节目资讯
刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2013-03-20
难易度:Low
关键字:medal, amusement park, motivate, surround, honor student, mentor
Hello, and welcome to Studio Classroom.
My name is Gabe.
I'm Carolyn.
And I'm Nathanael.
And you are joining us for day three of our lesson: Maya Moore - Reaching for
the Heights.
We've been learning all about this basketball star Maya Moore, and she certainly
has reached for the heights.
And I think she continues to as well.
We've learned a lot about her past over the last couple of days.
Nathanael, what is something that we talked about?
We met Maya when she was 8 years old living in Missouri and loved to watch the
WNBA, which had just started.
She dreamed of playing basketball in the Olympics.
And then she moved with her mother to another state, North Carolina, for a new
job for her mother and better basketball opportunities for herself.
But this move did not go very well, and her mother lost her job.
But they learned from this experience, and it brought them closer.
All right.
And then what happened, Carolyn?
Well, she had a great partnership with her mother.
They were teammates in life.
And they ended up moving to Georgia, where they had even better basketball
opportunities.
And Maya led her team to state championships many times.
And it seems like she's had a very successful career since then.
All right.
Well, it hasn't always been a bed of roses for Maya Moore, but obviously now she
is very successful.
Well, I'm excited to learn more about her in today's lesson.
Let's get started.
(Music).
Maya Moore - Reaching for the Heights.
Maya was chosen to play on the 2012 U.S.A. Olympic basketball team.
She and her teammates went on to win the gold medal.
A giving nature.
Though she found success in basketball, Maya cares about much more than just the
game.
Everyone agrees that she strives to show respect to her mother.
While in high school, Maya worked hard and was an honor student.
She also spent much of her free time mentoring kids who needed help.
She spent her days off taking children to amusement parks or feeding the hungry.
Well, it certainly does seem like Maya has a giving nature.
Let's go back to the beginning of our lesson for today, we read:
Maya was chosen to play on the 2012 U.S.A. Olympic basketball team.
That is a great honor.
And it wasn't that long ago she was playing for the Olympics.
She was playing basketball for the Olympic team.
Well, Nathanael, how do we continue?
The next sentence says: She and her teammates went on to win the gold medal.
OK. Let's look at a phrase in this sentence: went on to.
What does it mean to "go on to" or if you went on to something?
I think of the sentence "Maya went on to fulfill her dreams." She wanted to play
in the Olympics, and that's what she did.
That's right.
Well, this phrase means to continue to in the future do something that you
probably wanted to do.
So she went on to fulfill her dreams.
You can also go on to fulfill your dreams.
Or if you want to go to college, you can go on to get your college degree.
How else can you use this, Gabe?
Well, yeah. You think about successes when you use this phrase.
Maybe you did something great, but there's something even better in the future,
or maybe something a little different.
I think of Doris Brougham who founded Studio Classroom.
She came to Asia to tell people about God, and she went on to found Studio
Classroom.
Of course, she continues to tell people about God, but it talks about the
different successes, the greater things that she is doing and that she continues
to do.
Of course, Maya Moore goes on to do even greater things.
Carolyn, how does our lesson continue?
Well, there's another word in the sentence that I'd like to talk about, the word
"medal." Her team won the gold medeal at the Olympics.
And this is a word from our Word Bank.
And if you get a medal, then it is a kind of award.
And usually you wear it around your neck, and it is made of "metal," with a T,
not a D.
Uh, can you tell us about the gold medals at the Olympics, Nathanael?
Well, if you win a gold medal, it means that you have won first place.
There are also silver medals for second place, and bronze medals for third
place.
So they were the champions of the Olympic event for women's basketball.
How do we continue, Gabe?
Well, I think we need to continue by learning something with Steve and Ken in
the Information Cloud.
They have something important to tell us there.
You know that phrase "practice makes perfect"?
Well, it's wrong.
What? Why?
Let me explain.
Let's look at the way Maya Moore shoots the basketball.
It's picture perfect, right?
It is! Maya launches the ball at a perfect trajectory and speed every time,
enabling her to score a lot of points.
Well, Maya developed her shooting form not by accident but through countless
hours of practicing correctly.
Eventually it became automatic because of muscle memory.
Yes. Muscle memory is when we can use something without thinking because of
constant practice and repetition.
It's how we can ride bicycles, play extremely difficult pieces on the piano or
solve the Rubik's Cube in 30 seconds.
That's right.
When you perform an action often enough, mental shortcuts are created enabling
you to do that action without thinking.
But be warned! Muscle memory doesn't distinguish between what is correct and
what is incorrect.
Oh, so if you're practicing something incorrectly, you're actually repeating a
mistake over and over again.
And that will go into your muscle memory, too.
That's right.
So maybe a better way to say that famous phrase is: Perfect practice makes
perfect.
(Chinese).
Thank you, gentlemen.
Yes, it's important to remember to have perfect practice.
Perfect practice makes perfect.
You want your muscles to remember to do things in the proper way.
Well, here we're talking about Maya Moore's giving nature in this next section.
A giving nature.
Let's talk about that word for a minute.
When I think of nature, I think of mountains and lakes and beaches.
Nathanael, is that what we're talking about here?
Well, not exactly.
We're talking about a person's nature or what is kind of natural to them, what
was always in them.
You might say it is in his nature to be friendly.
Friendliness is part of his nature.
That's right.
And there are many other kinds of nature.
You might have a caring nature.
Usually we say this kind of nature is a good thing - a friendly nature, a caring
nature, or Maya has a giving nature.
All right.
Or you might also say it's not in someone's nature to do something.
That's kind of strange, she's late today.
It's not in her nature to be late.
It's in her nature to be on time.
So we're talking about Maya Moore and her giving nature.
She's a generous person.
And what do we learn about her, Carolyn?
Well, we see: Though she found success in basketball, Maya cares about much more
than just the game.
So it's not only basketball that she wants to succeed in or that she cares
about.
She cares about much more than that.
And what does she care about, Nathanael?
Well, in the next sentence we see that everyone agrees that she strives to show
respect to her mother.
We've seen through this article that they are very close together.
They're teammates, and they're a partnership, and they really care about each
other.
That's right.
They strive to show respect; or she strives to show respect for her mother.
That means it's not always easy, but she wants to do this.
She strives for it.
Well, we continue learning about Maya Moore.
While in high school, Maya worked hard and was an honor student.
She worked hard, and she was an honor student.
Are you an honor student?
Carolyn, what's an honor student?
Well, an honor student is someone who gets very good grades.
They work very hard in school.
And the school usually recognizes them for their great work, for how hard they
are trying.
You can be an honor student.
I... I was an honor student in school.
You were an honor student.
Was there anything in particular that you were good at, an honor student at
everything or just a certain subject?
Well, I had very good grades in all of my subjects because I worked very hard
and tried to do my best in everything.
So I... I was an honor student in all of my classes.
All right, so that's an honor student.
We have one working with us today.
Well, we continue learning about Maya Moore.
She also spent much of her free time mentoring kids who needed help.
Mentoring, that's giving advice or being there for somebody.
She spent her days off taking children to amusement parks... hey, amusement
parks or feeding the hungry.
Let's talk about these words, "amusement park." They're from our Word Bank.
An amusement park is a fun place where you can go and maybe ride some different
rides, enjoy different activities.
Nathanael, do you like amusement parks?
I do like amusement parks a lot.
And my favorite part of them is roller coasters.
I really enjoy roller coasters.
Well, Carolyn, what do you enjoy about amusement parks?
Well, I also really like the roller coasters, but a lot of amusement parks have
performances.
And I really like to see the shows that they put on at the parks as well.
Well, there are so many different kinds of amusement parks.
Where do you like to go if you go to an amusement park?
We want to continue right now by learning something with Michelle in the
Language Lab.
Hi, everyone. I'm Michelle.