First listen and then answer the question. 聽錄音，然後，回答以下問題：
What was the good news?
聽三遍錄音，然後對照附文再聽一遍，尤其是剛才沒有聽懂的句子，要特別留意。
{附文與提示}
lesson 15 Good news （佳音）
The secretary told me that Mr. Harmsworth would see me.
（秘書告訴我說 Harmsworth 要見我。故事發生的背景和人物一開始就交代）
I felt very nervous when I went into his office.
（我走進他的辦公室，感到非常的緊張。）
He did not look up from his desk when I entered.
（等我進去的時候，他連頭都沒有抬。）
After I had sat down, he said that business was very bad.
（等我坐下以後，他說生意很不景氣。）
He told me that the firm could not afford to pay such large salaries. Twenty people had already left.
（他告訴我，公司支付不起這麼龐大的薪水開支。有20個人已經離開了。）
I knew that my turn had come.
（我知道現在該輪到我了。）
“Mr.Harmsworth,” I said in a weak voice.
（“Harmsworth 先生，” 我無力地說。）
“Don't interrupt,” he said.
（“不要打斷我的話，” 他說道。）
Then he smiled and told me I would receive an extra thousand pounds a year!
（然後他微信一下，並告訴我說，我每年將得到1000英鎊的額外收入。）
把自己當作“我”，當你聽到公司老闆要見你，你的心情，到辦公室的前景；老闆這麼說，結果是什麼，這樣，很容易就把課文的內容記熟了。
{語法}
He said that... He told me that... 間接引語
間接引語中，通常時態要 “往回移”。 現在時變成過去時；過去時變成過去完成時。
例：“I broke that plate," he said. (他說：“我把那個盤子打破了”）
He said that he broke that plate.（他說他打破了那個盤子）
He said that he had broken that plate (他說過他打破了那個盤子）
He told me that he had broken that plate.(他告訴我他打破了那個盤子）
比較以上四個句子的時態變化和句子表達意思。
閱讀更多 霏霏桃子姐 的文章
