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Welcome to Spotlight.
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I’m Dave Bast.
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And I’m Liz Waid.
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Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting.
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It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live.
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“Peter Menzel and I invited ourselves to dinner with 30 families in 24 countries.
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We wanted to explore people’s oldest social activity: eating.” These are the words of writer Faith D’Aluisio.
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Peter Menzel is her husband.
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He is also a photographer - he takes beautiful pictures.
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Together, they travel the world.
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Faith writes about the things and people they see.
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And Peter takes pictures.
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In the mid 1990s, Faith and Peter began to notice how people’s diets across the world were changing.
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They decided to write a book about their observations.
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Today’s Spotlight is on this book called Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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Food is a very important part of family life.
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It is part of everyone’s history and culture.
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Faith D’Aluisio and Peter Menzel wanted to show how diet affects health and culture.
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And they wanted to present this information in a beautiful way.
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In their book, Faith explains: “To learn more about how diets are changing, we watched normal families all over the world.
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We watched as they farmed, shopped at the market, cooked, and ate.
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At the end of each visit, we created a picture of the family.
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The Madsen family lives in Cap Hope village in Greenland.
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Five people live in the home.
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They spend $277 each week on food.
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They also hunt animals to eat fresh meat.
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These are animals that live in ice cold water such as polar bears, walrus, and arctic geese.
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Many people in Greenland hunt these large animals for their meat.
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The Mendoza family live in Todos Santos Cuchumatan, Guatemala.
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Eight people live in the home.
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They spend $25 a week on food.
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The Mendoza family only eat meat less than once a week.
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They spend most of their money on fruits and vegetables like bananas, zapote, passion fruit, avocados, green beans, and red chili peppers.
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The Al Haggan family lives in Kuwait City, Kuwait.
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Eight people live in the Al Haggan home.
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They spend $221 on food each week.
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Much of the food they eat is imported from other countries.
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They buy it at a western style market.
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The Revis family live in North Carolina, in the United States.
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There are four people in the family.
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They spend $342 each week on food.
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They spend a lot of their money on fast food from eating places like McDonalds, Taco Bell and pizza places.
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The Aboubakar family is from Darfur, Sudan.
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But they live as refugees in the country of Chad.
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D’jimia is a single mother.
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She has five children.
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The family spends a little over one dollar on food each week.
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Food does not cost as much here as in some other places.
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In other countries, where food costs more, this amount would be equal to about $24.
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Most of their meals are a thick liquid porridge made from the grain sorghum.
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D’jimia also receives food aid in her refugee camp.
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Some days the family lacks food.
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They must make difficult decisions.
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They must decide who gets more food, and who gets less.
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These are just a few of the examples of the families in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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All of the pictures in the book show the different food cultures of people around the world.
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Some people grow most of their food on their own land.
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Other people buy almost everything at a market.
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Others do not even cook much of their food.
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They buy food that is already prepared.
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People reading the book can also see how money influences food.
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Some families have enough money to eat any kind of food they want.
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They can buy food imported from other countries at the market.
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But many people must eat only what grows in their own area, depending on the season.
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Some families eat a large amount of food.
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And other families must divide a limited amount of food.
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The book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats is not about food politics.
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The book’s authors, D’Aluisio and Menzel, are not exploring why hunger exists in the world.
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They are only sharing what they experienced.
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The purpose of the book is to help people understand how other people live.
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The book also encourages people to look at their own family and how they eat.
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Remember the Revis family from the United States?
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After seeing their picture in the book, the Revis family felt shame about the food they were eating.
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Mrs. Revis told D’Aluisio and Menzel: “Everyone in our family felt very troubled by the large amount and kinds of food on the table for the picture.
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Before my son eats something now, he will say to me, ‘Mom, how healthy do you think this food is?’ That never happened before”.
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People have different customs but we share many similarities.
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D’Aluisio and Menzel found that around the world people love food.
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And people in every culture love to welcome new friends to eat with their family.
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What are the cultural food customs in your family?
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What foods are common in your culture?
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You can share your thoughts on the script page of this program on our website at www.radioenglish.net.
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The writer of this program was Rebekah Schipper.
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The producer was Liz Waid.
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The voices you heard were from the United States and the United Kingdom.
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All quotes were adapted for this program and voiced by Spotlight.
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You can listen to this program again, and read it, on the internet at www.radioenglish.net.
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This program is called, "What the World Eats".
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We hope you can join us again for the next Spotlight program.
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Goodbye.
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背景與上下文
在本期Spotlight節目中，主持人Dave Bast與Liz Waid探討了全球飲食文化。作家Faith D’Aluisio與攝影師Peter Menzel共同創作了《Hungry Planet: What the World Eats》一書，記錄了來自24個國家的30個家庭的飲食習慣，以及飲食如何影響健康與文化。他們的觀察和攝影作品不僅呈現了不同地區的飲食習慣，還反映了各國人民的生活方式與價值觀。
日常溝通的五個常用短語
- 吃什麼？ (What do you eat?) - 詢問他人的飲食。
- 你們每週花多少錢買食物？ (How much do you spend on food each week?) - 瞭解家庭的飲食開銷。
- 這是什麼地方的特色菜？ (What is the specialty of this place?) - 探索地方美食。
- 在你們國家，什麼食材最常用？ (What ingredients are commonly used in your country?) - 瞭解文化飲食習慣。
- 我想嘗試這個！ (I want to try this!) - 表達對食物的興趣。
逐步影子跟讀指南
如果你想在看YouTube學英語時提高英語發音，影子跟讀是一種有效的方法。以下是如何逐步進行的指南：
- 選擇影片：選擇有關飲食或文化主題的影片，如Spotlight節目，幫助你熟悉相關詞彙。
- 聽取內容：第一次觀看時，注意聽取整體內容，不用過於關注細節。
- 逐句跟讀：在第二次觀看時，暫停影片並逐句跟讀，模仿語音和語調。
- 記錄進度：可以使用文本錄音功能，記錄你的聲音，與原聲進行對比，發現並糾正發音錯誤。
- 重複練習：每天都進行影子跟讀，逐漸提高流利度和自信心。利用適合的影子跟讀網站，將練習與雅思口語練習結合，幫助你更好地掌握英語。
通過這樣的練習，你可以有效提高英語影子跟讀能力，增強對英語的理解，並在日常交流中更自信地使用英語。
影片中的語法
說話人最常用的結構，並附上影片中的原話：
| 結構 | 影片中的用法 |
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| 被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的 | is imported · were adapted · is called |
| 過去進行時 was/were + -ing — 過去某一時刻正在進行的動作 | were changing · were eating |
| 義務：must / have to / need to 表示某事是必要的 | must make · must decide · must eat |
| 現在進行時 am/is/are + -ing — 此刻或近期正在發生的事 | are changing · are not exploring · are only sharing |
什麼是跟讀法？
跟讀法 (Shadowing) 是一種有科學依據的語言學習技巧，最初開發用於專業口譯員的培訓，並由多語言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。這個方法簡單而強大：您在聽英語母語原聲的同時立即大聲重複——就像是一個延遲1-2秒緊跟說話者的影子。與被動聽力或語法練習不同，跟讀法強迫您的大腦和口腔肌肉同時處理並模模擬實的講話模式。研究表明它能顯著提高發音準確性，語調，節奏，連讀，聽力理解和口語流利度——使其成為雅思口語備考和真實英語交流最有效的方法之一。