节目资讯
刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2013-06-03
难易度:High
关键字:anticipated, sequel, terrorist, prank, animated, franchise, minion
Hello, and welcome to Studio Classroom.
My name is Gabe.
And my name is Carolyn.
Thank you for joining us for today's lesson.
It's all about movies.
Well, actually for the next three days, we have a lesson called Let's Go to the
Movies.
That's what you say when you want to take your friends and go see a movie,
especially at the movie theater.
Well, there are many movies coming out this summer.
Some have already even come out, many great movies.
And we're going to be learning all about these summer movies.
Well, Carolyn, what movies are you excited about seeing this summer?
Well, we're going to be talking about a lot of really great films.
And there are two that I am very excited for this summer.
I'm really looking forward to seeing Star Trek Into Darkness, a really great
film, and I have very high hopes for it.
And another one is a little bit newer and different called Pacific Rim.
And we'll be talking about that one as well over the next few days.
Yes, I think we will be talking about those movies.
Some movies we won't be talking about are Fast and the Furious 6 and, of course,
a movie called Red 2.
It's a sequel, R-E-D 2, starring Bruce Willis and some other great actors.
Well, it's time for us to get started with the first reading of the day.
Let's Go to the Movies.
Summer movies are the most highly anticipated of the year.
Movie lovers eagerly await the start of the summer movie season when the studios
roll out their biggest pictures.
Summer 2013 will not disappoint them.
Sequels and series.
Once again sequels and film franchises make up a big part of the summer
offerings.
Iron Man 3 finds billionaire/superhero Tony Stark traveling to China.
There he faces the terrorist mastermind who has destroyed his comfortable life.
Stark must rely on his own ingenuity rather than his super suit to survive.
(Music).
Well, that is one movie that I'm looking forward to seeing.
Let's go to the very beginning of our lesson.
Summer movies are the most highly anticipated of the year.
It's true, people get very excited about seeing summer movies - movies that come
out during the summer.
Let's take a look at that word from our Word Bank.
It's the word "aniticipate" or "anticipated." If you anticipate something, that
means you are excited about it.
You're eagerly waiting for it to happen.
That's right.
And there are lots of things that you might be anticipating this summer like the
new movies coming out.
But maybe you have a highly anticipated book coming out.
One of your favorite authors has written a new one.
That's right.
You might anticipate something like this.
Many people anticipate the Oscars.
Speaking of movies, we're learning all about movies in this lesson.
People love to watch the Oscars and see who's going to win a prize for these
movies.
They anticipate this big event.
Well, our first sentence here says:
Movie lovers eagerly await the start of the summer movie season when the studios
roll out their biggest pictures.
And that is a very interesting phrase right there that they "roll out" their
biggest pictures.
It doesn't mean that they have... the movie is on a wheel, and they're going to
bring it outside.
But that is a great phrase we want to look at.
If you roll something out, then you introduce it for the first time, like a
premiere.
And a lot of times we think of rolling out the red carpet to introduce the stars
at an award show.
That's right, like the Oscars, you roll out the red carpet.
So you use this phrase to talk about things that are round.
So why would they roll out pictures?
Well, because originally, movies were made on reels, which were round.
Now there's many ways to make movies, but you roll out a picture like that, roll
out a movie.
Well, something else you could roll out, something you could introduce is a new
kind of car.
It's got wheels.
Wheels are round.
You can roll out this car for everybody to see.
That's right.
Well, continuing in the article: Summer 2013 will not disappoint them.
So you will be very excited to learn all about the movies coming out this
summer.
And our first section here is titled Sequels and series.
And we see a word there, "sequels." Gabe, what is a sequel?
Well, a sequel is the second part or the second film in a story.
Sometimes people make a movie, and they don't think they will make a sequel.
But then everybody loves the movie, so then they decide to make another one to
follow that movie, maybe to follow the same story.
It's a sequel to that movie.
That's right.
And next to that word "sequel," we see that word "series." And that means that
it continues even further past a second movie.
So, in this first paragraph: Once again sequels and film franchises make up a
big part of the summer offerings.
That's right.
And we see a word there, franchise, a film franchise.
Well, usually a franchise is a brand name that has a series of products.
And so a film franchise is a film that has a potential to be a part of a series,
maybe two or more movies.
Of course, one of these we're talking about right now.
Iron Man 3 finds billionaire/superhero Tony Stark traveling to China.
Yes, this is a big film franchise: Iron Man 1, 2 and, of course, Iron Man 3 now.
Yes. So here we have the series Iron Man.
And there he faces the terrorist mastermind who has destroyed his comfortable
life.
So Tony Stark goes to China, and he faces this terrorist mastermind.
And a terrorist is not a very good word and not a very good person, but it's
someone who attacks a government.
That's right.
Now maybe you've heard this word before.
Maybe you've heard it in the news.
We've heard about terrorist attacks.
Often these are kind of surprise attacks.
People don't expect them.
And the word "terror" is in that word terrorist.
Terror is fear.
It makes you afraid about something.
So that's the goal of terrorists is to make people fearful or afraid about
something.
That's one of the goals.
So of course this isn't good in this movie.
There's going to be a terrorist.
And Tony Stark must face this terrorist.
But he is not afraid.
We see that Stark must rely on his own... own ingenuity rather than his super
suit to survive, so.
He is very brave and overcomes this mastermind.
That's right.
In the past, in the last couple of Iron Man movies, of course, it's very
impressive the suit that he has, his super suit.
But in this movie, he might have to rely on his own ingenuity a little bit more,
his own brains as opposed to his suit.
This is going to be very interesting to watch.
Well, it's time for us to continue learning something with Michelle in the
Language Lab.
Hi, everyone. I'm Michelle.