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(shí)間及大致時(shí)間的表達(dá)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(huì)話C
馬  丁：你今天去買東西嗎?
艾  琳：是的。
馬  丁：你什么時(shí)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(shí)候?
馬  丁：今天早晨，我早餐煮的咖啡。你什么時(shí)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(shí)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(diǎn)了?
馬  丁：9點(diǎn)20分。
艾  琳：到匹茲堡的火車是什么時(shí)間?
馬  丁：9點(diǎn)30分。
艾  琳：我去買張報(bào)紙好嗎?我今早沒看報(bào)紙。
馬  丁：我不知道，你能等一等嗎?
艾  琳：那我什么時(shí)候能買報(bào)紙呢?
馬  丁：幾分鐘后，我?guī)追昼姾缶妥吡恕＊?br /> 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?nèi)ス珗@嗎?
馬  丁：什么時(shí)候?
艾  琳：下午。有個(gè)樂隊(duì)演奏的音樂會(huì)。
馬  丁：音樂會(huì)什么時(shí)候開始?
艾  琳：音樂會(huì)在下午2點(diǎn)15分開始。
馬  丁：什么樂隊(duì)來演奏?
艾  琳：有3個(gè)學(xué)校樂隊(duì)演奏，蘇的一些朋友在樂隊(duì)里演奏。
馬  丁：幾點(diǎn)結(jié)束?
艾  琳：4點(diǎn)。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(diǎn)的車?
瓦萊麗：9點(diǎn)10分，車已經(jīng)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?nèi)ツ膬?
艾  琳：馬丁去匹茲堡。
瓦萊麗：你乘的是幾點(diǎn)的火車?
馬  丁：9點(diǎn)30分，我現(xiàn)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(duì)演奏的音樂會(huì)
 

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(diǎn)

1.  What time does it arrive in Pittsburgh?(什么時(shí)間到達(dá)匹茲堡?)用 arrive 表示“到達(dá)”。arrive 是不及物動(dòng)詞，其后要跟介詞 in 或 at，一般 arrive in 用于大城市、GJ，arrive at 用于小地方。表示“到達(dá)”的涵義的常用詞還有 reach 和 get to 短語，reach 是及物動(dòng)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(shí)候到達(dá)卡爾迪福?
When did you arrive in Britain? 你們是什么時(shí)候到達(dá)英國的?
He arrived reached at the station at 5. 他5點(diǎn)到達(dá)車站。
He will get to Tokyo tomorrow. 他將于明天到達(dá)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(guān)于匹茲堡的報(bào)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(xué)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(xiàn)在而言的，before 是相對過去而言的。這一點(diǎn)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)。

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