节目资讯
刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2012-05-24
难易度:Low
关键字:wearable, bracelet, fashionable, without a doubt, token
Hello, everybody.
Welcome to Studio Classroom Worldwide.
My name is Steve.
Thanks for joining us today.
Would you wear a dress made from milk?
Or how about slippers made from bread?
Our FASHION lesson this month offers some strange things people are making for
the purpose of wearing.
We're going to kick off today's lesson by shifting focus from wearing food to
wearing used food packages,
which is just another way of saying "garbage," so.
Let's get out our Studio Classroom magazines.
Turn to page 45 and look at "Would You Wear That" Exhibit number 3: Instant
noodle packages complete with chopsticks.
Would You Wear That?
What do you do with your empty instant noodle packages?
One young woman came up with a creative solution - she made a dress!
With 196 packages and a few chopsticks, Karina from Virginia created a winning
project called "wearable art." Human hair jewelry.
Jewelry made of human hair may sound strange to us today.
But it was once a very popular item.
During the 1600s, bracelets made with human hair were given as tokens of
affection.
Hello, friends. Thank you so much for joining us here in the studio.
Today is a special day here at Studio Classroom.
It's Ryan's birthday. Happy Birthday!
Oh, thank you, Kaylah.
I really appreciate that.
Well, I'm happy to be back here looking at this strange article.
It is a FASHION article.
But as we learned yesterday, it's starting to sound a little more like a FOOD
article.
That's right.
We talked about milk dresses and bread slippers.
Very strange.
And we're asking you: Do you think you would wear these types of clothes?
What about our next one?
Well, we have another question.
What do you do with your empty instant noodle packages.
Uh-oh, I think I know where this is going.
Remember, instant noodles are... they are noodles that are dry and hard.
And you add hot water to them; and maybe a lot of people enjoy them late at
night.
That's right. They cook very quickly.
You don't need to boil them.
They just sit in hot water, and they're delicious.
But they come in a package, and usually we just throw them away.
Usually.
But what do you do with them?
Yeah. So, do you throw them away?
Well, one young woman came up with a creative solution - she made a dress!
That right.
Now a solution is something that solves something.
So maybe she had a lot of instand noodle packages and didn't know what to do
with them, so she used them.
She came up with a solution.
She made a dress.
She made a dress!
This is a very weird solution, but it is creative.
All right, so. Now let's go visit Liz with Grammar on the Go.
Hello, friends.
My name is Liz.
And it's time for Grammar on the Go.
I'm here at a local bakery.
The bread here is amazing.
And speaking of bread, what do you think about slippers made from bread, or
clothes made from milk?
That's what our article is about - the things people do with food items.
Now we're looking at what people can do with empty instant noodle packages.
We read: One young woman came up with a creative solution - she made a dress!
That's our Grammar Tip sentence.
And our focus is on the phrase, to come up with.
Normally we use "come up" to talk about how someone or something below us is on
their way to be at the same level as we are, like:
The elevator is coming up.
However, when "come up" is followed by the word "with," it's an expression that
native speakers use to mean to develop, as in to form an idea.
So today's sentence just means that this young woman thought of this creative
solution - make a dress with these empty instant noodle packages.
Here are some examples of how we can use "come up with." We can use it to talk
about how a program was formed, like:
A local pastor came up with this after school program at the church to help kids
stay away from gang activities.
Or we can use "come up with" to talk about advertisements, like:
The company hired an agency to help them come up with an advertisement campaign
to promote their new product.
We can even use "come up with" to talk about bad ideas, like:
Who came up with this silly and impractical idea?
If you want more example sentences, they're available in today's Grammar Tip
section in your magazine.
This is Liz with Grammar on the Go signing off.
Bye-bye.
Thank you, Liz.
Well, we looked at a girl who uses her extra instant noodle packages to make a
dress.
Well, how many do you think it would take to make a dress?
OK. Well, we find that it takes 196 packages and a few chopsticks in order to
make a dress.
Wow! That's interesting.
Karina from Virginia created a winning project called "wearable art." So she
took on the challenge of using her instant noodle packages.
She recycled them in a very creative way we called wearable art.
Yeah. I'm really curious about what this actually looks like, especially since
it's called wearable art.
Now something that is "wearable" means it's something that you are able to wear.
It's something that is acceptable or comfortable to put on your body.
That's right.
You could other... you could call it "clothes." She can wear her instant noodle
package dress.
And because it was so creative, we can call it "art" as well.
So she gets to wear as clothing a piece of art.
Yeah. This sounds interesting.
I think it's a little strange, but it is interesting.
I'm curious about what this might look like.
OK. Well, we've talked about wearing clothes, all these different things.
But that's not the only thing we wear.
Often we wear jewelry.
Right. And we've learned what jewelry is already.
It's something that is pretty that you wear as a decoration.
So now let's look at, this is I think, the strangest one: Human hair jewelry.
Now I like human hair when it is on a head.
But once it's on the ground, it's a little bit gross.
You don't like touching it.
So would you want this jewelry?
I don't know. Let's find out.
OK. Well, jewelry made of a human hair may sound strange to us today.
But it was once popular... a very popular item.
I completely agree with this.
I do think it sounds very strange.
Now we say this: "It sounds strange to us today," not meaning just this day, but
meaning in this time period.
Right now in society, we don't usually wear human hair.
But it was popular at one time.
Yeah. And that's why we're using the phrase: It was a popular item once.
We're not saying that at only one time it was popular.
We're saying it used to be popular a time... a long time ago; and it was a
popular item.
That's right.
Well, during the 1600s, bracelets made with human hair were given as tokens of
affection.
OK. So we're looking all the way back in the 1600s where instead of rings or
earrings made of human hair, they were bracelets.
Now a "bracelet" is a piece of jewelry that is worn around the wrist as
decoration.
And you can check out bracelets in your magazine as well as if you are watching
TV, I have on a black bracelet.
It goes around my wrist.
That's right.
And they were given as tokens of affection.
And a "token" is something that shows... something you can give to someone to
show how you feel.
That's right.
A token... is an expression, you could say.
It's a little small thing that shows affection.
Right, to remind someone how you feel about them.
All right. Now let's go over to the Chat Room and visit Ken.
Bryan, how was lunch?
Oh, don't even ask.
Why? What did you eat?
Well, I went to that sandwich shop down the street and ordered a soup.
When I was eating it, I found a hair in my soup!
Oh, gross.
How did it get in there?
I have no idea.
But that's the last time I'm going there for sure.
So there was a hair, just one?
Yes, but please don't remind me anymore.
Sorry. I just wanted to be sure that the word hair is countable.
Oh, it can be either countable or uncountable.
Say, why don't we go to Doris for an explanation.
OK.
The word "hair" is usually uncountable when it refers to all the hairs on one's
head.
For example, Bryan's hair is brown.
But it refers to more than one hair; a few hairs, then it takes plural form.
So while Bryan's hair appears to be brown, one hair I found was gray.
So I think there're probably more gray hairs on his head.
I see. Say, Bryan, why did Doris say gray hair?
Isn't it white hair?
Well, gray hair and white here are really the same thing.
It's just a matter of degree.
When someone's hair starts to change color due to aging, we say they're going
gray or graying at the temples.
But gray hair is an optical illusion.
It's the product of colored hairs mixed in with white hairs.
I see. Well, Bryan, don't let that hair you found getting your hair.
That's a good one, Ken.
No. I won't let it bother me too much.
But I'm never going back to that sandwich shop again.