课题讲解

Good morning, all my dear listener. Welcome to my class in the morning. I’m Juliet. A saying goes, “An hour in the morning is worth two hours in the evening.” So, I hope we can spend a wonderful and meaningful time here.

We have a somewhat rude and curt way of asking if someone understood something clearly. Guess what it is. Let’s listen to the following minisituational dialogueto get the answer.

(Scene:It happens between two good friends.)

A:Sara, why don’t you ever talk to me.

B:Because you are loser. I don’t like you. Get the message?

Have you got the answer? It is a short sentence——Get the message?It means “Do you understand what I said?” It’s similar to saying in Chinese——听懂什么话了吗？“Loser” in this dialogue means”who is defeated in a competition”. Do remember this phrase”talk to sb”. Here is an relative phrase——talk to sb about sth.

Let’s see another mini situational dialogue.

(Scene:It happens between two co-workers.)

A:Have you seen Jenna around the office recently?

B:Why do you ask it over and over. She had an accident and is in hospital. Get my message so far?

Here, “over and over” means “repeatedly, again and again”. “To have an accident” means “to overtake an unpleasant even that causes sb some damage, injury, and so on”.

If you ask someone a confused matter, he is kinda rude and curt, saying this word, “Get the message?” to you, you could say in this way to become psychologically balanced:Don’t you see it is your fault. You didn’t make yourself clear.

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课堂互动

Now please answer my questions, finishing listing to the following two dialogues.

Dialogue 1:

A:Sara, why don’t you ever talk to me.

B:Because you are loser. I don’t like you. Get the message?

Dialogue 2:

A:Have you seen Jenna around the office recently?

B:Why do you ask it over and over. She had an accident and is in hospital. Get my message so far?

Questions:

1. Why does Sara’s friend not ever talk to her?

2. Why does Jenna’s colleague not see her around the office recently?

3. Why does A say this word “Get my message?” to answer B’s question instead of other kind way?

Answers.

Answer 1: Because her friend think Sara is a loser and she does not like her.

Answer 2: Because Jenna had an accident and was in hospital.

Answer 3: Because B asked this question over and over, which made A get annoyed.

Today we have learned a short sentence used in spoken English. It is “Get the message?”

okay , all my dear listeners, let’s call it a day. This is Juliet. Thank you for your listening this time and see you next time.

课后功课

Please translate the following sentences into English.

1. 我知道是什么意思了。你被解雇了。

2. 我懂你的意思了。我不干了!

3. 无论如何努力，我就是不能让人听懂我的意思。

4. 你已经让学生知道这个讯息了吗?

参考答案

1. I get the message. You were fired.

2. I get the message. I'm quitting!

3. Try as I might, I just could not get across the message.

4. Did you get across the message to the students?