Unit TwelveI: The usage of the new words and expressions.degree n. 度;程度;学位eg. 1.The temperature today is 3℃.2.The city lies at a latitude of 30 degrees North. 这个城市位于北纬30度。

3.The children have different degrees of ability. 孩子的能力高低各不相同。

4.To do the job, you must have a bachelor degree in chemistry.从事这项工作必须具备化学专业学士学位。

marry v.结婚，嫁，娶(它是一个短暂性动词，不能和表示一段时间状语连用。

)eg. 1.She married a handsome young man.2.They got married last April; they’ve been married for a year.他们去年四月结婚，至今已有一年了。

* marry sb to sb. “使...与...结婚”eg. 1. She wants to marry her daughter to a rich man.她想把她的女儿嫁给一个有钱的人。

decide v. 决定，决意eg.1.Now you must decide. 现在你必须作一个决定。

2. --- I don’t know which one to take. 我不知道拿哪一个好。

--- I’ll let you decide. 我让你来定吧。

* decide to do sth; decide that ……eg. 1. He decided to buy a new car.他决定买一辆新车。

2. She has decided to say no. = She has decided that she will say no.improve v.提高，改善improvement n.eg.1. I want to improve my English. 我想提高英语。

2. The weather improved late in the day.傍晚天气转好了。

3.There has been an improvement in the weather. 天气有所好转。

wish n.& v. 祝愿; 希望，愿望”eg.1. We sent our best wishes for her birthday. 我们对她的生日致以最良好的祝愿。

2. Please send my best wishes to your family.请代我问候你的家人。

wish (sb) to do stheg.1 I wish to go to New York someday.我希望能到纽约去。

2. We wish you a merry Christmas/good luck/a safe journey!祝你圣诞快乐/走运/一路平安。

straight ad.直接地；一直地eg.1. Go straight to school without stopping. 直接到学校去，中途不要停留。

2. Tell me straight. Is he dead?直截了当告诉我，他死了吗？straightaway = at once 立即，马上eg.1.I’ll do it straightaway if you in a hurry. 如果你赶时间的话，我立刻就做。

look forward to doing sth 盼望……eg. 1. We’re looking forward to hearing from you. 我们盼望你的回信。

2. The children are looking forward to the holidays. 孩子们盼望着假期。

seem vi 好像，似乎eg.1. I seem to have lost my key. 我觉得好像丢了钥匙。

2. He seems happy with his new job.他看来对新工作很满意。

seem to do sth / It seems that …eg.1. He seems to know everything = It seems that he knows everything.他好像什么都知道。

2. It seems that there is something wrong with the big clock. 大钟看上去好像有问题。

practise v. 练习，实践eg.1. You’ll never learn to ride a bike if you don't practise.你如果不联系永远学不会骑自行车practise doing sth 练习做某事eg. 1. You’d better practise speaking English every day.2. You need to practise typing without seeing the keyboard.你应该练习不看键盘打字。

invite v.邀请它的名词是invitationeg. 1. We invited all the teachers to the party.2. We invited all our relatives (to the weeding).我们邀请了所有的亲戚（来参加婚礼）。

invite sb to do sth 邀请某人做某事eg. 1. They’ve invited us to stay for the we ekend. 他们已邀请我们在他们家度周末。

II. TEXT Two old friends Meet AgainOne day, Zhao Hui and Chen wei meet in the street. They talk about what they are doing now. Zhao Hui is teaching at a middle school in Haidian and Chen Wei is studying. He’s doing a degree course at the Beijing Television University. His major is electronics, but he’s also following an English course.He’s still working at the TV factory and going to classes in the evening and at the weekends. So he’s always busy doing something. Chen Wei is finding his course quite hard and he doesn’t have a lot of free time, but he’s learning a lot and enjoying the course.NOTE：1.A middle school: “在中学”中国学年段时间划分和英美不一样，看下列表：2. follow/do/study a course 在课文中的意思是一样的，“学一门课”3. major 是“专业”的意思。

4. be busy with/doing stheg. Last night I was busy preparing today’s examination.5. Chen Wei is finding his course quite hard. 句中的“quite hard”是作句子的补语，像这种结构的还有：eg.They painted their house red.6. a lot of/lots of “许多”它既可以修饰可数名词也可以修饰不可数名词。

eg. a lot of/ lots of people; a lot of/ lots of breadZhao hui become a teacher five years ago. After middle school he studied to be an English teacher, and then he started to teach in Haidian. Last year, in June, he got married and he and his wife moved into their own flat in July. NOTE:1) he studied to be a teacher = he studied in order to be a teacher2) move into 搬迁They moved into their new house last year.After middle school, Chen Wei went to work on a farm for three years. Then he came back to Beijing and began to work at the TV Factory. He liked his job very much. One day, his boss talked to him about the importance of education, and he began to study at the factory’s evening school.He studied maths and physics, and there were group discussions about technical problems.This made him want to learn more, to go to university and improve himself. So he decided to go to university and he became a TVU student.NOTE:1) “在农场”要用介词“on” on a farm2) evening school 是“夜校”的意思。

3) there were group discussions about technical problems.是一个存在句。