第一，迷你对话

A: Good news! I hear our school will break up on January 10th.

好消息！我听说我么学校将于1月10日放假。

B: Is that true? Why will our school break up this year so early?

真的吗？我么学校为什么今天放假这么早？

A: It's said that all the teachers will have to attend a very important meeting.

据说所有老师要参加一个非常重要的会议。

B: That's great. We can have a long and good holiday. Where do you suggest we should go?

太好了！我们可以过一个长长的快乐的假期了。你说我们该去哪儿玩？

第二，地道表达

break up

1. 解词释义

To break up的意思是“期终放假”，其英文释义为：When a school or the pupils in it break up, the school term ends and the pupils start their holidays.

2. 拓展范例

e.g. It's the last week before they break up and they're doing all kinds of Christmas things.

这是放假前的最后一周，他们正在为圣诞节作各种准备。

e.g. Let us have a class meeting before we break up for the vacation.

在我们放假离校之前开一次班会吧。

e.g. After the final examinations, all the schools begin to break up.

期末考试后，所有的学校开始放假。

e.g. School breaks up in July.

学校七月放假。

第三，视野拓展

1. It's said that…：据说……

e.g. It's said that he is hot on several foreign languages.

据说他精通好几门外语。

e.g. It's said that his lameness resulted from an accident.

据说他腿瘸了是一次事故造成的。

2. have a holiday：放假，休假

e.g. If my lucky number comes up, we'll have a holiday in Venice.

如果我走运的话，我们就去威尼斯度假。

e.g. Tom and I are going to have a holiday.

我和汤姆准备去度假。

e.g. My intention was to have a holiday and meet up with old friends.

我原本打算度个假，跟老朋友们见见面。

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