节目资讯
刊物:大家说英语
日期:2012-09-10
难易度:Low
关键字:clean, until, pick up, sweep, mop, messy
Lights.
Camera.
Let's Talk in English.
Hey, everyone, and welcome to LTE TV.
My name is Gabe.
And I am Andrea.
And we are so glad that you joined us for a new week of learning together.
Now do you have a clean home?
Well, that might not be a very good question to ask.
But the title of our lesson today is: A Clean Home.
It's nice to have a clean home, to sweep your home, to mop your home, to pick up
things and put them where they are supposed to go.
A Clean Home.
Well, it's not always easy to keep your home clean.
But it is pretty easy to learn how to use some of these words together in
English.
So please open your magazines and let's begin.
Hi, Lily.
Some friends are coming over to my apartment Friday evening.
Can you come, too?
Sure, Ken.
OK. Great.
What's wrong?
I'm a little nervous.
What are you nervous about?
My apartment is not clean.
That's OK. Your friends don't care.
You don't understand.
My apartment is very, very dirty.
Your friends don't care?
Lily said that Ken's friends don't care, Andrea.
That's not nice.
Oh. Well, no, Gabe.
Ken's friends don't care if his apartment is messy, if it's not clean.
What?
Yeah. Ken's friends care about him.
I'm sure they care about Ken a lot.
Oh! Oh, Ken is nervous because his apartment is not clean.
OK, OK. So Lily's saying that his friends care about him, but they don't care
that his apartment might not be clean.
Exactly. That's why Lily says, "Your friends don't care." They just want to
spend time with Ken in his apartment.
But Ken says, "You don't understand.
My apartment is very, very dirty." His apartment is not clean.
Let's talk about this key word.
clean.
If something is clean, it is not dirty.
It's not dirty.
It's clean.
Well, what about your apartment?
Is it clean?
Is your house clean?
Is your bedroom clean?
This word is an adjective.
You can also use it as a verb.
Did you clean your apartment?
Or, did you clean your bedroom?
My clothes aren't clean.
I need to clean them, or I need to wash them.
And Ken needs to clean his very, very dirty apartment.
And we need to keep learning together with Conversation B.
Well, you can clean something every day.
Let's write things down.
There are a lot of dirty dishes in the sink.
Wash your dishes tonight.
Then don't use any dishes until Friday.
What? Are you serious?
No. Wash your dirty dishes every night.
OK. Hmm. The living room is really messy.
Pick up the living room on Tuesday.
So wait, Lily said, "Wash your dirty dishes." And Ken said, "The living room is
really messy." Um, dirty and messy.
What do these words mean?
How are they different?
Well, if a room is dirty, that means it is not clean.
You have to clean it.
Maybe there is dirt on the floor, or the floor has water on it or something
else.
It's dirty. It's not clean.
But if a room is messy, it doesn't mean it's dirty.
Ken says his living room is really messy.
That just means there are a lot of things in his living room that aren't where
they should be.
Maybe he has clothes lying around or boxes lying around.
It's messy, but it's not dirty.
That's good.
So now you know the difference between dirty and messy.
Do you have dirty dishes?
Maybe you need to clean your dishes.
Well, Lily says, "Don't use any dishes until Friday." We see a key word here.
until.
What does this mean?
You can use it like this:
I am not going to do something until tomorrow.
If you don't do something until another time, that means you are waiting for
that time.
Right, from now to that time.
until.
We can say: Sue is not going to eat chocolate until she feels better.
Wait until I come home before we have dinner.
Or, I won't be home until later.
Well Andrea, Lily says that Ken shouldn't do his dishes until Friday, or he
shouldn't use dishes until Friday.
Is she serious?
No, she's not serious.
She's making a joke.
She wants Ken to laugh.
But he's not sure.
So he says, "Are you serious?" Are you...
Serious?
That's a good question.
Are you serious?
If you're not sure if someone is joking or not, you can ask, "Are you serious?"
Well, we are serious when we say we have another key word to look at here.
pick up.
It's two words.
When you pick up your room, it doesn't mean you are using your hands to pick up
the whole room.
You are picking things up off of the floor and making your room nice and neat.
So if your room is messy, pick up things on the floor, pick up things from your
bed and make it clean.
All right, friends.
Well, right now it's time for us to continue with Conversation C.
The bathroom is very dirty.
Clean the bathroom on Wednesday.
OK. What else?
How about your floors?
The floors are not clean.
You can sweep and mop on Thursday.
OK. May I have your list?
Sure. Here.
You can have a clean apartment by Friday!
Great! Then we can have a fun evening.
Oh, I like to mop, mop, mop the floor.
Oh, I like to sweep, sweep, sweep the floor.
When I mop the floor, it gets so clean.
And I'm sweeping Andrea's shoes...
Hey! Hey!
My shoes are clean.
Well, now they're clean, now that I've swept them.
I see. Well, thank you for sweeping my shoes.
Well, Gabe and I are mopping and sweeping.
And "mop" and "sweep" are our key words.
When you mop the floor, you use something that is also called a mop.
So "mop" can be a noun as in what you use to mop, or the action to mop the
floor.
When you mop the floor, you use water to make the floor clean.
That's right. Andrea has a bucket of water, and she puts the mop inside.
And then mops the floor.
Andrea, I think that your hair kind of looks like a mop.
What!? Gabe, are you serious?
Andrea, no, no, no, I'm not serious.
Don't worry.
Well actually, Gabe, when I was in junior high school, people used to call me
"Mop Top." I guess my hair does look like a mop.
No, no, no, Andrea...
Well, maybe... maybe you should just teach our... our next key word.
OK. I'm just kidding.
Don't... don't worry about it, Mop Top.
OK, the next key word is "sweep." sweep.
You can sweep the floor.
You don't use water to sweep the floor.
You use something called a broom, B-R-O-O-M.
And it gets the dirt off of the floor.
And you can also use a broom to sweep someone's shoes.
Gabe swept my shoes earlier.
The past tense of "sweep" is "swept," S-W-E-P-T.
Well, I need to keep mopping.
And Gabe needs to keep...
Sweeping.
And you can go and see the Monkey Man and Ginger.
Let's invite friends to our house.
Ginger, I'm sorry.
We can't do that because our house isn't clean.
Do you leave dirty dishes in the sink?
No, I wash the dirty dishes every night.
Do you pick up the living room?
Yes, I pick up the living room every week.
Do you clean the bathroom?
Of course! I clean the bathroom every week.
Do you sweep and mop the floors too?
Yes, I sweep and mop the floors every week.
Then why is our house so messy?
Because a messy monkey lives there!
Who? Me?
You! Yeah.
It's time to review today's key words.
So please say them with us.
clean.
clean.
This dish is not clean. Please wash it.
until.
until.
Let's wait until tomorrow.
We can finish our work then.
pick up.
pick up.
Please pick up your things.
Don't leave them on the floor.
sweep.
sweep.
Mom sweeps the floor after dinner every night.
mop.
mop.
Mop the floor with water. Then it can be really clean.
Well, you did a really great job with those key words.
Now it's time for us to take abreak.