Culturalcorner1.What’sthenameofthissong?

Countryroad,takemehome.2.Canyouguesswhosingthissong?

ItissungbyJohnDenver.JohnDenverisaveryfamoussingerofcountrymusicallovertheworld.CountrysideinwesternEuropeBrainstormCanyougiveadescriptiontothecountrysideinwesternEuropeusingonlytwowords?2.Whatdoyouknowhappenstothecountrysidenow?beautiful,quite

Theyarechangingnow.Listenthetextandanswerthefollowingquestions.1.In

whichcountriesisthecountrysidechanging?InsomecountriesinwesternEurope,suchasFrance,SpainandBritain2.Whydosomevillagesremain?

Becausepeoplefromthecitieshaveboughta“secondhome”inthevillage.1.Whataretheproblems?

1)Youngpeoplemovetotownsforalivelierlifeandforwork.2)Peoplecan’taffordvillagehousebecausecity-dwellersbuythemup.3)Farmersselltheirlandandstopfarming.Readagainandanswerthefollowingquestion.2.Whatwillberesultedinbytheseproblems?ManyvillagesinwesternEuropewillhavetofighttosurvive.Thecountrysidewillbeasadderanduglierplace.3.WhatcanyoudotosavethecountrysideinwesternEurope?1.Thereareanumberofreasonsforthis.reasonfor…

表示“…的原因”，后接名詞/代詞或者v-ing形式。

reasonwhy

也可以表示“…的原因”后面跟句子。

Thisisthereasonforhisbeinglate.Thisisthereasonwhyheislate.Languagepoints2.Thepriceofhomesgoesupandpeoplefromtheareacannotaffordtobuyahousethere.goup

表示“（價格等）上漲”

Thepriceofthesevillasbytheseahasbeengoingup.這些海濱別墅的價格一直在上漲。對比:Thepriceoffreshvegetableshasbeenbroughtup.afford表示“買的起;付得起;(有足夠的時間和金錢)做某事”,通常與can,could,beableto連用。Ican’taffordtobuysuchanexpensivenecklace.我可買不起那么貴重的項鏈。I’dlovetogoonholidaywithyou,butIcan’taffordthetime.我很想和你一起去度假,可抽不出時間。3.

Remainvi.

1)留下,遺留

Iwenttothecity,butmybrotherremainedathome.

2)繼續(xù),仍然是

Thedeathsoftheinnkeeperstillremainsamystery.3)remaintobedone尚待,留待

Comeon!Alotfworkremainstobedone.快點吧，還有許多工作要做呢！4.suchas與forexample

suchas往往不能把事物全部列出,可以以“名詞(,)+suchas+被列舉的事物”和“such+名詞+as+被列舉的事物”形式出現(xiàn)。

forexample可以用于句首,句中,句末。往往用逗號與被列舉的事物隔開。e.g.我喜歡喝茶和果汁類的飲料。

Ilikedrinkssuchasteaandjuice.=Ilikesuchdrinksasteaandjuice.到目前為止修建許多,大量上升仍然漂亮聽起來像uptonowputupagreatmanygoupsoundlikeremainprettyImportantphrasesinModule4:餓死例如加入委員會購物中心在地震中幸存買得起房子surviveanearthquakestarvetodeathaffordtobuyahousejoina