day 29into nature

into nature

Tell a story of a day in nature that taught you something, with A着A着 and the mood adverbs 明明, 总算 and 干脆; retell an anecdote about a hidden shared bike; read a reflection on what mountains teach.

words to say

• 生态 shēngtài · ecology, ecosystem
• 野生 yěshēng · wild (animals, plants)
• 风光 fēngguāng · scenery, view
• 天然 tiānrán · natural
• 山峰 shānfēng · mountain peak
• 沙漠 shāmò · desert
• 迷路 mílù · to get lost
• 恶劣 èliè · very bad, harsh
• 灾害 zāihài · disaster (natural)
• 大自然 dàzìrán · nature, the natural world

sentences

• 这里的风光非常美。 · The scenery here is beautiful.
• 沙漠里的天气十分恶劣。 · The weather in the desert is terrible.
• 我们在山里迷路了。 · We got lost in the mountains.
• 保护生态就是保护我们自己。 · Protecting the environment is protecting ourselves.
• 这是一个天然的湖。 · This is a natural lake.

say it after the voice

• 我们在山里走着走着，天突然黑了，手机也没有信号，大家这才发现迷路了。 · We kept walking in the mountains, then suddenly it was dark, the phones had no signal, and only then did we realise we were lost.
• 地图上明明有一条下山的路，可是我们找了一个多小时，怎么也找不到。 · The map clearly showed a path down the mountain, but we searched for over an hour and just couldn’t find it.
• 沙漠里的天气非常恶劣，白天热得像火，晚上却冷得要穿很厚的衣服。 · The weather in the desert is harsh: by day it’s as hot as fire, but at night it’s so cold you need thick clothes.
• 保护生态不只是政府的事，每个人少用一个塑料袋，也是在保护大自然。 · Protecting the environment isn’t only the government’s job: every plastic bag one person doesn’t use protects nature too.

questions to answer

• 如果能去一个地方看风景，你选哪儿？ · If you could go anywhere to see the scenery, where would you choose?
• 为什么很多人喜欢去野外？ · Why do so many people like going out into the wild?
• 你怎么看保护野生动物？ · What do you think about protecting wild animals?

a passage to retell

• A young man rode a shared bike home, afraid someone else would ride off on it the next day. So he pushed it into a corner behind his building and even covered it with leaves. The next morning he went to the corner and found the bike gone. He had to walk to the subway station, getting angrier and angrier. To his surprise, the bike was parked right at the subway entrance, with a note stuck on it. It was from the old man downstairs: “The corner isn’t safe, so I rode it here for you.”

a passage to read aloud

年轻的时候，我总觉得爬山就是为了站在山顶。为了早一点儿到达，我一路低着头往上走，顾不上看身边的风景，也顾不上和朋友说话。有一次天气恶劣，我们在山里迷路了，走着走着，天就黑了。那天我们没有到达山峰，心里非常失望。

后来我才发现，山顶上的快乐只有几分钟，真正留在记忆里的，却是路上的一切：一棵老树，一条小河，一次迷路，还有陪我一起走的朋友。大自然有美丽的风光，也有可怕的灾害，它教会我们耐心，也教会我们谦虚。人生也是这样，目标当然重要，但我们每天走的每一步，才是生活本身。