[00:47.20]1.Why couldn't Jane and Pippa get across the river?
[00:53.97]Because the bridge has been washed away by the floods.
[00:59.61]2.Why did they get so wet and dirty?
[01:05.25]Because they had to walk across some very wet ground.
[01:11.21]3.When did it start to rain?
[01:16.17]When they climbed over some rocks,it started to rain.
[01:21.92]4.What was fortrnate for Jane and Pippa?
[01:27.77]They could see where they were going.
[01:31.74]5.What's wrong with Jane's foot?
[01:36.39]Her shoe has been pressing against her foot,so it hurts a bit.
[01:44.05]6.What information have their parents just got from the radio?
[01:50.99]A warning that a hurricane is likely to come.
[02:14.03]1.Is there anything the matter?
[02:18.79]2.We were getting very worried.
[02:22.84]3.We've been anxious about you.
[02:27.59]4.What's the matter with your foot,Jane?
[02:32.66]5.There's no need to be worried.We're both fine.
[02:39.19]Language points
[02:43.92]1.—Good heavens!There you are.
[02:51.68]—Is there anything the matter?
[03:17.43]There you are!A nice cup of tea.
[03:24.88]There you are!I knew I was right.
[03:32.45]2.—We were getting very worried.
[03:38.41]—There's no need to be worried.
[03:52.65]3.We've been anxious about you.
[04:06.49]be/get anxious about
[04:17.54]Parents are anxious about their children's health.
[04:26.08]The students are getting anxious about the results of their examination.
[04:35.75]4.My shoe has been pressing against my foot,so it hurts a bit.
[04:54.11]My shoe presses my toe.(vt.)
[05:06.26]My shoe presses against my toe.(vi.)
[05:15.22]5.We've just heard a warning on the radio that a hurricane is likely to come.
[05:51.16]I expressed the hope that I would come and visit America again.
[06:03.83]be likely to do sth.
[06:13.37]The Chinese team is likely to win the game.
[06:20.32]Henry does not work hard and is not likely to pass the examination.
[06:38.29]1.Between the hours of midnight and 6 a.m.
[06:43.64]the hurricane crossed the southeast corner of England
[06:49.21]with winds of up to 160kph.
[07:17.97]160kph:one hundred and sixty kilometres per hour
[07:36.41]2.If the hurricane had happened during the day-time,
[07:42.86]there would have been many more deaths.
[08:03.32]Car accidents have caused many deaths.
[08:44.67]If clause:had+... should/would have+...
[08:55.61]If you had come last night,you would have seen Mr Smith.
[09:21.19]If he had got up earlier,he would not have missed the train.
[09:40.96]3.Besides,it was autumn and therefore the trees still had their leaves on.
[09:51.83]have on
[10:04.50]The man had a dark shirt on when he left.
[10:14.45]When the girl woke up she found she still had her new dress on.
[10:24.43]In the dining room each table has a tablecloth on.
[10:32.89]4.For these reasons,the strong winds pushed over the trees very easily.
[10:45.85]push over Take care not to push the baby over.
[10:58.91]Running round the corner,the boy nearly pushed the old lady over.
[11:05.68]5.In the morning
[11:09.54]people woke up and found the world outside their houses completely changed.
[11:44.00]I entered the room and found the windows broken.
[11:54.66]To her surprise,she found the door opened.
[12:20.52]6.Fifteen million trees had been blown down by the high winds,
[12:28.07]blocking roads,paths and railway lines.
[13:09.84]a high wind a strong wind a contrary/head wind
[13:22.09]a fair wind a light/soft wind a cold an icy/piercing wind
[13:46.04]The parents died,leaving five children.
[14:03.42]7.Electricity lines as well as telephone poles
[14:09.97]were brought down by falling trees or branches.
[14:23.03]as well as
[14:36.67]My parents as well as my daughter enjoy music.
[14:43.15]=My daughter as well as my parents enjoys music.
[15:00.88]bring down
[15:07.94]Hundreds of old trees were brought down by the high winds.
[15:17.50]8.Many towns and villages had their water supply cut off
[15:24.45]because there was no electricity.
[15:35.00]have sth. done
[15:57.26]The man had his hand burned in the fire.
[16:06.40]They had their houses damaged in the earthquake.
[16:16.67]cut off
[16:24.53]The workman had a finger cut off by the machine.
[16:35.47]9.One woman was lying in bed,awake,listening to the rushing winds.
[16:50.63]=...,she was awake and listened to the rushing winds.
[17:00.47]awake asleep
[17:15.94]an awake girl(×)
[17:27.09]—Is she awake or asleep?
[17:31.45]She is awake.
[17:45.40]Mother sat there,silent,thinking of her past.
[17:56.56]10.The army was called in to cut through fallen trees and to help clear the roads and paths.
[18:10.93]call in
[18:22.58]Father was so ill last night that we had to call the doctor in.
[18:32.42]cut through
[18:40.29]The tailor cut through the cloth by mistake.
[18:48.83]fallen trees=the trees that had fallen
[19:11.40]fallen trees/falling trees
[19:32.74]They worked long hours for several weeks before everything returned to normal.
[19:56.98]It was a long time before I got to sleep again.
[20:06.02]Wang Gang practised half a year before he was able to teach.
[20:18.87]return to normal
[20:26.92]Her temperature has returned to normal.
[20:34.29]The damage was heavy;it was difficult to retrun to normal in a short time.
[20:46.82]12.Millions of young trees have already been planted to take the place of those
[20:55.78]which were blown down.
[21:05.34]take the place of
[21:12.19]Nobody can take the place of your teacher.
[21:19.66]What can take the place of the lost happiness?
[21:29.61]take the place of sb. take sb's place
[21:46.78]John is very ill,so I an taking his place.
[22:01.74]Great changes have taken place in China.
[22:09.68]13.But it will be more than 100 years before the century begins
[22:17.94]once again to look as it did before.
[22:34.89]14.Surprisingly,the weather report on the evening before the storm
[22:42.05]said there would be strong winds,but not a hurricane.
[22:55.79]in the evening on Monday evening on the evening of December 12
[23:12.43]on the evening before the storm
[23:45.89]1.have sb. doing/do sth.
[23:54.15]We have never had women working in this part of our company before.
[24:07.29]After school the teacher had the naughty boy stay in the classroom.
[24:21.94]2.have sth.done
[24:41.12]I had my bike repaired.=I asked somebody to repair the bike.
[24:52.45]I must have my hair cut.=I must let the barber cut my hair.
[25:03.69]She had her house damaged in the storm.=Something bad had happened to her house.
[25:28.16]My father had both his legs broken in the accident.
[25:34.72]=My father's legs were broken in the accident.
[25:54.57]She told me she had had her house repaired.=She told me her house was repaired.
[26:14.11]We must have the work finished before the hurricane comes.
[26:21.37]=The work must be finished before the hurricane comes.
[26:32.95]have/get/find sth. done
[26:56.09]We got our water heater repaired last week.
[27:08.84]I found all the windows broken.
[27:18.40]All the windows were broken. |