Unit 8 learning a foreign language

eg.2 有助于，促成drink contribute to his ruins.飲酒促成了他的毀滅。eg.3投稿于：mr. green has contributed poems to the london magazine for several years.格林先生向《倫敦雜志》投詩稿已有幾年了。not all of us want to be translators or interpreters.      并不是每個人都想成為一個翻譯者或口譯者。grammari have piles of homework to do, therefore i can’t relax.我有許多作業要做，因此，我無法放松。 [點撥]piles of  意為“一堆堆的，成堆的”    eg: a pile of books一堆書 piles of books 一堆堆的書      pile亦可用作動詞，詞組pile up意為“累積”“堆積”    eg: my work keeps piling up.我的工作越積越多。most exchange students say that they feel as if they were truly part of their host families and that they will always stay in touch. 許多交流學生說他們覺得他們真正成了房東家庭的一員而且他們將永遠保持聯系。[點撥]此句中that they feel…and that they will…in touch 構成謂語say 的并列賓語從句，其中第二個that 在句中不可省略。[點撥]stay in touch = keep in touch 意為“保持聯系”，touch 后常與介詞with 搭配意思為“與……的聯系”。與touch 構成的其他短語有：be in touch with 和……有聯系 be/get out of touch with 脫離、失去聯系 bring…in touch with 使接觸，使認識 get in touch with 和……取得聯系 lose touch with 與……失去聯系what’s perhaps the most valuable is what you learn about yourself and your own culture.可能最重要的便是你對自身和所屬文化的了解。[點撥]名詞性從句what is…以及what you …own culture分別充當主語和表語從句，其中what可以理解成something that.    eg: our hometown isn’t what it used to be.我們的家鄉不再是過去的樣子。  integrating skill many language learners think that the best way to learn a language is to spend time in a country where the language is spoken.許多語言學習者認為學語言最好的方式就是去在講這種語言的國度里呆上一段時間。[點撥]1.這是一個長句，主句為many language learners think that…,在that 引導的賓語從句中，the best way 作主語，to learn a language 作the best way 的定語，to spend time in a country 作賓語從句中的表語，where the language is spoken 作 a country 的定語從句。[點撥]2.關系副詞where 引導的定語從句，where 相當于in which 或at which在定語從句中充當地點狀語。   eg.1. the factory where his father works is in the west of the city.他父親工作的工廠在城市西邊。eg.2. this is the house where we lived last year.          這是我們去年住的房子。many school offer exchange program at various academic levels at a reasonable cost.許多學校提供價格合理的不同學術層次的交流計劃。