节目资讯
刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2013-08-21
难易度:Medium
关键字:frequently, severe, mourn, tense, immunity, veterinarian, diarrhea
Hello, and welcome to Studio Classroom.
My name is Gabe.
And my name is Carolyn.
And thank you for joining us for the third day of our lesson How to Raise an
Elephant.
Of course Jenny Webb started this foundation, the Jumbo Foundation Elephant
Orphanage, actually.
And uh, we're finding out that she took in an elephant calf named Moses, or she
took him in and then named him Moses.
And then she also started to help other animals as well.
What was another thing that we learned about this foundation or about Jenny?
Well, she did start this, and this is in Malawi, a country in Africa.
And she does take in other large animals like hippos and rhinos that also need
to be cared for because they have lost their mothers.
Well, we also learned that elephants provide shelter to their babies by
protecting them from the harsh African sun.
The baby can go underneath the mother elephant and be protected there.
But Moses didn't have this, so he needed to have lots of sunscreen and different
kinds of creams to protect him.
And they even used a blanket.
That's right.
Well, they really care for larger animals like Moses.
We're going to talk a little bit more about how Jenny found Moses here at the
beginning of our lesson today.
Let's get started.
(Music).
How to Raise an Elephant.
When Jenny took in Moses in February of 2012, she believed he had only a 20
percent chance of survival.
Without the immunities he'd get in his mother's milk, Moses frequently got sick.
Thankfully, veterinarians and people from the Elephant Orphanage Project in
nearby Zambia helped out a lot.
But sadly, in November 2012, he got severe diarrhea and could not get over it,
and Moses died.
Jenny and her many friends continue to mourn the little elephant who touched
their lives in such a special way.
(Music).
Well, there you have it - Moses didn't survive.
I thought maybe this would be a happier ending here, but... but Moses didn't
survive.
However, Jenny and her friends are doing something great here at this
organization.
They will continue to help large orphaned animals.
Let's go back to the beginning of this section.
When Jenny took in Moses in February of 2012, she believed he had only a 20
percent chance of survival.
So we found out, of course, that she found him when he was a week old, and she
figured that his mother was probably killed by poachers.
And she thought that he only had 20 percent chance to survive.
That is not a very good chance.
So it's pretty amazing just how long he did survive and was able to be cared for
by Jenny so wonderfully for such a long time.
And we find out why she thought that he had such a small chance of survival.
Without the immunities he'd get in his mother's milk, Moses frequently got sick.
So he didn't have those immunities.
And immunities are something within your body that help to prevent you or fight
off diseases.
And it's very important for baby animals as well as people to get those
immunities from their mothers' milk.
It's true, from their own mothers' milk.
So of course Jenny and her co-workers are trying the best they can with
different kinds of formulas and different food,
but it's not quite the same as the immunities that Moses would have had from his
own mother's milk.
And so he frequently got sick.
Let's take a look at that key word "frequently." If something happens
frequently, it happens often.
And that's a very simple explanation - it just happens often, so.
Perhaps you frequently need to practice your English.
You should practice that every day at least ten minutes.
I think that's a great idea.
I could also say I frequently drive my scooter to lots of places.
I drive it often.
Well, this animal, this elephant, Moses, frequently got sick.
Thankfully, veterinarians and people from the Elephant Orphanage Project in
nearby Zambia helped out a lot.
Well, that is really wonderful.
And we find out here that there is another organization very similar to her...
to Jenny's foundation that also helps out elephants in the country of Zambia.
Now we saw a word there, "veterinarians." And those are animal doctors, doctors
who help animals when they are sick.
Now Gabe, how do we continue?
Well, first of all, a veterinarian - you could also just call that person a vet.
You might say I'm taking my dog or my cat to the vet's, the vet's office.
V-E-T, OK.
So we continue by learning about Moses further.
But sadly in 2012, he got severe diarrhea and could not get over it, and Moses
died.
And that was very sad.
And it was in November, 2012.
So he had lived for quite a few months, from February to November.
And it was very sad that he could not get over this severe diarrhea.
Well, let's take a look at that word.
The word from our Word Bank is "severe." It kind of reminds me of the word we
learned yesterday - harsh.
If something is severe, it's really extreme.
It's not just simple or easy to deal with.
How else could you use that word, Carolyn?
Well, a lot of times I use this word to describe the weather.
If the weather is very severe, that means you probably don't want to go outside.
If there's a big snowstorm or if it's way too hot, then the weather would be
considered severe.
That's right.
Or if you have a disease and it's really extreme or harsh, you would use the
word severe.
So Moses had severe diarrhea, which is definitely not a very comfortable thing
at all.
Sometimes people get diarrhea, sometimes animals get this as well.
And so Moses had diarrhea, could not get over it.
What does that mean, to get over something?
Well, it means that he didn't get better.
If you get over something, then it isn't bothering you anymore.
It's no longer a problem.
But this remained a problem for him, which probably meant that he didn't have
enough water in his body.
And that is what caused him to die.
All right.
So Moses couldn't get over this.
Jenny and her many friends continue to mourn the little elephant who touched
their lives in such a special way.
All right.
We see here they're not just her co-workers, not just the people that she works
with, they are her friends.
They were Moses' friends as well, and Moses touched their lives in a special
way.
Yes, he did.
And they continue to mourn the little elephant.
So we want to look at that word from our Word Bank.
The word is "mourn." Now if you mourn something, that means that you are very
sad about it.
You express that you are sad about it.
And it's something that you are sad because it is gone.
Mmhm. That's right.
So you might be in mourning for something.
That's kind of a phrase we use - I'm in mourning.
Or maybe Jenny said, "I'm in mourning for Moses" - in M-O-U-R-N-I-N-G.
And so of course her and her friends have been mourning Moses.
And maybe they still do sometimes.
I know it takes a long time to get over something like this.
Well, it's time for us to learn something new with Michelle in the Language Lab.
Hi, everyone. I'm Michelle.