节目资讯
刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2014-02-26
难易度:Medium
关键字:tiptoe, linger, resourceful, academy, ritual, acclaim
Welcome back.
Do you like pop music?
Do you follow any Korean celebrities?
OK. Raise your hand if you like the K-Pop band Super Junior.
Ah, yes, I see that hand. Good.
Keep your hand up if you think the singer Kyuhyun is so cute.
Good, good.
Keep your hand up if you want to keep learning about his life in English.
Ah, yes... I see.
Well, we do have more to learn, so keep your magazine open and let's move on.
(Music).
Super Junior's Kyuhyun.
It wasn't until he reached the eighth grade that he realized that "Santa" was
his dad.
"Because of his pure way of thinking, Kyu kept on living with the innocent mind
of a child even after entering junior high school.".
This quote comes from his father, Director Cho Young Hwan of UPI Academy.
Kyu is the nickname for Kyuhyun, a member of the popular K-Pop group Super
Junior.
In addition to being one of the lead singers, Kyuhyun has also received wide
acclaim for his performances in the musicals The Three Musketeers and Catch Me
If You Can.
(Music).
(Chinese).
And now let's go to our teachers.
Thank you, Michelle.
Now, if you remember, before the break we found out about little Kyu and what he
would do every Christmas.
He would eagerly expect Santa to stuff his stocking or pair of pants with
goodies.
And now we read that it wasn't until he reached the eighth grade that he
realized that Santa was his dad.
Wait, Santa Claus is Kyuhyun's dad?
Huh. All these years I thought he was a fat, white dude in a red suit.
Well, Gabe, Santa Claus is just as you've described him.
But you see, Gabe, it's just that it's um... I don't really know how to tell you
this.
Well, do you need Super Sentence Man?
No, no.
Well, he's busy, anyway.
But what are you trying to say?
Well, Santa Claus isn't real.
What?!
Innocent children, cover your ears.
What she's saying is not true.
Carolyn, you can't say that on Studio Classroom.
Oh... what I meant was Santa Claus did not really go to Kyuhyun's house.
Because he was too busy, so he called Kyuhyun's dad and told him to be Santa.
Yes, good, much better.
Well, friends, if you have your magazine, you see a good sentence pattern there:
wasn't until something that something happened.
It wasn't until he reached the eighth grade that he realized Santa was his dad.
Well, you can use this sentence pattern in other ways.
For example, it wasn't until I got to the office that I noticed my shirt was on
backwards.
Or it wasn't until my third year in college that I bought my first cellphone.
That's true, by the way.
Anyway, think of another way to use that phrase today.
Well, it seems like Kyuhyun grew up in a very... as a very innocent child.
We see a quote from his father here.
Because of his pure way of thinking, Kyu kept on living with the innocent mind
of a child even after entering junior high school.
And we see some synonyms here: pure and innocent.
Often these words go together.
We talk about the innocence and purity of little children.
But there's another word that is similar: naive.
Well, if someone is naive, they have little understanding of how things actually
are in the world.
They believe others easily and don't have a lot of worldly experience to know
what is true and what is not.
And because children are naive, it's our job to protect them and teach them how
the world is.
Otherwise, they will get hurt.
Of course some things can only be learned through experience.
Right. And perhaps Kyu's dad could also describe Kyuhyun as naive.
Anyone is naive if they believe...
Uh, careful, Carolyn.
... uh, large white man in red suits who can fly.
Right.
Well, another phrase we can see in this quote is the phrase: kept on.
Kyu kept on living with the innocent mind of a child even after entering junior
high school.
When you keep on doing something, that means you continue to do it.
You don't stop.
You could say she kept on studying for her test even though it was already 3 in
the morning.
Or: Even though I told him to stop bothering me, he kept on bothering me.
Or he keeps on bothering me.
She keeps on studying.
I am going to keep on doing the right thing.
Even though the world tells me to do other things, I'll keep on doing the right
thing.
And we're going to keep on learning about Kyuhyun.
As we learned before, and read here:
Kyu is that nickname for Kyuhyun, a member of the popular K-Pop group Super
Junior.
And as we mentioned earlier, K-Pop is Korean pop music.
Now is Korean pop music the only music style to be shortened this way?
Or can American pop music be called A-Pop, and British pop music can be called
B-Pop?
Ah, yes, great question.
No! American and British pop music is not abbreviated this way.
But the pop music of some other countries is shortened like this.
For example, Japanese pop music can be called J-Pop.
Chinese pop music is sometimes called C-Pop.
Do you know what T-Pop is?
Taiwanese pop music.
Uh, no. I wish.
The T is for Thai or Thailand.
It's Thai pop music.
Can you guess what M-Pop is?
Uh, Malaysian pop music.
Right. You're getting good at this.
Now pop music from Indonesia usually is not called I-Pop.
That sounds like a product from Apple.
Indonesian music or pop music is called...
Indo-Pop?
Yes, Indo-Pop.
So now you have an idea of some countries whose pop music style can just be
shortened to just using the first letter of the country.
And right now it's time for us to listen to some G-Pop.
German pop music?
No. Gabe pop, Teacher Gabe pop music.
(Background Noise).
Anyway... thank you, Gabe.
Back to Kyuhyun, we read:
In addition to being one of the lead singers, Kyuhyun has also received wide
acclaim for his performances in the musicals The Three Musketeers and Catch Me
If You Can.
Wait a minute, we got to the end of our lesson today, where's the miracle of a
second life?
I thought that's what we would be learning about - where's Kyuhyun's second
life?
Well, our lesson is spread out over three days, so we'll have to come back again
tomorrow or the day after that to find out about his second life.
But for now, let's join Linda for our Editor's Summary.
We're meeting Kyuhyun from Super Junior in today's article.
We see into his life from the time he was little, hanging a Christmas stocking
on his bedpost.
As he got older, he changed the stocking for a pair of pants so that he would
get more presents.
One of the lead singers for the popular group Super Junior, Kyuhyun has also
received acclaim for performance in some musicals.
Thanks, Linda.
And thank you for joining us today, friends.
But this is just the beginning.
Yes, it is.
Make sure you come back next time to keep on learning about Super Junior's
Kyuhyun right here at Studio Classroom.
See you then.