创新英语教程第二册 unit18

[00:06.58]While you read [00:13.24]FOUR EXPERIENCES [00:17.21]QUENTIN [00:19.67]Back in 1989,I went on holiday to London to visit somefriends. [00:26.12]The second day I was there,the Notting Hill Carnival was on. [00:32.39]So I went to see what it was all about.It was amazing! [00:38.84]It's like a huge street party right in the middle of London. [00:44.62]It's basically a celebration of Afro-Caribbean culture, [00:50.86]but all kinds of thousands of people there. [00:55.72]There are literally hundreds of thusands of people there. [01:01.07]Anyway,everyone dresses up in outrageous costumees and dances and has a great time. [01:08.94]I met some really nice people that day and it really helped broaden my mind. [01:16.30]I've been back every other year since then.and always look forward to it. [01:22.96]BARNAbY [01:26.83]I've been going to the Glastonbury festival in the west of England for years. [01:33.78]It used to be really great.but it's become a bit commercial now. [01:40.34]It's got too big.Ten years ago. [01:45.48]it was much smaller and it was easier to make friends [01:50.84]and everyone was there for the music. [01:54.81]Nowadays,everything is much more expensive [02:00.06]and it's become a place people go in order to drink and take drugs, [02:06.12]It's got more aggressive too.Things get stolen from your tent. [02:12.78]There are more fights and there are so many people [02:18.24]that you can't even see the bands. [02:22.71]The stages seem to be miles away!I only go out of habit now.I suppose. [02:30.26]RicARdO [02:34.12]Fallas is a big annual festival they hold in my home town,Valencia. [02:41.49]It's held every spring and it commemorates the patron saint of the city. [02:47.94]Lots of people spend the whole year preparing for it. [02:53.30]Each area raises money to build their own fallas [02:58.26]-huge papier-mache models-and they all spend ages making them look great. [03:05.34]We make funny models of famous politicians, [03:10.20]footballers,local celebrities,that kind of thing. [03:14.95]The festival runs all through the beginning of March and it's pretty carzy-lots of drinking, [03:22.61]hundreds of people all throwing fireworks at each other, [03:27.65]street performers and so on.Anyway,on March 19th, [03:33.71]there's a huge fireworks display and then everyone burns all their models! [03:40.37]It's mad,but really good fun. [03:45.04]YASUKO [03:49.49]Hounen Matsuri is a fairly strange festival. [03:55.23]I don't really know much about it.It still happens every year. [04:01.89]in March,but it's mainly for older people. [04:06.75]Most young people just find it a bit embarrassing,I think, [04:12.81]I suppose it's a celebration of spring [04:17.57]and the end of winter and that kind of thing. [04:22.14]People get really drunk on rice wine [04:27.18]and parade this big wooden thing through the streets. [04:32.04]Don't ask me why!Then they take it to the temple and pray and that's it,really. [04:39.69]It's odd,though,because it's really popular with tourists. [04:45.54]I guess it attracts the kind of person [04:50.01]who likes to think they're seeing the real Japan. [04:54.45]whatever that means. [04:57.93]3 Radio interview [05:08.87]You are now going to listen to a radio programme. [05:13.73]One of the speakers is Gareth Davies himself. [05:18.69]The other is a Professor of Modern Languages. [05:23.66]And now we turn on the story of Gareth Davies.which has caused so much discussion recently. [05:32.51]As you probably know.Mr Davies lost his job. [05:38.26]despite being an award-winning teacher of English. [05:43.01]because he failed an exam in Welsh. [05:47.48]He lost a court case recently,where he had argued he shouldn't be forced to have a qualification which wasn't relevant to his job. [05:56.73]To discuss this and other issues about language [06:01.87]we have Gareth himself and Christine Edwards, [06:07.05]Professor of Modern Languages at the University of Eastminster. [06:12.92]First of all,Gareth,I think quite a few people would say,you live in Wales. [06:20.47]you should speak the local language which is Welsh. [06:26.04]Well,I'm not actually sure you can say that Welsh is the local language. [06:34.40]I'd say that the majority of people in Conway speak English as their first mother tongue. [06:42.86]The second thing is. [06:46.23]I am Welsh!OK.my parents moved to London,when I was four because of work, [06:54.56]but I was born here and both my parents come from different parts of Wales. [07:01.83]It's just that neither of them spoke Welsh. [07:06.89]If people want to speak it,fine, [07:11.44]but it's no use to me in my normal life.apart from this stupid bit of paper. [07:18.80]You can't make people learn languages. [07:24.40]Isn't that a point.Christine? [07:29.04]People simply express themselves in the way they want and that happens to be English. [07:36.52]No.I'm sorry,but if you look at all the languages round the world. [07:42.45]one is dying out every two weeks and that's because of English. [07:48.32]I think people think they have to speak English [07:53.36]or they will not be able to get a good job,or succeed in the world. [07:59.03]Also,because America is so rich,people see lots of Hollywood movies, [08:06.19]and listen to lots of American music, [08:10.63]and so far younger people English becomes cool [08:15.60]and they start to want to speak it. [08:19.57]So then you get language like French being diluted with English. [08:25.73]No.when the language dies you also lose the culture and traditions of that country. [08:32.50]Languages need to be protected, [08:36.75]and that's all that's happened here in Garth's case. [08:41.72]So what you're saying is that I'm actually somehow damaging Welsh culture [08:50.36]by not learning the Welsh language!This is crazy. [08:56.24]If kids want to be cool.what's wroing with that? [09:01.60]What givess you the right to tell people how to live and how to speak? [09:07.94]And anyway, [09:11.00]the way you think doesn't change when you're speaking in another language. [09:17.19]When I am speaking Welsh-badly, [09:22.16]I admit-I still want to say the same kind of things I say in English. [09:29.10]I'm still me.I'm not suddenly someone else. [09:35.27]Disagreeing [09:48.83]You can't get a good job if you don't speak English. [09:53.27]Come on!That's bit of an exaggeration!No.it's not. [09:58.83]All the best jobs these days ask you to be fluent in English. [10:04.42]So what you're saying is could be a brilliant medical student,say, [10:11.08]and I couldn't get a job as a doctor because I can't speak English. [10:16.65]Yeah,more or less. [10:19.99]Do you honestly believe that?Yeah,If you don't speak English,you're nothing. [10:26.96]How can you say that?Because it's true.That's crazy. [10:33.03]Listen we're obviously never going to agree, [10:38.59]so let's just talk about something else.shall we? [10:43.55]OK.but you do realise you're wrong! [10:47.92]OK.whatever.I don't want to argue.Let's just agree to disagree. [10:55.86]Stereotypes and reality [11:07.12]1.He's typical Scot-really mean! [11:13.36]Oh,come on!Every Scot I've ever met was really generous. [11:19.31]2.He's typical ltalian-really loud! [11:25.09]Oh,come on.I've got a really good friend who's from rome and he's quite quite. [11:31.64]3.She's typical Japanese-really conservative.Oh,come on. [11:40.19]That's such a stereotype!Lots of Japanese people are really out-going. [11:46.64]4.She's typical small town girl-really conservative.Oh,come on! [11:56.62]Just because you don't come from the city doesn't mean you can't be open-minded. [12:02.86]5.She's typical Parisian-arrogant and snobbish!Oh,come on. [12:10.72]I've got a friend from Paris and she's really nice. [12:15.40]6.The Spanish are much more friendly than most people. [12:22.35]Some of them,maybe,I've met some Spaniards who were really cold and distant. [12:28.90]7.People from Osaka are usually really funny.Oh,come on! [12:38.36]They can't all be funny!There must be some who are as dull as the rest of us! [12:44.42]8.People from the north are much more open and honest than southerners. [12:51.50]Oh,come on!Just because you're a southerner doesn't mean you have to be two-faced.

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