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May: Do you know how happy I am? The Ant Kingdom is a perfect world with colorful fairy tales. It seems like the air is fresh here.

Daniel: Just kids like that.

May: Come on baby, stop trying to pretend like a man. If you go there, you are sure to like them.

Daniel: Hurry up! Hurry up! What lovely caterpillars are over there!

May: I said you are sure to like them. There is the Grand Parade Of Ants Carnival in a few minutes in the square. You will experience a dream of fantasy.

Daniel: What’s that?

May: All kinds of insects dress themselves up. They drive straight their own Flower Cars along the Parade Avenue of Ants Kingdom.

Daniel: That’s splendid. Can you take three pictures of me with them?

May: I thought you had grown out of such child practice.

Daniel: Cut it out. Look at my smile, and it seems like the flowers in the spring. Right?

May: Gross!

Daniel: Hurry up! The smile is frozen on my face.

聽看學

阿美：你知道我有多開心嗎?螞蟻王國是一個充滿著多姿多彩童話的完美世界。連這里的空氣都似乎新鮮了許多。

丹尼爾：只有小孩子才喜歡這種地方。

阿美：得了吧，小朋友，別老是裝大人了。如果你到了那里，你一定會喜歡的。

丹尼爾：快點!快點!看那邊的毛毛蟲多可愛啊!

阿美：我就說你一定會喜歡它們吧。幾分鐘后在廣場中會有螞蟻狂歡大游行!你將會經歷一個夢幻之旅。

丹尼爾：那是什么?

阿美：所以“昆蟲”都盛裝打扮起來。他們將架著自己的花車在螞蟻王國的游行道徑直地行進。

丹尼爾：太棒了!能幫我和它們拍三張照片嗎?

阿美：我還以為你已經玩膩了這種小孩子的游戲了呢。

丹尼爾：打住。看我笑得就跟春天里的花朵一樣。是不是呀?

阿美：惡心!

丹尼爾：快點!我的笑容都僵了。

經典背誦 Recitation

May: I like going to the Amusement Park very much. The Ant Kingdom is a perfect place with colorful fairy tales and I love it. But Daniel says only kids like that. But he is a kid himself too. Anyway each time we go there together we can experience a dream of fantasies.

生詞小結

ant n. 螞蟻

kingdom n. 王國

colorful adj. 多姿多彩的

pretend vt. 假裝

caterpillar n. 毛毛蟲

parade n. 游行

carnival n. 嘉年華會，狂歡會

fantasy n. 幻想

avenue n. 大道

splendid adj. 極好的

注釋

I thought you had grown out of such child practice. 我還以為你已經玩膩了這種小孩子的游戲了呢。其中grow out of 是指“因長大而不再做”。thought 用過去式表達的是“我過去以為你已經不再喜歡小孩子的游戲，可是現在卻不這樣認為了。”

Cut it out. 別提了，打住。

Dress … up 為……打扮

語音小結 Pronunciation

輔音(二)3組8個組合音

發音小貼士：

(1)第一個字母發得很快，很快過渡到下兩個音節。

(2)切忌在三個音節中加入元音

1. /spr/ 與 /skw/ ：spring spread square squash

對比練習 /spr/與/skw/ spring and square spread and squeeze spray and squash

2. /str/, /skr/ 與 /spl/ ：straight street screen splendid

對比練習 /str/, /skr/ 與/spl/ straight and scream and split street and screen and splendid strong and script and split

3. /fl/, /fr/ 與/r/ ：flower fresh three throw

對比練習 /fl/, /fr/ 與 /r/ flee and free and three fly and fry and thread flog and frog and throw