【英语趣味课堂】旅行中遇到的一些奇葩事-Strange Things Happened When Travel

Mike: OK, so Jeff, we've been talking a little bit about your travel kind of experiences and stuff, and one other question I wanted to ask you, is there a time where you experienced something really weird, or something strange that happened in your t

【英语趣味课堂】友好的举动-Act of Kindess

Mike: In all of the traveling that you've done around the world, what is the best travel experience you have had? What's the most memorable travel experience you had in your adventures around the world? Jeff: Well, that's a tough question Mike. That'

【英语趣味课堂】电视内容审查-Censor Content on TV

Matthew: Hey Kat, I understand you grew up in Europe, you lived in the States and now you're in Japan. Being all over the place, you've got to have seen the differences in censorships in movies and in songs. What's your take on that? Kat: Well I've d

【英语趣味课堂】玩电子游戏的影响-The Effects of Playing Video Games

Kat: You know I was reading the other day that maybe video games might not be so bad for children. What do you think about that? Matt: I think it depends on what you're talking about is so bad for children, I think if you're talking about supposedly

【英语趣味课堂】犯罪-Crime

Rebecca: So, Gareth, is England a safe place to live? Gareth: Um, to be honest, no. I don't think so, but I haven't lived in England for quite a few years now, so I don't know what it's like now. But when I left, no. I can remember like walking back

【英语趣味课堂】韩国的婚礼-Korean Wedding

Isthma: Hey, Sunny, I would like to ask a few questions about marriage in Korea. The first question is, at what age do they usually get married? Sunny: I think the average age for Koreans to marry is about 27 to 28 for girls, and then 30 to 31 for gu

【英语趣味课堂】可怕的食物-Scary Food

Paul: One interesting thing for me is that, you know, over the recent years, we've had countless incidents where cattle and animal stock have become diseased, and they've had to be culled, you know; they've had to be killed to stop the disease. I thi

【英语趣味课堂】与动物打交道的人-Animal Workers

Paul: Did you go to any other places, besides the tiger farm? Todd: Yeah. Actually, they have a whole array of special animal farms. They had a crocodile farm, they had a snake farm, and they also had an elephant farm, and I went to the elephant farm

【英语趣味课堂】囚禁-Captivity

Todd: Well, you seem like a person who's really conscious about animals. Would you have gone? If you saw the advertisements to go and be next to these tigers, would you go? Paul: I mean, I think it's obviously like a special opportunity. It doesn't c

【英语趣味课堂】老虎养殖场-Tiger Farm

Paul: Hey, Todd. I saw your pictures with you and some tigers. Where's that from? Todd: That was at a place in Southeast Asia. It was in Thailand, actually. Paul: All right. Todd: Yeah, it was pretty cool. I was a bit dubious of it. I mean, I saw the

【英语趣味课堂】海难-Shipwrecked

In Part 1 Jeff talks about how is boat sank in the Phillipines. Listen to Part 2 for the second half of the story. Speaker Speaker flag flag Jeff Mike Audio File Free MP3 Mike: So Jeff, we were talking previously about your film production and your t

【英语趣味课堂】印度尼西亚婚礼-Indonesian Wedding

Sunny: So, Isthma, can you tell me about the wedding ceremonies in Indonesia? Isthma: The wedding ceremonies in Indonesia are pretty large, but it depends on the family as well, and the couple. We usually have it in halls, but also, some people have

【英语趣味课堂】海洋生物学-Marine Biology

Mike: So Dusty, we were talking earlier, and you're telling that you're into marine biology, and that's kind of your background. So, tell me a little bit about why you like - what's your fascination with marine biology? Dusty: Well, the main thing is

【英语趣味课堂】海龟-Sea Turtles

Mike: So Dusty, your background is in Marine Biology. Is that right? Dusty: Yes. Mike: You're kind of a marine biologist. Dusty: Mm-hm. Mike: You've mentioned before yesterday, we're at the aquarium, you mentioned that you've done work with sea turtl

【英语趣味课堂】阳台上的小花园-Balcony Garden

Mike: So Dusty, you told me that you tend to grow your own kind of plants and things, and you're into kind of greenery and into kind of like ecology. Dusty: Yeah. Mike: You grow your own plants on your balcony, is that right? Dusty: Right, yeah. Well

【英语趣味课堂】美国黑人常吃的食物-Soul Food

Mike: So Dusty- Dusty: Uh-huh. Mike: Tell me a little about - you're from Philadelphia, right? Dusty: Yeah, yeah. Mike: Tell me a little bit about - soul food. Dusty: Okay. So soul food - actually, it comes from the South, and Philadelphia has a lot

【英语趣味课堂】犯罪率下降-Crime Reduction

Gareth: What do you think? Rebecca: I don't know. A lot of times, I think people who commit crime might commit crime because they want attention, or they don't get the amount of attention that they feel that they need. They want to be loved, or they

【英语趣味课堂】城镇规划-Urban Plannning

Todd: So, Shifani, you are an expert in urban planning, and more specifically, in transport. What do you envision in the future, let's say, in fifty years from now? Shifani: Fifty years from now is quite a long time to project, but future cities woul

【英语趣味课堂】布宜诺斯艾利斯-Buenos Aires

Daniel: Hey how are you? Valeria: Fine and you? Daniel: Good thanks. I have a question. I'm planning to go to Buenos Aires. Valeria: That's great. Daniel: And I need your advice basically. Valeria: Sure, no problem. Daniel: What's the city like? Vale

【英语趣味课堂】汽车与交通-Cars and Traffic

Todd: So, Shifani, what is your current job? Shifani: Well, I work as a transport planner for a consultancy, an international consultancy based in New Zealand. Todd: Okay. So, transport planner - is that like you plan things being transported like ac