編者按：
　　生活中英語(yǔ)隨處可見，一個(gè)標(biāo)語(yǔ)，一首歌，一部電影……留意生活中的英語(yǔ)現(xiàn)象，你會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)原來(lái)學(xué)英語(yǔ)很簡(jiǎn)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(yīng)中學(xué)10級(jí)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�(yīng)實(shí)驗(yàn)初中09級(jí)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(méi)有不做的小生意，沒(méi)有解決不了的大問(wèn)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(yīng)實(shí)驗(yàn)初中09級(jí)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(lè)】

　　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(shuō)，“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(xué)后，你為什么要被留下來(lái)，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(dāng)媽媽提出讓小男孩帶著妹妹一起去釣魚時(shí)，他堅(jiān)決反對(duì)。“上次她跟著我，”他反對(duì)說(shuō)，“我連一條魚都沒(méi)能釣上。”
　　“我會(huì)告訴她，”媽媽說(shuō)，“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(yīng)答（Thanks and responses ）
　　Thank you（thanks).在日常生活中無(wú)處不在，在西方國(guó)家，父母為子女或者子女為父母做了事，常常要說(shuō)聲Thank you (thanks).Thank you 主要用于以下場(chǎng)合：1）別人為你做了事或饋贈(zèng)禮物等時(shí)；2）別人向你道賀時(shí)；3）聽到別人贊揚(yáng)你的話語(yǔ)時(shí)（我們中國(guó)人不太習(xí)慣說(shuō)Thank you,而習(xí)慣說(shuō)些謙虛的話）；4）用于表示禮貌的承受，相當(dāng)于 “Yes.” （No, thank you 則表示客氣的拒絕）。
　　回答感謝的常用語(yǔ)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(wèn)候語(yǔ)
　　不同的地理和社會(huì)文化環(huán)境產(chǎn)生出特有的語(yǔ)言習(xí)慣，在口語(yǔ)中表現(xiàn)得尤為明顯，就漢英兩種語(yǔ)言來(lái)說(shuō)，就有很多不同。
　　我們中國(guó)幅員遼闊，但歷史上一直沒(méi)能解決好人們的吃飯問(wèn)題，能否吃飽肚子成為人們關(guān)心議論的話題，經(jīng)過(guò)長(zhǎng)期的演變，“吃了嗎？”便成了一句通用的問(wèn)候語(yǔ)。其實(shí)，問(wèn)話人并非真正關(guān)心事實(shí)如何，對(duì)方也不必過(guò)于拘泥，按實(shí)際情況回答。說(shuō)“吃了”或“沒(méi)吃呢“這些并沒(méi)有多大區(qū)別，僅是客套而已�，F(xiàn)在我們?cè)缫越鉀Q了吃的問(wèn)題，所以這一問(wèn)候語(yǔ)完全失去了其字面上的含義。另一方面，可能中國(guó)人一向講究吃的學(xué)問(wèn)，不是有幾大菜系之說(shuō)嗎？各地的風(fēng)味小吃更是不在話下了。這一飲食文化特色，無(wú)疑曾對(duì)漢語(yǔ)語(yǔ)言習(xí)慣的形成有過(guò)深遠(yuǎn)的影響。
　　我們?cè)賮?lái)看看英國(guó)，作為歐洲的一個(gè)島國(guó)，因?yàn)樘厥獾牡乩砦恢茫�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(guó)人出門時(shí)無(wú)論天氣如何，總忘不了隨身帶把傘，所以英語(yǔ)中關(guān)于“傘”的故事特別多。天氣便成了人們時(shí)常關(guān)心的話題。另一方面，英國(guó)人認(rèn)為談?wù)撎鞖獠簧婕皞�(gè)人隱私，人人可發(fā)表意見，不致引起誤會(huì)。所以英語(yǔ)中有Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening. Lovely day, isn’t it? 之類的問(wèn)候語(yǔ)也就很自然了。時(shí)間久了，也就成了與實(shí)際情況沒(méi)什么關(guān)系的問(wèn)候語(yǔ)，而失去了字面的含義。
　　同樣是英語(yǔ)，到了美國(guó)，又有了特點(diǎn)。近年來(lái)，美國(guó)社會(huì)暴力事件增多，人們便一改過(guò)去用Goodbye! (原義“上帝與你同在”，即God be with you.)而常用Take care!來(lái)道別，意為“當(dāng)心”，“珍重”。也許是對(duì)上帝的保佑失去了信心，還是自個(gè)兒當(dāng)心吧！顯得更為親切、自然。
　　可見，我們學(xué)習(xí)英語(yǔ)，只學(xué)習(xí)單詞和語(yǔ)法等等是遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)不夠的，還要注意學(xué)習(xí)與英語(yǔ)有關(guān)的背景知識(shí)，才能做到入鄉(xiāng)隨俗（Do in Rome as the Romans do.），避免產(chǎn)生誤會(huì)或鬧出笑話。


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