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刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2013-04-25
难易度:Medium
关键字:erupt, stunning, grudginly, coral, crater
Well, we've been learning all about Linda and her husband's experiences beyond
Bali.
And today we learned a little bit about their visit to Mount Kelimutu, Flores'
three-colored wonder.
Of course, it originally was blue, red and white.
And now it is turquoise, blue/green and black.
There are three lakes there at the top of this volcano.
It seems like quite an amazing sight.
We're going to continue learning in the next part of our reading for today.
Beyond Bali.
Following a restful sleep in Riung, we hopped aboard a boat and headed to
another fantastic park - the Seventeen Island National Reserve.
We first viewed thousands of flying foxes - fruit bats - before heading to the
coral gardens to snorkel to our heart's delight.
The boat then made its way to one of the island beaches where we barbecued fresh
fish.
Delicious!
As we headed back to where our journey had begun, we were so glad we had gone
beyond Bali.
(Music).
All right. Here Linda wrote:
Following a restful sleep in Riung, we hopped aboard a boat and headed to
another fantastic park - the Seventeen Island National Reserve.
So unlike the sleep before arising at 4 a.m. to go visit Mount Kelimutu, this
was a restful sleep.
And can you tell us a little bit about the Seventeen Island National Reserve?
Well, actually what's very interesting about the Seventeen Island national
Reserve is that, first, it's a protected area.
So it's a large, very large ocean area that's protected.
And there are more than seventeen islands.
There are actually 20... some say 21, some say over 24.
But they call it the Seventeen Island National Reserve because August 17 is
Indonesia's Independence Day.
And they want to be very supportive.
So they changed the name to Seventeen Island.
Interesting.
The political reasons behind choosing some of these names, the Seventeen Island
National Reserve.
Well, how do we continue, Carolyn?
Well, we see: We first viewed thousands of flying foxes - fruit bats - before
heading to the coral gardens to snorkel to our heart's delight.
So you got to see even more animals on this trip.
Fruit bats.
Yeah.
There were... there were actually thousands of them.
And they were not little ones.
They were big ones.
And there's call... also called sun bats because you can see them during the day
very, very easily.
They were flying around.
They... some of... sometimes their wingspan was maybe a couple of feet.
Wow!
And they go... actually they leave the island that they're on and go over to the
main island to eat sometimes.
So the farmers have to be very careful because they can eat their whole fruit
crop.
Wow!
Pineapple and bananas.
OK. These fruit bats, or flying foxes; I guess they have lots of names.
Um, I don't know if I want to see one up close.
But I would like to see this... these coral gardens and also... snorkel to my
heart's delight.
Let's talk about that word from the Word Bank.
It is "coral." Carolyn, what is coral?
Well, a coral is a type of animal in the ocean.
And when it dies, it forms coral.
And it's very beautiful.
There are many coral reefs.
What kind of coral were you able to see?
Well, there... there were many kinds of coral that we saw.
And actually, it was near one island out in the middle of the ocean.
And the coral was on the ocean floor.
So um, it's... well, shallow here where the boats all docked... or they didn't
dock, they anchored at ocean... in the ocean.
And then towards our left maybe about 100 feet over was a drop-off where you
went way down into the ocean.
And that whole area was covered with all kinds of coral.
Wow! That sounds really beautiful.
Actually, well, was it like a... was it a stunning sight under the water here?
It was a stunning sight under the water.
And that's why they call it "coral garden" because it's not just like around
the... around the island as sometimes we see it.
But it actually was covering a whole large area under the ocean.
All right.
Well, Linda says she can coral... I mean snorkel in this coral to her heart's
delight.
If you do something to your heart's delight, that means you do as much as you
want to.
Well, how do we continue, Carolyn?
We see: The boat then made its way to one of the island beaches where we
barbecued fresh fish.
Delicious!
So it sounds like, Linda, you were able to go back and have a very nice meal
after a long day of enjoying your time on this island.
Actually we went to another island in the Seventeen National Park Reserve and
barbecued fish.
It was actually a whole lunch that we had.
And we also snorkeled while we were there as well.
We... we uh, barbecued snapper and grouper and had... oh, it... it was a feast.
Wow! That sounds delicious.
It does sound delicious.
And I think we have some more pictures from your trip that we can look at right
now.
(Music).
Wow! Those are some stunning photos.
Well, we have one more sentence here in our lesson:
As we headed back to where our journey had begun, we were so glad we had gone
beyond Bali.
And Linda, Carolyn and I are also very happy you went beyond Bali because now we
have a little glimpse of what this place is like.
That's right.
And it's been really great having you join us the past couple of days to talk
about your experiences.
Now in this last sentence we see: as we headed back.
And earlier you wrote: the boat then made its way.
And these are two ways to describe where you're going or how you're going to get
there.
You can head somewhere or you can make your way somewhere.
Now how do you feel about the entirety of your trip?
Well, it was a fabulous trip.
And you know, I wanted to do something adventuresome.
And we... we went to Bali a few years ago... actually about 15 years ago.
And we wanted to go somewhere else in Indonesia.
And I'd always had... and feeling that I wanted to go see the Komodo dragons and
also to see Flores.
You need to be adventuresome.
You need to... to book a tour online or at least book a guide online and hire a
driver.
And then they can take you where you want to go.
There are package tours.
Or you can actually kind of streamline, or you know, change the tour that they
offer, which we did a little bit, to do what you want to do.
And also remember to be prepared.
This is not like a five-star resort... area that you're going to.
You're going to Flores.
It is just beginning to develop.
I... we took um, hand towels, and we took a little bit of soap, and we took some
wash cloth with us.
And we were kind of glad that we did.
Well, it sounds like you did have quite an adventure.
And it is really important to be prepared.
It sounds like some of those hotels might not have everything that you need.
Well, now it's time to go see Michelle in the Language Lab.
OK.
(Chinese).
And let's see what our teachers are doing now.
Well, we've learned a lot about Linda and her husband's experiences beyond Bali.
But I have a feeling that she couldn't write about all of her experiences here
in our lesson.
Am I right, Linda?
You are very right.
We have such limited space and time that I only wrote about the big things that
we did.
We also stopped at a beach along the southern part of Flores and saw Blue Stone
Beach.
And that's all that comes up there are blue stones.
And they actually sell them to Japan.
And we stopped at our driver's home.
That's very rare.
He was... we were going through his village.
And he wanted to stop off and do something at this house.
And all the village kids came over, and we took photos with them.
It was very, very fun.
That is so cool.
So it was a very exciting trip.
Yeah.
It sounds like a very exciting trip.
And now I really want to go to Flores.
Well, thank you very much for joining us on Studio Classroom to talk about this
article.
And we hope that everyone else will join us again next time right here on Studio
Classroom.
Bye-bye.