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刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2013-12-24
难易度:Low
关键字:clip, chorus, Bible, come to an end, motion-simulated







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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 learn with Pauline and her experiences as she takes her
family to Disney World to celebrate Christmas.
Disney World, this place where dreams come true.
And they are there at Christmas.
I wonder, have you ever been to an amusement park or a theme park during the
holidays?
Carolyn?
I have not, Gabe.
But this does sound like a very interesting way to celebrate Christmas,
because Disney is not just a place where you enjoy their movie-themed rides with
all of their characters,
but they actually put on a lot of special performances for the holidays.
It's true.
And we're going to learn more about that in today's lesson.
I would really like to visit Disneyland or Knott's Berry Farm - that's another
big amusement park during Halloween.
They make everything really scary as well.
All right. So there are different times of the year where you can celebrate in
different ways at amusement parks.
Let's continue learning with Pauline as she shares about this place - Where
Dreams Come True.
Where Dreams Come True.
Movie lovers won't want to miss The Great Movie Ride at Disney's Hollywood
Studios.
We are excited to watch some classic movie clips.
Our all-time favorite - Star Wars.
Star Tours, a motion-simulated space flight, gives us a chance to experience
adventure in 3-D.
On Christmas Eve, Epcot holds a special celebration - the Candlelight
Processional.
A full orchestra with a mass chorus holding candles performs traditional
Christmas music and songs.
A famous person reads the Christmas story from the Bible.
(Music).
I think it'll be great to get to hear the Christmas story being read at Disney
World.
Now we go back to the beginning of our lesson here:
Movie lovers won't want to miss The Great Movie Ride at Disney's Hollywood
Studios.
So this is a big, exciting time for Pauline and her family because they love
this ride.
Well, I don't want to miss that Great Movie Ride as well.
If I visit Disney World, I want to enjoy that ride.
We are excited to watch some classic movie clips.
OK. That's what you can do on this ride.
And I really am interested in enjoying that ride sometime.
Well, let's take a look at our word from the Word Bank: clip.
Here we're talking about a movie clip.
That means it's not the full movie, it's just a little segment of it.
That's right, so just a small part of something.
And usually we use this word to describe a small part of media. So a movie clip.
Maybe a clip from a song, so a music clip.
Or it could be a clip from a TV show or a cartoon.
You can clip media and just play a short part of it.
Or maybe even with the newspaper; you can have a clip from the newspaper.
You just cut it out.
That could be a clip from the newspaper.
OK, so this is a short clip of something.
And she continues here:
Our all-time favorite - Star Wars.
All right. That's her all-time favorite show.
Well, let's take a look at that phrase.
What does it mean, all-time something?
Well, if something is all-time, that means that nothing else can compare to it.
You try to make a comparison between one thing and all of the other things that
are like it in history, and they just don't compare.
So if you say all-time favorite movie, that means that that is the best movie
and no other movie is even worth watching compared to that one.
And another way you could use this phrase "all-time" is maybe to talk about the
economy.
Maybe the economy is at an all-time low.
So that means the economy is doing very poorly.
It's never been worse in history.
It's at an all-time low.
But let's stay positive here.
We're talking about their all-time favorite - Star Wars.
That's right.
And we see a play on words here.
Star Tours, a motion-simulated space flight, gives us a chance to experience
adventure in 3-D.
So Star Wars has become a ride called Star Tours.
And I have been on this ride, not at Disney World but at Disneyland.
It's quite an interesting ride.
As we can see here, it's a motion-simulated space flight.
Simulated, that means they make something to feel similar to the real thing.
They make something to feel like you're actually in outer space in this
motion-simulated space flight.
And it's in 3-D, so I'm sure it seems very real.
Well, we continue reading about other special Christmas events at this time of
year.
We read:
On Christmas Eve (the night before Christmas), Epcot holds a special celebration
- the Candlelight Processional.
Well, that's kind of a big word, processional.
You're proceeding with something.
The Candlelight Processional.
Well, I think you have to be there to experience it to really know what this is.
But Pauline does describe it a little bit here.
She says a full orchestra with a mass chorus holding candles performs
traditional Christmas music and songs.
Well, let's take a look at the word from our Word Bank: chorus.
Now a chorus is a group of people who come together and sing as one body, so not
individual people singing but they all sing together.
And it's something that a lot of people go to church for.
People will sing in a chorus at church or even at school.
And maybe you've heard the word "choir." It's kind of similar. C-H-O-I-R.
Carolyn, have you ever sung in a choir or in the chorus somewhere?
I have. I am actually a member of the choir at church.
And I have been singing with the church choir or chorus since I was uh... maybe
five.
Wow! You've been singing for a long time.
I started singing in the choirs at my schools since I was in junior high or so.
I also enjoy singing.
Well, do you ever take part in the chorus or the choir somewhere?
Now you can hear a mass chorus.
That means there's a lot of people here at Disney World.
And a famous person reads the Christmas story from the Bible.
All right. So every year, famous people read the Christmas story from the Bible.
And it's not just one night, it's over maybe a couple of weeks.
So many different famous people or celebrities will read the story.
That's right.
And we have a key word, the word Bible.
Now the Bible is the book that Christians use because it is the word of God.
And it is made of 66 different books that tell us all about God and His love for
His people.
And of course, where can you find the Christmas story?
The real meaning of Christmas is actually found in the Bible, and you can find
it in the Book of Luke.
It tells a very good story, a very full story of Jesus' birth.
OK. Now if something is in the Bible, you can use an adjective to describe it:
biblical; B-I-B-L-I-C-A-L, a biblical story.
But you don't use the capital B.
However, if you're talking about the Bible, there's always a capital B there.
That's right.
And we want to talk about biblical references with Steve and Ken in the
Information Cloud.
Then we'll join Michelle in the Language Lab.
Regardless of your religious beliefs, you can't deny the impact the Bible has
had on almost every facet of Western society.
Not only does it form the core of big holidays like Christmas, it has
dramatically shaped politics, literature, law and science.
And the arts!
Leonardo da Vinci's well-known painting The Last Supper and George Handel's
musical masterpiece Messiah both came from the Bible.
A more current example is DreamWorks animated movie Prince of Egypt.
It, too, came from the Bible.
Well, the Bible is also responsible in part for shaping the English language.
There are lots of familiar idioms, phrases and sayings that come from this book.
Right.
Just the other day, I picked up a secular magazine published here in Asia with a
biblical reference right on the front cover.
It was, in fact, a direct quote from Jesus.
Flipping through the magazine, I discovered another biblical reference to a poem
written by Israel's most famous king, David.
So the point is the more we're able to recognize and understand biblical
references, the better our English will become, right?
Exactly.
If you truly want to master English, you've got to become familiar with the
Bible.
(Chinese).
Hi, everyone. I'm Michelle.
(Chinese).