节目资讯
刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2013-08-10
难易度:Low
关键字:in full swing, outstanding, primarily, reflect, dog days, bareback,
Victorian era
Well, we've been talking about some things that are special or outstanding in
August.
Of course, one of those things I mentioned before is it's exactly a month after
my birthday.
August 8, that's one of my favorite days in August.
But of course in the lesson, if the beginning of August is unusually warm,
people think the winter will be long and snowy.
There are some special festivals around the world in August.
We've already talked about La Tomatina, where you can participate in a
tomato-throwing festival.
That sounds like fun.
Let's continue learning about more about August.
(Music).
August.
Is music more to your taste?
Then head to the Lollapalooza Festival in Chicago.
Although it's primarily a music festival, crafts and comedy get mixed in as
well.
The world's largest arts festival in Edinburgh, Scotland is on, too.
Or perhaps you like horses.
Then head to Siena, Italy, where a bareback horserace is held.
It only lasts about a minute and a half!
"Evening emeralds," August's birthstone, the peridot, was called this by the
Romans because of the way the peridot reflected lamplight.
"Love at first sight!" August's flower, the gladiolus, held this hidden meaning
during the Victorian era.
Well, it seems the flowers can have hidden meanings.
But before we talk about that, let's go to the beginning of this section and
learn some more about festivals in August.
So we talked about La Tomatina in Spain, a tomato-throwing festival.
But we continue on: Is music more to your taste?
Gabe, is music more to your taste?
Well, I do enjoy the idea of throwing tomatoes at other people, but I do also
love music.
So music is to my taste.
Well, it is to your taste.
Then head to the Lollapalooza Festival in Chicago.
And this sounds like a really fun festival just from the name.
It's called Lollapalooza.
Lollapalooza... how exciting!
Yes. If you've never been, maybe you should go.
I've heard of this festival but I have never been.
We continue learning about this.
Although it's primarily a music festival, crafts and comedy get mixed in as
well.
So we're going to be talking about that word "primarily." It's from our Word
Bank.
That means that it is mainly about something.
The festival is mainly about music.
But it's about other things, too.
That's right.
So mainly or mostly, most of the festival is about music, but it also has comedy
in it and crafts as well.
Well, maybe you work at a company and the primary purpose, or your company
primarily deals with people who can't find a job.
And your company helps them to find jobs.
But maybe you do other things, too.
You primarily help people who don't have jobs, but you do other things, too.
And of course here at Studio Classroom, we primarily teach English.
But of course in the Information Cloud, Steve and Ken teach other information as
well.
Well, we're going to be learning about comedy and other things that get mixed in
to the Lollapalooza Festival.
The world's largest arts festival, however, is in Edinburgh, Scotland.
And that is on, too.
So we're already talking about many different kinds of festivals.
That's right.
So we have La Tomatina in Spain, we have the Lollapalooza Music Festival in
Chicago,
and the world's largest arts festival in Edinburgh, Scotland, which is on, too.
And "it's on." What does it mean if something is on, Gabe?
Well, that means it's happening right now.
That means you can go and take part in the event now.
It is on.
Well, maybe these festivals are not quite to your taste, so we have some more.
Or perhaps you like horses.
Then head to Siena, Italy, where a bareback horserace is held.
What do you think of this one, Gabe?
Would you like to go to a bareback horserace?
Carolyn, I've ridden on the back a horse before, but it had a saddle.
It was not bareback horse riding.
If it's bareback horse riding, that means there's nothing between you and the
horse.
You're just riding on its bareback.
That does sound pretty exciting to me, actually.
Well, it only lasts about a minute and a half.
Oh, man!
It's really exciting but only for a short amount of time, kind of like Nathanael
going up in the hot air balloons.
It only lasts about a minute and a half?
That's right.
But, OK, there are so many festivals to enjoy.
Now let's learn a little bit about symbols of August.
The first one - evening emeralds.
What are evening emeralds, Gabe?
How does it continue?
Well, evening emerald is something that some people call August's birthstone.
And the birthstone, the peridot, was called this by the Romans because of the
way the peridot reflected lamplight.
All right.
So that's why it's called the evening emerald.
Well, let's take a look at one of our Word Bank words: reflect.
Now when you reflect something, I usually think of standing in front of a mirror
and looking at my reflection, to see how the light reflects me.
But how else can you use that word?
Well, here the light is reflected off of the peridot.
So this is a little bit different.
And you might say that the snow reflected the sunlight, and it just shown
brilliantly, so.
It was just beautiful to see the way the snow reflected the sun.
It's true.
I also think that for people that know about God's love, they should reflect
God's love to other people.
And so you can use this word in different ways.
Well, we continue learning about something else in August.
"Love at first sight!" August's flower, the gladiolus held this hidden meaning
during the Victorian era.
Wow, we were talking about God's love, and here we have a flower that means love
at first sight.
And I think it's a very interesting that it had this hidden meaning.
So people knew that it meant love at first sight, but it was kind of a secret as
well.
That's right.
And this was during the Victorian era when Queen Victoria was on the throne
between 1837 and 1901.
That was the Victorian era.
Right now it's time for us to learn something new with Michelle in the Language
Lab.
OK.
(Chinese).
And let's get back to our teachers.
We've been learning all about things that occur in the month of August and
festivals all over the world.
I wonder, which festival that we talked about today was your favorite or would
you be most interested in participating in?
Gabe?
La Tomatina in Spain!
I've never been to Spain before, first of all.
And this seems like a very unique and outstanding festival.
I'd love to get messy throwing tomatoes at a bunch of people.
That sounds like fun.
It does sound like a lot of fun.
But I think that music is more to my taste.
I enjoy going to music festivals, so I would like Lollapalooza in Chicago.
Well, which one would you like?
Talk about it.
And we will see you here next time on Studio Classroom.
Goodbye.