节目资讯
刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2013-04-16
难易度:Low
关键字:food poisoning, rural, horror, upset, ethnic
Hello, and welcome to Studio Classroom.
My name is Gabe.
I'm Carolyn.
And you are joining us for a lesson called A Taste for Travel.
Do you like traveling?
Well, many of you do.
And maybe if you are traveling, you like to try different things.
There are many different kinds of foods that you can eat.
Maybe you have a taste for travel.
Well, have you ever tried anything really interesting?
Maybe some street food, something that you bought in a certain country that was
very different.
Carolyn, have you ever tried any interesting street food?
Well, I have done a bit of traveling around Asia.
And one thing I tried that I thought was very interesting was an oyster pancake.
And at the time, I had no idea what was in it except for eggs and oysters.
And it was quite good, actually.
Oyster pancakes are quite good.
I know exactly what you're talking about.
One time I was traveling, and I had some silkworm cacoons, and I had some fried
bees.
And snake meat?
Those are very interesting things to try.
I liked the fried bees.
It kind of tasted like popcorn.
But I don't think I'm going to try the other things again.
Well, we're going to learn from Jo's experiences here in our lesson today.
And she has some advice for us as well.
Let's get started with the first reading of the day - A Taste for Travel.
(Music).
A Taste for Travel.
You can watch your health and still eat like a local!
I love street food.
Wherever I go, I'm always looking for chances to eat like a local.
In many places, some of the best ethnic food is served from a cart!
From fish and chips in Edinburgh to pad thai in Bangkok, I've tried some
delicious stuff!
But there's a dark side to all this good food - food poisoning.
I once had a bad case of it in Nepal.
Well, it sounds like Jo has had a lot of very interesting foods, but it doesn't
always turn out well for her body.
And there's something in the title here I see: A "Taste" for Travel.
If you have a taste for something, that means that you enjoy doing it.
Uh, Gabe, do you have a taste for anything?
Do I have a taste for anything?
I have a taste for jazz music.
I enjoy playing drums, and I like playing jazz with the drums.
I also go and see some shows.
I have a taste for that kind of music.
You see that word "taste," and maybe you think of food or drinks.
Maybe you have a taste for coffee.
You love all kinds of coffee.
But as you'll learn in this article, it's not just about food or drinks.
You can also have a taste for language learning.
If you're learning English or you enjoy learning other languages, you have a
taste for language learning.
So we're learning all about a taste for travel today.
That's right.
And we see here: You can watch your health and still eat like a local.
So it is important to take care of yourself while you're traveling and also
enjoy the food you eat.
Well, we see: I love street food. Wherever I go, I'm always looking for chances
to eat like a local.
Gabe, do you do this when you travel?
Oh, Carolyn, I should more often.
"To eat like a local," that means to eat what the people in that area often eat
- to eat like a local.
Um, actually, yeah, I do.
I do like to try things.
When I'm visiting a certain country, I like to try the foods that they offer.
So yeah, it is good to eat like a local.
Do you ever do this?
I do. I really enjoy eating street food and just walking around to all of the
different ethnic foods.
And we see in many places, some of the best ethnic food is served from a cart.
So I do like to walk around to these different carts and try many different
kinds of ethnic foods.
All right.
Well, we have "ethnic" foods.
You could talk about other things as being ethnic as well.
Maybe some music you're listening to is ethnic music.
It's maybe from a certain country in South America, it is ethnic music.
And it really is music that you can always listen to maybe in that country or
comes from that country.
Maybe there is ethnic clothing.
Some people are wearing some clothes that you would only see in a certain
country or a certain part of the world.
That's right.
So it's very special to that culture.
And we see some of these ethnic foods:
From fish and chips in Edingburgh to pad thai in Bangkok, I've tried some
delicious stuff!
So she's had fish and chips and pad thai.
Those are some very interesting foods that you don't always see every day.
Mmhm, it's true.
Actually a few months ago, I went to Australia and had lots of fish and chips
that I guess is what the locals eat.
People love to eat fish and chips, especially on the beach.
And yes, pad thai is a very famous dish in Thailand.
Well, we have something to learn which Steve and Ken in the Information Cloud.
Hi, friends.
Have you ever noticed?
Sometimes British names can be incredibly difficult to say properly because
their pronunciations don't correspond with their spellings.
Like the name of Scotland's capital city.
It looks like it should be pronounced Edin-burg, but it's actually pronounced
Edin-boro.
The small town of Postwick is pronounced Pos-ik.
And that famous college at Cambridge is not pronounced as you would expect
Magdalene, but rather Ma-de-len.
Hmm. British family names have the same problem.
For example, Auchinleck can be pronounced Aff-leck.
And don't pronounce M-C-K-A-Y as Mac-kay; you say Ma-Kai.
This pronunciation problem isn't just troublesome for non-Brits like you and me.
The British people themselves have trouble keeping things straight, too.
So much so that the BBC actually has a department of pronunciation to ensure all
British place names and family names are pronounced accurately over the air.
To be fair, the U.S. has a few pronunciation traps of its own, like the name of
a well-known fishing village in Massachusetts.
The uninitiated might be tempted to pronounce it as Glue-chester, but actually
it's Glu-ster.
All this to say, friends, if you ever mispronounced an English name, you are
forgiven.
(Chinese).
Continuing in our article we see: But there's a dark side to all of this good
food - food poisoning.
So there's something that isn't very good about trying these different foods,
and it's food poisoning.
And food poisoning is an interesting word.
It's something you get when the food you eat makes you sick, isn't it, Gabe?
That's right.
Now this word "poison" is a very serious thing.
Of course, there might be actual poisons in food that if you eat, it will make
you sick or even worse.
But food poisoning doesn't necessarily have to be a kind of poison.
Maybe it's just the way that something is cooked.
Maybe you're not used to it.
Your body is not used to it.
And so you can call all those kinds of things "food poisoning." When your body
reacts in a certain way that's not good, that could be called food poisoning.
Maybe you might vomit or even worse if you have food poisoning.
And Carolyn, it's not very comfortable having food poisoning, is it?
No. Food poisoning is not a comfortable thing to have.
And we see that Jo says: "I once had a bad case of it in Nepal," another country
here.
And we're going to learn a little bit more from Michelle in the Language Lab.
Hi, everyone. I'm Michelle.