sit in the warm night air坐在温暖的夜色中, with a cold drink in my hand手中拿一杯冷饮, reflect on/ upon...回顾......， a day of pure magic充满神奇的一天, go snorkeling使用呼吸管潜泳, the most fantastic thing最异想天开/了不起的事情, such extraordinary beauty如此特别的美, discover a whole new dimension of life发现一种全新的生活空间, be aware of ...意识到......, the vivid colours 生动的色彩, be shaped like...形状像......, swim in and around...环绕......来来回回游, clean the bodies of large fish清洁大鱼的身体, get inside...钻进......去, around every corner到处, hang upside down倒挂, gather tiny plants off the coral从上珊瑚中收集微小的植物, a hard bird-like mouth一个硬硬的像鸟一样的嘴, a blue sea- star一个蓝色的海星, look straight at...径直地看......, a large wise-looking turtle一个大而智慧的海龟, get too close接近, strong sharp teeth坚固锋利的牙齿,（on the）watch for密切注意，看守着, be half buried in ...半埋在......中, each about one and a half metres long每条大约1.5米长, appear from behind...从......后面出现, stop... from阻止......做......， feel scared to death感觉吓得要死, for a moment片刻, the edge of the reef悬崖的边缘, look down into depths of the ocean俯瞰海洋的深处, （heart）beat wildly（心）狂跳, in such deep clear water在这么清澈的水中, a wonderful, limitless world一个奇妙的无限的世界 4. Put the text A New Dimension of Life into a short play

Acting out the text is a strategy for motivating us to read out loud the text. We need oral practice and help with pronunciation and so acting out the text really helps us.

A New Dimension of Life

Act One

It's 8:00am, a warm morning, at the side of the reef. The sea ripples a bit and a man is preparing to go snorkeling on the reef.

Jerry: Well, (looks at all his equipment) I'm ready now! (confidently) One, two, three...go! (jumps into the sea)

(Jerry sees all the vivid colors surrounding him-purples, reds, yellows, blues and greens and all kinds of corals shaped like fans, plates, brains, lace, mushrooms, the branches of trees and the horns of deer.)

Jerry: (surprisingly) Wow...that's fantastic! (at the very time, a group of fish swims by and a fish stops and begins to talk with him)

The fish: (elegantly) Hi, body! Where are you going?

Jerry: (friendly) Hello, Mr. Fish, I'm just going around and trying to find something new to me.

The fish: Oh, this is the right place. Good luck! (then goes away)

(Jerry continues to swim, after a while, he sees a little thing. And then he goes close to it, trying to find what it is.)

Jerry: (happily) Oh, another small cute fish! (then says friendly to it-a little orange and white fish) Morning, boy!

Anemone fish: (frightened) Who are you?

Jerry: Man.

Anemone fish: What is man? I've never seen Man before!

Jerry: Stuff like me is called Man. And who are you?

Anemone fish: Anemone fish...(it seems extremely frightened, and slip away, hiding in the poisonous tentacles of the sea anemones)

Jerry: (murmurs) ... a coward fish, but anyway, fantastic! (then he sees another fish even more fantastic than the anemone fish...)

(Jerry sees a small fish is cleaning the body of a large fish.)

Jerry: (crying) Dangerous! Go away!

Small fish: (smiling at him) Don't worry! We are friends! (it then gets inside the mouth of the larger fish and begins to clean its teeth)

Jerry: (opens his mouth widely) Wow, I've never thought of this!

Jerry: I'd better go! That's too scaring!

(There are lots of strange creatures. By the way he swims, he sees a yellow and green parrotfish hanging upside down, gathering tiny plants off the coral with its hard bird-like mouth; a yellow-spotted red sea-slug sliding by a blue sea-star; an orange and blue-striped angelfish looking straight at him; a large wise-looking turtle passing so close to me that I could touched it. )

Jerry: (says to himself) A wonderful underground world! When I come back, I will tell Marry.

Act Two

(A whole day's traveling finishes, and Jerry goes back home, sitting in the warm night air with a cold drink in his hand, talking with his wife-Marry)

Marry: ... then what else did you see? (with her chin on her fist, seems really interested in Jerry's experience)

Jerry: ...then I said goodbye to the friendly turtle and went swimming again, and I met other creatures that I didn't want to get close to-an eel with its strong sharp teeth, with only its head showing from a hole, watching for a tasty fish, or my tasty toe; and the giant clam half buried in some coral waiting for something to swim in between its thick green lips. Then there are two gray reef sharks, you know, each about one and a half meters long, which suddenly appeared behind some coral.

Marry: Oh, that's too dangerous!

Jerry: That's the case, and I told myself they weren't dangerous but that didn't stop me from feeling scared to death for a moment! The water was quite shallow but where the reef ended, there was a sharp drop to the sandy ocean floor. I thought I was very brave when I swam over the edge of the reef and hung there looking down into depths of the ocean. My heart was beating wildly-I felt exposed in such deep clear water!

Marry: ...and it's very interesting!

Jerry: Oh, what a wonderful, limitless world it is down there! And what a tiny spot I am in this enormous world!

(The end)