如I, she, he, it 或单数名词。比如﹕

Where were you on Sunday?

你星期日在哪﹖

Where was she on Sunday?

她星期日在哪﹖

Where were they on Sunday?

他们星期日在哪﹖

I visited my grandmother.

我去看了我的奶奶

“visit”参观﹐访问﹑看。

It was her birthday. 是她的生日去的。

“Birthday” 是生日的意思。这是个很常用的字。生日这首歌很流行﹐并被翻译成多种文字 。

Happy Birthday to you.

Happy Birthday to you.

Happy Birthday dear students.

Happy Birthday to you.

下面的两句话虽然是一起说的﹐但时态不一样。

That was nice. How old is she? “That was nice”的意思是那真好﹐是指LEE去纽约﹐这是以前发生的事﹐所以用过去时。“How old is she?”是现在时﹐我们问别人现在的年龄的时候﹐用现在时。

Wow! 这个字表示激动或令人惊异。人能活到90岁确实不寻常的事情。

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对话 (二)

下面的对话是问什么事情做完没有。也许你们中有的是父母或是爷爷﹐奶奶﹐你们得检查你们的孩子做没做完作业﹐打扫房间没有﹐或做没做其他的家务。我们听一下这个对话﹐看看怎么样问这样的问题。

A﹕John, did you clean your room today?

B: Yes, I did.

A: How about your homework?

B: I finished half of it.

A: Let me have a look.

B: OK, here you are.

课文解释﹕

John, did you clean your room today?“Did”是“do”的过去时﹐在这里是助动词﹐只起语法作用。句子中的动词用原形﹐也就是字典里的形式。因为did这个字已经说明了句子的时态。”clean” 的意思是打扫，“room”的意思是房间﹐这句话的意思就是约翰﹐你打扫你的房间了吗﹖

你们可以用这个句形问很多问题。例如﹕

Did he wash his clothes?

他洗衣服了吗﹖

Did they play basketball?

他们打球了吗﹖

Did you go to the store?

你去商店了吗﹖

Did she eat the apple?

她吃苹果了吗﹖

Did my brother write the letter?

我弟弟些信了吗﹖

回答这些问题很容易。

Yes I did.

No I didn’t.

How about your homework? How about 是个词组﹐意思是……怎么样﹖ (你以为)……如何﹖

homework 是作业的意思。How about your homework? 就是你的作业怎么样了﹖你做作业了吗﹖

I finished half of it. finish 是完成的意思。half 的意思是一半。那么 I finished half of it. 就是我做完了一半。

Let me have a look.

look. 是看的意思。have a look是个词组﹐看一看。Let me have a look. 让我看一看。这句话非常有用。

OK, here you are. 好﹐给你。

对话 (二)

A: Hello Lee Ren De.

B: Hi, Ding Hui.

A: What are you doing?

B: I’m playing cards.

A: I played cards yesterday.

B: Oh really? With who?

A: I played cards with my Mother and Father.

B: That’s great. I play cards everyday. I like cards.

课文解释﹕

这个对话里有一个生词“cards”是扑克牌的意思。

下面的这句话用的是什么时态﹖

I’m playing cards. 这是现在进行时。我们用这个时态表示现在正在发生的事情。

I played cards yesterday. 这是过去时﹐我们一看“yesterday”就知道是过去发生的事情了。

I play cards everyday. 这是一般现在时。 我们都知道 一般现在时表示常发生的事。everyday 这个字也能告诉你这是经常发生的事。

这个对话里有一个新的问题﹐就是﹕with who?

“who” 的意思是谁 “With”的意思是和…谁在一起。“with who?” 的意思就

是和谁玩。回答是﹕I played cards with my mother and father.我 和我爸妈玩。

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