1、How do you get to school? 要点详解1. How does Bob get to school? 鲍勃怎样到校的? He takes the train. 他乘火车。 how意为“如何”,常用于对“做某事”的方式提问。 take在这里是“乘坐(交通工具)”的意思。例如:take the subway乘地铁take the bus乘公共汽车take the train乘火车take a taxi乘出租车take a boat乘船归纳 take可以与其他词连用,表示“吃;喝;享受;得到;享有”等意义。例如:take a holidaya walka batha quick
2、look arounda deep breath a seata photo休假散步沐浴迅速向四周望一眼深呼吸坐照相2. “交通方式”的多种表达 英语中常用How dodoes sb.?对交通方式提问。例如:How do you get to school? 你怎样去学校?表示交通方式可以用动词take (意为“乘”)或ride与交通工具一起构成动词短语,在句子中充当谓语。例如:take the trainsubwaybusshipplane坐火车地铁公共汽车船飞机,ride a bikehorse骑自行车骑马;表示交通方式还可以由介词“by十交通工具”或“on/in(a)+交通工具来表示。例
3、如:by ship=in a ship乘船by bike=on a bike骑自行车by train=on train乘火车by car=in a car乘汽车常见的“交通方式”表达有:by bus乘公共汽车by train乘火车by shipsea乘船by planeair乘飞机by bike骑自行车by car乘小汽车on foot步行go toby car=drive togo toby bike=ride togo toon foot=walk togo toby planeair=fly to3. It takes about forty minutes. 大约花费40分钟。take
4、表示“花费 (时间)”,用在句型It takes sb. some time to do sth.,意为“干某事花费某人多长时间”。注意 这个句型的主语只能是事,不能是人。例如:It takes twenty minutes to get to school. 上学要花20分钟。it作形式主语,to get to school才是真正的主语。又如:It took me a week to read the book. 看这本书花了我一周的时间。take和spend都可以表示“花时间”,但句型不同。take常用It takes (sb.)+time+to do sth.这一句型;spend常用s
5、pend time(in)doing sth. 或spend time on sth. 这两种形式,主语必须是人,注意介词in后面是动词+ing形式,in可省去,on后面是名词,不接动词-ing形式。例如:I spent one and a half months building the house. 我花了一个半月建造这座房子。我们用take表达就是: It took me one and a half months to build the house. You have to spend much more time on spoken English. 你们得在英语口语上花更多时间。
6、4. How do you get to school? 你怎样到学校?询问去某地的交通方式,用how提问。how用作疑问 副词,还可以表示“如何,怎样,以何种方式或手段”。例如:How should I do? 我该怎么做?How does she learn English? 她以什么方式学英语?get表示“到达”,是不及物动词,若接宾语,后需跟介词to;get后若接副词时,不需加to。例如:When can you get to school?你何时可以到达学校?When will she get to Paris? 她将什么时候到达巴黎?I usually get home at si
7、x oclock. 我通常六点钟到家。He will get there on time. 他会按时到那里。归纳 arrive,reach和get to表“到达”,arrive,reach和get均有抵达某地之意。reach是及物动词;arrive和get是不及物动词。arrive后常接at或in,而get后接to表示“到达”。请注意:arrive和get后接副词here,there,home等词时,不带介词。What time does the plane arrive in New York? 飞机何时抵达纽约?He reached Nanjing safely. 他安全抵达南京。When
8、 will they get to that city?他们将在什么时候到达那个城市?arrive at一般用于较小的场所。如:村镇、车站、机场等;arrive in一般用于较大的场所。如:城市、国家等。He arrived at the village towards evening. 天快黑时他到达村子里。They arrived in Paris on Tuesday. 他们星期二到达巴黎。5. How long does it take? 要花多长时间? how long表示“多长时间,多久”主要是对一段时间提问,答语通常是“(for)+一段时间”,可用于多种时态。例如:How lon
9、g does it take you to go to work?你去上班花多长时间?How long can I keep the book?这本书我能借多长时间?How long has he lived here?他已住在这儿多久了?He has lived here for 3 years. 他已住在这儿3年了。how long还可以用来对事物的长度提问,意为“多长”。例如:How long is the river? 这条河多长?How long is your desk? 你的课桌多长?区分 how soon意为“要过多久”,是对从某个基本时间到将来某动作结束或某动作发生这段时间提
10、问,常用在一般将来时态的句子里,其答语常是“in+一段时间”。例如:How soon will your father come back?你爸爸多久后回来?He will come back in a week他将在一个星期后回来。6. First, he rides his bicycle to the bus station. Then the early bus takes him to school. 首先,他骑自行车到公共汽车站,然后乘早班车去学校。(1) 英语中,在描述事情发生、发展的先后顺序时,常用first. . . ”或“firstnextthen, finally等来列举
11、诸多事件。例如:Every morning, we get up early. First, we wash our faces. Then we have breakfast. Finally we go out to school. 每天早晨我们都会早早起床。首先洗脸吃早餐,最后出门去上学。(2) take在句中意为“带到,带去”。例如:My father often takes me to the park. 我爸爸经常带我去公园。Ill take my grandfather to hospital. 我要带我爷爷去医院看病。take还有“拿走”的意思,与bring“带来”相对应。例如
12、:Take the books away, please. 请把这些书拿走。Bring me a cup of tea, please. 请给我带一杯茶来。7. The bus ride usually takes about 25 minutes. 公共汽车路程通常需要25分钟。ride为名词,意为“乘车,乘坐,骑马”。例如:Its five minutes ride from here to the factory. 从这儿乘车去工厂要五分钟。ride可用作动词,意思为“骑(车、马),乘车”。例如:She learned to ride when she was seven. 她7岁时学会
13、了骑马。It was the first time they had ridden in a train. 那是他们第一次坐火车。We got on to the bus and rode into Shenzhen. 我们上了汽车直奔深圳。ride a bike骑自行车 ride a horse骑马8. In China, it depends on where you are. 在中国,这要看你在哪儿而定。depend是不及物动词,后面通常接介词on或upon,有“依靠;依赖;靠决定”等意思。例如:You cannot depend on your parents forever. 你不能
14、永远依靠你的父母。Our success depends on whether everyone works hard or not. 我们的成败取决于每个人是否努力。You cant depend on him to come on time. 不能指望他会准时来。9. have to take a boat to get to school. 只好乘船去学校。have to属情态动词,第三人称单数用has to,have to的疑问句及否定句形式通常借助于助动词do或does构成。例如:She isnt very well these days and has to stay at hom
15、e. 她这几天身体不太好,只好待在家里。You dont have to tell me this. 你不必告诉我这件事。区分 must与have to这两个词都可表示“不得不”,但have to强调客观,must强调主观,且have to有人称和数的变化,而must没有。10. What do you think of the transportation in your hometown? 你认为你家乡的交通怎么样?think of用于what疑问句中时表示“认为,觉得”,用于肯定句中时作“想起,考虑”解。例如:What do you think of the play? 你觉得这部剧本怎
16、么样?He thought of Bob the right person for the job. 他想起鲍勃是做这份工作的合适人选。Im just thinking of(或about)changing my job. 我正在考虑换工作。注意 think of作“考虑”解时,相当于think about,后接名词、动词的-ing形式或宾语从句。11. Dont worry. 不要担心。worry为动词,意为“担心,焦虑”,worry about后接“人或事物”,同义短语为be worried about。例如:Dont worry about your mother. 不要担心你的妈妈。S
17、he worries about the coming exam. 她担心即将到来的考试。He is worried about his fathers health. 他担心他爸爸的健康。12. If you have a problem, you can 如果你有问题,你可以problem和question都指问题,但它们有区别,question多指要求回答的问题,或指一般问题,problem则指较难的,或待解决的问题。例如:There are two sides to every question. 每个问题都有两个方面。Computers can solve (解决) many difficult problems. 电脑可以解决很多难题。