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教案Unit 2 Listening and Speaking 教学设计人教版(2019)必修第二册
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在本节课结束时，学生能够：
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掌握听前预测的技巧；根据听力文本，准确理解文本内容，完成相应听力练习；让学生了解到物种正在以惊人的速度从地球消失的事实和原因，进而增强保护野生物种的意识和责任感。
英语流行口语对话：Talking About Sports 谈论体育运动
英语流行口语对话：Talking About Sports 谈论体育运动相信很多人都会去学习有关谈论体育运动的一些常用的短语及类似英语情景对话，以下是小编给大家整理的英语流行口语对话：Talking About Sports 谈论体育运动，希望可以帮到大家is .....taking the lead?.....领先吗?A:Is the Chinese team taking the lead?A:是中国队领先吗?B:No,it's the Japanese team.B：不，是日本队。
A:Japanese teams always play a dark horse.A：日本队总是出人意料。
B:Well,their team owrk is well worth learning.他们的配合值得我们学习Can you tell the result?能告诉我比赛结果吗?A:Can you tell the result?能告诉我比赛结果吗?B:It's love all.Now the score is in our favor.B：零比零(平局)现在比分对我们有利。
A:Can you tell which team seems to win?A：你猜哪个队会赢?B:Hard to say.Now the score is in our favor.很难说，现在比分对我们有利A:Yes.Our guest team is really tough.A：是啊，客队打得很顽强B:They're still fighting hard.Let's wait and see.他们打的正紧张，我们等等再说。
What's the score?比分是多少?A:What's the score?A：比分是多少?B:The Ukraine team took the lead by 3 to 1 at the end of the first half.上半场乌克兰队3比1领先。
25个情景对话小游戏
小学英语课堂小游戏1、“碰地雷”：在英语单词教学中，学生不太愿意跟读。
用此法不错。
在一个词下放一个地雷，这个词是不能读的，如果学生不小心跟读，就是踩到雷了。
大家一起数one two three,bomb,向他砸过去！有趣，气氛也好，学生在玩中也学得扎实！2、补全句子：在学习句中，要慢读，必要时分解读。
在跟读几遍后，可以让学生补全老师没说完的部分。
比如：my name is rebecca.可让学生补rebecca、is rebecca、name is rebecca。
这是个反应练习，可让学生熟练掌握句子。
3、此呼彼应： (1) 全班学生坐在原位。
(2) 教师描述一些事物，如果的是对的，例如：The dusks are swimming.学生就学叫“嘎嘎”，如果的是错的，学生就保持沉默。
(3) 做错的学生暂且退出游戏。
游戏继续进行。
(4) 剩下的一个学生即游戏的优胜者。
(5) 变化：The bike is coming .或 A cat can run. 等。
(6) 作用：可用于现在进行时态和can 句型的教学，可训练学生的听力。
4、拍皮球： (1) 学生分两组坐在原位，合上眼，教师为两组打分。
(2) 教师拍皮球，学生默数教师拍了几下。
假设教师拍了19下。
(3) 教师突然停下，问一个学生“What’s the number?”该学生应该答，“Nineteen”。
如果他答对了，该组得分，并由该学生接替教师拍球，游戏继续进行，如果他讲错了，就让别的学生纠正。
(4) 哪组学生得分多，就为胜者。
(5) 变化：教师拍球时可以在中间来个停顿。
如先拍4下，停一停，再拍3下，接着问：“What’s the number?”学生应答“Seven”“Four plus three is seven.” (6) 作用：操练数词和加法运算句型。
5、将错就错： (1) 学生坐在原位，注视着教师。
教师在教室里随意走动，他可以突然停在一个学生面前，用手指着自己的鼻子说：This is my eyes(有意讲错) 那个学生也将错就错，指着自己的眼睛说：This is my nose. (2) 如果学生讲错了，就让他代替教师，再同样地做一遍。
新编实用英语综合教程 教案
石家庄财经职业学院授课计划表2013-2014 学年第一学期课程名称基础英语1课程所属系部基础部授课班级2013级会电8、10，助会2，会计12班任课教师马雪静填表日期2013年9月石家庄财经职业学院基础部系部 2013 — 2014学年第一学期授课计划表教师姓名:马雪静课程名称：基础英语1 专业：13级会电会电8、10，助会2，会计12班教案头Free TalkFirst, greet students and do a short self-introduction and tell my phone number and the location of my office to students to contact me conveniently.Second, ask the students to introduce themselves in English one by one, which aims to prompt students to speak as much English as possible. And the following questions can be covered when the teacher prompts students to speak more in English.1. What’s your name? Where are you from?2. What’s your major?I major in/My major is accounting.3. Why did you choose this college?4. What’s your deepest impression upon our college and our teachers in the college?5. What’s your hobby? What do you usually do after class?6. What’s your favorite color, book, course and etc and ask them why.7. How do you pay for your tuition fees? By your parents or yourself?8. Do you think English is very difficult to learn well? If so, what do you think is the most difficult when learning English?Third, ask the students some questions about their summer holiday to get acquainted with the students.1. What have you done during the summer holiday?2. Have you ever read any book or seen any intriguing film? And can you tell us the main idea of the book or the film?3. Have you had a part-time job in your holiday? And do you want to share your working experience with us, if you did very well?This helps them to develop their communication skills and helps them get comfortable with speaking and interacting with all the students in the class.Forth, introduce the aims and teaching procedures of the course for the students. And illustrate the makeup of the final grade and emphasize the discipline in the class and speech for each class.Finally, tell students how to learn English well:Speak without FearThe biggest problem most people face in learning a new language is their own fear. They worry that they won’t say things correctly or that they will look stupid so they don’t talk at all. Don’t do this. The fastest way to learn anything is to do it – again and again until you get it right. Like anything, learning English re quires practice. Don’t let a little fear stop you from getting what you want.Use all of your ResourcesEven if you study English at a language school it doesn’t mean you can’t learn outside of class. Using as many different sources, methods and tools as possible, will allow you to learn faster. There are many different ways you can improve your English, so don’t limit yourself to only one or two. The internet is a fantastic resource for virtually anything, but for the language learner it's perfect.Surround Yourself with EnglishThe absolute best way to learn English is to surround yourself with it. Take notes in English, put English books around your room, listen to English language radio broadcasts, watch English news, movies and television. Speak English with your friends whenever you can. The more English material that you have around you, the faster you will learn and the more likely it is that you will begin “thinking in English.”Listen to Native Speakers as Much as PossibleThere are some good English teachers that have had to learn English as a second language before they could teach it. However, there are several reasons why many of the best schools prefer to hire native English speakers. One of the reasons is that native speakers have a natural flow to their speech that students of English should try to imitate. Thecloser ESL / EFL students can get to this rhythm or flow, the more convincing and comfortable they will become. Watch English Films and TelevisionThis is not only a fun way to learn but it is also very effective. By watching English films (especially those with English subtitles) you can expand your vocabulary and hear the flow of speech from the actors. If you listen to the news you can also hear different accents.Listen to English MusicMusic can be a very effective method of learning English. In fact, it is often used as a way of improving comprehension. The best way to learn English is to get the lyrics (words) to the songs you are listening to and try to read them as the artist sings. There are several good internet sites where one can find the words for most songs. This way you can practice your listening and reading at the same time. And if you like to sing, fine.Study As Often As Possible!Only by studying things like grammar and vocabulary and doing exercises, can you really improve your knowledge of any language.Do Exercises and Take TestsMany people think that exercises and tests aren't much fun. However, by completing exercises and taking tests you can really improve your English. One of the best reasons for doing lots of exercises and tests is that they give you a benchmark to compare your future results with. Often, it is by comparing your score on a test you took yesterday with one you took a month or six months ago that you realize just how much you have learned. If you never test yourself, you will never know how much you are progressing. Start now by doing some of the many exercises and tests on this site, and return in a few days to see what you've learned. Keep doing this and you really will make some progress with English.Record YourselfNobody likes to hear their own voice on tape but like tests, it is good to compare your tapes from time to time. You may be so impressed with the progress you are making that you may not mind the sound of your voice as much.教案头Unit 1 Hello, Hi!SectionⅠTalking Face to FaceI.Imitating Mini-talks1. pair worka. The students are asked to read the first three talks in pairs and speak out the sentences used when people meet for the first time.b. The students are then asked to read the last two talks in pairs and speak out the sentences used when people meet again.2. The teacher may give more expressions for the students to practice.II. Acting out tasksPair work. The students make short conversations by following the above mini-talks.III. Studying Business Cards1.The students read the business cards and answer some questions.Questions for the two cardsa.Wh at’s the name of the man？b.Where does he work?c.What is his job?d.Where is his working place?2.The students read the letter again and then translate it orally under the guidance of the teacher.IV Following sample dialoguesThe students read the dialogues and speak out the following sentences of greeting and introducing people. Then the students will be asked to practice them.1.Hello, nice to meet you . My name is .......2. How do you do, ... I’m ....3. Welcome to ...4. Here is my card.5. Hi, long time no see6. How nice to see you again7. Haven’t seen you for ages8. What a pleasant surprise!V Putting language to useThe students do the exercises 5 and 6 according to the knowledge they have mastered in the dialogues.教案头Unit 1 Hello, Hi!Section ⅡBeing All EarsI Learning sentences for workplace communicationThis part is to train the students to understand and speak out the sentences.1.The students listen to ten English sentences given in the course book and repeat them in the pauseallowed, trying to understand and learn to speak them out by referring to their Chinese meanings.2.The students listen to ten sentences , and match them with their Chinese translations.3.The students listen to six sentences giving in the course book, and then choose their right responses.1.II Handing a dialogue s.This part is moving from the sentence to the dialogue level.The students listen twice to a dialogue, and then decode the message given in the course book by finding the correct choiceIII. Understanding a short speechThis part of training is carried out to help the students to follow the continuous oral presentation of a specific practical activity which is oriented to the unit topic.1. The students listen to the speech twice and during the second listening, put back the missing words in the blanks.2. The students listen to the speech again and match the information in Column A with the choices in Column B.教案头Unit 1 Hello, Hi!Section III Trying Your HandI Practicing applied writing1. Sample analysisThe teacher makes the following brief analysis of the format and language used in business cards. The teacher may take Sample 1 as an example for the analysis and asks the students some questions:a.Wh at’s the name of the man？b.Where does he work?c.What is his job?d.Where is his working place?2.personal information must be included in a business cardfull name job working place unit address telephone number E-mail FaxII Writing sentences and reviewing grammarThe teacher introduce basic sentence structures with the following examples.1. 主语+谓语（+宾语）（+状语）Animals can’t speak （主+谓）Mary runs every morning （主+谓+状）They speak English （主+谓+宾）I gave him a visiting card.（主+谓+间宾+直宾）She loves dogs very much. （主+谓+宾+状）2.主系表He is a man3.There be 句型There is a dog in the room教案头Unit 1 Hello, Hi!Section ⅣPassage I The Business Cards:I. Warming-up questionsi. What do you think of a business card?ii. What tips should you know about the business card?II. Ask the students to skim the passage and answer the questions on Page 16.1. Have you got your business cards or networking cards? If not, why not?2. How do you understand the title of the passage The Business Card: a Social Faux Pas?A business card is a useful tool of social networking and business connection. It is socially awkward if you find yourself without one when you need to exchange it with a new business partner.3.Why does the author say “missed connections are missed opportunities for business”? Because business cards are a useful marketing tool. If you forget to bring them with you, it May leave the impression that you are unprepared for doing business.4. Can you explain the tips in your own words?1) If you don't have a job, prepare your cards for networking.2) If your business cards are out of date, make them up to date.3) You should set a goal of handing out a certain number of cards every day.4) Practice what you will say for handing out your cards. Take every opportunity to hand out your cards.5) Ask your social network to help you send out your cards.5. What does the last sentence mean?You should work in a clever way: better work isn't necessarily harder!III. Ask students to read the new words and expressions and check their pronunciation. IV. Play the tape for the students and ask them to imitate.V. Analyze the passage and explain the language and difficult sentences.Para11. ask for sth: want sthMay I ask for a photo of your little daughter? 我能要一张你小女儿的照片吗?ask for sbHe is very ill and keeps asking for his daughter. 他病得很厉害, 再三要求见他的女儿。
keepquiet还是quietly
keepquiet还是quietlykeep后面接形容词，不接副词，因此是keep quiet，而不是keep quietly。
quietly作为副词形式，主要用来修饰动词、形容词或者全句。
keep quiet中文翻译为“保持安静”、“保持沉默”。
keep quiet的意思及双语例句keep quiet意为保持安静（或沉默）。
例句有：1、Keep quiet while you're going around.巡回参观时要保持安静。
2、The only thing I can do is keep quiet and sit this one out我唯一能做的就是保持沉默，等待这件事结束。
3、I told her to keep quiet about it我告诉她此事要保密。
4、Keep quiet or we'll all get nicked.别出声，要不然我们都会被抓住的。
5、Behave yourself and keep quiet for a while.规矩点，安安静静地待着！6、If you don't know the truth, please keep quiet.如果你不知道真相，就请不要插嘴。
7、You cannot keep her quiet for long; she's irrepressible! 想让她多安静会儿可办不到，她总是欢蹦乱跳的！8、I think I found it easier than Nell to keep our engagement quiet.我觉得，我比内尔更容易守得住我们订婚的秘密。
9、If you keep quiet, no one need ever know.如果你保持沉默，没有人会知道的。
10、I made a small request: that she keep quiet.我提了一个小小的请求：要她保持安静。
leave_keep分析讲解试题
leave, keep使/让…处于某状态课件+试题索引一、leave二、keep含:leave用法小结和keep考点三、练习(附答案)四、历年高考试题(附答案和解析)一、leaveleave表示―使/让(某人/某事物)处于某状态,听任‖等，其后可跟复合宾语结构。
---cause or allow (sb/sth) to be or remain in a specified state, condition or positionleave+sb/sth[宾语]+adj./adv./介词短语/现在分词/过去分词/不定式(to do sth)/wh-…/as….[宾补]<一> leave+sb/sth+adj./adv./介词短语1 [VN-ADJ] Leave the door open, please. 请把门开着吧。
◊He left the album open/closed on the table.◊ The bomb blast left 25 people dead. 那颗炸弹炸死了25 个人。
◊Violent disturbances have left at least ten people dead. ◊ His illness has left him weak. ◊ His betrayal left her heartbroken. ◊ The big flood/The tarnado left hundreds of thousands of people homeless. ◊ This leaves the patient awake.这使病人醒着。
◊Remember to leave your bedroom clean and tidy. ◊ Frankly, his rudeness left me speechless. ◊ The president‘s sudden death has left the country leaderless. ◊ He has left his wife and children penniless.◊His father‘s will left Marcia secure.他父亲的遗嘱使玛西娅有了保障。
高考英语 Unit 2 English around the world (3)
闪堕市安歇阳光实验学校 Unit 2 课下作业（一~三）课下作业（一）考点过关针对练Ⅰ.单词拼写1．At the age of 29, Dave was living in a small apartment (公寓) near Boston and wondering what to do about his future.2．By the age of two a child will have a(n) vocabulary (词汇量) of about two hundred words.3．The voyage (航行) from England to India used to take six months.4．One can travel there by ship or plane.Most people choose the latter (后者的)．5．This tree looks high and strong but actually (实际上) its trunk is hollow.6．Staying with a native (本国的) speaker is better for children than simply sitting in a classroom.7．The performance was repeated at the request (要求) of the audience.8．British and American spellings (拼法；拼写) differ in many ways.Ⅱ.语境语法填空1．It is requested that we ❶(should)_learn (learn) English well because having ❷a good command of English means more opportunities in the future.There are several tips on how to learn English well.Firstly, do remember that success is based ❸on hard work.Secondly, full use should ❹be_made (make) of any time available to do more reading, ❺which can broaden our horizons.As a matter of fact, everything comes with a price.There is no such thing ❻as a shortcut in English study.2．Last week, I went to the airport to pick ❶up my best friend, Zhang Ling.However, I was more worried ❷than upset when I heard the news that her flight was delayed because ❸of the bad weather.Finally, her flight landed on the airport safely.The moment she came ❹up to me, I recognized her immediately though it was a long time ❺since we met each other last time.Ⅲ.语境改错1．文中共有3处错误，每句中最多有两处，请找出并改正。
whatdidyoudolastweekend说课稿
whatdidyoudolastweekend说课稿《what did you do last weekend 说课稿》尊敬的各位评委老师：大家好！今天我说课的内容是“What did you do last weekend”。
下面我将从教材分析、学情分析、教学目标、教学重难点、教学方法、教学过程以及教学反思这几个方面来展开我的说课。
一、教材分析“What did you do last weekend”是初中英语教材中的一个重要话题，它紧扣学生的日常生活，能够引起学生的兴趣和共鸣。
本单元的主要语言目标是让学生学会运用一般过去时态来谈论过去发生的事情。
通过学习，学生能够掌握一些常见的动词过去式，并能够运用这些词汇和句型进行交流和表达。
在教材的编排上，本单元通过听、说、读、写等多种活动，逐步引导学生掌握语言知识和技能。
同时，教材还提供了丰富的图片和情境，帮助学生更好地理解和运用所学内容。
二、学情分析我所教授的学生是初中____年级的学生，他们已经具备了一定的英语基础知识和语言运用能力。
但是，对于一般过去时态的理解和运用还存在一定的困难。
此外，学生的英语水平参差不齐，部分学生在口语表达和听力理解方面还需要进一步提高。
不过，这个年龄段的学生思维活跃，好奇心强，喜欢参与各种活动。
因此，在教学中我将充分利用学生的这些特点，设计多样化的教学活动，激发学生的学习兴趣，提高他们的学习积极性。
三、教学目标基于对教材和学情的分析，我制定了以下教学目标：1、知识目标（1）学生能够掌握本单元的重点词汇，如：camp, lake, beach, badminton, sheep 等。
（2）学生能够理解并正确运用一般过去时态的陈述句、疑问句及其回答，如：What did you do last weekend? I played badminton2、能力目标（1）能够听懂关于过去活动的对话和短文。
（2）能够用一般过去时态描述自己和他人的周末活动。
Keep a conversation going
Speaking for communication
Why / Why not When How • Why is the museum a great place to visit? • Why didn’t you go to sing karaoke with us? • When did you go skiing? • When will you go camping? • How did you like the concert / the book? • How did you manage to get to the top of the mountain? • Really? You went to see the musical Cats? • You think the book is very touching. Is that so?
Who Where • Who did you spend your last weekend with? • Who else went to your party? • Where did you go last weekend? • Where do you recommend me to go for this weekend?
1 born in 1985 2 in 1991 – father bought me a radiocontrolled car 3 at the age of 10 – told McLaren team boss that I wanted to race for them; less than three years later – signed to their Young Driver Support Program 4 set numerous records and finished second in 2007; won the World Championship in 2008 5 other activities: football
ESLPod_543_Guide - Describing Different Smells
ESL Podcast 543 – Describing Different Smells GLOSSARYto renovate– to improve a room or building by rebuilding, expanding, and/or redecorating it* They’re going to renovate their house by adding another bathroom.stale– not fresh; old and used* The bread won’t become stale as quickly if we keep it in a closed plastic bag. musty– slightly wet and bad-smelling because something hasn’t had enough air moving around it* The basement is really musty. Would it help to put a fan down there?to air (something) out– to make air move around something so that it becomes fresher and better-smelling* If you don’t have time to wash your gym socks, at least air them out before you put them back on.putrid– dead and decaying, with a very bad smell* They couldn’t understand why their entryway had such a putrid smell until they found the dead rat under their front porch.faint– very slight; almost unnoticeable; barely* Can you hear that music? It’s very faint, but you can hear it if you stand very still.nasty– very unpleasant and disgusting; gross* Why would anyone want to live in such a nasty apartment building?to permeate– to be present in every part of something; to be found throughout something* The sound of laughter permeates the air at school during recess.burnt– damaged by fire; damaged by being burned* After the fire, a few pieces of burnt wood were all that was left of the building. smoky– with a lot of the smelly, hot, grey air that is produced by a fire* Let’s open the flue in the chimney before we start the fire, or else the whole room will get smoky.ESL Podcast 543 – Describing Different Smellsto hold (one’s) breath– to not breathe, usually to avoid smelling something or to avoid making a noise* When we go in there, hold your breath! The air is full of poisonous gases. truckload– the amount that would fill one truck; the amount of something that can be carried by one truck; a large amount* They used two truckloads of river rocks to decorate the area in front of the building.scented– with a pleasant smell* Do you like to use scented soap when you take a bath?perfume– a liquid with a strong, pleasant smell, used by women to make themselves more attractive, usually placed on the wrists and neck* The smell of her perfume quickly filled the elevator, and people began to cough. to mask– to cover something else; to make it impossible to see, smell, hear, or perceive something else* Yu-Lin tried to use makeup to mask her acne.foul– very unpleasant* We went to that restaurant last week, and we were served the foulest food we’d ever tasted. It was horrible!to stink– to have a very bad smell* That blue cheese stinks! I don’t know how you can eat it.sense of smell– the ability to smell things and/or to recognize something by its smell* Dogs have a great sense of smell, so police officers use them to help find drugs in suitcases at airports.ESL Podcast 543 – Describing Different SmellsCOMPREHENSION QUESTIONS1. What kind of smell would you expect to find around a dead animal?a) A musty smell.b) A putrid smell.c) A burnt smell.2. What does Giles mean by saying he’d have to lose his sense of smell to work there?a) He’d have to learn to stop breathing.b) He’d have to bring good-smelling things to work.c) He’d have to stop being bothered by smells.______________WHAT ELSE DOES IT MEAN?faintThe word “faint,” in this podcast, means very slight or almost unnoticeable: “There’s always faint music playing in the office, but it’s never so loud that it interrupts our work.” The phrase “a faint hope/chance” means a slight possibility that something might happen: “There’s only a faint chance that people are still alive under the collapsed building, but we have to keep looking.” The phrase “to not have the faintest idea about something” means to not know anything about something: “‘What do you think she meant by that?’ ‘I haven’t the faintest idea.’” Finally, someone who is “faint-hearted” is not trying very hard, usually because one doesn’t think one can do it, or because one doesn’t really want to do or have it: “Marissa made a faint-hearted attempt to get the job, but she really wants to stay home with her children.”foulIn this podcast, the word “foul” means very unpleasant: “Bryan hates changing his daughter’s foul-smelling diapers.” The phrase “foul language” means bad or rude words that may be offensive: “Please don’t use foul language around the children.” If someone is in a “foul mood,” he or she is in a very bad mood and might get angry very easily: “Don’t do anything to make Mom mad. She’s in a really foul mood today.” In sports, a “foul” is an action that doesn’t follow the rules: “The player got a foul for hitting another player.” Finally, the phrase “foul play” means an illegal or dishonest activity, or murder: “The newspaper said she died of natural causes, but the police suspect foul play.”ESL Podcast 543 – Describing Different SmellsCULTURE NOTEMany “breeds” (types of an animal) of dogs have a very good sense of smell. For that reason, these dog breeds are often used as police dogs, which are also known as “K9s,” meaning “canines” (dogs or dog-like animals).A “public order enforcement dog” is used to help police officers “chase” (run after) “suspects” (people whom the police believe have committed a crime). These dogs can also help to protect the police officer by “attacking” (physically fighting against) a criminal, if necessary. These are usually large, strong, and intelligent dogs.A “tracking dog” is used to “track” (find where someone has gone and follow that direction) criminals or people who have become lost. The dog might be given a small piece of the person’s clothing and then be told to track that person. The police officers follow the dog until the person is found.An “illicit substances dog” is used to find drugs or “explosive devices” (bombs). These dogs are often seen at airports where they “sniff” (smell something by breathing in loudly through one’s nose) suitcases. If the dog “detects” (finds something), it points to the suitcase until the police officer comes over and opens it.Finally, a “cadaver dog” is used to find “cadavers” (dead bodies) through its sense of smell. With the right training, some dogs can even smell cadavers that are underwater.Police dogs are “valued” (respected and honored) members of the “police force”(a group of police officers). Sometimes they are given their own “badges” (a piece of metal worn to identify oneself as a police officer or firefighter). When the dogs are “killed in the line of duty” (killed while working), they are often given a full police “funeral” (the ceremony held after someone dies).______________Comprehension Questions Correct Answers: 1 – b; 2 – cESL Podcast 543 – Describing Different Smells COMPLETE TRANSCRIPTWelcome to English as a Second Language Podcast number 543: Describing Different Smells.This is English as a Second Language Podcast episode 543. I’m your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development in beautiful Los Angeles, California.Our website is . Go there today to download the Learning Guide for this episode, that will help you improve your English even faster.This episode is called “Describing Different Smells.” It’s a dialogue between Julia and Giles talking about the different words we use to describe how things smellin English. Let’s get started.[start of dialogue]Giles: Do you really think we’ll be able to renovate this place and turn it into a restaurant?Julia: It’s not so bad. I know it smells a little stale and musty in here, but all we need to do is air it out.Giles: Air it out? This place needs a lot more than an airing out. The kitchen smells putrid. I wonder what died in there.Julia: There is a faint smell of something nasty in there, but I don’t think it permeates through the rest of the building, do you?Giles: No, but there are different nasty smells in other parts of the building. Oh! There’s a really strong burnt, smoky smell in this corner. Hold your breath!Julia: This is a restaurant. I’m sure a thorough cleaning will make all the difference.Giles: That might be true for the kitchen, but what will you do in the dining room? An entire truckload of scented candles or bottles of perfume couldn’t mask those foul smells. This place just stinks, from top to bottom!Julia: All right, I’ll look for another building, but this place is cheap and within our budget.ESL Podcast 543 – Describing Different SmellsGiles: Yes, but if I had to work here, I’d first have to lose my sense of smell! [end of dialogue]Giles begins by saying to Julia, “Do you really think we’ll be able to renovate this place and turn it into a restaurant?” “To renovate” means to improve a room or an entire building by usually rebuilding parts of it, expanding it, perhaps putting different decoration – different colors, that sort of thing. “To renovate” means to make new, in some ways, the room or the building. Giles wants to take a place, some place they own or are renting, and turn it into a restaurant, meaning make it into a restaurant. Maybe it was a store before, now it would be something different.Julia says, “It’s not so bad.” The place is not too bad is what she’s saying. She says, “I know it smells a little stale and musty in here, but all we need to do is air it out.” “Stale” is a way of describing a smell that is not fresh, that is old; something that smells used could be described as stale. “Musty” (musty) is something that smells like it’s slightly wet; it’s a very bad smell, usually because there hasn’t been enough air circulation in a particular area. If you live in the northern part of the United States and your house has a basement, sometimes in the basement it can get very moist, very damp, meaning there’s water there, and that can lead to a musty smell. “To air (something) out” means to open windows or to do something to make the air move around the particular space so it dries out, smells better, gets rid of the bad smells. You might open a window, for example, to air something out.Giles says, “Air it out? This place needs a lot more than an airing out.” Notice he uses “airing out” as a noun, from the verb “to air (something) out.” He says, “The kitchen smells putrid.” “Putrid” (putrid) is the smell of something that is dead, something that is perhaps decaying, meaning that, for example, it’s been sitting there for a long time and so it starts to come apart. A human body, if it were left in a room – a dead body, that is – would start to decay. It would start to change colors; it would start to smell bad. Well, that bad smell we could describe as being putrid. It doesn’t just mean it’s a dead body; there are other things that can smell putrid. “Putrid” is perhaps one on the most negative words you can use to describe the way that something smells. Giles says, “I wonder what died in there.” He’s joking; he doesn’t mean something actually is dead in there – although it’s possible!Julia says, “There is a faint smell of something nasty in there, but I don’t think it permeates through the rest of the building, do you?” A “faint (faint) smell” is aESL Podcast 543 – Describing Different Smellsvery slight, very small – so small you can almost not notice it. “Faint” has a lot of different meanings in English in addition to this one. Take a look at the Learning Guide for some more explanations. “Nasty” (nasty) is something that is very unpleasant; we might even say it’s disgusting or it’s gross. It’s a very negative way to describe something. You could say, “It was a nasty fight.” The two people were fighting, they were yelling at each other, they were shouting, using bad language. That would be a nasty fight. Here, “nasty” means that the smell is very bad. Julia says there’s a faint smell something nasty in there, but she doesn’t think it permeates through the rest of the building. “To permeate” (permeate) means to be present in every part of something – in every part of, in this case, the building. If a nasty smell permeates the building, we mean you can smell it everywhere in the building.Giles says that he doesn’t think the nasty smell permeates through the rest of the building, but there are different nasty smells in other parts of the building. He then says, “Oh! There’s a really strong burnt, smoky smell in this corner. Hold your breath!” A “burnt (burnt) smell” would be something that smells after it has been damaged by fire. “Smoky,” similarly, means that something has been burning, or something has been producing smoke, and the smoke is now the smell that you get when you go close to that object. So if there’s a fire in the room, and there was a wooden chair, after the fire whatever is left of the chair might have a burnt, smoky smell. Giles says to Julia, “Hold your breath!” “To hold your breath” means not to breathe, usually because you don’t want to smell something. You want to avoid a bad smell, hold your breath. It means not to breathe.Julia says, “This is a restaurant. I’m sure a thorough cleaning will make all the difference.” So I guess they’re in a building that had a restaurant, but it’s an old one and it needs cleaning up. Giles says, “That might be true for the kitchen, but what will you do in the dining room (the place where people eat, or dine)? An entire truckload of scented candles or bottles of perfume couldn’t mask those foul smells. This place just stinks, from top to bottom!” Giles says that an entire truckload of scented candles or bottles of perfume couldn’t mask those fouls smells. A “truckload,” here, would be the amount that you could put into a truck; more generally, it just means a large amount of something. So he’s saying that even if we had a large number of scented candles – “scented” means with a pleasant smell. So you buy a candle, and you light it, and it gives off a pleasant smell. That would be a scented candle. I personally don’t like scented candles, because I don’t think the smell is very pleasant at all usually. Giles also mentions bottles of perfume. “Perfume” is a liquid with a strong, pleasant smell. It’s used primarily by women. When men use perfume, they don’t call it perfume, they typically call it “cologne,” just so they don’t seem like they’re women I guess.ESL Podcast 543 – Describing Different SmellsI don’t know; it’s all perfume basically! “To mask” (mask) means to cover something, to make it difficult or impossible to see or smell or hear something. In this case, make it difficult to smell something. “Foul” (foul) is like the word “putrid,” something that is very unpleasant, something that is very bad. “Foul,” however, has some other meanings; take a look at the Learning Guide for those. So going back, Giles says, “An entire truckload of scented candles or bottles of perfume couldn’t mask those foul smells. This place just stinks, from top to bottom!” “To stink” means to have a very bad smell. You would never want to say to your boss or to your girlfriend, “Boy, you really stink!” That is not a nice thing to say. More generally, “stink” means to be very bad at something. So we could say, “Ah, that baseball player stinks.” “David Beckham stinks,” for example. I’m not saying he actually stinks; I don’t watch soccer so I don’t really know! But when Giles says, “This place just stinks,” he means it literally stinks; it smells “from top to bottom,” meaning the entire building – the entire room.Julia says, “All right, I’ll look for another building, but this place is cheap and within our budget,” meaning we can afford it; we have enough money for what we planned. Giles says, “Yes, but if I had to work here, I’d first have to lose my sense of smell!” Your sense of smell is your ability to smell. We talk about the five senses: smell, see, hear, taste, and touch. And then of course, the sixth sense, which is the ability to see dead people – if you saw the movie, you know what I’m talking about!Now let’s listen to the dialogue again, this time at a normal speed.[start of dialogue]Giles: Do you really think we’ll be able to renovate this place and turn it into a restaurant?Julia: It’s not so bad. I know it smells a little stale and musty in here, but all we need to do is air it out.Giles: Air it out? This place needs a lot more than an airing out. The kitchen smells putrid. I wonder what died in there.Julia: There is a faint smell of something nasty in there, but I don’t think it permeates through the rest of the building, do you?Giles: No, but there are different nasty smells in other parts of the building. Oh! There’s a really strong burnt, smoky smell in this corner. Hold your breath!ESL Podcast 543 – Describing Different Smells Julia: This is a restaurant. I’m sure a thorough cleaning will make all the difference.Giles: That might be true for the kitchen, but what will you do in the dining room? An entire truckload of scented candles or bottles of perfume couldn’t mask those foul smells. This place just stinks, from top to bottom!Julia: All right, I’ll look for another building, but this place is cheap and within our budget.Giles: Yes, but if I had to work here, I’d first have to lose my sense of smell! [end of dialogue]There was nothing stale about this dialogue, because it was written by Dr. Lucy Tse.From Los Angeles, California, I’m Jeff McQuillan. Thank you for listening. Come back and listen to us next time on ESL Podcast.English as a Second Language Podcast is written and produced by Dr. Lucy Tse, hosted by Dr. Jeff McQuillan, copyright 2010 by the Center for Educational Development.。