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ENGLISH CAFÉ – 480
TOPICS
American Musicals/Movies – The Sound of Music; Public Housing and “The
Projects”; to soak versus to immerse versus to dip versus to pickle
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GLOSSARY
abbey
– the building or group of buildings where religious people live, such as
nuns or monks
* Visitors are welcome to tour the abbey and see the church and gardens, but the
living spaces and private rooms are not open to the public.
nun
– a religious woman who lives her life to serve people in need and who lives
in a community of other religious women separated from other people
* Each Wednesday, the nuns go to the local homeless shelter and cook meals for
the people staying there.
nanny
– a person whose job is to go to a person’s home and to take care of that
person’s children
* The children’s nanny is responsible for getting them up in the morning, playing
with them during the day, and cooking lunch for them.
widower
– a man whose wife has died and he has not remarried
* Although he has been a widower for five years, Joe still feels as though he’s
married.
public housing
– a collection of homes for rent that the government makes
available for people who cannot afford to live in regular rental homes
* Some communities have developments that include both regular rental homes
and also public housing.
rent
– an amount of money one pays each month to live in a home or apartment
* In New York City, you would pay $4,000 a month for an apartment, but in
Dallas, you may pay only $1,400 a month for the same home.
income
– the amount of money a person earns for doing a job
* Claudia’s promotion means that her income will go up from $50,000 per year to
$65,000 per year.
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disabled
– having a physical or mental condition that makes one unable to move
or be involved in certain basic activities
* The new office building had many additions to help disabled people gain
access, including extra wide doors and ramps going in and out of the building.
to apply
– to request permission to do something; to make a formal request to
do or to have something
* When Toshi applied for the job as project manager, he submitted his resume
and cover letter, as well as three reference letters from former managers.
eligible
– meeting all of the requirements to do something
* To be eligible to win the contest, you can’t work for the company.
inner city
– an area, often in the center of the city, where many people live that
often with has serious social and economic problems
* Matthew hopes one day to move his family out of the inner city so that his kids
can grow up in a safe neighborhood.
suitable
– correct or appropriate for what a person or situation needs
* Would wearing this green suit be suitable for the job interview?
to soak
– to make or allow something to become thoroughly wet by putting it
completely in liquid
* These beans will be easier to cook if we soak them in water for an hour first.
to immerse
– to submerge or put completely in a liquid
* In the old days, doctors immersed patients with high fevers in ice water to try to
reduce body temperature.
to dip
– to put or let something down quickly or briefly into a liquid
* Put some sauce on your plate and dip the cheese in it before you eat it.
to pickle
– to place a kind of food, such as a small cucumber, in vinegar, brine
(water with a lot of salt), or a similar solution to preserve it
* Let’s pickle some cabbage so that we can eat it during the winter months.
so-called
– a term used to show that something or someone is commonly called
by a name or term, and can sometimes be used to express one's view that such
a name or term is inappropriate
* My so-called best friend told other people my secrets and I will never forgive
her.
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so to speak (say)
– a phrase used to highlight or show that one is describing
something in an unusual way; figuratively speaking
* When I heard the news, my heart jumped out of my chest, so to speak.
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WHAT INSIDERS KNOW
The Partridge Family
In 1970, the American television show The Partridge Family made its “debut”
(first appearance). The show told the story of a “widowed” (woman whose
husband had died) mother and her five children.
This was the “premise” (basic idea) behind the show: In the “fictitious” (not real;
made up) city of San Pueblo, California, five “siblings” (brothers and sisters)
convince their mother, Shirley, to help by singing a song they were recording in
their “garage” (small building where cars are parked next to one’s home).
One of the siblings, the 10-year-old boy Danny, meets a music “manager”
(person who represents a person or group in the entertainment business), who
helps them make the song a big “hit” (very successful and liked by many people).
The siblings then convince their mother to join the band and “go on tour” (for a
musician or a musical group to travel to many cities to perform) with them. The
family gets an old “school bus” (bus used to transport students to elementary or
secondary school) to travel around the country to perform.
The Partridge Family was “loosely based on” (used the same basic story as, but
with many changes) The Cowsills, a family of pop musicians famous in the
1960’s. Originally, the “producers” (makers of a TV show or film) considered the
members of The Cowsills as actors in the series, but since the children had no
acting background and were older, the show producers decided to hire younger
actors instead
During the show’s four-season “run” (airing; showing on television), many famous
celebrities made appearances on the show, such as popular comedian Richard
Pryor and singer Johnny Cash. The Partridge Family also produced music
albums that were very popular. The songs from the TV show also became hits.
The show “aired” (showed on TV) its final episode on March 23, 1974 after 96
episodes and eight Partridge Family music albums.
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COMPLETE TRANSCRIPT
You’re listening to ESL Podcast’s English Café number 480.
This is English as a Second Language Podcast’s English Café episode 480. I’m
your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from the Center for Educational
Development in beautiful Los Angeles, California.
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download the wonderful eight- to ten-page Learning Guide we provide for each
and every episode.
On this Café, we’re going to talk about one of the most popular movie musicals
ever made, The Sound of Music. We’re also going to talk about the public
housing system in the United States and explain a little bit about the term often
used to describe some of this public housing: “the projects.” And, as always, we’ll
answer a few of your questions. Let’s get started.
Our first topic is one of the most popular movies of the middle part of the
twentieth century: the musical called The Sound of Music. The Sound of Music is
a movie that is “based on,” or comes from, a true story of a family that was living
in Austria in the 1930s and managed to leave Austria in order to escape the
political consequences of staying there under the rule of the Nazis. The movie is
based on the real-life story, then, of a real family – the Von Trapp family.
Maria von Trapp wrote a book in 1949, published under the title of The Story of
the Trapp Family Singers. That story was later taken in 1959 – ten years later –
by two famous composers, Rogers and Hammerstein, and made into a popular
Broadway musical. A “musical” (musical) is a play or a movie that has both acting
and singing. The characters in the play or musical sing part of the story.
In 1965, the musical was turned into a movie, and it’s the movie that we’re going
to talk about here specifically on this episode of the Café. The Sound of Music as
a movie was released in 1965. The movie begins with the lead actress – the
most important actress in the movie, Julie Andrews – spinning around on a
hillside. She’s on top of or near the top of the mountain, and she’s turning
around, spinning around – singing, of course. She sings one of the most famous
lines from the movie:
The hills are alive,
with the sound of music . . .
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She sings it a little bit higher than I do. “The hills are alive with the sound of
music.” Julie Andrews’ character in the movie is named Maria. And Maria loves
to sing. She loves music, and so she’s happy being out on the hillside singing
songs and such. After that first opening scene, or first part of the movie, we see
Maria running down the hillside towards an abbey, where she lives. An “abbey”
(abbey) is a building where those who are part of a religious order, a special
religious group of men or women, live.
This is an abbey for nuns, and we learn that Maria is trying to become a nun. A
“nun” (nun) here refers to a special group of women in the Roman Catholic
Church who decide not to get married, and instead to dedicate their whole lives
to God and to serving God and his people. Maria is trying to become a nun.
She’s in Austria – the country of Austria – near the town of Salzburg, Austria.
Salzburg is famous for, among other things, being the birthplace of Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart. The movie begins in the middle of the 1930s.
Now, Maria loves to sing and dance, and those are things that you don’t normally
find in an abbey, in a place where nuns or monks are living. “Monks” (monks) are
men who dedicate their lives to God and live unmarried. The head of the abbey,
called the “Reverend Mother,” is very concerned about Maria. She’s concerned
that perhaps Maria isn’t the best person to become a nun, and so she decides to
suggest to Maria that instead of staying at the abbey, she go and work as an
nanny for a family nearby.
A “nanny” (nanny) is a person – usually a woman, but not always – who goes to
someone’s house and takes care of that person’s or that couple’s children. You
have to have a little bit of money in order to afford to have a nanny. Most families
don’t have nannies, but rich families, especially during this period in the 1930s,
often did have nannies. There are actually a lot of nannies here in Los Angeles
that work for rich Hollywood families and others in the entertainment industry,
But we’re not in Hollywood – we’re in Austria, and Maria is sent to work at the
house of a man named George von Trapp. George von Trapp is a captain in the
Austrian Navy. A “navy” is that part of a country’s military forces that takes care
of the ships and the boats of the military. Now, Captain von Trapp is a very
wealthy man – he has a lot of money – but he is a widower. A “widower”
(widower) is a man whose wife has died. A woman whose husband has died is
called a “widow” (widow).
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