第一，迷你對話

A: Good news! I hear our school will break up on January 10th.

好消息！我聽說我么學校將于1月10日放假。

B: Is that true? Why will our school break up this year so early?

真的嗎？我么學校為什么今天放假這么早？

A: It's said that all the teachers will have to attend a very important meeting.

據說所有老師要參加一個非常重要的會議。

B: That's great. We can have a long and good holiday. Where do you suggest we should go?

太好了！我們可以過一個長長的快樂的假期了。你說我們該去哪兒玩？

第二，地道表達

break up

1. 解詞釋義

To break up的意思是“期終放假”，其英文釋義為：When a school or the pupils in it break up, the school term ends and the pupils start their holidays.

2. 拓展范例

e.g. It's the last week before they break up and they're doing all kinds of Christmas things.

這是放假前的最后一周，他們正在為圣誕節作各種準備。

e.g. Let us have a class meeting before we break up for the vacation.

在我們放假離校之前開一次班會吧。

e.g. After the final examinations, all the schools begin to break up.

期末考試后，所有的學校開始放假。

e.g. School breaks up in July.

學校七月放假。

第三，視野拓展

1. It's said that...：據說......

e.g. It's said that he is hot on several foreign languages.

據說他精通好幾門外語。

e.g. It's said that his lameness resulted from an accident.

據說他腿瘸了是一次事故造成的。

2. have a holiday：放假，休假

e.g. If my lucky number comes up, we'll have a holiday in Venice.

如果我走運的話，我們就去威尼斯度假。

e.g. Tom and I are going to have a holiday.

我和湯姆準備去度假。

e.g. My intention was to have a holiday and meet up with old friends.

我原本打算度個假，跟老朋友們見見面。