节目资讯
刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2013-01-16
难易度:Medium
关键字:intership, culture shock, constantly, confusion, borough, hub
Hello, hello, hello.
And welcome to Studio Classroom.
My name is Gabe.
I'm Carolyn.
And I'm Nathanael.
And we are glad that you could join us here today.
Our friend Joe, who also works here at Studio Classroom, wrote A Lesson in
Culture.
Now she found a foreign land in her home country.
Carolyn, have you ever been to a foreign country?
I have been to a foreign country, Gabe.
In fact, I've been to about six different foreign countries.
But one that I went to recently was Indonesia.
And it has so many beautiful landscapes.
Interesting.
I would like to visit Indonesia.
I've never been there.
Nathanael, have you ever visited a foreign country?
What was unique about that place?
I have visited Singapore, which is a very unique place because it's a country
that really is mostly a city.
And it's one of the nicest cities I have ever been to.
I've been there too.
I really like it.
I also went to Romania.
It was a very laid-back country.
Well, we're going to find out about Joe's experiences, A Lesson in Culture.
Let's get started with our first reading for today.
(Music).
A Lesson in Culture.
I found a foreign land in my home country.
I've had many opportunities to experience living in a foreign culture, but my
first experience came in an unexpected place - my own country.
When I was 20, I got an internship in New York City.
It was my first time to live outside of my home state of Texas.
With my move north came culture shock.
I grew up in a big city in Texas.
But it was no comparison to the tightly packed boroughs of New York with their 8
million residents.
(Music).
I found a foreign land in my home country.
That's what Joe wrote.
She did not go to a foreign country as we found out.
She found a foreign land, a strange place or a strange culture.
Sometimes the word "foreign" can mean strange.
How else can you use the word "foreign," Nathanael?
I think of maybe hearing about a foreign idea.
Something new to you that you've never heard of; it's foreign to me.
It's foreign to me.
It's unfamiliar.
What is foreign to you, Carolyn?
Well, there are a lot of foreign foods that I've tried eating such as (Chinese).
Ooh, yes. That is foreign food to lots of people.
I've gotten used to it over the years, but it was very foreign to me at first.
And the smell was foreign too.
Well, Joe writes: I've had many opportunities to experience living in a foreign
culture, but my first experience came in an unexpected place.
And where was this unexpected place, Nathanael?
"In my home country," she says.
Even in her own country, she found a place that was foreign to her.
That's right.
This is very unexpected for us too.
When we expect to hear about going to another country, she is just talking about
going to another place in her own country.
She says, "When I was 20, I got an internship in New York City." An internship.
Now this is one of our Word Bank words.
If you are an intern somewhere, you're working somewhere but you're not a
full-time worker, are you, Carolyn?
No. Usually you're there for a shorter period of time, maybe just for a summer;
or it could be for about a year.
And sometimes you don't get paid for the work you do.
OK. So that's very unique about an internship.
You don't necessarily get paid money for working as an intern.
Well, how can you use this word, "internship"?
Maybe you know someone who is an intern somewhere, you can say: How is your
internship going?
What's your internship experience like?
I had an internship last summer at a church in the United States.
And actually, I did get paid. So maybe I got lucky.
Well, it sounds like your internship experience was a little better than some
people's experiences.
So do you have any friends who are interns?
You can ask them these kinds of questions.
Tell them to talk about their internships.
Maybe you are an intern, too.
Well, Joe continues.
It was my first time to live outside of my home state of Texas.
So Texas is a little bit different from New York.
Have you guys been to either of these places?
Well, I've been to New York about three times, and it's very different from my
hometown.
It is very different from your hometown, which is where?
Uh... it is from rural Western Virginia.
OK, rural West Virginia.
That is a little bit different from New York, I'm assuming.
And Texas is, too, from Joe's experience in New York.
She says with my move north came culture shock.
I think many of us know what "culture shock" feels like.
This is also one of our Word Bank words.
And culture shock is just what you feel when you experience a different culture.
It's not pleasant.
How can you use this word, "culture shock," Nathanael?
When you go to another country, you might have culture shock when you try the
new kinds of foods that you're not really used to.
That's right.
You could experience culture shock in that way.
Sometimes if you live in a foreign country for a long time, you experience
reverse culture shock going back to your home country.
That's reverse, R-E-V-E-R-S-E, culture shock.
Well, Joe grew up in a big city in Texas.
And I think right now it's time for us to enjoy some time with Ken and Steve at
the Information Cloud.
Hi, teachers.
Steve, since we're talking about city living, let's review some words that can
help us describe exactly what kind of community we live in.
OK. Let's start in the countryside.
For that area, we use the word "rural." People from rural areas might live in a
small village.
And they probably have a job connected to something like farming or fishing.
And if you're heading from a rural area toward a city, you'll come to the
suburbs.
A suburb has a lot more people than the country, but not as many as a city.
It's in between.
That's right.
And the adjective of suburb is suburban.
People who live in the suburbs often commute every day to a nearby city or urban
area for work.
Speaking of urban, Steve, what is an urban revolution?
Well, that's what's happening right now.
We are living in what is called an urban revolution.
For the past 30 years, millions of people around the world have been moving from
rural areas to urban areas.
So rural areas are shrinking, and urban areas are growing?
Big time.
Some urban areas have grown so big they have a special name now - megacity.
Megacities are cities that have a population of at least 10 million people.
Of the 27 megacities in the world, 15 are in Asia.
(Chinese).
Thanks, guys.
It's good to know everything between rural and megacity.
Well, Joe continues on.
She says: It was no comparison to the tightly packed boroughs of New York with
their 8 million residents.
So her home in Texas was no comparison for that.
No comparison to something, or no comparison for something.
That means that you can't even compare it.
There's no use in even wasting your time comparing something.
They're just totally different.
How else can you use this phrase, Carolyn?
Well, we were talking about some food and culture earlier.
And if you have American pizza and Italian pizza, there's really no comparison
because they're very different.
They're very different.
Well, Nathanael, how would you use this phrase: no comparison for something?
There is no comparison between the traffic in the city and the traffic in the
country.
Well, that is true because the traffic in the city is definitely much worse than
the traffic in the country.
I would say I love to play drums, but I'm no comparison to my favorite drummer
Vinnie Colaiuta.
He's amazing!
I love to play, but I am no comparison.
Try to use that phrase today: no comparison to something else.
She says that this big city in Texas is no comparison to the tightly packed
boroughs of New York.
Tightly packed... I think of like a pack of sardines or something.
What else could be tightly packed?
Well, if you're getting on to a crowded bus, the people would be tightly packed.
Yeah. That does sound like something that would be tightly packed.
So New York City is definitely very different from where she is from.
She says there are 8 million residents there.
That's different from her hometown.
Right now it's time for us to learn something with Michelle in the Language Lab.
Hello, Michelle.
Hi, Michelle.
Hi, everyone. I'm Michelle.