Lesson 3
Please send me a card 请给我寄一张明信片
单词讲解
关键句型
课文讲解
练习
复习
补充内容
单词讲解
New words and expressions
send (sent, sent) v.
postcard n.
spoil (spoiled or spoilt) v.
museum n.
public adj.
friendly adj.
waiter n.
lend (lent, lent) v.
decision n.
whole adj.
single adj.
★ 1. send
cause sb to go or sth to be taken without going oneself (send – sent –sent )
1)加双宾语
send sb sth = send sth to sb
eg. send me a postcard = send a postcard to me
eg. I sent my mother a present on Mother’s day.
=I sent a present to my mother on Mother’s day.
2)加单宾语
send sth
send sb
send a letter send a parcel
send the children to bed
3）send sb my love = give sb my love
eg. Please send your sister my love.
=Please send my love to your sister.
eg. Please say hello to your brother. = Please say hi to your brother.
eg. Remember me to your parents.
Give my regards to your parents. 更为正式的表达
4）send for sb
send for sth
send for a doctor
send for a taxi
★2. postcard n.
card
a Christmas card a birthday card a get-well card an identity card a post card
cards
a pack of cards
1）one’s best card = one’s strongest card
2) give sb his cards
3） lay one’s cards on the table = put one’s cards on the table
post n. /v.
post-bag
post-box (U.S.: mail box)
post-code
post office
postman (U.S.: mailman)
post mark
post-free
post-paid
★ 3. spoil-spoiled-spoiled
-spoilt-spoilt
英式英语中多用不规则形式：
eg. dreamt; spoilt (Br)
美式英语中多用规则形式：
eg. dreamed; spoiled (Am)
不管英式或美式英语，用过去分词作定语的时候，只用不规则形式。
a spoilt child
spoilt milk
a misspelt word
1) v. make sth useless, valueless or unsatisfactory; ruin
eg. Bad weather spoilt our holidays.
eg. The bad news spoilt my day.
eg. Postcards always spoil my holidays.
2）v.
eg. That little girl is terribly spoilt – her parents give her everything she asks for.
eg. Spare the rod and spoil the child.
eg. Everybody enjoys being spoilt from time to time.
★4. museum n.
museum piece
1)
eg. This old radio of yours is a bit of museum piece; it is about time you got
a new one.
★5. public
1) adj.
反义词 private 都做定语
a public garden public affairs
public education public health
public libraries the public highway
2）n.
the public
in public: openly （反义词：in private ）
eg. She apologized to the public in public for her mistakes.
★6. friendly adj.
friend n.
1)make friends with sb
2) A friend in need is a friend indeed.
3)close friends bosom friend
4)boy friend girl friend
friendly adj.
friendly nations
a friendly smile
a friendly welcome a friendly manner
ly 结尾的形容词：
friendly lonely silly brotherly
lovely deadly likely
★7. waiter
waitress -ess
actor actress prince princess
tiger tigress
★8. lend v.
lend-lent-lent
lend sb sth=lend sth to sb
borrow sth for sb
eg. Can you lend me 200 Yuan?
I’ll pay you back tomorrow.
eg. I lent that CD to John but never got it back.
lend sb a hand = give sb help
lend sb an ear
be living on borrowed time
lender
borrower
★9. decision n.
decide v.
decide to do……
make up one’s mind to do …
eg. I decided to study another foreign language.
=I made up my mind to study another foreign language.
eg. With so many choices, it’s hard to decide which to buy.
eg. It’s difficult to decide between the two.
make a decision
reach a decision come to a decision arrive at a decision eg. On the last day of my holiday, I made a big decision.
eg. Anyone who lacks decision shouldn’t be a leader.
★10. whole
1) adj.
相当于entire; complete 作为形容词，作定语来使用。
a whole day three whole days
the whole country the whole world
eg. Let’s forget the whole affair.
=Let’s forget the whole matter/thing.
2） n.
eg. Four quarters make a whole
quarter n.
eg. Cut the apple into quarters.
Half n.
eg. Two halves make a whole.
Half of the work is done.
as a whole
on the whole
eg. On the whole, I agree with your decision.
Wholesale wholesaler
retail retail dealer / retail trader
★11. single
1) adj. only one
a single letter
a single apple hanging from the tree
a single ticket a round ticket / a return ticket
2) adj.
single men and women
married
3）adj.
a single bed a double bed
a single room a double room
4) adj. single-parent
a single-parent family
关键句型
Key Structures
Simple past 一般过去时
1.功能：
表示过去某个特定时间或某一段时间之内发生的动作或情况，通常搭配过去的某一段时间。
eg. We visited the school last year.
2.构成形式:
1) 规则变化： v. + ed
walked, happened
不规则变化：
eat – ate go – went see – saw come – came
2) be – was / were
eg. I wasn’t in yesterday.
eg. I went to school by bike when I was young.
体会动词的过去式
Policeman: Did you see the accident, sir?
Man: Yes, I did. The driver of that car hit that post over there.
hit – hit – hit
P: What happened?
M: A dog ran across the road and the driver tried to avoid it. The car suddenly came towards me. It climbed on to the pavement and crashed into that post. Pavement: P: What did you do?
M: I ran across the street after the dog.
P: Why did you do that? Were you afraid of the car?
M: I wasn’t afraid of the car. I was afraid of the driver. The driver got out of the car and began shouting at me. He was very angry with me. You see, it was my dog.
一般过去时与一般现在时的区别：
Her brother was an artist. Was表示已去世
Her brother is an artist. 尚健在
That’s all I had to say.
That’s all I have to say.
It was so nice to see you.
It is so nice to see you.
一般过去时的练习：
My friend, Roy, ____ (die) last year. He ____ (leave) me his CD player and his collection of CDs. Roy ____ (spend) a lot of money on CDs. He ____ (buy) one or two new CDs every week. He never ____ (go) to the cinema or to the theatre. He ____ (stay) at home every evening and ____ (listen) to music. He often ____ (lend) CDs to his friends. Sometimes they ____ (keep) them. He ____ (lose) many CDs in this way.
died left spent bought went stayed listened lent kept lost
课文讲解
Text
Postcards always spoil my holidays. Last summer, I went to Italy. I visited museums and sat in public gardens. A friendly waiter taught me a few words of Italian. Then he lent me a book. I read a few lines, but I did not understand a word. Every day I thought about postcards. My holidays passed quickly, but I did not send cards to my friends. On the last day I made a big decision. I got up early and bought thirty-seven cards. I spent the whole day in my room, but I did not write a single card!
1. Postcards always spoil my holidays.
always （频度副词）
holiday
holiday
a holiday
go on holiday be on holiday
vacation
1) 法定假日（宗教假日，国家庆典）英美都用holiday。
2) 每年的例行休假，英式 holiday，美式 vacation
leave
ask for a leave
take French leave leave in an English style
2. Last summer, I went to Italy. I visited museums and sat in public gardens. Italy Italian
public garden
3. A friendly waiter taught me a few words of Italian.
teach
teach sb sth tought me a few words of Italian
teach myself English
teach sb a lesson / give sb a lesson
teach sb to do sth
teach fish to swim
=teach your grandmother to suck eggs
educate
teach
coach 。
train 。
instruct
word n.
1) 词 new words and expressions
2)
eg. I don’t believe a word of his story. 。
3)
eg. Word came that he had run into trouble. 。
短语
eg. Actions speak louder than words. 。
have a word in sb’s ear
have a word with sb
have words with sb
have word from sb
4. Then he lent me a book.
lend sb sth
5. I read a few lines, but I did not understand a word.
read – read – read
[ri:d] [red] [red]
6. Every day I thought about postcards.
think about + n. /doing
eg. Do you often think about your childhood?
think of
eg. I thought of postcards. 。
7. My holidays passed quickly, but I did not send cards to my friends.
1) pass v. (passed)
2) send sth to sb=send sb sth
eg. I did not send cards to my friends. = I didn’t send my friends postcards.
8. On the last day I made a big decision.
make a decision
9. I got up early and bought thirty-seven cards.
10. I spent the whole day in my room, but I did not write a single card!
spend
sb spend time/money/energy on sth
sb spend time/money/energy (in) doing sth
eg. He spends money as if he were a millionaire. 。
eg. She spends all her money and time on clothes. 。
=She spends all her money and time in buying clothes.
eg.I spend a whole hour in explaining the importance of learning English to him.
Special Difficulties ---- 过去式
功能：动词过去式表示过去某个特定时间或某一段时间发生的动作或情况。
英语中有些动词可以加双宾语，这些动词大多具有“给予”的含义。
eg. He lent me a book. (me:简介宾语) (a book:直接宾语)
一般简介宾语置于直接宾语之前，一旦简介宾语置于直接宾语之后，简介宾语前要加to 或for来表达。To表示动作对谁所做，表示方向性；for表示为了谁所做，是目的性。
He lent a book to me.
eg. He sent me a card. He sent a card to me.
He passed me the salt. He passed the salt to me.
He bought me a tie. He bought a tie for me.
She made me a cake. She made a cake for me.
Exercise: 改写下列句子
1) He paid the shopkeeper some money.
He paid some money to the shopkeeper.
2) He handed me the prize.
He handed the prize to me.
3) The waiter brought a bottle of beer to the man.
The waiter brought the man a bottle of beer.
4) He sold all his books to me.
He sold me all his books.
5) The shop assistant found some curtain material for me.
The shop assistant found me some curtain material.
6) He did me a big favour. do sb a favour 帮某人一个忙
He did a big favour for me.
7) She showed her husband her new hat.
She showed her new hat to her husband.
8) She promised a reward to the finder.
She promised the finder a reward.
9) He gave his son some advice.
He gave some advice to his son.
10) His uncle left him some money.
His uncle left some money to/for him.
11) He is teaching English to us.
He is teaching us English.
12) I bought this bunch of flowers for you. Bunch of flowers 一束鲜花
I bought you this bunch of flowers.
13) Bring that book to me please.
Bring me that book please.
14) He offered me a cigarette.
He offered a cigarette to me.
15) Read me the first paragraph.
Read the first paragraph for me.
16) I’ve ordered some soup for you.
I’ve ordered you some soup.
17) I owe him a lot of money.
I owe a lot of money to him.
18) Pass the mustard to your father. Mustard 芥末
Pass your father the mustard.
After dinner, mustard. 马后炮
练习
Exercises
1. He was a friendly waiter.
He spoke to the writer ____.
A friend
B as friends
C like friends
D in a friendly way
2. On the last day he made a big decision. It was the ____ day of his holiday.
A final
B end
C latest
D bottom
。
3. He didn’t write a single card. So he ____.
A wrote only one
B didn’t write even one
C wrote just one
D wrote all the cards except one
4. There is need to check the ____ of the report.
A frequency
B accuracy
C emergency
D efficiency
A frequent adj. ；
B accurate adj. ；
C emergent adj. ；
D efficient adj. 。
复习
Review
1. 时态：一般过去时,描述过去某时发生的动作，或者描述过去出现的状态的时候也使用过
去时。
eg. Last week, I went to the theatre. 。
I met an old friend in the street this morning. 。
I was a lawyer before. 。
They quarreled yesterday. 。
一般过去时描述的过去某时做了某事或过去某时出现的状态。
2. 双宾语现象：通常表示给予的动词，可以将人和物同作为宾语。
pay sb money
=pay money to sb
pass sb sth
=pass sth to sb
buy sb sth
=buy sth for sb
to ，for 。
eg. I made a cake for you. I made you a cake.
His father left him a lot of money. His father left a lot of money to/for him.
3. Main Words:
1) send
send sb sth
send my love to sb 。
2) spoil v.
spoil – spoiled – spoiled spoilt – spoilt –spoilt
eg. Spare the rod and spoil the child. 。
3) public adj. 反义词：private
4) friend n.
make friend with sb
friendly adj. a friendly waiter
5) lent
lend sb sth / lend sth to sb
lend sb a hand
borrow
borrow sth from sb
6) decision n.
make a decision to do sth
decide v.
decide to do sth
=make up one’s mind to do sth
7) whole
adj.
the whole world a whole day
n.
eg. Two halves make a whole. 。
8) single adj.
a single card a single bed
a single girl single parent
补充内容
量词
a belt of
a belt of volcanoes
eg. A belt of trees encircled the field.
a bit of
a bit of land
a little bit of cheese
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Lessorfl Finding fossil man We can read of things that happened 5,000 years ago in the Near East, where people first learned to write. But there are some parts of the world where even now people cannot write. The only way that they can preserve their history is to recount it as sagas-legends handed dow n from one gen e ratio n of story-tellers to ano ther. These lege nds are useful because they can tell us something about migrations of people who lived long ago, but none could write down what they did. Anthropologists wondered where the remote ancestors of the Polynesian peoples now living in the Pacific Islands came from. The sagas of these people explain that some of them came from Indonesia about 2,000 years ago. But the first people who were like ourselves lived so long ago that even their sagas, if they had any, are forgotten. So archaeologists have n either history nor lege nds to help them to find out where the first 'modern merT came from. Fort un ately, however, ancient men made tools of st one, especially flint, because this is easier to shape tha n other kin ds. They may also have used wood and skins, but these have rotted away. Stone does not decay, and so the tools of long ago have remained when even the bones of the men who made them have disappeared without trace. Lesson2 Spare that spider Why, you may won der, should spiders be our friends ? Because they destroy so many in sects, and in sects in elude some of the greatest en emies of the huma n race. In sects would make it impossible for us to live in the world; they would devour all our crops and kill our flocks and herds, if it were not for the protection we get from insect-eating animals. We owe a lot to the birds and beasts who eat in sects but all of them put together kill only a fraction of the nu mber destroyed by spiders. Moreover, un like some of the other in sect eaters, spiders n ever do the least harm to us or our belongings. Spiders are not in sects, as many people think, nor even n early related to them. One can tell the differe nee almost at a glance for a spider always has eight legs and an in sect n ever more than six. How many spiders are engaged in this work on our behalf ? One authority on spiders made a census of the spiders in a grass field in the south of England, and he estimated that there were more than 2,250,000 in one acre, that is something like 6,000,000 spiders of different kinds on a football pitch. Spiders are busy for at least half the year in killi ng in sects. It is impossible to make more than the wildest guess at how many they kill, but they are hungry creatures, not content with only three meals a day. It has been estimated that the weight of all the in sects destroyed by spiders in Britai n in one year would be greater tha n the total weight of all the human beings in the country. Lesson3 Matterhorn man Modern alpinists try to climb mountains by a route which will give them good sport, and the more difficult it is, the more highly it is regarded. In the pioneering days, however, this was not the case at all.
1 NEW CONCEPT ENGLISH (IV) (new version) 2 Lesson 1 Finding Fossil man We can read of things that happened 5,000 years ago in the Near East, where people first learned to write. But there are some parts of the world where even now people cannot write. The only way that they can preserve their history is torecount it as sagas--legends handed down from one generation of story-tellersto another. These legends are useful because they can tell us something aboutmigrations of people who lived long ago, but none could write down what they did. Anthropologists wondered where the remote ancestors of the Polynesianpeoples now living in the Pacific Islands came from. The sagas of these peopleexplain that some of them came from Indonesia about 2,000 years ago.But the first people who were like ourselves lived so long ago that even theirsagas, if they had any, are forgotten. So archaeologists have neither history nor legends to help them to find out where the first 'modern men' came from.Fortunately, however, ancient men made tools of stone, especially flint, becausethis is easier to shape than other kinds. They may also have used woodand skins, but these have rotted away. Stone does not decay, and so the tools oflong ago have remained when even the bones of the men who made them have disappeared without trace. 3 Lesson 2 Spare that spider Why, you may wonder, should spiders be our friends ? Because they destroy somany insects, and insects include some of the greatest enemies of the humanrace. Insects would make it impossible for us to live in the world; they woulddevour all our crops and kill our flocks and herds, if it were not for the protectionwe get from insect-eating animals. We owe a lot to the birds and beasts who eat insects but all of them put together kill only a fraction of the number destroyed by spiders. Moreover, unlike some of the other insect eaters, spiders never dothe least harm to us or our belongings.Spiders are not insects, as many people think, nor even nearly related to them.One can tell the difference almost at a glance for a spider always has eight legsand an insect never more than six.How many spiders are engaged in this work on our behalf ? One authority on spiders made a census of the spiders in a grass field in the south of England, andhe estimated that there were more than 2,250,000 in one acre, that is something like 6,000,000 spiders of different kinds on a football pitch. Spiders are busy for at least half the year in killing insects. It is impossible to make more than the wildest guess at how many they kill, but they are hungry
新概念英语第四册课文翻译：Lesson9【课文】 Alfred the Great acted as his own spy, visiting Danish camps disguised as a minstrel. In those days wandering minstrels were welcome everywhere. They were not fighting men, and their harp was their passport. Alfred had learned many of their ballads in his youth, and could vary his programme with acrobatic tricks and simple conjuring. While Alfred's little army slowly began to gather at Athelney, the king himself set out to penetrate the camp of Guthrum, the commander of the Danish invaders. These had settled down for the winter at Chippenham： thither Alfred went. He noticed at once that discipline was slack： the Danes had the self-confidence of conquerors, and their security precautions were casual. They lived well, on the proceeds of raids on neighbouring regions. There they collected women as well as food and drink, and a life of ease had made them soft. Alfred stayed in the camp a week before he returned to Athelney. The force there assembled was trivial compared with the Danish horde. But Alfred had deduced that the Danes were no longer fit for prolonged battle： and that their commissariat had no organization, but depended on irregular raids. So, faced with the Danish advance, Alfred did not risk open battle but harried the enemy. He was constantly on the move, drawing the Danes after him. His patrols halted the raiding parties： hunger assailed the Danish army. Now Alfred
新概念英语第四册第四单元课文原文 Lesson 4 Seeing hands 能看见东西的手 In the Soviet Union several cases have been reported recently of people who can read and detect colors with their fingers, and even see through solid doors and walls. One case concerns an 'eleven-year-old schoolgirl, Vera Petrova, who has normal vision but who can also perceive things with different parts of her skin, and through solid walls. This ability was first noticed by her father. One day she came into his office and happened to put her hands on the door of a locked safe. Suddenly she asked her father why he kept so many old newspapers locked away there, and even described the way they were done up in bundles. Vera's curious talent was brought to the notice of a scientific research institute in the town of UIyanovsk, near where she lives, and in April she was given a series of tests by a special commission of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federal Republic. During these tests she was able to read a newspaper through an opaque screen and, stranger still, by moving her elbow over a child's game of Lotto she was able to describe the figures and colors printed on it; and, in another instance, wearing stockings and slippers, to make out with her foot the outlines and colors of a picture hidden under a carpet. Other experiments showed that her knees and shoulders had a similar sensitivity. During all these tests Vera was blindfold; and, indeed, except when blindfold she lacked the ability to perceive things with her skin. It was also found that although she could perceive things with her fingers this ability ceased the moment her hands were wet. (NCE Book Four)
Lesson1 We can read of things that happened 5,000 years ago in the Near East, where people first learned to write. But there are some parts of the world where even now people cannot write. The only way that they can preserve their history is to recount it as sagas--legends handed down from one generation of story-tellers to another. These legends are useful because they can tell us something about migrations of people who lived long ago, but none could write down what they did. Anthropologists wondered where the remote ancestors of the Polynesian peoples now living in the Pacific Islands came from. The sagas of these people explain that some of them came from Indonesia about 2,000 years ago. But the first people who were like ourselves lived so long ago that even their sagas, if they had any, are forgotten. So archaeologists have neither history nor legends to help them to find out where the first 'modern men' came from.