Lesson 31
Success story
成功者的故事
【New words and expressions】 生词和短语
★retire v,退休
He is getting old,He is going to retire.
retire=stop working=stop doing this
I'm going to retire next year.
我明年会退出影坛或歌坛
I'm so tired that I'm going to retire now.
★company n,公司
firm 商行
corporation 责任公司
limited corporation 有限责任公司 Ltd.Co
He works in my business.
他在我的公司工作
★bicycle n,自行车
★save v,积蓄
save 挽救
save one's life
He saved my life 他挽救我的生命
save one's face 挽会面子
save money 存钱
save up 存钱
I have saved up for many years.
save it for a raining day 未雨绸缪,为将来需要而做好准备
★workshop n,车间
workhouse 感化院
★helper n,帮手,助手
assistant 助理
★employ v,雇佣
employee 雇员
employer 雇主
trainer 教练
trainee 接受训练的人
★grandson n,孙子
First listen and then answer the question.
听录音,然后回答以下问题。
What was Frank's first job?
Yesterday afternoon Frank Hawkins was telling me about his experiences as a young man,Before he retired,Frank was the head of a very large business company,but as a boy he used to work in a small shop,It was his job to repair bicycles and at that time he used to work fourteen hours a day,He saved money for years and in 1958 he bought a small workshop of his own,In his twenties Frank used to make spare parts for aeroplanes,At that time he had two helpers,In a few years the small workshop had become a large factory which employed seven hundred and twenty-eight people,Frank smiled when he remembered his hard early years and the long road to success,He was still smiling when the door opened and his wife came in,She wanted him to repair their grandson's bicycle!
参考译文
昨天下午弗兰克.霍金斯向我讲述了他年轻时的经历。在退休前,弗兰克是一家非常大的商业公司的经理,但他小时候却在一家小铺里做工。他那时的工作是修理自行车,并且通常是一天工作14个小时。他靠多年积蓄,于1958年买下了自己的一个小铺子。20多岁的时候,弗兰克曾生产飞机零配件。那时他有两个帮手。几年之后,小铺子已经发展成了一个雇有728人的大工厂。弗兰克回想着他早年的艰难经历和走过的漫长的成功之路,微笑了。他正笑着的时候门开了,他的妻子走了进来。她叫他去修理孙子的自行车。
【课文讲解】
He worked in a factory.他曾经在一个车间里工作
He used to work in a small workshop.
他过去在一个车间工作
used to do 过去常常,但是现在不做
My teacher used to live there,我的老师过去住在那(现在不住了)
He lived there,他过去住在那(不知道现在是否住在那)
She worked as a teacher.
work...as...作为...工作
He used to worked as a teacher.
I used to study in this school.
as a boy
as 在这儿是当...的时候
as he was a boy
as a young man 当他年轻的时候
in his twenties
in one's thirties/forties/fifties/nineties
in one's -ies 在某人几十岁的时候
in my fifties 在我五十多岁的时候
In his fifties,he learned the second language.
in the 1980s 在二十世纪八十年代
I worked/began the job in the 1990s.
a head of 老板
at that time=just then=at that moment
of one's own
my own book
用one's own还是of one's own由被修饰词的位置决定,如果被修饰名词在前边,用of one's own,如果被修饰名词在后边,用one's own
has become 成长为
in a few years 在一些年之后
hard early years 早年的艰辛
long road to success 通往成功的长路
remember 记得,回忆起
memory n.记忆
memorize v.
There is a long way to go.
My wife came in when I was smiling 强调我妻子进来
I was smiling when my wife came in 强调我微笑
want sb,to do 想让某人做某事
main idea:his experiences as a young man.
success 成功,成功者
【Letter writing】
1.F 2.T 3.F
【Key structures】
过去进行时出现在1.一个故事的背景
2.和另外一件事同时发生
Exercises C:
was working /was sitting /looked (was looking) /were passing/
stopped /got / were(used to be)/used to come(came) /went(used to go)/ were(used to be) /quarrelled /saw /got(was getting) /called
/hurried
be surprised to see
【Special difficulties】
a.experience 经历(可数名词)
经验(不可数名词)
experienced 有经验的
b.save
save one's life
save one's face
save money
save it for a rainy day
c,work and job
1,work 可以做动词,job不可以做动词
2,job 是不可数名词
Exercise
1,experienced
2.jobs
3.job
4.save
econmize 经济,节省
save 存钱
【Composition】
not only / repaired / but /as well /told /make /prefer
go for a ride / go for a walk
ride a car / bicycle /horse
go for a ride on sth.
【Multiple choice questions】
Comprehension
No.1 D
(a),(b)选项是作为“he was a young man“中的一个部分
No.3 A
No.4 C
Vocabulary
No.8 A
leader 起带头作用的人
headmaster 校长
direction 方向
director 管理整个的事务的人
superior 监理
No.12 C
enter = go in /come in
return = go back
go与come in方向不一样