节目资讯
刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2012-08-21
难易度:Medium
关键字:publisher, format, hesitant, fuse, fiber optics, windsheild
Hi, everybody.
Welcome to Studio Classroom Worldwide.
Thanks for taking time out of your busy day to study with us.
My name is Steve.
Our PROFILE feature this month introduces us to five successful entrepreneurs
who had an idea,
and with vision, hard work and determination, turned that idea into a profitable
business.
Now these entrepreneurs never went to business school.
In fact, most of them haven't even graduated yet from high school.
They're all teenagers, who I'll venture to guess, are now making more money than
their parents.
OK. Let's turn our attention to our next amazing teen entrepreneur, Savannah
Britt, on page 43.
(Music).
Amazing Teen Entrepreneurs.
Savannah Britt.
New Jersey, U.S., native Savannah Britt was publishing poems at age 8.
She was writing newspaper reviews for children's books at 9, and at 14, she
started her own magazine, Girlpez.
She became the youngest magazine publisher in the world.
The magazine covers events like concerts and fashion shows and includes
interviews with famous people.
Now 17, Savannah guides her magazine in its online-only format - girlpez.com.
She has to balance her magazine work with her schoolwork and basketball
practice, but she wouldn't have it any other way.
"There is no reason to be hesitant... becoming an entrepreneur is a learning
experience," she says.
(Music).
Hello, friends.
Thanks for joining us.
My name is Ryan.
And my name is Kaylah.
And today we are back talking about Amazing Teen Entrepreneurs.
Now we talked about a boy who really started out as a boy starting his own
company.
And now he attends university but is still the CEO of a very successful
web-based business.
That's right, friends.
Yesterday we saw the story of Farrhad.
And he started his own web-based business after receiving just a $10 loan from
his parents; and now he's very successful.
Well, he is a very interesting and successful teen entrepreneur.
But we're going to move on and talk about some other examples.
Our next example is a girl named Savannah Britt.
OK. Now she is from New Jersey, U.S., and she's a native there.
And her name is Savannah Britt.
She was publishing poems at the age of 8.
OK.
Well, she is from New Jersey, the state of New Jersey, which is in the
northeastern part of the United States.
She's a native there.
That means she was born and raised there.
And I'm surprised by the end of the sentence: she started publishing poems when
she was 8.
That's right.
Now many people, Kaylah, might write poems when they're 8 years old, and they
probably aren't very good.
But here her poems were good because she was publishing them.
Well, I know I had a hard time learning to read, so maybe I wasn't even reading
poems.
Wow, that's amazing.
Well, I mean, yeah, that's true.
Many people might still be learning how to properly read by then.
But she's not only reading, she's writing and writing well because if something
is published,
that means that it is printed, and people can actually buy her poems.
Well, they had to be good especially for an 8-year-old because she was being
published.
But she didn't stop there.
She was writing newspaper reviews for children's books at 9, and at 14, she
started her own magazine, Girlpez.
Girlpez. OK. So she's... she was publishing poems at the age of 8.
The very next year she was writing for newspaper columns, writing book reviews,
and then started her own magazine.
Amazing.
That's right.
Now a book review is when you read a book, and you write what you think about
it,
maybe a little bit of the story so someone is interested in it.
They could read your review before reading the book to know if it's going to be
good.
And she's only 9 years old and has that... that high quality of judgement of how
to read a book and what makes a book good.
At the age of nine, it's... incredible.
That's actually unheard of.
You usually don't hear about that.
And so of course, friends, we know she started a magazine at the age of 14.
And because of that, she became the youngest magazine publisher in the world.
That's right.
Now a "publisher" is someone who creates the magazine, they edit the magazine
and then they print the magazine for the public.
That's right.
So she works for a company that prints that magazine, and she owns that
magazine.
So she was writing the magazine, giving it out to the rest of the world at the
age of 14.
And you can see a copy, an example of one of her covers on page... on page 43 in
your magazine.
So you can see a picture of what... Girlpez looks like.
OK.
Now you can see here the magazine covers events like concerts and fashion shows,
and it includes interviews with famous people.
Well, the fact that she can cover all of this starting at the age of 14 is
absolutely incredible.
And she can attend a fashion show.
Yeah. And a fashion show here is an event where people would wear certain
people's clothing in order to show the public what it looks like.
And so she's writing about these fashion events.
That's right.
And interviewing, talking to famous people.
Now she's 17, and Savannah still guides her magazine in its online-only format -
girlpez.com.
OK. Now a "format" is the way that something is used, usually it's talking about
a computer format.
And so here that is the only way you can read this magazine is not through a
hard copy like a magazine that you hold but on a computer.
That's right.
You can have a hard copy, as Ryan said, meaning the magazine like your Studio
Classroom magazine.
But hers are online.
Although it's not printed on paper, we still say it is published.
That's right.
Now she has to balance her magazine work with her schoolwork and basketball
practice.
Remember, she is still a student.
But she wouldn't have it any other way.
That's right, Ryan, but she wouldn't have it any other way.
"There's no reason to be hesitant... becoming an entrepreneur is a learning
experience," she says.
That's right.
Now friends, if you "hesitate," that means you do something slowly because
you're nervous.
She says there's no reason to do that.
Now friends, let's go back and let's go to visit Liz with Grammar on the Go.
And then we'll visit the Chat Room.
Hi, friends.
How are you doing today?
My name is Liz.
And it's time for Grammar on the Go.
We're talking about teen entrepreneurs in today's article.
We read about Savannah Britt and how she's quite a busy young lady.
According to the writer: ... she would have it any other way.
That's our Grammar Tip sentence.
Today our focus is on the phrase, would not have it any other way.
It's a common expression native speakers use to talk about being happy or
satisfied with the way things are and not wanting to change the way things are.
In the case of Savannah Britt, she has to manage her magazine work, plus
schoolwork as well as basketball practice.
It may sound pretty hectic and crazy to some people.
But Savannah is quite happy with the way things are in her life and does not
want to have things in a different way.
She wouldn't have it any other way.
So if you want to describe how somebody is perfectly happy with the way things
are,
even though others might have their doubts, you can use this phrase.
For example:
Even though many people think Dillon has a crazy work schedule, he actually
enjoys it and wouldn't have it any other way.
Or: Betty is very pleased with how things turned out at her wedding and wouldn't
have it any other way.
If you want to see some more example sentences,
please check out today's Grammar Tip section for more example sentences.
That's it for today.
This is Liz with Grammar on the Go signing off.
Bye-bye.
(Music).
Hey, Ken.
I noticed you've been doing quite a bit of writing today.
Yeah. I'm trying to write my first poem, but I'm stuck.
Hey, Bryan, who's your favorite poet?
My favorite poet? Hmm, that's hard to answer.
But I guess I would say it's Robert Frost.
What a coincidence!
Frost is also my favorite poet.
Hey, your favorite Frost poem wouldn't be Two Roads, would it?
Um, if you mean the poem "The Road Not Taken," then yes, it is.
Oh, right, that's what I meant.
You know, of all the poems that Robert Frost published, that is definitely my
favorite.
I guess we have something else in common now.
Yep. Hey, Bryan, since Frost published so many poems, can I call him a
publisher?
No, you can't.
And actually saying that Frost published poems has a different meaning than you
might think.
What do you mean?
Well, Frost had his poems accepted for publication, but he didn't actually do
the publishing part himself.
Have you ever heard the phrase "publish or perish"?
No. What does that mean?
"Publish or perish" is a phrase that describes the pressure college professors
undergo to continuously publish academic work to sustain their career.
Oh, I get it.
So there was another person, a publisher, who actually printed their academic
papers.
That's right.
But I doubt if the publisher was a single person.
Usually a publisher refers to an organization or business that specializes in
publishing print materials.
I see.
Well, thanks for your help.
I'd better get back to writing my first poem.
Sure. Hope you can publish it someday.
Thanks.