So we know what food is good for us, but itisn’t our favorite food. Our favorite food isn’t healthy. Vegetables and fruitare healthy food, but that is not what we want to eat. I eat an apple each daybecause my mother gives it to me.
I eat vegetables for my dinner because my mothercooks them. She wants me to be healthy. Your mother wants you to be healthy.She probably cooks you healthy food,just like my mother cooks it for me. I want to be healthy but I want to eathamburgers, not fish! Our reporter asked two of the students heinterviewed what they were having for lunch. Read on, you will see what theysaid. WORD BANK
reporter 记者 show 展示
prefer 更喜欢
vegetarian 素食主义者 probably 大概，可能 EXERCISES
1. Match the word with its correct meaning in thetext. healthy decide which thing you want
choose goodfor your body and able to make you strong lunch let someone look at something
初一上英语悦读联播14WHAT’S IN YOUR LUNCHBOX?
(Sue is 13. She’s in Class 1.) What do you eat for lunch,Sue?
I often eat a packed lunch. My mother gives mehealthy food for lunch. She doesn’t want me to eat school meals.
Why doesn’t she want you toeat school meals?
Because shethinks they aren’t healthy.
So what does your mother putin your lunchbox, SUE?
She gives medifferent things every day. I always have a sandwich, but the bread isdifferent. The food inside thesandwich is different too. What is in your sandwichtoday? Cheese, lettuce and tomato.
What else is in your lunchbox, Sue?
I always havesome fruit. Today it’s an apple. Do you like apples? They’re not myfavorite. My favorite fruit is bananas, but there aren’t any bananas today.
What do you have to drink,Sue? I have orangejuice today. Is that all you eat forlunch? It is all mymother gives me, but I buy sweets. Ioften buy chocolate. It’s my favorite, but it isn’t healthy!
So, Sue, your mother givesyou healthy food and you buy food that isn’t healthy? Yes, but I eata lot of healthy food before I eat the chocolate! WORD BANK
packed lunch 自备午餐、自带饭盒
inside 在?里面 lettuce 莴苣、生菜 else 另外 sweet 糖果 EXERCISES
1. Choose the correct words to put into the sentencesbelow.
think drink buy often
1) I want to goto the shop to ________ some milk. 2) Would youlike something to __________? 3) I ________see her there.
4) Do you_________ it’s going to rain?
2. Decide whether the followingstatements are true (T) or false (F). 1) Sue doesn’thave lunch at school. ( )
2) Sue’s motherthinks school meals aren’t healthy. ( ) 3) Sue has adifferent kind of sandwich every day. ( )
4) Before Suehas lots of healthy food, she often eats chocolate. ( )
初一上英语悦读联播15SCHOOLMEAL
(Tony is 13. He’s in Class 2.)
What do you eat for lunch,Tony?
I often eatschool meals. My mother is a nurse. She often goes to work very early and doesn’t have time to make mea packed lunch. She thinks the school meals are mostly healthy and she makessure I eat a healthy dinner. So what do you eat for yourschool meal, Tony?
I eatdifferent things every day. The cooks make different food, I choose my favoritethings.
What’s your meal today?
Noodles and meat sauce, an apple, a cookie and a glass of milk. I am eating while Italk. Or my food will go cold.
That’s OK, Tony, eat yourmeal. Do you always drink milk?
It’s not myfavorite. Juice is my favorite, but they haven’t got any juice today. What do you always have,Tony? I always havea cookie. It isn’t healthy food, but it is my favorite part of my school meal.
Do you always eat your apple?
No, Apples arenot my favorite fruit, but they haven’t got any oranges. Sometimes I give myapple to my friend Sam. Sam gives me some chocolate for the apple. Doesn’t Sam like chocolate?
Yes, but helikes apples too. His mother gives him lots of chocolate! WORD BANK early 初期
noodle 面条
sauce 酱、调味汁 EXERCISES
1. Match the words with the pictures.
2. Answer the following questions.
1) Why does Tony eat school meals for lunch? ________________________________________ 2) How does Tony get chocolate?
________________________________________
初一上英语悦读联播16WEATHER SAYINGS
English people have many sayings about the weather. Perhaps this is because English people talk about the weather alot. English weather is hard to predict,so there are many sayings that are supposed to help you decide what the weatherwill be like. Many of them are about the possibilityof rain. It rains a lot in England. When it rains, many young children sing: Rain,rain, go away, Comeagain another day!
LittleJohnny wants to play, Rain,rain, go away.
So, how can you tell if it is going to rain? Here are afew sayings to help you: Red skyin the morning Shepherd’s warning. Red skyat night, Shepherd’sdelight. (This rhyme also works if you replace shepherds with sailors. Anyone working outdoors would be glad if it did not rain!) Other sayings include:
Rainbefore seven; fine before eleven. A sunshiny shower won’t last half an hour. Perhaps, of all weather sayings, this one is the truest (although it is very difficult to say).It is a tongue twister. It is meantto be difficult to say quickly, and makes a joke of the fact that ‘weather’ and‘whether’ sound the same. Whetherthe weather be fine
Orwhether the weather be not whatever the weather We’llweather the weather Whetherwe like it or not! WORDBANK
perhaps 可能 predict 预测
possibility 可能性 shepherd 牧羊人 warning 警告 delight 喜悦 rhyme 押韵诗 sailor 水手 although 尽管
tongue twister 绕口令 EXERCISES
1. Matchthe word with its correct meaning in the text.
2. Answerthe following questions.1) Does it rain a lotin England? _____________________________________________
2) What does it meanby saying “Rain before seven, fine before eleven”? _____________________________________________
初一上英语悦读联播17AUTUMN POEMS
There are many English poems about the seasons, and about the way theseasons change. LEAVES
All join hands and circle round While we watch the leaves falldown See them twirling to the ground, See them dancing all around.
See them skipping here and there, See them flipping in the air. Autumn leaves so peacefully Falling, falling from the tree. THE LEAVES ARE GREEN
The leaves are green, the nuts are brown, They hang so high they won’t comedown. Leave them alone till frosty weather, Then they will all come downtogether. WORD BANK
twirl 转动 skip 跳,蹦 flip 掷, 弹