节目资讯
刊物:大家说英语
日期:2013-09-10
难易度:Medium
关键字:sudden, sleep, topic, interview, trouble, hopefully, delayed
You're watching Let's Talk in English.
Thank you for joining us here at LTE TV, where we have fun learning English
together.
My name is Katie, one of your LTE teachers.
And we hope that you are ready for today's lesson.
Our topic is still TRAVEL.
And we have part two of our lesson called A Business Trip.
A Business Trip.
Now Nathan, what was your last business trip?
Well, for my last business trip, I went to visit a lot of schools and see some
students there.
It's a lot of fun.
Hello, everyone.
My name is Nathan.
I'm glad that we can learn together today.
Now let's begin learning by reading our Let's Begin reading.
You can find it in your LTE magazine and read along with Katie now.
Let's begin!
Rob is going to Atlanta next week.
It is a sudden trip, but it will be quick.
He'll be tired, but he can get some sleep on the plane.
The topic of the seminar is TV interviews.
Rob can learn to do them better.
Hopefully he won't have any trouble with his flight or get delayed.
OK. Let's learn more about Rob's trip today in Conversation A.
(Music).
Susie, did you hear?
I'm going to Atlanta next week.
Really!
When do you leave?
I leave next Wednesday afternoon and come back on Friday morning.
That's a quick trip.
I know.
I'll be tired when I come back.
Hopefully you can get some sleep on the plane!
I will.
I got my ticket this afternoon.
I leave Atlanta at 6 a.m. on Friday!
Yesterday Rob found out that he will go on a business trip.
And today he is telling Susie about it.
Nathan, where is he go... Nathan!
Nathan!
Let's look at that key word... What... what... what happened?
Well, Nathan, we're not talking about key words yet.
But I think we should.
Our first key word is...
sleep.
sleep.
When you sleep, you close your eyes and rest.
Nathan was sleeping a minute ago.
Well, I... I didn't sleep much last night, and I'm just... I'm very tired.
But you can't sleep when we're teaching, Nathan.
I know, I know. I... I'm sorry.
Well, let... let's look at our "Use It!" sentence for today, um...
I'll be tired when I come back.
I'll be tired when I do something.
I'll be tired when I teach.
I'll be tired when I go home, too.
Now Nathan, you don't have to use the word "tired." You can say, "I'll be
nervous when I take my test." Or I'll be excited when I see you.
Oh... I know.
I'll be ready when I drink some coffee.
How about that?
So friends, I'll get some coffee and you can go to Conversation B.
(Music).
What's the topic of the seminar?
It's about the TV business.
CNN is hosting it.
That sounds interesting.
What will you learn?
I'll learn more about TV interviews.
Some very successful people will give us some tips.
Then I can do a better job on my show.
You already do a good job.
Thanks.
But I can always improve!
Rob is right.
We can all improve at what we do.
I can try not to fall asleep while I'm teaching.
Well, I know you won't fall asleep again.
And we can all improve what we do.
I'm a teacher, but I can learn to teach better.
You're a student.
But you can learn to study better.
We should all try to improve.
But let's get back to our topic.
Wait, that's a key word.
Let's look at it.
topic.
topic.
A topic is the thing you are talking about and learning about.
Do you remember today's topic?
We have a topic for every lesson on Let's Talk in Englih.
What is our topic today, Nathan?
Well, our topic is TRAVEL, remember?
We are talking about business trips.
But tomorrow we will have a new topic for our show.
That's right.
But Rob's seminar also has a topic: the TV business.
He can learn many things about TV.
He wants to learn more about TV interviews.
And we can learn more about that, too, because that word is a key word.
interview.
interview.
An interview is when someone is asked many questions.
You may see an interview on TV.
Maybe a famous person is answering a lot of questions.
Or a person is answering many questions about a topic.
But Katie, I can think of a different kind of interview, too.
It's very different.
It's a job interview.
You don't watch job interviews on TV.
In a job interview, someone asks you a lot of questions to decide if they want
to give you a job.
We all will go to a job interview sometime.
They are very important.
But Rob's job is giving interviews.
Every Friday, we see him ask someone some questions about the topic we're
talking about.
And Rob wants to do a better job with his interviews.
Now, that might be confusing.
His job is to give interviews.
But he also wants to do a good job.
That's right.
If we say "good job," we mean that you did something well.
Rob wants to do his job well.
He wants to ask the right questions so that people know what they need to know.
And friends, I'm sure that you want to do a good job, too.
So that's why you're watching the show.
So we need to keep learning now with Conversation C.
Let's go there now.
(Music).
So you're leaving a week from tomorrow.
That seems sudden.
Carol just heard about the seminar.
She didn't know about it until yesterday.
What if you have trouble with your flight next Friday?
I won't.
I won't miss it or get delayed.
I hope not.
Because if you do, I'll have to do your Friday interview!
You have to be ready when you take a business trip.
You can't be at your office.
You may not be able to do some things when you are gone.
Sometimes I am on a business trip for a whole week.
I often have to do some work while I'm gone.
So you need to plan your work so that you have enough time to do it all.
But Rob's trip is sudden.
And that is a key word, so let's look at it together.
sudden.
sudden.
If something is sudden, it happens quickly.
You don't expect it to happen.
Business trips are often planned very early.
But Rob just found out about this trip about a week before leaving.
That is a little sudden, and we can also say that it happened suddenly.
"Sudden" is an adjective, but "suddenly" is an adverb.
You can use both of those words.
That's true, Nathan.
And actually, I've had a very sudden business trip as well.
I went to Hualien, but I only knew I was going the day before.
It was a sudden plan.
Yes, that happened very suddenly, too.
And I remember it.
I think I met you there later.
But did that make any trouble for you because you didn't know that you were
going there?
Oh, good question, Nathan.
And it had a key word in it.
So let's take a look.
trouble.
trouble.
Trouble is something bad that gives you problems.
I didn't have a lot of time to get ready for my trip.
But I didn't have much trouble, either.
Well, that's good.
If you have to do something quickly, you might have some trouble.
Or you might have trouble on a trip.
Sometimes you have to go from one plane to another plane very quickly when you
fly.
We can use this word trouble in another way.
I may also say that I get in trouble if I do something wrong.
If you're in class and you're talking while your teacher is talking, you might
get into trouble for that.
And friends, you might have some trouble understanding Susie when she says,
"You're leaving a week from tomorrow." What does she mean here, Nathan?
Well, after tomorrow, Rob will leave for his trip in seven days.
Now how can you use this phrase, Katie?
Hmm. Well, I would say my friend is visiting me a week from today.
I'll see my friend in seven days.
That's right.
That is a good way to use this phrase.
Now friends, what will you do a week from today?
You can make a sentence with this phrase, too:
A week from today I will (blank).
And you can also practice your key words with us right now.
Here is the first key word.
sudden.
sudden.
We were surprised by the sudden change.
sleep.
sleep.
I'm tired. I need sleep.
topic.
topic.
The topic of this book is famous people.
interview.
interview.
John has an interview for a new job.
trouble.
trouble.
Ed is late. He had trouble with his car.
OK, friends, I hope that you did not have any trouble remembering those key
words.
Try to practice them again on your own.
We're going to take a short break now.
But don't worry, we'll be right back.