节目资讯
刊物:空中英語教室
日期:2012-04-14
难易度:Medium
关键字:impact, despite, crack, explosion, nightmare, premonition, stern
Welcome to Studio Classroom Worldwide.
Thanks for joining us, everyone.
My name is Steve.
In this month's Studio Classroom HISTORY feature,
we are remembering the Titanic's one and only journey from Southampton, England,
all the way to the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean.
So far the lesson has been sad that hundreds of deaths could have been avoided
is tragic,
but there are some heroic and heartwarming stories to come out of this disaster.
We'll take a look at some of those starting on page 29 under the heading - In
their own words.
(Music).
Titanic.
In their own words.
Seven-year-old Eva Hart's mother had a premonition that something terrible would
occur.
Frightened and awake, Mrs. Hart felt the impact and notified her husband.
According to Eva, "He put my mother and me in a lifeboat, and we never saw him
again." Amazing survival stories.
Others, though, survived despite the odds.
Crew member Frank Prentice held onto the railing as the stern lifted up out of
the water.
Hello, friends.
Thank you so much for joining us here in the studio.
My name is Kaylah.
And my name is Brandon.
We're back here with our HISTORY article today, and we're talking again about
the Titanic.
That's right, the Titanic, a very famous boat that was thought to be unsinkable
but ended up sinking in less than three hours.
Now yesterday we ended with the total of lives lost.
And that was 1,513 people did not survive, only 711 people were rescued.
But from those rescued, they had stories to share with us.
That's right. And we are going to hear some of those stories today.
We're going to talk about them.
And we begin with "In their own words." Now if someone says it's in their own
words, it's from their mind.
They didn't copy it from someone else.
They actually think about it and just tell you what happened.
They witnessed it, and so they're going to tell you what happened.
That's right.
It's from someone who was actually there, actually having the experience sharing
with you.
So it's not from a history book or from just maybe... a log about what happened.
This is actually what people said.
We begin with: Seven-year-old Eva Hart's mother had a premonition that something
terrible would occur.
Now if you have a "premonition," that just means that you have just this feeling
or thought that something really bad is going to happen.
That's right. You have a feeling that something will happen.
And she said it wasn't just bad for her, she felt something terrible would
occur.
And when something occurs, that means it happens.
Well, this mother, she was frightened and awake.
Her name was Mrs. Hart.
She felt the impact and notified her husband.
So this lady had a premonition that something would go wrong, and so she was
already awake, fearing the trouble.
Well, Mrs. Hart, she felt the impact.
Now if you feel the "impact" of something, that means when two things collide or
when two things hit each other, you feel the force from that.
Maybe two cars they collide, they hit one another.
Well, you can feel the force of that.
Well, the impact she feels here is the force of the Titanic, the boat, hitting
the iceberg.
She felt as the two hit each other.
And she notified, she woke up her husband and said there's something wrong.
Now according to Eva, who is the seven-year-old girl whose mother is the one
that is in the situation, so what does Eva have to say?
Well, Eva says, "He put my mother and me in a lifeboat, and we never saw him
again." And so they did survive, but obviously, he did not.
That's right.
So she was able to notify her husband.
And he got his daughter and wife into a lifeboat but did not survive himself.
Next we have "Amazing survival stories." So again, we're going to hear from
people who survived this terrible tragedy.
We see, "Others, though, survived despite the odds." Now we have the word
"despite" here, Kaylah.
Well, "despite" means to not take notice of something, to do something without
being influenced by another thing.
For example, if you tell your child, "Do not eat that cookie," and they eat the
cookie anyways, they do it despite you telling them not to.
And they survived despite the odds; "the odds" meaning what would likely happen.
What would likely happen is that they would not survive, but they actually did.
Well, crew member Frank Prentice held onto the railing as the stern lifted up
out of the water.
Now the "stern" is the back of the boat.
So he's holding onto the railing as the boat begins to tilt and the back of the
boat gets out of the water.
Well, we are going to talk much more about this.
But right now let's join Ken in the Chat Room.
Hey, Bryan, would you like some cookies?
Oh. Yes, I would.
I was just about to look for something to eat.
Did you buy them?
Yep. I saw them on sale at the Jungle Cafe, so I thought I'd get some for you
and I.
Uh, you mean you got them for you and me.
For you and me?
But I've heard people say for you and I.
You know, Ken, that's a mistake that even native English speakers make.
You need to remember that "I" is a subject, and "me" is an object.
Oh, I do know that.
We should never say "Jim and me" are going to the library.
It should be "Jim and I" because if I were going to the library alone, I would
never say "me" is going.
Right. But that's just a half of it.
You should also know that you can't use "I" as an object.
Let me give you an example.
What's wrong with this sentence?
I heard the teacher talking about him and I.
Uh... nothing.
That sounds OK, doesn't it?
No. The correct statement should be:
I heard the teacher talking about him and me.
A good way to figure out the correct usage is just remove the other noun from
the sentence and see if it still makes sense.
So if I took out the "him," the sentence should be:
I heard the teacher talking about me, not talking about I.
You got it, Ken.
OK. Let me ask you this.
If someone calls me on the phone and asks for me, and I answer it, should I say,
"This is he"?
Yes. Technically you should say "this is he" since "he" is the subject.
But nowadays people tend to just say: It's me, or simply: Yes, speaking.
Oh, I see.
Well, thanks for clarifying all that.
You bet.
Um, so you bought those cookies for you and me, right?
Oh, yeah. Sorry.
Here you go.
Thank you.