节目资讯
刊物:大家说英语
日期:2013-06-05
难易度:Low
关键字:borrow, follow, sign, gate, between, guide, lost
Hello. Thank you for visiting us here at LTE TV.
This is Let's Talk in English.
My name is Nathan.
I will be your teacher today.
Well, we want to start a new topic today.
And that topic is TRAVEL.
TRAVEL.
Sounds fun.
And we have a new lesson today called Megan's Trip.
Megan's Trip.
I think she is going to France.
Katie, have you ever been to France?
Oh, I have not.
But it is one of the places that I want to go to most.
Hi, everyone. My name is Katie.
Thank you for joining us today.
But now it's time to get ready for today's lesson.
If you take out your LTE magazine and turn to today's Let's Begin, you can read
along with Nathan right now.
Let's begin!
Megan is going to France!
Joe has some travel guides.
Megan can borrow them.
Megan is worried about her flights.
She must change planes twice.
How can she find her gates?
She can follow the signs!
She has enough time between flights.
She can get to her gates.
Well, let's find out more about Megan in Conversation A.
(Music).
Hi, Megan.
Are you planning your trip to Europe?
Yes, I am!
Then I have something for you.
Really? What?
These are travel guides.
You can borrow them.
I'm going to France.
I can visit Paris or the beach.
I can't decide!
Then read this book.
It has information about France.
Thank, Joe! This will help!
Well, in today's conversation, we find out Megan is planning a trip to Europe.
How exciting!
That is exciting.
Now when you travel, do you know what you need to have, Nathan?
Uh, money.
Uh, comfortable shoes.
Well, yes.
But you also need travel guides.
Joe says he has some for Megan.
Oh, that's right.
Travel guides are helpful because they tell you all the good places to go and
eat when you visit a new country.
Guides give travelers lots of tips, like which hotels to stay in, how to take
the trains, and what kind of money you need.
They're very helpful.
All right, Nathan, may I borrow your pen, please?
Oh, sure.
OK, thank you.
Hey. Katie, you just borrowed my pen.
And in the conversation, Joe says Megan can borrow the travel guides.
I think we should look at this key word.
The key word is...
borrow.
borrow.
If you borrow something, you take something from someone, but you plan to give
it back.
That's right.
I borrowed Nathan's pen.
And then I gave it back to him.
Megan will borrow Joe's books.
But she will give them back when she is finished with them.
We can borrow lots of things from people: clothes, books, movies, even money.
But you have to give it back.
Let's move on to Conversation B right now.
(Music).
Do you have a flight yet?
Yes. I think so.
I'm looking at it online right now.
Do you change planes?
Yes. I change once in New York and once in London.
Those cities' airports are big.
I know. I may get lost!
I may miss one of my flights!
Don't worry. Just follow the signs!
Well, Megan is still planning her trip.
Joe asks her, "Do you have a flight yet?" And that's our "Use it!" sentence.
Do you have something yet?
Hey Nathan, do you have a plan for lunch yet?
Hmm. No, I don't.
I guess I'll have to think of something.
Katie, do you have your ticket for your trip yet?
Uh, no. I have not bought it yet.
But I will do that.
Now Megan says she does have a flight.
Joe asks if she changes planes.
Now when you're traveling, you often have to change planes in a new city.
Megan is worried she will get lost.
If you are lost, you don't know where you are.
You also lose things.
I lost my keys the other day.
But I found them later.
Well, that's lucky, Nathan.
Now Joe tells Megan to follow the signs.
And those are our key words.
Let's look at the first one.
follow.
follow.
If you follow something, you move along after it.
If you follow a person, you usually walk behind or close to that person.
You can also follow directions.
If you follow directions or a list of how to do things, you do what the
directions say.
That's right.
But Joe tells Megan to follow the signs.
Let's look at that next key word.
signs.
sign.
A sign is something that gives people information when they see it.
Signs in airports are very important because they tell people where to go and
where they need to be when they're at the airport.
But signs are everywhere.
There are signs on streets, signs for stores.
There are signs for important information that you need to know.
That's right. So if you see a sign, read it.
Because if you don't read it, you could be missing out on some very important
information.
So I hope that Megan reads the signs at the airport.
But now I think that we should go to Conversation C.
I'm sure it also has some important information for us.
(Music).
How can the signs help?
There are signs for the gates.
How much time do you have between flights?
I have a few hours.
Then don't worry.
You have a lot of time.
You can get to your gate.
I hope so.
You can. Really, don't worry.
OK. Then I can worry about something else!
(Music).
That was an important conversation.
Megan asks, "How can the signs help?" Do you know the answer to that question,
Katie?
Well, Joe says there are signs for the gates so you can know where your gate is.
But I think we need to look at that key word, Nathan.
Oh, we do. Let's look at it now.
The word is "gate." Gate.
Now at the airport, the gate is the door that you go through to get on the
airplane.
Each airplane has its own gate.
And you wait at the gate before your flight.
If your flight gets delayed or does not leave at the right time, you still
usually sit at the gate.
If you're not at your gate, you can't board your flight.
And when you're in the airport, there are many different gates for different
flights.
So you have to know where you need to be.
Now Nathan, what does Joe ask Megan next?
Well, Joe asks, "How much time do you have between your flights?" And that's a
question you should always ask yourself when you're flying.
But there's also a key word in that question.
This is the word:
between.
between.
The word "between" is talking about the time that separates two different
things.
That's right.
So Megan gets on one flight.
And then she has some time at the airport.
And then she gets on another flight.
She has a certain amount of time in between her two flights.
Another way to use this word is to explain where you live.
You can say you live in between two cities.
That's right.
Or you can say you do not have anything to do between going to school and going
to work.
There are many different ways to use this word.
Right. You can use it for places or for time.
Well, Megan has lots of time between her flights, so she doesn't have to worry.
She can get to her gate.
But Katie, what is the longest amount of time that you've had between two
flights?
Oh. Well, one time when I was going back to the United States, I had 15 hours
between my flights.
It was not fun because I had to spend the night in the airport, and that's not
very comfortable.
Have you ever had that long in an airport, Nathan?
Never 15 hours.
I think maybe the most for me is 6 hours.
So 15 sounds really scary to me.
Well, I hope that never happens to you again, or to any of you.
But now I think it's time to review our key words together.
Let's do that now.
Here's your first key word.
borrow.
borrow.
May I borrow your pen?
follow.
follow.
Follow the red line on the road.
sign.
sign.
Can you read the sign?
It's so far away.
gate.
gate.
Our gate is far from here. Hurry!
between.
between.
We have time to eat between classes.
Great job, friends.
That was some good practice with your key words.
Say them with a friend, and try to say them at home as well.
But now it's time for us to take a break.
We will be rightback.