part 1 必備素材— 生活

life：

food+living place+transportation+travel+work

Food

Traditional foods

• Health and nutritious ：use fresh vegetable and meat
• More food options：various ingredients and cooking styles烹飪方法和風格
• An important part of culture and social life：regular family gathering家庭聚餐；traditional festivals 傳統(tǒng)節(jié)目

Convenience foods/processed foods 快捷食物

• Time-saving and effort-saving (lead a fast-paced lifestyle)
• reasonably priced

But 壞處

• Pose a danger to one's health ：food preservative and additive ；high fat ；high sugar； high salt ； high calories
• Monotonous 無聊單調(diào)的

Living place

living in the city

• Have more job opportunities
• Have better educational resources
• Have more and better sports and healthcare facilities
• Have a variety of entertainment and shopping choices
• Have convenient public transport systems

But

• overcrowded
• A fast pace of life - heavy pressure

Transportation

Private cars

• convenient
• have one's own space
• A symbol of social status

But

• lead to heavy traffic - traffic jams / congestion
• Air pollution - car fumes
• Noise pollution - car horn 鳴笛

Travel

• escape from the stress of daily life
• Broaden one's horizons / enrich one's experience
• A family bonding activity
• Stimulate the local economic growth
• The driving force for service industry驅動力:hotel;restaurant;transport;retail

But

• expensive
• It takes time to readapt to work/study
• Destroy environment
• Over- commercialized - threaten the local customs and traditions
• Disrupt the life of local people

Work

people

• employer
• employee
• staff
• full-timer
• Part - timer
• Wage earner 按月領工資
• Salaried employee 領年薪的人
• Freelancer 自由職業(yè)者
• Contract worker
• Apprentice 學徒
• Intern 實習生
• breadwinner 養(yǎng)家糊口的人
• Hard work
• Slacker 偷懶的人

A good job

• match one's interests
• Provide sb with a clear career path 清晰的職業(yè)路徑
• professional training
• income：regulate the minimum wage and overtime pay
• working environment ： have equal opportunities for promotion；feel valued ；
• have a sense of achievement / belonging
• A steady job : a steady source of income
• Employee benefits: health insurance;paid holiday;sick leave; maternity leave ;year-end bonus; allowance

A bad job

• have a heavy workload
• have long working hours
• the job is demanding
• work overtime
• live paycheck to paycheck - struggle to pay the bills
• be fired=be laid off= be made redundant

Part 2 同義替換

1、缺點

disadvantage

demerit

drawback

weakness（弱點）

eg ： the disadvantage/ demerit/ drawback of overseas study 留學的缺點

the weakness of the company 這個公司的弱點

2、能力

ability

capability

eg： have the ability to do something 有能力做某事

3、方式；方法

way

method

approach

eg： an effective approach 一種有效的方法

Part 3 必備句式

1、Even if 即使

eg： Even if their children's behavior does not suit their fancy,parents should wait until the kids realize for themselves.

注：does not suit their fancy 不和他們的意

2、The + 比較級 +主語+謂語，the+比較級+主語+謂語+（賓語）

eg：

The more you see ，the better you understand the world.

注：看得越多，對世界理解的越好。

The longer you stay at home，the harder you find a job.

注：越在家里待，越難找到工作。