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刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2012-05-19
难易度:Low
关键字:instead of, communicate, memorable, exhaust, comfort zone
Welcome back from the break, friends.
If when you travel, you are used to traveling with a tour group, perhaps this
lesson's challenge for you is not to do that,
or perhaps it's taking along your kid brother or sister, as was mentioned in tip
number 2.
Let's resume our lesson with the third tip, Make your photos memorable, on line
18.
Tips for a Terrific Trip.
Make your photos memorable.
You know the basics of your camera.
Learn about some of the fancy features, and use them on your trip.
Try some local favorite food.
Really get a taste of the places you visit.
Relax - don't set such a tight schedule that you're exhausted when you return
home.
Make time for sleeping in, people watching, and a long lunch or a mid-day nap.
It's your vacation after all!
Step out of your comfort zone, and try something new on your vacation.
So we're talking about tips to make your trip really special.
Our first tip was to learn 10 phrases in the language of the country you are
visiting.
Our second tip was to travel with someone you enjoy being with, a close friend
or a family member so you can share your adventures.
Yeah. And I think, Kaylah, that sharing your adventures with someone is actually
more fun than just taking pictures and showing them to people later.
But you do still want to take photos.
That's right. Ryan, that is our next tip.
So make your photos memorable.
That's right.
Something that is "memorable" is very easy to remember.
That means your photos are going to look very good and show what you did, and
people are going to remember them because they're so good.
Now even if you're traveling with a friend, or a family member that you want to
share your adventures with,
it's good to have memorable, very good pictures to share with everybody else.
That's right.
Now in order to get memorable photos, you have to know how to take good
pictures.
So you should know the basics of your camera already.
That's right.
Learn something about some of the fancy features.
You know, maybe you don't know all of them.
Maybe you have a nice camera that you don't know how to work perfectly, but
learn some of them, and use them on your trip.
That's right.
Most of you, you have a camera; you know how to push the button and take a
picture.
That's easy.
But you want to learn how to use some of the more interesting, some of the more
advanced features on your camera so you can take even better pictures.
OK. So these tips have helped us as we go.
You have some language to help you.
As you're there, someone to enjoy it with, and pictures to enjoy.
Well, something else you can do while you're there is try some local food.
OK. Now this is a very important one.
Many people they'll travel somewhere new, and they just want to eat the same
thing that they've been eating every day because, well, they like it.
It's in their comfort zone.
But we encourage you try something new.
Try the local food.
That's right.
Really, get out there, try a local favorite.
Really get the taste of the places you visit.
Don't find McDonald's.
Absolutely, especially if you're from America.
Now many people are going to want to try local food - that's the food from that
place.
And there are many local favorites that maybe you would never realize are
actually really delicious.
That's right.
When I visited the Ukraine, I ate local food every day all the time.
It was... it got to the point, though... you know, sometimes you do need a
break.
If you need a break, maybe try one meal that you recognize or remember.
But take the time to really enjoy local food.
In Ukraine, I learned so much about delicious food.
That's right.
So that's a great tip: Try the local food.
All right. Onto our next tip we see:
Relax - don't set... don't set such a tight schedule that you're exhausted when
you return home.
Now this is a great tip.
If you travel with a touring company or you travel with a tour guide, often they
set your schedule to be exactly on the... all the time, right on the hours.
There's no free time.
But if you set your own trip, you can take time to get from here to there,
stopping and enjoying local food, stopping and enjoying beautiful scenery.
Relax! You know what, if you miss something, it's OK.
That's OK.
Now a tight schedule is a very busy schedule, and that can make you feel very
exhausted.
That's right.
And "exhausted" means very, extremely tired.
That is when you are just... you've gone on vacation and you get home, and all
you want to do is sleep.
But Ryan, on vacation, you should take some time to rest.
That's right. You're on vacation, you should relax.
OK. Now let's go visit Liz with Grammar on the Go.
Hello, friends.
I hope you're doing well today.
Our article today is about how to have a terrific trip.
And speaking of trip, I'm about to go on a trip myself.
But before I finish packing, here's a look at today's Grammar Tip sentence.
... don't set such a tight schedule that you're exhausted when you return home.
Our focus today is on the sentence pattern: Don't do something that you become a
certain way.
It's a great pattern to use when you want to give more information as to why
something is not a good thing to do.
Basically, there are two parts to this sentence pattern.
Part 1: Don't do something.
Part 2: The result or possible result of doing such a thing.
We then connect the two parts together with the word "that." Let's look at some
examples.
Suppose you want to warn your friends not to work too hard.
Why? Because working too hard can make your friends not have time for other
important things.
So you can say:
Don't work so hard that you don't have time for other important things.
Or let's suppose you've been studying for your math exam, and you have grown
tired of looking at math problems.
So you can say:
I've studied so much for my math exam that I can't look at another math problem.
So give this sentence pattern a try.
And that's all the time we have for today.
This is Liz with Grammar on the Go signing off.
Bye-bye.
Thank you, Liz.
So when you're on vacation, take time to relax.
Make time for sleeping in, people watching, and a long lunch or even a mid-day
nap.
All right.
Now all of these sound great to me.
I love to sleep in.
When you sleep in, that means that you don't wake up early in the morning like
most people, you just keep sleeping maybe till 10 or 11 o'clock.
That's right.
Don't sleep in too much, but get your rest.
Well, enjoy people watching, which, Ryan, is one of my favorite things to do not
just on vacation, but in life in general.
That means you take time to sit and observe, to watch, to learn from just
looking at people.
Yeah. I actually... I grew up near Disneyland.
And I used to love to go to Disneyland not just for the rides, but to sit and
watch all the different people there.
I love people watching.
Now you can also take a long lunch or a mid-day nap.
Now a mid-day nap means maybe in the middle of the afternoon, instead of going
for the next museum,
you go back to your hotel and you take a nap in the middle of the afternoon -
that's mid-day.
After all, it's your vacation.
That's right.
Relax.
Now remember, when you're traveling, to step out of your comfort zone and try
something new.
That's right.
On your vacation, try something new.
Enjoy the local food, language.
Enjoy the company you're with.
Take memorable pictures.
And remember to just relax.
Enjoy your vacation and write to us on Studio Classroom's Facebook,
or at letters@StudioClassroom.com to tell us about your relaxing vacations.
For now, let's watch today's skit.
Hooray! We're on vacation!
Yes. Let's get going.
I can't wait to see famous places and beautiful sights.
Where is our tour guide?
Uh... surprise! There is no tour guide.
What? No tour guide?
Oh, no.
Listen, instead of following a tour guide around, we're going to step out of our
comfort zone.
But I'm not comfortable out of my comfort zone.
Relax! Hey, here's the plan.
We'll each learn 10 phrases of the local language.
10 phrases each?
Yeah. Together, that's 20 phrases.
So we'll be able to communicate easily with the locals.
They'll love it.
No, no. We need a tour guide.
No. We can just enjoy each other's company and we'll share some adventures and
talk about those adventures for years.
Yeah, bad adventures.
No, no, no. First, let's take some memorable photos.
We'll use the camera's fancy settings.
But I don't feel like fancy settings.
Smile!
1, 2, 3.
Now let's order some of the local food.
That will give us a real taste for the place.
But where will we go?
What will we do?
We need a plan.
OK, OK.
Here's the plan.
We're going to sleep in, we'll people watch, we'll enjoy a long lunch, we'll
take a mid-day nap.
But we're on an expensive trip.
We need a tour guide and a tight schedule.
No, no, no. We need to relax.
We're on an expensive vacation.
Relax!
Hi, everyone. I'm Michelle.
(Chinese).
And that concludes our Language Tips today.
I'll see you soon.
Bye-bye.
Thanks again, Michelle.
We appreciate those tips.
Friends, our tips list certainly has room for more tips. So if you have ever, in
your travels, come across something that made your trip extra enjoyable,
please share it with us at Studio Classroom's English Corner.
And while you're there, you can chime in on today's question:
Do you prefer to travel with a tour group or independently?
Speaking of traveling, let's talk about one of the biggest traveling headaches
of all time - airport security.
Join us for that on Monday, and have a great weekend.