Daniel: What a beautiful day!

Dad: The weather is so crazy. It rained cats and dogs last night, but cleared up in the morning.

Daniel: I was worried about canceling the climbing.

Dad: Honey, wait for me. I am too tired to move a step further.

Daniel: What about taking the cable car?

Dad: Attaboy, that’s just what I am thinking.

Daniel: Wow, What a long queue this is!

Dad: Honey, be patient. It’s better to wait than to climb with my legs broken.

(After a few minutes, they get into the cable car.)

Daniel: Daddy, look ahead in the distance, the mountains there. They roll all the way up to the sky.

Dad: Yeah, the scenery is beautiful. What’s more, the air is fresh here?

Daniel: So you wanna stay here?

Dad: Of course not, I have to watch my American Idol.

聽看學

丹尼爾：今天天氣真好!

爸爸：天氣真是變化無常。昨晚還下著瓢潑大雨，但是早晨就變晴了。

丹尼爾：我還擔心要取消爬山呢。

爸爸：寶貝，等等我。我太累了，一步也挪不動了。

丹尼爾：乘坐索道怎么樣?

爸爸：太好了，這正是我所想的。

丹尼爾：哇，排了好長的隊啊!

爸爸：孩子，耐心點。等總比爬得筋疲力盡要好些。

(幾分鐘后，他們上了纜車。)

丹尼爾：爸爸，往遠處看，那里有很多山，它們綿延起伏一直通向天邊。

爸爸：是啊，這景色真美。而且，這里的空氣也很新鮮。

丹尼爾：那么你想一直待在這兒嗎?

爸爸：當然不想啊，我得回去看我的《美國偶像》。

經典背誦 Recitation

Dad: When Daniel and I climb mountains, Daniel can run quickly but I always, soon, get too tired to move a step further. So I’d think about taking a cable car. The queue may be long. But it’s better to wait than to climb, and also the scenery from the cable car is really fantastic.

生詞小結

clear up 天放晴

be worried about 擔心……

cancel vt. 取消

cable car 纜車

queue n. 長隊

ahead adv 向前

in the distance 在遠處

roll vt. 滾

what’s more 而且

注釋

It rained cats and dogs last night. 昨晚下起了瓢潑大雨。

Attaboy. 太好了。

It’s better to wait than to climb with my legs. 等總比爬得筋疲力盡要好些。

功能性語句擴展Functional structure

描寫句型

請朗讀以下短語，家長和孩子交替進行。

First/ Firstly/ First of all/To start with /In the beginning/In the first place…首先，第一

At first… 最初

Second/ Secondly … 其次……

For one thing…, for another… 首先……其次……

Besides… 此外

In addition… 除此之外

In particularly… 特別地

What’s more… 而且，此外

Moreover/ Likewise/ Furthermore… 而且，此外……

Third/ Thirdly… 第三……

Last but not the least… 最后……

Finally… 最后……