[00:02.25]Dialogue
[00:05.15]Language Function:
[00:07.63]Expressing Regrets for Being Unable to Attend a Meeting.
[00:13.24]A:There'll be a meeting after class tomorrow.Are you coming?
[00:20.24]B:After class tomorrow I'm afraid I can't.
[00:25.55]A:But it's quite important.It's about our helpint out Becky.
[00:31.43]B:Oh,but I have to take my grandma to the doctor's.
[00:36.02]A:Then we'll have the meeting without you,
[00:39.71]and I'll tell you about the meeting the day after tomorrow.
[00:44.90]B:Thank you.I'm really sorry to have to miss the meeting.
[00:49.82]regret/ri'gret/
[00:52.26]遺憾
[00:54.70]help out
[00:55.94]幫助克服困難
[00:57.18]terribly
[00:58.53]極;非常
[00:59.87]oblige
[01:01.17]迫使
[01:02.46]Listening comprehension
[01:05.85]A.Listen and choose an appropriate sentence for what you've heard.
[02:11.47]B.Listen and Circle A,B or C for each question to describe what you're heard.
[05:02.37]Text:A Stone's Throw
[05:06.68]A man who was bored with living in London
[05:13.89]and desired to move to the country
[05:17.99]was looking for a house
[05:21.46]from which he could get to his office in the city easily every day.
[05:29.74]One day he saw an advertisement for a suitable house in Hampshire
[05:37.76]which was claimed to be within a stone's throw of a railway station
[05:45.94]from which there were frequent trains to London.
[05:50.72]He telephoned the house agency
[05:57.22]and arranged to go down by train the next day
[06:03.13]and have a look at the house.
[06:07.12]The house agent met him at the station and they drove to the house,
[06:16.42]which was at least a kilometre from the station.
[06:22.12]The man who had come to see the house
[06:28.21]turned to the house agent when they reached it
[06:33.30]and objected,"I should be very interested to meet the man
[06:41.79]who threw that stone you mentioned in your advertisement! "
[06:47.98]New Words and Expressions
[06:52.97]stone
[06:54.82]石頭
[06:56.68]throw
[06:58.13]擲
[06:59.58]bore
[07:01.22]令人厭煩的
[07:02.87]desire
[07:04.27]渴望
[07:05.67]advertisement
[07:07.56]廣告
[07:09.45]suitable
[07:10.71]適合的
[07:11.96]Hampshire
[07:13.55]漢普郡
[07:15.15]claim/kleim/
[07:16.65]宣稱
[07:18.15]frequent
[07:19.55]時常的
[07:20.95]agency/
[07:22.20]代理處;代理
[07:23.45]arrange
[07:25.26]安排
[07:27.06]agent
[07:28.35]代理人
[07:29.65]object
[07:31.38]不贊成;反對