Lesson 3

    Text A There is Something Very Nice inside Your Drum

    It was Jimmy's birthday ， and he was five years old. He got quite
a lot of nice birthday presents from his family ， and one of them was
a beautiful big drum. Jimmy 的生日到了，他已經五歲了。他從家人那里得到
了很多很好的生日禮物，其中一個是一個很大很漂亮的鼓。

    "Who gave him that thing？ "Jimmy's father said when he saw it.
“誰送他那個鼓的？”Jimmy ‘的爸爸看到鼓的時候問。

    "His grandfather did，"answered Jimmy's mother.

    "Oh ，" said his father.“他祖父送的，”Jimmy ‘的媽媽說。

    “哦，”他爸爸說。

    Of course ， Jimmy liked his drum very much. He made a terrible noise
with it ， but his mother did not mind. His father was working during
the day ， and Jimmy was in bed when he got home in the evening ， so
he did not hear the noise.當然，Jimmy 非常喜歡他的鼓。他用他制造了很大
的噪聲，但他媽媽不介意。他爸爸白天在工作，而當他晚上回家時Jimmy 已經躺
在床上睡覺了，所以他不會聽到噪聲。

    But one of the neighbours did not like the noise at all ， so one
morning a few days later， she took a sharp knife and went to Jimmy's
house while he was hitting his drum. She said to him， "Hello ， Jimmy.
Do you know ， there's something very nice inside your drum. Here's a
knife. Open the drum and let's find it."但他們的一位鄰居一點也不喜歡那
種噪音，所以幾天后的一個早上，她帶著一把鋒利的刀去Jimmy 家，那時Jimmy
正在打鼓。她跟他說，“Hello ，Jimmy.你知道嗎，有件很棒的東西在你的鼓里。
給你刀，把這個鼓打開，讓我們找到他。”

    如果你是Jimmy ，你會聽這位鄰居的話打開心愛的鼓嗎？我是說在你五歲的
時候哦。

    Text B May I See a Hat， please ？

    MR Ross ： May I see a hat， please ？

    MR Ross ：請問，我能找頂帽子嗎？

    SALESMAN： What size do you take？

    SALESMAN：你戴多大號的？

    MR Ross ： I'm sorry. I don't know. MR Ross ：對不起，我不知道。

    SALESMAN： I'll measure you. . . You take size 6. What color hat would
you like？

    SALESMAN：我幫你量一下……你是6 號的。你喜歡什么顏色的帽子呢？

    MR Ross ： Brown， please. MR Ross：請找頂棕色的吧。

    SALESMAN： Here are some nice brown hats. Try this hat on. It's a
very good one. SALESMAN ：這里有些漂亮的棕色帽子。試試那頂吧。

    MR Ross ： Yes， I like this one. It goes very well with my coat.
How much is it？

    MR Ross ：嗯，我喜歡這頂。它很搭我的外套。這帽子多少錢？

    SALESMAN： It's $ 9.95（nine dollars and ninety-five cents）。 Do
you want me to put it in a box？

    SALESMAN：9.95美元。要不要我把它放進盒子里？

    Read the following passage once. Underline the key words while reading
and retell the story to your partner.

    想一想，大家覺得小偷被抓住了嗎？OK，don't forget to retell the story！

    The police in the big city were looking for a thief. At last they
caught him. But while they were taking photographs of him - from the front，
from the left ， from the right ， with a hat ， without a hat - he suddenly
attacked the policemen and ran off. They tried to catch him ， but he
got away. Then a week later the telephone rang in the police-station，
and somebody said ，“You are looking for Bill Cross， aren't you ？”

    “Yes.”

    “Well， he left here for Water bridge an hour ago. ”

    Water Bridge was a small town about 100 miles from the city. The city
police at once sent four different photographs of the thief to the police
in Water Bridge. Less than twelve hours later they got a telephone call
from the police in Water Bridge.“We have caught the fours this evening，
we think. ”

    常用口語：

    1. May I see a hat， please ？當你走進一家商店想買帽子、衣服、鞋子
等寶貝時，你可以說：“May I see …… please ？" 這樣，服務員就會給你介
紹相關產品了。

    2. It goes very well with my coat.看到那么多美麗的物品，想必總有讓
你心儀的寶貝了吧，覺得它很相稱，那時候就可以說：“It goes very well with
……”

    雖然學了這么兩個句子要去商店自如表達還不夠，不過積少成多嘛，心急的
筒子也可以另外再找資料學習學習，說不定馬上就能變身購物達人咯，呵呵。