不管是孩子还是我们成年人学英语。很多人在学英语这一条路上都有一个误区：背单词就是等于学英语，而且是必经的成功之门。
枯燥的重复地背诵一个又一个单词，不仅仅对英语没有太大的用处，而且会忘记很快。从而会让孩子对应于产生一厌恶的情绪，导致到不喜欢背诵单词，甚至严重到不想学习英语了，这时就很难找回学习英语的兴趣和热情了。
英文中同一个意思的单词在不同的时态不同的语境下却有不同的样子，如果我们单一的背诵它的本意那就很难就想到它引申出来的其他意思。英语单词在不同的情景下，样子会变化，含议也会跟着变化，而且还会跟着上下文的变化而变化。
比如四级词汇 Beautiful 美丽的，当我们或孩子背会了Beautiful.在某一个场合看到这一个词汇时肯定第一想到的是就是孤立的意思了。
实际上，在具体的情景中Beautiful的含义很丰富。
1.Beautiful music (动听的音乐）
2.What a beautiful shot ! （精彩的射门）
3.The weather was beautiful .（天气好极了）
这些动人的描述，如果我们只背单词本意，那我们会错过了这些精彩单词的另一面的意思。所以把背单词变成在语境中主动运用单词，把读课文变成自己用英文讲故事或阅读。
好的，以下是阅读时间！Let us start !
Florence Nightingale was a nurse who saved many lives in the 19th century. She was named after the city of Florence in Italy, where her parents went after they got married in 1818. Her family was rich and they had two homes in Britain as well as servants.
Florence was an unusual young woman for her time because she didn’t want to go to parties and get married. She wanted to be a nurse and help people. Her family didn’t want her to become a nurse because hospitals back then were dirty, horrible places. They were worried about her. In 1851, Florence went to Germany and learned all about nursing. It was hard work, but she loved it.
In 1854, lots of British soldiers went to fight in the Crimean War. Army hospitals were filled with injured men, but there were no nurses and many men died. Florence and a team of nurses went to help.
Florence worked 20 hours a day to make the army hospital a cleaner and safer place. She brought the men fresh food, she cleaned the hospital beds and she used clean bandages on the wounded soldiers. Soon, fewer men were dying.
At night, Florence walked around the hospital. She talked to the injured soldiers and helped the men to write letters to their families. She carried a lamp and the soldiers called her ‘The lady with the lamp’.
When Florence returned to England, people called her a heroine because of her amazing work in the Crimean War. Queen Victoria wrote her a letter to say thank you. She continued to work hard in Britain to improve hospitals and she was given a medal called the Order of Merit. She was the first woman to receive this honour.
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