57 Different Cultures
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hi hello hello today we look at
different cultures and what happens when
people move from one country to another
and we meet this woman
who lives in England but will
soon be moving to another country you've
moved to another country haven't you
that's right
I came to Britain a year ago a lot of
things are different here British food
is different but I'm used to it now and
here in Britain they drive on the left
I'm getting used to that but the weather
the Sun doesn't much in Britain I
still can't get used to the weather
British food I'm used to it now I'm
getting used to driving in Britain
British weather I can't get used to that
winter's coming here it'll be cold I
know I hate being cold I'll never get
used to winter I've got an idea why
don't we go to Australia Australia
where's Australia down there how far is
it it's not far okay just think this
time tomorrow we'll be sitting in the
Sun we'll be lying will be
Australia it's still cold and the Sun
isn't yes
Australia's just like home this time
tomorrow we'll be sitting in the Sun
we'll be sitting we will be sitting this
time tomorrow we'll be sitting in the
Sun
what will you be doing this time
tomorrow I'll be at home watching
television I will be having
lunch at this time tomorrow I will be
sitting down in my office I should be
having a meeting with colleagues I'll be
on a train to Leeds I'll be sleeping and
what will you be doing in ten years time
in ten years time I hope hope be living
somewhere else in Europe I will be
working somewhere in ten years time I
may be thinking about retiring
in ten years I will be picking
up a couple of kids from or
something I really don't know what I'll
be doing in ten years time
at all if my plans go I shall
have being a
and I should be teaching my subject
again to students who want to learn it
this time tomorrow I'll be working here
but this time next year I'll be back in
the United States in I'll be
living in I'll be driving on
the right and I'll be eating American
food it'll be good
but I'll miss some things about England
VSO overseas is a
British organization which trains people
to work in other countries who
lives in London is a new VSO volunteer
let's find out where she'll be going and
what she'll be doing I'll be going to
to quite a large village school
and I'll be teaching English to 16 year
olds up to a level and I think I'll be a
teacher to twelve and
thirteen-year-olds
I'll be staying for two years minimum
and there's a possibility of having not
extended to three or four years what
will have to get used to I'll have
to get used to a whole series a whole
different working conditions I'm
used to working in quite a high-tech
sort of industry that's got lots of
and everything and I'm going
to be going to a place that has no
a
there's no electricity at all no
all the things that you
take for granted they just won't be
there anymore so I'm going to have to
get used to that sort of thing really
I'll be staying near the school which is
called in quite a small
village it's such of farmers
generally it's quite near to a sort of
small town but it's quite rural itself
and I'll be staying in a teacher's house
living with two or three other
teachers
I have to get used to not having the
variety of different foods that you have
here like 20 different varieties of
and all the food that
you could possibly want and can think of
you can have here and the range of food
there is much smaller I have to get used
to getting water from a not
having electricity which means
in the evening which means the
difficulty of preparing for the next
day's lessons in poor light different
ways of getting your clothes washed how
you make your own entertainment in the
evenings because I'm used to coming home
and watching television and you know
phoning your friends and listening to
music and that sort of thing and they'll
be sort of quite big differences like
that they'll have to get used to no I
have eight I must have had more than
twelve actually I have eight different
sorts of courses of
I'll miss shopping for clothes in my
favorite clothes stores and I'll miss
seeing my friends after work and going
to and going to a club going
to parties an list of things
that I can think of that I do that I do
without thinking about it really but I'm
going to miss John describe what she'll
be doing when she goes to she
will be teaching English she'll be
living in a teacher's house with two or
three teachers John realizes
that life will be very different from
what she's used to
she'll have to get used to different
working conditions and of course there
are things that she'll miss about home
she'll miss shopping for clothes she'll
miss seeing her friends told us
about some of the things she'll miss but
what will be the biggest problem for her
I think we've quite a lot of cultural
differences and those are going to be
the most difficult things to get used to
because physical things I think you can
really quickly I think a
different way of looking at the role of
women in society is going to be quite
difficult because I'm used to saying
exactly what I think about everything
and I'm just gonna have to learn to keep
quiet about things but the problem with
that is that I can see why you have to
do that but then if quite a big part of
yourself is to kind of not like in
Justices or whatever it is and to say
what you think then how much is it
you're kind of changing yourself as a
person and there's a personality and and
maybe I'll get there and I'll find that
you know it simply is not a problem at
all
what's the training like for VSO what
we've got here is a sort of of
the reasons why you're doing becoming a
volunteer yeah and what I wanted to do
was kind of look at the actual the
pictures you had in your head because
they they your expectations
with what you're expected to get out of
it in terms of formal training and
before I go I'll be doing two or three
weekend courses one will be about
development issues asking you questions
about why it is that you want to do
there so and there's going to be one
that it's going to be really
about how you teach English as a foreign
language or English in why does
she want to do it I always wanted to do
something that was about helping people
and feeling that what you did was
important to people and that it mattered
so that's the basic reason why I'll be
going to do VSO I think
I'm quite looking forward to going to a
completely different environment that's
different on all sorts of levels in
terms of the culture in terms of the
standard of living I'll be quite
interested to just find out how a whole
different set of people live I'm looking
forward to not being in England because
I'm it
I'm looking forward to hot
I'll be quite interested to see how I
fit into the new job
just a whole a whole new life really
just suddenly kind of will open up
putting these into in or
reported speech it's a bit dangerous
because I don't know how I'm going to
cope with it but that's all part of it
it's all part of kind of you know saying
my god wasn't I wasn't i once
in my life and I'll get to 30 and I look
back and I sell be able to say I think
God you know for once in my life I did
something that was just a bit unusual
and a bit different thinks there
might be three big problems for her
cultural differences the completely
different standard of living and the
different role that women have in
society but there are also
things that Joan is looking forward to
she's looking forward to going to a
completely different environment and
she's looking forward to hot
weather
we all wish Joan the best of luck with
her in yes
think of all the the different
way of life it's obviously reminds
of home what oh yes
goodbye
知识点
重点词汇
machinery [məˈʃi:nəri] n. 机械；机器；机构；机械装置 {ky :3098}
kevin [ˈkevin] n. 凯文（男子名） { :3255}
concrete [ˈkɒŋkri:t] n. 具体物；凝结物 adj. 混凝土的；实在的，具体的；有形的 vt. 使凝固；用混凝土修筑 vi. 凝结 {gk cet4 cet6 ky toefl ielts gre :3310}
California [.kæli'fɒ:njә] n. 加利福尼亚（美国一个州） { :3311}
cinema [ˈsɪnəmə] n. 电影；电影院；电影业，电影制作术 n. (Cinema)人名；(意)奇内马 {zk gk ielts :3322}
shine [ʃaɪn] vt. 照射，擦亮；把…的光投向；（口）通过擦拭使…变得有光泽或光 vi. 发出光；反射光，闪耀；出类拔萃，表现突出；露出；照耀；显露；出众 n. 光亮，光泽；好天气；擦亮；晴天；擦皮鞋；鬼把戏或诡计 n. （英）夏因（人名）；（日）新荣（人名） {zk gk toefl :3329}
shining ['ʃaɪnɪŋ] v. 闪烁（shine的ing形式）；发亮 adj. 光亮的；华丽的 {toefl :3329}
lamps ['læmps] n. 灯具（lamp的复数）；眼睛；日月星辰 v. 看；照亮；发亮；放松（lamp的第三人称单数） n. (Lamps)人名；(法)朗；(西)兰普斯 { :3340}
correctly [kə'rektlɪ] adv. 正确地；得体地 {cet6 :3624}
hopefully [ˈhəʊpfəli] adv. 有希望地，有前途地 { :3650}
joan [dʒəʊn] n. 琼（女子名） { :3679}
endless [ˈendləs] adj. 无止境的；连续的；环状的；漫无目的的 {gk cet4 cet6 toefl :3722}
forum [ˈfɔ:rəm] n. 论坛，讨论会；法庭；公开讨论的广场 {cet6 ky ielts gre :3756}
amid [əˈmɪd] prep. 在其中，在其间 n. (Amid)人名；(法、阿拉伯)阿米德 {cet6 ky toefl ielts :3825}
bye [baɪ] n. 轮空；次要的东西 int. 再见 adj. 次要的 n. (Bye)人名；(挪)比埃；(中)拜(广东话·威妥玛)；(英)拜伊；(瑞典)比耶 {zk gk :4072}
indirect [ˌɪndəˈrekt] adj. 间接的；迂回的；非直截了当的 {cet4 cet6 :4235}
injections [inˈdʒekʃənz] n. 注射（injection的复数）；注射剂；注射室 { :4565}
sunshine [ˈsʌnʃaɪn] n. 阳光；愉快；晴天；快活 n. (Sunshine)人名；(英)森夏恩 {gk cet4 cet6 ky toefl :4726}
sunny [ˈsʌni] adj. 阳光充足的，和煦的；快活的；性情开朗的 {zk gk :4866}
goodbye [ˌgʊdˈbaɪ] int. 再见 放弃 告别 {zk :5578}
cereal [ˈsɪəriəl] n. 谷类，谷物；谷类食品；谷类植物 adj. 谷类的；谷类制成的 {cet6 ky ielts gre :6012}
kindergarten [ˈkɪndəgɑ:tn] n. 幼儿园；幼稚园 {gk ky ielts :6121}
overlap [ˌəʊvəˈlæp] n. 重叠；重复 vi. 部分重叠；部分的同时发生 vt. 与…重叠；与…同时发生 {cet6 ky toefl ielts gre :6707}
raft [rɑ:ft] n. 筏；救生艇；（美）大量 vt. 筏运；制成筏 vi. 乘筏 n. (Raft)人名；(匈、瑞典)拉夫特 {toefl ielts :7376}
Zimbabwe [zim'bɑ:bwei] n. 津巴布韦（国家名，位于非洲） { :7389}
typewriter [ˈtaɪpraɪtə(r)] n. 打字机 {gk cet4 cet6 ky :7660}
难点词汇
headmistress [ˌhedˈmɑ:stə(r)] n. 女校长 {gk :12713}
photocopiers [ˈfəʊtəˌkɔpi:əz] n. 影印机，复印机( photocopier的名词复数 ) { :15046}
borehole [ˈbɔ:həʊl] n. 地上凿洞 { :17542}
mishmash [ˈmɪʃmæʃ] n. 混杂物 vt. 使成为杂乱的一堆 { :25180}
Zimbabwean [zim'bɑ:bwiәn] n. 津巴布韦人 adj. 津巴布韦的；津巴布韦人的（等于Zimbabwian） { :25251}
Tull [ ] 塔尔 { :49564}
生僻词
curandera [ ] [网络] 甘兰德
词组
adapt to [əˈdæpt tu:] na. 使(自己行动)配合(同伴) [网络] 适应；适应，适合；使适应
apart from [əˈpɑ:t frɔm] prep. 除了…外（都）；要不是；除了…外（还）；此外 [网络] 除……之外；除...外；除去
best of luck [ ] [网络] 祝你好运；祝你走运；祝好运
breakfast cereal [ ] [网络] 早餐谷物；早餐麦片；早餐谷类食品
gas lamp [ ] n. 煤气灯 [网络] 瓦斯灯；汽灯；瓦斯灯区
on the beach [ ] na. 失业的；穷愁潦倒的；【航】担任陆上职务 [网络] 在沙滩上；在海滩上；海滨
overlap with [ ] vt.与...相一致
pray ... for [ ] v. 祈求 [网络] 祈祷；为…而祈祷；为求得…而祈祷
pray for [ ] v. 祈求 [网络] 祈祷；为…而祈祷；为求得…而祈祷
raft of [ ] 大量的
retire from [ ] [网络] 退休；从……退休；退出
sunny weather [ ] [网络] 晴朗天气；阳光明媚的天气；万里无云
the best of luck [ ] [网络] 祝你好运；最好的运气；最佳的运气
the cinema [ ] [网络] 电影院；刘梅正在往电影院去的路上；电影艺术
tire of [ˈtaiə ɔv] v. 厌烦 [网络] 厌倦；对…厌烦；对……感到厌烦
voluntary service [ ] na. 志愿服役 [网络] 志愿服务；无因管理；义工服务
Voluntary Service Overseas [ ] n. 海外志愿者服务社（英国外派医生、教师等技术人士的慈善机构） [网络] 英国海外志愿服务社；海外志愿服务队；海外义务服务
单词释义末尾数字为词频顺序
zk/中考 gk/中考 ky/考研 cet4/四级 cet6/六级 ielts/雅思 toefl/托福 gre/GRE
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