河北加拿大版初中英语--UNIT 5

UNIT 5
[00:03.08]Lessons 33~40
[00:07.63]Go With Transportation¹!
[00:11.47]Lesson 33:
[00:15.33]How Can You Go?Can You Take a Plane to the Bakery?
[00:22.10]JENNY:What is your favourite kind of transportation,Danny?
[00:28.16]DANNY:Walking.I can go almost anywhere on foot.
[00:33.91]I can walk to school
[00:37.56]I can walk to the park.
[00:41.40]I can walk to your house.
[00:45.45]BRIAN:You can walk to the bakery to buy donuts²!
[00:50.10]But what about other cities?Could you go to another city on foot?
[00:56.27]DANNY:Of course not.That would be too far.I could take a car!
[01:03.84]JENNY:I'd take a train.I love riding the train.
[01:10.19]It's my favourite type of transportation.Is it yours too Brian?
[01:17.64]BRIAN:I'm sorry,but it isn't.I couldn't take a train to London to visit my parents.
[01:24.40]London is across the acean.
[01:27.95]DANNY:You could take a ship.
[01:31.30]BRIAN:Of course.But that would take a long time.
[01:36.05]I would like a more rapid type of transportation.
[01:41.02]Planes are very fast.Can I take a plane to the bakery?
[01:47.78]I'm very hungry!
[01:51.62]Boats Can Float
[01:55.17]Are boats different from ships?
[01:59.33]A boat is a small ship.In other words,a ship is just a big boat!
[02:07.48]Boats and ships float on water.Who made the first boat? Nobody know.
[02:16.62]Boats are very old.When were the first sailboats built?
[02:23.75]Sailboats have sails
[02:27.91]They use the wind to go.
[02:32.06]We know that the Egyptians had sailboats thousands of years ago.
[02:39.22]Do you remember the country of Egypt?
[02:43.16]Egyptians are people from Egypt.
[02:47.03]Egypt is famous for its pyramids³.
[02:51.18]How were early ships for ocean travel built?
[02:56.14]To go across oceans, ships at first needed sails and oars⁴.
[03:03.59]People pulled on the oars.It was a difficult life!
[03:10.15]Who built the first steamboat?
[03:14.12]In 1783,a man from France built a boat with a steam engine.
[03:22.27]When did the first steamship⁵ cross the Atlantic Ocean?
[03:27.73]By the 1800s,ships started to cross the oceans using sails and steam.
[03:36.69]What was the first ship to cross the Atlantic Ocean without any sails?
[03:43.95]The Sirius in 1838.
[03:48.99]FASCINATING FACT
[03:52.52]hovercraft
[03:55.47]Did you know that a hovercraft is not a boat?
[04:00.51]Althouth it cross the sea like a boat or ship,it does not touch the water.
[04:07.88]It sits about twenty centimetres above the water.
[04:13.13]It can travel faster than most boats and ships.
 

1 transportation   

n.运输，运输系统，运输工具

参考例句：

• The transportation of goods by air costs a lot.航空运输货物花费很高。
• He finally solved the difficulty of transportation.他终于解决了运输的困难。

2 donuts   

n. 炸面圈

参考例句：

• As McDonald's, Dunkin' Donuts and other fast-food chains moved upmarket, Starbucks looked less distinctive. 随着麦当劳，Dunkin'Donuts以及其它快餐联锁店朝着上流市场发展，星巴克失去了自己的特色。
• You can walk to the bakery to buy donuts! 你可以步行去面包店买油炸圈饼！

3 Pyramids   

n.金字塔( pyramid的名词复数 )；金字塔形的物体（或一堆东西）；金字塔式的组织（或系统）；棱锥（体）

参考例句：

• One of the seven wonders of the ancient world was the Pyramids. 金字塔是古代世界的七大奇迹之一。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The Great Pyramids and the Sphinx are nearby. 雄伟的金字塔和狮身人面像就在附近。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 oars   

n.桨，橹( oar的名词复数 )；划手v.划（行）( oar的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• He pulled as hard as he could on the oars. 他拼命地划桨。
• The sailors are bending to the oars. 水手们在拼命地划桨。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 steamship   

n.汽船，轮船

参考例句：

• The return may be made on the same steamship.可乘同一艘汽船当天回来。
• It was so foggy that the steamship almost ran down a small boat leaving the port.雾很大，汽艇差点把一只正在离港的小船撞沉。