Week 10 Spoken English

• “Look your papers over/ over the weekend.” You need to pause between the two “over”s to help your listeners organize your words. If you pause somewhere else like “Look your papers / over over the weekend”, nobody will understand you. Sometimes pausing in the wrong place will change the meaning of what you say. • Sentence 1: “I usually eat sushi for lunch.” Sentence 2: “I ate noodles today.” When you put the two sentences together in speech, you must pause slightly between them. “I usually eat sushi for lunch. I ate noodles today.” If you pause after the word “sushi”, the meaning changes. “I usually eat sushi. For lunch I ate noodles today.”
Spoken English
Week Ten 5/3 – 5/6
Labor Day
• May Day (May 1) can refer to various labor celebrations conducted on May 1 that commemorate the fight for the eight hour day. May Day in this regard is called International Workers’ Day or Labor day. The idea for a "workers holiday" began in Australia in 1856. • It is observed on the first Monday in September in the U.S. and Canada. It is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It was first celebrated in New York City on Sept. 5, 1882, under the sponsorship of the Knights of Labor. Families with school-age children take it as the last chance to travel before the end of summer recess. Similarly, some teenagers and young adults view it as the last weekend for parties before returning to school. • In professional sport, Labor Day marks the beginning of the NFL( National Football League) and college football seasons.
Movie: Merry Madagascar
• • • • • • • Bittersweet It seems like… Central Park Zoo Central Park: covers 843 acres / 3.41 km² or 6% of Manhattan. Sea water: Looks like the kid can’t hold his sea water. Show up: arrive or turn up for an appointment or gathering. She never showed up. I don’t get it. Get it? 了吗? 懂了吗?
the use of pauses
• Although written English has spaces between every word, spoken English doesn’t have pauses between each word, rather words are linked together. Where in written English, there are periods, commas, semicolons and question marks. But we also pause in long sentences without punctuation marks. My mother listens to the radio in the evening. This sentence can be said without pausing, because it isn’t very long. But if I were to pause, I would say, “My mother/ listens to the radio/ in the evening.” Pauses come between thought groups----groups of words that express one thought. For example, “in the evening” is a thought group.
Check: Check our baggage. Could you check for me who borrowed it? Did you check the power plug and press the play button?
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The Louvre of Paris One of the world‘s oldest museums containing the largest collection of western art dating from the birth of civilizations to the middle of the 19th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art It’s extensive collection includes more than two million works of art spanning over five thousand years, from pre-history to the present. The British Museum Contains the most famous collection of antiquities from Egypt, Western Asia, Greece and Rome, also medieval, renaissance, modern and oriental art. The Vatican Museums Michelangelo‘s Sistine Chapel and some of the greatest masterpieces of the Renaissance masters, including famous sculpture and architecture. National Palace Museum-Taiwan The richest collection of treasures from 7000 years of Chinese history. Over 700,000 items of Chinese culture and Asian civilization. Museum of Modern Art (MoMa) World's largest collection of modern painting, drawing, photography and sculpture dating from late 19th century to present.
the importance of pausing
• It is necessary to pause between thought groups. However, relatively short sentences may also require pauses to help the listeners organize the stream of sounds correctly. “what time do you come in in the morning?” It’s necessary to pause between the two prepositions “in”. If you pause after the word “come”, “what time do you come / in in the morning?” Then the listeners will be confused, because “come in” and “in the morning” are two separate thought groups.
• My mother listens to the radio in the evening, plays tennis in the afternoon, and cleans the house in the morning. Pauses come between thought groups, and help the listeners organize the information they hear. My mother listens/ to the radio in/ the evening, plays tennis in /the afternoon and cleans the/ house in the morning.