节目资讯
刊物:大家说英语
日期:2013-11-28
难易度:Medium
关键字:can, loaf, break, stupid, welcome, buy one, get one free, in time
You're watching Let's Talk in English.
This is the show where we learn English and we have fun together.
My name is Katie, and we're glad that you joined us today.
Our topic is still SHOPPING.
And today we have part two of our lesson Food at the Supermarket.
Food at the Supermarket.
Nathan, what do you buy at the supermarket?
Well, I don't buy that much food at the supermarket, but I do buy milk and bread
pretty often.
Hello, everyone, my name is Nathan.
And it's great to be with you today.
Right now, why don't you open up your LTE magazine and find today's Let's Begin
reading.
You can read along with Katie right now.
Let's begin!
Susie shopped at Freeway Supermarket.
Their cans of pumpkin were really cheap!
And their loaves of bread were buy one, get one free.
Susie will give her mom a break and cook Thanksgiving dinner.
But now Susie feels stupid.
She might not have dinner ready in time.
Mark and Carol will help her.
They are welcome to eat with Susie's family!
I hope you're ready for another day of shopping.
Let's go to Conversation A.
(Music).
Susie, are you OK?
You look tired.
I am tired!
I just went shopping for all my Thanksgiving food!
During lunch?
Yes. Ken helped me.
We shopped really fast!
Did you buy a lot of food?
Yes, and I got some great deals at Freeway Supermarket.
Oh, that store does have good prices!
Their cans of pumpkin are really cheap!
Shopping is hard. It makes me tired.
Do you like to shop at the supermarket, Nathan?
Hmm, well, I guess it's OK. But it's not something that I really, really like to
do.
But when it's busy, shopping at a supermarket makes me tired.
And it makes Susie tired, too.
That's right.
We found that out in Conversation A.
But Ken helped her, and they got some great deals at the supermarket.
They bought cans of pumpkin.
And right there we see our first key word.
can.
can.
A can is something that you keep food in.
A lot of different foods can come in a can.
You can buy vegetables or fruit in a can.
And a can helps keep food fresh for a long time.
Like Nathan said, at the supermarket you can find many different kinds of food
in cans.
When you have cans of food, you can keep the food for a long time.
The can keeps the food fresh so you don't have to throw it away.
That's right.
Now friends, let's learn more about the supermarket in Conversation B.
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Yes, all their cans of vegetables are cheap!
Last week, their loaves of bread were buy one, get one free!
Wow! That's great!
Are you preparing a big Thanksgiving dinner?
Yes, and I still have a lot to do!
Do you cook a big meal every Thanksgiving?
No! My mom usually cooks.
But I wanted to give her a break this year.
You can find a lot of great deals at the supermarket.
It's a good place to find cheap food.
And Susie and Ken did find some good deals.
What did they find, Katie?
Well, they found that the supermarket's loaves of bread were buy one, get one
free.
That is a great deal.
And that is a great key word, too.
loaf.
loaf.
A loaf is a full piece of bread.
Now you can cut a loaf of bread into slices.
Yes. A loaf is one whole piece of bread.
It's spelled L-O-A-F.
But two loaves of bread is spelled L-O-A-V-E-S.
You have one loaf of bread or many loaves of bread.
And you can say you bought two loaves of bread at the supermarket.
Or you can say that you baked three loaves of bread in the oven.
But right now Susie is making the Thanksgiving dinner.
She still has a lot to do.
It is her first time to cook this important meal.
Her mom usually cooks the meal, but Susie wanted to give her a break.
And Katie just used our next key word.
Let's learn about it together.
break.
break.
A break is a rest.
If you're busy and you stop doing something, that is called a break.
And we often say that we take a break.
You take a break when you take a rest.
But you can also give someone a break.
Right. If you give someone a break, you help them out.
Sometimes we say, "Give me a break. Help me out." Susie is giving her mom a
break by cooking the Thanksgiving dinner this year.
So Susie is doing a nice thing by giving her mother a break.
I'm sure her mom is happy that she gets a break.
Now this conversation also has our "Use It!" sentence for today.
Do you cook a big meal every Thanksgiving?
Do you do something every (blank)?
Now let's try to use it.
Well, I have a sentence.
Do you go to KTV every weekend?
Do you call your mother every Monday?
Do you study hard every day?
Do you watch Let's Talk in English every day?
I thought so.
Well, let's watch some more in Conversation C.
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That's nice of you!
Or stupid of me!
I might not be ready in time!
Do you need help?
I'm not going home for the holiday.
I'll help you if I can eat with you!
Sure! You're welcome to!
Thanks, Mark!
Can my husband and I come and help, too?
OK! Sure!
But I might need to go to the supermarket again!
We'll need more food!
(Music).
Susie is doing something very nice.
She's giving her mom a break.
But she says it might be stupid of her, too.
Let's learn about that key word.
stupid.
stupid.
The word stupid means not smart.
If you do something stupid, you do something that is not smart.
And this isn't always a nice word.
So don't call someone stupid.
That would be very rude.
But Susie says she might have done something stupid.
I hope you don't think that you are stupid, friends.
You shouldn't think that.
But Susie is worried that she might not be ready for Thanksgiving dinner on
time.
That's right.
She doesn't want to be late for Thanksgiving dinner.
But Mark is very nice, and he offers to help if he can eat with her.
That is not stupid of him.
If he helps Susie, she will be ready for the dinner on time.
I think that is pretty smart, actually.
Susie says that he is welcome to eat with them.
And there is our next key word, Katie.
Thank you, Nathan.
Friends, let's take a look at this key word.
welcome.
welcome.
If you are welcome to do it, you are happy to do it.
Someone wants you to do this thing.
That's right.
So Susie says that Mark is welcome to eat with her.
She means that she would be happy to have him eat dinner with them.
Sometimes we say that people are welcome to come to an event.
They are invited to that event.
So they can definitely come.
People want them to go.
Or if you do something for someone else in America, you might hear people say,
"You're welcome." We often say "You're welcome" after someone says "Thank you"
to you.
Thank you. Oh, you're welcome!
That is very polite.
That's right. Saying "You're welcome" is very polite.
And people may say "Welcome" to you when you come into a store.
This means that they want you to come inside and look around.
We often say, "Welcome to Let's Talk in English." We say "welcome" because we
want you to watch and enjoy our show.
That's true. You are welcome to watch and enjoy the show.
But now, you're welcome to say the key words with us.
Let's practice now.
Our first key word is:
can.
can.
Please buy two cans of corn.
loaf.
loaf.
Mom baked a loaf of bread.
break.
break.
I work hard. I need a break.
stupid.
stupid.
Jason is not stupid. Don't say that.
welcome.
welcome.
Your friend is welcome to eat with us.
Thank you for practicing your key words with us today, friends.
We hope that you continue to use them so that you do not forget them.
Right now we want to take a short break.
But we will be back very soon.
So don't goaway.