Home and Family
Dialogue1
• Wang Fan shows a photo of her family to Dianna.
• Dianna: How many members are there in your family?
• Wang: There are five. Look at the photo. The old couple sitting in the middle (分詞作定語)are my parents.
• Dianna: Oh, your parents! They smile so happily.
• Wang: You're right. My mother was an English teacher in a middle school, and my father was a doctor. Now both of them are retired from （be retired from退休）work.
• Dianna: Your fluent（流利的） English must be inherited from （ 從……繼承、遺傳）your mother, I think.
• Wang: Maybe. When I was a little, she liked to teach me English.
• Dianna: A wise （明智的）mother! Who is the man on the left?
• Wang: He's my elder brother（哥哥）.（Siblings: sisters and brothers, elder/younger brother, elder /younger sister）
• Dianna: He looks so handsome and energetic（energy-energetic充滿活力的）. What is he doing now?
• Wang: He works in a big company in Shanghai as a manager.
• Dianna: Who is the girl on the right? Is that you?
• Wang: No, that's my younger sister. She is studying in Los Angeles.
• Dianna: So he girl next to （在…近旁）her must be you.
• Wang: Yes, you're right.
• Dianna: You are still lovely as you were.
• Wang: Thank you, by the way （ 順便一提）, I'd like to see my parents this weekend. Would you like to go with me? My mother is preparing my favorite dishes （盤子引伸為菜）. Have a taste, OK?
• Dianna: Oh, I'd love to. I'll be glad to meet your parents. It seems you really have a happy family.
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