Chapter 1 France is calling

一. 教學內容：chapter 1 france is calling 二. 重點句子：1. france is calling. 法國正在向您召喚！動詞call有如下的含義：召喚，號召。e.g.: can you call everybody in for lunch? 你能把大家都叫進來吃飯么?喊，嚷：“breakfast is ready”, she called. 吃早飯了，她喊了一聲。請……來。e.g.: he was so ill that we had to call the doctor. 他病得很重，我們只好把大夫請來了。取名，把……叫做。e.g.: they called the baby simon. 他們為這個孩子取名叫西蒙。打電話。e.g.: i’ll call you later. 我晚點打電話給你。call常見的搭配有：be called 名字叫做。e.g.: what’s your teacher called? 你們老師怎么稱呼?she’s called mrs gray. 我們叫她格雷太太。call somebody back 給某人回電話。e.g.: i can’t talk now- i’ll call you back later. 我現在說話不方便----待會兒再給您回電話吧。call for somebody 順路到某人家約之同行。e.g.: rose often calls for me in the morning and we walk to school together.羅斯常常在早上找我一起步行去上學。call in 訪問，拜訪。i’ll call in to see you this evening. 我今天晚上去探望您。call off 取消原計劃，放棄原計劃。we called off the race because it was raining. 因為下雨，我們取消了這場比賽。2. now that winter is behind us, many people are starting to think about going abroad for the summer holidays. 既然冬天已經過去，許多人開始計劃暑假去國外旅游。now that 由于，既然。相當于because of the fact that.e.g.: now that the children have left home, we can move to a smaller house.既然孩子們都已經從家里搬出去了，我們也可以搬到一套小一點的房子去了。注意：now that通常用來表示眾所周知的原因，而非because那樣可能表示比較深層次的或隱含的原因。e.g.: now that you mention it, i do remember. 既然你說了，我就會記住的。now that you have grown up, you must stop this childish behavior. 既然你已經長大了，那么你就應該改掉這種幼稚的行為。start to do sth. 開始做……，著手做……after waiting for an hour, the clients started to complain.等了一個小時之后，顧客們開始抱怨了。she started to play the piano when she was five years old. 她五歲開始學彈鋼琴。注意：我們同樣也可以說成start doing sth. e.g.: they started planting trees in the school garden at 9 o’clock this morning.他們今天上午9點開始在學�；▓@里種樹。think about doing sth.  考慮做……i’m thinking about playing tennis this afternoon. 我正在考慮今天下午打網球。why don’t you think about going to the usa for your holidays?你為什么不考慮一下去美國度假呢? 注意：think about 可以用think of 來代替。abroad 相當于 in/ to another country. 意為：在海外，往國外。由于abroad 是個副詞，表示“在/到國外”時，前面不能加介詞。e.g.: mary goes abroad for her holidays every year. 瑪麗每年都出國度假。