Advertisements in Our Life（95期）

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　　生活中英语随处可见，一个标语，一首歌，一部电影……留意生活中的英语现象，你会发现原来学英语很简单。


　　【Show time作品秀】
　　There are many kinds of advertisements in our life, some of which may fool people into buying their products, but some of which educate people about health, safety, and welfare, so we should be fully aware of them.
　　Advertising plays an important part in our daily life, we can benefit from it if we can learn to distinguish between commercial advertisements and public service advertisements. In the meanwhile, we should know whether the advertisements tell a lie or the truth.
　　Advertisements can tell people a lot of information about their products, which help people to make the right choice among all kinds of products without wasting time. However, some advertisements just tell the customers the advantages of their products, which the bad effects are often left out. We may fall for this kind of tricks. So next time, when buying a product, we should make the best choice instead of falling for the tricks. （宝应中学10级21班 杨 悦）

　　Do you think English is very important? Oh yes, of course. In modern society, if you want to do some business with foreigners, you must speak English because most of them speak and write in English. Today, most of business letters are written in English, and most of valuable and important books are written in English. If you know a wealth of English, you will read newspapers and magazines in English and acquire a lot of knowledge which can help you to get in touch with others. You can also do what you should do to protect the world peace. In a word, English is used widely.
　　Do you think English is interesting and beautiful? I learn that not all like English, because they are not good at their English study. Maybe they feel a little tired of it. But I want to tell you “It doesn’t matter”. Do you like watching film or listening to music? There are many films and music in English. When you have a rest, you can see an English film or listen to an English song. These activities can relax yourself. You will feel pleased with them and you will be interested in English sooner or later.
　　Can you speak English? Ha, if you can not speak it well, let us pay more attention to English in our life! Try your best! I believe you can. 　（宝应实验初中09级15班 韩 晨）

In many places, we can see a lot of signs written in English, if you don't understand English very well, how could you know what they mean? So English is very useful in our daily life.
　　Now many brands' advertisements are written in English, including many famous ones. Such as IBM, and it means British Broadcasting Corporation, which uses an advertisement“No business too small, no problem too big.”In Chinese it means“没有不做的小生意，没有解决不了的大问题。” These advertisements even can help the brands to sell well.
　　In our English classes, we can talk with teachers or classmates in English, this will also improve our spoken English and study skills. If we practice more and listen more, I'm sure we can study English much better.
　　And there are some useful ways to learn English well in our daily life. Because we often see a lot of details in the street, on the food packages or on the labels attached to some clothes. To pay attention to the details around us is the best and the most effective way to study English.
　　If you love watching and enjoying the movies, you’d better study English well because there are many famous films produced in Hollywood and most of them are in English.
　　Do you want to study English well? Are you still worried about learning English or thinking it is too hard to remember English grammar or vocabulary? Please remember the most important thing: English is used in daily life!　（宝应实验初中09级16班 朱 琪）

　　There are many English words in our life, do you know? No? Well, never mind. Let me tell you.
　　In the world, many people speak English. In China, lots of people speak English too. In fact，there are lots of English words around us. They are in lyrics, slogans, and movies. Do you find them? They are very interesting. We should pay more attention to them.
　　In our life, we can often see some English slogans: ‘To protect the environment is everybody's business.’ ‘Come on!’ And English is more apparent in the movie. Now we all love songs and many of them have English lyrics, like ‘baby, money’, ‘now, anyhow’. Besides, we can hear people speak English in our daily life like these: ‘Hello’, ‘Sorry’ and ‘Thanks’.
　　So let us learn English well! It’s wonderful! Don’t you think so?　(Huaian Foreign Language School Bao Jie Grade 7, Class 8)

　　
　　【Laugh of the day百事可乐】

　　1. Doesn't it ever stop raining around here?
　　One wet, windy weekend I was returning to Alaska, on a ferry, filled with visitors. I overheard a tourist ask a young boy, “Doesn't it ever stop raining around here?”
　　“I don't know,”came the reply, “I'm only seven years old.” 　　“我不知道，”男孩回答说，“我才7岁。”

　　
　　2．The Result of Laziness
　　Mother:“Why were you kept after school today, Johnny?”
　　Johnny:“Teacher told us to write an essay on 'The Result of Laziness', and I turned in a blank sheet of paper.” 　　妈妈：“今天放学后，你为什么要被留下来，约翰尼？”
　　约翰尼：“老师让我们写一篇作文《懒惰的后果》，我交了一张白纸。”

　　
　　3. She ate all my bait.
　　The young boy protested vigorously when his mother asked him to take his little sister along fishing. “The last time she came,” he objected, “I didn't catch a single fish.”
　　“I'll talk to her,” his mother said, “and I promise this time she won't make any noise.”
　　“It wasn't the noise, Mom," the boy replied, "She ate all my bait.” 　　当妈妈提出让小男孩带着妹妹一起去钓鱼时，他坚决反对。“上次她跟着我，”他反对说，“我连一条鱼都没能钓上。”
　　“我会告诉她，”妈妈说，“我保证这次她不再发出响声了。”
　　“妈妈，不是响声，”男孩回答，“是她把所有的诱饵都吃了。”


　　【Cultures文化】

　　 1. 感谢和应答（Thanks and responses ）
　　Thank you（thanks).在日常生活中无处不在，在西方国家，父母为子女或者子女为父母做了事，常常要说声Thank you (thanks).Thank you 主要用于以下场合：1）别人为你做了事或馈赠礼物等时；2）别人向你道贺时；3）听到别人赞扬你的话语时（我们中国人不太习惯说Thank you,而习惯说些谦虚的话）；4）用于表示礼貌的承受，相当于 “Yes.” （No, thank you 则表示客气的拒绝）。
　　回答感谢的常用语是：Not at all./ That’s all right./ That’s OK./ You’re welcome./ Don’t mention it./ It’s nothing./ It’s my(a) pleasure./I’m glad of the help.

　　2. 漫话问候语
　　不同的地理和社会文化环境产生出特有的语言习惯，在口语中表现得尤为明显，就汉英两种语言来说，就有很多不同。
　　我们中国幅员辽阔，但历史上一直没能解决好人们的吃饭问题，能否吃饱肚子成为人们关心议论的话题，经过长期的演变，“吃了吗？”便成了一句通用的问候语。其实，问话人并非真正关心事实如何，对方也不必过于拘泥，按实际情况回答。说“吃了”或“没吃呢“这些并没有多大区别，仅是客套而已。现在我们早以解决了吃的问题，所以这一问候语完全失去了其字面上的含义。另一方面，可能中国人一向讲究吃的学问，不是有几大菜系之说吗？各地的风味小吃更是不在话下了。这一饮食文化特色，无疑曾对汉语语言习惯的形成有过深远的影响。
　　我们再来看看英国，作为欧洲的一个岛国，因为特殊的地理位置，它的气候常年潮湿，多雾，首都伦敦是有名的“雾都”，常常阴雨绵绵。英国人出门时无论天气如何，总忘不了随身带把伞，所以英语中关于“伞”的故事特别多。天气便成了人们时常关心的话题。另一方面，英国人认为谈论天气不涉及个人隐私，人人可发表意见，不致引起误会。所以英语中有Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening. Lovely day, isn’t it? 之类的问候语也就很自然了。时间久了，也就成了与实际情况没什么关系的问候语，而失去了字面的含义。
　　同样是英语，到了美国，又有了特点。近年来，美国社会暴力事件增多，人们便一改过去用Goodbye! (原义“上帝与你同在”，即God be with you.)而常用Take care!来道别，意为“当心”，“珍重”。也许是对上帝的保佑失去了信心，还是自个儿当心吧！显得更为亲切、自然。
　　可见，我们学习英语，只学习单词和语法等等是远远不够的，还要注意学习与英语有关的背景知识，才能做到入乡随俗（Do in Rome as the Romans do.），避免产生误会或闹出笑话。


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