节目资讯
刊物:大家说英语
日期:2012-08-27
难易度:Low
关键字:phone, office, voice, understand, sound, mumble
Lights.
Camera.
Let's Talk...
In English.
Mmhm.
Hi, everybody.
We are glad you are here.
My name is Andrea.
And my name is Gabe.
Now today we have an interesting lesson about phones.
That's right.
When do you use your phone?
What kind of phone do you have?
Do you have a cell phone?
Well, I do too.
I have a cell phone right here.
I'm going to turn it off so that we can teach.
Of course, maybe you have a phone at home - your home phone.
Or there's a phone in your office.
That's your office phone.
Well, do you understand everything so far?
No? Yes?
Well, I hope you do.
And you're going to understand everything after you listen to today's lesson.
So let's get started.
Open up your magazine.
Let's go to Conversation A.
Hi, Lily. Are you busy today?
No, I'm not too busy, Rob. Why?
Can you sit at Amber's desk and answer the phone?
Carol asked me to find someone.
Where is Amber?
She's not here today.
So can you answer the office phone?
What about my other work?
You can do your other work between calls.
Yes, let's see. 4421.
Good, OK.
Hello, uh, Andrea?
Is that my phone?
Uh, it's still ringing.
Yes! OK.
Yes, yes. Uh, let's see.
Will she pick up? Will she pick up?
Hello?
Oh, Andrea!
Andrea. Hey, it's good to hear your voice.
Um, this is Gabriel speaking.
Uh, yes, Gabe, it's nice to hear from you.
Yeah.
Um, why are you calling me?
Oh, I just wanted to see if this phone works.
And it does.
It's an old phone, but it still works.
This is wonderful.
Well hey, Andrea, I'm going to hang up now and teach a key word.
OK, Gabe. That... that sounds good. Thank you.
All right, bye-bye.
Bye-bye.
I'll see you soon.
Very nice, if I do say so myself.
I am holding a phone.
This is one of our key words today.
A phone.
You use a phone to talk to people that you are not with.
Now today, there are many kinds of phones.
Have you seen a phone that looks like this?
There are not very many of these kinds of phones anymore.
Not very many people use these old phones.
Yes, that phone looks very big.
It's the kind of phone that people had in their homes.
The phone was on a desk or on a table.
Today, of course, phones are much smaller and more convenient.
Most of us have cell phones.
You can take your cell phone with you wherever you go.
That's right. And you can make a phone call.
You can make a phone call.
Or you can pick up the phone when you need to answer the phone.
Well, a special kind of phone is an office phone.
That is a phone in your office.
And "office" is our key word.
The office is the place where you work.
How is your office?
What is it like?
Many people work in offices.
Maybe you work for a business.
So you work in that office.
At your school, there's an office that you can go to to ask questions or to find
out information.
And yes, of course, there are phones in offices.
Well friends, we have more to learn.
Stay with us as we look at Conversation B.
I can't do two things at the same time!
Right. Focus on the call.
That's good manners.
Yes. Hmm.
You have a nice voice, Lily.
Really? Thanks, Rob.
You always speak clearly.
So people can understand me!
That is important.
Some people mumble on the phone.
I hate that.
Me too.
OK. Sure, I can answer the office phone.
Thanks, Lily.
OK. Then we're gonna... do that thing, and I'm not really sure what we're gonna
do.
Hey, Gabe...
Whoa...
I'm not... You don't just...
Andrea, I'm sorry.
I don't know.
I'm sorry.
No...
What are you saying?
Huh?
What are you saying?
What? You don't understand me?
No, I don't understand you.
But wait... Gabe, all you got just...
No, Andrea, you need to speak more clearly.
Your voice is not very clear right now.
I can't understand what you're saying.
Oh, I see.
You're right, my voice was not very clear.
Mmhm.
I'm sorry that you couldn't understand what I was saying.
I guess I tend to mumble sometimes.
Yes, you were mumbling a little bit.
Mumbling, mumbling, mumbling...
I think that word sounds like what it is.
Mumble, mumble...
Mumble, mumble, mumble... Sometimes you mumble mumble.
Yes. So when people mumble, they do not speak very clearly.
And it's hard to understand what they are saying.
We want to speak clearly.
You want your voice to be clear when you are talking.
Well, I hope that my voice is clear now because we're going to look at this
word: voice.
Right now you are listening to my voice.
Everyone has their own voice.
You talk with your voice.
You sing with your voice.
Now Gabe has a beautiful voice.
Gabe, can you sing for us with your voice?
You want me to sing for you?
Hmm, beautiful, beautiful.
No, I... I will not sing with my voice right now.
I will use my speaking voice.
It's a little different from my singing voice.
That is true.
But both your speaking voice and your singing voice are very clear and easy to
understand.
"Understand" is a key word.
When you understand something, you know what it is saying.
When you understand what people are saying, you can hear what they say, and you
know what they're saying.
And if you don't know what they're saying, feel free to say:
I'm sorry. I can't understand you.
Or, I don't understand what you're talking about.
Can you explain it a little better?
I don't understand you.
Well, we hope you can understand us and understand what you're hearing in
today's conversations.
Now let's continue with Conversation C.
So do I say this? "LTE TV, this is Lily.".
Sure! That's good.
Say the name of our business, then your name.
OK.
Maybe you can ask, "How can I help you?".
Of course!
Great!
Do you hear that sound?
The phone is ringing!
My first call!
Well, we do have a key word here to talk about.
The word is "sound." What is a sound?
A sound is a noise.
It's something that you can hear.
In the conversation, Lily asks, "Do you hear that sound?" What is the sound?
The phone is ringing.
That's right, the phone makes a sound.
Do you hear that sound?
Or, what is that sound?
Now those are two questions that you can ask when you hear a noise, and you are
not sure what it is.
Now everything has different sounds.
Gabe, do you know which sound I don't like to hear?
No, Andrea. Tell me what sound don't you like.
The sound of my alarm clock very early in the morning.
Oh, I understand you.
I don't like that sound either.
But I don't hear that sound early in the morning.
Andrea, do you know why?
And why don't you hear that sound early in the morning?
Because I don't set my alarm for early in the morning. Oh.
I see. Well...
Yeah.
Now I understand some other things, Gabe.
Right. Well, anyway um, I think it's time for us to continue now.
Let's go and see what the Monkey Man and the monkey Ginger have to say.
Can I answer the phone?
No, the phone isn't ringing.
Haha, very funny.
When the phone rings, can I answer it?
No, monkeys can't answer the phone.
I have good telephone manners.
Oh, really?
Yeah. And I have a nice monkey voice.
Well, that's true.
And I always speak slowly and clearly.
Can people understand you?
Oh, yes. I never mumble.
Hmm. Well, OK, when the phone rings, you can answer it.
Oh.
The phone is ringing.
Here, here, talk to the caller.
OK.
What are you doing?
It's OK. It's another monkey calling.
Really?
Well, now it's time for us to review our key words.
The first one is: phone.
phone.
Esther answers the phone for her boss.
The next key word is: office.
office.
Bill and Ted work in the same office.
voice.
voice.
Alyssa has a very quiet voice.
understand.
understand.
I don't understand Chinese. Can you speak English?
sound.
sound.
I hear a sound. What is that noise?
Well, there is no special noise right now.
But it is time for us to take a break.
Enjoy the break.
We'll see yousoon.