节目资讯
刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2013-12-04
难易度:Low
关键字:tough, wizard, historian, destroy, animated, desolation, dwarf
Hello, and welcome to Studio Classroom.
My name is Gabe.
And my name is Carolyn.
And your English will improve today.
We're continuing to talk about Holiday Movies for Everyone.
And already we learned about some movies that came out this season.
Maybe you've already seen some of them - Ender's Game, The Hunger Games:
Catching Fire, and the new Thor movie.
Well, today we're going to be learning about more movies that you might see this
holiday season.
Now Carolyn and I just wanted to share about some other classic Christmas movies
with you.
They're old.
They were made a long time ago.
But we think that you should see them if you have a chance.
What is one movie that you could think of, Carolyn?
Well, there are a lot of classic movies that play 24 hours a day in the U.S.
during the Christmas season because they're so popular.
One of those movies would be Miracle on 34th Street, which is about Santa Claus
trying to prove that he is real.
All right. That's a great movie.
One of my favorites is It's a Wonderful Life.
You should really see that movie.
I also really like White Christmas.
What's another good classic Christmas movie?
Well, I really like A Charlie Brown Christmas.
There are a lot of great values in that short animated movie.
And of course there are other ones that have been made recently over the last
couple of years.
The Grinch, Elf... a lot of cool Christmas movies.
OK, we're going to continue learning about holiday movies right now, movies that
you could see during this holiday season.
Let's get started.
Holiday Movies for Everyone.
In the animated film Frozen, the kingdom of Arendelle lies trapped in winter.
Anna's sister Elsa is responsible for the spell.
Anna teams up with tough mountain man Kristoff and his reindeer Sven.
They must find Elsa and save the kingdom before it's too late.
In The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Bilbo and his friends have crossed the
Misty Mountains.
Now they must travel through Mirkwood Forest.
But they must go without the wizard Gandalf.
Will they make it to Lonely Mountain where the dragon Smaug guards the dwarfs'
gold?
(Music).
Two very exciting films that are very different from each other but wonderful.
And I want to see both of them.
So, let's get started.
In the animated film Frozen, the kingdom of Arendelle lies trapped in winter.
Now this is a great sentence that tells me a lot about the movie.
The movie's name is Frozen.
It sounds very icy, Gabe.
That's right.
I also imagine a lot of white - blankets of snow everywhere.
And of course we read here that the kingdom of Arendelle lies trapped in winter.
Carolyn, I thought that if something was trapped, it was in a certain place and
could not get out.
Well, usually we would think of it being trapped, maybe enclosed in something,
in a cage, and it can't get out.
But here, this city or this kingdom cannot escape winter.
It's trapped in winter, so the whole kingdom is frozen.
It's frozen. OK.
And of course, this is an animated film.
That means it was drawn or animated by a group of people. OK.
They are animators, A-N-I-M-A-T-O-R.
Animators made this film.
Well, what else do we know about this film?
Well, we continue reading:
Anna's sister Elsa is responsible for the spell.
So they aren't just... trapped in winter, they are under a spell, and Elsa is
responsible.
All right. She's responsible for it.
That means she caused it.
Maybe there was an accident, and you caused the accident.
You could say that you are responsible for that accident.
Well, we read here that Anna teams up with tough mountain man Kristoff and his
reindeer Sven.
I love these names, Carolyn.
A reindeer named Sven?
Sure. These are some really great names that we're seeing here, Kristoff and
Sven.
And they have very interesting spellings because they are in this kingdom of
Arendelle.
Well, we see some really great words and phrases there.
Let's take a look at "team up with." If you team up with someone, then you join
them.
You become a partner, a part of their team.
Gabe, how could you use this phrase?
Well, Carolyn, I enjoy teaming up with you to teach English together.
All right, so I could team up with Carolyn.
Or maybe you want to ask someone.
You might say something like this: Hey, let's team up! Let's do this project
together.
Great, Gabe. Those are some great ways to use that phrase.
And we also have a word from our Word Bank in the sentence: tough.
Now here "tough" does not mean difficult.
"Tough" means strong or very difficult to injure or hurt.
That's right.
So of course this mountain man Kristoff is a tough guy.
He is not hurt easily.
Maybe someone has told you to be tough before.
That means it's easy for you to get hurt, but someone is encouraging you, you
have to be a little tougher.
That's right.
Well, we continue reading about this movie.
They must find Elsa and save the kingdom before it's too late.
So they are trying to save the kingdom.
Now moving on, we learn about our next movie, Gabe.
Oh, I love this movie.
Well, it's coming out soon.
I haven't seen it yet.
In The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Bilbo and his friends have crossed the
Misty Mountains.
All right.
Carolyn, you remember the first movie, right?
Oh, yes.
It was very enjoyable.
Did you enjoy that movie?
I did! I... I really, really liked it, and I'm very excited for the second.
I am, too. OK. This one is called The Desolation of Smaug.
Now desolation can have different meanings, right, Carolyn?
What could desolation mean?
Well, desolation could mean complete destruction.
What else could it mean, Gabe?
Well, if you're desolate, that means you are lonely or abandoned.
And of course this dragon lives alone.
So actually this is a very clever title.
We're not sure whether this dragon will be destroyed or if he is just...
or if this is just a story of him and his loneliness and being there guarding
all of that treasure.
All right.
Well, this sounds like a very exciting movie.
It does. And we continue:
Now they must travel through Mirkwood Forest.
So these great names that Tolkien has come up with: the Misty Mountains and the
Mirkwood Forest.
But they must go without the wizard Gandalf.
What?! Without the wizard Gandalf?
But he's... he's like the most important part.
Well, they really do need his help, but I think they can survive without him.
Let's take a look at this word, though.
It's from our Word Bank: wizard.
And of course, Gandalf is a famous wizard.
How else could you use this word, Carolyn?
Well, a wizard usually refers to a man who can perform magic.
And there are lots of wizards in fairy tales.
So wizards and witches are common characters in fantasies.
And so what's another famous wizard?
Well, Merlin, the Merlin... the wizard Merlin from King Arthur's tales.
And of course recently many people have read the books and seen the movies about
Harry Potter.
He is also a wizard.
Well, we read here:
Will they make it to Lonely Mountain where the dragon Smaug guards the dwarfs'
gold?
Well, I don't know if they will or not.
I'll have to watch the movie to find out.
But I do know it is time for us to spend some time with Michelle in the Language
Lab.
(Chinese).