节目资讯
刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2013-01-25
难易度:Medium
关键字:miserable, revenge, stoop, mutual, betray
(Music).
Hello, and welcome to Studio Classroom.
My name is Gabe.
My name is Carolyn.
And I'm Nathanael.
And today we are looking at "Betrayed!" Yes.
The name of our lesson is Betrayed.
We're going to listen in on a conversation between two girls these next couple
of days as they talk about this topic:
when you feel betrayed, or when a friend betrays you.
Now has that ever happened to you, Carolyn?
What do you do if someone tells a secret to someone else?
Well, unfortunately, I have been betrayed.
And it really hurts when someone tells your secrets when they aren't supposed
to.
So when that happened, I asked my friend why they decided to tell someone else
my secret.
And did it go OK after that?
Did you communicate well, and... and did she respond well?
Yes. Actually, it was just a simple misunderstanding.
All right. A lot of times it is just a simple misunderstanding.
Well, I'm looking forward to seeing what Kelly and Sara are going to talk about
in our lesson today.
Let's go and enjoy the first reading right now.
(Music).
Betrayed!
What should you do when a friend betrays you?
You look miserable, Kelly.
What's wrong?
I told Veronica a secret, and she told it to everyone in school.
Now all my classmates are talking about it and me!
That's awful.
One time last year, I told my friend a secret, and she posted it on Facebook for
everyone to see.
What did you do about it?
I knew a couple of secrets about her, so I started spreading them around our
class.
I'm sure you know something about Veronica that you could use to get revenge.
Well, at the very beginning in your magazine, you can read that sentence:
Sara comes home to find her sister Kelly looking very upset.
And that's a good sentence pattern to know: to find something or someone
looking... and then you can use an adjective.
You could say: I came home to find my dog looking very sad.
How else can you use this phrase, Carolyn?
Well, I came home and found my cat sleeping in my bed.
OK. You can find someone doing something else.
They don't have to be looking like something.
I found my cat sleeping in my bed.
Nathanael, how else can you use this phrase?
You could say that I came home to find my house in a mess.
I haven't cleaned it in a month.
OK. You find your house looking like something.
It's in a certain state.
I found my dog looking sad.
She found her cat sleeping in her bed.
He found his house in a mess.
And Sara comes home to find her sister Kelly looking very upset.
Uh, this is a dialogue between two sisters, Sara and Kelly.
So how about I will say Sara's lines, and Nathanael, you say Kelly's lines, OK?
Sure, sure.
All right. Here we go.
You look miserable, Kelly.
What's wrong?
Oh, wait! We have a word here.
We have "miserable." A key word.
So let's look at "miserable" first.
If you are miserable, Gabe, how do you feel?
Oh, not very good.
Yeah. If you're miserable, you feel terrible.
It's not a good feeling at all.
And if you look miserable, that means, well, you look terrible.
Maybe something happened.
So that's maybe what Sara is wondering what is wrong.
Well, how else can you use that word "miserable," Nathanael?
Hmm. Charlie Brown's Christmas tree looked miserable because it didn't have many
leaves.
Excellent! OK. so.
Something could look miserable as well.
I could also say: Ah, I had a miserable time today.
So you could use it to describe somebody, how they look, or something, or even
talking about your time.
We had a miserable time.
But are you having a miserable time?
Of course not!
You're having a wonderful time here on Studio Classroom.
I think we should continue.
I think it is... Kelly's turn.
And I am Kelly.
I told Veronica a secret, and she told it to everyone in school.
Everyone? In school?
Yes.
Now all my classmates are talking about it and me.
That's awful.
Awful.
One time... Yeah, awful, Carolyn.
Yeah. "Awful," that's a really great word, Gabe... Sara.
Um, "awful" just means something is really terrible or horrible.
And if someone's spreading your secrets around, that's... that's a pretty awful
thing to do.
That is a pretty awful thing to do.
And yes, it's true.
Thank you for interrupting me, Carolyn.
"Awful" is a good word to know.
It's kind of like that word "miserable." She also used the words - horrible and
terrible.
Can you think of other words that kind of have a similar meaning?
"Awful," there are so many words that you could use when you're writing to
describe this kind of feeling.
That is true.
Sometimes you might say that some kind of food is awful.
This bread is awful.
It's too dry.
Oh, well, sorry for interrupting you two.
Please, go back to your conversation.
Of course.
That's awful.
One time last year, I told my friend a secret, and she posted it on Facebook for
everyone to see.
What did you do about it?
Well, I knew a couple of secrets about her, so I started spreading them around
our class.
Wait. Wait... You were spreading something? Spreading rumors.
I thought... I thought spreading was like you put your butter on some toast, and
you spread it.
Well, yeah. There's that too, Carolyn.
But you can spread something like rumors or spread things about other people
behind their backs too.
Oh. OK. I see.
Well... sorry. Go ahead.
Right. It's not very good to spread things about other people.
But you can spread uh... you could spread rumors.
You can also spread news.
If there's something that happened, you can spread news to other people.
You could also spread joy and happiness as well.
It doesn't have to be something bad.
And news can be good or bad too.
That is right, Nathanael.
Spread good things to other people.
Don't spread bad things behind their backs.
Anyway, shall I continue?
Please, please.
OK.
Spreading, spreading... Oh!
I started spreading them around our class... our class.
I'm sure you know something about Veronica that you could use to get revenge.
Oh, revenge.
Here is a key word in the dialogue today - revenge.
What... what exactly is revenge, Gabe?
Well, this is not really something that we should be doing often, getting
revenge.
Actually, you shouldn't get revenge on people.
If someone does something bad to you, you really want to do something bad to
them or say something bad about them, to do something that makes them feel bad.
That is getting revenge.
Oh. But it's a little bit different from avenge.
If you avenge someone, then you get revenge for someone else.
That's a good point.
So that's kind of like helping people but in a very bad way.
Right, it can be.
Actually, Carolyn mentioned a good thing.
"Revenge" is a noun.
You can get revenge.
Or you can avenge, A-V-E-N-G-E.
That's a verb.
You can avenge someone.
That means you help someone get revenge.
And you can do this for someone else, or you can avenge yourself as well.
But Nathanael, is avenging always bad?
Not necessarily.
Sometimes someone does need avenging.
Something has been done, and justice needs to be done as well.
Great.
So avenging can be good if there is true, real justice to be done.
But um, Sara is not talking about vengeance in a good way or revenge in a good
way.
It's kind of a negative thing in this conversation.
Well, right now it's time for us to go and enjoy something positive - a review
skit.
What are you doing?
I'm getting revenge.
What do you mean?
I told Larry a big secret.
You didn't!
I did.
I told Larry not to tell anyone.
And?
And Larry told everyone!
He didn't!
He did! And now I'm getting revenge.
I'm posting all of Larry's secrets on Facebook.
Revenge is not a good idea.
I know.
It's a great idea!
His secrets will spread all over the Internet.
Do you really want to do that?
Yes. I am telling all his secrets.
Don't stoop to his level.
You should be nice to him.
He betrayed me.
So why should I be nice?
It's the right thing to do.
Besides, getting revenge can backfire.
Backfire?
Yes! Your mutual friends might get mad at you.
They may think you're a gossip.
Revenge is never the answer.
I guess you're right.
Hey, look what Larry posted about you on Facebook.
But he's spreading all my secrets.
Now what?
Revenge!
Well, I always love those skits.
Anyway, right now it's time for us to continue by going to the Language Lab.
Let's go and see what Michelle has for us there.
Hey, Michelle.