节目资讯
刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2013-01-28
难易度:Medium
关键字:conquer, amidst, spur on, possess, ubiquitous, R & B, multilingual
Hello, everyone, and welcome to Studio Classroom.
My name is Gabe.
I'm Carolyn.
And I'm Nathanael.
And we're glad you could join us for an interesting article today about U-KISS:
Conquering the World Music Scene!
Yes, U-KISS, they are K-pop stars.
And I wonder if you know any songs from U-KISS.
You probably do.
I think Nathanael does too.
What's a song by U-KISS, Nathanael?
Oh, yeah. I... I got this.
They're the ones that go: Sorry, sorry...
No... That's not U-KISS.
They have: Nobody, nobody but you...
No... Nathanael, Carolyn, no.
You're thinking of Super Junior, and you're thinking of Wonder Girls.
Those are different K-pop stars.
Um, I think we need to educate ourselves on U-KISS today.
Friends, let's get started with that first reading here all about U-KISS:
Conquering the World Music Scene.
U-KISS: Conquering the World Music Scene!
An international start.
From the beginning, U-KISS was created for an international audience.
Although the seven members are all Korean, U-KISS was a joint project between
Korean and Japanese media groups.
And the members have a skill most other K-pop bands don't possess: They're
multilingual.
Several of them have lived and studied overseas.
Among them, they can speak Korean, English, Japanese and Mandarin, thus winning
them a wide audience in Asia.
Well, if U-KISS wants to be ubiquitous, they had better be "international" too -
another word that's in their name.
This next section starts by saying "An international start." The first sentence
says:
From the beginning, U-KISS was created for an international audience.
There's an interesting structure to this sentence.
It starts with "from the beginning." But if you look at the sentence, you could
say it in a different order.
You could say "from the beginning" at the end:
U-KISS was created for an international audience from the beginning.
But sometimes we can change the structure around and it's still OK.
Carolyn, do you have another example like this?
Certainly.
I have been interested in animals from the beginning.
So since I first started learning about animals, I've always been interested.
Or Alice is a great teacher.
From the beginning, she always wanted to be a teacher.
Or she always wanted to be a teacher from the beginning.
You can make your own sentence using those words.
Let's continue.
Although the seven members are all Korean, U-KISS was a joint project between
Korea and Japanese media groups.
All right. So they were a joint project.
Nathanael, what is a joint project?
I usually think of a joint as where two things meet, maybe like two bones.
In this case, the Korean and Japanese media groups met, and they made this joint
project which was this band called U-KISS.
All right.
This was originally a joint project.
And the members have a skill that most other K-pop bands don't possess.
What is the skill that most other K-pop bands don't possess, Carolyn?
They are multilingual.
Yes.
And we see this would "possess." So that means that they have something.
And here they have a skill that other bands don't always have.
All right.
When I think of the word "possess," I think of my possessions, what I have,
P-O-S-S-E-S-S-I-O-N.
Those are my possessions, the things that I own.
So I possess those things.
But as you can see in this article, you can use "possess" to talk about
something abstract like a skill.
How else can you use the word "possess"?
Well, I could say that U-KISS surely has talent, definitely has talent, but do
they possess much confidence?
I think they must because they're already so popular.
I think so too, and so that we see that the skill that they possess is that they
are multilingual.
We see those words "M-U-L-T-I" in this word "multilingual." This just means
many.
So among all of them or between all of them, they can speak many languages.
But you can use those letters "M-U-L-T-I" to prefix many words, right?
Absolutely.
You could say something is multicolored, meaning it has many different colors.
I like to wear multicolored shirts.
Interesting.
Nathanael, how do you use this... these letters?
Well, someone can also be multitalented.
They have several different abilities, and they can share them all with other
people.
All right, multicolored, multitalented.
I think of people who can do lots of things at the same time, which I can't, but
they are called multitaskers.
They can multitask, do many things at the same time.
You're right.
Being able to multitask is certainly a good skill to have.
Now I'd like to take a closer look at the sentence and see what Liz has for us
in the Grammar Gym.
Hi there, friends.
Welcome to the Grammar Gym.
My name is Liz.
We've been talking about U-KISS.
And we read: ... the numbers have a skill most other K-pop bands don't possess:
they're multilingual.
That's our Grammar Tip sentence.
Our focus today is on the two dots that come after the word "possess." That is a
colon sign.
The colon sign is used for different reasons.
In today's sentence, the writer puts a colon sign there to show that more
information is about to be given.
The members have a skill most other K-pop bands don't possess.
What is the skill?
They're multilingual.
So when you're writing and you want to introduce extra information to further
explain something, you can use the colon sign.
Here are some examples.
There is a reason why John doesn't want to go into the pool: He can't swim.
Or Trent and Ashley made the announcement yesterday: They're finally getting
married.
And that's it for today.
Be sure to check out today's Grammar Tip section in your magazine.
This is Liz from the Grammar Gym, saying goodbye.
Thank you, Liz.
Well, we know that U-KISS is multilingual.
Continuing on.
Several of them have lived and studied overseas.
Among them they can speak Korean, English, Japanese and Mandarin, thus winning
them a wide audience in Asia.
Well, it seems like they were created for this band.
Right now it's time for us to continue by learning something else with Michelle
in the Language Lab.
(Chinese).
And let's get back to the teachers.
We've been learning all about U-KISS today.
And we found out something interesting here.
A very special skill that they all possess is that they're multilingual.
So that makes me wonder, if you are multilingual, how has knowing another
language helped you?
Nathanael, how have you benefited from knowing another language?
Well, I think today in this world, there are so many different people and so
many different languages that are coming together,
so many different countries have a lot of different kinds of people in them.
It's very important to know another language in order to communicate well with
the people around you.
I think that's a great point.
You need to be able to communicate well in today's world.
Well, Carolyn, how has knowing another language helped you?
Well, after moving to Asia, it's really been nice being able to speak Chinese
because I have made so many great friends here.
All right.
Of course, you want to be able to make friends with the people of the country
that you are in.
I think knowing another language has helped me because I know when people are
saying something good or something bad about me behind my back.
There are many reasons to want to get to know another language.
And we know that you are here at Studio Classroom every day because you want to
improve your English.
You're doing a great job.
Right now it's time for us to say goodbye.
But we will see you next time right here at StudioClassroom. Bye-bye.