BOOK ONE · LESSON 068

What's the time?

几点钟？

A bilingual lesson built around 12 numbered clocks and 10 dated place illustrations (church, school, the office, the butcher's, the hairdresser's, the baker's, the dairy, home, the grocer's, the greengrocer's) that practise the 'Where were you on ...?' and 'When were you at ...?' structures. Includes workbook day-of-week ordering, was/wasn't fill-ins, at-the prepositions, and open-ended personal answers, plus grammar on where-/when-questions with was/were. 以12幅编号时钟和10幅带日期的地点插图为主的双语课，练习「……你在什么地方？」和「你什么时候在……？」句型。配合教材星期排序、was/wasn't 填空、at the 介词练习和自答练习，以及 where/when 问句和 was/were 的语法练习。

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Lesson 课文

Listen and answer the questions.
听录音并回答问题。

Where were you on ...? ……你在什么地方？
When were you at ...? 你什么时候在……？

Listen and answer the questions. Where were you on ...? When were you at ...?

1st 1 o'clock
2nd 1 o'clock
3rd 1 o'clock
4th 1:15
5th 1:30
6th 1:45
7th 1:30
8th 1:35
9th 1:40
10th 1:45
11th 1:50
12th 1:55

第1幅 1点
第2幅 1点
第3幅 1点
第4幅 1点15分
第5幅 1点30分
第6幅 1点45分
第7幅 1点30分
第8幅 1点35分
第9幅 1点40分
第10幅 1点45分
第11幅 1点50分
第12幅 1点55分

A church interior with arched windows; a priest in a vestment stands at the altar, and two children holding hands walk past. Caption: 'Sunday, January 1st / church'. — picture-church

Sunday, January 1st — church

1月1日星期日——教堂

Monday, February 2nd — school

2月2日星期一——学校

Tuesday, March 3rd — the office

3月3日星期二——办公室

Wednesday, April 4th — the butcher's

4月4日星期三——肉铺

Thursday, May 5th — the hairdresser's

5月5日星期四——理发店

Friday, June 6th — the baker's

6月6日星期五——面包店

Saturday, July 7th — the dairy

7月7日星期六——乳品店

Sunday, August 8th — home

8月8日星期日——家

A shop with shelves of sugar, tea, jam and bacon; a shopkeeper with a moustache stands behind the counter facing a customer. Caption: 'Monday, September 9th / the grocer's'. — picture-grocer

Monday, September 9th — the grocer's

9月9日星期一——杂货店

Tuesday, October 10th — the greengrocer's

10月10日星期二——蔬菜水果店

New words & expressions 生词和短语

church /tʃɜːtʃ/: n. 教堂
dairy /ˈdeəri/: n. 乳品店
baker /ˈbeɪkə/: n. 面包师傅
grocer /ˈɡrəʊsə/: n. 食品杂货商

Written exercise A Complete these sentences using the where necessary.

Complete these sentences using the where necessary. 完成以下句子，必要时填上定冠词 the。

Complete each sentence, adding 'the' where necessary.

No official key is supplied; answers are constructed from standard English usage (the + place names that take the definite article) and labelled suggested. Blank for 'the' is filled with 'the', blank with no article is filled with '—'.

1I was at ______ church on Sunday.

2I was at ______ office on Monday.

3My son was at ______ school on Tuesday.

4My wife was at ______ butcher's on Wednesday.

5She was at ______ grocer's on Thursday.

6My daughter was in ______ country on Friday.

7I was at ______ home on Saturday.

Written exercise B Write questions and answers using he/she and at/on.

Write questions and answers using he/she and at/on. 模仿例句提问并回答。

Write a question and a full answer for each set of cues, following the printed example.

The printed example (he/church/Sunday → When was he at church? He was at church on Sunday.) is not editable. Items 1-6 follow the same pattern; the question and answer are each one field. No official key is supplied; answers are constructed from the printed example and labelled suggested.

Examplehe/church/Sunday

When was he at church? He was at church on Sunday.

1Tom/the hairdresser's/Thursday

2Mrs. Jones/the butcher's/Wednesday

3he/home/Sunday

4Penny/the baker's/Friday

5Mrs. Williams/the grocer's/Monday

6Nicola/the office/Tuesday

MAKE IT YOUR OWN

Practice 练习

A The days of the week

These are the days of the week. Write them in the correct order. 按照正确的顺序写出一周中的 7 天。

Write the seven days of the week in the correct order, starting on Monday.

The printed word bank is: Wednesday Friday Monday Tuesday Saturday Thursday Sunday. The printed example shows 'Sunday' circled as one of the days. The key lists the seven days in order starting on Monday.

1Write the seven days of the week in the correct order (starting on Monday).

B Structure

Fill in was, wasn't or were in these sentences. 用 was, wasn't 或 were 填空。

Fill in the correct form (was, wasn't or were) in each blank.

The workbook key does not cover this exercise in a directly usable form; the answers are constructed from standard English usage and the sentence context and labelled suggested.

1______ you at church on Sunday? – No, I ______. I was at home.

2Where was your Dad on Friday? – He ______ at the office.

3I ______ in the country at the weekend. I was at home.

4Where ______ you on Wednesday? – I wasn't at the baker's. I ______ at the butcher's.

5My sister ______ at school on Tuesday. She was at home.

C At or at the

What do we say in English – at or at the? Write in at or at the. 用 at 或 at the 填空。

Fill in each blank with 'at' or 'at the'.

The key lists 12 items (1 at the, 2 at, 3 at the, 4 at the, 5 at, 6 at the, 7 at the, 8 at the, 9 at the, 10 at the, 11 at, 12 at the). The printed exercise shows 11 blanks (items 2-12 in the key's numbering); item 1 of the key is not part of the printed exercise and is not editable here.

1office ______

2school ______

3hairdresser's ______

4stationer's ______

5home ______

6dairy ______

7grocer's ______

8butcher's ______

9baker's ______

10church ______

11weekend ______

D About you

Answer these questions with short answers or full sentences. 用简短形式或完整句子回答以下问题。

Answer each question with a short answer or a full sentence about yourself.

Personal-answer questions; no official key is supplied. The supplied key offers one possible model answer for each item; the full set of possible answers is open-ended.

1Were you absent from school last week?

2Where were you on Sunday?

3Were you at the hairdresser's on Saturday?

BUILD YOUR FOUNDATION

Grammar 语法练习

I. Answer the questions, using the cues given according to the example. 仿照例句用所给的词回答下列问题。

Answer the questions, using the cues given according to the example. 仿照例句用所给的词回答下列问题。

Answer each where-were question using the given place, following the example.

Item 1 is a printed example and is not editable.

1Where were you at one o'clock on April 5th? (at school)

I was at school.

2Where was Emma at four o'clock on December 15th? (in her office)

3Where were you at the weekend? (in the country)

4Where was Sam on Monday? (in hospital)

5Where was our teacher on Thursday? (in Beijing)

6Where was Mary at noon on November 9th? (at the hairdresser's)

7Where was the old woman on Sunday morning? (at church)

8Where was our dog on Wednesday? (at home)

II. Answer the questions, using the cues given according to the example. 仿照例句用所给的词回答下列问题。

Answer the questions, using the cues given according to the example. 仿照例句用所给的词回答下列问题。

Answer each when-were question using the given time, following the example.

Item 1 is a printed example and is not editable.

1When were you at the dairy? (on Saturday)

I was at the dairy on Saturday.

2When was Tom at the baker's? (at about five)

3When was my brother at the grocer's? (at about ten)

4When were you at home? (on Tuesday)

5When was Jane at the stationer's? (at about four)

6When was she at the butcher's? (at eleven)

7When was the policewoman at the office? (on Wednesday)

8When were you at the greengrocer's? (at nine)

BACK TO THE BOOK

Original sources 原始资料

Open the original pages to compare your work. 点击链接查看原文。

A little practice, every day. 每天一点，慢慢积累。