节目资讯
刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2013-03-19
难易度:Low
关键字:partnership, championship, approach, consideration, recruit, rookie
Hello, and welcome to Studio Classroom.
My name is Gabe.
I'm Carolyn.
And I'm Nathanael.
And thank you for joining us for day two of our lesson about Maya Moore -
Reaching for the Heights.
Of course, she is a basketball player, and she's a very successful basketball
player.
Yesterday we learned about some of her difficulties, some of the things that her
and her mom faced together, things that brought them closer together.
But as a basketball player, Maya Moore, I'm sure, is very competitive.
Well, do you like competition?
Are you do good with competition?
Carolyn, what do you think about this?
Well, I am actually not a fan of competition.
I don't like to compete with people.
I feel enough pressure from myself.
I don't need any more from others.
OK. You don't like competing with people.
Nathanael, do you like competing with others?
Well, it kind of depends.
In some areas, I don't like competition.
But in others, I do find it fun, especially if it's just a game and it doesn't
matter that much.
I agree.
Sometimes I'm actually motivated to get better when I'm watching someone else.
Like if they're playing drums, I feel like I need to get better.
Maybe I don't tell them it's a competition, but in my heart, I'm kind of
competing.
I want to get better.
Well, friends, we're going to learn all about Maya Moore today - A winning
partnership.
Let's get started with the first reading of the day.
(Music).
Maya Moore - Reaching for the Heights.
A winning partnership.
About a year later, mother and daughter moved to Georgia, where Maya continued
to play basketball.
In high school she had the opportunity to play basketball against some of the
nation's best players.
The competition improved her skills.
Maya led her team to 125 victories and three state championships.
During this time, she was named the national player of the year twice.
Universities competed to recruit her for their women's basketball programs.
Yesterday we learned that Maya and her mother were more than teammates.
And today we see that they are a winning partnership, or a partnership that
wins.
And we looked at "teammates." And we want to look at "partnership" today.
That's a Word Bank word: partnership.
You've probably heard the word "partner" before.
"Partnership" is a noun just describing when two people come together to work
together.
How could we use this in a sentence or an example of a partnership, Carolyn?
Well, that's right.
So a partnership is when two people come together or more than two people, and
they work together.
And they have about the same responsibilities, and they have to do things to
make it work.
You might have a partnership at work.
Maybe there are two people in charge, not just one boss but two; they have a
partnership.
How else can you use this word, Gabe?
Well, I think of my sister who is a lawyer, and she's had to work for law firms
where there are often two partners who are... ahead of her.
And they have a partnership working together on some cases.
Um, but we're talking today about a winning partnership.
And this makes me think of the phrase, "a win-win situation." That means it's
good for both people, good for everybody.
It's a win-win situation.
That's a good partnership.
That's right.
And you could have partnerships in business, or two partners in entertainment
that work together.
Also, marriage is a kind of partnership.
OK. The next sentence says about a year later, mother and daughter moved to
Georgia, where Maya continued to play basketball.
You remember that they first lived in Missouri.
They moved to North Carolina where things did not go well.
And now they are in Georgia.
What happened in Georgia, Carolyn?
Well, we see: In the school she had the opportunity to play basketball against
some of the nation's best players.
So it sounds like this move from North Carolina to Georgia was also very good
for her basketball career.
How... how does this continue, Gabe?
Well, the competition improved her skills.
So of course, when you're playing against the best players, you are going to
improve.
When you "play against somebody," I usually think of sports when I see this
phrase - to play against somebody.
That means you have an opponent.
You have a team and people are playing against you.
You both want to win.
You're playing against each other.
And then of course you can improve.
So hopefully if you're part of some kind of competition, you can use it to
improve yourself even if you don't enjoy competition that much.
Look at Maya.
The next sentence says Maya led her team to 125 victories and three state
championships.
That is very impressive.
Maya is a great leader.
And we want to look at this phrase: to lead someone or something to, or here
"led" something to.
How can we use this phrase, Carolyn?
Well, here we see that Maya was a leader.
She led her team to three state championships.
That's amazing.
It's very big deal.
But you can also lead someone a little bit more physically.
Instead of leading them to this event, you could lead someone to a place.
Maybe my friend led me to a new restaurant because I didn't know where it was.
How else can you use this, Gabe?
Well, I was thinking more about maybe the title of today's lesson - Reaching for
the Heights.
I think Maya Moore has led her team to greater heights.
You want to be more successful in the future.
That means you're attaining or achieving greater heights, getting to a higher
place in life.
And Maya Moore has led her team to greater heights.
OK.
There's also a word in this sentence that we want to look at - the word
"championship." If you play sports, you might be familiar with this word.
But it's a Word Bank word today.
When does a championship happen, Gabe?
A championship happens toward the end of all the basketball games, the
basketball season.
The end of a sports season is the championship games, or the championship game,
when you figure out who is the champion, who is the top team.
And all kinds of sports have championships.
And the word "champion" means winner.
So it kind of makes sense, championship, champion.
The next sentence says: During this time, she was named the national player of
the year twice.
Player of the year, "the best player of the year" is what that means.
When you say "of the year," that's another phrase that we want to talk about: a
noun of the year.
Time magazine has a "person of the year." They did something important.
What are other ways that we could use this phrase, Carolyn?
Well, you don't have to just say "of the year." It could be any time frame.
So you could also say "employee of the month" or "student of the week".
There are many different ways you can use this phrase to show how much you
appreciate someone for being number one during that time.
That's right, Carolyn.
Actually I was student of the week one time in fifth grade.
Mrs. Burke made me student of the week.
I guess I was nice enough and good enough to be student of the week.
So yeah, you can be something of the year, of the month, of the week.
Well, we continue.
Universities competed to recruit her for their women's basketball programs.
So it looks like she wasn't the only one competing, universities were also
competing for her.
They wanted her on their team.
Well, let's continue by learning something with Michelle in the Language Lab.
Hi, everyone. I'm Michelle.