学习任务清单：描述图片的内容

Life is Too Short to Argue?

Transcript

• Box 1: Life is too short.

• Box 2: I need to Travel! Explore! Live!

• Box 3: Right after I win this message board argument.

Vocabulary

• message board (n. phrase) the same thing as an online discussion forum = A website where people leave messages and reply to each other.

Context

• This comic strip is making fun of the fact that some people in certain online communities care a lot about “winning” arguments. Winning arguments is apparently more important than enjoying life.

• Notice the contrast between the positive energy in box 2 and box 3. In box 2, the atmosphere is very positive (lots of white space, arms aiming at the sky, etc.) whereas in box 3, the sky takes only little room in the background and most of it is filled with grey and a pile of paper to indicate a lot of work.

Language Feature

• The use of fonts: notice that the font (= the shape of letters) used in box 2 is special: it has more curves, it’s larger, etc. These features are used to match the meaning associated to Traveling! Exploring! and Living!

学习任务：描述图片的内容

          Funny Breathtaking Picture!

Transcript

• Box 1: Life is too short.

• Box 2: I need to Travel! Explore! Live!

• Box 3: Right after I win this message board argument.

Vocabulary

• message board (n. phrase) the same thing as an online discussion forum = A website where people leave messages and reply to each other.

Context

• This comic strip is making fun of the fact that some people in certain online communities care a lot about “winning” arguments. Winning arguments is apparently more important than enjoying life.

• Notice the contrast between the positive energy in box 2 and box 3. In box 2, the atmosphere is very positive (lots of white space, arms aiming at the sky, etc.) whereas in box 3, the sky takes only little room in the background and most of it is filled with grey and a pile of paper to indicate a lot of work.

Language Feature

• The use of fonts: notice that the font (= the shape of letters) used in box 2 is special: it has more curves, it’s larger, etc. These features are used to match the meaning associated to Traveling! Exploring! and Living!

  
  

学习任务：描述图片内容

       First day of school

Transcript

• Box 1: Hurry up! Let’s get a first day of school pic before the bus comes.

• Box 1: What’s the point?

• Box 2: To document the beginning of a new year. A school year full of hope and promise. To capture the start of another journeytoward academic excellence!

• Box 3: and to let clients know my days are free again.

       Vocabulary

• Pic (n.): short and familiar term for picture

• What’s the point? (Phrase) same as asking “What is the use of it?”, but it indicates that the speaker thinks that it is pointless (that is is useless)

• Capture (v.) /ˈkæptʃər/Here, to record it.

• Journey (n.) /ˈdʒɜːni/when you travel from one place to another