[英语日常口语,Unit81:Hello,stranger和陌生人攀谈]Hello,stranger
英语日常口语 Unit81:Hello stranger和陌生人攀谈
本单元是关于和陌生人攀谈的对话
Khalid: Hello, stranger!
Helen: Ooh, hi Khalid! How are you? It"s been ages, hasn"t it?
Khalid: I know! I haven"t seen you since the barbecue.
Helen: Oh yeah, the barbecue. It was a smashing day wasn"t it? But poor Alice was really ill the next day.
Khalid: Was she?
Helen: She had to go to the doctors. But she"s as right as rain now. Anyway Khalid, what"s happening with you?
Khalid: Well, I"ve just enrolled on a part-time course here at the university, and I"m still a student at the language school!
Helen: Wow! So you"re studying hard?
Khalid: Of course! But it"s not easily to study at home. My flatmates are really rowdy and I can never get any peace and quiet.
Helen: Hmm... I might be able to help you with that.
Vocabulary:字汇
Hello stranger
an informal greeting used when we meet a friend after a long time of not seeing them
It"s been ages
we haven"t seen each other for a very long time (it"s been ages since we last met.)
smashing
excellent, great, wonderful
right as rain
feeling completely healthy and well
rowdy
noisy and disturbing
本单元语言点是关于用 and 连接的两字短语，请看下面的解释和例句
Binomials: peace and quiet
Background: 背景
There are many phrases in English that use two words connected with ‘and’. For example, peace and quiet, fish and chips. These expressions are known as binomials. In these phrases the word order is usually fixed; we say "peace and quiet", we don"t say "quiet and peace".
The following binomials are all noun phrases, although there are also many
adjective and verb phrases that are binomials.
Noun and noun:名词与名词
Many binomials combine words which are similar or closely connected in meaning:
peace and quiet: freedom from noise and disturbance
He sent his children to the park so that he could have some peace and quiet.
life and times: the story of someone"s life, especially in its social context
I"m reading a bo