1. Personal Identification, People
I'm a teach/student/worker...
2. Home and Family, Environment
1)常用句式
Do you have any elder brothers?你有没有哥哥?
Where does your father work?你父亲在哪工作?
What's your father?你父亲是干什么的?
How many people are there in your family?请问，你家有几口人?
I have father, mother and a younger sister.我有父亲、母亲和妹妹。
Where do you live?你住哪儿?
I live in Bejing. I'm a middle school student.我家在北京，我是一名中学生。
Does your mother work, too?你母亲也工作吗?
She has already retired.她已退休了。
I'm a freshman in senior class.我是高一新生。
How's your grandpa?你爷爷(姥爷)好吗?
Is your elder sister maried?你姐姐结婚了吗?
He works in a bank.他在银行工作。
How old is your father?你父亲多大年纪了?
My parents have two children, my sister and me.我父母有两个孩子，我妹妹和我。
2)常用对话
My Mother and Father Are Older Than I
Teacher: Peter, do you have any brothers and sisters?
Peter: Yeah.
Teacher: Do you study English by yourself or in a class?
Peter: I study in a class. I don't study by myself.
Teacher: Do you prefer to go to the movies by yourself or with a friend?
Peter: I prefer to go to the movies with a friend. I don't like to go by myself.
Teacher: Do you live by yourself or with your family?
Peter: Of course with my family.
Teacher: Incidentally, Peter, are you the oldest person in your family?
Peter: No, my mother and father are older than I.
3. Weather and Climate
1)询问天气情况时常用的句式
How's the weather tomorrow?
明天的天气怎么样?
Is the weather always like this?
天气老是这样吗?
What does the weather forecast say?
天气预报怎么说的?
text 2
Declaration of Independence
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience has shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
—Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.
To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world