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sábado, 4 de junho de 2011
Speakup in Class, BARRY SEARS: YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT – Issue 280
You Are What You Eat
Source: Speak Up
Language level: Advanced
Speaker: Mark Worden
Standard: British accent
Source: Speak Up
Language level: Advanced
Speaker: Mark Worden
Standard: British accent
BARRY SEARS: YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT – Issue 280
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BEFORE YOU READ.
TASK 1. Speaking. With your partner(s) discuss these questions.
a) What is your general attitude towards diets and dieting? Why?
b) Do you think diets create more problems than solutions, or is it the other way round? Why?
c) Have you ever tried a diet? Why (not)? If so, was it successful?
d) How many kinds of diets do you know about?
e) What do you know about “the Zone Diet”?
TASK 2. Glossary. It is a good idea to familiarise yourself with the vocabulary in the glossary before you do the reading TASKS. Work with your partner(s). Try this idea:
a) Cover the Portuguese words/phrases and look at the English words/expressions only. Do you know any of these words/expressions in English? Write your ideas. Check them with other members of the class.
b) Look at the glossary and check your ideas. How many are correct?
c) Test yourself and/or your partner(s). It is not important to memorise the vocabulary, but to be familiar with it.
READING
TASK 3. Prediction. You are going to read the first 4 paragraphs of the article about Barry Sears and the Zone Diet. The following keywords and phrases are included in the text (in this order). Work with your partner(s) and predict what the text will be about. Make some notes.
| scientific method | Heart disease | diabetes | cancer | cheap carbohydrates |
| cheap vegetable oils | type 2 diabetes | neurological disorders | life expectancy |
| personal reasons | bad genes | 30 years ago. |
TASK 4. Reading for Specific Information. Read the first 4 paragraphs only of the article as quickly as possible and find answers to TASK 3. Compare ideas with your partner(s). How many were correct?
TASK 5. Prediction #2. Before you read the rest of the article, work with your partner and try to predict the answer to these questions. Make some notes.
a) What does the scientific establishment think of the Zone Diet today?
b) Why did the establishment change its views on Dr. Sears?
c) What is the main cause of obesity in America, according to Dr. Sears?
TASK 6. Reading for detailed information. Now read the rest of the article and find answers to TASK 5.
AFTER YOU READ
TASK 7. Speaking and writing. Discuss some/all of these questions with your partner(s). If you like, you can write your opinions for homework and show them to your teacher.
a) What do you think of The Zone Diet? Is it scientifically right or not? Why?
b) Would you be prepared to try it? Why (not)?
c) Do you think it is yet another diet, amongst the thousands that exist and appear every year? Why (not)?
d) Do you think following the diet could be dangerous, due to insufficient data on long-term effects?
e) Do you think the idea of Toxic Fat Syndrome should be taken seriously? Why (not)?
Kennedy Center Honors of 2009: Grace Bumbry, Robert De Niro, Mel Brooks, Dave Brubeck, and Bruce Springsteen
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Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. And I'm Barbara Klein. Each year, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington honors performers for their lifetime of work. This year the Kennedy Center will honor Mel Brooks, Dave Brubeck, Grace Bumbry, Robert De Niro and Bruce Springsteen.
Opera singer Grace Bumbry earned starring roles as a soprano and mezzo-soprano in some of the world's most famous opera houses. Her warm voice and wide range brought roles including Carmen, Salome, Aida, Tosca, Medea and Bess.
She was born in nineteen thirty-seven in Saint Louis, Missouri. At seventeen, she won her first big competition. The prize was a scholarship to a local music school.
But the school would not let her attend classes with other students because she was African-American. The school offered her private lessons instead. Her parents refused.
Grace Bumbry went on to study music at Boston University and Northwestern University. She also studied at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California.
In nineteen sixty, at the age of twenty-three, she made her international debut at the Paris Opera. She appeared as Amneris in Verdi's "Aida." Her performance is said to have made her an instant star.
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In nineteen sixty-one, Grace Bumbry became the first black singer ever to perform at the Bayreuth Festival in Germany. Again, some people objected because of her race. In the end, her performance as Venus was a great success.
The seventy-two year old singer is retired now from opera. But she continues to sing in concert and teaches students around the world.
ROBERT DE NIRO IN RAGING BULL:
"Some people aren't that lucky. Like the one that Marlon Brando played in, 'On The Waterfront.' An up-and-comer who's now a down- and-outer. Do you remember that scene in the back of the car with his brother Charlie a small time racket guy? And it went something like this…
It wasn't him Charlie, it was you. You remember that night at the Garden. You came down in my dressing room and you said, 'Kid, this ain't your night.' We're going for the price on Wilson?' 'Remember that? 'This ain't your night?' My night. I could've taken Wilson apart that night. So what happens? He gets a title shot outdoors in the ballpark, and what do I get, a one-way ticket to Palookaville. I was never no good after that night, Charley. It was like a peak you reach, and then it's downhill."
Robert De Niro won an Academy Award for best actor for the nineteen eighty movie "Raging Bull." He played boxing champion Jake La Motta. The movie is a good example of how far the actor will go to perfect a role. To prepare for "Raging Bull" he gained twenty-seven kilos and became a boxer.
He also won an Oscar for best supporting actor. He played the young Vito Corleone in the second "Godfather" movie in nineteen seventy-four.
Robert De Niro has appeared in more than seventy films. He has also produced and directed several movies, including "Everybody's Fine," released this year. He was born in New York City in nineteen forty-three.
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Mel Brooks is a comedian, actor, writer, producer, director and composer. He has a long list of credits from television, film and stage. In fact, he is one of only a few entertainers ever to have won an Oscar, an Emmy, a Grammy and a Tony award.
Mel Brooks began doing live comedy acts in the early nineteen fifties. He later wrote for TV comedy shows before making his mark on the Hollywood film industry. His awards include a best writing Oscar for the nineteen sixty-eight movie "The Producers."
Other notable early films included "Blazing Saddles" and "Young Frankenstein," both from nineteen seventy-four.
(SOUND FROM "YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN")
The American Film Institute has a list of the one hundred funniest movies. "Young Frankenstein," "Blazing Saddles" and "The Producers" are all listed among the top twenty. In recent years a musical play based on "The Producers" became a big hit.
Mel Brooks was born in nineteen twenty-six in Brooklyn, New York. He is known for his sometimes shocking humor that makes fun of people and situations.
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The Library of Congress calls jazz pianist and composer Dave Brubeck a living legend.
The nineteen fifty-nine album "Time Out" by the Dave Brubeck Quartet was the first jazz album to sell more than one million copies. It includes the well known "Take Five," written by Paul Desmond.
Dave Brubeck was born in Concord, California, in nineteen twenty. He began piano lessons at the age of four. By fourteen he was performing in local bands.
During World War Two, Dave Brubeck, who is white, formed one of the first racially mixed bands in the Army. After leaving the Army he studied with the French composer Darius Milhaud.
Dave Brubeck formed his first quartet in nineteen fifty-one. The group's unusual mix of jazz and classical styles earned praise around the world. Since then Dave Brubeck has had many different quartets and produced many different works, including two ballets and a musical.
His best known jazz works include "In Your Own Sweet Way," "The Duke" and "Blue Rondo a La Turk."
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Bruce Springsteen has sold more than one hundred twenty million albums. Most of his songs tell stories about American life. Many are about his life growing up in the state of New Jersey, where he was born in nineteen forty-nine.
His first song to enjoy widespread success was "Born to Run." It was the title song from his nineteen seventy-five album.
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has a list of the five hundred songs that shaped rock and roll. "Born to Run" is number twenty-one on the list. Also listed are "Thunder Road," which was on the same album, and "Born in the U.S.A."
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The nineteen eighty-four album "Born in the U.S.A." has sold more than fifteen million copies in the United States alone. It is considered one of the greatest rock and roll albums of all time.
Bruce Springsteen is also known for his live performances. He and his E Street Band remain one of the top selling acts in the world.
Bruce Springsteen, Dave Brubeck, Mel Brooks, Robert De Niro and Grace Bumbry will be honored at the Kennedy Center on December sixth.
Our program was written by June Simms and produced by Caty Weaver. I'm Steve Ember. And I'm Barbara Klein.
Perhaps you would like to listen to these, too.
- Kennedy Center Honors of 2008 - Barbra Streisand, Morgan Freeman, George Jones, Twyla Tharp, Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey
- Kennedy Center Honors of 2007 - Brian Wilson, Steve Martin, Leon Fleisher, Martin Scorsese, and Diana Ross
sexta-feira, 3 de junho de 2011
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I WANT KNOW WHAT LOVE IS
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Listen to the song and complete the exercises below.
I take a little time
a little time to things over
I need it when I´m
In my life there´s been and pain
I don´t know if I can face it again
I can´t stop now, I´ve traveled so far
To this lonely life
I wanna know what love is
I want you to show meeft to
I feel what love is
I know you can me
Gonna take a little time
A little time toaround me
I´ve got nowhere to
It looks like love has finally found me
In my there´s been heartache and pain
I don´t know if I can I´ve traveled so
To change this lonely life
I wanna know what love is
I want you to show me
I wanna what love is
Iyou can show me
MONEY, MONEY, MONEY
Source: www.speakup.com.br
Language level: Advanced
Speaker: Chuck Rolando
Standard: American accent
They say that there’s a lot o f Money in the New York art world. This is certainly true in the case of Mark Wagner who makes colleges out of dollar bills. He talked to Speak Up about his work.
Mark Wagner
(Standard American Accent)
I use almost completely the US one dollar bill. I take the dollar and break it down into sort of its constituent parts. So there’s line work from the outside that i…I separate into sort of thin ribbons, I take George Washington’s head from the middle, I separate out the lights and the darks, and separate out the little leaf patterns and separate out the greens from the blacks. So I have sort of materials that are sort of the basic parts that make up the dollar bill, and then, from those pieces. I put together new images, and a variety of subject matter, sometimes it’s someone’s portrait, sometimes it’s… a scene that involves a little figure of George Washington that has…his head is his head and I make up the rest of his body. Sometimes the little leaves that are along the border of the one-dollar bill, you know, sort of grow into full trees and sort of touch on subject matter that has something to do with currency itself, or American identity, or trying to make tangible something about finance, something about the way money works, or the way accounting works. A lot of those concepts, you know, behind money are so intangible.
THE STATUE OF LIBERTY
He then talked about his most recent protect:
I just finished a college that l took me an entire year, and that’s an entire year of me working and two entire year of me working and two studio assistants. It’s a…17-foot-tall Statue of Liberty that’s made out of 1.121 dollar bills, cut into, I think the total was 81.695 pieces or something, something like that:
INTEPRETATION
And, in conclusion, we asked him whether his work had a particular meaning:
Mark Wagner
Probably a bunch of different meanings. It’s really…I think different people think about the material in different ways, and I want them to think about it in different ways. I’m not trying to hand them, you know, like a single meaning about money, you so, depending on the eyes of the viewer; you know, like an anarchist will look at the work and think that I’m trying to like storm the castle and tear down the government, but, at the same time, a capitalist can look at the work and see it as a celebration of the materials. Money creeps into so many people’s live in so many different ways. I kind of want my viewers to like fill in the meanings. I’m curious that everyone is so interested in money whether they’re worried about not having enough, or whether they have a lot of money, and they’re worried about losing it. It’s this very pervasive thing that finds its way into all of our lives.
Madam C.J. Walker, 1867-1919: She Developed Hair-Care Products for Black Women
Madam C.J. Walker, 1867-1919: She Developed Hair-Care Products for Black Women
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I'm Shirley Griffith. And I'm Rich Kleinfeldt with the VOA Special English program, PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Every week, we tell the story of someone important in the history of the United States. Today we tell about Madam C. J. Walker. She was a businesswoman, the first female African American to become very rich.
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In the early nineteen hundreds, life for most African-Americans was very difficult. Mobs of white people attacked and killed black people. It was legal to separate groups of people by race. Women, both black and white, did not have the same rights as men.
Black women worked very long hours for little wages. They worked mostly as servants or farm workers. Or they washed clothes. Madam C. J. Walker worked as a washerwoman for twenty years. She then started her own business of developing and selling hair-care products for black women.
Madam Walker, however, did more than build a successful business. Her products helped women have a better sense of their own beauty. Her business also gave work to many black women. And, she helped other people, especially black artists and civil rights supporters. She said: "My object in life is not simply to make money for myself or to spend it on myself. I love to use a part of what I make in trying to help others. "
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Madam C. J. Walker was very poor for most of her life. She was born Sarah Breedlove in the southern state of Louisiana in eighteen sixty-seven. Her parents were former slaves. The family lived and worked on a cotton farm along the Mississippi River. Cotton was a crop that grew well in the rich, dark soil near the river.
Most children of slaves did not go to school. They had to work. By the time Sarah was five years old, she was picking cotton in the fields with her family. She also helped her mother and sister earn money by washing clothes for white people.
There was no water or machine to wash clothes in their home. The water from the Mississippi River was too dirty. So, they used rainwater. Sarah helped her mother and sister carry water to fill big wooden containers. They heated the water over the fire. Then they rubbed the clothes on flat pieces of wood, squeezed out the water and hung each piece to dry. It was hard work. The wet clothes were heavy, and the soap had lye in it. Lye is a strong substance that cleaned the clothes well. But it hurt people's skin.
When Sarah was seven years old, her parents died of the disease yellow fever. She and her sister moved to Vicksburg, Mississippi. At the age of fourteen, Sarah married Moses McWilliams. They had a daughter after they were married for three years. They named their daughter Lelia. Two years later, Moses McWilliams died in an accident.
Sarah was alone with her baby. She decided to move to Saint Louis, Missouri. She had heard that washerwomen earned more money there. Sarah washed clothes all day. At night, she went to school to get the education she had missed as a child. She also made sure that her daughter Lelia went to school. Sarah saved enough money to send Lelia to college.
Sarah began to think about how she was going to continue to earn money in the future. What was she going to do when she grew old and her back grew weak?
She also worried about her hair. It was dry and broken. Her hair was falling out in some places on her head. Sarah tried different products to improve her hair but nothing worked. Then she got an idea. If she could create a hair product that worked for her, she could start her own business.
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At the age of thirty-seven, Sarah invented a mixture that helped her hair and made curly hair straight. Some people believe that Sarah studied the hair product she used and added her own "secret" substance. But Sarah said she invented the mixture with God's help. By solving her hair problem, she had found a way to improve her life.
Sarah decided to move west to Denver, Colorado. She did not want to compete with companies in Saint Louis that made hair-care products. For the first time in her life, Sarah left the area along the Mississippi River where she was born.
Sarah found a job in Denver as a cook. She cooked and washed clothes during the day. At night she worked on her hair products. She tested them on herself and on her friends. The products helped their hair. Sarah began selling her products from house to house.
In nineteen-oh-six, she married Charles Joseph Walker. He was a newspaperman who had become her friend and adviser. From then on, Sarah used the name Madam C. J. Walker.
Madam Walker organized women to sell her hair treatment. She established Walker schools of beauty culture throughout the country to train the saleswomen. The saleswomen became known as "Walker Agents. " They became popular in black communities throughout the United States.
Madam Walker worked hard at her business. She traveled to many American cities to help sell her products. She also traveled to the Caribbean countries of Jamaica, Panama, and Cuba. Her products had become popular there, too.
Madam Walker's business grew quickly. It soon was employing three thousand people. Black women who could not attend her schools could learn the Walker hair care method through a course by mail. Hundreds, and later thousands, of black women learned her hair-care methods. Madam Walker's products helped these women earn money to educate their children, build homes and start businesses.
Madam Walker was very proud of what she had done. She said that she had made it possible "for many colored women to abandon the washtub for more pleasant and profitable occupations. "
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In nineteen-oh-eight, Madam Walker moved her business east to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh was closer to cities on the Atlantic coast with large black populations, cities such as New York, Washington, D. C. and Baltimore. Two years later, she established a laboratory and a factory in Indianapolis, Indiana. There, her products were developed and made.
Some people criticized Madam Walker's products. They accused her of straightening black women's hair to make it look like white women's hair. Some black clergymen said that if black people were supposed to have straight hair, God would have given it to them.
But Madam Walker said her purpose was to help women have healthy hair. She also said cleanliness was important. She established rules for cleanliness for her employees. Her rules later led to state laws covering jobs involving beauty treatment.
Madam C. J. Walker became very rich and famous. She enjoyed her new life. She also shared her money. She became one of the few black people at the time wealthy enough to give huge amounts of money to help people and organizations. She gave money to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, to churches and to cultural centers.
Madam Walker also supported many black artists and writers. And, she worked hard to end violations against the rights of black people. In nineteen seventeen, she was part of a group that went to Washington, D. C. to meet with President Woodrow Wilson. The group urged him and Congress to make mob violence a federal crime.
In nineteen eighteen, Madam Walker finally settled in a town near New York City where she built a large, beautiful house. She continued her work, but her health began to weaken. Her doctors advised her to slow down. But she would not listen. She died the next year. She was fifty-one years old.
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Madam C. J. Walker never forgot where she came from. Nor did she stop dreaming of how life could be. At a meeting of the National Negro Business League, Madam Walker explained that she was a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. "I was promoted from there to the washtub," she said. "Then I was promoted to the cook kitchen, and from there I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations. I have built my own factory on my own ground. "
She not only improved her own life, but that of other women in similar situations. Madam C. J. Walker explained it this way: "If I have accomplished anything in life, it is because I have been willing to work hard. "
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This Special English program was written by Vivian Bournazian. I'm Rich Kleinfeldt. And I'm Shirley Griffith. Join us again next week at this time for another PEOPLE IN AMERICA program on the Voice of America.
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