节目资讯
刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2013-11-09
难易度:Medium
关键字:fort, demonstrate, thrill, antique, obstacle course, zipline
Hello, and welcome to Studio Classroom.
My name is Gabe.
And I'm Carolyn.
And your English will improve today.
We're continuing to learn about fun things you can do in Singapore.
Already we've learned about six fun things to do in Singapore.
Well, what were some of those things?
Of course you learned about the Night Safari, where you can see nocturnal
animals.
And you can interact with sea creatures at Underwater World.
Now what else can you do in Singapore?
Carolyn?
Well, there's a lot to do.
You could go to Chinatown and enjoy the wonderful streets there.
You could also go to Universal Studios and meet some of your favorite movie
characters.
Well, something I really like to do, Gabe, is to go to Pulau Ubin and explore
this area from Singapore's past.
Well, I would like to go into the Singapore Flyer and maybe see Pulau Ubin from
up top, in the top of the observation wheel, while enjoying a nice meal.
Well, there's lots to do in Singapore.
And we have lots more to learn in today's lesson.
So let's get started.
(Music).
Ten Fun Things to Do in Singapore.
Fort Siloso.
This fort stands as a reminder of Singapore's past.
It contains Singapore's largest collection of items from World War II.
Its old tunnels and original weapons will give you a close-up view of history.
Jurong Bird Park.
At Jurong Bird Park you can encounter 5,000 birds of 380 species and even feed
some of them by hand!
If feeding birds makes you hungry, you can join the park's parrots for lunch.
Don't miss the High Flyers Show, where birds demonstrate their talents.
(Music).
Well, both of these places sound fun.
Let's go back to talk about the first one listed here:
Fort Siloso.
OK. Well, right there in this place we see a word from our Word Bank:
fort.
Now this is something, an area that was created for military purposes.
But now of course a lot of old military areas are used by tourists.
You can go and visit these areas called forts.
That's right.
And there are many forts around the world that you can visit.
If you're in the United States, you might try Fort Knox, a very famous fort in
Kentucky.
That is famous for housing the gold supply in the United States.
Now they don't give tourists there, but you can see the building.
But there are plenty of other forts that you can go inside and look around, and
it's very interesting.
There are even forts in Taiwan like the Anping Fort.
All right.
And of course, around the world, in lots of countries, there are forts.
I went to India recently.
And in Agra, we went by the Red Fort there.
It's a huge fort.
It's quite impressive.
Now there are lots of different kinds of forts.
You can even make a fort in your living room with the couch cushions.
We call that a fort.
It's not really a military fort, but sometimes we just call that a fort for fun,
like a little house in your living room.
That's right.
Well, number 7 on our list, Fort Siloso, we learn a little bit about it.
This fort stands as a reminder of Singapore's past.
So it is also a part of Singapore's past, right, Gabe?
That's right.
OK. This fort reminds us of Singapore's past.
So, I think we need to take a look in the Grammar Gym and see what Liz has to
share with us there.
It stands as a reminder of something.
Let's go to the Grammar Gym.
Hi there, friends.
Welcome to the Grammar Gym.
My name is Liz.
So we've been talking about Singapore in today's article, and we see this
sentence:
This fort stands as a reminder of Singapore's past.
That's our Grammar Tip sentence.
Notice the phrase: stands as a reminder.
It just means: helps people to remember.
So today's sentence just means that this fort helps people to remember
Singapore's past.
This phrase "stands as a reminder" is usually used to talk about how something
is there to remind people of something in the past or something important.
For example, Uncle Kenneth's bookshelf full of books stands as a reminder of his
days as a professor.
Or, this roadside memorial stands as a reminder to the community not to drink
and drive.
If you have a copy of this month's magazine with you, be sure to check out
today's Grammar Tip section for more example sentences.
This is Liz from the Grammar Gym.
See you next time.
Thank you, Liz.
There are many things that stand as reminders in our lives from history.
Now talking about Fort Siloso, it contains Singapore's largest collection of
items from World War II.
So this is a pretty impressive fort.
Hmm. Yes, items from World War II.
That sounds like some weapons.
Maybe there are some weapons or tanks, things like that that you can find in
this fort.
Wow.
Well, its old tunnels and original weapons will give you a close-up view of
history.
A close-up view of history.
So, maybe if you haven't participated in a war, I hope not,
well, here you can kind of get a taste for what it was like by seeing these
weapons up close.
That's a close-up view of history.
That's right.
So it's not just reading about it or learning about it but being able to see
these items up close.
Maybe they even have some that you can touch.
Well, moving on to number 8 in our list: the Jurong Bird Park.
At Jurong Bird Park you can encounter 5,000 birds of 380 species and even feed
some of them by hand!
Oh, well, I think I'm going to have to go here, Gabe.
Yeah, I think so too, Carolyn.
This sounds like something you would really enjoy - feeding birds by hand.
Have you ever done that before?
I have fed birds by hand, but they weren't 5,000 of them, and they weren't 380
different species.
So I think that this would be a very special encounter.
All right.
Well, if you like birds, then maybe this is something for you - the Jurong Bird
Park.
And we read here:
If feeding birds makes you hungry, you can join the park's parrots for lunch.
What does that mean?
Well, that means there's more to do than just feed the birds.
There's also things to eat at this place as well.
That's right.
So they have a special event that you can sign up for where you can enjoy lunch
while some of the people that work there bring out parrots.
What?
And you can spend time with the parrots while you eat.
That is so cool.
Well, lots of different kinds of parrots are very friendly birds.
I've been to, um, a wildlife sanctuary in Australia where they had parakeets
just flying all over the place.
And they would land on you, on your shoulder, on your hand, in my hair...
We got to interact with these birds.
It was a lot of fun and also very noisy.
Birds are noisy, Carolyn.