图解英语 · 第二本
108 What is this man doing? He is working with a spade. That is his work. What is this woman doing? She is working with her needle. That is her work. What is this man doing? He is making shoes. He is a shoemaker. That is his work. These are shoes. These are boots. He makes boots and shoes. That is his work.
109 What is this man doing? He is putting paint on the door. He is painting the door. He is a painter. That is his work. This is his paint. This is his brush. He puts the paint on with his paint brush. This is addition. The boy is doing addition. That is his work. This is a bank. This is a check.
110 We keep money in banks. Banking is an important sort of business. Men and women in banks and business houses keep accounts. This is an account. Keeping accounts is an important part of business. Keeping accounts is one sort of work. These are account books. Farming is another sort of work. This is a farm.
111 This is a cart. This is a plow. The plow is turning up the earth. This is a field. The farmer is plowing the field. That is part of his work as a farmer. The farmer has an account with his bank. He puts his money in the bank. He keeps money in the bank. He gets money from the bank. The account says how much money he has in the bank. Farming and keeping accounts are two different sorts of work.
112 What sort of work is this man doing? He is cutting wood. What sort of work is this woman doing? She is washing stockings and dresses. What sort of work does this man do? He keeps a store. It is a fruit store. He is a storekeeper. What sort of work does this woman do? She keeps a house. It is her house. She is a housekeeper.
113 Put your fingers across one another like this. I have my first and second fingers across one another. Across? These two lines go across one another. My second finger is over and across my first finger. These are finger nails. Did you put your fingers across one another? That is right. You have your fingers across one another. Now take a pencil and give a touch to one finger, and then a touch to the other and then put the pencil between them. Do this with your eyes shut.
