节目资讯
刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2013-06-19
难易度:Low
关键字:musical, road trip, concert, injure, kayak, legacy, aviary
Hello, and welcome to Studio Classroom.
My name is Gabe.
And my name is Carolyn.
And Carolyn, what time is it?
Summertime!
That's right.
It's summertime.
And the name of our lesson today is... What Time Is It? Summertime!
Well, what do you like to do during the summer?
Maybe you like to get out and enjoy the fresh air.
You can go and be in lots of places in nature.
What do you like to do during the summer?
Carolyn?
Well, summer for me is usually a time that I spend with my family.
It's also a time that I love to go swimming.
I love swimming in lakes, in rivers, in the ocean, on the beach.
Oh, I love going swimming and even to swimming pools.
Well, I would have to agree with you.
Swimming is a great thing to do during the summer when the water is not freezing
cold like it is during the winter.
Summertime is wonderful for that.
I also like going on vacations in the summer to places that have beaches.
And I can enjoy a nice drink while I sit on the beach and just enjoy the
scenery.
It's very nice.
Well, what do you like to do during the summer?
We're going to be learning a little bit about what a family in America is doing
this summer.
So grab your sunglasses and let's go.
(Music).
What Time Is It? Summertime!
Grab your sunglasses and let's go.
You probably have heard this song from High School Musical 2 - "What Time is it?
Summertime!" What do Americans usually do in summer?
The last thing they like to do is to stay indoors to study or work.
School gets out in mid-June, so parents make plans to travel or send their kids
to summer camps.
Road trips or beach vacations are top choices for families.
Camps vary from technology to adventure.
The local swim and fitness centers make popular spots to cool off.
(Music).
All right.
Let's start at the very beginning here:
You probably have heard this song from High School Musical 2 - What Time is it?
Summertime!
Well, if you have seen High School Musical or High School Musical 2, then you
know this song.
Carolyn, how do we continue?
Well, actually I want to talk about that word "musical." It is a word from our
Word Bank today.
And a musical is a story that is told to music or with music.
So if you have seen High School Musical 2, you know that there is a lot of
singing in this movie.
It's not just your normal movie.
It's a movie, though, called High School Musical.
And usually a musical is not a movie.
It's a stage performance.
Most musicals start on the stage.
And maybe over many years they become very popular, and so they're made into
movies.
But I do enjoy seeing musicals.
One very famous place that you can enjoy musicals is on Broadway in New York.
They have lots of musicals there.
And that is something that you might do this summer is go watch a musical.
Many theaters perform outside during the summer.
And you can watch a musical there.
Well, what do Americans usually do in the summer?
This is a great question that our author asks.
And she answers it by saying the last thing they like to do is to stay indoors
to study or work.
That's right.
Now Carolyn just said that sentence... or question:
What do Americans usually do in the summer?
You read "What do Americans usually do in summer?" So you can use the word "the"
or not.
They both mean the same thing.
They're both equally correct.
What do Americans usually do in the summer, or in summer?
Well, some people like to go outside.
The last thing that people like to do is stay inside to study or work.
Let's learn more about this sentence from Liz in the Grammar Gym.
Welcome to the Grammar Gym, friends.
My name is Liz.
In today's article we find this sentence:
The last thing they like to do is to stay indoors to study or work.
That's our Grammar Tip sentence.
Our focus is on the phrase at the beginning of the sentence: the last thing.
We use this expression when we want to talk about an activity that someone
doesn't enjoy doing.
In the case of today's sentence, the writer is saying that Americans don't
really want to be indoors during the summer months.
Because it is something they don't want to do, we can say it is the last thing
they like to do.
OK. Let's look at some example sentences.
Kerry hates doing house chores, so we can say:
If Kerry has free time, the last thing she would do is clean her house.
Or, Steven doesn't like going to the mall on weekends, so we can say:
Going shopping this weekend is the last thing Steven would do.
If you want to see some more example sentences, then check out today's Grammar
Tip section in your Studio Classroom magazine.
And that's it for today.
This is Liz from the Grammar Gym.
See you next time.
Well, I know that for many students, the last thing they want to do is study
when the weather is so beautiful outside.
And we see that school gets out in mid-June in the U.S., so parents make plans
to travel or send their kids to summer camps.
So in mid-June, students need something to do, and parents make plans with their
children.
That's right.
So maybe from June 15 through 20 or something like that, schools get out and
people can do enjoy something in the summer.
Road trips or beach vacations are top choices for families.
So if you went onto Google and searched "summer activities for families," these
two things might come out on top - road trips or beach vacations.
Let's take a look at that first one there, a road trip.
This is taking a trip somewhere in your car or in a vehicle.
But it's not just traveling for two hours from one city to another, is it,
Carolyn?
No. A road trip is usually very long.
I would say probably at least an entire day to get where you're going.
So not just from one city to another, but a road trip to another state or even
another part of the country.
And the United States is very big, so road trips can be a lot of fun.
They can be a lot of fun.
You spend most of your time in your car or in your van or something.
You're not spending a lot of time outside.
That's what a road trip is.
You can enjoy the scenery on a road trip.
Well, we continue.
Camps vary from technology to adventure.
So some people like to send their kids to summer camps.
And they all have different kinds of themes like technology or adventure.
Carolyn, are there other themes that you might enjoy at a summer camp?
Well, there are a lot of different types of summer camps.
I know that there are computer camps.
I know that NASA in the United States has a space camp.
Interesting.
And the school that I went to for university, they have a really great camp for
students that want to excel in sciences.
Interesting.
And of course, sometimes Studio Classroom also puts on English camps, English
summer camps.
So often a summer camp will have a kind of theme.
Well, we continue learning about something here.
The local swim and fitness centers make popular spots to cool off.
All right.
So if you want to just cool off, you can go to one of these places.
That's right.
You can go to a swim or a fitness center.
And there swim and fitness centers means swim centers and fitness centers.
They are both types of centers, but the word is only used once.
That's right.
Well, Carolyn, I saw a phrase there at the end of the sentence: to cool off.
What does that mean?
Well, if you want to cool off, then you want to go somewhere that is not hot.
You want to take a break from the heat and probably go inside where there is air
conditioning or a swimming pool.
All right.
Of course maybe you can take a fan with you and have a cool drink if you want to
cool off.
Well, it's time for us to learn something new with Michelle in the Language Lab.