节目资讯
刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2013-08-02
难易度:Low
关键字:remain, hold one's breath, pilot, gaze, stabilize, fire
Well, we've been learning about Hualien From a Hot Air Balloon in our lesson.
And Nathanael and his friends, they are observing as people get in and out of
hot air balloons.
They rise into the air.
And sometimes you never know what the wind is going to do, where the wind will
take the balloon.
Sometimes you will hold your breath because you're not sure what will happen
next.
Well, let's continue with this story: Hualien From a Hot Air Balloon.
Hualien From a Hot Air Balloon.
Then we were told to make our way to the white balloon.
We were about to experience a balloon flight for ourselves!
We traded places with its passengers one by one to maintain the balloon's
weight.
Our pilot Tawin fired the burners, which caused us to tip rather than rise!
The ground crew pulled the other side of the basket down.
The balloon corrected itself, and we were off.
Our spirits rose with the balloon as we gazed below.
Oh, this sounds like a very exciting journey going into the hot air balloon.
And at the beginning of this section, we read what happened to the next group
going into the white balloon.
Before we learned that the white balloon landed, and the people got out.
And now we find out what Nathanael and his friends got to do.
Then we were told to make our way to the white balloon.
All right.
So they're making their way, they're heading or proceeding to the white balloon.
They're going to get in this hot air balloon.
We were about to experience a balloon flight for ourselves!
That's great.
Now if you experience something for yourself, that means you're not just
watching other people do it and then enjoy it, you're doing it yourself.
What have you experienced for yourself?
Have you ever experienced a hot air balloon ride for yourself?
I know many people like to watch hot air balloons rise into the air.
But now Nathanael and his friends are able to experience it for themselves.
Continuing: We traded places with its passengers one by one to maintain the
balloon's weight.
Interesting.
So they're going up to this white balloon, there are still people inside.
And to maintain the weight, not everybody can leave at one time, they need to
trade places one by one.
Trading places.
Now that's a good phrase to know.
Carolyn, um... let's trade places.
Do you want to trade places?
Yeah! Let's trade places.
Oh. Well, OK, let's trade places.
OK.
All right. I'll stand right here.
Hey, I kind of like this, Carolyn.
Well, this is a very interesting point of view standing on this side.
Um, I..., I think I'd like to trade places again, Gabe.
You know what, I feel the same way, Carolyn.
I like my original spot.
Let's trade places again.
OK, let's trade.
OK.
Great!
Ah, this is better, so much better.
This... this is much, much better, I must say.
Well, we have just traded places like Nathanael did with the people in the white
hot air balloon.
And they did this one by one.
So let's look at that phrase: to do something one by one.
It means one at a time, so.
One person gets out, one person gets in.
And I think of this phrase, uh, I live in West Virginia or I used to, and there
are a lot of wild turkeys.
And wild turkeys in West Virginia do not cross the road in a large group.
They cross one by one.
So there is a long line of maybe 50 turkeys just walking one at a time across
the road.
Wow! That's great, Carolyn.
Now I'm thinking about turkeys in West Virginia crossing a road one at a time,
one by one.
Now you might think of another phrase when you hear this phrase "one by one," a
phrase "one on one." That means two people are competing against each other.
That's one on one.
But here we're talking about balloons taking off... or people getting out and
trading places one by one.
That's right. So it's a little bit different.
Two different phrases.
Have you ever seen someone do something one by one?
What do you know that does something one by one?
Well, we're going to learn about this balloon.
And of course you have to maintain the balloon's weight, so you trade places one
by one.
And our pilot Tawin fired the burners, which caused us to tip rather than rise.
So Nathanael is continuing this story.
And he will have to fire the burners.
That means you start these burners, make the fire come out.
It breathes fire.
But we have a key word there.
Carolyn, what is this word?
It is the word "pilot." And a pilot is a person that flies... usually, a plane
is what I think of.
But we can also use it to talk about someone who controls a hot air balloon.
That's right, something that flies.
And if you're controlling it, you are the pilot.
So this guy, Tawin, he fired the burners.
And he is probably a very good pilot.
I think we're going to learn more about him later in this lesson.
But sometimes when you fire these burners, it causes the balloons to tip rather
than to rise.
That's a little scary, Carolyn.
That is a little bit scary.
But don't worry.
The ground crew pulled the other side of the basket down.
So they stabilized.
And it was OK.
It's good to stabilize.
And now we continue.
The balloon corrected itself, and we were off.
All right.
So maybe sometimes it takes people to correct something.
But here we see the balloon corrected itself.
It's kind of like the balloon had an idea of its own.
It made itself go straight.
And they were off.
Well, let's take a look at that word "off." What does that mean if you are off
somewhere, Carolyn?
Well, if you are off or to be off, that means that you have started to go
somewhere.
Maybe you've started your journey.
So if you load all of the things in your car, and you start to drive, then you
are off.
And maybe you are off on a vacation.
Mmhm. So you don't have to be off the ground in a hot air balloon to use this
word.
You can be off.
Let's begin.
Well, we have another sentence here.
Our spirits rose with the balloon as we gazed below.
So they're gazing below now.
Let's take a look at that word from our Word Bank.
When you gaze, you are looking.
You're taking things in with your eyes.
That's right.
And a lot of times I think that we gaze into the mirror to see what we look
like.
So you look at things in front of you.
All right.
Well, it seems like they will probably be enjoying this sight, the scenery
below.
They're gazing down below.
Now it's time to learn something new with Michelle in the Language Lab.
OK.
(Chinese).
And now let's get back to our teachers.
Today we have entered into the hot air balloon with Nathanael and his friends.
And it's very exciting.
Now Gabe, would you want to ride in a hot air balloon?
Yes. Actually I wish I could've gone with Nathanael and his friends in the hot
air balloon.
Well, it would have been a lot of fun to have joined them.
But we have a lot more to learn about in the next part of our lesson here
tomorrow on Studio Classroom.
See you then.