节目资讯
刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2013-07-16
难易度:Low
关键字:collection, gallery, sport, carve, renovate, resident, striped
(Music).
Hello, and welcome to Studio Classroom.
My name is Gabe.
And I'm Carolyn.
And you are joining us for the second day of our lesson Enjoy the Netherlands.
Now something that we're going to talk a little bit about today is the local
culture.
You can visit some art museums.
You can learn a little bit about the history in Amsterdam or in the Netherlands.
And I do wonder, if you are visiting a city, Carolyn, what do you like to learn
about more, the art or the history?
Well, I'm very interested in history, and I really love to learn about the
history of the places I visit.
So when I go to a new place or I go traveling, I really like to explore and
learn more about the old buildings and the things that happened in that city
that make it special.
Interesting.
I think that history is very interesting as well.
But I think that I would usually prefer to go to an art museum or to learn a
little bit about the art of a certain place.
Well, you're in luck today, friends, because we're going to do both in our
lesson Enjoy the Netherlands.
Let's get started with the first section of our reading about local culture.
(Music).
Enjoy the Netherlands.
Local culture.
If you love art, visit the newly renovated Rijksmuseum with its collection of
famous Dutch paintings.
Look for Rembrandt's impressive Night Watch, which fills a whole wall.
And check out the Vincent Van Gogh Gallery to view some of the world's
best-loved paintings.
For some history, wander through the Oude Kerk, a church that dates from 1306.
Then, around the corner, visit the home of Anne Frank.
This young Jewish girl penned a diary during World War II.
Her family's hiding place is now a museum.
Well, Gabe, since you like art, this first sentence seems to be just for you:
If you love art, visit the newly renovated Rijksmuseum with its collection of
famous Dutch paintings.
So you can go to the newly renovated (it has had a lot of new changes and
improvements done), in the Rijksmuseum,
and it has a very wonderful collection of famous paintings.
That's true.
This does interest me, Carolyn.
I did not visit this place when I was in the Netherlands visiting my sister.
However, we find out here that it is newly renovated; you could also say
recently renovated.
But let's take a look at a word from our Word Bank.
It is "collection." So there is a collection of famous paintings.
A collection is not just one but many, many things that maybe these people have
collected to put in this museum.
That's right.
And a collection is a group of things that go together, so.
It's a collection of paintings, which means that everything there is a painting
or some form of art.
It wouldn't be something like a book and a painting.
That would be two separate collections.
So a library could have a collection of books while this museum has a collection
of paintings.
That's a good point.
And there are many different kinds of collections, of course.
A lot of people like to collect things as a hobby.
So what kind of collection do you have?
Maybe you like to collect baseball cards.
Or maybe you like to collect shells or coins or stamps.
That could be a shell collection, a coin collection or a stamp collection.
That's right.
Well, some of the paintings here:
Look for Rembrandt's impressive Night Watch, which fills a whole wall.
So this is a very impressive painting, and it takes up a whole wall.
That's so cool.
I really do want to see this.
It fills up, or takes up the whole wall.
I would like to see this especially because I like Rembrandt.
I don't know if you've seen his art.
You can look it up online if you haven't.
But his art is very, very interesting.
And I would suggest that you go and enjoy Rembrandt's art.
That's right.
And Rembrandt is not the only famous painter here.
You can also see Vincent van Gogh, so.
And check out the Vincent Van Gogh Gallery to view some of the world's
best-loved paintings.
And Vincent van Gogh's paintings are wonderful.
And here he has his very own gallery in this museum.
That's right.
And let's take a look at that word from our Word Bank.
It is "gallery." In a museum, a gallery is maybe a room that had... has an
exhibition of paintings,
probably by a certain artist or a collection of paintings that are very similar.
So that is a gallery.
I would be interested in seeing this Vincent Van Gogh Gallery.
Um, Carolyn, what's something that you think of when you think of Vincent van
Gogh?
Is there a famous painting by him?
Well, there is one that comes to mind right away.
And that is Starry Starry Night, a beautiful nighttime painting.
But he painted a lot of other things, a lot of landscape paintings.
And we see that he has some of the best-loved paintings in the world.
So let's take a look at that phrase: best-loved.
If something is best-loved, then it is very popular among a large number of
people and for a very long time.
That's right.
Maybe you could call these timeless paintings.
They're best-loved for a long time.
You could use this word to describe um, art of other kinds like songs or poems.
I think of The Beatles.
There are a lot of best-loved Beatles' songs that are still popular now.
That's right.
There are also a lot of best-loved books, very classic books that everyone
enjoys reading no matter when they were written because they still are relevant
to our lives today.
People still like to read them.
So they are best-loved classics.
That's right.
So here we're learning about Vincent van Gogh's best-loved paintings.
Now we're going to go to history.
For some history, wander through the Oude Kerk, a church that dates from 1306.
Oude Kerk.
Well, "oude" means old, and "kerk" means church.
So it's an old church.
And actually many cities in the Netherlands have an "oude kerk" that is the
oldest church in that city.
Well, this is a very old church if it was built in 1306.
It dates from that year.
Then, around the corner, visit the home of Anne Frank.
And Anne Frank is very famous.
Why, Gabe?
What does the next sentence tell us?
Well, this young Jewish girl penned a diary during World War II.
And we call it The Diary of Anne Frank.
Of course when she was writing her diary, she didn't know that her writings
would become famous and that people would read them now.
But it's very interesting writing about the Second World War.
That's right.
And she penned a diary, which is just another way to say that she wrote a diary.
She kept a journal.
Well, her family's hiding place is now a museum.
So you can visit the place where she and her family were hiding during World War
II.
That's right.
Well, I did not get a chance to go and visit the Anne Frank Museum, but I would
like to do that next time I go to Amsterdam.
Right now it's time for us to learn something new with Steve and Ken in the Info
Cloud.
And then we'll join Michelle in the Language Lab.
Since our lesson today is about the Netherlands, let's take a closer look at
this nation where the tulips grow, the windmills turn and the sea tries to drown
it all.
Besides calling it the Netherlands, a lot of people call it Holland.
So the question is: Are Holland and the Netherlands one and the same?
Before we answer that, we might also consider the question: Are England and the
United Kingdom one and the same?
And the answer to both questions is "No." They are not the same.
Holland is actually a small part of the Netherlands, just as England is one part
of the United Kingdom.
North Holland and South Holland are just two of 12 provinces of the Netherlands.
So calling the Netherlands Holland might be like calling the United States
Dakota.
But unlike North and South Dakota, which are mostly empty, the two Hollands are
the most populated provinces in the Netherlands.
Major cities like Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The Hague are located in these two
provinces.
So if you have ever been to the Netherlands, chances are that you have also been
to Holland.
So, to review, the country is called the Netherlands.
The people are Dutch.
They speak Dutch.
There is no country called Holland, but there are provinces of North and South
Holland.
(Chinese).
Hi, everyone. I'm Michelle.