节目资讯
刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2013-08-20
难易度:Medium
关键字:orphanage, rhino [rhinoceros], shelter, harsh, formula, mattress
Hello, everyone, and welcome to Studio Classroom.
My name is Gabe.
And my name is Carolyn.
And thank you for joining us for the second day of our lesson How to Raise an
Elephant.
Already we learned about Jenny Webb and how she rescued Moses.
His mother was probably killed by poachers.
But Jenny helped him, and she hired some other people to help him as well.
And then she started this wonderful foundation that aims to help large orphaned
animals.
Hey, I wonder what kind of large animals you like.
Or maybe if you had a chance, you could raise a large animal, what animal would
that be?
Carolyn?
Well, I would actually... wouldn't mind caring for a tiger.
Whoa!
Tigers are dangerous, yes.
But they are so beautiful.
And people also poach them.
The poachers hunt these tigers, and it's very sad.
And I love tigers.
I love tigers, too.
They're very beautiful creatures.
I love lions.
Maybe I would think about raising a cheetah.
Cheetahs are very beautiful big cats as well.
I like penguins, too... and kangaroos.
Ah, there's too many large animals I would be interested in caring for.
But I... I guess I don't have time.
And I'm not in the correct countries.
Anyway, we have a lot more to learn about How to Raise an Elephant and this
wonderful foundation.
(Music).
How to Raise an Elephant.
To help with the costs of caring for Moses, Jenny started the Jumbo Foundation
Elephant Orphanage.
It's the first organization of its kind in Malawi.
The foundation will take in other orphaned large animals.
"Our orphanage is not only for elephants but all large animals like hippos,
buffalos, rhinos, as no one will take them in," said Jenny.
The foundation's goal is to care for the orphaned animals and prepare them to be
released into the wild.
(Music).
Well, it sounds like the foundation has a very wonderful goal.
But let's go back to the beginning of our reading for today.
To help with the costs of caring for Moses, Jenny started the Jumbo Foundation
Elephant Orphanage.
So it's the Jumbo Foundation Elephant Orphange.
And it sounds like a pretty great cause and a really good thing to start.
And at the end of that sentence, we see a word from our Word Bank - the word
orphanage.
Now that's a place where animals or even people without parents would go.
Exactly.
If you're talking about humans, an orphan is someone who has no mom or dad.
As an animal, actually, even if they just lose their mom, they're considered an
orphan.
Even if the dad's still around, an animal without a mom is already considered an
orphan.
So Moses is definitely an orphan.
And so he's in this orphanage - the Jumbo Foundation Elephant Orphanage.
And it's the first organization of its kind in Malawi.
It means Malawi has never seen anything like this organization before.
But maybe there are similar organizations in other countries that also try to
help large animals.
But Jenny has started one here in Malawi, and it sounds like a really wonderful
cause.
Let's read some more about it.
The foundation will take in other orphaned large animals.
So not just elephants, but also other large animals that are without their
mothers.
It's true.
She says... "Our orphanage is not only for elephants but all large animals like
hippos, buffalos, rhinos, as no one will take them in," said Jenny.
And actually, if you look in your magazine, there are some pictures of these
animals.
Well, let's take a look at one of these words.
It's a kind of large animal, large wild animal, the rhino, or rhinoceros.
R-H-I-N-O-C-E-R-O-S.
Yes. So the rhinoceros is another very large animal with gray thick skin.
And it also usually has a horn on the end of its nose.
So a lot of poachers are trying to get the horn from the rhino or the tusks from
the elephant.
And that's why they are hunted.
So it's quite possible that Jenny will have many baby rhinos in her orphanage as
well.
It's true.
So she can take care of lots of different large animals there.
Uh, that sounds like a place that I would enjoy visiting, actually.
Does this sound interesting to you, Carolyn?
It definitely does sound very interesting.
And I would love to go visit and see what it's like.
Maybe I could even help her take care of some of the animals.
Well, I'm sure she would appreciate the help; her and her workers would probably
appreciate help of any kind.
And I'm sure there are many ways to help.
Well, we continue here.
The foundation's goal is to care for the orphaned animals and prepare them to be
released into the wild.
All right.
So Carolyn, is she trying to raise these animals and then just keep them there
for the rest of their life?
Not at all.
They are not trying to keep these animals as pets because they are wild animals
and they want to help with the animal population in Malawi.
They don't want to keep them contained at the orphanage.
They want to be able to release them into the wild so that they can live the
lives that they were supposed to have perhaps had they not been orphaned.
And so this is a great foundation with a great cause, a great mission, and
they're preparing these animals to be free to go into the wild.
And perhaps by doing this, they are saving some of these animals from death.
Perhaps some of these animals would have died if this organization didn't save
them.
That's right.
And this is not a very easy thing to do, trying to release animals that have
been in captivity or kept by humans and raised for a long time and putting them
back into the wild.
That's very difficult because the animals can very easily start to rely on
humans for everything.
And they don't know how to take care of themselves.
It's true.
So I'm sure that these people, Jenny Webb and her friends and co-workers, have
had to do a lot of research to figure out how best to prepare these animals to
be released into the wild again.
They have something great going on there.
Well, I say we watch another video, and then we'll join Michelle in the Language
Lab.
You love elephants.
We know because everybody loves elephants.
Even cats love elephants.
So, you want to help elephants.
Good news! It's easy.
Here are some things you don't have to do.
(Music).
Unfortunately, Moses died in Jenny's arms shortly after this was filmed.
The Jumbo Foundation are building a barn at this moment for future orphans.
Moses will show you how you can help.
Firstly, click "Like" below and share this film.
Then "Like" Jumbo Foundation on Facebook for stories about Moses and updates on
the barn.