节目资讯
刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2012-05-26
难易度:Medium
关键字:hostel, assistance, comprehend, limitless
Hi, friends. Welcome to Studio Classroom Worldwide.
Thanks for taking time out of your busy day to study with us.
My name is Steve.
In this month's LIFE EXPERIENCE lesson, we're talking to two brave people who
have each set out on a working holiday:
Vincent Lee in Australia and Claire Lee in Canada.
Going on a working holiday takes courage, a healthy sense of adventure and an
ability to go with the flow because when you go,
you may not know where you'll stay or how you'll support yourself until after
you get there.
Now let's learn more about Vincent and Claire's story on page 47.
Taking a Working Holiday.
Where did you stay and work during your working holiday?
I got a house in Vancouver, and I'm working as an assistant to a Chinese
medicine doctor.
I stayed wherever I could.
Sometimes I stayed in hostels.
Other times I shared a house or stayed in a cabin or camped.
Sometimes I slept in my car - especially when I was moving between cities.
I worked at different jobs as I traveled.
What was the biggest challenge you faced?
I wondered about a lot of things before I left.
I got a lot of assistance from my friends at church, though, so since arriving
in Canada, I haven't really run into any huge obstacles.
Hello, everyone.
Thank you so much for joining us.
My name is Ryan.
And I'm Kaylah.
And today we're back talking about working holidays.
Actually, we're interviewing two of our friends, Vincent and Claire, about their
working holiday experiences.
Now yesterday we learned that Claire went to where?
Claire went to Canada.
Actually she is still there now.
And Vincent, he traveled to Australia and worked there for about a year.
Now we can see that they're both having very different working holiday
experiences.
Claire likes to stay.
She likes the convenience of knowing her city - Vancouver.
But Vincent liked getting out.
He traveled to many different cities around Australia.
He thought that travel should be a priority while he is there, so he was very
intentional about making that happen.
So we're having two very different experiences.
Yeah, we are.
And it's very interesting to see these two different ideas, and also some of
their concerns, some of their worries.
That's right.
Ryan, if you are going to take a working holiday, do you think you would be more
like Claire, stay in one place, or like Vincent, traveling to different places?
I definitely like to travel, so I would want to live somewhere or work somewhere
where I could be close to other places, new and interesting things.
That's great.
Do you have a... maybe an idea of where you'd want to do a working holiday?
Uh, probably somewhere in Europe would actually be really nice.
Oh. That sounds nice.
Well, maybe someday you'll have the opportunity to try.
And friends, maybe you will as well.
Would you like to try a working holiday?
Well, let's find out what some of that good and bad about them are in our
article.
OK. So our next question here we ask:
Where did you stay and work during your working holiday?
So now we're going to see the answers from Claire and Vincent.
And let's start with Claire.
I like this question.
If you're moving to a new country, you need somewhere to live.
So this is great.
Well, Claire tells us first. She says:
I got a house in Vancouver, and I am working as an asistant to a Chinese
medicine doctor.
Oh, very interesting. OK.
So she's working as an assistant here.
And an assistant is someone who helps someone else.
And she's assisting a Chinese medicine doctor in Vancouver.
Interesting.
That's right. It's something she's probably familiar with and understands and
knows and can share with other people.
That's great.
Yeah.
And here we see she got a house as well.
That's another great idea.
She's on her own.
She's able to experience what it's like to be a part of Canadian culture.
That's right.
To live in a house, to stay in a home instead of an apartment is a great
opportunity to experience that.
Well, Vincent actually did things a lot differently.
Yeah. He says: I stayed wherever I could.
OK. What does that phrase actually mean?
Well, "wherever I could" meaning I didn't stay in one place, and I stayed
wherever somebody would let me sleep.
Maybe I didn't know exactly where that was going to be, but it was important
that I find it.
So we can tell Vincent doesn't seem like the kind of person who always has a
plan.
He just wants to go and try something, and then he doesn't really care what
happens.
That's right.
He says, "Sometimes I stayed in hostels," which, you know, makes sense.
If you don't want to get a house, a hostel is a great option.
Sure. A "hostel" is referring to a large type of home that someone opens up for
people to stay in,
and they usually charge a very low rent, or they can even make it free.
That's right.
A hostel is a cheap way to stay.
Usually you share the room.
It's not very luxurious.
It's very comfortable.
So it's cheaper.
And so he stayed in hostels.
But other times he shared a house, or stayed in a cabin, or he even camped.
That sounds... actually that sounds like a lot of fun, I think.
I love camping, but I don't know if I would want to do that all the time.
Here he's just... he's going from hostels to people's homes and even camping,
sleeping outside maybe was just a sleeping bag and a tent.
That's right. Or he said he stayed in a cabin.
And a cabin is a small home-like structure but it doesn't have the convenience
of a house.
So maybe it didn't have running water.
Maybe it didn't have electricity.
We're not sure.
We know it was probably a little bit older, and just kind of like camping
inside.
Yeah. Well, even worse than camping, I think here, Kaylah, is this next thing
that he did.
Let's see this.
Oh. That's right.
He said, "Sometimes I slept in my car." Oh...
All right. If you're sleeping in your car, then you've really run out of places
to stay.
We've actually talked about someone else who did this in a PROFILE article just
a few short months ago.
So now we see Vincent he was sleeping in his car, "especially," he says, "when I
was moving between cities." Makes sense.
That makes sense.
You're going to take a nap in your car.
And I think that makes sense as you're making new friends in a new place.
He says, "I worked at different jobs as I traveled." So he didn't stay in one
place, obviously.
Therefore, he didn't have just one job.
Instead, he got different jobs as he traveled, really got a taste for what
Australia had to offer.
That's true.
Now remember, he was only there from 2004 to 2005, only one year.
But he traveled to many different places and had many different jobs. Pretty
cool.
OK. That's pretty cool.
He sounds like an adventurous man.
Well, our next question from Studio Classroom is:
What was the biggest challenge you faced?
Ooh, great question.
And we see the first answer is, "Well, I wondered about a lot things before I
left," Claire says.
That's right. Claire is answering.
She said: I had a lot of concerns. I wondered a lot.
She says: I got a lot of assistance from my friends at church, though.
So since having arrived in Canada, she hasn't really run into any huge
obstacles.
OK. So she's been getting "assistance" from her friends.
That means you're getting help from other people.
And she hasn't run into other obstacles.
And an obstacle is something that can stop you from doing something else.
That's right. She had friends.
She stayed connected.
She found a church, and made friends right away.
And by staying in the area,
they were able to help her out so she doesn't have the same problems that maybe
she could have had if she was moving around a lot.
Well, we're going to talk to Vincent about his obstacles, his problems, after we
visit the Chat Room.
Hey, Bryan. What are you looking at there?
Oh, hi.
I'm just looking at a brochure for a resort in Hawaii.
Hawaii?
Are you going to spend your vacation there?
I'm thinking about it.
I've been so overworked lately that I'm thinking about possible places to go for
my next vacation.
Oh. That's nice.
So, is that the resort you'll be living in?
Uh, Ken, I'll just be going there for a week.
So I won't be living there.
What do you mean?
I might stay at this resort, but I won't be living there.
What's the difference between staying and living?
The length of time.
If you're living in a place, you're there for an extended period of time whereas
if you're residing temporarily at a place, you are staying at the place.
Oh. So if I'm just visiting a city for a fixed period, then I'm staying in the
city.
If you're there for just a few months, then yes, you are staying in that city.
What if someone says that he is here to stay?
Does that mean he is staying temporarily?
Oh, no, not in that case.
If someone says they're here to stay, then that suggests something more
permanent, as in:
I'm here to stay.
There's no getting rid of me.
You're stuck with me.
I see.
So "stay" can have different connotations.
Yes. It all depends on the context.
Well, I hope you'll enjoy your stay in Hawaii.
Thanks. I'm planning on it.