Adaptation of “Targeting Homework Year 1”

【重點】

*sin_____ / plu_____

*suffix (-s)

【練習】

1. 我在動物園看到了三隻袋熊。

2. 我的這些鉛筆都不尖了。

【延伸】

*多重國籍

*多元化

【索引】

*澳小1文法8: proper

*Ep2: pragmatic

被問到有沒有聽過某個東西

*I haven’t heard of it, but it sounds ＿＿＿＿.

【情境2】

對方一直在某個(不相關的)主題上糾結

*Let’s put a ＿＿＿＿ in that just for now.

Adaptation of “Targeting Homework Year 1”

【閱讀技巧: inference】

*proud

*disappointed

*happy

【名言佳句 by Theodore Roosevelt】

“C__________ is the thief of joy.”

Adaptation of “Targeting Homework Year 1”

【重點】

*noun groups (e.g. a smelly cat)

*proper nouns (e.g. Melbourne)

【Proper】

https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2018/08/proper.html

1. genuine or excellent of its kind

E.g. a proper doctor, proper latte

2. total, an emphatic term, completely

E.g. a proper mess, a proper idiot, he was proper furious

【聽聽看】

https://youtu.be/9Wwi8jIBUZs?t=239

【延伸閱讀: proper English】

https://blogs.nottingham.edu.my/learningenglish/2013/08/27/what-is-proper-english/

https://youtu.be/T1LmlO-jpHs

Well…I’ve known him for a w_____.

I thought it was cool at first but…

He’s just a bad in_____.

Gets me in all s_____ of trouble.

And…

He’s too c_____.

I can’t seem to get away from him.

I feel so s_____ by him.

He’s l_____ killing me.

I think this relationship is t_____.

Adaptation of “Targeting Homework Year 1”

【文類】

Persuasive text – Exposition

【狗大便】

*dog p_____/ t_____/ w_____

Y1R7

【doggie/doggy bag】

1. https://www.writerscentre.com.au/blog/qa-the-origin-of-the-doggie-bag/

2. https://www.foodauthority.nsw.gov.au/consumer/eating-out/doggy-bags

3. https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/food/restaurants-bars/to-doggy-or-not-to-doggy-diners-bagged-for-asking-to-take-leftovers-home/news-story/cb53a6d94805f2c003667364cb847c63

Adaptation of “Targeting Homework Year 1”

【重點】

*Nouns

*Pronouns

E.g. Anita and Ryan went to the park. “It” was full of children.

E.g. Anita and Ryan went to the park. “They” played on the swings.

【練習】

1. When Kurt went to the shops, ____ rode his bike.

2. My parents are over there. Can you see ____?

3. We have some money. Dad gave it to ____.

【Aussie English】

*yous/youse

https://www.macquariedictionary.com.au/blog/article/164/

https://www.macquariedictionary.com.au/blog/article/592/

*I jumped in “my” car

https://youtu.be/9QCgqQdmr0M?t=35

https://youtu.be/bTKBqdz-oDs

Adaptation of “Targeting Homework Year 1”

【主要角色】

*Echo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_(mythology)#cite_note-6

*Narcissus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissus_(mythology)

*Hera

*Zeus

*Nemesis

【補充內容】

*He went to the gym every day, driven purely by narcissism. (Longman Dictionary)

*double-edged sword (n.) 雙面刃

【Recommendation】

*Todd Sampson’s Mirror Mirror

Adaptation of “Targeting Homework Year 1”

【文類】

Informative text – Diary entries

【單字】

*Antarctica 南極

*the South Pole 南極

【重點】

*A p____ of dolphins swam beside our ship.

https://www.macquariedictionary.com.au/resources/view/resource/4/

【Aussie English】

*A m____ of sheep/cattle/kangaroos

*G’day, you m____!

Adaptation of “Targeting Homework Year 1”

*Will you two please stop fighting! (Longman Dictionary)

【重點】

*request (question form)

*command (imperative form)

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/commands-and-instructions

*exclamation mark

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/exclamations

【延伸】

(Friends, S8E14)

Phoebe: How would you feeling if you couldn’t share your cooking? Or imagine how Ross would feel if he couldn’t teach us about dragons?

Monica: Dinosaurs.

Phoebe: Potayto, potahto.

【澳洲番茄醬】

tomato sauce.HEIC

*Logie Awards 澳洲金鐘獎

【情境】

(退還商品)

1. 打招呼

2. 目的

3. 原因

4. 據理力爭

【Parallelism】

*I can’t _________. They’re ________.

【Fisk 拍攝場景】

Fisk

【單字】

*receipt (n.) 發票

*by accident 不小心

*hummus (n.) 鷹嘴豆泥

*filthy (a.) 骯髒的

*impenetrable (a.) 難懂的

Adaptation of “Targeting Homework Year 1”

【文類】

Informative text – letter

【重點】

*書信格式

*xoxo

https://www.dictionary.com/e/xoxo-meaning/

https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/life-and-relationships/xoxo-the-new-kind-regards-20130220-2ernw.html

【Examples of xoxo】

*pic 1

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*pic 2&3

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【關於時間: 時鐘】

*The minute hand is longer than the hour hand. (Cambridge Dictionary)

*moving around in the same direction as the hands of a clock (Oxford Learner’s Dictionary)

Adaptation of “Targeting Homework Year 1”

【句子】

*statement

*question (closed/open)

*request

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/requests

【比較】

*What is the capital of Taiwan?

*Can I have the salt?

【Please】

*Would you shut the window, please? (Longman Dictionary)

*Would someone please tell me what is going on? (Longman Dictionary)

*Will you please hurry up with my bill? (Sato, 2008: 1265)

Sato, S. (2008). Use of “Please” in American and New Zealand English. Journal of Pragmatics, 40(7), 1249–1278. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2007.09.001

【Food for thought】

*Will you two please stop fighting! (Longman Dictionary)

【情境】

(Source: Question Everything_S2E4)

1.

A: It’s actually a really nice Scottish name, right? It means “broken nose” in Celtic.

B: Yeah, it’s an anagram for romance.

A: Oh, I should have been using that in high school. (That’s pretty good.)

2.

A: Did you do that on the spot? “It’s the anagram for romance.”

B: I guess so. But there you go. That’s yours. You can have that.

【語言學】

*anagram

“A” is an anagram of/for “B.”

【延伸】

1. Lana (Source: Daily Star)

2. Fruit

Adaptation of “Targeting Homework Year 1”

【文類】

Imaginative text – poetry

【閱讀能力】

*question, command, or statement?

【重點】

*rhyme (be, sea, tree, me)

*stanza

*s-l-u-g-g-i-s-h-l-y

Adaptation of “Targeting Homework Year 1”

【3D shapes】

(Source: Cambridge Dictionary)

*a small cube with a different number of spots on each side, used in games involving chance

*a closed metal container, especially cylinder-shaped, in which some types of drink and food are sold

*any object in the shape of a sphere, especially one used as a toy by children or in various sports such as tennis and football

【文法重點】

1. Open questions

2. Closed questions

【延伸閱讀】

https://drwilliamlane.medium.com/how-do-open-ended-questions-improve-interpersonal-communication-7bdef30d0604

【勘誤】

*down under: 澳洲或紐西蘭，錄音內容 doun 為口誤

*Zeus

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(Source: Mythology, Hamilton)

“His power was greater than that of all the other divinities together. “

(Source: Britannica.com)

“Zeus was regarded as the sender of thunder and lightning, rain, and winds, and his traditional weapon was the thunderbolt.”

“…he had many love affairs with both mortal and immortal women.”

【名字】

1. Hera

2. Prometheus (foresight)

3. Epimetheus (hindsight)

4. Pandora

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【延伸補充】

1. divinity (n.) 神

2. divine (a.) 很棒

*That mango tasted divine. (Oxford Learner Dictionary)

3. mortality rate 死亡率；mortgage (n.) 貸款

4. in hindsight 事後看來

*In hindsight, it would have been better to wait. (Cambridge Dictionary)

Adaptation of “Targeting Homework Year 1”

【文類】

Informative text – procedure

【重點】

1. materials or ingredients

2. steps or instructions

3. command (imperative)

【閱讀能力】

*crescent 是什麼形狀？

【延伸】

*雪梨大學的洗手 procedure

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1. offer

https://images.app.goo.gl/uz3Yh1zEtXdZRz5G8

2. demand

https://images.app.goo.gl/W9R7x4T7SoThhzui9

【重點】

1. Statement: giving information

*Bluey ate the cake.

*capital letter, full stop

2. Question: asking for information

*Who ate the cake?

*capital letter, question mark

【練習】

*The girls played footy at the oval on the weekend.

1. Who…?

2. What…?

3. Where…?

4. When…?

【澳洲英文】

*footy (n.) 橄欖球 (英式 rugby)

*soccer (n.) 足球

*oval (n.) 球場

*suburb (n.) 行政區

【勘誤】

*AFL 澳洲足球聯盟 (錄音內容錯誤，NFL 為美式足球聯盟)

Titanic

【神】

1. Uranus (Father Sky) & Gaia (Mother Earth)

2. Titans

“They were of enormous size and of incredible strength” (Mythology, Edith Hamilton)

*Cronus & Rhea

“Cronus learned from Gaia and Uranus that he was destined to be overcome by his own children, just as he had overthrown his father.” (Wikipedia)

3. Zeus

“Cronus was given a poison to force the Titan lord to regurgitate his imprisoned children,”

(https://www.greeklegendsandmyths.com/cronus.html)

*Poseidon

【單字】

*overthrow (v.) 推翻

“We went as a demonstration of protest, not to overthrow the government of the country” by Mr Prigozhin (ABC News)

*regurgitate (v.) 照本宣科

She tries to get students to think critically, not just regurgitate facts. (Longman Dictionary)

【命名】

1.《進擊的巨人》: Attack on Titan

2. Olympus: In Greek mythology, Mt.Olympus is the home of the twelve supreme gods and goddesses. Olympus was named after this mountain to reflect its strong aspiration to create high quality, world famous products. (https://www.olympus-global.com/company/milestones/founding.html?page=company)

(Source: The Edge Breakfast)

https://www.theedge.co.nz/home/shows/the-edge-breakfast/2023/06/would-you-scalp-a-taylor-swift-ticket-for-1000.html

Would You Scalp A Taylor Swift Ticket For $1000?

Tickets to Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour in Melbourne went on sale today, and The Edge Breakfast wanted to know - would you buy a ticket NOT to go to the show, but purely to resell at a higher price to make some money?

(Source: Behind the News)

https://youtu.be/LqVKIzbFbFs

ticket scalping, which is the act of reselling ticket to make a profit

They’ve got some “karma” coming for them.

【重點單字】

*scalp (v.) 賣(黃牛票）

*scalper (n.) 黃牛

【英文小挑戰】

We’ve heard countless stories of people purchasing tickets at in______ prices, and then not…never receiving the tickets or… (1:28~)

【補充單字】

*deflated (a.) 氣餒，洩氣

Adaptation of “Targeting Homework Year 1”

*禮讓行人

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*學校

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【文類】

Informative text – report

【重點】

1. introduction: many signs

2. classification: some signs

*words, images, lights, sounds, bumps (Braille)

“coloured patterns of bumpy dots or stripes on the footpaths”

3. conclusion: many signs

【澳洲英文】

*spelling: -our instead of -or, -ise instead of -ize

*footpath (n.) 人行道 (= sidewalk, pavement)

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*thong (n.) 夾腳拖 (= flip-flops)

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【數學用語】

*兩個一數 s____ count in 2s

【句子組成】

*Peppa Pig rolled in the mud.

1. who or what: Peppa Pig

2. happening: rolled

3. more information (when/how/why/what…): (where) in the mud

【練習】

1. She went to the supermarket.

2. The girl lifted the heavy box.

3. The boy cried because he was sad.

Question 1. Where did she go?

Question 2. What did the girl lift?

Question 3. Why did the boy cry?

Beal, C. (1992). Did you have a good weekend?: or why there is no such thing as a simple question in cross cultural encounters. -between native speakers of French and native speakers of Australian English-. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 15(1), 23–52.

【對話原則】

A: Did you have a pleasant weekend?

B: I did. What about you?

A: I did too.

B: What did you do?

A: We went to a birthday dinner on Saturday and a barbeque on Sunday.

B: Food food food…

A: Yes, we ate our way through most of the weekend.

1. short

2. friendly

3. reciprocal

4. mentioning typical weekend activities

(Beal, 1992: 26-27)

【電視劇】

A: Morning, (Helen), how was your weekend?

B: Yeah. Good. Thanks.

A: What did you get up to?

B: Uh, made some pretty good soup.

A: That’s nice.

B: Yeah, brought the leftovers for lunch.

A: Good for you.

https://iview.abc.net.au/show/fisk/series/1

(Fisk, S1E3_00:53)

Is that all?

I don’t know. Do you have any questions about my weekend?

No, I don’t think so.

Alright, then.

【對話】

Teacher: Put your assignments down in front of you, please.

Ryan: I didn’t ____ ____ ____ it.

(Heartbreak High_S6E15: 03:00)

【練習】

to find the time to do something (Oxford Learner Dictionary)

1. 我本來要洗衣服，但後來沒洗。(Oxford Learner Dictionary)

2. 我一直想打電話給她，但還沒找到時間。(Merriam-Webster Dictionary)

3. 我本來想要週末打掃房子，但後來沒時間做這件事。(Cambridge Dictionary)

1. I meant to do the ______ but I didn’t ______ ______ ______ it.

2. I’ve been ______ to call her, but I just haven’t ______ ______ ______ it.

3. I intended to ______ the flat at the weekend, but I didn’t ______ ______ ______ it.

【片語】

*get around to sth/V-ing

I don't know when I'll get round to (painting) the door. (The Free Dictionary)

“How Billabong is Australia's Original and Oldest Pool | The Pool”

from ABC TV & iview

https://youtu.be/CJcTe7xUUx4

“The original pool, the billabong, was where First Australians gathered and continue to meet.”

“The billabong is the keeper of Australian’s ancestral stories. Its freshwater has helped sustain indigenous culture to this day.”

【文類】

*imaginative text (narrative)

【必備字彙】

*indigenous (a.) 土生土長的

*first Australians 澳洲原住民

*boomerang 迴力鏢

*platypus 鴨嘴獸

【重點】

*lie-lay-lain 躺

【閱讀能力】

Q. ~take place?

Q. Why~? (inference)

【重點】

*sentence 句子

*capital letter 大寫字母

*full stop 句點（= period）

E.g. I’m not going, period! (Longman Dictionary)

【補充】

*small letter 小寫字母

E.g. The poet e. e. cummings wrote his name with small letters, not capital letters. (Cambridge Dictionary)

*alphabet (n.) 字母

E.g. The ninth letter of the alphabet is I.

*lower case/upper case 小寫／大寫

E.g. Headings should be in upper case. (Oxford Learner dictionary)

*capitalize (v.) 大寫

E.g. Be sure to capitalize the first word of every sentence. (Longman Dictionary)

'Modern day Goldilocks' on the run after bizarre Melbourne home invasion (Source: 9News)

Rare ‘Goldilocks moments’ on a marvellous mountain (Source: The Sydney Morning Herald)

https://www.smh.com.au/traveller/rare-goldilocks-moments-on-a-marvellous-mountain-20230327-p5cvir.html

In our solar system, only Earth lies in the Goldilocks zone.

(Source: Longman Dictionary)

Wollongong has been described as one of Australia's 'Goldilocks cities'.

https://www.governmentnews.com.au/meet-australias-goldilocks-cities/

【故事連結 by British Council】

https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/listen-watch/short-stories/goldilocks-three-bears

2. The line of argument is not always clear, although you make many good points.

3. Although the line of argument is not always clear, you make many good points.

4. You make many good points, although the line of argument is not always clear.

5. You make many good points, but the line of argument is not always clear.

6. The line of argument is not always clear, but you make many good points.

(Thompson, 2013: 192)

Thompson, G. (2013). Introducing functional grammar (3 ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203431474

【文法重點】

1. 從屬子句 (subordinate/dependent clause)

grammatical dependence reflects the lower functional importance of the message

2. 順序 (order)

the end position reflects greater functional importance

(Thompson, 2013: 192)

跟別人約你先到了

對方到了的時候

問你「等很久了嗎」

怎麼回應？

A: Been waiting long?

B: Only an hour.

<情境2>

要離開大家

在送別會中

如何幽默地向大家表示感謝呢？

A: Well, looks like a great party.

B: Yeah.

A: You must really wanna get rid of me.

(Source: Hearbreak High)

*sculpture (n.) 雕刻

*statute of limitations 追訴期

(Seinfeld S3E7_09:30)

Definition: the maximum length of time that can be allowed to pass before action is taken in a particular legal matter (Source: Cambridge Dictionary)

*imperative (a.) 重要的／迫切的

1. It is absolutely imperative that we finish by next week.

2. It is imperative to continue the treatment for at least two months.

3. We consider it absolutely imperative to start work immediately.

(Source: Oxford Learner’s Dictionary)

https://youtu.be/odZNZgJf9QU

大學行事曆的例子

https://www.sydney.edu.au/students/key-dates.html

【Aussie English】

*STUVAC 溫書假 (study vacation)

There are no lectures or tutorials during STUVAC so students have more time to prepare for exams. (Source: Macmillan Dictionary)

*tute 助教課

【Vocabulary】

*carpe diem 把握當下 (seize the day)

*lecture 講課

*tutorial 助教課

*bittersweet 有苦有樂

聽到別人考得很好可以怎回應？

表達謙虛這個字很好用！

Charlie: We had a science test today.

Melanie’s father: Oh, good, how’d you go?

Melanie: Charlie got 98%.

Melanie’s father: That’s terrific, Charlie. Well done!

Charlie: Thank you, it was nothing, it was a fluke.

Melanie’s father: Well, 98% is no fluke.

(Source: Heartbreak High S5EP36)

content

object

progress

He seems fairly content with (his) life.

It's a very stylish and beautiful film, but it lacks content.

Several people reported seeing a strange object in the sky.

A couple of people objected to the proposal, but the vast majority approved of it.

Technological progress has been so rapid over the last few years.

Work on the new road is progressing slowly.

(sources: Cambridge Dictionary, Oxford Learner’s Dictionary)

suspect (v./n.)

【Aussie Culture】

Cross country running

a sport in which teams and individuals run races on outdoor courses over natural terrain.

(source: https://www.usatf.org/disciplines/cross-country)

【Vocabulary】

disinfect (v.) 消毒

prosecutor (n.) 檢察官

circulate (v.) 流傳、散佈

circulation (n.) 報章雜誌銷售量

adhere to 遵守 + principles/terms/rules

stringent (a.) 嚴格的

【Linguistics】語言學

contronym (n.) 矛盾詞

dope (a.)

If we got to be friends, that'd be dope.

(source: Longman Dictionary)

sick (a.)

The hair, makeup and outfit is sick! She looks amazing!

(source: Macmillan Dictionary)

wicked (a.)

This song's wicked.

(source: Oxford Learner’s Dictionary)

【Vocabulary】

roid (n.) 類固醇 (= steroid)

dub (v.) 稱～為；配音

rant (v.) 叫囂

agitated (a.) 發怒生氣

concussion (n.) 腦震盪

restrain (v.) 制服

【Idiom】片語

keep your shirt on 冷靜別生氣

Keep your shirt on! Your car isn't even scratched!

(Source: Cambridge Dictionary)

【Linguistics】語言學

alliteration (n.) 押頭韻

pragmatic (a.) 實際的

practical (a.) 實用的

pragmatic approach 實際的辦法

pragmatic dreamer

【Linguistics】語言學

pragmatics (n.) 語用學

semantics (n.) 語義學

In business, the pragmatic approach to problems is often more successful than an idealistic one.

(Source: Cambridge Dictionary)

He or she is a pragmatic dreamer, a person with an original but attainable vision.

(Source: Longman Dictionary)

在這裡跟大家分享一些英文資訊

這集我們要來看一個跟 chat 意思一樣的字

It could almost be like sitting next to an old-school journo with decades of experience, an encyclopedic memory, and who enjoys a good yarn. But who only answers questions when asked to.

(Source: Australian Financial Interview)

【Vocabulary】

Cross-cultural and Applied Linguistics 跨文化應用語言學

journalist (n.) 記者

encyclopedia (n.) 百科全書

encyclopedic memory

【Aussie English】澳洲英文

journo (n.) 記者

avo (n.) 酪梨 (= avocado)

have a yarn 聊天