节目资讯
刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2013-07-03
难易度:High
关键字:getaway, filthy, wrestle, raft, bungee jump, scratch the surface
Hello, and welcome to Studio Classroom.
My name is Gabe.
And I'm Carolyn.
And you're joining us for the second day of our lesson, Exploring South Korea.
Yesterday we were learning a little bit about how Jo got into South Korea,
and how she was connecting in South Korea through some networking with a little
help from her friends.
And today we're going to be talking or learning a little bit about a summer
getaway.
She was able to get away for a little while.
And that makes me wonder:
What kinds of places do you like to go to get away from the busyness of it all?
Carolyn?
Well, it depends where I am.
Back home in the United States, it was very easy for me to get away because I
lived in an area that was surrounded by parks and rivers and mountains.
So it was very easy to just go maybe a mile from my house, and I would be
surrounded by trees.
There wouldn't be any people.
Now living in Taipei, it's a little bit different.
It's a little harder to get away.
But I think my favorite spot would have to be Yilan.
Interesting. Yilan is very beautiful.
I like to go to a waterfall in Neihu to get away.
Well, I can't tell you where it is because then everyone might follow me there.
But it's a beautiful waterfall.
I love nature as well, Carolyn.
I think I would do well in West Virginia where there certainly is plenty to see.
Well, it's time for us to learn more about Jo's experiences in South Korea now.
(Music).
Exploring South Korea.
Summer fun, Korean style.
My favorite summer getaway was sunny Busan.
It was easy to catch a morning train from Daegu to the seaside city.
By noon my friends and I were stretched out on Haeundae Beach, sipping lemonades
and getting sunburned along with throngs of other vacationers.
In July we headed north to enjoy the Boryeong Mud Festival.
Every July this filthy festival on Daecheon Beach celebrates mud.
Mud slides, mud wrestling and muddy hugs from strangers - we enjoyed it all with
no care for a shower.
At night we lay on the beach and watched an impressive fireworks show.
Well, fireworks are always pretty fun to watch.
Now we're talking about Summer fun, Korean style.
OK. So we're... we know that it's not something from somewhere else in the
world; we're doing something Korean style.
And Jo says: My favorite summer getaway was sunny Busan.
All right. Earlier we talked about what your favorite place was to get away to.
When you're trying to escape the busyness of the world, where do you like to get
away to?
Here we see this as a noun.
Straight from our Word Bank, it is a "getaway." Carolyn, what's a getaway?
Well, a getaway is exactly what it sounds like.
It's a place that you like to go to get away from something, so.
Maybe you live in a very busy city, and you just need a break from city life.
You want to get away, so you need to go to a getaway.
This is a noun.
And my getaway would be the mountains, rivers, nature.
I love being outside away from the city.
What kind of getaway do you enjoy, Gabe?
Well, Carolyn, I also enjoy nature.
So often I will go to my favorite waterfall or somewhere like that.
But you know what, you don't have to leave a city to go to your getaway.
Maybe your getaway is just a nice coffee shop where you can relax and do
something enjoyable.
And so usually a getaway is a place where you can go and relax.
Well, Jo continues:
It was easy to catch a morning train from Daegu to the seaside city.
That's right.
And she says that by noon my friends and I were stretched out on Haeundae Beach,
sipping lemonades and getting sunburned along with throngs of other vacationers.
So it sounds like she was having a lot of fun with her friends as they were
stretched out on the beach sipping lemonades.
That's right.
She says by noon they were doing this.
That means she had most of the day ahead of her.
She could relax for a big part of the day.
Now when you're stretched out somewhere like this, that just means you are
relaxing.
You're relaxing on the beach.
And you're sipping your lemonades or getting sunburned just like Jo was here
with throngs of other vacationers.
Carolyn, remind us, what is a throng?
Well, a throng is a very large group of people.
We've learned this word before.
And so this was not an empty beach.
This was a very, very crowded one where there were lots of people - other
vacationers, and they were all getting sunburned together.
So it must have been very hot and sunny.
I think so, too.
Well, in July, as we continue, in July we headed north to enjoy the Boryeong Mud
Festival.
This is interesting.
OK. So it's July, and there's a festival where you throw mud at each other?
Well, that's what it sounds like.
This is a mud festival.
And we read that every July this filthy festival on Daecheon Beach celebrates
mud.
And it is a filthy festival if it is celebrating mud.
And that is a word from our Word Bank.
The word "filthy" means to be very, very dirty.
That's right, basically, just very dirty.
You can use this word to talk about anything that is very dirty.
Your hands.
Your hands are filthy.
Go and wash your hands.
How did your face get so filthy?
You need to wash your face.
But you know what, you can also use this to talk about maybe language that is
not clean.
Someone might have filthy language.
They're always using dirty words.
That's right. Well, this is a filthy festival because it is celebrating mud.
And mud, of course, is dirt that has become wet.
And we see some of the activities during this festival:
Mud slides, mud wrestling and muddy hugs from strangers - we enjoy it all with
no care for a shower.
So here they're doing mud slides, (so sliding through the mud) mud wrestling and
muddy huggs, getting muddy huggs from strangers.
Now we have a word from our World Bank here: wrestling.
What is wrestle, Gabe?
Well, wrestling can actually be a sport.
It's an official sport where two people get together and they... well, they try
to pin each other on the ground.
That's a kind of wrestling.
But this can just be a fun activity, too, when you get together with your
friends and just try to wrestle and fight each other, for fun, on the ground.
And I have done mud wrestling before.
I think it's a lot of fun.
If you just don't care how dirty your clothes get, how dirty or filthy you get,
that can be a lot of fun.
Carolyn, do you like a mud wrestling?
Well, I have never participated in mud wrestling before, but I think that this
sounds like a really fun festival to go to.
And there are some pictures in the magazine that you can see where people are
just covered in mud.
They look very filthy.
But as Jo and her friends have written, she says that they enjoy it all with no
care for a shower.
No care for a shower.
Well, let's take a look... a little more closely at that phrase "no care for
something" in the Grammar Gym.
Welcome to the Grammar Gym, friends.
My name is Liz.
In today's article we see how the writer and her friends have gone to a mud
festival.
She mentions: We enjoyed it all with no care for a shower.
That's our Grammar Tip sentence.
Our focus is on the phrase: no care for something.
That just means to not be interested in something or to not want something.
So in the case of today's sentence, that writer is saying that she and her
friends enjoyed being dirty in the mud festival and didn't really worry about
getting cleaned up.
Use this phrase "no care for something" when you want to talk about how the
subject has no interest in something.
For example:
The woodcutter preferred to live alone and had no care for a wife.
Or: Old Mrs. Hanson does not want a pet; she has no care for an animal to keep
her company.
If you'd like to see some more example sentences, they're available in today's
Grammar Tip section in your magazine.
That's it for today.
This is Liz from the Grammar Gym.
See you next time.
And Jo continues to write:
At night we lay on the beach and watched an impressive fireworks show.
So it sounds like she had a really great time with her friends at the beach.
Well, right now it is time for us to have a great time with Michelle in the
Language Lab.
Hi, everyone. I'm Michelle.