节目资讯
刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2012-05-23
难易度:Low
关键字:jewelry, protein, spin, bedtime, fashion designer, fiber, liter
Hi, friends.
So glad you've joined us here at Studio Classroom Worldwide.
Thanks for joining us.
My name is Steve.
You've heard the popular health and fitness slogan: You are what you eat.
Well, I'm going to slightly change that for today's lesson.
The new version is: You wear what you eat.
Yes! Today in our FASHION feature, we'll be looking at some things people are
wearing that are made from some unusual materials,
like bread, and milk, and items found in a garbage can.
Now as we begin our reading on page 44, keep this question in mind: Would I wear
that?
(Music).
Would You Wear That?
A look at some of the strange things people make and wear.
Would you wear clothing made from food products or jewelry made of human hair?
Some people would.
Ask German fashion designer Anke Domaske, whose clothes made from milk are
gaining popularity.
Milk fabric has been around since the 1930s, but at that time, the milk was
combined with chemicals.
Domaske's fabric, QMilch, is the first man-made fiber made without chemicals.
She developed it by removing a milk protein from dry milk.
All right. Hello, everyone.
Thank you for joining us.
My name is Ryan.
And my name is Kaylah.
And today we are talking about FASHION.
Ooh, FASHION! OK.
Well, let's see what we're getting ourselves into here.
We're not just talking about clothes, though, at least not normal clothes.
That's right.
Usually when we talk about fashion, we talk about very modern and up-to-date
clothing.
But today we're talking about clothes that maybe are a little strange.
And we're going ask you: Would you wear that?
Right. We're going to see some strange clothes that are made of interesting
things and maybe look a little weird.
And we want to know, we want to take a look at some of the weird things people
make and wear.
Well, these are definitely some strange things to wear.
Ryan, I was really impressed at people's creativity and what they could make,
but more importantly, that they would wear it! It's... very strange.
Yeah, we're going to see some very weird things in this article.
And we want to ask you if you might be one of these people - Would you wear
clothing made from food products or jewelry made of human hair?
Oh... Wow! OK. Would you wear clothes made from food products?
Now "food product" just refers to any kind of food that you would eat.
Would you wear clothes that were... came from something you could eat?
Yeah. Would you wear clothes that you can eat or maybe jewelry made of human
hair?
Now "jewelry" is talking about something pretty that you wear, usually it's made
out of metal like gold or silver.
That's right, usually made of jewels or metals or a string, but it's
definitely... you wear it, it's like... examples are bracelets, necklaces,
earrings, watches.
Those are all jewelry.
But what makes this strange is it's made of human hair.
Now would you wear something like that, Ryan?
Uh... I'd don't think so, actually.
I don't even wear that much jewelry as it is; I don't have any.
But most people, I still think, might not want to wear jewelry made of human
hair.
Well, I've actually seen some of this jewelry made of human hair.
And you would never guess it!
Really! It actually looks like real jewelry.
Yeah. It's crazy.
We're going to look at some of these funny fashion ideas, these strange fashion
ideas, by first talking to a German fashion designer named Anke Domaske.
OK. Anke Domaske she is someone who does design clothes.
She's a fashion designer.
That's right. Now a "fashion designer," as Ryan just said, is a person who
designs clothes and sets style for people.
Yeah. They create new clothing styles, and so.
She has a talent here, but her clothes are not made from normal types of fabric.
No. Her clothes are made from milk.
And they're becoming more popular - they are gaining popularity.
Yeah. I... I don't even know how you would make clothes out of milk.
It's a liquid!
Well, Ryan, she makes a milk fabric out of it.
She doesn't use them liquid.
We're going to see just how she does that.
Yeah. We're going to learn how she makes milk fabric.
And it has... it's actually been around for a very long time, since the 1930s,
but at that time, the milk was combined with chemicals.
Well, Ryan, this makes sense.
In the 1930s, they would need to add chemicals to milk to make it into a fabric.
And chemicals are a... are a man-made substance.
They're not a natural thing.
But now with modern science, Domaske has been able to change that.
Right. She's made QMilch, and that's the first man-made fiber made without
chemicals, so.
Usually clothes are made from some non-man-made fibers like cotton.
That is natural.
It's not made by people.
And when they are man-made, they are usually made with chemicals.
But this fiber isn't.
That's right. And when we say a fiber... "fiber" is the parts of a cloth, all of
those little bitty strands.
So she's made those strands naturally out of natural materials.
She developed it by removing a milk protein from dry milk.
Oh, interesting.
Now there is a lot of protein in milk.
And "protein" is a necessary chemical for people to grow.
You can find it in milk and in meat.
And you need to have protein in order to survive.
But here she gets rid of the protein that's in the milk.
That's right.
Well, you see, Ryan, you said earlier that it was a liquid.
She uses dry milk.
We've seen powdered milk maybe in the grocery store.
But she uses this dry milk and removes the protein and takes that out.
And the protein is just a substance that she needed to pull.
Yeah, exactly. She got rid of that.
And now we want you to enjoy this video all about milk clothes.
"Incredibly soft" is the feeling that best describes the milk fiber clothes that
Anke Domaske makes.
Milk is a wonderful, natural raw material.
The innovative idea about our clothing line is that it is only made of
natural-made resources.
It is environmentally friendly.
And the best part is that we get to use milk that normally gets thrown away
because it no longer reached the standards for safe-drinking.
Anke Domaske, model, designer and microbiologist brought this unique idea to
reality.
Milk fibers have existed since the 1930s.
However, the innovative improvements, which we now have are now made without any
chemicals, only naturally-made materials.
And it's great because there are so many people out there with allergies who
struggle to find chemical-free clothes.
Our process has greatly limited the amount of bacteria, and the fibers can be
washed normally.
The advantages of natural-made fibers and industrial-need fibers are then
combined.
Together with her team and the fiber institute she discovered an environmentally
safe and natural way to develop milk fibers.
We start with milk.
And then it turns sour.
On top we have the whey.
And below we have the casein, which contains the main protein of milk.
Then we separate the curd, which is then dried into a protein powder, which is
then put into this machine, which acts like a giant oven.