节目资讯
刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2012-10-22
难易度:Low
关键字:bald, blush, tease, recover, alopecia, hairpiece
Hi, everybody.
Welcome to Studio Classroom Worldwide.
Thanks for joining us.
My name is Steve.
Do you remember what it was like to be a kid?
I do.
I remember I wanted to be liked.
I wanted to fit in with my peers, and the best way to do that was to be like
them.
Being different in any way was a big no-no.
Being a chubby kid, having a strange name or not having nice clothes to wear
were invitations to be teased.
So now, imagine growing up with no hair!
Life could get pretty traumatic, right?
Well, today we'll introduce you to a group that helps kids through the trauma of
lost hair.
Let's read about this organization called Locks of Love on page 42.
(Music).
Locks of Love.
Helping children who have lost their hair.
Imagine being bald and walking into class at school.
You slip into the back row but see other students whispering and pointing at
you.
You feel yourself blushing.
After school, you run home to avoid talking to anyone.
Some medical problems cause people to lose their hair.
This can be embarrassing for adults, but for children it is even worse.
They often feel bad about themselves, and other children tease them.
Hi, friends.
Thank you for joining us.
My name is Ryan.
And my name is Kaylah.
And today we are looking at our ORGANIZATIONS article.
Now friends, today we're looking at a very cool and special organization called
Locks of Love.
Maybe you've heard of it, friends, this organization is devoted to helping
people who have lost their hair.
First, though, Kaylah, we're not talking about people who cannot find their
hair.
We're talking about people who no longer have hair either due to an illness or a
problem at birth.
But I want to learn what is a "lock"?
OK. First of all, Ryan, you keep saying "people," but these are specific people.
This is helping children who have... no longer have their hair, not just someone
who's getting older and have... have gone bald.
These are for kids who have some sort of sickness that for some reason they
don't grow hair.
Now it's called Locks of Love, so let's look at that word: locks.
Now that's not actually like on a door, something to keep you out.
When it refers to hair, "locks" refers to a section, usually a large chunk of
hair that is thought to be very beautiful.
The word "lock" is considered beautiful.
A... lock, often in poetry, Ryan, a man might write a poem about your beautiful
locks.
And that refers to your beautiful hair that falls down.
Yeah. In fact, Kaylah, if you guys are watching the show right now, you can see
Kaylah's hair.
She has locks that flow on either side of her head, very beautiful.
Oh, thank you.
My locks are currently curled.
I have curly locks of hair.
Now these kids do not have hair.
So what does this organization do?
Well, we're going to start with a situation here, friends:
Imagine that you are bald and you're walking into class at school.
OK, the word bald. "Bald" means you have little or no hair on your head.
Hair... "bald" refers to head hair.
So imagine you don't have hair, and you walk into class at school.
Exactly. So obviously, you are a student, you are young.
Most students have hair on their head if they desire to have it there.
But imagine you want hair but you don't have any, and you're in class.
Now you slip into the back row but see other students whispering and pointing at
you.
You can imagine, friends, if someone, a student, a young child walks in bald,
you'd probably turn around and look to see what was wrong.
Well, it says "you... you slip into the back row," that is our Grammar on the
Go.
So let's go visit Liz.
Hello, friends.
How are you doing today?
My name is Liz.
And it's time for Grammar on the Go.
The writer of today's article begins by asking you to pretend you are bald and
that you're going to a class at school.
The writer then continues with this sentence:
You slip into the back row but see other students whispering and pointing at
you.
That's our Grammar Tip sentence.
Notice the verb: slip.
Normally we use this word to talk about accidentally sliding and then falling
down, like:
Todd slipped because the floor was wet.
But in today's sentence, "slip" has a different meaning.
Here it means to move quickly and smoothly and quietly from one place to
another.
So the writer is saying that you pretend you are bald and you go to class and
quickly sit down in the back row.
We often use "slip" like this when we want to emphasize how someone gets from
one place to another in a quick and quiet way.
For example, if you're late to a meeting, you wouldn't just walk in and let
everyone see how late you are.
Instead: You would slip into the meeting room and try not to let too many people
notice you.
"Slip" is not just for walking into a room.
We can use "slip" to talk about getting out of a place.
For example, if you're in a meeting and you suddenly get a phone call.
And it's an important call so you must leave the room without disturbing the
meeting, so we can say:
You slip out of the meeting room to answer your phone.
Now friends, if you'd like to see some more example sentences, check out today's
Grammar Tip section for more example sentences.
That's it for today.
This is Liz with Grammar on the Go siging off.
Bye-bye.
OK, friends.
So you are a student and you do not have any hair on your head.
And when you slip, or sneak, into the back row, you are quiet but you hear other
people around you whispering and pointing at you.
Now to whisper is to talk quietly.
(This would be a whisper.) It has a soft sound to it, more air involved.
It's not as loud.
And that's what you do when you want to secretly tell somebody something.
Right, when you're not actually using your voice.
And people usually whisper when they don't want other people to hear them.
And you don't want people whispering about you, so you feel yourself starting to
blush.
You feel yourself blushing.
Yeah. The word "blushing" means you are becoming pink in your face because blood
is rushing to your face.
Usually you feel blushing when you are embarrassed.
That's right.
To blush... blush is actually a color that refers to a pink or rose type color.
So that's when your... your cheeks usually turn red, possibly your neck or your
ears can turn red because you're embarrassed,
and probably would when people whisper about you.
Yeah. And it doesn't end here, friends.
After school, you run homer in order to avoid talking to anyone.
"To avoid" means so you don't have to, to get away from, to not have to go
through something.
OK. Now this is a story that it might happen if you do not have any hair.
Some medical problems cause people to lose their hair.
Now this can be really embarrassing for adults.
But for children, it's even worse, which means it's harder on kids than it is
for adults, even though it's still embarrassing.
That's true.
Well, most kids want to have hair.
These kids often feel bad about themselves and other children end up teasing
them.
Now to "tease" someone means you laugh at someone or say unkind things about
them either because you're joking or because you want to upset them.
Often when children tease you it's because they want you to feel bad.
They want you to get upset because they don't like you or because you're
different.
Right. There's a phrase that goes "to make fun of someone." It's the same thing.
You are making jokes about someone.
And that's often not kind.
Now this is a terrible situation.
We're looking at a poor child who has no hair.
This is an awful time.
But friends, we need to take a break.
We're going to see how this organization helps these kids after we visit the
Chat Room.
Hey, what's so funny, Ken?
Look at this ad.
It says: Grow back hair in days.
Who would be dumb enough to buy that?
That does sound hard to believe.
Although I suppose the man who is afraid of going bald might try it.
Oh, so that's how you say it, go bald?
Right. That means to become bald.
I know hair loss can be a very touchy subject with some men.
And by hair loss, you mean the process of losing hair, right?
You got it.
I'm very fortunate that I don't have to worry about that.
Yes, you are.
You know, my uncle he has to put up with a lot of bald jokes at his office.
Oh, that's no fun.
Well, tell him not to let them get in his hair.
Get in his hair?
Bryan, the guy has no hair.
I know that, and I was kind of being funny, Ken.
But to "get in somebody's hair" is an idiom that means to bother or annoy
someone.
So tell your uncle he shouldn't let those jokes bother him.
Oh, I see.
I will have to try your joke on him.
I'll tell him not to get... let those guys get in his hair and see what he says.
He just might laugh along with you.
And if he's able to laugh at those jokes, he could avoid getting into a hairy
situation.
OK, I feel another "hair" joke coming on here.
What is a hairy situation?
Well, anytime you get into a situation that is full of problems and
difficulties, you can say you're in a hairy situation.
I see. I guess you're right.
If my uncle took those jokes too seriously, he could get mad and get into a
hairy situation at work.
Well, thanks for this lesson on hair-related sayings.
My pleasure, Ken.