节目资讯
刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2013-10-08
难易度:Medium
关键字:pursuit, recognition, publicity, compelling, sponsor, anti-bullying
Today we're talking about the Pursuit of Records.
Why do people want to be in a book of world records?
Why do they want to break records and set new records?
Well, one reason is fame.
Everyone wants to be famous.
Another reason that was suggested in our lesson is fortune.
Or another way to say that is money.
You want to make money by doing something.
Actually, the person who said that, Alastair Galpin, he made a record by placing
8 snails on his face in 10 seconds.
He also licked 57 stamps in one minute.
These are very strange things to do just to break a record or to set a record of
some kind.
But he might be making a fortune.
Right now let's continue learning about two other reasons people might want to
break world records.
(Music).
Reaching for Records.
Accomplishment: Grete Eliassen broke a record for ski jumping over a 31-foot
platform called a hip.
Her hip jump was the world's highest.
She wanted to show her skill, proving that women could ski as well as men.
A compelling message: Jon Pritikin uses feats of strength during anti-bullying
presentations in schools.
He's even strong enough to roll a frying pan up like a wrap!
Pritikin broke a record for rolling two together tighter than anyone before,
hoping this would gain him more speaking opportunities.
Whatever their motivations, people have done some crazy things in pursuit of
world records.
(Music).
All right.
Let's look at these two other reasons that people might try to break a world
record.
The first one, accomplishment.
Grete Eliassen broke a record for ski jumping over a 31-foot platform called a
hip.
That's right.
This is also called a hip jump, the kind of jump that she was doing.
Let's learn something new with Steve and Ken in the Information Cloud.
Many of us are familiar with heteronyms, words with the same spelling but
different pronunciations and different meanings.
But are you familiar with suprafixed heteronyms?
Suprafixing simply describes the process of verbs morphing or becoming nouns.
And as they do, their stress shifts from the second syllable to the first.
Right.
Let's look at an example we find throughout today's lesson - the noun "record."
It comes from the verb record.
Using both noun and the verb in a sentence, we might say the officials arrived
to record the man's attempt at breaking the record.
There are dozens of these kinds of heteronyms in English, including present and
present, permit and permit,
produce and produce, which is a vocabulary word we'll encounter later this
month.
OK. So again, if it's the noun, put the stress on the first syllable.
If it's the verb, place the stress on the second syllable.
Now suprafixing doesn't just happen to verbs morphing into nouns.
It happens to verbs that morph into adjectives, too.
That's right.
As an example, we could say it took the man several years to perfect his novel.
Finally, last month, he decided it was perfect.
(Chinese).
Thank you, guys.
Now continuing to learn about Grete and her jump... or her hip jump, we read:
Her hip jump was the world's highest.
She wanted to show her skill, proving that women could ski as well as men.
Yes. And you can find video footage of this hip jump on YouTube if you want.
Let's continue learning about another reason people like to pursue records: A
compelling message.
And compelling is a word straight from our Word Bank.
We talked about the word "compel" before, the verb.
Here it's an adjective.
If something is compelling, it's kind of... it kind of means it's inspiring.
It gets you to want to do something.
That's right.
It might also be something that keeps your attention.
You want to focus on it.
And here we see a very compelling message from a man named Jon Pritikin.
He uses feats of strength during anti-bullying... during anti-bullying
presentations in schools.
And we have a video to show you of one of his presentations.
My little girl, Jaden, she's my buddy.
When she was five years old, I had an idea to take her back to my school.
So, we got to the school that day and we got to campus.
I said, Jaden, this is the classroom where the teacher told me all those mean
things.
This is the spot in the hall where the boys tripped me and... and I was
bleeding.
And I showed her the scar on my chin... one more time.
And then we went outside to the field where the tree is.
It's still there.
And I said this is where Daddy ate lunch by himself every day.
We got to go home; we started walking back to our car.
I didn't want her to see me cry because I was pretty depressed,
because I wish I could've showed her where my jerseys retired, my name on the
wall for my accomplishments.
But I... I don't have a story like that.
We got to the... as we were walking, she... she grabbed my hand.
She stops me from walking.
I looked down, and she said, "Daddy?" I said, "Yeah, Jaden?" She said,
"I'm so sorry that happened to you." Aw, It's OK.
It's all right.
But what she said to me next, I will never forget to the day I die.
She looked at me with her big, brown eyes, her curly hair.
She said, "Daddy..." I said, "Yeah, baby girl?" She said,
"I, I would have eaten lunch with you." Ah.
Sorry.
That touched my heart; still touches my heart.
(Background Noise).
You know what I would like to adopt today?
Every school that's represented here, I would like to adopt this - that no one
is allowed to eat lunch by themselves anymore on campus.
But we're going to watch out for one another.
We're going to watch out for people like me.
We're going to go back to school, we're going to go back to campus, and we're
going to watch out.
And we're going to be there.
We're going to defend people.
We're going to be heroes this year.
We're going to end this year strong and learn at this Character Combine to be
heroes.
As you can see, that was quite a touching video.
And yes, he deals with bullying.
He promotes anti-bullying.
So he's against bullying in schools.
OK, let's continue learning about Jon Pritikin here, how strong he is.
He is even strong enough to roll a frying pan up like a wrap!
OK. That's... a wrap, like a burrito wrap, some kind of food.
So you can roll this up just like that.
That's pretty impressive.
And we learn that Pritikin broke a record for rolling two - so that's two frying
pans - together, tighter than anyone before, hoping this would gain him more
speaking opportunities.
That would be very strong.
That's right.
Well, Jon Pritikin continues talking in this talk about his coach, Coach
Edwards,
who was a very inspirational man for him, someone who helped him especially when
he needed it most.
Let's continue learning with another video about Jon Pritikin.
And in this video, you'll see him roll up that frying pan like a wrap.
I've had the privilege now to speak to over 4 million students around the world.
And everyone I get to talk to, everyone I get to encourage, I trace it back to
my high school teacher, my special ed teacher, Mr. Edwards.
Coaches, thank you for all the sacrifice you put into these young men and young
ladies.
Thank you for all the times you feel like giving up, you still come to practice.
Thank you for... for believing in us.
Thank you for being that support system in our lives.
So from Mr. Edwards and from me, coaches, thank you for everything you do.
Players, let's give a big hand for all the coaches that are here today.
You guys are awesome!
You're going to give me a countdown from 10?
All ready to go, baby.
I'm going to roll this up.
You guys, it was an honor to be here today.
Let's remember to be heroes.
Let's watch out for one another.
Let's see lots of one another.
And thank you for being here with me today.
I love you.
I believe you.
Give me a countdown from 10. Here we go.
10, 9, 8... Stand up! 7...
5, 4, 3, 2, 1!
Come on, Jonny.
(Music).
Like a burrito.
(Music).
Unbelievable... Unbelievable.
(Music).
Wow! That was very impressive to see him roll that.
Well, continuing with our last line:
Whatever their motivations, people have done some crazy things in pursuit of
world records.
And I think it's very true.
It is.
Well, right now it's time for us to learn more with Michelle in the Language
Lab.
(Chinese).
And now let's get back to our lesson.
One of the very interesting world records we learned about today was a man who
could roll a frying pan like a wrap.
Gabe, do you think you can make this frying pan into a wrap?
Carolyn, come on. Are you kidding me?
Of course I can.
This is going to be...
Um.
... easy.
Well, I don't think it's going to work, Gabe.
Don't... don't hurt yourself.
Don't hurt yourself.
Well, I deserve something for trying.
Well, I guess I can let you have some of my wrap.
Yes. That would be very nice.
Well, we will see you next time here on Studio Classroom.
See you later.