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Learning the use of English phrasal verbs 學習英文片語的運用 T： Thomas   M：Mark   M： Hello Thomas! I am so happy to bump into you again for the second time today! Just the right time and right place.   T: Hi Mark! It’s good to see you again, but why is it the right time and right place?   M: Because I’ve got a difficult text to summarise, and I must get it done soon. Can you help me?   T: Sure. Let me go over it.   M: How do you mean “go over”?   T: Please read through it first, instead of passing over it. That’s what I said   M: Oh, I see.   T: Should I go for it now?   M: You just said, “Go for it” ! What does that mean then?   T: Going for it means choosing to do that. OK. Let me go ahead with it and then get back to you right away.   M: Now, I can see that you are playing with phrasal verbs.   T: You are quite observant, Mark! Right. I said all that deliberately to make you get into the task. Now, you have a go at it yourself. And then I’ll tell you afterwards where you went wrong. OK?   M: Thanks. I’ll go through it now (nodding and smiling).   M: 你好Thomas！很高興今天第二次踫見你！真的是恰當的時間和地點。   T: 嗨Mark！再次見到你真好，不過，為甚麼你說是在恰當的時間和對的地方？   M: 因為我有一篇很難深的文章要做撮寫，我必須盡快完成。你能幫忙嗎？   T: 當然可以。讓我仔細看一看（go over）。   M: 你所指的「go over」是甚麼意思？   T: 請你先仔細閱讀（read through ） ， 而不是略讀（passing over）。這就是我的意思。   M: 噢，原來是這樣。   T: 現在我可以開始去做嗎﹖   M: 你剛才說「go for it」，它又是甚麼意思﹖   T: 「Go for it」意思是選擇這樣做。好吧，讓我繼續（go ahead）吧，然後馬上回答你。   M: 現在，我開始明白了，你正在玩英文短語文遊戲，對不對﹖   T: Mark，你的觀察力很好！對的。我故意說那些短語，是為了讓你理解文章的要旨。現在，你可以自己動手嘗試。之後我會告訴你哪裡出錯了。好嗎？   M: 謝謝。我現在將仔細再看看（點頭微笑）。  

There is a big drama at Daisy’s school at the end of each school year, many parents buy tickets to support that. It has always been a spectacular（壯觀）show every year. Daisy’s mom causally（隨便地）asked Daisy how come she never participated（參與）in the big event. Daisy got annoyed（生氣）with the questions, thinking that moms only want to have pride （自豪）from what their kids do.  Daisy’s mom grabbed（抓住）the opportunity to convince（說服） Daisy only that if she tried, she would know whether she liked drama or not. She further asked D a i s y t o s t a t e（ 說明）h e r reasons for not willing（願意）to join after all these years. Could it be too time consuming（花時間）? Or did she get rejected（拒絕）by the school? Mom stated （列出）a few possibilities（可能性）. Daisy took some time to search（尋找）f o r h e r own concern（隱憂）which did not come out from the top of her head （不假思索地）. A f t e r some serious thinking, she then realized that it was a lack（缺乏）of peer （朋輩）support. None of Daisy’s friends were involved in drama all along. No one ever asked her to sign up, and she has been passive（被動）in taking the initiative（採取主動）. Looking into her mom’s eyes, Daisy knew her mom wanted her to try this year.  What would you do if you were Daisy?  Joining the drama team is for fun. If my good friends were not doing so, the whole idea would not be fun and why then should I go for it? I’d do something else with my peer group.  Though my friends were not joining the drama team, I’d go and try it out to see if I’d like it or not. I might make new friends there. More importantly, I’d have done something which my mother encouraged（鼓勵）me to, and I could always back out（退出）if it was not really to my liking.