-Tuesday- 置顶【英语共读】,完美利用碎片时间学英语 对话框回复“早安”和“晚安',大咖主播为你送上暖心问候 巧用这三个词,口语立马地道 来自主播Yasi Day8 来自英语共读 00:00 05:28 每天仅限100张优惠券 ▲点击秒抢优惠券,享受订阅800词汇量读原著 立减100元 1 大家在学英语的过程中能能会遇见这样的情况,就是常常用书面化的词汇说口语。先给大家举个案例: 曾经我们让学员从网站上随机抽取一个社会新闻,然后把它的标题用口语化的英语复述一遍。因为这些社会新闻都是发生在我们身边的事情,所以能不能把它们讲清楚,直接反映了学员的口语运用能力。其中有一个新闻的标题是这样的: 癌症女孩被父母、男友遗弃后去世
如果在正式的新闻报道中,“遗弃”这个词是会用abandon的,但这个词并不是口语词汇。最后的测试结果是,词汇量较大的学员,或者知道这个词的学员,绝大多数都用了这个词,而不是像我们所希望的那样用leave这个词。 再举个例子,与之前的是同样的要求。 他被判了五年刑。 同样的结果,要么学员不会说,要么就是用了sentence这个正式词汇,说成:He was sentenced to 5 years in prison.
而几乎没有人想到用give这个词来表达:He was given 5 years in prison. 或者用get表达:He got 5 years in prison. leave, give, get, 这三个词应该没有人不知道吧?可是口语的时候就老是想不起来用。 其实,用书面语表达你不能说不对,但是在日常的口语交流中,你真的很少会听到老外用这么正式的词汇进行表达,就像我们在生活中说的汉语也更加口语化一样。要是平时说话时,别人时不时来句文言文或者成语,你是啥感觉? 下面英语君就给大家整理了一些表达,分别给出了书面的和口语的(前一个是书面的,后一个是口语的)。 要求:request ask for 报复:revenge get back on 调查:investigate look into 合作:cooperate work together 取出:withdraw take out 建立:establish set up 削减:decrease cut down 组装:assemble put together 拒绝:reject turn down 归还:return give back 加速:accelerate speed up 2 学了一个礼拜的后缀,我们做一个简单的测试,看一下大家最近所学掌握了多少。 请运用我们所学过的构词法,给括号里的单词加上合适的后缀,使整个句子意思完整。 1. As always, Peter had a reason for his____. (act) 2. Best friends are the ____ of my life. (found) 3. They are cutting funds for ____. (educate) 4. He was remembering a story heard in___. (child) 5. After several years of___, fortune smiled at him. (hard) 6. Under the___ of him the country is being transformed. (leader)
7. She was a woman of high position in the ___. (govern)
8. This English book is very___. (use)
9. A home should be ___ and friendly. (comfort)
10. The future doesn't seem very ___. (hope)
11. Your present is ___ to him. (meaning)
12. The earthquake left them ___. (home)
13. Happiness is the ___ aim of everything we do. (ultimate)
14. I think immigration should be ___. (legal)
15. The business will lose money if it doesn't ___. (modern) 参考答案 1. action 2. foundation 3. education 4. childhood 5. hardship 6. leadership 7. government 8. useful 9. comfortable 10. hopeful 11. meaningless/meaningful 12. homeless 13. ultimate 14. legalize 15. modernize |
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