Conversation C?

MARTIN: Are you going shopping today??
EILEEN: Yes.?
MARTIN: When are you going shopping.?
EILEEN: After work. I must buy some food.?
MARTIN: Please buy some coffee.?
EILEEN: Don't we have coffee??
MARTIN: No, I finished the coffee.?
EILEEN: When??
MARTIN: This morning. I made coffee for breakfast. When did you buy coffee?
EILEEN: I bought coffee last week. Are you drinking too much coffee??
MARTIN: I like coffee.?
EILEEN: When do you drink so much coffee??
MARTIN: In the morning. I like coffee in the morning.?
EILEEN: What time is it. Martin??
MARTIN: It's nine-twenty.?
EILEEN: What time is the train to Pittsburgh??
MARTIN: At nine-thirty.?
EILEEN: May I buy a newspaper? I didn't read the newspaper this morning. ?
MARTIN: I don't know. Can you wait??
EILEEN: When can I buy the newspaper??
MARTIN: In a few minutes. I'm going in a few minutes.?
EILEEN: Martin, are you going to work on Saturday??
MARTIN: No, I don't like to work on weekends.?
EILEEN: Can you take Sue and her friends to the park??
MARTIN: When??
EILEEN: In the afternoon. There is band concert.?
MARTIN: What time is the concert??
EILEEN: The concert is at two-fifteen.?
MARTIN: What band is playing??
EILEEN: There are three school bands playing. Some of Sue's friends are playing in the band.?
MARTIN: What time are they going to finish??
EILEEN: At four o'clock. I want to work on Saturday.?
MARTIN: Do you want to work at home??
EILEEN: No, I can't. I want to work at the office.?
VALERIE: Eileen? Hi. How are you??
EILEEN: Hello! What are you doing here, Valerie? Martin, this is Valerie McCormick.?
MARTIN: Hello. Eileen told me about you. I'm happy to meet you. ?
VALERIE: How are you? ?
MARTIN: Fine, thanks.?
EILEEN: Where are you going? What are you doing here??
VALERIE: I'm going home. I brought my husband to the train.?
EILEEN: What time is his train??
VALERIE: It was at nine-ten. It left.?
MARTIN: Where is he going??
VALERIE: He's going to Hartford, Connecticut. Where are you going? ?
EILEEN: Martin is going to Pittsburgh.
VALERIE: What time is your train??
MARTIN: It's at nine-thirty. I'm going now. Good-bye.?
EILEEN: Good-bye. Be careful.?
VALERIE: Good-bye. Martin.?

Practice 3：巩固确切时间及大致时间的表达法。?
Examples:
MARTIN: At nine-thirty.?
EILEEN: At two-fifteen. At four o'clock.?
EILEEN: After work.?
MARTIN: This morning.?
EILEEN: Last week.?
MARTIN: In the morning. In a few minutes.?
EILEEN: In the afternoon.?

会话C?
马 丁：你今天去买东西吗??
艾 琳：是的。?
马 丁：你什么时候去买东西??
艾 琳：下班以后。我必须买些食品。?
马 丁：买些咖啡吧。?
艾 琳：我们没有咖啡了吗??
马 丁：没有了，我用完了。?
艾 琳：什么时候??
马 丁：今天早晨，我早餐煮的咖啡。你什么时候买的咖啡??
艾 琳：我上周才买的咖啡，你咖啡喝得太多了吧??
马 丁：我喜欢咖啡。?
艾 琳：你什么时候喝下这么多咖啡??
马 丁：在早上，我喜欢早上喝咖啡。?
艾 琳：马丁，几点了??
马 丁：9点20分。?
艾 琳：到匹兹堡的火车是什么时间??
马 丁：9点30分。?
艾 琳：我去买张报纸好吗?我今早没看报纸。?
马 丁：我不知道，你能等一等吗??
艾 琳：那我什么时候能买报纸呢??
马 丁：几分钟后，我几分钟后就走了。?
艾 琳：马丁，你星期六去上班吗??
马 丁：不，我不喜欢在周末工作。?
艾 琳：你能带苏和她的朋友们去公园吗??
马 丁：什么时候??
艾 琳：下午。有个乐队演奏的音乐会。?
马 丁：音乐会什么时候开始??
艾 琳：音乐会在下午2点15分开始。?
马 丁：什么乐队来演奏??
艾 琳：有3个学校乐队演奏，苏的一些朋友在乐队里演奏。?
马 丁：几点结束??
艾 琳：4点。我想在星期六工作。?
马 丁：你想要在家里工作吗??
艾 琳：不，我不能。我想要在办公室工作。?
瓦莱丽：艾琳?你好，你近来好吗??
艾 琳：你好!瓦莱丽，你来这儿有什么事?马丁，这是瓦莱丽·麦考密克。?
马 丁：你好，艾琳跟我提到过你，很高兴见到你。?
瓦莱丽：你近来好吗??
马 丁：我很好，谢谢。?
艾 琳：你去哪儿?你在这儿做什么?
瓦莱丽：我正要回家，我来送我丈夫上火车。?
艾 琳：他乘的是几点的车??
瓦莱丽：9点10分，车已经开走了。?
马 丁：他去哪儿??
瓦莱丽：他去康涅狄格州的哈特福德。你们去哪儿??
艾 琳：马丁去匹兹堡。?
瓦莱丽：你乘的是几点的火车??
马 丁：9点30分，我现在走了，再见。?
艾 琳：再见，保重。
瓦莱丽：再见，马丁。

New Words and Expressions 生词和短语?

meet the train 接火车，接站?
band concert 乐队演奏的音乐会?

Proper Nouns 专有名词?

Valerie McCormick 瓦雷利·麦考密克?
Connectcut 康涅狄格州?
Hartford 哈特福德市?

Language Points 语言要点?

1. What time does it arrive in Pittsburgh?(什么时间到达匹兹堡?)用 arrive 表示“到达”。arrive 是不及物动词，其后要跟介词 in 或 at，一般 arrive in 用于大城市、国家，arrive at 用于小地方。表示“到达”的涵义的常用词还有 reach 和 get to 短语，reach 是及物动词，可直接与名词连用。get to 是惯用语，不如 arrive 和 reach 正式，
多用于口语。例如：?
What time do we arrive at Cardiff? 我们什么时候到达卡尔迪福??
When did you arrive in Britain? 你们是什么时候到达英国的??
He arrived reached at the station at 5. 他5点到达车站。?
He will get to Tokyo tomorrow. 他将于明天到达东京。?
2. ago 是“以前”的意思，本课中用 ago 的句子有：?
I wrote a story about Pittsburgh ten years ago.
他10年前写过一篇关于匹兹堡的报道。?
I wrote a story three years ago. 我3年前写过一篇故事。?
I first visited Washington many years ago.我是多年前首次访问华盛顿的
由上述句子可看出，ago 是“距今……以前”。我们学过表示“以前”的单词 before，它是表示“较过去……以前”。也就是说 ago 是相对现在而言的，before 是相对过去而言的。这一点从下面的例句就可以看出。?
I visited him two days ago, but he had gone to London five days before.?
他两天前去看他，但是他已在那5天前就去了伦敦了。
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Cultural Notes 文化注释

康涅狄格州(Connecticut)位于美国的东北部，东临大西洋，首府是 New Haven，与罗德岛州、麻萨诸塞州及纽约州相接壤。Connecticut 来源于印第安语，意思是“beside the long tidal river”(在长长的潮河旁)。?