节目资讯
刊物:旅游精选
日期:2009-04-01
难易度:Low
关键字:spicy, tingle, capital, admire, architecture, parl
(Music).
Hi, everyone.
Welcome to Studio Classroom Worldwide.
My name is Steve.
And even though today is April first,
which means it’s April Fools’ Day,
we’re not going to fool around.
We’re going to get right into our monthly Travel article.
We’re heading to Europe,
where we’ll visit the central European country of Hungary.
Our author promises that our senses will come alive as we explore all that
Hungary has to offer.
Two lively words that we’ll look at in this section include spicy as in:
I love to eat spicy food in the winter because it warms my whole body.
And the word:
tingle.
tingle.
When I eat Thai food, my mouth tingles from the spicy food.
One more word is capital.
Washington, D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.
Well, of course it is.
Let’s go now to the reading.
Please follow along in your magazines.
We’re on page twelve.
(Music).
Hungary.
The history and culture of this central European country will excite your
senses.
No phrase describes Hungary better than ”a feast for the senses”.
The country’s marvelous architecture will please your eyes.
Its rich, spicy food will make your tongue dance and nose tingle.
Its excellent opera and ballet will excite your ears.
And its hot baths will warm your body and calm your soul.
Budapest.
Most visits to Hungary begin in Budapest, the capital, with its elegant
fairy-tale-like buildings.
(Music).
Hi, friends.
I’m Rachel.
I’m Chelsea.
And I’m Chip.
And today we’re looking at Hungary,
a country in central Europe.
And as our deck says:
The history and culture of this central European country will excite your
senses.
That means it will bring excitement to your senses.
And as you know, we humans have five senses:
seeing, hearing, touching, tasting and smelling.
And this country will excite all of those senses.
Exactly.
And our author even says this another way in his first line.
He says:
No phrase describes Hungary better than ”a feast for the senses”.
Now we’ll come back to that in a minute.
But let’s take a second and go to Grammar on the Go with Liz and learn a little
bit more about this sentence.
Hello, friends.
Greetings from Budapest, Hungary.
My name is Liz.
And it’s time for Grammar on the Go.
Behind me is the beautiful parliament building,
which you’ll find out more about later in today’s article.
But now let’s look at today’s grammar tip sentence.
No phrase describes Hungary better than ”a feast for the senses”.
Now notice the pattern:
No phrase describes plus object plus better than plus distinction.
This is a great sentence pattern you can use when you’re doing creative writing
or giving a speech.
With this sentence structure, you get straight to the point of your object’s
best description.
For example,.
Tom knows how to do many things.
No phrase describes him better than a ”Jack of all trades”.
Or:
This artist’s paintings and very messy.
No phrase describes them better than ”chaos on canvas”.
Of course, with today’s sentence structure, you could substitute praise with
word.
For example:
No word describes the movie better than ”awe-inspiring”.
Or:
No word describes this chicken dish better than ”mouthwatering”.
Well friends, if you have your Studio Classroom magazine with you,
you’ll find more example sentences in today’s grammar tip.
That’s all for now.
I’m off to do some sightseeing.
This is Liz with Grammar on the Go signing off in Budapest.
Bye-bye.
Thank you, Liz.
Now when we’re talking about a feast for the senses,
when we talk about a feast, we’re talking about a large meal that fills you up
and satisfies you.
So a feast for the senses would be kind of a feast that satisfies your five
senses that Chip already told us about.
So let’s learn about how our five senses can be excited in Hungary.
And our next sentence in the article starts talking about our eyes,
the sense of seeing.
And it says:
This country’s marvelous architecture will please your eyes.
Or it will make your eyes very happy.
And that word architecture is one of our Word Bank words.
Rachel, what does that mean?
Well, when I think of architecture, I think of beautiful buildings and the way
something is built.
And if you study architecture, then you are studying how to make things, how to
make things beautiful,
whether you’re building skyscrapers or homes or hotels.
And one neat thing about Hungary is its beautiful and unique architecture.
Another unique part about Hungary is its rich, spicy food.
And our text says:
It will make your tongue dance and your nose tingle.
Let’s back up to that word spicy first.
Spicy is an adjective.
And when we talk about spicy food, we’re talking about food that has a lot of
spice in it.
And it’s usually maybe a little bit hot to eat.
You might need to drink a glass of water if you eat spicy food.
Yeah, very strong flavor.
And when the spicy food is that hot flavor, I’m not too crazy about it.
I actually don’t like hot, spicy food.
Really?
I love hot, spicy food.
The spicier the better.
How about you, Chelsea?
I do, but it does make my nose tingle when I eat it.
So if your nose tingles, that means that you kind of get a little tickling
sensation in your nose.
You might want to sneeze or maybe wipe your nose because it kind of tickles a
little bit.
Exactly.
And I notice when I eat a lot of spicy food, my eyes even start to water.
So it kind of looks like I’m crying.
But in... in one way, my tongue is dancing and that’s the... the phrase our
author uses,
because he’s saying that the food in Hungary will just be... taste so good that
your tongue is doing a little bit of a dance.
And our article goes on to say:
Its excellent opera that’s fantastic singing and ballet that’s fantastic dancing
will excite your ears.
And so this is not only a country that excites your seeing and your tasting and
maybe you’re smelling,
but also you’re listening.
Well, that would definitely excite my ears.
I like this next part though. It says:
And its hot baths will warm your body and calm your soul.
Now there is a nice picture on page thirteen of one of the famous baths in
Hungary.
And this is just the place where people can go.
It looks like a swimming pool.
And you can get in the warm water and relax and it’s always in a very beautiful
setting.
I would go to one of the baths, I think.
Yeah, I think definitely so.
Warm my body, my physical body and also calm my soul,
the... my inner person or my inner... uh, soul.
And it says... our articles says that most visits to Hungary begin in Budapest,
which is the capital or the capital city.
That’s another one of our Word Bank words.
Rachel, what’s the capital?
Well, the capital is usually... I think of it as the most famous city sometimes
in a country.
It’s where the government is,
where you’ll find like the capital building, where a lot of decisions are made.
Every country has a capital.
And that’s usually kind of the center of the country.
So Budapest is the capital or the center for government or the country Hungary.
And our text says that it has elegant fairy- tale-life building.
So buildings, it almost looks like... like they came right out of a story.
Maybe they look like big beautiful castles.
Right now we’re going to go to the Chat Room with Ken and Naomi.
But stay with us.
We’ll be back soon.
Hi, friends.
Welcome to a new month of Chat Room.
I’m Ken.
And this is Naomi.
Hi, friends.
It’s good to see all of you again.
So Ken, is there anything in Hungary that you would like to see?
So many things in Hungary sound interesting, Naomi.
But I would really like to listen to the excellent opera and ballet.
Uh, Ken, this word is pronounced:
ballet.
Ballet?
But there’s a ”t” at the end.
Yeah, there is.
But it’s silent.
That’s because the word came from French.
In French, if you see ”-et” at the end of a word, it is pronounced ”a”.
Oh, I see.
So besides ballet, are there any other words that have a similar pronunciation?
Oh, there are lots of them.
Let me give you some examples.
Um, when you go to an all-you-can-eat restaurant, you’re eating a what?
Ah, a buffet.
B-U-F-F-E-T.
Good.
And at the buffet, if your fish is sliced into a large piece, that’s called...
I know, a fillet.
F-I-L-L-E-T.
Right.
And when you go back to your table, you see some flowers on it.
And they form a what?
Uh, I know.
A bouquet.
B-O-U-Q-U-E-T.
Very good.
And when you’re ready to leave the restaurant to get your car, who do you talk
to?
The valet.
V-A-L-E-T.
See?
All these words originated in French.
And their ”-et” ending is pronounced ”a”.
The T is silent.
Got it.
(Chinese).
Let’s take a break.
Studio Classroom will be right back.