有关食物的初中英语绘本（番薯原著英语小屁孩日记Cabin）
有关食物的初中英语绘本（番薯原著英语小屁孩日记Cabin）今天晚上应该会下雪，不如你去给邻居家的车道铲雪去吧。She said it’s supposed to snow tonight and I could go out and shovel our neighbors’ driveways tomorrow. If wanted to pay for my Net Kritterz “habbit” it was gonna have to come out of my own pocket. 那就是要自己去make money，去挣钱了。 妈妈还给到了具体的建议：
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到了12月，Greg继续玩Net Kritterz成瘾，并且升级到了要花钱买装备的地步了。
于是乎，妈妈给Greg的建议是：
If wanted to pay for my Net Kritterz “habbit” it was gonna have to come out of my own pocket.
那就是要自己去make money，去挣钱了。
妈妈还给到了具体的建议：
She said it’s supposed to snow tonight and I could go out and shovel our neighbors’ driveways tomorrow.
今天晚上应该会下雪，不如你去给邻居家的车道铲雪去吧。
be supposed to do/be something
这个短语的意思是：to be expected 被期待，应该……
本句中，妈妈说It is supposed to snow tonight. 就是说预计今天晚上会下雪。
我们来尝试造两个句子看看：（答案在后面）
1.这家餐馆应该做菜不错。
2.我星期二应该是要参加会议的吗？
答案
1. This restaurant is supposed to make excellent dishes.
2. Am I supposed to be at the meeting on Tuesday?
说到赚钱，Greg想到学校里每年都会句型三次的 fundraisers筹款活动。
My school has three fundraisers a year and I have to go from house to house begging people I hardly know to buy something from me.
fundraiser这个词我们会看到，是由 fund 和 raiser组成的。我们来看下这两部分。
fund
A fund is an amount of money that is collected or saved for a particular purpose.
这里指为了某些目的募集或积攒的资金。
比如下面的表达你知道是什么意思吗？
...a pension fund.
养老金
...a scholarship fund for undergraduate students
本科生的奖学金
当我们说“筹款”，这个动名词短语时，我们可以说 raise funds 那么fundraiser是什么意思呢？
回到文本里，我们来猜一下？
“My school has three fundraisers a year.”
这里的fundraiser指的是人还是事件呢？
你应该猜对了吧，尤其是你看到后面，Greg会讲到具体的事例，他们都是筹款事件。所以这里的fundraiser的意思是筹款活动。
在字典中，这个词有两个意思，一个是：
an event which is intended to raise money for a particular purpose 为特定目的的筹款活动
另外一个解释是：
someone who works to raise money for a particular purpose for example for a charity.
为特定目的进行募捐的人，比如慈善机构
回过头来，Greg said there were three fundraisers in school so what are they? Let’s have a look together!
The first fundraiserI have to go from house to house begging people I hardly know to buy something from me.
第一个就是买东西了，那What does Greg feel about it? Greg对它的评价是怎样的呢？
你找到了吗？
没错，对此Greg有两点评价：
01
I wish the school would give us something USEFUL to sell like candy bars or cookies.
Greg觉得他们卖的东西不怎么实用。
02
The way the system works with these fundraisers is that us students do all the work and the school gives us these junky prizes as rewards.
这里如果同学们不知道 “junky” 一词什么意思，我们可以看下Greg举的两个例子：
a.
“…all I got was a cheap yo-yo that broke before I even got off school property.”
这是一个质量很差的YOYO球….
b.
“…got a Chinese finger trap as his prize. It actually worked like it was supposed to but Rowley couldn’t get his fingers out and his mom had to cut it off when he got home. ”
这个Chinese finger trap到底是啥，我也Wikipedia了一下，没错就是这个东西：
一个编织的手指套，据说越往外拉箍得越紧，要往中间推手指才能出来。。。
至于Rowley的那个指套玩具奖品，估计是个残次品，手指完全拿不出来，回到家里， “his mom had to cut it off” 于是乎Rowley的手指就这样被砍断了嘛？妈妈呀，感觉小屁孩日记突然变成了恐怖小说。。。（笑哭脸）
这。。。学校的 “Junky prizes” 有点儿厉害啊。所以，到这里， 你们猜到junky是什么意思了吗？没错就是很糟糕的意思，junk本身也有垃圾的意思。看吧，有的时候你不一定需要字典我，继续往下读，就能推测出词的意思呢。
The second fundraiserThey had us sell raffle tickets and whoever won the raffle would get a spring yard clean-up from the seventh-grade class.
Do you know what raffle tickets are? A raffle ticket is a ticket sold in a raffle representing a chance to win a prize. 没错，就是抽奖券啦。
对此，Greg的评价是怎样的呢？
But there were only two rakes for all those kids so most of the class just ended up sitting around with nothing to do. And by the time the ‘spring clean-up’ was done Mrs. Spangler’s yard was worse off than when it started.
结局是，打扫工具不够，大多数学生都坐在院子里啥也不做，春季大扫除结束后，Spangler女士的院子更乱了。。。
此刻Allie的内心：究竟是你们不会打扫呢还是不想干活呢？好像自从我老公发现我擦地擦不干净，他就开始更多的主动擦地了呢。。。。
The third fundraiserThe new thing the school is doing is these Walkathons. The idea is that we’ll walk around the track at school a certain number of times like one hundred or two hundred laps and get our neighbours to sponsor us for each lap we complete.
Walkathon 这个词大家有没有觉得莫名的耳熟？是的，你一定听说过 “marathon” (马拉松)吧，只不过马拉松是跑的，这个walkathon是用走的，这也是个很有趣的play on words呢。这第三场筹款，是邻居根据孩子们走了操场多少圈，给孩子们赞助。
What do you think of this kind of fundraiser? 你们觉得这种筹款活动怎么样呢？先给你一分钟，想一下，你觉得好还是不好呢？有没有意义呢？
好了，想好了吧。我们来听听Greg怎么讲的，是不是和你一样呢？
…but I don’t know what kind of person gets pleasure out of having some kid walk round a football field a couple of hundred times.
真的，Greg表示，真的不知道看别人走圈乐趣何在？！
其实国外类似这样的筹款活动很多，老师在英国生活的时候也看见不少，国外常见的challenging fundraising activity有：
- Mountain Climb. 爬山
- Sponsored Run. 赞助跑
- Swim. 游泳
- Dive with Sharks. 和鲨鱼一起潜水
- Abseil. 绕绳下降
- Bungee Jump. 蹦极
- Cold Plunge. 冰水池挑战
- Walk. 走路
怎么样？你们想尝试一下吗？
Allie个人认为：做一件挑战自己的事情，确实突破自己，锻炼的勇气，也足够吸引眼球，的确有很多人愿意为这些行为买单。但是，如果这些人，把做这些事情的精力和资源（因为我知道很多做挑战的人会提前花时间和金钱进行训练，甚至慈善机构会资助训练），放到有意义的事情，比如帮助需要的人身上，是不是更好呢？不知道你是怎么想的呢？
到此，关于Greg学校的fundraiser就全都讲完了，我们一起来梳理一下情节吧，这是Allie最喜欢的部分呢，因为可以清晰的看到刚刚自己读了什么？
What are the three school fundraisers?
What does Greg think about them ?
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好了，今天的分享就到这里了，不知道你有没有一些更创新的主意，帮助学校进行筹款呢？
答案如下
