我从Arnold Lobel的小故事"Cookies"找到灵感,写下这段对话.感觉挺有意义的.
Will power意志力
Mike(M) Danny(C), Tommy(T)---classmates
Scene----in the college dorm
Danny is playing a computer game on his laptop. Tommy is sleeping.
Mike came back from a morning jogging.
M: hi, Dan, what are u doing?
D: I am playing war craft.
M: Where is Tommy?
D: Shiiiii!
M:What? What's the matter?
D: Don't u see? He is still sleeping.
M: My goodness! I can't believe this! It’s almost nine. He got to get up now. Don't u remember we are required to make up a three people dialogue for tomorrow's oral class?
D: Yes, I do. You wake up Tommy and I will play one more round of war craft.
M: You'd better stop playing right now. We don't have much time to prepare this dialogue. Tommy! Tommy! Wake up! Time to wake up!
T:five more minutes, please.
Mike: No way, Jose. Time really flies.We still have a lot to do. Hurry up.
T: (Tommy sits up in his bed) Can I lie down two more minutes, please, just two more minutes? when Danny finishes his game, I will be fine.(Yawns) I don't know why I am so so sleepy. (Tommy lies down again.)
M: Guys!!! I am really angry now. Time waits for nobody. If you two don't stop what you are doing now, I will find somebody else to be my partners.
D and T: all right. All right. We listen to u.
M: That's more like it. We need will power.
D and T: what is will power?
M: Will power is trying hard not to do something that you really want to do.
D: You mean like trying not to play war craft?
Mike: right.
T: you mean like trying not to stay up late?
M: right.
Danny turns off his computer. Tommy gets up and goes to the bathroom.
Two minutes later the three maskeetters are working on their assignment.
Danny: Mike, can I take a little break? Let me play one round and we will continue our work?
Tommy: Mike, Can I lie down a minute? My back hurts.
Mike: No! No! No! Let's finish our work first before we do anything. We need will power!!!
Danny and Tommy: that's true. We need will power! We listen to you.
The end
(1)
M: You want to see me about my grades, Ms. Lain.
W: Yes, sit down, Paul. Now some of your teachers have told me that you are not doing well with your studies. Is the work too difficult?
M: The work isn’t hard. It’s just that I don’t have much time to study these days. Besides being on the school soccer team, I’m also doing a part-time job and volunteering at the Students’ Center.
W: Well, Paul, you probably just have to manage your time better. Tell me about your schedule.
M: Well, I get up at about 8:00 and start classes at 9:00.
W: When do you volunteer at the Students Center?
M: From noon to one. I hardly even have time to eat my lunch.
W: And you have soccer practice after school?
M: Every day, I have soccer practice from three to four and then work part time at the supermarket from five to eight.
W: So you do your homework after that?
M: Usually I’m too tired to start right away. I watch TV for a while and do my homework from eleven to one.
W: One o’clock in the morning? Paul, you’d better stop playing soccer or stop working. Your school work is more important.
M: But I love soccer, Ms. Lain. I guess I have to quit my job.
(2)
W: Come on, you’d better eat up quickly, Kevin, it’s getting late.
M: I don’t want it!
W: Oh, go on, carrots are good for you.
M: I don’t like things that are good for me.
W: Well, you ought to and anyway they make you see in the dark.
M: No, they don’t. I can’t see in the dark.
W: You can if you eat more carrots.
M: You eat a lot of carrots, but can you see in the dark?
W: Of course, I can…What are you doing?
M: Turning off the light…there…I’ve eaten all my carrots!
W: I don’t believe you.
M: Well, can you see them? It’s dark now. Can you see in the dark?