新東方4+1美語思維別做媽媽的乖寶貝！
Part One
Warm Up
Dialogue 1
A和B來參加Leo舉辦的Party，但出乎他們預料的是晚會不是很熱鬧，所見到的女孩也不太酷，因此很是失望。
A: I thought this was supposed to be ⑴a big bash.
B: Oh, it will be. Leo said it’s going to be huge. We’re just early, that’s all. So, What do you think of her house?
A: This place is really cool. Hey, ⑵look! There’s that ⑶chick, Jane! Guess what, she’s a real ⑷show–off! Don’t ⑸ya think she’s a ⑹turn-on?
B: ⑺*Absolutely not! ⑻Are you out of it? Look at her face, really ugly! Come on, let’s go scarf out on some chow before it’s gone.
A: What is this stuff?
B: ⑼Beats me. *Just go for it.
A: ⑽Ugh! *This makes me sick! Hey, ⑾buddy, this party is a drag. I don’t know about you, but I’m heading directly for the door. I’m leaving!
Dialogue 2
A(Jenny)想約B(Leo)出去游泳，但B有論文要寫、數學題要做，Jenny主動提出可以幫他學習數學。
A: Hi, Leo, Would you like to go swimming this afternoon?
B: ⑴*I wish I could, but I have to ⑵stick around the library the rest of the day in. I have a ten-page paper⑶due tomorrow.
A: Oh, is that for Professor Smith’s class?
B: Yeah, I have to do an analysis of a poem we read in class.
A: That’s hard. ⑷How is it going so far?
B: ⑸Not very well. And I also have to study a lot for math. I don’t know how I’m gonna do at all.
A: Listen, Leo, I’ve been doing well in math, * if you want, I’d be happy to help you.
B: ⑹Holy cow! That will be great, Jenny.
Dialogue 3
Joe極力表白自己，想討好Kathleen，但Kathleen 對Joe的談話態(tài)度、內容特別反感……
Joe: I think you’d discover a lot of things if you really know me.
Kathleen: ⑴If I really knew you, I know *what I’d find instead of a brain, a cash register. Instead of a heart, a bottom line.
Joe: ⑵What?
Kathleen: I just had a ⑶breakthrough.
Joe: What is it?
Kathleen: I have you to ⑷think for it. For the first time in my life, when ⑸confronted with a horrible, insensitive person I knew exactly what I wanted to say and I said it.
Joe: Well, I think you have the gift for it. That was a perfect ⑹blend of poetry and meanness.
Kathleen: Meanness let me tell you something about meanness.
Joe: *Don’t misunderstand me, I’m trying to pay you a compliment.
Kathleen: Oh, why are you touching that? What are you doing?
Joe: Is this a red rose? No, no, you know, it’s crimson rose. Something you read about in a book no doubt.
Kathleen: ⑺It’s funny to you, isn’t it? Everything is a joke to you. *Please leave. Please, please leave, I beg you, thank you.
Part Two
Everyday Expression
談話高手的技巧在于隨時洞察話題線索，拓展廣度，挖掘深度。詳細敘述和描述一個事件或物體，這是美語會話的一個硬功夫。好奇心會豐富你的知識。
Small Talk 1:
Mary: Excuse me, Tina, but I don’t know what this file is for.
Tina: Let me see. Seems like a data analysis of the market, but I’m not sure who made it.
Mary: Jim told me it was from the former manager.
Tina: What is he doing here?
Mary: I’ve no idea. So this staff meeting is supposed to be on this weekend?
Tina: I guess.
Small Talk 2:
A: Excuse me, do you happen to know how they started quarrelling?
B: Sorry but I was not present at that very hour. And you?
A: For all I know, it was about the color of a bowl.
B: Well, who can believe this?
Small Talk 3:
A: Got any idea why the bus is late?
B: The accident at the intersection, so they were saying.
A: But I think something weird is going on.
B: Nothing much, hopefully.
Small Talk 4:
A: I’d like to know, please, when the plan takes off.
B: With this kind of storm, I’m sorry to tell you that you’ll have to wait.
A: Will it be all right by tomorrow afternoon?
B: Sorry, sir, but I have no idea.
Small Talk 5:
A: Happen to know his name?
B: Nope. But I know he’s a new comer in the Marketing Dept.
A: But I thought the department was going to size down!
B: Well, you can never tell.
