FurtherReadingPROJECTHOPE.ppt

Work with your partner to talk about one of your “first time” experiences. What was it? Did anything different happened to you after that experience? 3) to be in a better position because of something 4) to join in; to take part in 5) to use all of something so that there is nothing left 1. Have you participated in sporting events in which players compete in lifting pumpkins and spinning tops? 你曾经参加过诸如比赛举南瓜、抽陀螺的体育竞技比赛吗？ 2. Well, you can find such events featured as part of the rural fun at the first National Hope Primary School Games. 你能够在第一届“全国小学生运动会”上找到这些极具乡村趣味性的运动项目。 本句中应用到find的复合结构“find+宾语+过去分词”过去分词中的动词和前面的宾语有逻辑上的动宾关系。feature在文中作动词，表示“以……为特色”。 Most of them took the train for the first time, walked on city sidewalks and streets for the first time, and visit the Great Wall and Tian’anmen Square for the very first time. 他们当中的大部分人还是第一次坐火车，第一次走在城市的人行道和大街上，第一次登上长城，第一次参观天安门。 4. Over the past 15 years, the China Youth Development Foundation, the sponsor of Project Hope, has not only given many children many new experiences, but has also changed their destiny forever. 在过去的15年间，作为希望工程的赞助单位，中国青少年基金会不仅带给许多儿童诸多“第一次”的人生经历，同时也永远的改变了他们的命运。 文中的the sponsor of Project Hope作the China Youth Development Foundation的 同位语。 (1) sponsor n. 赞助者；主办者 e.g. Who is the sponsor of the meeting?  谁是本次大会的发起人? vt. 赞助；主办 e.g. The bank had offered to sponsor him at university. 这家银行主动提出赞助他上大学。 (2) destiny n. 命运 e.g. No man can escape his destiny. 没人能逃脱他的命运。 Can you be master of your destiny? 你能掌握自己的命运吗? 5. Born in a poor family of the Tibetan minority in Sichuan, Rang Ying said she had to drop out of school twice because of poverty. 让英出生于四川省一户贫困的藏族人家。她说她曾两次因为贫困辍学。 (1) Born in a poor…在句中充当原因状 语，分句的主语是Rang Ying。 v-ing形式和动词的过去分词可以在句中 充当原因、时间、条件、让步和方式状 语。 1) Hearing the news, we all felt excited. 2) Having finished his homework, he went out to play football. 3) Given more