Conversation C?

MARTIN: Are you going shopping today??
EILEEN: Yes.?
MARTIN: When are you going shopping.?
EILEEN: After work. I must buy some food.?
MARTIN: Please buy some coffee.?
EILEEN: Don't we have coffee??
MARTIN: No, I finished the coffee.?
EILEEN: When??
MARTIN: This morning. I made coffee for breakfast. When did you buy coffee?
EILEEN: I bought coffee last week. Are you drinking too much coffee??
MARTIN: I like coffee.?
EILEEN: When do you drink so much coffee??
MARTIN: In the morning. I like coffee in the morning.?
EILEEN: What time is it. Martin??
MARTIN: It's nine-twenty.?
EILEEN: What time is the train to Pittsburgh??
MARTIN: At nine-thirty.?
EILEEN: May I buy a newspaper? I didn't read the newspaper this morning. ?
MARTIN: I don't know. Can you wait??
EILEEN: When can I buy the newspaper??
MARTIN: In a few minutes. I'm going in a few minutes.?
EILEEN: Martin, are you going to work on Saturday??
MARTIN: No, I don't like to work on weekends.?
EILEEN: Can you take Sue and her friends to the park??
MARTIN: When??
EILEEN: In the afternoon. There is band concert.?
MARTIN: What time is the concert??
EILEEN: The concert is at two-fifteen.?
MARTIN: What band is playing??
EILEEN: There are three school bands playing. Some of Sue's friends are playing in the band.?
MARTIN: What time are they going to finish??
EILEEN: At four o'clock. I want to work on Saturday.?
MARTIN: Do you want to work at home??
EILEEN: No, I can't. I want to work at the office.?
VALERIE: Eileen? Hi. How are you??
EILEEN: Hello! What are you doing here, Valerie? Martin, this is Valerie McCormick.?
MARTIN: Hello. Eileen told me about you. I'm happy to meet you. ?
VALERIE: How are you? ?
MARTIN: Fine, thanks.?
EILEEN: Where are you going? What are you doing here??
VALERIE: I'm going home. I brought my husband to the train.?
EILEEN: What time is his train??
VALERIE: It was at nine-ten. It left.?
MARTIN: Where is he going??
VALERIE: He's going to Hartford, Connecticut. Where are you going? ?
EILEEN: Martin is going to Pittsburgh.
VALERIE: What time is your train??
MARTIN: It's at nine-thirty. I'm going now. Good-bye.?
EILEEN: Good-bye. Be careful.?
VALERIE: Good-bye. Martin.?

Practice 3：鞏固確切時間及大致時間的表達法。?
Examples:
MARTIN: At nine-thirty.?
EILEEN: At two-fifteen. At four o'clock.?
EILEEN: After work.?
MARTIN: This morning.?
EILEEN: Last week.?
MARTIN: In the morning. In a few minutes.?
EILEEN: In the afternoon.?

會話C?
馬 丁：你今天去買東西嗎??
艾 琳：是的。?
馬 丁：你什么時候去買東西??
艾 琳：下班以后。我必須買些食品。?
馬 丁：買些咖啡吧。?
艾 琳：我們沒有咖啡了嗎??
馬 丁：沒有了，我用完了。?
艾 琳：什么時候??
馬 丁：今天早晨，我早餐煮的咖啡。你什么時候買的咖啡??
艾 琳：我上周才買的咖啡，你咖啡喝得太多了吧??
馬 丁：我喜歡咖啡。?
艾 琳：你什么時候喝下這么多咖啡??
馬 丁：在早上，我喜歡早上喝咖啡。?
艾 琳：馬丁，幾點了??
馬 丁：9點20分。?
艾 琳：到匹茲堡的火車是什么時間??
馬 丁：9點30分。?
艾 琳：我去買張報紙好嗎?我今早沒看報紙。?
馬 丁：我不知道，你能等一等嗎??
艾 琳：那我什么時候能買報紙呢??
馬 丁：幾分鐘后，我幾分鐘后就走了。?
艾 琳：馬丁，你星期六去上班嗎??
馬 丁：不，我不喜歡在周末工作。?
艾 琳：你能帶蘇和她的朋友們去公園嗎??
馬 丁：什么時候??
艾 琳：下午。有個樂隊演奏的音樂會。?
馬 丁：音樂會什么時候開始??
艾 琳：音樂會在下午2點15分開始。?
馬 丁：什么樂隊來演奏??
艾 琳：有3個學校樂隊演奏，蘇的一些朋友在樂隊里演奏。?
馬 丁：幾點結束??
艾 琳：4點。我想在星期六工作。?
馬 丁：你想要在家里工作嗎??
艾 琳：不，我不能。我想要在辦公室工作。?
瓦萊麗：艾琳?你好，你近來好嗎??
艾 琳：你好!瓦萊麗，你來這兒有什么事?馬丁，這是瓦萊麗·麥考密克。?
馬 丁：你好，艾琳跟我提到過你，很高興見到你。?
瓦萊麗：你近來好嗎??
馬 丁：我很好，謝謝。?
艾 琳：你去哪兒?你在這兒做什么?
瓦萊麗：我正要回家，我來送我丈夫上火車。?
艾 琳：他乘的是幾點的車??
瓦萊麗：9點10分，車已經開走了。?
馬 丁：他去哪兒??
瓦萊麗：他去康涅狄格州的哈特福德。你們去哪兒??
艾 琳：馬丁去匹茲堡。?
瓦萊麗：你乘的是幾點的火車??
馬 丁：9點30分，我現在走了，再見。?
艾 琳：再見，保重。
瓦萊麗：再見，馬丁。

New Words and Expressions 生詞和短語?

meet the train 接火車，接站?
band concert 樂隊演奏的音樂會?

Proper Nouns 專有名詞?

Valerie McCormick 瓦雷利·麥考密克?
Connectcut 康涅狄格州?
Hartford 哈特福德市?

Language Points 語言要點?

1. What time does it arrive in Pittsburgh?(什么時間到達匹茲堡?)用 arrive 表示“到達”。arrive 是不及物動詞，其后要跟介詞 in 或 at，一般 arrive in 用于大城市、國家，arrive at 用于小地方。表示“到達”的涵義的常用詞還有 reach 和 get to 短語，reach 是及物動詞，可直接與名詞連用。get to 是慣用語，不如 arrive 和 reach 正式，
多用于口語。例如：?
What time do we arrive at Cardiff? 我們什么時候到達卡爾迪福??
When did you arrive in Britain? 你們是什么時候到達英國的??
He arrived reached at the station at 5. 他5點到達車站。?
He will get to Tokyo tomorrow. 他將于明天到達東京。?
2. ago 是“以前”的意思，本課中用 ago 的句子有：?
I wrote a story about Pittsburgh ten years ago.
他10年前寫過一篇關于匹茲堡的報道。?
I wrote a story three years ago. 我3年前寫過一篇故事。?
I first visited Washington many years ago.我是多年前首次訪問華盛頓的
由上述句子可看出，ago 是“距今……以前”。我們學過表示“以前”的單詞 before，它是表示“較過去……以前”。也就是說 ago 是相對現在而言的，before 是相對過去而言的。這一點從下面的例句就可以看出。?
I visited him two days ago, but he had gone to London five days before.?
他兩天前去看他，但是他已在那5天前就去了倫敦了。
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Cultural Notes 文化注釋

康涅狄格州(Connecticut)位于美國的東北部，東臨大西洋，首府是 New Haven，與羅德島州、麻薩諸塞州及紐約州相接壤。Connecticut 來源于印第安語，意思是“beside the long tidal river”(在長長的潮河旁)。?