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Hi, I’m Sarah. Welcome to The Daily English Show. Today’s song is called Kings of MySpace. It’s by P-D-Flo Films.

I really like this song. But I think it is very hard to understand for English students – because there’s a lot of slang and cultural references. So don’t worry if you don’t understand most of it. I can’t understand some of it too actually.

If you just watch it and learn a couple of new words that’s enough.

They talk about three stereotypes. They are:
the emo guy
the wannabe thug
the meterosexual guy

I talked about emo before. And a thug is a violent person, especially a criminal.
Wannabe is short for want to be and it means a person who tries to be someone they’re not.
The wannabe thug in the video dresses like he’s a gangster but he’s not.
A metrosexual ... that’s a fairly new word. It means something like guys who live in cities an do things usually considered to be feminine – like be interested in fashion and skincare. It think there’s debate around what it means but anyway, something like that.

I like these lines:
Get naked in the bathroom and take some pics
Put the flash on .. so they can see no zits

Pics is short for pictures. And a zit is a pimple or a spot on your skin.
And that’s a good trick – if you use bright lights, it looks like you have good skin.

But wait I have no friends, so what do I do?
It's okay, we were once losers just like you
I had zero friends, not even Tom would approve me

Tom is the guy who founded MySpace. And when you join American MySpace then you automatically get Tom as a friend.
So that’s a funny line: not even Tom would approve me.
Recently Japanese MySpace just started and Ozzie is the Japanese version of Tom.

Finally these two lines:

All the fly chicks will show you e-love
Don't even ask for the digits, just get the three dubs

Fly means sexy or cool ... mainly American, I think.
I’ve never heard anyone use fly in New Zealand.

The digits means a telephone number. And three dubs means url.
So that’s a sign of the times – before when you met someone you’d just ask their phone number – but these days people also ask for urls or user names.



STICK NEWS

Kia ora in Stick News today, Bono has received a medal from the United Kingdom. He is now a knight.

The British honours system is a means of rewarding individuals' personal bravery, achievement, or service to the United Kingdom.
Within this system, there are ten orders of chivalry.
One of these orders is called: The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.
Yesterday Irish rock star Bono became a member of this order.
Now he’s a knight.
Normally, people who become knights get to be called Sir.
But not Bono – because he’s Irish.
His son was reportedly disappointed Bono didn’t receive a Star Wars light saber.

And that was Stick News for Friday the 30th of March.
Kia Ora.

the snow report

Today I went for another walk around my neighbourhood.

単語：chivalry　騎士道、騎士制度

訳
今日のスティックニュースは、ボノがイギリス王室から勲章を貰ったことです。彼は現在、騎士です。

イギリスの名誉制度は、個々の勇敢さ、偉業、イギリスへの忠誠心を褒賞する意味合いがあります。このシステムの中で、騎士制度の１０の階級があります。そのうちのひとつは、イギリス国王の最も偉大な階級と呼ばれています。昨日、アイルランドロックスター・ボノはこの階級の一人になりました。今、彼はナイトです。一般的に、ナイトとなった人はSirと呼ばれるようになりますが、ボノは違います。なぜなら彼は、アイルランド人だからです。

伝えられた所によると、彼の息子は、行方不明です。ボノはスターヲーズのライトセイバーを受け取ってません。


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conversations with sarah
#205 Did you hear Bono got a medal?

Step 1: Repeat Jun’s lines.
Step 2: Read Jun’s lines and talk to Sarah.

Sarah Did you hear Bono got a medal?

Jun Yeah, what was it?

Sarah Um, it says here: he was crowned a "Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.”

Jun What’s an order?

Sarah I don’t really know. It sounds like a strange secret group or something … but I think it’s just a medal.

Jun Who do they give it to?

Sarah People they think have done good things, I guess. And they usually take it away if you break the law.

Jun What’s it good for?

Sarah Nothing really. Except maybe you get to talk to some special people.

Jun What do you mean?

Sarah Like if I rocked up to the queen of England or the prime minister ... they probably wouldn’t talk to me. But if I had one of those medals they’d be like: how do you do.






questionanswer

From this quiz by Charles Kelly.

Illustrations by: UVic Humanities Computing and Media Centre and Half-Baked Software

Kings of MySpace
lyrics

M to the Y, S P A C E
MySpace dot com, it's the place to be
We da kings of MySpace,
just check the friend list
I got ass for days, this sh*t is endless

Not a MySpace whore, I'm a MySpace pimp
My views keep rising like the Goodyear blimp
With just one click we can be best friends
I've seen more news flashing than CNN

25-8 I check the MySpace
I just can't wait to check the MySpace
25-8 I check the MySpace
It makes life great when I check the MySpace
25-8 I check the MySpace
It's how I get dates I check the MySpace
25-8 I check the MySpace
And if you ain't got a page then get out of my face

Now first things first, get yourself an account
So you can tell the whole e-world what you're all about
Get naked in the bathroom and take some pics
Put the flash on .. so they can see no zits

But wait I have no friends, so what do I do?
It's okay, we were once losers just like you
I had zero friends, not even Tom would approve me
But then we found the key to getting MySpace love
I became the emo guy
and I'm the wannabe thug
Put on our backwards caps, stunner shades and chapsticks
Added a Tupac song, started hitting up black chicks

Grew my hair long
Put up Dashboard Confessional
Put on tight jeans that smashed up my testicles
MySpace bitches hit you with the request
Get more underage p***y than Ryan Seacrest

25-8 I check the MySpace
I just can't wait to check the Myspace
25-8 I check the MySpace
It makes life great when I check the MySpace
25-8 I check the MySpace
It's how I get dates I check the MySpace
25-8 I check the MySpace
And if you ain't got a page then get out of my face

You can be the meterosexual guy in the sweatervest
And just like that, bam you got friend requests
Woah, new pics, new ..., they all just keep adding me
got so many kudos my page is getting cavities

New birthdays too, the fun is unlimited
Oh, quick, go to Google and find me fun images
IMG to the SRC
Here a Photobucket flyer for my party

All the fly chicks will show you e-love
Don't even ask for the digits, just get the three dubs
Send her a slick message, get yourself a hot date
If it all goes well, slide her in the top eight

It's addictin' like how a crackhead feels
Although the pics might be fake, the love is all real
And just when you thought that its come to an end
Press the refresh button and do it again
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 I had great plans for Shutdown Day. But ... I wasn't feeling so good because went out the night before. I went to a bar called Fatty's. Apparently they didn't do so well this year and they're not going to open next year. So this was their last night ever. Fatty's is a bar inside two trucks.

After Fatty's we went to Jam Bar.
On Shutdown Day the computer was shutdown and so was my body. I spent most of the day lying in bed feeling sorry for myself. I recovered sometime in the afternoon and in the evening went out to meet some friends at Loaf. They happened to be having a jembe night.
The day after Shutdown day I did some of what I was planning to do on shutdown day. We went shopping at the second hand stop and found a few interesting things like this clock.
I wanted to make some art so I bought some material and some nails.I made a frame and nailed the material to it for canvas.
The canvas has been blank all week because I couldn't decide what to paint. Today I finally decided on birds.

引用元http://thedailyenglishshow.blogspot.com/2007/03/show-332-saturday-31-march.html

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Sunday Kitchen: Peanut Butter

After last Sunday's show Jonny was telling me exactly how dodgy that peanut butter was.
He reckoned peanut butter was easy to make. And he decided to make some.

He put some peanuts in the food processor with some oil and salt.

I made some too. I made two different kinds, with two different types of peanuts.
The peanuts with the skins on made nicer peanut butter.



引用元http://thedailyenglishshow.blogspot.com/2007_04_01_archive.html

Hi, I’m Sarah. Welcome to The Daily English Show.
Today’s guest is Camille.
I asked Camille about his background and about what languages he has learnt.
His native language is French and he has learnt many languages including German, English, Swedish, Chinese and Japanese.
He is a musician. He’s studied computer science. He’s been a teacher and since December he has been living in Niseko.

You said you were from Switzerland but you learnt English in Germany ... ?
So, OK, the whole story is ... I was born in France. And I grew up in France until I was nine. And then I moved to Germany for five years. And then after five years, I moved to Switzerland, where I’ve been living mostly since.

What was the first foreign language you started learning?
I can’t really answer that question. I guess it was German. Like if you really look at the dates, the first book I picked up or the first sentence I had to memorise, I think were in German. But I started learning German and English pretty much at the same time.

Did you start learning English at school?
Not English. Ah, I started learning German at school, yeah, but English I mostly started learning with my friends. My neighbours from America and one of my best friends from ah, from the UK.

STICK NEWS

Kia ora this is Stick News. It’s election time in Japan and damaged ear drums aren’t the only worry – sites like YouTube are also causing concern.

Japanese politicians have a long tradition of charming voters by driving around shouting at them through loudspeakers.
This is definitely legal.
But blogging about politicians near the election apparently isn’t.
Election laws in Japan restrict media coverage during the 12 official days of campaigning.
Some people are worried about the legality of blogs and vlogs during this time.
Yesterday, the most popular blogger in Japan, Kikko, deleted her post criticizing Ishihara and replaced it with an apology.
According to Japan Media Review this restrictive law was made more than 50 years ago.
And critics of the law say the LDP are in no hurry to change it since the most tech-savvy people are not likely to vote for them.

And that was Stick News for Monday the 2nd of April.
Kia Ora.








conversations with sarah
#206 Why did you start studying Chinese?

Step 1: Repeat Sarah’s lines.
Step 2: Read Sarah’s lines and talk to Camille.

Sarah Do you like teaching?

Camille Yeah, but not in the usual way. I don’t really like classes and school. I think they can be fun, but um ... I love teaching in the sense sharing knowledge or bringing knowledge to someone. But I don’t like to stand in front of a white board, or black board ... exercise number na na na ... I don’t enjoy that.

Sarah What were your English classes at school like?

Camille Boring. Yeah, I, I don’t have ... I could speak English before I got in class. And I was always ahead of the class. I was pretty familiar with the language before the teacher brought the knowledge in the class.
It didn’t mean that I was good at it but it meant that I had no problem to hear it or read it or whatever. So I never really got interested in it. Except for the last years when we started studying like more cultural and, and literature. And then I could put myself into reading text and stuff like this. But ... I guess most of the time I was just annoying the teacher and fooling around.

Sarah How did you learn English?

Camille OK, with friends in Germany. And since I was in kind of an international school it was easy to keep on speaking with other (?) and other people. And then I spent three months in Canada when I was in high school. Living in a family so that was also a really big input. And then, yeah, other little trips here and there.

Sarah Why did you start studying Chinese?

Camille Well, it’s pretty much the same story again. I went to China last year. And since I was in China I thought it would be interesting to learn the local language. Cause um ... Language expresses a lot of things about the culture and the, and the people of a country. So if you’re in a country and you’re taking time being in this country, I think it’s a good point to maybe not learn a language, but still understand some basic um ... concepts and vocabulary. Cause it’s really interesting how people express ideas in a different way than you do.

Sarah How did you study Chinese?

Camille I took classes in Beijing for ah, about a month, a month ... yeah, about a month to get some basics brush off like really yeah, learn some basic grammar concepts. And work on my pronunciation since in Chinese pronunciation is a really important part of the language.
And then the biggest input I had on my language was when I, ah, when I was working in Shanghai. I been working in ah, in an association for handicapped people for about six months and then I had to use the language every day. Talking to my co-workers and stuff like this. So that was the immersion program. Extensive learning every day.

Sarah How have you been studying Japanese?

Camille Mainly at work. Um, for a while I had one of my co-workers, we were teaching each other language every day for an hour. I would teach her some French and she would teach me some Japanese. Um, yeah, and I have like a small hundred words in Japanese book. I have a dictionary. I have a mobile phone, which is wonderful. Ah, yeah, and talking with people and trying to talk with people, that’s ...

Sarah What advice do you have for people studying English?

Camille Practice. I was sitting in the bus on my way here and this guy was sitting, like ah, two rows behind me. He walked up to me and just like “excuse me, excuse me” and just started talking to me. And I think that’s the right attitude. I mean it might be scary for a lot of people, I don’t know I would do it, but I think he’s doing the best thing he could do for his English right now. Just run into a guy on the bus and starting to build a conversation with the little bit of English he knows. I think that’s the, the right attitude. It’s just like, yeah, go for it.


引用元http://thedailyenglishshow.blogspot.com/2007_04_02_archive.html