Unit 2 I used to be afraid of the dark.
[00:05.80]SECTION A
[00:08.86]1b Listen.Bob is seeing some friends for the first time in four years.
[00:18.21]What did his friends use to look like?
[01:30.96]2a Listen and check the words you hear.
[02:06.33]2b listen again and fill in the blanks with the words you hear.
[02:41.78]SECTION B
[02:48.02]2a Listen and check the sentences you hear.
[03:26.99]2b Listen again.What do the girl and the boy say about things in the past and now?
[03:37.34]Fill in the chart.
[04:12.89]3a Read the story about Rose Tang's problems and then complete the chart.
[04:21.07]My biggest problem
[04:24.23]My biggest problem is that I'm too busy.
[04:29.09]When I was young,I used to have so much time,
[04:34.55]but these days I get up early and stay in school all day.
[04:40.19]Then I go right home and eat dinner.
[04:44.55]Before I started high school,
[04:48.08]I used to spend a lot of time playing games with my friends,
[04:53.33]but I just don't have the time anymore.
[04:57.48]In the eveing,I used to watch TV or chat with my grandmother,
[05:03.54]but I just don't have to study.
[05:07.02]I love music,and my father used to take me to concerts.
[05:12.48]These days,I hardly ever have time for concerts.
[05:17.62]I do my homework and go to bed.I really miss the old days.
[05:23.87]READ E-mail English
[05:31.42]Do you speak English?Yes?Well,do you speak e-mail English?
[05:39.28]Maybe not.
[05:42.05]E-mail English is a new kind of English that many people use to save time.
[05:48.71]A lot of e-mail English words come from a computer program called ICQ,
[05:55.66]which means I seek you.
[05:59.73]ICQ is an e-mail chatline that people use to send messages quickly.
[06:06.99]Ian Lancashire,a Canadian teacher,likes ICQ.
[06:12.85]"People can use ICQ to talk with each other using computers.
[06:18.59]But,you have to be able to type quickly or the other person willbe bored.
[06:25.54]Using e-mail English helps."
[06:29.07]A message in e-mail English mostly uses two kinds of new words.
[06:35.44]The first kind is made up of the first letters of other words.
[06:41.01]These are called acronyms.
[06:44.66]The second kind is bomophones,
[06:48.82]letter combinations and symbols that sound like other words.
[06:54.28]Acronyms in an e-mail save space and time.
[06:59.32]It takes a long time to write by the way.BTW is much faster.
[07:06.48]Other acronyms are F2F which stands for face to face,
[07:12.95]CSL for can't stop laugbing and DBEYR for don't believe everybing you read!
[07:22.91]Some of the acronyms look like strange words,
[07:28.26]such as SWAK.But this one really means sealed with a kiss.
[07:36.20]Homophones often use letters and numbers that sound like words or parts of words.
[07:43.36]For example,8 sounds like-eat in great,so to save time,people write gr8.
[07:53.70]Another example is CU for see you,or sometimes CU 18r(see you later).
[08:04.78]The number 2 is used for to or too and the number 4 is used instead of for.
[08:13.53]Another part of e-mail English is emotives,
[08:18.81]symbols which make faces when you look at them sideways.
[08:24.56]The most common emotive is the happy face:)
[08:29.41]It's made with a colon and a right bracket
[08:34.09]Other punctuation marks,such as commas,
[08:39.05]help add other parts of the face and indicate different expressions.
[08:45.22]E-mail English is fun.
[08:48.56]An e-mail message with lots of e-mail English starts to look like secret code.
[08:55.33]Your best friend will probably understand it,
[08:59.69]but your parents and teachers might not.
[09:03.76]Actually,many teachers don't like e-mail English.
[09:08.91]It's not just because they can't comprehend what it means.
[09:14.24]It's because students start to use e-mail English in their everyday writing.
[09:20.01]E-mail English is great for writing quickly.
[09:24.27]But most teachers say that e-mail English should only be used in e-mails to one's friends.
[09:31.64]Words and Expressions in Each Unit 2
[09:39.40]used to dark be interested in sure
[09:43.52]过去经常 黑暗 对...感兴趣 无疑
[09:47.65]terrify be terrified of on spider
[09:51.97]使害怕 害怕.... 开着的 蜘蛛
[09:56.30]insect chew gum
[10:00.07]昆虫 嚼 口香糖
[10:03.85]right comic
[10:05.92]立即 连环漫画
[10:08.00]Reading
[10:10.46]save seek chatline type
[10:14.09]节省 寻找 热线交谈服务 打字
[10:17.72]bored mostly be made up of acronym
[10:22.35]厌倦的 多半 由...组成 首字字母拼词
[10:26.99]homophone combination sound like take sb...to do sth
[10:31.56]同音异义词 组合 听起来像... 花费某人去做某事
[10:36.13]can't stop doing seal kiss instead of
[10:40.55]禁不住做某事 封 吻 代替
[10:44.96]emotive make faces sideways colon
[10:49.43]表情等号 做鬼脸 斜着 冒号
[10:53.90]bracket punctuation mark indicate
[10:58.83]括号 标点 等号 标示
[11:03.77]expression secret code comprehend
[11:07.85]表示 秘密的 代码 理解
[11:11.92]consist consist of describe
[11:19.20]由...组成 由...构成 描绘
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