节目资讯
刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2013-05-24
难易度:Medium
关键字:presentation, status, worth one's while, scroll
Hello, and welcome to Studio Classroom.
My name is Gabe.
And I'm Carolyn.
And thank you for joining us for our lesson today called To Post or Not to Post.
Well, it is a question that many people have.
Some people like to post everything about their lives online.
Of course, today there are many social networks you can post things about
yourself all over the place.
So what kinds of things do you like to post online?
Maybe you don't like to post anything online, but maybe you do.
Carolyn, do you post anything online?
And if so, what?
Well, there are a few things I like to post online.
A lot of my friends have birthdays.
And I like to wish them a happy birthday and post something so that they can see
it and know that I'm thinking about them.
Well, that is very sweet, of course.
It's... it's good to show your friends that you care about them; and you can do
that online.
For me, I don't really post much.
Sometimes I'll post a picture if I think it is interesting or if it means
something to me.
But otherwise, I don't post a whole lot online.
So our lesson today is To Post or Not to Post.
Let's enjoy a conversation between two friends.
To Post or Not to Post.
How much do you share online?
Julie and Susan are eating lunch together at a cafe.
Susan takes out her phone and starts taking pictures of her food.
Wow, you sure are taking a lot of pictures.
You must really like the presentation of the food.
I do!
The heart-shaped sandwich is really cute.
I want to update my status so my friends can see it, too.
Do you want me to take pictures of your food for you?
No, that's OK.
I don't usually post stuff like that online.
If people really want to know what I have for lunch, they can ask me.
Well, we are having a very interesting conversation with Julie and Susan, two
girls who are sitting down for lunch.
At the beginning we see Julie and Susan are eating lunch together at a cafe.
Susan takes out her phone and starts taking pictures of her food.
Oh. Well, this seems like pretty normal behavior.
I see people doing this all the time, don't you, Gabe?
Well, it's true, yeah.
Whether you're at a cafe drinking coffee or eating something simple, or if
you're at a nice fancy restaurant,
a lot of people like to take out their smartphones or even just their regular
cell phones and take pictures of their food.
And then they put those pictures online.
That's right.
Well, we have a conversation with Julie and Susan.
Uh, which one would you like to be, Gabe?
Hmm, let's see, Julie and Susan... Ah, I'll be Julie.
Can I be Julie?
OK, you can be Julie. Go, go right ahead.
OK.
Wow, you sure are taking a lot of pictures.
Oh, great.
Well, you sure are taking a lot of pictures.
There's a nice little phrase there: you sure are doing something.
Let's look at that for a moment before we continue the conversation.
If you sure are doing something, you are emphasizing what is going on.
It is certainly happening.
Uh, Gabe, how might you use this?
Well, you could say:
Wow, you're eating a lot.
You sure are hungry.
Or: Oh, my goodness, that sure is a big elephant.
And in the conversation just now with Julie and Susan, there was a waiter.
And he sure was a handsome waiter.
So you can use this phrase "sure are" to say that something is true.
It is definite.
And it seems like there are a lot of pictures being taken since Julie says: You
sure are taking a lot of pictures.
Well, now we sure do need to go see Steve and Ken in the Information Cloud to
learn a little something else.
Hey, Steve, let me ask you this.
What do you think of when you hear the word "bug"?
I think of insects.
OK. That's one meaning.
Another meaning of bug is a person who has an interest or enthusiasm for
something.
Ah, yes.
When tagged on at the end of certain words, a fun, new descriptive word is
created.
OK. Let's tag "bug" on to the end of the word "shutter," which is that mechanism
that lets light into a camera.
Perfect example.
The new word is "shutterbug." And it describes an amateur photographer who has a
lot of enthusiasm for taking pictures, just like Susan in today's lesson.
OK. We all know what "litter" is, right?
It's the trash and garbage that you see on the streets or in parks.
Add the word "bug" to "litter," and you get "litterbug," which is a person who
wouldn't think twice about throwing trash in public places.
OK, one more.
What happens when we place "bug" at the end of the word "cuddle," which means to
hold close in an affectionate way for comfort or warmth?
We get cuddlebug.
We sometimes use "cuddlebug" to describe an enfant who delights in being hugged
and held by mom and dad.
And if your pet dog or cats display this kind of behavior, you can call them
cuddlebugs, too.
(Chinese).
Thank you, guys.
Well, we were in the middle of Julie's line.
And I will continue being Julie.
Here I go.
You must really like the presentation of the food.
Oh. The word "presentation" is right there.
It's a great word - the presentation of the food.
And that is a word from our Word Bank.
The presentation is the way something looks.
So it's not that you are watching a presentation, you are watching something
happening but the way that the food is presented on the plate.
How else could you use this, Gabe?
Well, sometimes maybe you... you give a speech.
And for part of your speech, you give out a piece of paper to each of your
classmates.
And maybe you did something special to make that piece of paper look cool or
interesting.
That is the presentation of your piece of paper.
The presentation looks interesting.
But usually I do think of food when I use this word presentation because
sometimes going to eat something is not just about the taste,
but also about how the cook makes it look after they give you the food.
That's right.
Well, OK. I suppose I will be Susan.
And continuing with Susan:
I do! The heart-shaped sandwich is really cute.
I want to update my status so my friends can see it, too.
Wait a minute. Wait a minute.
Before you continue your line there, Susan... Carolyn, I would like to update
all of our friends here about some um, well, English words.
One English word in this instance is the word "update." If you update something,
that means you are making it new or up-to-date so that people can tell it
happened recently.
So here we see a Word Bank word.
It is "status." You can update your status online.
Carolyn, what's your status?
Well, your status is what you are doing.
So what you are doing, you want to update it so that people know what you're
doing now instead of what you were doing five years ago.
It could be a very different change in your current status.
That's right.
Now of course nowadays when you think of the word "status," you might think of
Facebook or Twitter.
And there's a little question that it might ask you.
You have a space you can write your status in.
It's what you are doing most recently or what you are thinking about.
That is your status.
And of course you can also post pictures in that status space.
I also think of this word in another way.
Maybe a marital status.
If you are married, that's your status.
Or maybe you're not married, you're single.
That is also a kind of status.
That's right.
Well, OK.
Continuing with Susan's line now.
Do you want me to take pictures of your food for you?
A great question.
No, that's OK.
I don't usually post stuff like that online.
If people really want to know what I had for lunch, they can ask me.
Oh. Well, so it seems like Julie and Susan are having a little bit of a
disagreement.
But now it is time for us to join Michelle in the Language Lab.
Hi, everyone. I'm Michelle.