L33 A Day to Remember
Part1：Words and Expressions
1. prelude开端, 序幕, 前奏
结构：the prelude to sth: the beginning of sth...的序曲，开端，前奏 e.g. 成功的序曲 a good prelude to success
2. unforeseen不可预见的
近义：unpredictable, unaticipated反义：foreseen 关于前缀：pre/fore，表示“在...之前”，
e.g. foretell预言，foreword序言，forecast预报，forefather祖先
pre- preview预习 prelife前世
3. series n.连续, 系列（单复数形式同形） 结构：a series of 一系列的
e.g. There has been a series of accidents on the road recently. 一系列的事故 A series of wet days have spoiled my holiday. 连绵数日的阴雨天 They began a series of experiments. 一系列的实验 词组：
a series of pictures连环画 a series of books丛书 TV (play) series电视连续剧
近义词组：a succession of / a chain of
4. catastrophe灾难,大祸，近义：disaster e.g.The Maya foretold 2000 years ago that there will be a catastrophe on the earth in 2012.
2000年前玛雅文化预言在2012年地球上会有巨大灾难。
Their English party turned out to be a catastrophe.他们的英语晚会结局糟透了。
5. crockery陶器。扩展：瓷器 ≈china pottery stoneware
6. suburb n.市郊, 郊区
He lives in the suburb of London and works in the city. 近义：uptown/outskirt 区别：urban area 城市地区
7. collide撞上，相撞，
结构：collide with sth 名词：collision
e.g. 公共汽车转过拐角时与客货车相撞。As the bus turned the corner, it collided with a van.
If the aims of two countries collide, there may be war. 如果两国目标严重对立,就有可能爆发战争。
8. learner 初学者
同义词：novice/green-hand e.g. learner drivers 见习司机
9. panic n. 恐慌
结构：get into a panic/be struck with panic/be seized with panic 惊慌失措
e.g.他电脑玩的正起劲，爸妈突然回来了，着实把他吓了一跳。
He was playing the computer games in great joy when his parents came back all of a sudden. He totally got into panic. 近义词：
horror 恐惧 terror 极度害怕 fright 害怕
alarm 惊恐 a false alarm 一场虚惊
10. windscreen挡风玻璃 美式英语：windshield
11. alongside靠着边, 沿着边(adv.) 在路边 alongside the road
12. slide (slide-slid-slid)滑动;滑落;打滑
从…滑落： slide off sp.
她跌倒了，从楼梯上滑下来。She fell over and slid off the stairs. sliding door 划拉门
13. stray (常指宠物)走失的；无主的(adj./n.) stray dog 流浪狗 stray bullet 流弹
stray from topic 离题（v）
14. confusion n.混乱, 混淆
Don’t talk to him. He is in a state of mental confusion now. 处于头脑混乱 派生：confuse vt.搞乱, 使糊涂
I was confused by all the noise.一片嘈杂声把我弄得昏头昏脑。 He tries to confuse black and white. 混淆黑白
15. greedily 贪婪地；贪吃地 greedy adj. 贪婪的 eat his food greedily
greed (n.) 贪婪（七宗罪之一）
16. devour狼吞虎咽地吃 反义词：nibble 小口吃
e.g. devour the food 吞食 The fire devour the village 吞噬 She's a very keen reader - she devours one book after another. 大量阅读
Part 2课文详解 A day to remember
We have all experienced days when everything goes wrong(=get up on the wrong side of the bed). A day may begin well enough, but suddenly everything seems to get out of control(=beyond control). What invariably happens is that(从句类型是？可替换为副词=Invariably) a great number of things choose to（拟人意味） go wrong at precisely the same moment. It is as if a single unimportant event set up（=cause/lead to） a chain of(=a series of ) reactions. Let us suppose that（举例句型） you are preparing a meal and keeping an eye on(watch/look after) the baby at the same time. The telephone rings and this marks the prelude to an unforeseen series of catastrophes. While you are on the phone, the baby pulls the table-cloth off the table smashing half your best crockery and cutting himself in the process(and连接现在分词作伴随状语). You hang up hurriedly and attend to（=look after） baby, crockery, etc. Meanwhile, the meal gets burnt. As if this were not enough to reduce you to tears(使某人落泪；reduce him to a beggar使他沦为乞丐), your husband arrives, unexpectedly bringing three guests to dinner.
Things can go wrong on a big scale（大规模地） as a number of people recently
discovered in Parramatta, a suburb of Sydney. During the rush hour one evening two cars collided and both drivers began to argue. The woman immediately（可表示时间：立即；可表示空间：紧随） behind the two cars happened to be（碰巧是，中高考常考
结构） a learner. She suddenly got into a panic and stopped her car. This made the driver following her（现在分词作后置定语） brake hard. His wife was sitting beside him holding a large cake. As she was thrown forward（前倾）, the cake went right through the windscreen and landed on the road. Seeing a cake flying through the air, a lorry-driver who was drawing up（行驶） alongside the car, pulled up（靠边停车） all of a sudden（=suddenly）. The lorry was loaded with empty beer bottles and hundreds of them slid off the back of the vehicle and on to the road. This led to yet another angry argument.Meanwhile, the traffic piled up behind. It took the police nearly an hour to get the traffic on the move（on the表示“正在…” on the rise正在上升） again.In the meantime, the lorry- driver had to sweep up hundreds of broken bottles. Only two stray dogs benefited from(从…收获) all this confusion, for they greedily devoured what was left of the cake. It was just one of those days!
阅读理解：
可否把第二段文字画成一幅画，并用英语词标明每辆车的状态。
Part 3 Homework课文抄写一遍+朗读五遍：
我们大家都有过事事不顺心的日子。一天开始时，可能还不错，但突然间似乎一切都失
去了控制。情况经常是这样的，许许多多的事情都偏偏赶在同一时刻出问题，好像是一件无
关紧要的小事引起了一连串的连锁反应。假设你在做饭，同时又在照看孩子。这时电话铃响
了，它预示着一连串意想不到的灾难的来临。就在你接电话时，孩子把桌布从桌子上扯了下
来，将家中最好的陶瓷餐具半数摔碎，同时也弄伤了他自己。你急急忙忙挂上电话，赶去照
看孩子和餐具。这时，饭又烧糊了。好像这一切还不足以使你急得掉泪，你的丈夫接着回来
了，事先没打招呼就带来3个客人吃饭。
就像许多人最近在悉尼郊区帕拉马塔所发现的那样，有时乱子会闹得很大。一天傍晚交
通最拥挤时，一辆汽车撞上前面一辆汽车，两个司机争吵起来。紧跟其后的一辆车上的司机
碰巧是个初学者，她一惊之下突然把车停了下来。她这一停使得跟在后头的司机也来了个急
刹车。司机的妻子正坐在他身边，手里托着块大蛋糕。她往前一冲，蛋糕从挡风玻璃飞了出
去掉在马路上。此时，一辆卡车正好从后边开到那辆汽车边上，司机看见一块蛋糕从天而降，
紧急刹车。卡车上装着空啤酒瓶，成百只瓶子顺势从卡车后面滑出车外落在马路上。这又引
起了一场唇枪舌剑的争吵。与此同时，后面的车辆排成了长龙，警察花了将近一个小时才使
车辆又开起来。在这段时间里，卡车司机不得不清扫那几百只破瓶子。只有两只野狗从这一
片混乱中得到了好处，它们贪婪地吃掉了剩下的蛋糕。这就是事事不顺心的那么一天！
朗读统计：
第一遍________ 第二遍________ 第三遍________
第四遍________ 第五遍________ Part 4 Quiz Spot Dictation：
We have all experienced days when everything goes wrong. A day may begin well enough, but suddenly everything seems to get out of control. What invariably happens is that a great number of things choose to go wrong at precisely the same moment. It is as if a single unimportant event set up a chain of reactions. Let us suppose that you are preparing a meal and keeping an eye on the baby at the same time. The telephone rings and this marks the prelude to an unforeseen series of catastrophes. While you are on the phone, the baby pulls the table-cloth off the table smashing half your best crockery and cutting himself in the process. You hang up hurriedly and attend to baby, crockery, etc. Meanwhile, the meal gets burnt. As if this were not enough to reduce you to tears, your husband arrives, unexpectedly bringing three guests to dinner. Things can go wrong on a big scale as a number of people recently discovered in Parramatta, a suburb of Sydney. During the rush hour one evening two cars collided and both drivers began to argue. The woman immediately behind the two cars happened to be a learner. She suddenly got into a panic and stopped her car. This made the driver following her brake hard. His wife was sitting beside him holding a large cake. As she was thrown forward, the cake went right through the windscreen and landed on the road. Seeing a cake flying through the air, a lorry-driver who was drawing up alongside the car, pulled up all of a sudden. The lorry was loaded with empty beer bottles and hundreds of them slid off the back of the vehicle and on to the road. This led to yet another angry argument.Meanwhile, the traffic piled up behind. It took the police nearly an hour to get the traffic on the move again.In the meantime, the lorry- driver had to sweep up hundreds of broken bottles. Only two stray dogs benefited from all this confusion, for they greedily devoured what was left of the cake. It was just one of those days!