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来自世界不同地方的六位学生在美国相遇。他们都是交换学生，到美国大学就读一个学期，学习英语，了解美国文化，同时修专业课程。英语“日常会话”
(Everyday
Conversations)系列围绕这六位学生在美国的经历展开。这套材料适于中级或中级以上英语水平的学生使用。
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在这个对话中一个学生
(Ajay)
向另一个学生(Lucía)解释他将欢庆的不同节日。
Ajay: How’s the
studying going, Lucía?
Lucía:
I can’t wait for
finals to be over! In another week, I’ll be flying back home. What
are you doing over the winter
break?
Ajay: Alan
invited Lee and me to stay with his
family. Home-cooked food
for three holiday meals!
Lucía: Three
holidays?
Ajay: Alan’s
dad is Jewish, and his mom is Christian, so they celebrate
both Hanukkah and
Christmas. And his mom is a professional chef, so
she goes all
out for both holiday meals.
Lucía: And
what’s the third holiday?
Ajay: New
Year’s Day. They have all their family over, and Alan’s mom cooks
again. Alan hasraved about his
mom’s cooking all semester, so Lee and I can’t wait.
Lucía: Holiday
meals cooked by a professional chef. I
want to hear all about it later. I’ve never had a traditional
Hanukkah meal.
Ajay: Neither
have I. I’m looking forward to it.
让我们来学习一些词语（也可阅读英文解释）：
How’s (something) going? （一切或某事）怎么样？这是向一个人询问某事进展如何或者泛泛问他/她近来生活怎样的说法。例如： 可以说How’s
the studying going? (学习进行得怎样？)。How’s it
going?也是一种比较随便的打招呼用语，意思相当于 How are
you?。
Can’t wait：等不及，迫不及待
A winter
break：寒假，通常包含一些冬季节假日，如元旦
Home-cooked or homemade food：自己家里做的饭/食品
Hanukkah or Chanukah： 持续八天的犹太教光明节，时间通常在11月下旬至12月下旬之间，纪念2000多年前耶路撒冷圣殿的重新献祭
Commemorate：纪念（过去的重要人物或事件）
To go all out：全力以赴
To rave：极力夸奖，狂热赞赏
A holiday
meal：节日传统餐，即只有在某一节日才会吃的菜肴，例如，美国许多家庭的感恩节传统餐包括蔓越桔酱，而它在一年其他时候很少见于餐桌。
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“日常会话”由美国国务院教育与文化事务局英语语言项目处（Office of English Language
Programs, Bureau of Educational and Cultural
Affairs）资深项目官员海蒂·豪兰（Heidi
Howland）编写。
Six students from around the world meet. What do they have in
common? They are all exchange students studying at a U.S.
university for a semester. Throughout the semester, they learn more
English, learn about U.S. culture, and learn more about their
fields of study. This series of Everyday
Conversations is about these six students and
their experiences during a semester at a university in the U.S.
These conversations are for intermediate-level English-language
learners or higher.
Audio:
https://share.america.gov/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/DEC-W3-D1.mp3?_=1
In this
conversation, a student (Ajay)
explains the different holidays he will celebrate with another
student (Lucía).
Ajay: How’s the
studying going, Lucía?
Lucía:
I can’t wait for
finals to be over! In another week, I’ll be flying back home. What
are you doing over the winter
break?
Ajay: Alan
invited Lee and me to stay with his
family. Home-cooked food
for three holiday meals!
Lucía: Three
holidays?
Ajay: Alan’s
dad is Jewish, and his mom is Christian, so they celebrate
both Hanukkah and
Christmas. And his mom is a professional chef, so
she goes all
out for both holiday meals.
Lucía: And
what’s the third holiday?
Ajay: New
Year’s Day. They have all their family over, and Alan’s mom cooks
again. Alan hasraved about his
mom’s cooking all semester, so Lee and I can’t wait.
Lucía: Holiday
meals cooked by a professional chef. I
want to hear all about it later. I’ve never had a traditional
Hanukkah meal.
Ajay: Neither
have I. I’m looking forward to it.
Now let’s review the vocabulary.
How’s (something) going? This
question is used to ask someone about his/her progress or about
life in general. For example, how’s the
studying
going means what’s the
progress of your studying. The general
question how’s it
going is informal and similar
to how are you.
Can’t wait means to be very
eager, anxious or impatient for something.
A winter
break is a period of vacation between
semesters of college or other schools that includes the winter
holidays, such as New Year’s Day.
Home-cooked or homemade food
means food prepared at home and not made in a factory, store,
etc.
Hanukkah or Chanukah is
an eight-day Jewish holiday, usually in late November or December,
that commemorates the
rededication of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem more than 2,000
years ago.
Commemorate means to do something
special to remind people of an important event or person from the
past.
To go all out means to put all of
your energy into what you are doing or to put a lot of effort into
doing something.
To rave about something is to
talk or write about something in an excited and enthusiastic
way.
A holiday
meal is special food prepared and eaten
for a certain holiday. Sometimes these foods are only made and
eaten during a certain holiday season. For example, for many
families in the U.S. on Thanksgiving, the holiday meal includes
cranberry sauce. This is not a food that many people eat at other
times of the year.
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English-language learners daily.
Everyday
Conversations are developed by the State Department’s Heidi
Howland, a senior program officer in the Office of English Language
Programs, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
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