白小琦《巧克力英语》第六课:幸福的生活

We used to lack many things, such as bikes, radios and nylon things. Thanks to the Party’s good policy, we now lack almost nothing. Just like that we can easily find McDonald’s hamburgers and Kentucky fried chicken in our China, we can even find radios, automatic microwaves, telephones and laser hifi made in China if we peep into an US mall, a mart within a big and tall hall. 

Food, drinks and cigarettes are in different parts of a mall. Chocolate can be at the food part. “Dove” is a brand of chocolate. “Dove Chocolate”, made in Beijing, is well known all over China as Chinese kids love to eat it so much. Chinese kids love oversea things, too. Gum, pie, pudding and pizza are nearly made for them.

Lychee and mango are also at the food part. When kids go out for picnic, they will ask their dad and mom to take lychee and mango for them, as there are many vitamins in lychee and mango. You ask me how the kids eat lychee and mango? They eat after peeling them. Who can eat them with the peel? 

It is no good many Chinese men like very much the cigarettes, such as USA made Marlboro. They don’t mind if it’s good or not for them. They just love those good-looking cigarettes. The nicotine in cigarettes and cigars is no good for us at all. We had better give up smoking. 

Tea is Chinese drink, though many Chinese people still love to drink coffee, beer, coke or soda pop. What are you going to do if you got really big? Now the only thing you can do is to give up drinking those things. Try to drink some diet-ones if you really can’t help yourself. Big as you already are, please do much sport such as ping-pong, other ball games, yoga or even marathon. Dances, like tango and waltz, are also good for you. But it is said that it’s much easier to dance tango than waltz. 

Shopping in a mall, eating diet-food and doing much sport mean that Chinese life is picking up very fast now. Everything in our country shall be better and better if we study and work harder. 

课文注释：1 used to: 强调过去习惯性的行为或状态，但是现在没有这种行为或状态了。2 Thanks to：由于。5 be well known: 家喻户晓。 6 had better：最好。7 give up：放弃。8 can’t help：忍不住。9 it is said that…据说…。10 better and better：越来越好。

日常会话

A: Do you speak English? 
B: Yes, I do. 
A: Fine. Then, it will be easy for me to talk to you. 
B: Who are you?  
A: I’m a poor student. 
B: No, you are not poor. 
A: Why am I not poor? 
B: Because you have rich English knowledge. And you know that knowledge is money.
A: Do you have any hobbies? 
B: Yes, I do. My hobby is playing mahjong. How about you? 
A: My hobby is watching soccer games on the weekends. Are you interested in going to the soccer game this weekend? 
B: Yes, I am.
A: OK. Let’s go together.
B: If you were to watch a soccer game this weekend, what would you wear?  
A: I am going to wear my cashmere T-shirt. Is that all right?  
B: You’d better wear your jacket. It’s going to be cold this weekend.

英语故事

有心理学家称，人类记忆具体生动内容的能力比其记忆抽象内容的能力强一千倍。这种描述不很准确，但这种现象的确存在。

让初学者死记硬背eye和 broom 这两个单词是很痛苦的。你不妨这样琢磨以下这两个单词：在英语单词eye中，两个e 相当于两个眼睛，而y相当于鼻子。其实，eye就是眼睛的意思 。在broom中，room是房间的意思。这时，你再看看b像什么？ 像不像扫地用的东西？broom就是扫帚的意思。A new broom sweeps clean. 相当于汉语：新官上任三把火。

学习过巧克力英语基础词汇后，我们知道golf是高尔夫的意思。为了扩展我们的词汇量，我们可以把golf分解成green绿色、oxygen氧气、light阳光和friendship友谊。高尔夫golf就是在green绿色、oxygen氧气、light阳光和friendship友谊中进行的高雅运动。

在记忆了逻辑词汇后，我们知道Poland是波兰的意思，Thailand是泰国的意思。那么，Holland肯定就是荷兰了。有意思的是，我们可以把Holland看成是一句英语爱情缄言首字母的缩写。这句英语爱情缄言是：Hope our love lasts and never die.希望我们的爱天长地久、永不泯灭。

课后练习：请正确朗读、理解以下日常会话

A: Do you speak English? 
你讲英语吗
B: Yes, I do.
是的，我讲。 
A: Fine. Then, it will be easy for me to talk to you. 
太好了。那么我就能很容易地与你交谈。
B: Who are you? 
你是谁？ 
A: I’m a poor student.
我是一个穷学生。 
B: No, you are not poor. 
不，你不穷。
A: Why am I not poor? 
我为什么不穷？
B: Because you have rich English knowledge. And you know that knowledge is money.
因为你有丰富的英语知识。你知道，知识就是金钱。
A: Do you have any hobbies? 
你有业余爱好吗？
B: Yes, I do. My hobby is playing mahjong. How about you? 
是的，我有。我的业余爱好是打麻将。你哪？
A: My hobby is watching soccer games on the weekends. Are you interested in going to the soccer game this weekend? 
我的业余爱好是周末看足球赛。你有没有兴趣这个周末去看场足球赛？
B: Yes, I am.
我有兴趣。
A: OK. Let’s go together.
好。咱们一起去。
B: If you were to watch a soccer game this weekend, what would you wear? 
假如这个周末你去看足球赛，你会穿什么衣服？ 
A: I am going to wear my cashmere T-shirt. Is that all right? 
我会穿我的开司米T恤。那样行吗？ 
B: You’d better wear your jacket. It’s going to be cold this weekend.
你最好把夹克穿上，这个周末会很冷。
 
本课要求：

1 正确朗读课文；
2 熟记课中的英语故事；
3 熟读日常会话。

作者白小琦，陕西省清涧县人，中国首支国家柔道队队员，教育学硕士学位，美国UCLA访问学者，Concordia College汉语及中国文化学分老师，现定居悉尼。

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