节目资讯
刊物:空中英語教室
日期:2012-02-03
难易度:Low
关键字:bullying, beat somebody up, count, frequent, victim, insult
Friends, the problem of bullying is more prevalent than some people might think.
In fact, one in seven students is either a bully or being bullied themselves.
This leads to over 160,000 students skipping school every day out of fear of
being bullied.
Now let's check back in on page 16 line 11 and take a look at how we can stop
this problem.
The Dangers of Bullying.
In a 2010 study of American high school students, 47 percent said they had been
bullied.
In parts of Asia, the percentage of students who admit to having been bullied
has nearly doubled since 2007.
And many more victims don't want to speak out.
Bullying takes many forms.
One is physically attacking the victim, which can leave him or her with broken
bones or worse.
But insulting someone, spreading rumors or preventing someone from making
friends also count.
(Music).
OK, before we take a look at how we can actually stop the problem of bullying,
let's see how often it actually happens.
Well, we looked at a British study.
So now we're going to look at an American study.
Now this study was in 2010 of high school students.
So earlier we were looking at younger students, now we're talking about high
school students.
OK, yeah. Then we saw that in fifth grade in Britain about 50 percent were being
bullied, and in eighth grade it was a little less.
But now we're in American high schools where... where we see 47 percent have
been bullied.
That is just so sad to me.
You know, this is a big problem in America.
I've worked in some of the high schools in America, and it is a huge problem.
Bullying is everywhere.
Students are mean to each other.
Ryan, you know sometimes we think that beating someone up is the only form of
bullying, but we're going to see that that is not the case.
Bullying comes in all different forms.
Yeah, it can... it can exist in many different places.
Now here we're using words like percent and percentage.
So if we're saying that about 47 percent of students are being bullied in high
schools in America,
then that means that 47 out of about 100 students are being bullied.
That's a lot.
That's right.
Now in parts of Asia, the percentage of students who admitted to having been
bullied has nearly doubled since 2007.
That's only five years ago.
OK. Now this is important, Kaylah.
First, why... why is this important?
What does the word "admit" mean?
"Admit" means they have confessed to it.
They have said that they have been bullied.
They have spoken out about it.
But that is not actually the case.
Many more victims don't speak out, so there's probably many more people out
there.
Right. So here we're seeing in Asia, students, some of them were not speaking
out before.
And now that has doubled; many more are saying they're being bullied.
And more victims they don't even want to say anything.
Now a "victim" is the person who is being hurt by something.
In this case, since we're talking about bullying, the person is being hurt by
another person or group of people.
So if you are being bullied, you are the victim.
So these victims are speaking out, and most... but also some are not speaking
out.
Exactly. Now Kaylah, we know that bullying is a really big problem.
Like you said before, you were bullied once.
I've been bullied before.
And I think just about all of you maybe have been bullied at some point in your
life.
So you know this is a really big problem.
Now bullying takes many different forms.
That's right. There's not just one way of hurting somebody.
And this is a great sentence because it introduces our Grammar on the Go tip.
So let's go find Liz.
Hi, friends.
How you doing today?
My name is Liz, and it's time for Grammar on the Go.
Our article today deals with a very serious subject: Bullying.
According to the writer: Bullying takes many forms.
That's our Grammar Tip sentence.
And today we're looking at the phrase, to take many forms.
Normally, "to take" means to use your hands to get something like: May I take
this last piece of cake?
But in the case of today's sentence, to take... to take many forms that is, has
nothing to do with getting things with hands.
Instead, "to take many forms" means there are many forms or kinds of what was
just mentioned.
In other words, there are many forms of bullying.
Use this phrase, "to take many forms," when you want to tell people how
something which is commonly seen in one way can actually appear in so many
different ways.
For example, people often think that depression is a serious illness in which
the patient is just very sad.
However, a person with depression will also suffer other kinds of symptoms
besides just feeling sad.
So we can say: Depression symptoms take many forms.
Or Lunar New Year's celebrations are usually seen as a time of parties and
excitement.
But in reality, different people have different ways of celebrating Lunar New
Year.
So we can say: Lunar New Year celebrations take on many forms.
If you'd like to see some more example sentences, they are available in today's
Grammar Tip section in your Studio Classroom magazine.
That's it for now.
This is Liz with Grammar on the Go, signing off.
Bye-bye.
Thank you, Liz.
So there are many different ways that people can be bullied.
The first one we see is that one is physically attacking the victim.
Now we talked about this earlier.
This is what we call being beat up by somebody.
That is physically hurting them.
That is using your hands, your feet to hit and to kick them.
Yeah. So maybe you see this in movies a lot where the bully grabs them by the
shirt and might threaten or pretend they're about to hit them.
But there's another form here that can... or actually that can leave the person
or the victim with broken bones or even worse.
That's right.
Sometimes when you are bullying someone, you are beating them up, you are
physically attacking them.
And it can go so far as to breaking their bones and worse.
And here "worse" could mean putting them in a hospital.
Some people have actually died from being beaten up as well.
Yeah, this is a really big problem.
Now there's another form, though.
Insulting someone or spreading rumors or preventing someone for making friends
is also considered bullying.
That's right.
Now when we say you are "insulting" somebody, that means you are saying
something rude or offensive about them.
Yeah, you're making fun of them basically.
You're... you're maybe telling other people bad things about them, spreading
rumors, telling people things that aren't true about them,
or preventing them from making friends. That also counts.
And when we say the word "count" here, that means it also is included.
It also matters.
So all of these are also considered bullying.
Yeah. Now these are all terrible things.
You do not want to see these happen in school or even in your adult life,
so you want to learn how to avoid bullying other people and avoid other people
who bully you.
All right. Now let's take a look at today's skit.
Well, look at you!
Bullying is not a laughing matter.
Yes, it is! And I'm laughing at you.
Oh, no. You're not going to beat me up again, are you?
Why not?
It's fun!
Bullying incidents are too frequent and it's international.
And it's international.
So what?
So, bullying isn't limited to a single... country or culture.
It's everywhere.
Yeah. And bullying is right here.
The percent of children being bullied is on the rise.
Oh, bullying is on the rise! So what?
So it's probably higher than you think because many victims don't speak out.
Many victims don't speak out.
(Background Noise).
Stop bullying me!
Oh, I didn't even touch you.
But bullying isn't just physically attacking someone.
Bullying takes many forms.
Bullying takes many forms, like breaking bones.
And insulting others, spreading rumors and preventing people from making
friends.
Oh. Well, let's see, what form of bullying should I use first?
Breaking bones?
No! Give me that.
Hi, everyone. I'm Michelle.
(Chinese).
And I guess that's all for today's Language Tips. I'll see you tomorrow.
Bye-bye.
Thank you very much, Michelle.
We always appreciate those helpful tips.
Well, here are a few myths about bullying.
First, every bully is insecure and has low self-esteem.
This is actually incorrect.
Right. While it might be true in some cases, many bullies are quite popular and
have average or above-average self-esteem.
OK, second myth: Bullying will resolve itself if you ignore it.
Wrong again.
Pretending it doesn't exist just teaches bullies that they can misbehave without
consequences.
And thirdly, parents are aware when their children are being bullied or when
they are bullying others.
Hmm, this is also a myth.
So parents, maybe this would be a good time to talk to your child about this
difficult topic.
OK, everyone, more about "The Dangers of Bullying" tomorrow.
Until then, have a great day.
Bye-bye.