新概念英语第二册课堂笔记：第11课.doc

新概念英语第二册课堂笔记：第11 课Lesson 11

★New words and expressions

☆t urn n. 行为，举止“行为，

举止”常用 behavior Pay

attention to your behavior.

turn ：对人有影响力的行为，很少用。

☆d eserve v. 应得到，值得（重点）

He deserves praise.

You deserve the best.

deserve+n ：He deserved a promotion.

deserve to do：She deserved to be punished.

Good work deserves good pay.

☆lawyer n.律师

lawyer's office：律师事务所

☆s alary n. 工资

pay：工资（ salary+wage)

collect：收集，领取collect salary/wage：领工资salary ：工资（月薪，年薪）——有固定工作或管理阶层wage：工资（按小时，周算的）——不稳定的工作

bonus：金，利

☆immediately adv.立刻

right now ：在

at once=right away=immediately：立刻，上

★Text

One good turn deserves another：礼尚往来善有善（更好）

I was having dinner at a restaurant when Tony Steele came in.Tony worked in a lawyer's office years ago,but he is now working at a bank.He gets a good salary,but he always borrows money from his friends and never pays it back.Tony saw me and came and sat at the same table.He has never borrowed money from me.While he was eating,I asked him to lend me twenty pounds.To my surprise,he gave me the money immeiately.'I

have never borrowed any money from you,'Tony said,'so now

you can pay for my dinner!'

☆He gets a good salary.

get a good salary：薪水不

The teacher in the new oriental school can get a good salary.

☆pay back=repay ：

☆a t table ：吃

at the table：坐在桌子旁

☆pay for(??而付）有点似于ask for （要??）

pay (money) for...;ask (sb) for...

I have paid for you a dinner.

I have paid 20 dollars for the book.( 强调钱）

It's my treat. 我请客。

Let's go duthch.AA 制

不想请： This time is your treat,next time my turn.

★Key structures

a.What is happening now?——现在实行

现在正在发生；现阶段

b.What always happens? ——一般时态

（现在，过去，将来）习惯，反复

c.What happened? ——过去时态

在过去的时间里发生的事情，不强调对现在的影响和跟其他时间比较，叫一般过去式。

过去的过去——过去完成时

有过去发生的动作，但是还强调对现在的影响——现在完成时

有(yesterday,last night), 以前的事情，没有强调对现在的影响——一般过去时

d.What has happened ——现在完成时态

过去的行为对现在产生影响或者过去的行为一直延续到现在——一般完成时

e.What was happening? ——过去实行时态

过去某一特定时间发生的动作——过去实行时

★难点

... sb to do sth

ask,want,tell,order,expect,wish,allow,advise,would like,teach,prefer

一定不能说 hope sb to do

准确用法： hope to do;hope that...

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我已经有好几个星期没见他了。 (2)some 在这里不表示“一些”，而表示“某个”、“某种”等： I'll tell you someday. 有一天我会告诉你的。 We'll talk about it some other time. 我们改日再谈这件事。 3.…it came into use. ……机场开始使用了。 come into use 为固定短语，表示“开始被使用”： When did the train come into use? 这火车什么时候开始使用的? The road came into use last month. 这条路上个月通车了。 4.Over a hundred people must have been driven away from their homes by the noise. 有一百多人肯定是被噪音逼得已经弃家 远去。 情态动词 must +be表示根据事实所作的推论，这在第1册第 127课已经讲过。在这句话中，must+完成时态表示对过去某事的推测：This pen is John's. He must have been here. 这枝钢笔是约翰的。他一定来过这里。 5.I am one of the few people left. 我是少数留下来的人中 的一个。 (1)one of表示特指的一群人/一些东西中的一个，后面的名词用复数：

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3.We like them in the same way that we like pretty curtain material. 我们喜爱它们就像我们喜爱漂亮的窗帘布一样。 in the same way that/as是个连接短语，用于表示比较，可译 为“像/和……一样”： She walks in the same way that/as her sister did. 她的走路姿势和她姐姐以前走路的姿势一模一样。 4.I think that young children often appreciate modern pictures better than anyone else. 我觉得小孩子们往往比任何人 都更能欣赏现代绘画。 else经常与不定代词连用(如everyone else，someone else，anything else等)，表示“另外/加”、“其它/他的”或“不同的”： Can you find anyone else? 你还能够找到其他人吗? I can find nothing else here except an old dictionary. 除了一本旧字典，我在这儿再也找不到别的东西了。 课文中的这句话表示小孩子们比其他任何人都更能欣赏现代绘画。 5.…she always tells me whether my pictures are good or not. ……她总能说出我的画是好还是坏。 连接词whether…or not能够表示选择： I don't know whether you are interested (in it) or not.

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