Wednesday, January 14, 2009

#937 Beware Of Thieves, Dialects Of English, Tourism, MSK Basement


Show 937 Wednesday 14 January
Watch today’s show at YouTube or BlipTV.


Hi, I’m Sarah, welcome to The Daily English Show.

Today I was up in Hirafu and I saw a sign with a small mistake on it.
Do you know what the mistake is?

Beware should be one word.
It should say: Beware of thieves.



click here

Rodolfo from São Paulo in Brazil wrote to me to tell me about this site.
Thank you so much. I’d never seen that site before and it’s really interesting.

It’s called Idea, which stands for: The International Dialects of English Archive.

The guy that created it is a dialect coach for theatre and film and he’s also a professor at the University of Kansas in the United States.

So it’s designed for actors who need to learn dialects or accents … but I think it’s also really interesting for people who are studying English. On the site there are sound files of English speakers from all over the world reading the same passage.

For example, in the New Zealand section, there are 16 different sound files – and there is information about each person who is speaking. And you can hear that the guy who was born in Auckland, but is Tongan and has spent a lot of time in Tonga, has a different accent to the Caucasian woman who has lived mostly in Auckland.



STICK NEWS

Kia Ora in Stick News today a tourism organization in Australia is advertising a job which they say is the best job in the world.

Tourism Queensland is a government organization in charge of promoting Queensland. Their latest promotion involves advertising a job with the title: The Best Job In The World. They’ve created a website to promote the job and explain the job description and application process. The successful applicant will be hired for 6 months and will be paid 150,000 dollars. The job involves taking part in activities on the island, being filmed for promotional videos and writing a blog. Applicants must apply by uploading a video explaining why they want the job.

And that was Stick News for Wednesday the 14th of January.
Kia Ora.





TDES Niseko Snow Report
at MSK JR Apartment


Today I’m going to show you what’s in the basement of my apartment building. So, what do you think it is? You have five seconds to guess. It is … a waxing room.



Word of the Day

Today’s word is beware.
This is word that is used when warning people that something is dangerous.
A sign that you often see in front of houses is: Beware of the dog.



conversations with sarah
#585 What’s your accent like?

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

Eriko Are there many different accents in New Zealand?

Sarah Yeah, there are different accents – but not as many as in England or the United States.

Eriko Are there different accents in different regions?

Sarah Yeah, regions or communities. Like the Tongan guy, he speaks the way he does – not because he’s Tongan, but because he grew up in a Tongan community and spent a lot of time in Tonga.

Eriko Does he speak bad English?

Sarah No, no not at all, it’s perfect English – just it has a certain rhythm and so it’s different from, say, my accent.

Eriko What is your accent like?

Sarah I think it’s pretty typical for a Pākehā female who grew up in the north island and went to a public school.

Eriko Would it be different if you went to a private school?

Sarah It might be, yeah. Actually my accent’s changed a bit from living in Japan, so maybe it’s not typical.



links

today's news
today's STICK NEWS pictures

music

show start
artist: Boom Tschak
album: Indietronic CCBit.
track: More Chocolate, Please
from: Former Yugoslavia
MySpace

click here start
artist: #NarNaoud#
album: Green Vision
track: Oriental Standing
from: Gironde, France
artist at Jamendo
album at Jamendo
artist site

nsr start
artist: Zeropage
album: Ambient Pills Update
track: Is It Real?
from: Switzerland
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

WOD start
artist: DJ iPep's
album: Home Mix 2007
track: Game Toy
from: EVREUX, France
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

cws start
artist: Wolfgang S.
album: Indietronic CCBit.
track: Dynamite
from: Belgrade, Serbia, Former Yugoslavia
artist site
MySpace

qa start
artist: ioeo
album: triptracks
track: triptrack2
from: Saint Raphael, France
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

nsr/qa bgm
artist: Kevin MacLeod
track: Plucky Daisy
artist site
YouTube channel

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#936 Snatch, That’s A Good Lad, Tight, NZ Facebook Arrest


Show 936 Tuesday 13 January
Watch today’s show at YouTube or BlipTV.

Hi, I’m Sarah, welcome to The Daily English Show.

Today we’re studying a scene from a movie called Snatch.

I wouldn’t necessarily recommend this film as a great film to study English. From what I remember it’s not that easy to follow because of all the twists and the pace.

But if you like this kind of movie, then go ahead, because there is some interesting language in it.
Some very colourful language and some interesting accents.

In the scene we’re studying today a guy goes to a camp or a caravan park and he is looking for someone. And a kid who lives there comes up to him to and offers to go and find the guy.

He says: Do you want me to go and get him?

And the man replies: That’s a good lad.

Lad is an informal word for boy or young man.

That’s a good lad, means, thank you, or, that’s nice of you to offer to do that.

But it turns out the lad wanted to get paid, so the man swears at him because he’s a gangster and he doesn’t care about swearing at kids. And the kid swears back because he’s a bit of wild kid.

The lad asks for five quid.
A quid is an informal word for a British pound by the way.
And the man eventually agrees to give him one quid.
He says: You can have a quid.



STICK NEWS

Kia Ora in Stick News today a 21-year-old man in New Zealand has been arrested after a failed attempting to break in a safe. Queenstown police said it was their first Facebook arrest.

Early this morning a man attempted to break into a bar’s safe.
He wore a balaclava and took with him a power tool called an angle grinder.

Police said he entered the building through the roof of an adjoining premises.

Then, while he was trying to open the safe, he got hot and took off his balaclava.
He eventually had no luck opening the safe, so he gave up and left.
On his way out he looked up right past the security camera – which captured clear footage of his face.

Police posted the footage on Facebook and they soon found out who he was and arrested him.
The New Zealand Herald quoted a police officer as saying: I've never met a burglar that I thought was bright.

And that was Stick News for Tuesday the 13th of January.
Kia Ora.





TDES Niseko Snow Report with Scott Adventure Sports

Have you been to Niseko before?
This is the first time.

What do you think?
Oh, I love it, yeah. I can equate it to the Whistler in Canada, yeah.

Is the first time you’ve been on a snowshoe tour?
Probably the first time in the last 20 years. I did it once when I was in school, some 30, 30 years ago.

How was today’s tour?
Oh, very good, I love the snow, I love the scene. I’d like to do it again.



Word of the Day

Today’s word is tight.
Tight is an informal word which means not wanting to spend much money; not generous.

Apparently this is British English – and we use it in New Zealand too.
The example here is: He is very tight with his money.



conversations with sarah

#584 Who are you looking for?

* Watch this scene here.

Step 1: Repeat the kids’s lines.
Step 2: Read the kids’s lines and talk to Tommy.

Kid Who are you looking for?

Tommy Mr O’Neil.

Kid Do you want me to go and get him?

Tommy That’s a good lad.
Well are you going to go and get him for me?

Kid Yeah.

Tommy What are you waiting for?

Kid The five quid you’re going to pay me.

Tommy Fuck off, I’ll find him myself.

Kid Two fifty.

Tommy You can have a quid.

Kid You’re a real tight fucker, aren’t you?



links

today's news
today's STICK NEWS pictures

music

show start
artist: Boom Tschak
album: Indietronic CCBit.
track: More Chocolate, Please
from: Former Yugoslavia
MySpace

nsr start
artist: Zeropage
album: Ambient Pills Update
track: Is It Real?
from: Switzerland
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

cws start
artist: Wolfgang S.
album: Indietronic CCBit.
track: Dynamite
from: Belgrade, Serbia, Former Yugoslavia
artist site
MySpace

qa start
artist: ioeo
album: triptracks
track: triptrack2
from: Saint Raphael, France
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

qa bgm
artist: Kevin MacLeod
track: Plucky Daisy
artist site
YouTube channel

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