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一、课文导读
本课学习目标
今天我们要学习的是新概念英语第二册的第五课,标题是 "No wrong numbers"(无错号之虞)。
这是一个充满幽默感的故事——斯科特先生在两个相距5英里的汽车修理部之间无法安装电话,于是他买了12只鸽子来传递消息。标题"No wrong numbers"是个双关语:用电话可能拨错号码,但用鸽子传信,就永远不会有"错号"的问题了!
本课的重点知识点包括:
文化小知识:信鸽的历史
信鸽在人类历史上有着悠久的通信传统。早在古罗马时期,人们就利用鸽子归巢的本能传递信息。即使在电报、电话发明后,信鸽在某些特殊场合(如战争时期)仍然发挥着重要作用。第一次世界大战和第二次世界大战中,信鸽曾被用来传递重要军事情报,许多信鸽还因此获得了勋章。
课文中斯科特先生用鸽子在两个修理部之间传递"索取备件的信件"和"紧急函件",正是利用了信鸽的这种特性。标题"No wrong numbers"既幽默又贴切——鸽子确实不会拨错号码!
二、课文原文
Lesson 5 No wrong numbers
Mr. James Scott has a garage in Silbury and now he has just bought another garage in Pinhurst. Pinhurst is only five miles from Silbury, but Mr. Scott cannot get a telephone for his new garage, so he has just bought twelve pigeons. Yesterday, a pigeon carried the first message from Pinhurst to Silbury. The bird covered the distance in three minutes. Up to now, Mr. Scott has sent a great many requests for spare parts and other urgent messages from one garage to the other. In this way, he has begun his own private 'telephone' service.
三、本课核心词汇表
课文重点词汇
本课动词变化
another/other系列词汇辨析(本课重点)
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| other | | | other people / other books |
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句型对比:
距离表达方式
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| 地点 + is + 距离 + from + 地点 | Pinhurst is five miles from Silbury. |
| 地点 + is + 距离 + away | The school is one mile away. |
| How far...? | How far is your home from here? |