Lesson 5: No wrong numbers
Key words and expressions
- garage 修车厂
- Silbury 锡尔伯里
- Pinhurst 平赫斯特
- pigeon 鸽子
- message 信息
- cover 越过
- distance 距离
- request 要求，请求
- spare part 备件
- urgent 紧急的
Questions on the text
- What is the problem with Mr. Scott’s second garage?
- The problem is he cannot get a telephone for his second garage.
- Why did he buy pigeons?
- Because he wants to use pigeons to carry messages from one garage to another.
- What does “No wrong numbers” mean?
- He uses pigeons to send messages.
Language points
- Pinhurst is only five miles from Silbury.
- The bank is about 5 minutes’ walk away.(prep. away用来表示距离)
- Yesterday, a pigeoncarriedthe first message from Pinhurst to Silbury. 运送，传递
- Can you carry this package to the post office for me please?
- The birdcoveredthe distance in three minutes. 完成一段行程
- They have covered 60 miles since yesterday morning.
- Up to now, Mr. Scott has sent a great manyrequests forspare parts and otheer urgent messages from one garage to the other.
- make a request for sth 请求要什么东西
- request (sb) to do sth 请求某人做什么
- I request you to consider my suggestion. 我请求你考虑下我的建议。
- on/upon request 因什么请求
- He gave a speech upon our request.
- spare parts 备件
- spare tire 备用轮胎
- spare key 备用钥匙
- spare time 业余时间
- spare money 零钱
- In this way, he has begun his own private ‘telephone’ service.
- in this way = by way of this
- postal service 邮政业务
- passenger service 客运业务
- pick-up and delivery service 上门取送业务
Key structures and usage
注意时态和连词。
Mr. James Scott has a garage in Silbury and now he has just bought another garage in Pinhurst.
Yesterday, a pigeon carried the first message from Pinhurst to Silbury. The bird covered the distance in three minutes.
Pinhurst is only five miles from Silbury, but Mr. Scott cannot get a telephone for his new garage, so he has just bought twelve pigeons. 一般现在时+一般完成时
Extension
Sometime it is more reliable.
