W: Good morning, Frank
M: Good 1, Cindy.
W: How 2you?
M: Fine, thank you. 3are you?
W: 4 OK, thanks.
W: What's this?
M: 5U.
Hi! I'm Grace. Look! This is my schoolbag. It's black and red. My pens, my ruler and my books are in it. My pens are blue. My ruler is yellow and white. My books are purple and brown. Look! What's this? It's a map. It's red, blue, yellow and green. I like them very much.
Every people have its own way of saying things, its own special expressions. Many everyday American expressions are based on colors.
Red is a hot color. Americans often use it to express heat. They may say they are red hot about something unfair. When they are red hot they are very angry about something. The small hot tasting peppers found in many Mexican foods are called red hots for their color and their fiery taste. Fast loud music is popular with many people. They may say the music is red hot, especially the kind called Dixieland jazz.
Pink is a lighter kind of red. People sometimes say they are in the pink when they are in good health. The expression was first used in America at the beginning of the twentieth century. It probably comes from the fact that many babies are born with a nice pink color that shows that they are in good health.
Blue is a cool color. The traditional blues music in the United States is the opposite of red hot music. Blues is slow, sad and soulful. Duke Ellington and his orchestra recorded a famous song - Mood Indigo -about the deep blue color, indigo. In the words of the song: "You ain't been blue till you've had that Mood Indigo. " Someone who is blue is very sad.
The color green is natural for trees and grass. But it is an unnatural color for humans. A person who has a sick feeling stomach may say she feels a little green. A passenger on a boat is feeling very sick from high waves may look very green.
Sometimes a person may be upset because he does not have something as nice as a friend has, like a fast new car. That person may say he is green with envy. Some people are green with envy because a friend has more dollars or greenbacks. Dollars are called greenbacks because that is the color of the back side of the paper money.
The color black is used often in expressions. People describe a day in which everything goes wrong as a black day. The date of a major tragedy is remembered as a black day. A blacklist is illegal now. But at one time, some businesses refused to employ people who were on a blacklist for belonging to unpopular organizations.
First name: Jim
Last name: Miller
Age(年龄): 16
Telephone number: 997-5321
First name: Gina
Last name: Smith
Age(年龄): 15
Telephone number: 337-0126
My name is Martin, and I am in London. I like to be busy after school. I can always find some interesting things to do.
I come to a new school this term. This school has many clubs and I want to join some clubs. I really like music. I can play the guitar and I can play it well. So I want to join the music club. I want to play at the school party one day. I'm also good at drawing pictures. Art is my favorite subject. So the art club is fine for me, too. Many people like Picasso's pictures, but I don't like them, because they are very strange (奇怪的). I speak English and I can't speak any foreign languages (外语), so I also want to join the Chinese club.
A: Hi, Mike. Nice to meet you.
B:
A: Mike, do you like sports?
B:
A: Good.
B: That sounds great. Do you have a basketball?
A: Yes, I do.
B: Great!
A: It's in my schoolbag. Here it is.
B: OK. Let's go.
A. Yes, I do.
B. Where is it?
C. Let's play basketball.
D. What sport do you like?
E. Hi! Nice to meet you, too.
F. But I don't have a basketball.
