Unit 26
Attending a wedding
海外生活/文化融入
Oversea life/Understanding culture
BRAIN STORM
Share your ideas with your teacher and try to make sentences.
Have you ever attended a wedding?
VOCABULARY
Repeat these sentences after your teacher.
1. ceremony (n.) 儀式
The wedding ceremony is taking so long.
婚禮花了很長時間。
2. bride (n.) 新娘
The bride looks so beautiful.
新娘看起來真漂亮。
3. stunning (adj.) 平臺
Both the groom and the bride looks stunning.
新郎和新娘看起來都很棒。
4. groom (n.) 融入
The groom is so handsome!
新郎好帥！
5. dashing (adj.) 帥氣逼人
You look so dashing today!
你今天看起來好帥！
6. bridesmaid (n.) 伴娘
I was bridesmaid to Cathy.
我當凱絲的女儐相。
7. off (adv.) 不對勁
Are you okay? You look a little off…
你還好嗎？ 你看起來有點…
8. hideous (adj.) 難看、恐怖
The criminal had committed hideous crimes.
這罪犯犯下了駭人聽聞的罪行。
Dialogue
Read the dialogue aloud with your teacher.
What a beautiful ceremony!
多美的結婚儀式啊！
It truly was. The bride looked stunning.
確實。 新娘看上去美極了。
The groom also looked very dashing. I can’t imagine a more perfect wedding than one on the beach like that.
新郎看上去也帥氣逼人。 再沒有比像這樣在沙灘上舉辦婚禮更完美的了。
True, but the bridesmaid dresses were a little off…
對，但是伴娘的禮服有點不對勁……
Weren’t they? Who thought of that hideous shade of green?
可不是嘛，誰出的主意讓她們穿這麼難看的綠色？
Well, they say “Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.”
呃，老話說結婚要”有舊，有新，有借，有藍”。
I sure hope those dresses weren’t the “something new”.
總之這些裙子不可能是”新”的。
Is the reception starting now?
婚宴現在開始了嗎？
Yeah, back over in the hotel. I just need to get my gift…I left it in my room.
是的，回酒店舉行。 我得去拿我的禮物…… 把它落在房間裡了。
Did you go through the bridal registry at Target?
你用新人在Target建的結婚禮物購買清單了嗎？
Yeah, got them a toaster-oven as requested.
對。 按他們的要求買了一個小烤箱。
I was going to get them the same, but during the bachelor party the groom said that he personally didn’t actually want any of that stuff so I got them some cool gadgets instead.
我本來也打算買小烤箱，但是在單身派對上新郎說他本人不是很想要那個，所以我買了個有趣的小玩意兒。
Oh, I never got the memo…
啊，怎麼沒人告訴我呀……
Let's Practice
Make it right.
A : ______.
B :It truly was.
1.What a beautiful ceremony!
2.Is the reception starting now?
A :Is the reception starting now?
B : ________.
1. Yeah, back over on the hotel.
2. Yeah, back over in the hotel.
What a beautiful ________!
1.ceremony
2.dashing
The bride looked _________.
1.hideous
2.stunning
A ____ is a woman who is about to get married or has just got married.
A.guide
B.bride
C.abide
D.groom
Have you seen this little handy____- it’s for separating egg yolks from whites.
A.fidget
B.handrail
C.budget
D.gadget
I can’t imagine a more perfect wedding _____ one on the beach like that.
A.with
B.over
C.than
D.of
DISCUSSION
Make a conversation with your teacher.
1.Imagine yourself being the bride or groom in your own wedding. What will be you wedding theme?
