华尔街英语全部文本(38个doc) Waystage 3A2.doc

22.1Mini dialogueDear Tony,(May I call you Tony?) Ive been a fan of yours ever since I was only 15. I ve bought all your CDs, and I think youre absolutely fantastic.I thought “a man alone” wad amazing, and “youre Gonna Be Someone” is even better. What a pity I havent got a CD player any more!This is the reason Im writing to you: Ive just found this amazing new group. I cant quite remember their name, Im afraid, but I know they really like your records.I wonder if you could help me (Im their manager, by the way) by getting us a recording contrast with your company?Please let me know as soon as the contract is ready. You cant ring me, Im afraid, because I havent got a phone any more, but you can always write to me. I cant wait to heat from you.Yours sincerelyJohn Berry22.2 A1. Its a really reasonable restaurant. Would you say it please, Aiko?2. ErCould you repeat it, please? 3. Its a really reasonable restaurant.4. Its a-leary-really-leally-5. No, Aiko! Cant you pronounce the letter “r”yet? Would you say it please, Macro?6. Its a really reasonable restaurant.7. Now you try again, please Aiko.8. Its a leary-oh; its no good! I cant pronounce that word!9. English is an awfully difficult language for us Japanese! Oh, I speak it so badly!10. Its not true, Aki. You speak English very well.11. You make very few mistakes in Grammer when you speak.12. Your English is almost as good as mine.13. Why are you being so horrible to her, David?14. He isnt being horrible. My David is just doing his job!15. Your David? Well, well.16. Dont interrupt while Im speaking, please. Its ridiculous that Aiko still cant pronounce “really”. David taught it in yesterdays lesson and shes forgotten it already.17. Obviously she didnt listen to him.18. I did listen, Juanita, its just that I find English pronunciation terribly difficult!19. Hey, Im sorry, Aiko, OK? Lets talk about something else.20. I want to tell them our wonderful news. David and I are engaged. Were going to get married.21. Oh, thats lovely!22. Yes, congratulations!23. Good for you, David! The first wife is always the most important one.24. Look, we must do something to celebrate this! Why dont we all go for a picnic in Buckington Park?25. Great idea! Its on the river Huds, we can go there by boat.26. But what if it rains?27. If it rains, Fritz, well get wet!28. Thats it, then, well go for a nice trip on the river. We can go there tomorrow, instead of the lesson, OK?29. And Ill invite Mary!30. Yes, why not?31. We have just passed under Brookless bridge,32. Where George Washington opened the countrys first freeway in 1894.33. And on the left we can see the White House.34. Which is where the president goes for his summer vacation.35. If you look at your right youll notice the united nations building, which-36. So Davids engaged to Juanita, is he?37. Thats right.38. I dont thing he really wants to marry her, Aiko, I think shes making him do it.39. Dont you think he is in love with her?40. No, I think Davids got his eye on me, actually.41. Are you sure?42. Dont you remember: he drove me home in his car after that party?43. But he drove Marco and fritz home, too!44. Ah, but he let me sit in the front seat. Leave it to me, Aiko45. Well, here we are at buckington. I do hope you had a pleasant trip, Ladies and Gentlemen;46. If you have found my words helpful and interesting 47. Please feel free to leave me a few cents or dollars. Thank you.48. Here we are everybody. Lets get off the boat.49. Gee, thank you kindly, sir! Thank you so much!50. How much did you tip him, Hassan?51. I gave him a $100 bill.52. Really, Hassan, thats ridiculous! You cant give someone a $100 tip!53. Im sorry, my teacher. For me, money is rubbish, and what do you do with rubbish? You throw it away.54. If youve got any more of that sort of rubbish,Hassan, you can always throw it at me,55. Not at you, Marco, you are my friend.56. Thats really beautiful, IM SO GLAD. ARE WE GOING TO STAND AROUND HERE ALL DAY? COME ON!57. Hello, Mary; Im sorry I couldnt come to the party; I had to study that evening.58. With your lady friend, I expect. Youre not my favorite person at the moment, Marco.59. Ah well, thats the way it goes!60. Oh, look at Fritz! Hes got a raincoat and an umbrella!61. I just want to keep dry, thats all. I hate getting wet. I dont see whats so funny about that!62. Just that the temperature is 33, and the sky is clear and blue!63. You cant be too careful!64. Well, heres the park entrance. It costs $5 to get in; students pay half price.65. I hope youve all got your students cards with you.66. Yes, I think so. Its in somewhere, etc.67. Oh, what a lovely place!68. Hey Aiko, lets run to the top of that hill!69. What are you doing? Havent you seen the notice:”keep off the grass”?70. You wont tell the police, will you, Fritz?71. This is terrible! In Germany people never walk on the grass!72. Hey, David, that bag looks heavy. Why dont I give you a hand with it?73. Its quite alright; the bag is very light.74. Oh, erMary, this is my fiance, Juanita. Juanita, this is Mary.75. Ive already met Mary.76. Oh, yes, so you have. Of course.77. I would like to be alone with my fiance, please, Mary78. Sorry, Im sure.79. Lets stop for lunch over there, OK?80. OK, Im very hungry and hot.81. How about here?82. Here are the sandwiches.83. I hope theyre made with brown bread. White bread is very bad for you.84. That was lovely. I think Ill go for a swim in the lake. Does anyone else feel like a swim?85. Havent you seen the notice? Look “ No swimming in the lake”.86. You must tell me all about it, Fritz-after Ive had my swim.87. Come along, David; lets go for a walk.88. Thats a good idea.89. Just me and David!90. If you say so22.2 Mini dialogue Dear Marie,Im sitting in the middle of Buckington Park at the moment; on a seat of course, not on the grass. Ive come here with the other students from the English class for a picnic; its a beautiful day, and the sun is shining!We have just had lunch; I asked the teacher for sandwiches made with brown bread, but he only had white bread sandwiches. Of course, I told him how bad white bread is for your health, but he just laughed.Perhaps he was thinking about love; hes just got engaged to one of the students, a Mexican girl. Shes a very pleasant, reasonable girl, and Im sure theyll be happy together.I spoke to the Director of the school yesterday; by the way, to ask him how much longer I needed to stay at his school.He told me that I needed another couple of years to speak English really well, and that I could take extra private lessons of I wanted to, at $50 an hour. Its a bit expensive really; Im not sure what to do.Anyway, Ill be home at the end of next month for summer vacation; Ill see you then.Your loving husband, Fritz22.3Hello, this is Clare Martin, and today Im looking at the language learning. It has been said the British are bad at learning languages, but can this be true? We teach languages to most of our children and every evening school offers classes to adults. What sorts of people study, Why do they study? And what are the problems? To find out more, I went down to the adult education center in Briton. There I spoke to Eve. Eve is from Paris, but he now teaches in England.C: What sorts of people come to learn languages on these courses?E: All sorts of people. They youngest are schoolchildren who are doing a level, and my oldest student is 73, and is about to start university and graduate.C: Why do they come to learn?E: Very very many reasons, the challenge, because they are board, they want to go on holiday, because they need to use the language, because they want to learn how to teach. Some of then are actual teachers themselves, they come to see how I did it. Its rather terrible for me, but wereC: What are the most popular languages that people come to learn?E: In this order, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Japanese.C: That is quite a range of languages for a small town. And all the classes seem popular, I spoke to Magerete, a student in Eves class. I try to find out a bit more. Have you been here for long?M: 4 years. I didnt take French at school, but I decided 4 years ago start it.C: Why did you choose French, I am attracted to the language, the sound of the language, and I am attracted to the literature of France, if possible, I would like to get enough understand of, really understand the literature of France.C: Just next door, a very full Spanish class was in progress. I spoke to one of the students, kathleen, why did you decide to learn Spanish?K: Because Ill stay for 6 months in Spain.C: Did you learn any languages at school?K: Yes, French, only French. Were you any good at it in those days?K: I didnt learn very hard at school. I dont think. But I enjoy it, its fantastic.C: Well, the enthusiasm.K: What are the problems? Do Magarete and Kathleen find it easy to learn?K: No. Not particularly. Im trying to hear everything on the radio, French, French news in the morning, every morning, gradually one may gets an ear perhaps for the language.C: What about the pronunciation?K: Tricky, tricky.M: Im probably the oldest person in this class, well, Im the oldest person in this class and I think its more difficult to learn as I should get older but Im very interested in learning Spanish. I do work heard at it.C: Is Spanish very difficult to learn?K: The grammar is very difficult, the pronunciation is reasonable easy.C: What about writing it, have you had a go at writing it?K: I think writing much more easy, much easier than speaking. Id agree with that. Speaking is certainly difficult than writing, that is the last time to think. But Margarete has been studying for four years and Kathleen has a home in Spain. So do they still make a lot of mistakes?M: Oh, yes. I think I still do. Oh, of course.C: Thats honest, but do mistakes really matter?K: Languages seems to me all about the levels. You know you thought you got one practice you think you are good and harvest, you got the next mountain in front of you.C: I dont think that matters at all, because I think thats the way really, the only way that you are going to learn.M: I think it makes she reluctant to speak because shell worry about making mistakes. Thats natural the same for foreigners learning your English. Oh, yes, foreigners learning English they must be simpesetic to the problem we face learning their languages.C: What about the French people? Have you tried out your French on them yet.K: I got to Paris every year. I go alone in order that I would speak the language.C: How do they react?K: All right. Yes, they are all always in a hurry in Paris. Of course, but they are pretty good, easy to ask the question, hard to understand the questions. Well, the Spanish speek very quickly, but on one occasion a Spanish said it just as difficulty for them to understand us just as for us to understand them, because to them, we speak very quickly. In fact I think the English speak very much slow than the Spanish do.C: Do you find them helpful when you are there trying to learn it?K: Well, unfortunately, one doesnt actually mix with the a lot of Spanish people. This is the difficulty, I think. Where I live there are far more British people than Spanish people. I dont have any Spanish papers. So in consequence, I dont actually mix with Spanish people very much as I love to.C: Now wait a minute. Is kathleen saying the British people in her part of Spain only talk to each other. So whats that Spanish like? We back to that question again. What are the Brirish like at learning languages.M: I think we are impossible at learning languages. Where I live I am surrounded by, oh, possibly 100 British people, I only know 3, 2 British ladies, who a