Uh huh.

嗯哼。

All right, James, in English.

好吧，詹姆斯，用英語說。

I was just reading the paper today.

我今天剛看完報紙。

I got this paper three days ago today.

三天前的今天，我拿到了這份報紙。

Sunday?

禮拜天？

What day was that?

那是什麼日子？

Well, today we're going to learn to talk about time.

好了，今天我們就來學習一下關於時間的話題。

If you're in advanced students, you might think this is a bit of a slower lesson, or you may know this.

如果你是進修生的話，你可能會覺得這節課的進度比較慢，或者說你可能會知道這些。

That's fine.

這很好。

Please watch.

請看。

Maybe you'll learn something about sentence structure in English when we talk about time.

也許在我們談論時間的時候，你會學到一些英語的句子結構。

If you're a new student, this will be very helpful for you to learn how to speak about time.

如果你是一個新生，這對你學習如何講究時間會有很大的幫助。

Okay, let's go to the board.

好了，我們去董事會吧。

This is a Thomas turtle lesson, which means is a tutorial.

這是一節托馬斯烏龜課，也就是說是一個教程。

In that case, it means we will go over the lesson, and I will teach you how to do this.

這樣的話，就意味著我們要去學習這門課，我會教你怎麼做。

And I want you to do this at home.

我想讓你在家裡做這個。

So a good thing for you to do is copy this out.

所以你要做的一件好事就是把這個複製出來。

I know it might take a second or two.

我知道這可能需要一兩秒鐘。

Don't worry.

別擔心

Your computer won't go anywhere, and I'm not going anywhere.

你的電腦不會去任何地方，我也不會去任何地方。

Just press pause and then right out this.

就按暫停鍵，然後直接出這個。

All right, So I write this out.

好吧，所以我把這個寫出來。

Okay, So you've had a couple of seconds.

好吧，所以你有幾秒鐘的時間。

He written it out.

他寫出來了。

Let's do it now.

我們現在就去做。

In English, we talk about time.

在英語中，我們談論的是時間。

Things happened, has happened in the future.

事情發生了，已經發生在未來。

Things have happened in the past and we need to speak about it accurately.

過去發生過的事情，我們要準確地講出來。

What I mean by accurately is we need to be exact.

我說的準確是指我們要準確。

I need to know what you mean.

我需要知道你的意思。

Ah, lot of students because different languages have this in it.

啊，很多學生，因為不同的語文都有這個意思。

Say before they talk about the post and they say before I do this two months before I was there before, in English we don't use before like that.

說在他們談論這個職位之前，他們說在我做這個兩個月之前，我之前在那裡，在英語中，我們不會用以前這樣的。

We use the word ago for us ago means the past two days ago, three months ago.

我們用 ago這個詞對我們來說 ago是指過去兩天前、三個月前。

And that means the past in the future we often use from now.

而這是指未來的過去，我們常常從現在開始使用。

That means from this position we will keep moving.

也就是說，從這個位置開始，我們將繼續前進。

That means this is now and we'll go from now into the future.

也就是說，這是現在，我們將從現在走向未來。

If you look here, I have.

如果你看這裡，我有。

From now on, I have f and F to help remind you f means future from now.

從現在開始，我有f和F來幫助提醒你，f意味著從現在開始的未來。

Two days from now will be Tuesday.

兩天後就是星期二了。

Today is Sunday.

今天是星期天。

Yeah.

是啊。

Okay.

好吧，我知道了

Now this is nice.

現在，這是很好的。

But then you say, Why do we doing this chart?

但你又說，我們為什麼要做這個圖？

Well, I'm going to help you.

好吧，我要幫你。

So you can speak very, very fluently toe in English person and they will know exactly what you mean.

所以，你可以非常非常流利地用英語跟人說話，他們就會明白你的意思。

Okay, here are the days of the week.

好了，這裡是一週的日子。

You will notice how we move when we say the past, we go backwards.

你會發現，我們說過去的時候，我們是怎麼動的，我們是往後走的。

So if we're at Sunday, we would go Saturday, Friday, Thursday, Wednesday, Tuesday, Monday to the past.

所以，如果我們在週日，我們就會把週六、週五、週四、週三、週二、週一給過去。

And that is how we count.

這就是我們的計算方式。

Similar to 54321 In the future.

類似於54321在未來。

We go forward.

我們繼續前進。

So Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, future goes forward.

所以週一、週二、週三、週四、週五，未來會向前發展。

So again, another F word for word and future.

所以，又是一個F字的字和未來。

I'm going to give you something to help you as well.

我也要給你一些東西來幫助你。

Just to help you with the days Tuesday.

只是為了幫助你週二的日子。

If you want to remember the difference between Tuesday and Thursday.

如果你想記住週二和週四的區別。

Just think Tuesday has that sound off to which is the second day of the week.

只是覺得週二有那個聲音關到哪個是一週的第二天。

You're welcome.

不客氣

All right.

好吧，我知道了

So let's go back to the board.

所以，讓我們回到董事會。

I said today I said, if today is okay, this formula can be used for months as well.

我說今天我說，如果今天沒事，這個方子也可以用幾個月。

You can talk about days or months.

你可以談天，也可以談月。

So if we say if today is Sunday Yeah, and we want to talk about the future, let's say three days.

所以，如果我們說，如果今天是星期天，是的，我們想談談未來，讓我們說三天。

Okay.

好吧，我知道了

Three days.

三天。

We would say Three days.

我們會說三天。

We said Future.

我們說未來。

When we look future means to go down in time we notice future means from now.

當我們看未來是指在時間上往下走的時候，我們注意到未來是指從現在開始。

So then we have to say either this one or that one.

所以，我們就得說不是這個就是那個。

Which should we use?

我們應該用哪種？

I want future.

我想要未來。

Remember, a future is from now.

記住，未來是從現在開始的。

So then I would say from now and I would go 123 It would be Wednesday.

所以我說從現在開始，我會去123這將是星期三。

We don't talk about Sunday.

我們不談論星期天。

This is today.

這就是今天。

It's now we go future.

現在我們走的是未來。

123 Three days from now And we have to choose.

123 三天後，我們必須選擇。

Do we say it Waas Wednesday?

我們說是華斯週三嗎？

Or it will be future at Wednesday We look for the future and we say it will be Yeah.

或者在週三的時候會是未來，我們展望未來，我們說會是的。

So I went this day.

所以這天我去了。

Oh, yeah.

哦，是的。

Now look at the board.

現在看板子。

If today is Sunday, three days from now, it will be Wednesday.

如果今天是星期天，三天後就是星期三了。

Could you see how we did that?

你能看出我們是怎麼做到的嗎？

Let's try another example this time.

這次我們再試一個例子。

I won't tell you the date I will put in some information.

我不會告訴你日期，我會把一些資訊。

I want you to figure out what the answer will be.

我想讓你弄清楚答案會是什麼。

Yeah, mhm, right.

是的，嗯，沒錯

We have a problem.

我們有一個問題。

We know what the new day is and we know how many days, but we don't know what the first day is.

我們知道新的一天是什麼，我們知道有多少天，但我們不知道第一天是什麼。

Let's go to the board, we said Saturday.

讓我們去董事會，我們週六說。

We don't count this right three days from now, so we'd have to go back.

我們從現在起三天後不算對，所以我們得回去。

123 Thursday, Friday, Wednesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday would be the day.

123週四、週五、週三、週三、週四、週五、週六會是一天。

So if today is Wednesday, three days from now will be Saturday.

所以如果今天是週三，三天後就是週六了。

If you like that, so we can work either from the day or from the future.

如果你喜歡這樣，所以我們可以從今天或從未來的工作。

That was awkward, though, don't you think that was difficult starting at Saturday to find out Wednesday?

不過這很尷尬，你不覺得從週六開始發現週三很困難嗎？

There must be a better way of doing this.

一定有更好的辦法。

I think we have a better way.

我想我們有更好的辦法。

What if we did this instead of talking about the final day?

如果我們這樣做，而不是談論最後一天呢？

Why don't we use the word ago ago?

我們為什麼不用年前這個詞？

Means the past so we can talk in the present about the past.

意味著過去，所以我們可以在現在談論過去。

I like it, too.

我也喜歡

Makes life much easier.

讓生活變得更加輕鬆。

Okay, if today is mhm Saturday, three days ago, what was it?

好吧，如果今天是星期六，三天前是什麼？

We go back today, Saturday, Thursday, Friday, Wednesday.

我們今天回去，星期六，星期四，星期五，星期三。

It's the same information, but it's easier to say because we can start with where we are and know where we will be.

同樣的資訊，但說起來更容易，因為我們可以從我們現在的位置開始，知道我們將在哪裡。

Do you like that?

你喜歡這樣嗎？

We've gone from future, which was from now to ago, which is the past.

我們已經從未來，也就是從現在到以前，也就是過去。

Let's do another one for the past.

讓我們再做一個過去的。

I like Saturday.

我喜歡星期六。

It's a holiday in Canada.

這是加拿大的節日。

We don't have to goto work.

我們不必去上班。

So I'm staying on Saturday and I'll talk about the past.

所以我週六留下來，我就說說過去的事情。

Okay?

好嗎？

Uh huh.

嗯哼。

This is a tricky one.

這是個棘手的問題。

Be careful.

小心點

If today is Saturday, seven days ago Do we say it will be or it waas?

如果今天是星期六，七天前我們說它會是或它是嗎？

Yeah.

是啊。

It waas the answers right here.

它是答案就在這裡。

Make sure you pay attention.

請你一定要注意。

Look, the answer is here.

看，答案就在這裡。

We say for the past.

我們說對於過去。

So seven days ago, it waas Uh huh.

所以七天前，它是... ...呃，呵呵。

Well, there are only seven days in the week.

嗯，一週只有七天。

So when we say it was 77 days ago, it was Saturday in Canada or America in England.

所以當我們說是77天前的時候，在加拿大或美國在英國是星期六。

They would never say this.

他們絕不會這樣說。

We have an easier way of saying it.

我們有一個更簡單的方式來表達。

We just say a week ago when we say a week ago were saying this day was the same day seven days ago, no one would actually say seven days ago.

我們只是說一週前的時候說一週前是說這一天是七天前的一天，其實沒有人會說七天前。

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah They would say, one week ago, I was doing this a week ago.

諸如此類，諸如此類，諸如此類，他們會說，一個星期前，我一個星期前就在做這個。

This happened on.

這事發生在：

We all know that we're talking about the same day seven days ago.

我們都知道，我們說的是七天前的同一天。

Good easy.

好容易。

Great.

厲害

Well, what I would like you to do is practice.

好吧，我想讓你做的是練習。

I know you wrote this out and I will erase it again.

我知道你寫出來了，我再擦掉。

You can take a look.

你可以去看看。

You can practice at home by yourself or practice with a friend.

你可以自己在家練習，也可以和朋友一起練習。

That's a great way to learn English.

這是一個學習英語的好方法。

You will give them the day and ask them in two days in three days in five days.

你要給他們一天，三天五天地問他們。

And they can figure out if you say ago if the past or from now in the future.

他們可以弄清楚，如果你說以前如果是過去還是從現在到未來。

Now, some of you are advanced students.

現在，你們中有些人是進修生。

So if you're in Advanced Student, I'm going to teach you one more form.

所以，如果你是高級學生，我再教你一種形式。

I will put it at the end.

我會把它放在最後。

Okay.

好吧，我知道了

We can change this whole thing when we want to talk about the future.

當我們想談未來的時候，我們可以改變這一切。

You can also do this one you could say in in three days.

你也可以做這個你可以說在三天之內。

You don't have to say this part.

你不必說這部分。

You would say this part in three days it will be.

你會說這部分在三天內會。

And that would be the future.

而這將是未來。

So in and replace, it will be the future.

所以，在和取代，這將是未來。

Give that a try once you've learned ago.

一旦你學會了以前，就可以嘗試一下。

And from now when you're ready, try in for the future that you must put in in the first place in the first part of the sentence.

而從現在開始，當你準備好了的時候，可以嘗試在為你必須放在句子的第一部分的未來。

That would go like this.

那會是這樣的。

If this is Saturday in three days, it will be we go to the future Tuesday.

如果這是三天後的星期六，那將是我們去未來的星期二。

Okay.

好吧，我知道了

Have a good day.

祝你有美好的一天。

Give it a try.

試試吧

Hope you enjoyed the lesson.

希望你喜歡這節課。

Come on back for Thomas the Turtle.

再來找托馬斯-烏龜。

Where is he?

他在哪裡？

Did you do?

你做了嗎？

Do Do do Do do de Oh, it's almost good to write.

哆哆哆德哦，寫得差不多了。

Not looking good.

看起來不妙

So good these days.

這幾天這麼好。

I'm sure he'll look better.

我相信他會看起來更好。

I'll give him a hairpiece.

我會給他一個髮飾。

I'll give him some hair now he's told Mr Hansen.

我會給他一些頭髮，現在他告訴漢森先生了。

Turtle.

龜。

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this lesson.

總之，希望你喜歡這節課。

Come back.

回來吧

We'll have other lessons and tutorial lessons to help you.

我們還會有其他的課程和輔導課程來幫助你。

Okay, make sure you practice at home.

好吧，你一定要在家裡練習。

Oh, and before I go, Of course, this may be Sunday, Monday or Tuesday, wherever you are, but you still need to go to W W w dot mhm, as in English, then a zen video dot com.

哦，在我走之前，當然，這可能是週日，週一或週二，無論你在哪裡，但你仍然需要去W W w點hm，因為在英語，然後一個禪視頻點com。