Easy Spoken English-(图书+配套光盘)

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    当前，大学生就业形势日趋严峻，求职竞争异常激烈。除了拥有扎实的专业
知识和技能外，英语水平正成为很多大学生求职、获得良好工作的首要条件。为
扩大大学生英语知识面，提高学习英语的积极性，特别是满足他们开口说英语和
实际交流的需要，为就业竞争做好充分准备，在交通部管理干部学院各级领导的
关怀和大力支持下，我们英语教研室的全体教师，基于多年的英语教学经验和体
会，精心编写了这本英语学习教材。
    英语教改“听 ”“说”先行，多年来已经成为国内诸多资深英语教育专家的共
识。该套教材以英语教改为宗旨，以其独特的编写风格、新颖的内容编排、原汁原
味的材料、真实的生活场景以及简明实用的背景知识，使学生易学易记，培养学生
全面的口语能力，包括叙述、对话、交谈、讨论、辩论等，使他们在短期内达到轻松
说英语的目的。本教材适用性强，既适合在校的不同年级的学生，也适用于水平
不一的英语自学者。
    本书经英籍教师Tori Waters-Wang认真审阅，由美藉教师John Gronseth和
Besty Gronseth完成了主要的录制工作，并提出了宝贵的修改意见。在此，对所
有关心、支持和帮助本书出版的同志们，表示衷心的感谢。同时，由于编者水平和
经验有限，本书可能有疏漏和不当之处，我们诚恳希望外语教育专家和使用本书
的广大师生不吝指教，以帮助我们进一步提高水平。
    编  者
    2007年8月

What's the weather like in your hometown?
  Which season do you like best ? Why ?
  Do you always listen to the weather forecast? Why?
Dialogue
                    Talking about the Weather
Smith: What a scorcher! This's gotta be the hottest day we've had so far this
          summer.
Brown: You can say that again! I've never suffered so much from the heat!
Smith: This is the kind of weather that makes me want to stay inside and do
          nothing.
Brown: I'm so glad we have air conditioning.
Smith: Me too. I don't know how they stood it in the
          old days with only fans and shady trees to keep
          them cool.
Brown: I guess it took a strong, pioneer spirit.
Smith  Well, ! certainly don't seem to have it!
Useful Expressions
     Complete the expressions for talking about weather:
        What' s the weather            today?
 It           fine / nice / wonderful/perfect today.
What            the weather forecast say ?
I heard it ' s going            rain.
Do you think it            be foggy the day after tomorrow?
No, I don' t think so. I hope it            keep fine.
 What ' s            temperature outside / inside ?
It has climbed            36 degrees centigrade.
It has dropped            minus 10 degrees centigrade.
               a day, sand storm again !
It ' s            fine day.
It            probably clear up tomorrow morning.
It            humid / muggy / cool/foggy / cloudy / windy / extremely hot /
a scorcher/cold and damp.
It            rain/freeze / drizzle / snow/hail tomorrow.
It            become much cooler.
The weather            usually changeable, sometimes beyond one ' s ex-
pectations.
There            going to be a shower / tornado / storm / thunder and
lightening / hurricane /typhoon tonight.
The wind cuts like            knife.
Spring           a pretty season.
I have grown accustomed            the climate in Beijing.
 Short Passage
                          You are Wanted
     A Chinese student went to study in England. His surname was Sun. It is
spelled S- U- N, just like the sun in the sky.
     The weather in England is often cloudy and misty, and it rains now and
then, so the people don’t get much sunshine in the year.
     When the student arrived at the London Airport, a tall English policeman
with a long face opened his passport to check the visa. The policeman was in-
terested to find the Chinese name "Sun" in the passport. He thought it was pro-
nounced just like the English word "sun". So he said to the student..
     "I see your name is Sun. You are wanted here."
     The Chinese student was greatly surprised, because if you are wanted by
the police, you must have broken the law. So he asked the policeman:
     "Is there anything wrong with my passport or the visa? Do I have to go back?"
     "Go back?" shouted the policeman. "Now that you are here, we’ll never
let you go away."
     The young man was even more surprised. He thought he was going to be arres-
ted. But he didn't know what crime he had committed. He asked again:
     "What's happened? What have I done?"
     It was only then that the policeman began to smile. He said:
     "You don’t know what you've done, Mr. Sun? You've brought sunshine
to England. So we don't want you to go away."