节目资讯
刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2013-01-22
难易度:High
关键字:pervade, medieval, loom, spectacular, Baroque, cogwheel
Hello, and welcome to Studio Classroom.
I am your teacher Gabe.
I'm Carolyn.
And I'm Nathanael.
And thank you for joining us today, our second day of this "Taste of Austria"
lesson.
Now my question for you is what comes to your mind when you think of Austria?
And you cannot answer with one of the things we learned about yesterday.
OK?
Carolyn, what comes to your mind when you think about Austria?
When I think of Austria, I think of beautiful mountains, and maybe some
yodeling.
OK, cool.
Mountains, yodeling.
We'll learn about yodeling, I think, in tomorrow's lesson.
Nathanael, what comes to your mind when you think of Austria?
I think of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
OK.
Probably one of the most famous Austrians today.
Great, OK. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
I think most of us know who that is.
I think of The Sound of Music, which is a wonderful movie.
And we're going to learn a little bit about it here in today's lesson.
Well, what comes to your mind when you think of Austria?
Let's pay attention as we listen to the first reading for today.
A Taste of Austria.
The music of Mozart and the melodies of The Sound of Music pervade the charming
city of Salzburg.
Its well-preserved old town is alive with splendid gardens, Baroque churches and
a medieval castle.
Visit Mozart's birthplace, which is filled with all manner of music, portraits
and old keyboard instruments and violins.
The creative genius spent most of the first 20 years of his life in Salzburg.
High above the city looms the Hohensalzburg Fortress.
If you hike up to it, you'll be rewarded with an amazing view.
Getting right into it, the first sentence here:
The music of Mozart and the melodies of The Sound of Music pervade the charming
city of Salzburg.
And of course, that movie is a wonderful movie, The Sound of Music.
And we see that these melodies pervade this charming city.
"Pervade" is one of our Word Bank words.
We want to talk about it here.
This means that it is spread throughout something.
If something pervades something, it is spread throughout.
Um, Carolyn, how can you use this word, pervade?
Well, since we're talking about Austria, I think of a field of flowers, and the
flowers pervade the valley.
So the valley is filled with flowers.
Do you think of the Edelweiss flower when you think of flowers in Austria?
I do think of Edelweiss, which is a wonderful song from The Sound of Music.
Yes, it is. It's a very famous song.
Sometimes people think that is the Austrian national anthem, but it is not.
Well, Nathanael, what comes to your mind when you think of pervade?
Well, speaking of music, fans pervaded the concert hall when their favorite band
came to play in their town.
Oh, very good; so fans pervaded this place.
They're spread throughout.
I think of a scent like: The perfume pervaded the room.
Everyone could smell it.
And so you can use this word in different ways.
Well, of course, if you go to this place, you might hear the melodies of The
Sound of Music.
Its well-preserved old town is alive with splendid gardens.
I think our author is kind of playing with The Sound of Music theme here.
If you remember that first opening song:
"The hills are alive with the sound of music," so, alive with splendid gardens,
Baroque churches and a medieval castle.
"Medieval" is an important word that describes the Middle Ages from around 476
to 1453, so A.D. 476 to almost the 1500s.
Um, medieval.
So what comes to your mind when you think of medieval things?
Well, here in the article they mention castles.
And that's certainly one of the things I think of when I think of medieval.
I also think of knights and kings and all of the adventures they went on.
What are some other things you think of, Nathanael?
Well, another name for the medieval times is the Dark Ages because there were a
lot of sicknesses going around at that time, and also a lot of wars.
It wasn't really a nice time to live.
So that's another thing I think of.
All right.
So medieval times, the Dark Ages, which led to things like science where people
can figure out how to live healthier lives.
But the "Medieval Times," actually, that's the name of a great restaurant,
entertainment arena that I like to go to in the United States.
Medieval Times, you should check it out too sometime.
Continuing on.
Visit Mozart's birthplace, which is filled with all manner of music, portraits
and old keyboard instruments and the violins.
That sounds really cool.
You can see all manner of these things.
That's not a mistake.
There is no S behind "manner." All manner of something.
That means all kinds of something.
How else can you use that phrase, Nathanael?
Well, we could say that there are all manner of fish in the sea.
And those fish are all manner of colors - lots of different fish in lots of
different colors.
Absolutely.
And if you go into an electronics store, they would have all manner of
electronics:
computers, cell phones, keyboards, tablets, all manner of different things.
All manner of different things.
In a library, there are all manner of books.
So here in this place you can go to visit Mozart's birthplace,
which is filled with all manner of music and portraits and old keyboards,
instruments, violins, different things.
The creative genius spent most of the first 20 years of his life in Salzburg.
He was indeed a creative genius.
I love this phrase.
He was a creative genius.
He... thought of many things.
"He was ahead of his time," as we would also say.
And who else can you think of that is a creative genius?
I think of Leonardo da Vinci.
Great.
And the absolutely amazing paintings that he's done.
OK. What about you?
Maybe a more recent person would be Steve Jobs, had a lot of new gadgets, new
technology that he helped produce through Apple.
OK. I think of Rachmaninoff.
He was my favorite composer.
I also think of Nathanael, Carolyn and Gabe.
They are creative geniuses.
Well, at least we're creative.
Yeah. We'll go with that, creative.
Yeah, OK. We're... creative. OK, so.
Mozart was indeed a creative genius.
We continue on in our article.
High above the city looms the Hohensalzburg Fortress.
Here is another key word - to loom.
It makes me think of yesterday's word - imposing.
Now something is looming above, that means it is... it's high above.
It's big; it's grand.
It's maybe even a little bit scary.
How could you use this word, Carolyn?
When I think of something that looms, I think of maybe a large thunderstorm
coming over the mountains, and it is looming over a town.
That's great.
So looming, I think of clouds too, actually.
The clouds are looming up above.
If you hike up to this place, you'll be rewarded with an amazing view.
And I love to be rewarded with something.
If you keep studying your English, you'll be rewarded with great results.
You'll be able to speak more fluently, get better grades.
You'll be rewarded with these things.
Right now it's time for us to reward ourselves with a review skit.
Next, we go to Salzburg.
What does the brochure say about Salzburg?
Music.
The music of Mozart and melodies of The Sound of Music pervade the charming city
of Salzburg.
A well-preserved old town alive with splendid gardens.
It's beautiful.
Yeah. And it has a medieval castle too, and Baroque churches.
Baroque churches?
Why don't they fix them?
Baroque is a style.
Look! We can visit Mozart's birthplace.
Oh. There's an old museum with keyboard instruments and violins.
High above the city lies a fortress.
It looks like a difficult climb.
Yeah, but we'll be rewarded with a great view.
Oh. What about The Sound of Music tour?
I want to go on that.
We can see the mansion and... oh, the church where the wedding was, and of
course, the stretch of those famous hills.
The hills are alive with the sound of music. La...
Can't wait!
I can't wait either to hear Salzburg's beautiful music.
Yeah. You know, they host more than 2,000 concerts annually.
Look, just east of Salzburg is Austria's lake district.
Wow! The loveliness takes my breath away.
We can swim in the clean, clear lake and take a train up the mountain for
spectacular views.
Well, come on! Let's go.
Wait! Let's finish our coffee and pastry first.
Good idea.
(Music).
Oh, yeah. Those skits are always, always really clever.
Well, right now it's time for us to continue learning something with Michelle in
the Language Lab.
Drumroll, please.
Hi, Michelle.
Excellent! Hi, Michelle.
Hi, everyone. I'm Michelle.