节目资讯
刊物:大家说英语
日期:2013-09-03
难易度:Medium
关键字:grow, corn, onion, bean, through, fence, organic, grab, rip
Hello, friends.
You are watching Let's Talk in English.
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My name is Nathan, and I'm one of your teachers here on LTE TV.
Today's topic is NATURE.
NATURE.
We are still on the same lesson called MacDonald's Farm.
MacDonald's Farm.
Well, Katie, do you like farms?
Actually, Nathan, I do like farms.
In Texas, there are also many farms, so I used to go and see all the animals and
the food that they had on farms.
Hi, friends.
My name is Katie, and I am your other LTE teacher.
I hope that you're ready to learn a lot today.
But before we can get started, you need to take out your LTE magazine and turn
to today's Let's Begin.
You can read with Nathan right now.
Let's begin!
Ken and Susie liked MacDonald's Farm.
The farmer grows many organic fruits and vegetables there.
Ken will go back to the farm.
He will pick corn, onions and beans.
At the farm, a cow wanted Ken's shirt.
She put her head through the fence and grabbed it.
The shirt ripped.
Both Ken and Susie were surprised.
OK, friends, let's go to Conversation A and learn some more about this.
(Music).
That was a fun trip to the farm, Susie.
Yes, it was, Ken.
Those mini cows are really great.
I'd like one.
They're small. But you still can't have one in your apartment!
I know.
We learned about organic fruits and vegetables, too.
MacDonald's Farm grows a lot of them.
I'll go there again this weekend and pick some corn.
That's my favorite vegetable.
Susie and Ken are back from their trip to the farm.
They had a fun trip.
Yes. Susie liked the mini cows.
I think I would like to see mini cows, too.
I have seen a mini horse before.
That was really cute.
Well, I think mini animals are fun.
We find out more about their trip in Conversation A.
Ken says they also learned about organic fruits and vegetables.
If a food is organic, that means it was made without anything unhealthy in it,
like chemicals.
Organic foods are really good to eat.
Do you eat any organic foods, Nathan?
I do eat some organic fruits and vegetables that I buy here.
But I don't try to find a lot of organic food.
You know, we also find out that MacDonald's Farm grows a lot of things.
There's a key word.
grow.
grow.
If something grows, it gets bigger.
Yes. We usually hear this word when we talk about people.
We say that kids grow up.
A child grows up and becomes an adult.
But Susie is using this word a different way.
That's right.
Susie says MacDonald grows a lot of fruits and vegetables.
We can grow food, which means that we plant seeds and the food grows.
It can take some time, though.
Sometimes it takes weeks or months for food to grow.
That's right.
And Ken says he'll go there again this weekend and pick some corn. That's our
next key word, Nathan.
You're right, Katie.
Let's look at this key word together.
corn.
corn.
Corn is another kind of vegetable.
It is yellow and has a lot of little pieces on it that you can eat.
This is called an ear of corn.
That's right.
This is an ear of corn.
You can eat the pieces off the corn by biting it.
If you take the pieces off the ear, you can put it in other foods, too.
It's a good vegetable to eat.
OK.
I think that's all the time we have to talk about corn.
Let's move on to Conversation B.
(Music).
I may go again, too.
I want to pick some apples. They taste so much better from the tree.
They do.
All the fruits and vegetables there are really fresh.
I want to get some onions and beans, too.
You should.
Everything at the farm is healthy for you.
It's organic.
And fresh fruits and vegetables just taste good!
Susie may go back to the farm, too.
She wants to pick some apples.
Apples grow on a tree.
So you can pick them from the tree.
And Ken says all the fruits and vegetables are fresh.
He wants to get some onions and beans.
Well, those are two of our key words.
Let's take a look at the first one.
onion.
onion.
An onion is a vegetable that we eat a lot.
Onions have many layers that you take off, and they have a strong smell.
That's right.
You can put onion in a lot of different foods.
Some people eat onions on their hamburgers.
Or you can eat onions with other vegetables, too.
I used to not like onions because they have a very strong taste.
But they're actually very good, especially when they're fresh.
Now let's look at our next key word.
bean.
bean.
Beans are another kind of vegetable.
Beans are very healthy for you and they are good to eat.
There are many different kinds of beans, like in this picture.
There are coffee beans, green beans, uh, and kidney beans, too.
And there's red beans.
Red beans are a very popular food in Asia.
Do you eat red bean, Nathan?
Yes, I do eat red beans.
It's kind of different because here it's usually eaten sweet.
Now beans are very healthy.
And like Susie says, everything at the farm is healthy.
It's all organic food.
And like I said before, organic food means the farmer grows it without using any
chemicals.
Organic food is very healthy for you, but it can be expensive.
That's right.
But friends, we need to go to Conversation C now and learn some more about the
farm.
I'm sorry about your shirt.
That's all right.
It was an old shirt.
I'm glad.
That cow ripped it!
I was surprised!
Me, too!
She put her head through the fence and grabbed it.
You pulled, but you couldn't get your shirt away from her.
That was funny.
Well, I won't go too close to any cows again!
They're dangerous!
Susie starts Conversation C by saying to Ken, "I'm sorry about your shirt." Hmm.
Why does she say this, Katie?
Well, we find out that a cow ripped Ken's shirt.
Oops!
If you rip something, you tear it.
Your clothes can rip.
And you can rip paper like this. Yeah.
OK.
So a cow ripped Ken's shirt.
That's too bad.
Now he probably has to buy a new shirt.
Susie and Ken were surprised.
The cow put her head through the fence and grabbed his shirt.
OK, Katie, you just used our key words.
The first one is...
through.
through.
If you go through something, you go in one side and out the other.
That's right.
For example, we walk through doorways.
Or you can put your hand through something, like a hole.
And if you look out an open window, you can put your head through the window.
We can also say that we walk through something to get somewhere else.
For example, I have to walk through the park to get to the train station.
OK. Now let's look at our next key word.
This key word is...
fence.
fence.
A fence is something that is outside.
And people have fences at their homes to keep things out.
That's right.
Fences are usually made out of wood or metal.
A fence is used at a person's house or farm to keep people or animals from
getting in.
And at a farm, fences are also used to keep animals where they need to be.
The cow could not go anywhere because a fence was around it.
Fences usually have small openings.
That's how the cow could put her head through the fence.
Well, friends, that's all the time we have now.
But before we go, we need to practice our key words.
Here is the first key word.
grow.
grow.
Alice grows flowers at her house.
corn.
corn.
We're having corn for dinner.
onion.
onion.
Jeff put onions on his sandwich.
bean.
bean.
Did you eat your beans?
through.
through.
Let's walk through the park.
fence.
fence.
The horses are behind the fence.
That is all of today's key words.
We hope that you can use them.
Right now we need to take a short break.
We'll be back soon.