文档介绍：人教版初中英语九年级英语第十一单元解析
Unit 11 Could you please tell me where the restrooms are?
重点、难点、考点及疑点注释
1. Could you please tell me where the restrooms are?(P86) 请问洗手间在哪里?
本句是问路或问处所的常用语,通常应先说excuse me,以引起对方注意,也表示尊重对方。
Excuse me. Could you tell me where Xianfeng Middle School is?
打扰了。请问先锋中学在哪儿?
知识拓展
问路的表示法
英语中表达问路或处所的句式有不少,下面介绍几种常用的问路的方法。
试译:打扰了。请问去书店怎么走?
Excuse me. Could you tell me the way to the bookshop?
Excuse me. Could you tell me how I can get to the bookshop?
Excuse me. Could you tell me how to get to the bookshop?
Excuse me. Could you tell me where the bookshop is?
Excuse me. Which is the way to the bookshop, please?
Excuse me. Where’s the bookshop, please?
Excuse me. How can I get to the bookshop, please?
2. ...because my friends hang out there. (P88)……因为我的朋友都在那儿闲逛。
hang out常用于美语口语中,意为“闲逛”。还可以表示“常去某处”的意思。
Where do you hang out these days?这些日子你们都在什么地方闲逛来着?
知识拓展
动词hang是“悬挂”,“吊”,“吊死”等意思。可用作及物动词,也可用作不及物动词。
He remained hanging in mid-air, saved by the belt.
他吊在半空中,安全带救了他。
A full moon hung in the sky on Mid-autumn Day.
中秋那天,一轮圆月挂在天空。
The last Ming emperor hanged himself from this tree.
明朝最后一个皇帝就是在这棵树上吊死的。
特别提示
同学们可能已经注意到,以上句子中的动词过去式用的不同。hang表示“悬挂”,“吊”的意思时,是不规则动词,过去式和过去分词形式是hung,而意为“吊死”时,是规则动词。魔力纠错
①同学们把一幅世界地图挂在左边墙上。
误:The students hanged a map of the world on the wall to the left.
正:The students hung a map of the world on the wall to the left.
②总有一天恐怖分子