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　　生活中英語隨處可見，一個標語，一首歌，一部電影……留意生活中的英語現(xiàn)象，你會發(fā)現(xiàn)原來學英語很簡單。


　　【Show time作品秀】
　　There are many kinds of advertisements in our life, some of which may fool people into buying their products, but some of which educate people about health, safety, and welfare, so we should be fully aware of them.
　　Advertising plays an important part in our daily life, we can benefit from it if we can learn to distinguish between commercial advertisements and public service advertisements. In the meanwhile, we should know whether the advertisements tell a lie or the truth.
　　Advertisements can tell people a lot of information about their products, which help people to make the right choice among all kinds of products without wasting time. However, some advertisements just tell the customers the advantages of their products, which the bad effects are often left out. We may fall for this kind of tricks. So next time, when buying a product, we should make the best choice instead of falling for the tricks. （寶應中學10級21班 楊 悅）

　　Do you think English is very important? Oh yes, of course. In modern society, if you want to do some business with foreigners, you must speak English because most of them speak and write in English. Today, most of business letters are written in English, and most of valuable and important books are written in English. If you know a wealth of English, you will read newspapers and magazines in English and acquire a lot of knowledge which can help you to get in touch with others. You can also do what you should do to protect the world peace. In a word, English is used widely.
　　Do you think English is interesting and beautiful? I learn that not all like English, because they are not good at their English study. Maybe they feel a little tired of it. But I want to tell you “It doesn’t matter”. Do you like watching film or listening to music? There are many films and music in English. When you have a rest, you can see an English film or listen to an English song. These activities can relax yourself. You will feel pleased with them and you will be interested in English sooner or later.
　　Can you speak English? Ha, if you can not speak it well, let us pay more attention to English in our life! Try your best! I believe you can. �。▽殤獙嶒灣踔�09級15班 韓 晨）

In many places, we can see a lot of signs written in English, if you don't understand English very well, how could you know what they mean? So English is very useful in our daily life.
　　Now many brands' advertisements are written in English, including many famous ones. Such as IBM, and it means British Broadcasting Corporation, which uses an advertisement“No business too small, no problem too big.”In Chinese it means“沒有不做的小生意，沒有解決不了的大問題。” These advertisements even can help the brands to sell well.
　　In our English classes, we can talk with teachers or classmates in English, this will also improve our spoken English and study skills. If we practice more and listen more, I'm sure we can study English much better.
　　And there are some useful ways to learn English well in our daily life. Because we often see a lot of details in the street, on the food packages or on the labels attached to some clothes. To pay attention to the details around us is the best and the most effective way to study English.
　　If you love watching and enjoying the movies, you’d better study English well because there are many famous films produced in Hollywood and most of them are in English.
　　Do you want to study English well? Are you still worried about learning English or thinking it is too hard to remember English grammar or vocabulary? Please remember the most important thing: English is used in daily life!　（寶應實驗初中09級16班 朱 琪）

　　There are many English words in our life, do you know? No? Well, never mind. Let me tell you.
　　In the world, many people speak English. In China, lots of people speak English too. In fact，there are lots of English words around us. They are in lyrics, slogans, and movies. Do you find them? They are very interesting. We should pay more attention to them.
　　In our life, we can often see some English slogans: ‘To protect the environment is everybody's business.’ ‘Come on!’ And English is more apparent in the movie. Now we all love songs and many of them have English lyrics, like ‘baby, money’, ‘now, anyhow’. Besides, we can hear people speak English in our daily life like these: ‘Hello’, ‘Sorry’ and ‘Thanks’.
　　So let us learn English well! It’s wonderful! Don’t you think so?　(Huaian Foreign Language School Bao Jie Grade 7, Class 8)

　　
　　【Laugh of the day百事可樂】

　　1. Doesn't it ever stop raining around here?
　　One wet, windy weekend I was returning to Alaska, on a ferry, filled with visitors. I overheard a tourist ask a young boy, “Doesn't it ever stop raining around here?”
　　“I don't know,”came the reply, “I'm only seven years old.” 　　“我不知道，”男孩回答說，“我才7歲。”

　　
　　2．The Result of Laziness
　　Mother:“Why were you kept after school today, Johnny?”
　　Johnny:“Teacher told us to write an essay on 'The Result of Laziness', and I turned in a blank sheet of paper.” 　　媽媽：“今天放學后，你為什么要被留下來，約翰尼？”
　　約翰尼：“老師讓我們寫一篇作文《懶惰的后果》，我交了一張白紙。”

　　
　　3. She ate all my bait.
　　The young boy protested vigorously when his mother asked him to take his little sister along fishing. “The last time she came,” he objected, “I didn't catch a single fish.”
　　“I'll talk to her,” his mother said, “and I promise this time she won't make any noise.”
　　“It wasn't the noise, Mom," the boy replied, "She ate all my bait.” 　　當媽媽提出讓小男孩帶著妹妹一起去釣魚時，他堅決反對。“上次她跟著我，”他反對說，“我連一條魚都沒能釣上。”
　　“我會告訴她，”媽媽說，“我保證這次她不再發(fā)出響聲了。”
　　“媽媽，不是響聲，”男孩回答，“是她把所有的誘餌都吃了。”


　　【Cultures文化】

　　 1. 感謝和應答（Thanks and responses ）
　　Thank you（thanks).在日常生活中無處不在，在西方國家，父母為子女或者子女為父母做了事，常常要說聲Thank you (thanks).Thank you 主要用于以下場合：1）別人為你做了事或饋贈禮物等時；2）別人向你道賀時；3）聽到別人贊揚你的話語時（我們中國人不太習慣說Thank you,而習慣說些謙虛的話）；4）用于表示禮貌的承受，相當于 “Yes.” （No, thank you 則表示客氣的拒絕）。
　　回答感謝的常用語是：Not at all./ That’s all right./ That’s OK./ You’re welcome./ Don’t mention it./ It’s nothing./ It’s my(a) pleasure./I’m glad of the help.

　　2. 漫話問候語
　　不同的地理和社會文化環(huán)境產(chǎn)生出特有的語言習慣，在口語中表現(xiàn)得尤為明顯，就漢英兩種語言來說，就有很多不同。
　　我們中國幅員遼闊，但歷史上一直沒能解決好人們的吃飯問題，能否吃飽肚子成為人們關心議論的話題，經(jīng)過長期的演變，“吃了嗎？”便成了一句通用的問候語。其實，問話人并非真正關心事實如何，對方也不必過于拘泥，按實際情況回答。說“吃了”或“沒吃呢“這些并沒有多大區(qū)別，僅是客套而已。現(xiàn)在我們早以解決了吃的問題，所以這一問候語完全失去了其字面上的含義。另一方面，可能中國人一向講究吃的學問，不是有幾大菜系之說嗎？各地的風味小吃更是不在話下了。這一飲食文化特色，無疑曾對漢語語言習慣的形成有過深遠的影響。
　　我們再來看看英國，作為歐洲的一個島國，因為特殊的地理位置，它的氣候常年潮濕，多霧，首都倫敦是有名的“霧都”，常常陰雨綿綿。英國人出門時無論天氣如何，總忘不了隨身帶把傘，所以英語中關于“傘”的故事特別多。天氣便成了人們時常關心的話題。另一方面，英國人認為談論天氣不涉及個人隱私，人人可發(fā)表意見，不致引起誤會。所以英語中有Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening. Lovely day, isn’t it? 之類的問候語也就很自然了。時間久了，也就成了與實際情況沒什么關系的問候語，而失去了字面的含義。
　　同樣是英語，到了美國，又有了特點。近年來，美國社會暴力事件增多，人們便一改過去用Goodbye! (原義“上帝與你同在”，即God be with you.)而常用Take care!來道別，意為“當心”，“珍重”。也許是對上帝的保佑失去了信心，還是自個兒當心吧！顯得更為親切、自然。
　　可見，我們學習英語，只學習單詞和語法等等是遠遠不夠的，還要注意學習與英語有關的背景知識，才能做到入鄉(xiāng)隨俗（Do in Rome as the Romans do.），避免產(chǎn)生誤會或鬧出笑話。


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