新概念英语第二册36_Across the channel

Lesson 36: Across the channel
横渡海峡

Key words and expressions

• Debbie Hart 黛比·哈特
• set up a world record 创立一个世界纪录
• train v. 训练
• anxiously 焦急地
• intend 打算
• solid 固体的，硬的

Questions on the text

1. What is Debbie going to do tomorrow?
   1. Debbie is going to swim accross the English channel tomorrow.
2. What is Debbie’s hope?
   1. Debbie’s hope is to set up a new world record.
3. What did Debbie’s mother do when she was a girl?
   1. She swam across the English channel herself when she was a girl.

Language points

1. She hopes to set up a new world record.

   1. set up 创立，创建
      1. set up a record 创纪录
      2. break a record 打破纪录
   2. She broke the world record twice.
   3. He set up a good example to all of us.
   4. He set up a small company of his own.

2. She is a strong swimmer and many people feel that she is sure to succeed.

   1. strong 擅长的
      1. He is strong in writing.
   2. be sure to do sth 肯定能做成。。。
      1. Be sure to turn off all the lights when you leave.
   3. for sure 肯定的
      1. Many people feel that she will succeed for sure.

3. Debbie intends to take short rests every two hours.

   1. intent to do sth 有意图做什么，打算做什么（正式，be going to do口语化）
   2. every other day/week/month/year 每隔一天、一周、一月、一年

4. Among them will be Debbie’s mother, who swam the Channel herself when she was a girl.

   1. 有逗号，非限定定语从句，用于补充说明。
      1. Next month she will start her new job in Shanghai, which is her birthplace.
   2. swim vt.作及物动词的用法
      1. Tomorrow he will be watching her anxicously as she swims the long distance to England.

Key structures and usage

be going to / will do 将来做某事

• be going to 打算做。。。，强调主观愿望
  1. Debbie Hart is going to swim across the English Channel tomorrow.
  2. She is going to set out from the French coast at five in the morning.
• will … 不久的将来要发生什么，主观愿望不如be going to强。
  • Tomorrow he will be watching her anxiously as she swims the long distance to England.
  • Most of Debbie’s school friends will be waiting for her on the English coast.

Extension

Like father, like son.有其父必有其子。

We wish Debbie good luck.

We keep our fingers crossed for Debbie.