节目资讯
刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2013-06-04
难易度:High
关键字:attain, version, sequence, warrior, Indianapolis 500, samurai
Hello, and welcome to Studio Classroom.
My name is Gabe.
And I'm Carolyn.
And thank you for joining us for the second day of our lesson about summer
movies this year - Let's Go to the Movies.
Are you going to see any of the movies that we mentioned in yesterday's lesson?
Are you going to see that new Star Trek movie or the movie about Sully and Mike
from Monsters, Inc?
Or maybe you'll see Iron Man 3.
Well, there're so many different kinds of movies.
What kinds of movies do you like to watch the most?
Carolyn?
Well, I actually really enjoy action movies.
I like all of the excitement and adventure.
And I also really like science-fiction action movies, which is why I can't wait
to see Star Trek Into Darkness.
Well, I think that is going to be a fun one to watch, especially in the movie
theater.
I also like action movies in a movie theater because of the big screen.
Everything comes to you so much bigger.
That's why I enjoyed watching Life of Pi.
Do you remember that movie?
I saw it twice in the theater.
It was just so well done.
I love those kinds of movies.
Well, we're going to be talking about more summer movies that are coming out
this year.
So let's get started with the first reading of the day.
Let's Go to the Movies.
More animated offerings.
In Epic, teenager Mary Katherine is magically transported to a deep forest where
a battle between good and evil is taking place.
She joins a group of strange characters who are fighting to save their world.
The animated 3-D adventure Turbo follows the adventures of a snail who somehow
attains the power of superspeed.
His goal is to win the Indianapolis 500.
Comic book heroes.
Man of steel, the highly-anticipated new version of Superman, tells the familiar
story of a child from a dying planet who comes to Earth.
(Music).
This sounds like it's going to be a very great summer for movies.
At the beginning here we see a title: More animated offerings.
Yesterday we talked about two animated movies, and today we've got a few more.
The first one is Epic.
In Epic, teenager Mary Katherine is magically transported to a deep forest where
a battle between good and evil is taking place.
Do you think this sounds like an exciting epic movie, Gabe?
Well, yeah, it does, actually.
This movie's name is Epic.
So that's a noun, I guess, because it's the name of a movie.
But it's an adjective, actually.
If something is epic, that means it is really big.
It's not just something really small.
It's a big, grand story.
And so this is talking about someone who is magically transported somewhere.
I also use that word "magically" sometimes.
Have you seen The Hobbit?
In that movie, when someone puts on the ring, they magically disappear.
We don't know how do explain it.
It just magically happens.
That is one way to use that word to describe it.
Well, talking about Mary Katherine in Epic, she joins a group of strange
characters who are fighting to save the world.
So it sounds like she's going to have quite an adventure in this movie.
That's right.
And of course, we found out that the theme of this movie is kind of the battle
between good and evil.
And I think that's the theme of many movies.
Of course there is a battle in the real world between good and evil.
So they like to bring that out in movies as well.
Well, how do we continue here, Carolyn?
It starts: The animated 3-D adventure Turbo follows the adventures of a snail
who somehow attains the power of superspeed.
So this is very interesting, a 3-D movie called Turbo.
If something is turbo, then it's very, very fast.
You might have a turbo engine on a vehicle, like on a racecar, so that it will
go faster.
But this is about a snail.
And snails, I usually think of as something that is very slow.
That's right.
So snails really are probably some of the slowest animals on Earth.
So how is he going to become "Turbo"?
Well, he attains this power of superspeed.
Let's look at that word from the Word Bank: attain.
If you attain something, that means you reach it, or you get it through some
level of difficulty usually.
It's not like the word "obtain," O-B-T-A-I-N.
That means to get something.
But usually it didn't require any kind of challenge or difficulty.
But usually when you attain something, it wasn't that easy.
Carolyn, how else might you use that word?
Well, if you have been studying English for a while, maybe you've been studying
with us here on Studio Classroom,
we hope that you have attained a high level of English that you feel comfortable
in speaking English,
and maybe you have even attained a high score on your English test.
Well, that is our hope for you.
Now this snail, he is going to attain the power of superspeed.
Well hey, I think we should learn something else with Steve and Ken in the
Information Cloud.
They've been around almost 100 years now.
So hopefully, we're all familiar with 3-D movies, right?
Right. And what are the three dimensions again?
Width, height and depth.
OK. Now are you ready for the next dimension in entertainment? 4-D!
4-D isn't actually a fourth dimension in the geometric sense.
Rather, it refers to entertainment that combines artistic talent with the latest
technology for the purpose of heightening our senses and maximizing our fun.
Right.
For example, let's say you're watching a movie about elephants.
As the hefty animals begin walking past you on the big screen, you start to feel
the floor vibrating underneath your feet.
Then as you watch the elephants spraying water from their trunks, you realize
you, too, are being sprayed with water right there in the theater.
You might even be able to... smell the elephants, too.
Not sure if I like that.
Keep your eyes open and you might also see movie advertisements claiming 5-D,
6-D and even 7-D technology.
But they're all basically the same thing - cutting edge, interactive
entertainment.
Besides theaters, you'll find 4-D entertainment in theme parks, museums, visitor
centers, zoos, aquariums and casinos, too.
(Chinese).
Thank you, guys.
Well, there is a 4-D ride that I can think about.
And that is the Star Wars Ride at Disneyland.
It's quite fun.
Let's continue with our lesson.
We're learning about Turbo, about this snail who attains the power of
superspeed.
And his goal is to win the Indianapolis 500.
And that is a big car race.
It's a 500-mile long car race.
Well, in our next section we see Comic book heroes.
So we are going to be talking about characters from comic books and this new
movie: Man of Steel,
the highly-anticipated new version of Superman, tells the familiar story of a
child from a dying planet who comes to Earth.
Do you like Man of Steel or do you like Superman, Gabe?
Well, I like Superman.
I like the idea of Superman, someone who has these superpowers and who can help
and rescue many people.
Um, I am looking forward to seeing Man of Steel because I like seeing these
different versions of old classics that keep coming out.
I know Batman is another character from a comic book.
And they keep making new movies about Batman.
And usually they keep getting better and better as well.
That's right.
Well, this is a new version of the Superman story.
And "version" is a word from our Word Bank.
If you have a version of something, then it's very similar to what came before
it with a few minor changes, so.
Maybe you are highly anticipating the release of the new iPhone.
It is the newest version of this phone.
The newest version.
Or maybe you love playing video games or computer games, and there's a new
version of your favorite game coming out.
Of course, when we're talking about movies, new versions of old stories come out
all the time.
One of these things... one of them is a movie called The Great Gatsby.
We're going to be learning about that a little bit later.
But that's kind of a new version.
Well, we're going to learn something new with Michelle right now in the Language
Lab.
Hi, everyone. I'm Michelle.