Lesson Two How To Improve Your English生词摘录funny farmmental asylumimprove课文第二课How to Improve Your EnglishDialogue 实用会话Mack is talking to his friend Don.M: Hi, Don! How are you doing (Howdy )in your English class?D: Not so well, I'm afraid.M: What's the problem?D: I'm not improving. Tell me, how come your English is so good?(goof around )M: Well, uh... I have an American girlfriend.D: Aha! That's it. Now I know what to do. (He runs off.)M: Hey, come back! I was just kidding!梅克正在和他的朋友唐聊天。
梅克：嗨，唐！你英文课上得怎么样？唐：恐怕不怎么理想。
梅克：出了什么问题？唐：我一直没进步。
告诉我，为什么你的英文那么棒？梅克：呃，这个吗…我交了个美国女朋友。
唐：啊哈！就是这样。
现在我知道该怎么做了！（他跑走了。
）梅克：嘿，回来啊！我只是在开玩笑！讲解Mack is talking to his friend Don. Mack and Don are both boys. (or men)Mack says, "Hi, Don. How are you doing is your English class?"Don answers, "Not so well, I am afraid."Mack asks, " What is the problem?"and Don tells him, "I am not improving. Tell me, how come your English is so good?" and Mack says, "Well, uh...I have an American girlfriend."Don says, "Aha, That is it. Now I know what to do."He runs off. And Mack says, "Hey, come back. I was just kidding."P: Now I probably would like to hear you speak English only, so introduce yourselfin English againB: Hi, everybody. This is Bruce.P: However, this is basically an English teaching program, so every now and then, of course you will step in and speak Chinese. But most of the time, you will explain the key points, if there is any, in English. So lesson two we will have a short dialogue. Now, by the way, what is meaning of this word "dialogue"?B: A dialogue is a conversation between two people.P: 也就是两个人之间的对话P: And that is spelled?B: conversation or dialogue?P: Dialogue.B: OK. Well, you can see it on page 9 here, "d-i-a-l-o-g-u-e", but it is also spelled "d-i-a-l-o-g". So there are two spellings for this word.哦，有两种拼法 dialogue 这是我们现在看到的拼法，但也有人说dialogP: "dialog", the pronunciation is exactly the same. 发音是完全相同的。
Conversation 未必指的是两个人，三个人，五个人之间的会话都可以用conversation B: or Sometimes just one person. Peter, because sometimes I hear you talking to yourself.有时候也要以一个人。
也可以用conversation，我们这样说：刚才Peter 嗯自言自语。
那就暗示：P: Peter is going to be sent to a kind of a hospital.B: Funny farm.P: Funny farm. He was raised on the farm. （农场）Asylum 正式用法B: mental asylumP: Yesterday Peter was sent to a nearby mental asylum, because he kept talking to himself.B：朗读这段对话How to Improve Your EnglishMack is talking to his friend Don.M: Hi, Don! How are you doing in your English class?D: Not so well, I'm afraid.M: What's the problem?D: I'm not improving. Tell me, how come your English is so good?M: Well, uh…I have an American girlfriend.D: Aha! That's it. Now I know what to do. (He runs off.)M: Hey, Come back! I was just kidding!Improve v.B: He improved his English by studying every day. (vt)P: He studied every day, so his English improved. (vi)improvementmake improvementB: Peter, you have made a lot of improvement in your Mandarin.Thank you, Bruce, for teaching me.P: You have made a lot of improvement in your English.Because he studies hard, he has made a lot of improvement in his English.P: Mack is talking to his friend Don.talkWhat are you talking about?B: The teachers were talking about the problem student.P: He is a problem student. He keeps causing trouble.talk Somebody intoTalk him into quitting smoking.B: His girlfriend talked Mack into quitting smoking.When he gave the speech, we realized he was just talking nonsense.(胡说八道)P: "Hi" and "Hey" is different.B: Right, Peter."Hi" is you just said," it is a greeting."If I see my good friends or sometimes my students, I will say "Hi". It is a friendly greeting, but, "hey" means I want you to pay attention to me, I have something important to talk to you about or maybe to show you, "Hey, come here." "Hey, listen to me."P: But "Hey" in this case is not enquire, I will say.B: Now we should only use it between friends.“Hey”必须在朋友之间才可以使用，唤起大家的注意P: Hey, come here. I have something to talk to you about.但“Hi”是打招呼用的"Hi" is a greeting.How are you doing?B: OK, and you.P: Fine, thank you.How are you doing?How are you getting along?How is he doing?How is he getting along?How have you been?Howdy:美语是南部的说法。
B: "Howdy". If you go to Texas, or other southern states in the Unite Stats, many people will greet you with "howdy".How do you do? 不能用 I’m fine回答.熟了就用How are you? Hello!P: I am afraid....(I think. I guess.)I am afraid that I am not doing so well in my English class.B: I am afraid it is going to rain, so we can't go on the picnic.I am afraid + 从句（表示负面的）不能说：I am afraid she is beautiful.P: I am afraid she is not good-looking. I am going to have a blind date.blind date.(相亲)Look into the mirror yourself.What problem do you have with your English?It seems that he has some problems with the work.B: We also can say, "What is the matter?" or "What is wrong?"But be careful.不可以: what’s the wrong?P: Don't be afraid to make mistakes.I am not improving.I have not been improving.I have not made any improvement.How come (why) How come 用于口语。