节目资讯
刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2013-12-18
难易度:Medium
关键字:disadvantage, broken home, character trait, ensure, tremendously,
nutritious
Hello, and welcome to Studio Classroom.
My name is Gabe.
And my name is Carolyn.
And your English will improve today.
We continue learning about 1919.
We have a lot more to learn from today's program.
But so far, what do you remember about 1919?
Of course it is a program, a fundraising event put on by the Chinese Christian
Relief Association.
And their goal is to help save the poorest of the poor, people who are in need.
And so of course they have these biking events arranged every year - the
Accompany Ride, the Challenge, and of course, the Ride for Love.
All right. What else did we learn about 1919?
Well, yesterday we learned all about their relief programs and the way that they
use those funds to help people in need.
So they have a disaster relief program, an emergency family relief program when
you're faced with an emergency situation.
And they even have a food bank to help those who can't meet basic needs.
And we're going to learn about one other program in today's lesson, so let's get
started.
(Music).
1919.
After-school program for disadvantaged children.
These young children are usually on their own after school.
They come from broken homes, homes with working parents or no parents and homes
with only a grandparent.
Homes like these can provide only the basic necessities, meaning no after-school
programs.
These kids find hope in one of 1919's 204 after-school programs conducted in
churches around the island.
The program's first goal is to help the children finish their homework.
The teachers found that the program raises kids' confidence and helps them stay
in school.
(Music).
We are learning all about a very wonderful program that is designed for
disadvantaged children.
We read: After-school program for disadvantaged children.
And right there in the title of this section we see a word from our Word Bank:
disadvantaged.
Now if you are disadvantaged or someone is disadvantaged,
that means that there's something going on that puts them at a not-as-good of a
place as other people.
Maybe they don't have as much money, so they don't have the same opportunities
as their peers.
All right. Well, you might notice "disadvantage" in that word disadvantaged.
So this word can be a noun as well.
You might have a disadvantage, which stops you from being as successful as other
people in a certain area.
So we're talking about people have a disadvantage in some way.
Or maybe you need to overcome some things and overcome your disadvantages in
some ways so that you can be more successful.
That's right.
So this is a program that is directed toward disadvantaged children.
Now before we continue talking about it, we want to watch another video.
Let's start that now.
(Music).
(Chinese).
OK, so let's get started learning about this after-school program.
These young children are usually on their own after school.
All right. They're on their own.
That means that they have to take care of themselves.
There's nobody else there to take care of them.
Now how do we continue?
Well, we read why this happens.
They come from broken homes, homes with working parents or no parents and homes
with only a grandparent.
So these are children from very difficult situations.
And we see this phrase right there, two words:
a "broken home." Now a broken home is one in which the mother and father have
gotten a divorce and no longer live together,
so there's probably just one parent that the child is able to see on a regular
basis.
OK, so that is one of these situations.
Some kids come from broken homes.
But there are other situations listed here.
Maybe uh, the homes where the parents are both out working very late.
Or maybe there's a home where there's only a grandparent living there when the
child comes home from school.
OK, so there are different situations that this after-school program tries to
help.
That's right. And we continue reading:
Homes like these can provide only the basic necessities, meaning no after-school
programs.
It's very common for students in Taiwan to attend after-school programs,
but those cost money, and these families can't afford to send their kids there.
OK. So what do we find out?
These kids find hope in one of 1919's 204 after-school programs conducted in
churches around the island.
OK, so all around the island of Taiwan there are 204 churches that are helping
1919 with this after-school program.
And that is great news because they're able to help these kids who can't afford
to go to other after-school programs.
Now before we continue learning about all of the wonderful things that this
program includes,
let's join Steve and Ken in the Information Cloud for a little more insight on
latchkey kids.
Our lesson today mentions young children who are on their own after school
because their parents have to work.
We actually have a name for these children: latchkey kids.
This term refers to the latchkey of a door to a house.
And the key is often strung around the child's neck like a necklace or it's left
hidden outside the house.
And the child would use this key to open the front door and let himself into the
house where he'll wait for the return of a parent.
Now there are both positive and negative effects to being a latchkey kid.
On the positive side, latchkey kids tend to be more independent and self-reliant
at a younger age.
But on the flip side, latchkey kids may feel lonely and depressed, leading to
lower levels of self-esteem than other students.
It all depends on the age of the latchkey kid and the length of time he or she
is home alone.
So if you're a parent and you can't be home for your child when he or she comes
home from school,
you should think twice before you allow your child to become a latchkey kid.
(Chinese).
Thank you, guys. OK.
So as we have just learned, many kids find hope in 1919's after-school programs.
OK, it's good to find hope in these kinds of things when life is difficult.
Well, the program's first goal is to help the children finish their homework.
I'm sure the program has many goals, but that's their number one priority -
helping you to finish your homework.
And that is great, especially if they don't have parents at home that are able
to help them do that,
parents who are out working or a single-parent home or grandparents who might
not be able to assist them with their homework.
And they have teachers here that are able to do just that.
And we continue reading about the teachers.
The teachers found that the program raises kids' confidence and helps them stay
in school.
Very important.
OK. So many teachers are involved in these programs.
And they've been doing this for a while, so long that they have found or
discovered something.
They found that these programs raise children's confidence.
Well, have you ever experienced that when you watch someone's confidence go from
being very low to being good, being high or a high level of confidence?
It's important to help people raise their confidence.
It is.
And it's also very important to encourage students to stay in school, especially
kids who are coming from homes where maybe their parents didn't finish school.
It's great to be able to encourage them, to give them hope and show them that
they can do this and that they have more opportunities and options.
OK. Well, right now it's time for Michelle to teach us something in the Language
Lab.
But we have more to learn about 1919 later.
Hi, everyone. I'm Michelle.
(Chinese).