节目资讯
刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2013-10-30
难易度:Low
关键字:produce, grab, decoration, homemade, orchard, apple cider
Hello, and welcome to Studio Classroom.
My name is Gabe.
And my name is Carolyn.
And your English will improve today.
Our lesson is called Fall Festivals in Maryland.
And we're going to be joining Pauline as she shares with her experiences her and
her family doing something special this fall.
Well, do you ever celebrate festivals in the fall?
What kind of fall festivals have you been to?
Carolyn, have you ever celebrated any fall festivals?
Well, I mentioned before in uh... when we were talking about October because we
are in October right now though it is almost over.
But October is the time when my hometown has a great festival, Railroad Days, or
Train Days.
And it's a really fun one.
Oh, yeah! That's right.
You did say something about that.
That sounds interesting.
I... for me, I don't really celebrate many fall festivals.
Oh! There's the Moon Festival, I do celebrate that.
And at my high school, the junior class of every high school year, every junior
year had a junior carnival.
And that was kind of fun.
Well, what kind of fall festivals have you attended?
Let's get started with today's lesson: Fall Festivals in Maryland.
(Music).
Fall Festivals in Maryland.
Fun in the fall.
In October, a variety of produce is ripe and ready for people to enjoy.
The pick-your-own fruit and vegetable farms and orchards are open to the public.
Apples, pumpkins and other vegetables wait!
Haystacks are built for children to jump on.
This is family fun during the harvest season.
When we arrived at the apple orchard, we saw many people pushing handcarts from
the parking lot to the orchard.
But we just grabbed two big baskets, which we filled up quickly.
(Music).
Well, that sounds like they're having a wonderful time with those apples.
But before we get into that, let's go back to the beginning of the article: Fun
in the fall.
We have some great "F" words there - fun in the fall.
And it is a lot of fun; fall is a wonderful season.
Pauline writes: In October, a variety of produce is ripe and ready for people to
enjoy.
And I think that word is ripe and ready for us to talk about, the word from our
Word Bank: produce.
What is produce?
Well, usually it's just talking about fresh fruit and vegetables, so produce
from a farm or farm products.
That's right.
And you might notice that this word is spelled the same as another word you
might know: produce.
Now produce is a verb, and it means to make something.
But produce is a noun and refers to what a farm produces.
That's right, or what God made out there with the fruits and vegetables.
So here we're talking about produce, and it's ripe and ready for people to
enjoy.
If something is ripe, that means that's the best time for you to eat it.
It's ripe and ready for you to enjoy.
That's right.
And the pick-your-own fruit and vegetable farms and orchards are open to the
public.
So this is a great place to go if you want to pick your own fruit and vegetables
this fall.
And so we here talk about orchards.
OK. So what is an orchard?
Well, it's an area of land where there might be trees, fruit trees or nut trees
all together, and that is an orchard.
For instance, like a cherry orchard.
That means there are a lot of cherry trees there.
You can walk among the trees and maybe pick some cherries in a cherry orchard.
You could also go to an apple orchard.
Apples are in season in the fall.
And we read about that in the next sentence.
Apples, pumpkins and other vegetables wait.
So you could be picking apples, you could be picking pumpkins, or you could be
picking a variety of vegetables.
They are all waiting for you.
And I think that Liz is waiting for us in the Grammar Gym.
Let's go see what she has to say.
Hi there, friends.
Welcome to the Grammar Gym.
My name is Liz.
In today's article, we see this very interesting sentence:
Apples, pumpkins and other vegetables wait.
That's our Grammar Tip sentence.
And our focus today is on the word wait.
Normally we use "wait" to talk about that difficult thing we do before something
happens, like:
I need to wait for the bus.
But in today's sentence, "wait" has a different meaning.
Here it means to be ready or available.
In other words, the writer is saying that apples, pumpkins and other vegetables
are available.
OK. Let's have a look at some example sentences.
When the kids got home, they found dinner waiting on the table.
Or: The manager has a stack of reports waiting on his desk as well as several
phone calls to return.
If you would like to see some more example sentences, they're available in
today's Grammar Tip section in your magazine.
That's all the time we have for today.
This is Liz from the Grammar Gym.
See you next time.
Thank you, Liz.
So we know that fruit and vegetables and other produce, they're waiting for you.
And we read here:
Haystacks are built for children to jump on.
So Pauline is just describing this picture for us.
We see that there are fruit and vegetables and of course, haystacks.
Carolyn, what is a haystack?
Well, a haystack is a stack of hay.
Or hay, which is dried grass that's usually fed to animals like cows, it's piled
up so that people can jump on it or children can jump on it.
And it can be very fun.
But you should wear long sleeves and long pants because hay can be very itchy.
I agree with you there, yes.
Wear long sleeves and pants if you're going to jump in a haystack.
Well, Pauline continues.
This is family fun during the harvest season.
Of course, it's fall.
That's when many people, many farmers are harvesting their crops and produce.
This is family fun during that season.
That's right.
And Pauline continues to write about her own family's experience.
She says:
When we arrived at the apple orchard, we saw many people pushing handcarts from
the parking lot to the orchard.
So she and her family went to pick their own apples.
OK. And she saw people, other people, pushing handcarts.
Well, another word similar is a shopping cart.
If you go to a shopping mall of any kind, usually there are shopping carts that
you can push around.
And they have wheels to make it easier for you to shop.
A handcart, a shopping cart, kind of the same thing.
They are similar.
But they aren't shopping, they are picking.
So here they have a handcart that they can easily put the apples or other
produce into.
Now she continues to write.
But we just grabbed two big baskets, which we filled up quickly.
So she didn't have a handcart.
They grabbed two baskets.
Well, let's take a look at that word from our Word Bank.
When you grab something, that means you take it suddenly, OK, or quickly.
You grab something like grabbing some baskets to go and fill up with fruit.
That's right.
So they took hold of those baskets.
And it's usually done in a quick motion and very strong if you grab something.
Maybe you're trying to get someone's attention so you grab their arm because
they aren't listening.
But you should do it gently.
OK. So you can grab someone's arm.
Maybe you're hungry.
You didn't have any breakfast, but you don't have time to sit down and eat
breakfast.
And so you just grab an apple off the table as you go out the door.
You pick it up quickly.
That's right.
Well, we don't need to grab anything right now.
But we do need to take some time to visit Michelle in the Language Lab so that
we can learn something new with her.