节目资讯
刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2013-07-02
难易度:High
关键字:therapy, venture, pamphlet, plug into, network, GI
Hello, and welcome to Studio Classroom.
My name is Gabe.
And my name is Carolyn.
And you are joining us for a lesson - Exploring South Korea.
That's a lesson by Jo.
And we've had a lesson by Jo almost every month.
She's been traveling and doing a lot of different things around the world.
We know she has visited South Korea.
Now I don't know if you've been outside of your country.
Maybe you've been to South Korea or somewhere else.
Have you ever had culture shock?
Carolyn, is that something you have ever experienced?
Well, I didn't realize it was culture shock at the time, but now that I think
about it,
when I went to Japan when I was a high school student, every day I would go to
class.
And by the time I came home in the afternoon, I was so tired of it, I just
didn't want to do anything.
I had a wonderful host family that took me places.
But I was so exhausted that sometimes it was really hard to enjoy it.
All right.
Well, sometimes learning a new language or learning anything new can be tiring
mentally.
And that could be part of culture shock as well.
Sometimes when I go back to the United States, I have what some people call
reverse culture shock.
So I'm American, but when I go back there, I have to get adjusted to that
culture again.
Well, it's time for us to get started in our lesson - Exploring South Korea.
(Music).
Exploring South Korea.
Getting to know South Korea - with a little help from my friends.
Culture shock hit me hard during my first few months in South Korea.
My job was new and different; I didn't know anyone, and the language barrier
frightened me.
My therapy was to sit alone in my apartment and watch TV every night after work.
I lived this way from February until May.
But as the weather warmed, I began to venture out more and explore.
An accessible Korea.
Over that summer I learned that Korea has a lot to offer.
They are miles of beautiful mountains and ocean beaches, centuries of rich
history and unique cultural experiences everyone should try.
There are a lot of wonderful things to experience and enjoy in South Korea as we
will be reading about in our article.
Now if we go back to the beginning we see:
Getting to know South Korea - with a little help from my friends.
And this is a very familiar line if you listen to The Beatles, right, Gabe?
That's right.
If you know the song, "I get by with a little help from my friends..." it's from
The Beatles.
And of course it's a popular reference here that Jo is using.
So getting to know South Korea, with a little help from her friends.
We're going to learn about how her friends maybe have helped her get to know
South Korea.
That's right.
Well, beginning with our article here:
Culture shock hit me hard during my first few months in South Korea.
And culture shock is something that a lot of... a lot of people experience when
they go to another country that is very different from their own.
That's right.
And she says that culture shock hit her hard.
So if something hits you hard, maybe that means you didn't expect it, it came
and it really affected you in a big way.
It hit you hard.
Maybe you have a sickness, and the sickness hit you hard.
The flu hit me hard.
Or you're traveling, and jet lag really hit me hard today when I came home.
That's right.
Well, we see why she experienced this culture shock.
She says:
My job was new and different; I didn't know anyone, and the language barrier
frightened me.
So if you remember in our lesson last month,
Jo was talking about how she needed to learn Korean because when she went there,
she didn't know anything except for the word kimchi.
Right.
And then she gradually learned other Korean words as she lived there.
But you know, language barriers can be a challenge.
Especially if you only know a little bit of a certain language, you're not
fluent, it can be a barrier in your communication with other people of that
language.
So culture shock and language barriers, these are two very big challenges when
you want to move to another country or go to visit another culture.
That's right.
And we see in the next sentence how Jo dealt with these challenges.
She says: My therapy was to sit alone in my apartment and watch TV every night
after work.
This was her "therapy." And that is a word from our Word Bank, so we'll take a
look at that.
What is therapy, Gabe?
Well, therapy is a word that basically means curing or healing.
And if you have a health problem, then it's attempting to try to cure or heal
you from that health problem.
So that is therapy.
Now maybe another word that this is similar to is therapist, T-H-E-R-A-P-I-S-T.
This is someone who gives you therapy, who helps you as you heal from your
health problem.
That's right.
So maybe you need therapy after having a physical injury.
But you might also need therapy to recover from something emotionally that has
happened, so.
Here she is experiencing culture shock, and she needs therapy to help deal with
those challenges and problems she's facing.
Well, I think Joanna is kind of using therapy in a comfort sense here.
It's comfortable to just watch TV after a long day learning something new that
can be tiring.
Well, next she says: I lived this way from February until May.
So that's quite a few months that she was just learning a new language,
learning... different things.
And now she's done this for a couple of months, February until May.
That's right.
And now it's time for us to learn a little bit about those months with Steve and
Ken in the Info Cloud.
Hi, friends.
Have you ever wondered where the English names of the months come from?
To answer that, we have to go back to ancient Rome.
OK. Let's start with the first month of the year - January.
This month was named after Janus, the Roman god of new beginnings, doorways and
gates.
Ancient statues show Janus is having two faces - one looking forward and one
looking backward.
Which is kind of what we do at the beginning of each year.
That's right.
February comes from Februra, which was an annual feast of purification when
buildings and houses were given a thorough cleaning.
March was named after Mars, the god of war.
Now April's origin is a little uncertain.
Either it comes from the Latin word aperire, which means to open like when new
leaves on a tree blossom.
Or it's named after Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love.
OK. May definitely comes from Maia, the goddess of growth - very appropriate for
springtime.
And June honors Juno, the queen of the Roman gods.
Well, that's the first six.
Join us tomorrow when we touch on the origins of the other six months of the
year.
(Chinese).
All right.
Thank you Steve and Ken.
We have more to learn about month names in our next day here on Studio
Classroom.
But let's continue.
Jo says: But as the weather warmed, I began to venture out more and explore.
Let's take a look at that word from our Word Bank.
It is "venture." What does that mean, Carolyn?
Well, if you venture to do something, that means that you are breathing some
kind of danger.
You need to have courage to overcome some sort of challenge or obstacle that
you're facing.
All right.
So this could be kind of similar to the word "explore." Maybe you're going on an
adventure.
That means you know you're doing something that you haven't done before or you
don't know what's going to happen.
There are unexpected things when you venture out.
Sometimes people talk about venturing out into the real world,
getting out of their comfortable place, their comfort zone, and venturing out
into the real world.
That's right.
Well, we want to continue in our article.
The next section is An accessible Korea.
So it is easy to access things going on in South Korea.
Jo writes: Over that summer I learned that Korea has a lot to offer.
It has a lot to offer.
There are many things to do there, lots to learn, lots to experience, a lot to
offer.
And she continues:
There are miles of beautiful mountains and ocean beaches, centuries of rich
history and unique cultural experiences everyone should try.
I like this that she talks about "miles," but then she also talks about
"centuries" of rich history.
Korea has been around for a long time.
And so of course there are centuries that you can learn about.
That's right.
Well, right now it is time for us to learn something new with Michelle in the
Language Lab.
Hi, everyone. I'm Michelle.