本章節為新概念英語第二冊Lesson 5 No wrong numbers(無錯號之虞)的重點詞彙詳解及學習切入點分享。
附上原文及詞彙表供沒有書本的學習者使用:
Lesson 5 No wrong numbers 無錯號之虞Mr. James Scott has a garage in Silbury and now he has just bought another garage in Pinhurst. Pinhurst is only five miles from Silbury, but Mr. Scott cannot get a telephone for his new garage, so he has just bought twelve pigeons. Yesterday, a pigeon carried the first message from Pinhurst to Silbury. The bird covered the distance in three minutes. Up to now, Mr. Scott has sent a great many requests for spare parts and other urgent messages from one garage to the other. In this way, he has begun his own private 'telephone' service.
New words and expressions
pigeon /pdn/ n. 鴿子
message /mesd/ n. 信息
cover /kv(r)/ v. 越過
distance /dstns/ n. 距離
request /rkwest/ n. 要求,請求
spare part /spe pɑt]/ 備件
service /svs/ n. 業務,服務
在學習英語單詞的時候,尤其是基礎提升階段的學生,英語的單詞一定要學得透徹。不要單純只是背單詞,不單純只是音+意的模式,要學會單詞與語法的融會貫通,學會從文章中提取詞彙相關的語法知識點,再將詞彙在新環境下靈活運用,這才是學英語單詞的最佳切入方式。