节目资讯
刊物:旅游精选
日期:2010-06-23
难易度:High
关键字:deadly, deter, catch somebody off guard, evacuation, proximity
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Welcome back, everybody.
Way back in 79 A.D. there were about 20,000 people living in Pompeii.
When Vesuvius exploded, it killed an estimated two to three thousand people.
Today, millions and millions of people live near Mount Vesuvius, which, again,
is still considered active.
So now you can understand why this volcano is considered one of world’s most
dangerous.
The fact that Vesuvius is active doesn’t seem to bother the millions of tourists
that visit each year.
Let’s wrap up the lesson now with our final reading, which starts on line 12.
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Mount Vesuvius.
That possibility doesn’t deter tourists, though, who flock to see the famous
volcano and the beautiful views of the Gulf of Naples.
Adventurous visitors hike to the mouth of the active volcano and peer down into
its 230-m-deep crater.
These days, Mount Vesuvius is a sleeping giant, and scientists are determined
that should an eruption occur, residents won’t be caught off guard.
With careful monitoring and an evacuation plan in place, scientists hope the
story of the terrifying end of Pompeii and Herculaneum will never be repeated.
Welcome back.
Well, before the break, we were talking about Mount Vesuvius and, specifically,
how dangerous Mount Vesuvius is.
Calling it the world’s most deadly, or deadliest, active volcano, which means
that it has the potential to kill a lot of people.
Five million people live in close proximity to a very deadly mountain. Chelsea,
what would that do to tourism?
Well, you would think it would make people not want to go there.
But as our text continues, it says that that possibility, that possibility of
death occurring, doesn’t deter tourists,
who flock to see the famous volcano and the beautiful views of the Gulf of
Naples.
Now, if something deters someone, that means it stops them or prevents them from
doing something.
But, as we see here, this possibility of being in the midst of the erupting
volcano, Mount Vesuvius, does not deter tourists.
Instead, tourists want to come and see Mount Vesuvius, they want to see this
dangerous volcano.
And so, this is an area that many people in the world enjoy visiting.
Right. If they’re flocking to see this place, then that means they’re going
there in large numbers.
So, it certainly sounds like the possibility of another eruption doesn’t deter
tourists.
it doesn’t take away their excitement and their enthusiasm for visiting this
place.
Now, adventurous visitors hike to the mouth of this active volcano.
And, I would certainly think that you would have to be pretty adventurous.
You would have to love adventure to hike to the top of the mountain, where the
mouth of the volcano is.
And once they get to the mouth of the active volcano, they peer down into its
230-m-deep crater.
And, of course, a crater is just the hole that is the mouth of the volcano, it’s
very deep.
And I don’t know that you would be able to see to the bottom of it, but people
actually look down into this crater.
That does sound like some adventurous tourists to me. Chip, that sounds like
something that you would want to do.
You know, this part of the article does kind of makes me want to visit this
part.
I think it would be pretty exciting to be that close to something so deadly.
And now, fortunately, Chelsea, our technology today helps us know when another
eruption is going to happen.
And, I put a lot of trust in the technology that we have.
Right. We know that people there are probably safe because we can send out
advanced warnings because of advanced technology.
Now, these days,.
Mount Vesuvius is a sleeping giant. I like that description. It’s a sleeping
giant; it’s being quiet; it’s not erupting.
And scientists are determined that should an eruption occurr, residents won’t be
caught off guard.
OK. And, if they won’t be caught off guard, then that means that they won’t be
surprised.
If you catch someone off guard, then that means you surprise someone by doing
something that they weren’t ready for.
Sometimes, if you ask your teacher a question and they aren’t ready for you to
ask the question,
you might catch them off guard and they won’t be ready to answer.
So, should another eruption occurr, now residents won’t be caught off guard.
Let’s learn a little bit more about that phrase with Liz in Grammar on the Go.
Hello, Friends. Greetings from Italy.
My name is Liz, and it’s time for Grammar on the Go.
We’re talking about Mount Vesuvius in today’s article, and that’s where I’ll be
going to next.
But before I do, here’s today’s Grammar Tip sentence.
”... should an eruption occurr, residents won’t be caught off guard.”.
Our focus today will be on the word ”should.”.
Normally, you could say, ”If an eruption should occur, residents won’t be caught
off guard.”.
However, to shorten things, we take out the ”if” at the beginning of the
sentence and put ”should” there instead.
This usage of should at the begining of the sentence is often found in formal
situations.
So, instead of saying,
”If you should have any questions, please call the front desk,” you can say,
”Should you have any questions, please call the front desk.”.
Or, ”If you should encounter any problems with the computer, please notify the
lab technician.”.
You can say, ”Should you encounter any problems with the computer, please notify
the lab technician.”.
If you’d like to have some more examples sentences to look at, you’ll find them
in today’s Grammar Tip section in your Studio Classroom magazine.
That’s it for today. Now, I’m off to go check out Mount Vesuvius. This is Liz,
with Grammar on the Go, signing off. Bye-bye.
Thanks, Liz.
Well, I am certainly happy to know that residents and tourists will not be
caught off guard should another eruption take place at Mount Vesuvius.
Now, with careful monitoring and an evacuation plan in place, scientists hope
the story of the terrifying end of Pompeii and Herculaneum will never be
repeated.
It is very important to have an evacuation plan in place.
Now, evacuation is the noun form of the verb evacuate.
And, if you evacuate from a situation, what are you doing?
Well, that means you’re leaving a dangerous place or a dangerous location, and
you’re moving, or you’re going, to a safer location.
So, often during a typhoon or just before a tsunami, there might be an
evacuation.
That means that you would have a large number of people moving out of the
dangerous area into a safer area.
I hope that you’ve learned a lot today.
We certainly have learned a lot ourselves about not only what a wonderful place
to visit this area might be,
but also of the majors history that came before it: the history of Mount
Vesuvius and its eruptions in the past.
You have some very interesting pictures in your magazine.
You can actually see some of those bodies that were preserved once
archaeologists found them.
Well, that’s all the time we have for today, but we’re going to watch a skit
before we go.
And we’ll see you back here next time on Studio Classroom.
Look what we have found.
Our excavations have uncovered artifacts from ancient Pompeii.
Yes! And look, the city is perfectly preserved. It’s frozen in time.
Yes thanks to the volcano ash, heat, mud and rain that followed the eruption.
Yes. Oh!
And, look here.
The bodies decayed and left behinnd an imprint of amazing detail.
Wow! Let’s pour plaster into the openings around the skeletons.
Uh, what for?
Oh, well, then we’ll have a perfect form of the moment of death.
Oh... No.
Aww... No... Here come the tourists.
Here? Don’t they know Mount Vesuvius is the deadliest volcano in the world?
That does’t deter the tourists, or the 5 million people that live in close
proximity.
But Mount Vesuvius is a sleeping giant.
What if it erupts?
Well, scientists are determined that residents won’t be caught off gaurd.
The mountain is carefully monitored and an evacuation plan is in place.
Well, that’s good. We don’t want the terrifying story of Pompeii’s destruction
to be reapted.
Yeah, it’s better to be safe than sorry.
Yeah. Hey, come on. Let’s get out of here.
Yeah, let’s go somewhere safe.
No, no, no. Let’s go hike the mouth of the volcano and peer down into the
crater.
What? Are you crazy?
Yeah! Let’s go. Come on.
No... Okay...
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And I guess it’s time for us goodbye. See you next time. Bye-bye.
Thank you again, Michelle. We always appreciate those helpful tips.
Friends, if you dare, plan your next vacation trip to Pompeii, there’s nowhere
else in the world quite like it.
Right now, we have a special greeting from a friend not too far from Pompeii
over in Paris, France.
Hello, Studio Classroom. I’m from Taiwan but now traveling in Paris.
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Please join us again tomorrow for another lesson, and until then. Have a great
day. Bye-bye, everyone.
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