Lesson Two Breakfast or lunch?

Ask and answer the questions in pairs: 1.What day was it? 2.Do you always get up late on Sundays? 3.Do you ever get up before lunchtime? 4.When did you get up last Sunday? 5.What was it like outside? 6.Did you think it was a nice day? 7.What happened just then? 8.Who was on the phone? 9.How had she arrived? 10.What did she say? 11.What did you say? 12.Was she surprised to hear this? 13.Did you have to repeat yourself? 14.What did she ask you?

Retell the story: 1.never---early---Sunday 2.Last Sunday---very late 3.looked---window 4.dark outside---raining 5.just then---telephone---Aunt Lucy 6.‘arrived---train’---said 7.‘coming---see---you’ 8.‘but---still---breakfast’---said 9.very surprised 10.‘Dear---’she said,’---one o’clock’

Why was the writer’s aunt surprised? ItIt was Sunday. I never get up early on Sundays. I sometimes stay in bed until lunchtime. Last Sunday I got up very late. I looked out of the window. It was dark outside. ‘What a day!’ I thought. ‘It’s raining again.’ Just then, the telephone rang. It was my aunt Lucy. “I’ve just arrived by train,’ she said. ‘I’m coming to see you.’until Lastby ‘But I’m still having breakfast,’ I said. ‘What are you doing?’ she asked. ‘I’m having breakfast,’ I repeated. ‘Dear me,’ she said. ‘Do you always get up so late? It’s one o’clock!’!’

it 指天气、时间、距离、身份等，本身无意义： 1.It’s September. It’s eight o’clock in the morning. (time) 2. It’s very cold today. (weather) 3. It is only two miles from my home to New York. (distance) 4. It was my aunt Lucy.

untiluntil = till, up to the time that 可用作介词或连词： 1.I waited until 10 o’clock, but he still didn’t come. (preposition) 2. Wait until I call. (conjunction) 3. He read/worked until midnight. (prep.) 4. I was here until one o’clock. (prep.)

介词介词与时间短语 一般说来，时间短语前要加介词， 但下列几种情况均属不加之列： 一、在组成的时间短语前： 二、在前： 三、当跟时间名词构成时间短语时，它们前面也不加介词： 1. We are meeting next Tuesday. 2. He stayed with us last week. 3. What are you going to do this evening? 4. I didn’t feel very well that week. 1. I’ll have to get up early tomorrow morning. 2. She arrived in London the day before yesterday. 1. You can come any day. 2. Some day we’ll meet again! 3. Let’s have a dancing party one evening next week.

I by bike to school. (x) I ride a bike to school.=I go to school by bike. 1. 昨天他坐飞机去了北京。 2. 今天上午我是坐轿车上班的。 He went to Beijing by plane yesterday. He took a plane to Beijing yesterday. I went to work by car this morning. I took a car to work this morning. by

Summary writing The writer always gets up late on Sundays. He got up late last Sunday. Then his aunt Lucy telephoned. She had arrived by train. She was coming to see him. ‘I’m still having breakfast,’he said. His aunt was very surprised. It was one o’clock. (45 words)