PROGRAMME 31
PART I - The Dialogues
这一讲，先是Geoff Howard 一到足球场外，和排队买票的人谈话。因为一直在下雨，有的人身上显淋淋的。
后面一部分，是一辆小汽车差一点儿撞了一个骑自行车的姑娘。
在澳大利亚，车辆一律靠左行驶。这辆小汽车沿马路左侧行驶，准备向右拐弯。这时对面开来一辆卡车。卡车过去以后，小汽车往右拐，差一点儿撞了跟在卡车后面的自行车。
Dialogue 1
CYCLIST:
Hey! Look out! You nearly hit me!
MOTORIST:
I'm awfully sorry. I didn't see you. Actually I was watching the big truck. I was just turning right when I saw you.
DIALOGUE 2
后来开小汽车的人回到家里，把差一点撞车的事告诉了妻子。
MOTORIST:
And as I was waiting, there was this truck, and it was coming the other way. I was watching the truck. But there was this cyclist...
WIFE:
Where was the cyclist?
MOTORIST:
She was coming up behind the truck while I was waiting for it.
WIFE:
But you didn't see her.
MOTORIST:
NO.I wasn't looking .I was watching the truck. Then the truck went past. And as I was turning right, suddenly there was this cyclist.
PART II - Vcabulary
an accident [ ]事故
a cyclist [ ]骑自行车的人
a motorist [ ]开小汽车的人
a pushbike [ ]自行车
a car radio [ ]汽车里的收音机
traffic [ ]交通
a truck [ ]卡车
coming the other way [ ]从对面过来
come past [ ]从一旁经过
come up behind [ ]跟在后面过来
splash [ ]溅，泼
turn right [ ]向右拐
awfully [ ]非常
finally [ ]最后
nearly [ ]差一点儿，几乎
favourite [ ]喜爱的
PART III - The Lesson
THE PAST CONTINUOUS TENSE过去进行时
过去进行时可用于以下各种情况：
1、表示过去某一时刻正在进行的动作。
At 8 o'clock last night I WAS watchING TV.
This time last year he WAS visitING his mother.
At 3 o'clock yesterday we WERE doING AN EXAM.
通常可以这样提问：
What were you doing + 以this time 引导的来表示过去的时间状语。
What were you doing this time:
last year?/last night?/last month?/last week?/last Sunday?/yeaterday?
2、表示过去某件事突然发生时正在进行的动作。突然发生的事用简单过去时。这样两个分句通常用when连接起来。
I was walking to work WHEN I met him.
Barbara was talking to John WHEN Wang arrived.
通常可以这样提问：
What were you doing when...?
例如警察进行调查，他就可以这样问：
What were you doing when you saw him?
What were you dong when the fire engine arrived?
3、表示过去同时进行的两个动作。这样两个分句可以用while或as 连接起来。
I was watching TV WHILE she was chatting on the phone.
As I was waiting, a truck was coming the other way.
4、表示过去在一段时间内进行的动作。
Where were you working last year?
.I was working in Melbourne.
What was your brother doing yesterday morning?
.He was digging in the garden.
CONVERSATIONAL DEVICES
a)This 在英语口语里，特别是在生动地叙述一件事情的时候，在通常用a的地方不用a , 而用this.例如：
i)I was looking the other way, you know ,when this bus came past and whosh!
ii)I can't come .I've got this cold.
b)Hey [ ]用来引起某人的注意，相当于汉语里的“喂”。
c)Whoosh [ ]用来描写水溅起来的声音。
PRONUNCIATION CORNER
请注意，was 和were 在过去进行时里通常是不重读的。例如：
What were you doing at five o'clock?
-I was waiting.