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Dialogue

A: Really, fellas, you can’t take me to jail! Don’t you know who I am? Kris Kringle, you know, Papa Noel, Pere Noel, Babbo Natale, sheng dan lao ren!
B: Yeah, Yeah, we’ve heard that one before, haven’t we Joe?
C: Yeah, last week we booked this guy who claimed to be the tooth fairy! Can you believe that?
A: It’s Christmas Eve and I have all these presents to deliver! Where is your Christmas spirit? What will happen when all the children wake up tomorrow and don’t find any gifts in their stockings?
B: Sorry buddy, you were parked in a no-parking zone, you were speeding, and you have no ID!
C: Besides that, even if we let you go now, your sleigh has been impounded and those reindeer were taken to the city zoo.
A: What! This is unbelievable! What’s this world coming to? Christmas is ruined!
C: What’s that up ahead? It looks like... elves!! Whoa, they’re shooting candy canes! Mayday, Mayday, we are under heavy attack! We need backup!

M: Hello everyone! Welcome back to EnglishPod! My name is Marco.
E: And I’m Erica.
M: And today we’re bringing you the second part of Christmas Chronicles.
E: Another Christmas lesson to get you in the Christmas spirit.
M: Hehe. Christmas and useful language for all our listeners today.
E: That’s right, in today’s lesson we’ll be learning some great Christmas vocabulary.
M: And police related vocabulary as well.
E: Now, Christmas-police vocabulary, how exactly does that fit together?
M: Hehe. Well, they don’t.
E: Hehe.
M: But here at EnglishPod we can make anything happen, so, that’s why we have done this.
E: To be creative.
M: To be creative. So, let’s take a look at our “vocabulary preview” for this lesson.
Voice: Vocabulary preview.
E: In today’s vocabulary preview we’ve got two words from our dialogue that you will need to know to understand this dialogue.
M: Uhu, the first one is elves.
E: Elves.
M: Elves.
E: Elves, and this is the plural of the word elf.
M: Elf, right.
E: So, elves are…
M: Little people. Hehe.
E: Little people with pointy hats.
M: With pointy hats; Santa’s helpers.
E: Okay, so, elves.
M: Elves.
E: Our next word is candy cane.
M: Candy cane.
E: Candy cane.
M: Candy cane.
E: So, a candy cane is a traditional Christmas candy, right?
M: Yes, it’s red and white.
E: And it’s kind of shaped like a… like a ‘J’.
M: Like a ‘J’, yeah.
E: Okay, so, it…
M: It’s very traditional.
E: Yeah, you… you hang them on a tree and you eat them at Christmas time.
M: Yes.
E: Taste like peppermint.
M: Okay, well, I guess we’re ready to listen to our dialogue for the first time, uh, and it’s gonna be kind of fast, but…
E: Don’t worry if you don’t understand everything, because we’ll come back and talk about some of the language later.
DIALOGUE, FIRST TIME
M: Okay, so, Santa has escaped from the police car, hey?
E: Thank God!
M: It’s like a war over there. They were really firing everything.
E: I know, I mean those elves are…
M: Aggressive.
E: Very aggressive.
M: Hehe. Okay, well, we can take a look at some great vocabulary from this dialogue. Why don’t we start with our “language takeaway” for today?
Voice: Language takeaway.
E: In today’s language takeaway we have five really important words that we hope you will take away from the lesson.
M: Exactly, and the first word that we have today is booked.
E: Booked.
M: Booked.
E: Booked.
M: Booked is another way of saying…
E: Arrested.
M: Arrested.
E: Yeah, it’s a slang word, hey?
M: It’s kind of slangy, yeah.
E: Yeah.
M: Yeah, it’s a slang word – booked.
E: Okay, next word – speeding.
M: Speeding.
E: Speeding.
M: Speeding.
E: So, Santa was speeding, because he was…
M: Going too fast.
E: Driving too fast, yeah.
M: Right…
E: Okay.
M: Going over the speed limit.
E: Exactly.
M: Uhu.
E: Third word today is…
M: Impounded.
E: Impounded.
M: Impounded…
E: Hm.
M: That’s when your car gets arrested.
E: Your car gets arrested?
M: Hehe. Yeah, they take your car to ‘car jail’.
E: Okay, so, my car is in ‘car jail’.
M: It’s…
E: I think I understand.
M: It’s impounded.
E: Okay, so, the police take my car and I have to…
M: Pay to get it out.
E: Okay.
M: Uhu.
E: Let’s move to our next word – ruined.
M: Ruined.
E: Ruined.
M: Ruined.
E: We have a few examples for us to listen to, to understand the meaning of this word.
Voice: Example one.
A: It’s been raining for five days. Our vacation is ruined.
Voice: Example two.
B: Look at this hole! You’ve ruined my favorite pair of jeans.
Voice: Example three.
C: Sam, you’ve been caught steeling from the company, your chances for a promotion are ruined.
M: Okay, great examples and basically ruined means…
E: Destroyed.
M: Destroyed.
E: Yeah, messed up.
M: Messed up, okay. Now for our last word – back up. Backup.
E: Oh, yeah…
M: So, now for our last word… Okay, so, now for our last word on language takeaway – backup.
E: Backup.
M: Backup.
E: Backup.
M: So, backup is…
E: Help.
M: Help.
E: Yeah.
M: Right?
E: So, when you call for backup, you call for help.
M: Call for help.
E: Yeah.
M: Yeah, you see it all the time in war movies, police “Call for backup!”
E: Yeah.
M: Right?
E: I think though it’s important to point out that here the pronunciation and stress of this phrase is really important, hey?
M: Uhu, yes, yes.
E: You have to say backup.
M: Backup.
E: Backup.
M: Yeah.
E: So, both words are stressed at about the same level, hey?
M: Uhu, backup.
E: Cause if you were to say back up…
M: That means to move back.
E: Exactly.
M: Yeah, it’s different, so, backup, back up.
E: Yes.
M: Uhu.
E: The stress is important.
M: The stress ???
E: Alright, well, you know what? I think with those words in mind it’s time for us to listen to the dialogue a second time.
DIALOGUE, SECOND TIME (slow)
M: Okay, so, without the sound effects and without any noise I think it’s much more clear now, right?
E: A little less dramatic.
M: Less dramatic, but good language.
E: Yes, speaking of good language, there’re some great phrases I wanna look at in this dialogue and, so, let’s do that in “putting it together”.
Voice: Putting it together.
E: We have two phrases in putting it together that we want to show you how you can use in many different situations. In the dialogue we heard this…
Phrase: Last week we booked this guy who claimed to be the tooth fairy. Last week we booked this guy who claimed to be the tooth fairy.
E: So, when you claim to be something, you’re saying that you are something, but it might not be true, right?
M: Right, so, for example, you can say “This woman claimed to be your wife”.
E: But she’s not.
M: But she’s not.
E: Okay, we have a few other examples of how you can use the phrase claim to.
Voice: Example one.
A: Daniel claimed to be the son of a Government Minister, but later we found out that he was lying.
Voice: Example two.
B: The criminals claimed to have a gun!
Voice: Example three.
C: This man here, he’s claiming to know your father.
E: That’s such a great phrase, just by putting it together with another verb means something different, but still expresses that same idea.
M: Right, claim to have… She claimed to have a baby or something.
E: Yeah.
M: Okay.
E: Okay, so, let’s move to our next phrase…
M: Under heavy.
E: Under heavy.
M: Under heavy.
E: So, in the dialogue they said “we’re under heavy attack”.
M: Right.
E: You can also use this phrase in a couple of other ways.
Voice: Example one.
A: We’re under heavy attack!
Voice: Example two.
B: We’re under heavy fire!
Voice: Example three.
C: The Prime Minister is under heavy security.
E: So, if you’re under heavy fire…
M: Means that there’s a lot of fire.
E: Like gun fire.
M: Gun fire, yeah.
E: Yean, and not like fire fire.
M: Yeah.
E: Okay, and if you’re under heavy security…
M: It means that you have a lot of security, a lot of bodyguards or a lot of…
E: Right, like a Prime Minister, a President would be under heavy security.
M: Exactly.
E: Okay.
M: Uhu.
E: Couple of great phrases.
M: Really good phrases and with this we can listen to our dialogue a third time.
DIALOGUE, THIRD TIME
E: So, Marco, the police mentioned something about the Tooth Fairy.
M: The Tooth Fairy.
E: I don’t know, maybe some of our listeners don’t know the story about the Tooth Fairy, so, um… Can I go ahead and say it?
M: Yes, go ahead.
E: Okay, well, when you’re small and you lose a tooth.
M: Your baby teeth.
E: Yeah, you put it underneath your pillow.
M: Aha.
E: And then you go to sleep.
M: Uhu.
E: And then in the night the Tooth Fairy comes into the house… flies into the house, snicks under your pillow, takes the tooth and puts money there.
M: Uh, I see.
E

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