丹尼講英文

【Aussie English】

*Logie Awards 澳洲金鐘獎

【情境】

(退還商品)

1. 打招呼

2. 目的

3. 原因

4. 據理力爭

【Parallelism】

*I can’t _________. They’re ________.

【Fisk 拍攝場景】

Fisk

【單字】

*receipt (n.) 發票

*by accident 不小心

*hummus (n.) 鷹嘴豆泥

*filthy (a.) 骯髒的

*impenetrable (a.) 難懂的

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【文類】

Informative text – letter

【重點】

*書信格式

*xoxo

https://www.dictionary.com/e/xoxo-meaning/

https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/life-and-relationships/xoxo-the-new-kind-regards-20130220-2ernw.html

【Examples of xoxo】

*pic 1

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*pic 2&3

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【關於時間: 時鐘】

*The minute hand is longer than the hour hand. (Cambridge Dictionary)

*moving around in the same direction as the hands of a clock (Oxford Learner’s Dictionary)

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Adaptation of “Targeting Homework Year 1”

【句子】

*statement

*question (closed/open)

*request

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/requests

【比較】

*What is the capital of Taiwan?

*Can I have the salt?

【Please】

*Would you shut the window, please? (Longman Dictionary)

*Would someone please tell me what is going on? (Longman Dictionary)

*Will you please hurry up with my bill? (Sato, 2008: 1265)

Sato, S. (2008). Use of “Please” in American and New Zealand English. Journal of Pragmatics, 40(7), 1249–1278. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2007.09.001

【Food for thought】

*Will you two please stop fighting! (Longman Dictionary)

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【情境】

(Source: Question Everything_S2E4)

1.

A: It’s actually a really nice Scottish name, right? It means “broken nose” in Celtic.

B: Yeah, it’s an anagram for romance.

A: Oh, I should have been using that in high school. (That’s pretty good.)

2.

A: Did you do that on the spot? “It’s the anagram for romance.”

B: I guess so. But there you go. That’s yours. You can have that.

【語言學】

*anagram

“A” is an anagram of/for “B.”

【延伸】

1. Lana (Source: Daily Star)

2. Fruit

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Adaptation of “Targeting Homework Year 1”

【文類】

Imaginative text – poetry

【閱讀能力】

*question, command, or statement?

【重點】

*rhyme (be, sea, tree, me)

*stanza

*s-l-u-g-g-i-s-h-l-y

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【3D shapes】

(Source: Cambridge Dictionary)

*a small cube with a different number of spots on each side, used in games involving chance

*a closed metal container, especially cylinder-shaped, in which some types of drink and food are sold

*any object in the shape of a sphere, especially one used as a toy by children or in various sports such as tennis and football

【文法重點】

1. Open questions

2. Closed questions

【延伸閱讀】

https://drwilliamlane.medium.com/how-do-open-ended-questions-improve-interpersonal-communication-7bdef30d0604

【勘誤】

*down under: 澳洲或紐西蘭，錄音內容 doun 為口誤

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*Zeus

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(Source: Mythology, Hamilton)

“His power was greater than that of all the other divinities together. “

(Source: Britannica.com)

“Zeus was regarded as the sender of thunder and lightning, rain, and winds, and his traditional weapon was the thunderbolt.”

“…he had many love affairs with both mortal and immortal women.”

【名字】

1. Hera

2. Prometheus (foresight)

3. Epimetheus (hindsight)

4. Pandora

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【延伸補充】

1. divinity (n.) 神

2. divine (a.) 很棒

*That mango tasted divine. (Oxford Learner Dictionary)

3. mortality rate 死亡率；mortgage (n.) 貸款

4. in hindsight 事後看來

*In hindsight, it would have been better to wait. (Cambridge Dictionary)

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Adaptation of “Targeting Homework Year 1”

【文類】

Informative text – procedure

【重點】

1. materials or ingredients

2. steps or instructions

3. command (imperative)

【閱讀能力】

*crescent 是什麼形狀？

【延伸】

*雪梨大學的洗手 procedure

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1. offer

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2. demand

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【重點】

1. Statement: giving information

*Bluey ate the cake.

*capital letter, full stop

2. Question: asking for information

*Who ate the cake?

*capital letter, question mark

【練習】

*The girls played footy at the oval on the weekend.

1. Who…?

2. What…?

3. Where…?

4. When…?

【澳洲英文】

*footy (n.) 橄欖球 (英式 rugby)

*soccer (n.) 足球

*oval (n.) 球場

*suburb (n.) 行政區

【勘誤】

*AFL 澳洲足球聯盟 (錄音內容錯誤，NFL 為美式足球聯盟)

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Titanic

【神】

1. Uranus (Father Sky) & Gaia (Mother Earth)

2. Titans

“They were of enormous size and of incredible strength” (Mythology, Edith Hamilton)

*Cronus & Rhea

“Cronus learned from Gaia and Uranus that he was destined to be overcome by his own children, just as he had overthrown his father.” (Wikipedia)

3. Zeus

“Cronus was given a poison to force the Titan lord to regurgitate his imprisoned children,”

(https://www.greeklegendsandmyths.com/cronus.html)

*Poseidon

【單字】

*overthrow (v.) 推翻

“We went as a demonstration of protest, not to overthrow the government of the country” by Mr Prigozhin (ABC News)

*regurgitate (v.) 照本宣科

She tries to get students to think critically, not just regurgitate facts. (Longman Dictionary)

【命名】

1.《進擊的巨人》: Attack on Titan

2. Olympus: In Greek mythology, Mt.Olympus is the home of the twelve supreme gods and goddesses. Olympus was named after this mountain to reflect its strong aspiration to create high quality, world famous products. (https://www.olympus-global.com/company/milestones/founding.html?page=company)