《走遍美国》Family Album U.S.A 第23集

Love English 2 2023-03-01

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走遍美国是我认为最优秀的口语教材之一，由美国新闻总署赞助，美国麦克米伦公司制作。在数十位英语专家和作者通力合作之下，费了8年（1983-1991）的时间，才制作完成这部划时代的巨作。虽然教材有点久远，但是对于练习口语还是非常的有帮助，大家可以通过以下步骤进行学习。

1. 先看视频，了解大致情节。

2. 再听音频，盲听音频3-5遍，大致听懂。

3. 通过文本，学通全部内容。

4. 再听音频，模仿跟读练习语音和口语。

5. 盲听音频，最后盲听音频尽可能多遍，听出画面感。

ACT 2-1 “ 猜哑谜”

【故事梗概】

在医院里，Molly护士在陪几个快要做手术的孩子玩猜哑谜的游戏，只有Carl没有参加。其他孩子们都玩得很起劲。

Molly: OK. Do you know how to play charades?

Molly: Frank, you've never played charades?

Frank: Nope.

Molly: Carl, you're sure you're never played? [Carl shakes his head.]

Molly: Ok, Betty, Tim, and Frank. We're going to play charades. Frank, you can learn as we go. And, Carl, you join in at any time. OK, let me think. OK, I've got one. All right. [She pretended to hold an old-fashioned camera in her left hand and turning the handle with her right hand.]

Betty: A movie! A movie!

Molly: Right. A movie. OK. [She counts to six on her fingers.]

Tim: Six words. It has six words.

Frank: That's easy. I can play.

Molly: Good. OK. We've got a movie. The title...

Betty: Six words.

Molly: Right. First word...[She pulls her ear.]

Betty: Sounds like.

Tim: Sounds like...

Molly: You got that part right. Yes. [pulling her ear] Sounds like... [She shakes her head no. ] Sounds like what?

Frank: Sounds like no.

Molly: Absolutely right, Frank. Sounds like no. OK. We've got a movie. Six words. The first word sounds like no.

Frank: Row. Row.

Tim: Go.

Molly: Nope.

Tim: Show. That's it-show.

Molly: NO...OK... [She acts out the word snow with her fingers. ]

Betty: Snow.

Molly: Absolutely right, Betty. Sounds like no - snow. OK, a movie. Six words. The first word is snow.

Frank: This is fun.

Molly: Oh, OK. [She holds up five fingers. ]

Betty: The fifth word.

Molly: Right, fifth word. [She holds up seven fingers. ]

Tim: Seven?

Molly: Absolutely right. Very good. The fifth word is seven. OK, we've got a movie. The first word is snow. Fifth word, seven.

Betty: I got it!! I got it!

Frank: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

Betty: I got it.

Frank: I got it.

Molly: Frank, you got it. Betty, you had it, but you didn't say it.

Tim: I knew it.

【语言点精讲】

1. Do you know how to play charades?你们知道怎么玩猜哑谜游戏吗？“how to play charades”为疑问词带动词不定式构成的短语，不是完整句，不能单独作为问句。但这样的短语可以放在某些动词之后。如直接说“How to go to the park? ”是错误的，但是可以说“I wonder how to go to the park. ” “Can you tell me how to go to the park? ”

2. You're sure you've never played?你肯定你从来没玩过吗？这是一种核对事实的说法。

3. You join in at any time.你随便什么时候都可以参加进来。join in: 参加，加入。

4. OK, I've got one. 好，有了。这里是指“我想出来了。我想到了一个。”动词get是一个口语常用词，在非正式的语境中，可以表达多种含义，如“得到，获得，想到，猜到”，等等。本情境中就出现了多次。如：We've got a movie. （我们已经猜到是部电影。）I got it! （我猜到了！我明白了！）

5. Sounds like no.sound like: 听起来像…

6. That's it-show. 就是show这个词。That's it. : 就这样，对啦，就是这个。

ACT 2-2 “这帮孩子可真不好对付。”

【故事梗概】

猜哑谜游戏没有提起Carl的兴致，他还在对因为手术而不能有生日派对的事耿耿于怀。

Molly: Carl, now you know charades. Why don't you join us?

Carl: I don't like charades. It's for babies.

Molly: Oh, I like it.

Carl: Well, they're babies.

Betty: You're a sore loser.

Tim: Yeah.

Molly:No arguing. Save you voices. Between now and tomorrow you're all going to have your tonsils out. And you won't be able to speak for a while. So save your voices till then.

Philip: Hi, gang. Hi, everybody. Well, what's going on?

Molly: I sure am glad to see you, Dr. Stewart. This is a rough group.

Carl: I didn't want to play charades, so they're angry at me.

Philip: Why don't you want to play?

Carl: Because I don't want to be here. I don't want my tonsils out.

Philip: Why not?

Carl: Because my birthday is tomorrow. My mother promised me a birthday party with a clown.

Molly: But you can have one when you go home, Carl.

Carl: But my birthday is tomorrow.

Philip: I'm sorry, Carl.

Molly: Carl, you'll have your party when you go home.

Carl: But it won't be on my birthday! And you promised me a surprise.