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Mr. James Scott has a garage in Silburg and now he has just bought another garage in Pinhurst. Pinhurst is only five miles from Silburg, but Mr. Scott cannot get a telephone for his new garage, so he has just bought twelve pigeons. Yesterday, a pigeon carried the first massage from Pinhurst to Silburg. The bird covered the distance in three minutes. Up to now, Mr. Scott has sent a great many requests for spare parts and other urgent massages from one garage to the other. In this way, He has begun his own private "telephone" service.

Summary writing:

Mr. Scott has opened his second garage in Pinhurst, and his first garage is in Silburg, which is only five miles away from Pinhurst. Mr. Scott, however, cannot get a telephone for his new garage, instead he has just bought twelve pigoens. It takes them only three minutes to carry messages from one garage to the other.(they carry messages from one garage to the other in three minutes. )

Key strcutures:

现在完成时和过去式的讨论，略。

C

1, What did you buy yesterday?

2, Up till now, he has never lent me anything.

3, Have you burnt those old papers yet?

4, He fought in Flanders in the First World War.

5, They have already left.

6, When did you lose your umbrella?

7, Did you listen to the concert last night?

8, We have just won the match.

Special difficulties:

a

1, On the way from Athens to London, the plane stopped at Rome.

2, I cooked this in the way you showed me.

3, By the way, where is my coat?

4, Yes, in a/this way he has been very successful.

5, Children get in the way during the holidays.

b

1, There is a spare wheel in the back of the car.

2, I always go on excursions in my spare time.

3, "Have you any old clothes to spare?" he asked.

4, The guest slept in our spare room.

5, "Spare me!" begged the prisoner.

Sentence structure:

Pinhurst is only five miles from Silburg, but Mr. Scott cannot get a telephone for his new garage. He has just bought twelve pigoens.

以文中Mr. Scott的视角复述：

My name is James Scott. I have a garage in Silburg and has just bought another garage in Pilhurst, which is only five miles from Silburg. I has just bought twelve pigoens because I cannot get a telephone for my new garage. Yesterday, one of the pigeons carried the first massage from Pilhurst to Silburg. It covered the distance in just three minutes. Up till now, I have sent a great many requests for spare parts and other urgent massages from one garage to the other. In this way, I have begun my own private "telephone" service.

记录：难度☆ 2016年2月25日19:14:51

1，算是初步学习了现在完成时和过去式的区别，根据时间状语判断？文中说的“对现在的影响”简直是屁话。

2，学习了on the way, in the way, in a way, in this way, by the way的用法。然后burn的过去分词是burnt.

3，注意下课后习题第8题：

8 Mr. Scott has a garage in Silburg. His ____ garage is in Pilhurst.

1, another  2, other  3, else  4, different

4，spare作为动词和形容词的用法不熟悉，尤其是作为动词。

总体来说比较简单，虽然现在完成时和过去式确实比较容易搞混。不过现在文章还比较简单，还算OK。老头回来了，明天开始正式上班。