节目资讯
刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2013-01-12
难易度:Low
关键字:frame, disguise, lengthen, fasten, flare, thigh
Well, in this article Look Your Best, we've been talking about a lot of
different tips of clothes that you can buy to flatter your own personal body.
We've talked about a lot of different things, and maybe some of them have been
helpful to you.
But we still actually have several more to discuss.
So let's move on to our second reading for this article today.
Look Your Best.
Thick thighs.
Avoid perfectly straight pants, which put the focus on your hips and thighs.
Instead, choose flared pants, which lenghthen the leg and make the thighs look
slimmer.
Big arms.
Choose three-quarter-length sleeves that stop below the elbow, the thinnest part
of the arm.
Wide ankles.
Never wear shoes that fasten at the ankle.
They make your legs look shorter and your ankles and legs look wider.
No one has a perfect body.
But you can make yours look great with these simple clothing tricks.
(Music).
We're talking about Looking Our Best.
And the first problem area we see here after the break is thick thighs.
Now our lesson says avoid perfectly straight pants, which put the focus on your
hips and thighs.
All right. So you want to avoid these things.
Earlier today in our lesson, we used a phrase: stay away from.
This means the same thing - to avoid something, to stay away from something.
We also heard the phrase: to move the eyes away from the hips.
And here we just read: which put the focus on your hips and thighs.
So if your eyes are somewhere, another way to say that is that you're focusing
on that thing.
So if you want to make your thighs look less thick, what should you do, Carolyn?
Well, you want to make the eyes move away from them.
So instead, choose flared pants, which lengthen the leg and make the thighs look
slimmer.
And here we see a great word "lengthen." And that's our next Word Bank word
today.
Lengthen.
If you lengthen something, then you make it longer.
You make the length greater.
Do you ever lengthen your pants, Gabe?
Um, I haven't had to lengthen my pants.
I've bought pants before there were too long, I had to shorten, S-H-O-R-T-E-N.
That's the opposite of lengthen.
I had to shorten my pants.
Um, but I do like to use this word lengthen in other ways.
I think of maybe vacations that are too short, and I would like to lengthen my
vacation time.
Well, how else can you use that word, Nathanael?
Similarly, if you don't have time to finish discussing what you need to say in a
meeting, you could lengthen the time of your meeting.
Make sure that you have enough time, that time is long enough to talk about
everything that you need to discuss.
That's right.
And Nathannael, you studied film, I think.
Did you ever have to lengthen movies or make them longer?
I did.
Actually, sometimes in editing, you would actually have to lengthen one clip and
make it into slow motion.
So the... just one little bit takes up more time and things actually end up
looking like they move much more slowly.
Very interesting.
So there are different things that you could lengthen.
And as we see in our article, you need to lengthen the leg and make the thighs
look slimmer.
Well, what is our next problem area here, Nathanael?
The next problem area is big arms.
If you have big arms, you should choose three-quarter-length sleeves that stop
below the elbow, the thinnest part of the arm.
Now I can make a guess at to what three-quarter-length sleeves are, but I'm not
really sure.
So Carolyn, what are three-quarter-length sleeves?
Well, it's exactly the way it sounds, Nathanael.
Three-quarter-length means it goes three quarters of the way down your arm.
So today I'm wearing half-length sleeves.
And three-quarter-length sleeves would be about here between my elbow and my
wrist.
Three-quarter-length sleeves.
Well, usually I wear shirts that are neither full-length sleeves or short
sleeved.
But I do have a couple of T-shirts that are three-quarter-length.
They are kind of fun to wear.
That's a different style.
Well, Carolyn, what is our last problem area here today?
Our last problem area for today is wide ankles.
Never wear shoes that fasten at the ankle.
And your ankle is that area just above your foot.
Now if you fasten something... "fasten" is another Word Bank word.
What sort of things can you fasten, Gabe?
Well, the first thing I think about is a seat belt.
If you get into a car, you're driving somewhere, you need to fasten your seat
belt.
Whether you're driving or not, if you're in a car, you should fasten your seat
belt.
Not just so you don't get pulled over by the police, but because it is the safe
thing to do.
Fasten your seat belt.
What about you, Nathanael?
How do you use that word, fasten?
Well, you can fasten your seat belt, and you can fasten your shoes.
But I thought of something a little different.
Kids fasten to my friend because he makes learning so fun.
Of course kids don't buckle like shoes or click like a seat belt, but they might
grab onto someone because they like them so much.
They fasten to him.
Right. So "fasten" just means to connect.
And if you fasten your shoes at the ankle, they can make your legs look shorter
and your ankles and legs look wider.
So this is not really something that you should do.
Make sure you don't get shoes that fasten at your ankle.
Well, no one has a perfect body.
As we see here in our last paragraph, no one is perfect, and no one has a
perfect body.
But you can make yours look great with these simple clothing tricks.
We've been talking about Looking Our Best.
And there are many different problem areas that are mentioned here.
But you can use different tricks to make your body look good, different clothing
tricks.
Usually I see this word "trick" and I think of magic.
I think of a magic trick.
But here what does this word mean, Carolyn?
Well, here it's just a tip or some sort of extra skill that you can use to make
yourself look better.
I also think of Halloween and going door to door and saying: Trick or treat.
So you might try to trick someone into doing something for you.
That's right.
It's something that maybe most people don't think about but it's a way that you
can do something to look extra special.
Try these clothing tricks next time you go out.
Well, right now it's time for us to go and enjoy a little review skit.
So Barbie, how do I look?
Well, hmm...
I want to look my best.
I want clothes that flatter me.
Good idea.
If you wear the right clothes, you can hide those trouble spots.
What trouble spots?
Your short legs, for example.
My legs are too short?
Yes! Wear black hose with black shoes to create an extra long line.
And make my short legs look longer?
Yes. And here is how to hide your muffin top.
Muffin top?
That fat around the middle that spills over your pants.
I have a muffin top?
Yes. Stay away from tight, low-fitting pants.
Well, how can I avoid looking too thin?
You don't have that problem.
Let's talk about your big tummy.
I have a big tummy?
Yes. Two-piece dresses will help disguise that, loose-fitting and low-waisted.
Is my tummy really that big?
Well, your bottom is bigger.
Stay away from short tops.
Wear flared pants that will also help hide your thick thighs.
I have thick thighs too?
And wide ankles.
So don't wear shoes that fasten at the ankle.
Short legs, muffin top.
Fat tummy.
Big bottom.
Thick thighs and wide ankles... Ah...
Hey, come back.
You didn't thank me.
(Music).
Well, that was a great review skit.
And we certainly do want to look our best.
Now let's see what Michelle has waiting for us in the Language Lab.
(Music).
OK.
(Chinese).
And let's get back to teachers.
Well, we've talked a lot about how you can use your clothes, the clothes that
you already have, to look your best.
And we've covered 8 different problem areas with lots of little trouble spots
over the last few days.
It just makes me think we've talked a lot about the outside, but what about the
inside?
What do you think about this, Nathanael?
Well, outer beauty, someone can be beautiful on the outside, but maybe it's
actually more important that you're beautiful on the inside,
that you have a beautiful heart, that you are honest, that you treat other
people well.
I think maybe these things are more valuable.
But Carolyn, do you think that outer beauty might have some kind of value?
Well, I think that outer beauty can help you to feel more confident with
yourself, and that can also help to make you more beautiful inside.
If you feel comfortable with the way you appear on the outside, then you can
also have a beautiful inside.
All right.
Well, what do you think?
We've been talking about inner beauty and outer beauty.
Of course, there are many things that we can pay attention to and learn from
from today's lesson and yesterday's lesson.
Well, friends, we will see you next time right here on Studio Classroom.
Good-bye.
Good-bye.