节目资讯
刊物:大家说英语
日期:2014-02-13
难易度:Medium
关键字:train, coach, compete, gold, proud, full-time, competition
Hello, everyone.
It's great to see you today here in the LTE TV studio for another English
lesson.
My name is Nathan.
I'm one of your teachers here on the show.
Now today we want to continue our SPORTS lesson.
But this lesson is called Sports in the Olympics.
Sports in the Olympics.
Katie, have you ever met a professional athlete?
No, I've never met a professional athlete.
But there are a lot of athletes that I think are really great.
So there are a lot I would like to meet.
Hi, everyone, my name is Katie.
And I'm your other teacher here on the show.
We're so glad that you could join us today.
Now it's time to practice our reading together.
You can read your Read It for today that you find in your magazine with Katie
right now.
Training for the Olympics is a full-time job!
Olympic skaters train six days a week for many years with their coaches.
They compete in other competitions first, even when they are small children.
Then, after a lot of hard work, they are ready for the Olympics.
Even if they don't win a gold medal, they can feel proud.
Olympic athletes really are amazing.
I know I can't do what they do.
It's very difficult to do what athletes do.
Do you remember that word "athlete"?
We learned it last week.
It's a person that plays sports well or for their job.
And Olympic athletes are the best in the world.
Well, let's learn some more words today with Christina right now.
Hello.
(Chinese).
(Music).
Hello, everyone.
Welcome to Let's Talk!
Do you like the Olympics?
Well, on today's show, we are going to talk to a famous Olympic skater.
Please help me welcome Ms. Sasha Skater.
Sasha, you're a famous Olympic skater.
You won a gold medal at the Olympics several years ago!
I did.
I feel very proud.
You should feel proud!
Not many people win a medal at the Olympics.
Well, all of the athletes work really hard.
I'm sure they do.
How many hours a day did you practice?
I practiced five to seven hours a day.
This is great.
We get to meet a real Olympic athlete today.
Now if you have played in the Olympics, you can be called an Olympic athlete.
And Sasha has not only played in the Olympics, she has won in the Olympics.
Yes.
It's great just to play in the Olympics.
But getting a gold medal is a big honor.
And Sasha won her gold medal several years ago.
"Several" is just another word you can say to mean a few.
And she says she feels very proud to win.
And I think that's our Calendar Phrase.
I feel very proud.
I feel very proud.
(Chinese).
Your son is smart.
Yes. I feel very proud.
Your son is handsome.
Yes. I feel very proud.
Your son is strong.
Yes. I feel very proud.
Your son is just like you.
I know.
So I feel proud.
I feel very proud.
I feel very proud.
(Chinese).
Well, that's a good phrase to use sometimes.
Sometimes pride is not such a good thing.
But if you work hard to do something, it's OK to feel proud when you finish.
And Sasha used a lot of time to practice.
How many hours a day did she practice, Nathan?
Oh. Um... good question, Katie.
Uh, it's so good, I think we should talk about how to Use It.
(Music).
Let's look at the pattern:
How many something do you do something?
It can be used to talk about how often you do things.
For example:
How many days a week do you practice hockey?
Or... how many times a day do you call your mother?
Now don't forget to use it.
(Music).
Well, it would be great to practice that sentence today, everyone.
But do you remember how many hours Sasha practice every day?
Well, I remember now.
It was five to seven hours.
So some days she might practice five hours; other days she might practice six or
seven hours.
Wooh!
I know. I feel tired just thinking about it.
But that's what it takes to be an Olympic athlete.
A lot of practice and hard work.
I guess that's why not many people win a medal at the Olympics.
Now let's hear what Christina has to say about that sentence.
(Chinese).
Getting ready for the Olympics is a full-time job!
It really is.
I trained six days a week for many, many years!
When did you start skating?
I began lessons when I was 5 years old.
I have talent, so I took more lessons.
Then I started to compete in competitions.
Do you like being a skater?
I love it!
If I didn't love it, I couldn't work so hard!
Well, we already knew that Sasha practices five to seven hours every day.
Now we know that she did that almost every day.
That's right.
Now if she practices six days a week, she will only get one day off to rest.
And she said she did that for many, many years.
I don't know if I could do that.
Me, neither.
But if you're a professional athlete, practicing your sport is your job.
Now we go to work about the same amount of time that Sasha practices skating.
Well, that's a different way to think about it.
I guess it really is a full-time job.
That's a job that you use most of your time doing.
So do you have a full-time job?
If you do, you probably work at least five days a week for about eight hours a
day.
Or maybe you work a little more or a little less.
But if you work much less than that, we would say that you have a part-time job.
And if you're a student, you might have a part-time job.
Most of your time is used for classes or for studying.
But you still work to make some money.
That's right.
But Sasha began or started taking her skating lessons much earlier than most of
us started working.
She started skating when she was 5 years old.
So we know she must really like her sport if she has played for so long.
Do you like your favorite sport that much?
Let's get some help with that question right now.
(Chinese).
Well, thanks, Christina.
That was some great help.
And now you all know how to answer the question: Do you like something?
Now do you like taking breaks?
I think we all do sometimes.
And let's do that right now.
But please come back for the rest of today's lesson in just a fewminutes.