2018-11-13, starting at 2018-10-08
新概念英语第二册 Lesson 37
练习材料（每天自己打写一遍熟悉文章）：
Lesson thirty-seven, The Olympic Games. First listen and then answer the question: when was the last time this country hosts the Olympic Games?
[ˈlɛsən] [ˈθɜrdi]-[ˈsɛvən], [ði] [oʊˈlɪmpɪk] [geɪmz]. [fɜrst] [ˈlɪsən] [ənd] [ðɛn] [ˈænsər] [ðə] [ˈkwɛsʧən]: [wɛn] [wəz] [ðə] [læst] [taɪm] [ðɪs] [ˈkʌntri] [hoʊsts] [ði] [oʊˈlɪmpɪk] [geɪmz]?
The Olympic Games will be held in our country in four years' time. As a great many people will be visiting the country, the government will be building new hotels, an immense stadium, and a new Olympic-standard swimming pool. "They will also be building new roads and a special railway-line. The Games will be held just outside the capital and the whole area will be caleed "Olympic City". Workers will have completed the new roads by the end of this year. By the end of next year, they will have finished work on the new stadium. The fantastic modern buildings have been designed by Kurt Gunter. Everybody will be watching anxiously as the new buildings go up. We are all very excited and are looking forward to the Olympic Games because they have never been held before in this country.
[ði] [oʊˈlɪmpɪk] [geɪmz] [wɪl] [bi] [hɛld] [ɪn] [ˈaʊər] [ˈkʌntri] [ɪn] [fɔr] [jɪrz] [taɪm]. [əz] [ə] [greɪt] [ˈmɛni] [ˈpipəl] [wɪl] [bi] [ˈvɪzətɪŋ] [ðə] [ˈkʌntri], [ðə] [ˈgʌvərmənt] [wɪl] [bi] [ˈbɪldɪŋ] [nu] [hoʊˈtɛlz], [ən] [ɪˈmɛns] [ˈsteɪdiəm], [ənd] [ə] [nu] [oʊˈlɪmpɪk]-[ˈstændərd] [ˈswɪmɪŋ] [pul]. "[ðeɪ] [wɪl] [ˈɔlsoʊ] [bi] [ˈbɪldɪŋ] [nu] [roʊdz] [ənd] [ə] [ˈspɛʃəl] [ˈreɪlˌweɪ]-[laɪn]. [ðə] [geɪmz] [wɪl] [bi] [hɛld] [ʤəst] [ˈaʊtˈsaɪd] [ðə] [ˈkæpətəl] [ənd] [ðə] [hoʊl] [ˈɛriə] [wɪl] [bi] [keɪld] "[oʊˈlɪmpɪk] [ˈsɪti]". [ˈwɜrkərz] [wɪl] [həv] [kəmˈplitəd] [ðə] [nu] [roʊdz] [baɪ] [ði] [ɛnd] [əv] [ðɪs] [jɪr]. [baɪ] [ði] [ɛnd] [əv] [nɛkst] [jɪr], [ðeɪ] [wɪl] [həv] [ˈfɪnɪʃt] [wɜrk] [ɑn] [ðə] [nu] [ˈsteɪdiəm]. [ðə] [fænˈtæstɪk] [ˈmɑdərn] [ˈbɪldɪŋz] [həv] [bɪn] [dɪˈzaɪnd] [baɪ] [kɜrt] [ˈgʌntər]. [ˈɛvriˌbɑdi] [wɪl] [bi] [ˈwɑʧɪŋ] [ˈæŋkʃəsli] [əz] [ðə] [nu] [ˈbɪldɪŋz] [goʊ] [ʌp]. [wi] [ər] [ɔl] [ˈvɛri] [ɪkˈsaɪtəd] [ənd] [ər] [ˈlʊkɪŋ] [ˈfɔrwərd] [tə] [ði] [oʊˈlɪmpɪk] [geɪmz] [bɪˈkəz] [ðeɪ] [həv] [ˈnɛvər] [bɪn] [hɛld] [bɪˈfɔr] [ɪn] [ðɪs] [ˈkʌntri].
任务配置：L0 + L3 + L4
知识笔记：
单词/词组：
- a great many people
- immense, "极大的, 无边的, 一望无际的"。eg: immense ocean; the universe is immense
- stadium, 露天体育场。复数形式：stadiums/ stadia
playground操场
sports field运动场, 体育场 sports 各种各样的运动
gymnasium n.健身房, 体育馆 体育
gym = gymnasium 体育 n.体育馆, 体操
- railway-line, "铁路线“
- Olympic City, “奥运城”
- Kurt Gunter，设计了2000年悉尼第27届奥运会的建筑。
另外普及一下，《新概念英语》是1997年由外语教学与研究出版社和培生教育出版中国有限公司联合出版的一套英语教材。出版时间：1997年10月1日。所以教材应该在96年就在筹划撰写，那么4年后也就是2000年举办奥运会就顺理成章了。
- go up, “上升”
- The Games (一般大型运动会用 “games” )
朗读重点：
- held [hɛld]
- have a meeting召开会议 / hold a meeting召开会议 / hold a party 召开宴会
- hold习惯用被动, 被动 : the meeting will be held
- stadium [ˈsteɪdiəm]
- immense [ɪˈmɛns]
Immense is like the previous pair in stressing size more than weight; where it refers to material masses, the word suggests something dramatically or surprisingly of large scale.
音标发音:
练习感悟：
Answer: Never, this is the first time to host the Olympic Games for this country.
Thoughts: 每日精进就是确认自己的朗读首先自己挑不出问题了（朗读+复述）。
没想到在held发音上卡住了，平时都是常用hold主动形式，忽略了hold的被动形式/过去时态的读法。
另外immense一词平时使用较少massive, enormous, hefty, huge, immense, ponderous, vast 这些近义词要注意区分。