一、單詞

complete /k?m?pli?t/ adj. 完全的，徹底的；全部的，完整的；

v. 使完整，使完美；完成，結(jié)束

① v. You complet me?你使我完整

complete/finish the work 完成

② adj. He told us a complete story 完整的

③ complete/finish doing sth

modern /?m?d(?)n/ adj.；現(xiàn)代化的，新式的；?

strange /stre?nd?/ adj. 奇怪的，不尋常的；

① We heard a strange sound

The picture looks so strange.

② adj. 陌生的, 生疏的

be strange to sth 對…不習慣，對…陌生

The city is quite strange to me.

stranger n. 陌生人?

district /?d?str?kt/ n. 地區(qū)，區(qū)域；

Haidian District 海淀區(qū)

I lived in Haidian District

二、原文

I had a letter from my sister yesterday. She lives in Nigeria. In her letter, she said that she would come to England next year. If she comes, she will get a surprise. We are now living in a beautiful new house in the country. Work on it had begun before my sister left. The house was completed five months ago. In my letter, I told her that she could stay with us. The house has many large rooms and there is a lovely garden. It is a very modern house, so it looks strange to some people. It must be the only modern house in the district.

三、課文和語法

1、 I had a letter from my sister yesterday.

had a letter from sb 收到某人的來信 = receive/get a letter from sb = hear from sb

I have just received a letter from my brother, Tim. ( L4 )

2、In her letter, she said that she would come to England next year.

she said that … 間接引語，L 15課學過

3、 Work on it had begun before my sister left

work工作、作業(yè)，這里作抽象的不可數(shù)名詞，前面可不加冠詞

Music is everything to me. music是抽象的不可數(shù)名詞

Life is short。 life是抽象不可數(shù)名詞

本句用了過去完成時,before 引導(dǎo)的時間狀語從句-L14

4、There is a lovely garden. It is a very modern house, so it looks strange to some people.

1) there be 句型說明人或物的存在，時態(tài)比較靈活，be的單復(fù)數(shù)取決于緊跟在后的第一個名詞單復(fù)數(shù)形式(就近原則)

there be 否定：be + not

There isn’t a computer in my room.

there be 一般疑問：be 提句首

Is there a computer in your room?

某些狀態(tài)動詞如remain, lie, exist, live 和位置轉(zhuǎn)移的動詞如arrive, come, enter, follow, rise,也可以用there +… 結(jié)構(gòu)

There remain some problems to be solved.

2) It 是為了避免重復(fù)某個名詞或事情而用來指代的, 也可指時間、距離、天氣，作形式主語、形式賓語等

It is Sunday today.

It is raining again.

5、形容詞的位置

1）單個形容詞的位置:限定詞+形容詞+ 名詞

I am reading an interesting book.

注意修飾something, anything, nothing, everything, somebody, someone, anybody, anyone, nobody, no one, everybody, everyone 等不定代詞的形容詞要后置

I have something important to say.

2)多個形容詞的位置

觀點形容詞+描繪形容詞

a beautiful white table

名詞短語中，形容詞的順序總結(jié)如下：限定詞，描繪形容詞，尺寸大小，形狀，年齡，新舊，顏色，國籍出處，質(zhì)地材料+中心名詞

This beautiful big old red Chinese wooden table was my grandmother’s

四、習慣用法

You complete me.

have a letter from sb.

get a surprise