Show 1320 Thursday 30 September
Hi, I’m Sarah, welcome to The Daily English Show.
I haven’t seen the episode, but from the clip it looks like Jemaine and Bret are camp counselors and they’re helping some kids put on a play. And Jemaine says to the kids:
One of the most important skills a performer can learn is dealing with hecklers.
To heckle means: to interrupt a speaker at a public meeting by shouting out questions or rude remarks.
It says a speaker at a public meeting here, but you can also heckle other performers, like stand up comedians.
And a heckler is someone who heckles.
So Jemaine tries to yell heckles, but he fails.
First he yells: Your dog’s dead!
And Bret says: Um, that’s not really a heckle.
A heckle to a comedian might be yelling out something like: You suck! Or: You’re not funny!
Have you ever been to a performance or a meeting where people heckled? What did they yell out?
STICK NEWS
Kia ora in Stick News today Google has given a New Zealand company over a million dollars to develop a human-powered transport system.
In 2008, Google announced they would give $10 million to fund up to five ideas that would change the world.
They’ve now announced the five winners.
One of the winning projects is a transport system called Shweeb which uses human-powered vehicles on a monorail.
And that was Stick News for Thursday 30th September.
Kia ora.
I didn’t win.
sigh!
How exactly was you guying a condo in Hawaii going to change the world?
I’ve got a revolutionary idea … how about walking to work.
Dude, that’s brilliant! You should apply to Google for funding!
Word of the Day
Today’s word is teem.
If something is teeming with something, it means it’s full of or swarming with something.
I did a search for teaming with and I found these headlines:
And I found this book title:
In today’s video, Bret says the Wellington Botanic Gardens are teeming with life.
Question Time
For Question Time today we went to a shopping centre in Mount Wellington in Auckland called Sylvia Park and we asked people: Do you find it difficult to adjust to daylight saving time?
Yeah, I do. I don’t understand the point of it and a lot of the time I … yeah, it just mucks up my entire schedule, the daylight savings.
No, I don’t really because I, um, I wake up early and I just do whatever. And I go to sleep at the same time so, yeah.
Yeah. Like, we have to wake up early. Is it early?
Yeah.
Very, very difficult.
I still feel tired.
It’s just one hour!
No, I don’t, no.
Not really.
No, not really.
conversations with sarah
#847 Your dog’s dead!
Step 1: Repeat Jemaine’s lines.
Step 2: Read Jemaine’s lines and talk to Bret.
Jemaine Your dog’s dead!
Bret Um, that’s not really a heckle.
Jemaine Right, yeah, right. Ah, I’ve seen more life in the Wellington Botanic Gardens!
Bret That is a heckle, but if you’re not from New Zealand, it loses some of its sting.
Jemaine How much?
Bret Well, most of it.
Jemaine Do you think they won’t know the reference?
Bret If they did know the gardens, then they would know that they’re teaming with life.
Jemaine One of the most important skills a performer can learn is dealing with hecklers.
Bret And … action!
Top of the evening, Officer Kropki (?)
Jemaine Your dog’s dead.
Bret Um, that’s not really a heckle.
Jemaine Right, yeah, right. Ah, I’ve seen more life in the Wellington Botanic Gardens.
Bret That is a heckle, but if you’re not from New Zealand, it loses some of its sting.
Jemaine How much?
Bret Well, most of it.
Jemaine Do you think they won’t know the reference?
Bret If they did know the gardens, then they would know that they’re teaming with life.
links
music
show start
artist: Kevin MacLeod
track: Future Cha Cha
from: Brooklyn, NY, United States
WOD start
artist: DJ iPep's
album: Home Mix 2007
track: Game Toy
from: EVREUX, France
cws start
artist: Kevin MacLeod
track: The Jazz Woman
from: Brooklyn, NY, United States
qa start
artist: ioeo
album: triptracks
track: triptrack2
from: Saint Raphael, France
qa bgm
artist: TSF
album: Mystic Opus
track: Myst Dub
from: Toulouse, France
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