English Recordings

Lesson 7 Disappearing Islands

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Listen & SpeakⅠ

1. G: It's so hot today.
B: You're telling me. I can't believe it's September.
G: Each year, it gets hotter and hotter.
B: I know. Global warming is a big problem.
G: Yeah. We need to do something.

2. B: Look at those kids running on the street.
G: They shouldn't do that, it's not safe.
B: You can say that again.
G: Where are their parents?
B: I don't know, but they should watch their kids.

3. G: The park is so dirty.
B: You're telling me. I can't believe it.
G: Look at those bottles and cans.
B: I know. They don't care about other people.
G: Let's clean it up.

Listen & SpeakⅡ

1. G: Oh, no. The polar bears are losing their homes.
B: Why are they losing their homes?
G: Because the ice is melting.
B: That's terrible.
G: I know. I feel so bad for them.

2. B: Did you hear about Jo?
G: No, what happened to her?
B: She broke her leg in the soccer game.
G: Oh, no. I'm so sorry to hear that.

3. G: How was your school trip?
B: It was terrible. It rained the whole time.
G: Really? I feel so bad for you.
B: We just watched TV in the room.
G: Sounds pretty boring.

Conversation

Q1 What is a big problem?
Q2 Why are the polar bears losing their homes?

Close your book and listen carefully.
Minjun: It's so hot today.
Jenny: You're telling me. I can't believe it's September.
Minjun: Each year, it gets hotter and hotter.
Jenny: Yeah. Global warming is a big problem.
Minjun: I know. Did you hear about the polar bears?
Jenny: No. What about them?
Minjun: They are losing their homes.
Jenny: Why are they losing their homes?
Minjun: Because the ice is melting.
Jenny: Really? I feel so bad for them.

Disappearing Islands
Dear World,
Hi, my name is Taukelina. I'm a middle school student living in Tuvalu. Have you heard of Tuvalu? It's an island in the Pacific Ocean near Australia. It's a very small but beautiful island. I'm writing this letter to ask for your help.

My country is sinking into the sea. Do you know why? Global warming caused all this to happen. Warmer weather makes the ice melt. Because of the melting ice, the sea level rises. Some scientists say my country could disappear in 50 years. I'm very worried.

I really don't want the people in my country to lose their homes. Here are some things we do to slow down global warming.
We always turn off the lights, the television, and the computer when we are not using them.
We try not to cut down trees. Trees take CO2 out of the air.
We usually don't travel by car. We walk, ride a bike, or take the bus.

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We recycle bottles, cans, plastic bags, and newspapers.
When we recycle, we help save the Earth.
Oh! I almost forgot. There is one more thing. Could you please show this letter to your friends?
Thanks for reading my letter. I really do hope you can help us. Bye for now.
Love,
Taukelina

<At the Mountain house>
Aug 06th 2010 01:16

(One of my friends） built a house on a mountain ridge.
He （told me ）that he would let me go there to take a rest for a few days,because that house is empty during the weekdays.
So I （decided to go to）
there and stay one night, and simply packed up and departed for 영종도 with my husband.
In the beginning, I got lost road, but we found that it finally.
We crossed some green ridges between rice fields, climbed the mountain ridge, and finally I could find found a small yellow house.

（There are just 2 houses there）, so it was very very calm and peaceful, as it looks like it renounced the world and became a Taoist hermit feeling?
And beside that, between/or (through) some pine trees there was a small path, and（beyond that pine tree path）, I could see salt ponds of the seaside.

When I slowly (took a walk) (following down) that pathway,...and some working farmers, and then I finally arrived at the salt ponds.

In front of the house, there's an old and big pine tree, and there was also a swing hung up by some rope.

Of course I tried playing with that swings, and sure it was so fun!That time on the Mountian was good for me.
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* toki420,Thank`s your correction, you!

*=<사전(dictionary):예문(example sentence)>--
You packed a duffelbag? 짐을 쌌다고?
pack the children off to camp 아이들을 캠프로 (짐을 싸서) 보내 버리다.
So you packin' up her room for her? 누나 때문에 짐 싸는 거야?
All right, I gotta go pack. 그럼 난 짐 싸야겠소
The hard part's changing gears. 짐 싸는 게 힘들어서 그렇지

I got some packing to do. 난 짐 싸러 가야겠어
Um, they're upstairs getting ready. 위층에서 짐 싸고 있어요
I'll pack my things and leaving 짐 싸서 떠나겠어요
All right. I'll pack the car. 알았어, 차에 짐 쌀게
I can help you pack up her stuff. 짐 싸는 것 도와 드릴게요

Help me pack, will you? 짐 싸는 거나 도와줘
I'll even help you pack. (내가 짐 싸는 것도 도와줄게요
So, we all packed and ready to go? 그럼, 짐 싸서 갈 준비 된 거야?
Have you packed (up)? 짐을 다 쌌느냐?
Packing is pretty much done. 짐도 거의 다 쌌어요
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“Are we lost?” - “I’m afraid so.” 우리는 길을 잃었습니까? 아무래도 그런 것 같습니다.
We quailed at the thought of getting lost in the forest.
숲 속에서 길을 잃을 지도 모른다는 생각에 풀이 죽었다.
I lost my way and, what was worse, it began to rain. 길을 잃었는데 거기에다 비마저 오기 시작했다
be misled by a map 지도를 의지하다가 길을 잃다
Sstick with me, and you will not get lost. 내 곁에 꼭 붙어 있어, 그러면 길을 잃지 않을 거야.

It’s fascinating that migratory birds never get lost. 철새가 결코 길을 잃지 않는 것은 놀라운 일이다.
Yeah, she's good. She's just lost. (네, 길을 잃었을 뿐이에요
The puppy has strayed off from the kennel. 강아지가 개집에서 나가 길을 잃었다.
We're lost out here. 우린 길을 잃었고
lose oneself in a wood 숲속에서 길을 잃다

I was just, uh, I got lost.그냥, 길을 잃었어요
He wandered from the course in the mountain. 그는 산 속에서 길을 잃었다.
Excuse me. I'm lost. 실례지만, 길을 잃었는데요.
I am lost. Would you help me? 길을 잃었습니다. 도와주시겠습니까?
I've been lost without you. 당신이 없어서 길을 잃었어요

When I was out there lost, 거기서 길을 잃었을 때
“Are we lost?” ─ “Could be.” 길을 잃은 것일까? ─ 그럴지도 몰라.
Oh, this is great. We’re lost.우린 길을 잃은거야

--------<In Korean>-------------
한 친구가 산등성이에 작은 집 한채를 지었습니다. 친구가 내게 말하기를, 주중에는 빈 집으로 있으니 며칠 편히 쉬라고 권했습니다.

그래서 지난주에는 그곳에서 하룻밤을 지내기로 하고, 남편과 간단히 물건을 챙겨서 영종도로 출발했답니다.

처음에는 길을 잃었으나 다시 차근차근 찾아 마침내 찾을 수 있었습니다.

푸른 논둑길 사이를 지나고, 작은 산 등성이로 올라 가니, 마침내 노란 집 한채를 발견했습니다.

그곳에는 단 2집밖에 없어서 정말 한가하고 좋았어요. 마치 속세를 벗어 난 도사가 된 듯한 느낌?
게다가 작은 집 앞 소나무 사이로 작은 길이 있었습니다.

그 소나무 오솔길 사이로 저 멀리 해변의 염전이 보였습니다.
그 작을 길을 따라 천천히 내려 가니 작은 포도밭, 감나무밭, 일하는 농부가 보이고, 마지막에 염전에 닿았습니다.

그리고 집 앞에는 늙은 소나무가 있었는데 그 소나무 가지에는 밧줄로 그네가 매여져 있었습니다.
나는 그 그네를 보자마자 타보고 싶었는데, 물론 재미있었지요.
산에서의 하루는 참 좋았습니다.

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When Jane left school, she applied for a job in a local company. They gave her a job as a trainee. She didn't earn much , but they gave her inhouse training, and she went on several training courses.
Jane worked hard and her prospects looked good. Her boss was very pleased with her progress and she soon got a good pay rise. After two years she was promoted. After five years she was in charge of a department with five employees under her.
By the time Jane was 32, she decided she wanted a fresh challenge and a career change. She wanted to work abroad, so she resigned and started looking for another job. After a month she got a job with an internation company which involved a lot of foreign travel. She was very excited about this and at first she really enjoyed it, but...
After eigth months, Jane started to dislike the travelling and living in hotels. She didn't do well in the job either. After a year the company dismissed her, and Jane found life difficult. She was unemployed for nine months until she got a part-time job in the kitchen of a restaurant.
Jane loved the restaurant. She enjoyed learning to cook, and two years later she took over the restaurant. After a year, she opened a second one, and after 20 years she had 10 restaurants. Last year Jane retired at the age of 50, a rich woman.

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peroneus tertius

When the blossoms have scattered and the cherry trees are full of leaves like this (the elderly woman began), I always remember that time. It was thirty-five years ago, Father was still alive, and our family – if you can call it that, for there were only three of us, Father and my younger sister and I, Mother having passed away some seven years earlier, when I was thirteen – our family was living on the outskirts of a castle town in Shimane Prefecture, a place near the Japan Sea with a population of twenty-some thousand. Father had accepted a post as headmaster of a middle school there when I was eighteen and my sister was sixteen, but since no suitable lodgings were available in town, we rented two rooms in a detached house on the grounds of a temple near the foot of the mountains, a house we were to live in for six years, until Father was transferred to a middle school in Matsue. I didn't marry until after we moved to Matsue, in the autumn of my twenty-fourth year, which in those days was quite late for a girl. With Mother having died when I was so young and Father being so absorbed in scholarly work and so thoroughly out of touch with worldly matters, I l knew our household would fall apart entirely if I were to leave, and though I’d had any number of offers I had no desire to become anyone’s bride if it meant abandoning my family.
Had my sister been healthy, I would have felt somewhat more free to do as I pleased, but though she, quite unlike myself, was a beautiful and very intelligent child with long lovely hair, she was physically infirm, and in the spring of the second year after Father took that job in the castle town, when she was eighteen and I was twenty, she died.
This is the story of something that happened shortly before her death.

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