节目资讯
刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2013-03-18
难易度:Low
关键字:bed of roses, teammate, association, opportunity, Olympics, downsize
Hello, and welcome to Studio Classroom.
My name is Gabe.
I'm Carolyn.
And I'm Nathanael.
And you are joining us for a lesson about Maya Moore - Reaching for the Heights.
Maya Moore is a basketball player who has found her way to success.
There are different things in her life that have made her want to succeed.
We're going to find out all about her over the next couple of days.
But I do wonder what makes you want to succeed in life.
Nathanael, what makes you want to succeed?
Well, there might be many different reasons, but one is results.
It's not always the best reason, but it's not necessarily bad either.
But you just want to see something happen.
Sometimes it's good for you, sometimes it's good for others.
Results might make you want to succeed.
What about you, Carolyn?
Well, I really like to make my parents pound.
I want them to know how much I care about them and how thankful I am that they
support me in what I do.
But I also think a lot about God and His plan for me, and I want to make him
proud, too.
All right. So maybe you want to make people or God proud.
Sometimes what makes me want to succeed is watching others who are very focused,
and they have what they want, they succeed it.
And I think they're a good example for me as well.
So different things may make you want to succeed in life.
We're going to find out all about Maya Moore.
Let's get started in the first reading for the day.
(Music).
Maya Moore - Reaching for the Heights.
This amazing young basketball player is taking the game and her life to a new
level.
Success seems to find Maya Moore everywhere she goes.
But life hasn't been a bed of roses for Maya and her biggest supporter, her
mother.
The path to success required a lot of hard work and sacrifice.
More than teammates.
Maya discovered her love of basketball in 1997 at the age of 8.
That was the year the WNBA (Women's National Basketball Association) began
holding games.
The young girl watched WNBA star Cynthia Cooper play in the Olympics.
Maya dreamed that she, too, could one day compete in the Olympics.
Maya sounds like she has some very big dreams here.
And at the top of our article we see: This amazing young basketball player is
taking the game and her life to a new level.
So there are a lot of changes instored for Maya.
And let's get started at the beginning of our article, and we see: Success seems
to find Maya Moore everywhere she goes.
So she is a very successful person.
Nathanael, how does the article continue?
Well, the next sentence says:
But life hasn't been a bed of roses for Maya and her biggest supporter, her
mother.
That's an interesting sentence, "Life hasn't been a bed of roses." Whose life is
a bed of roses?
Whose life is a bed of roses?
I'm not sure.
But "a bed of roses," this is from our Word Bank.
It's kind of a fun idiom.
And it just means a life of ease, a bed of roses.
If you can imagine a bed made of roses, it's not uncomfortable, and maybe it
smells good.
Everything seems fine about a bed of roses.
So Carolyn, is anybody's life a bed of roses?
Well, I think maybe sometimes we think that people with a lot of money or very
powerful, influential, famous people might live on a bed of roses.
They have things so easy that you could say that they live on a bed of roses.
OK. So maybe they live on a bed of roses.
How else might you use that phrase, though, Nathanael?
Well, for some people, high school might seem like a bed of roses, but college
is often much more difficult.
Or maybe for some people, high school was a bed of roses, but for other people
it was not a bed of roses.
Everyone has a different life.
And maybe what is difficult to you may be easy for someone else.
It might be a bed of roses for someone else.
Well, we continue with our lesson.
We're talking about Maya Moore and the path to success required a lot of hard
work and sacrifice.
So getting to the place where she was successful was not an easy path.
So how does this lesson continue, Nathanael?
Well, the next section has this heading: More than teammates.
And I think this is talking about Maya and her mother.
But we want to talk about this word "teammates." Teammates.
That's a Word Bank word for today, teammates.
Of course, a teammate is someone else that is on your team.
For example, in basketball, there are five teammates playing together on the
court.
OK. So that's one kind of way where you would use this word "teammate." But I
think most sports or most team sports also have teammates.
Even if you're playing tennis with um, with another person on your team, you
have one other teammate.
How else might you use that word, Carolyn?
Well, you want to make sure that you work well with your teammates, and that
includes at work or at school.
Sometimes you get put onto a team to work on a project together.
And you need to work with your teammates and get along.
So maybe it's not just in sports that you use this word.
Actually here at Studio Classroom, I think of Nathaniel and Carolyn as my
teammates.
We're on a team together teaching here at Studio Classroom.
They are pretty good teammates.
Well, thank you.
And we will continue with our article, we see:
Maya discovered her love of basketball in 1997 at the age of 8.
So she was quite young when she discovered this love for basketball.
And how did she discover this, Nathanael?
Well, there was something important about that year. We see in the next
sentence:
That was the year the WNBA (Women's National Basketball Association) began
holding games.
OK. There's a few things in this sentence I think that we want to talk about.
And the first is another key word for today: association, Women's National
Basketball Association.
An association is a group of people that are working together to do something.
They have one goal.
There are many different examples of this.
What is one example, Carolyn?
Well, there are many different kinds of associations.
You might have an association in your office.
If you all work together and you have a common goal that you want to achieve,
you could form an association at work.
How else can you use this word, Gabe?
Well, I think of the word "associated." If I am associated with somebody, that
means maybe we have the same goal.
Maybe we're part of the same group and we're trying to do the... something
similar.
We have a similar goal.
We're associated with each other in an association.
So Maya Moore she was watching the WNBA, and this is when they began holding
some games.
And we do more to talk about another word in that sentence.
It is the word "hold." And I usually think of holding like carrying something.
But Carolyn, what does it mean here?
Well, here it does not mean that you hold something in your hand.
If you hold a game, then you have a game.
Perhaps you start having games, start holding them.
You have an event usually.
How else can you use this word, Nathanael?
Well, maybe if you played sports when you were in high school or middle school,
you might have had a party sometimes.
And one family that has a player on the team might hold a party for the team in
their house.
It's also like providing a space for the party.
All right.
Well, that's one way you can hold an event.
We continue by learning the young girl watched WNBA star Cynthia Cooper play in
the Olympics.
And Maya dreamed that she, too, could one day compete in the Olympics.
We want to talk about that phrase there: one day.
We're not just talking about a day in the past, are we, Nathanael?
No, no.
In this case we're talking about a day in the future that is coming, that you
hope for.
For instance, people who succeed might often believe that they will one day do
something important; and that drives them.
That's right.
So "one day" means that sometime in the future eventually this thing will
happen.
Perhaps one day men will go to the moon.
Wait... we've already done that.
So, not to the moon, but perhaps to another planet.
Well, now we're going to spend some time with Michelle in the Language Lab.
Hi, everyone. I'm Michelle.