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ENGLISH CAFÉ – 69
TOPICS
Studying abroad in college, Americans and gun control, come and eat vs. come
to eat, in spite of vs. despite
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GLOSSARY
abroad – in a foreign country
* Sue and Roberto have been living abroad for over 10 years and I don’t think
they intend to move back to the U.S. soon.
junior year – the third year of high school or at the university
* It isn’t until your junior year that you need to start worrying about finding a job
after graduating.
to count – to be considered acceptable; to be worth
* The students wanted to know if the assignment was going to count toward their
final grade in the class.
humanitarian – concerned about the welfare (health and happiness) of people
* Who do you think are the humanitarians who have changed the lives of the
most people for the better?
to have a long way to go – to still need to make a lot of progress; to be far from
the goal
* She getting better, but she still has a long way to go if she wants to compete
with our team next year.
firearms – any kind of gun
* Firearms are not allowed in any government buildings in this state.
amendment – an official change to a document; an article added to the U.S.
Constitution
* Before we sign the contract, I want to make sure that the two amendments we
wanted have been added.
to bear (arms) – to carry (guns); to have on one’s body
* He said that he needed to protect himself and that he had a right to bear arms.
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to conceal – to hide; to keep something so other people cannot see or know
about it
* The company tried to conceal that it had lost money over the past two years.
to carry – to have on one’s body
* When you’re on vacation, it’s safer not to carry too much cash.
frontier – border; at the edge of a place near wilderness
* The kids were pretending that they were riding horses on the wild frontier.
gun control – rules or laws about selling and using guns
* Each state has it’s own gun control laws, so what’s legal in one state may be
illegal in another.
in spite of – regardless of; despite; doing something even if something else is
true
* We had a smooth trip in spite of the snowstorms farther up north.
despite – regardless of; in spite of; doing something even if something else is
true
* Despite everyone telling June that her boyfriend was cheating on her, she
decided to marry him.
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ENGLISH CAFÉ – 69
WHAT INSIDERS KNOW
“The Western”
The Western is a “genre” (type or category) of American “literature” (books) and
movies. The Western is usually “set” (located) in the western part of the United
States in what is known as the “Wild West.” The Wild West includes states such
as Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, California, and Texas. The stories are usually set
during the period of the “Old West” from about 1865 after the U.S. Civil War
(when the northern states fought the southern states) to about 1890.
Some Westerns were set on the frontiers, where there was very little “law
enforcement” or police making sure people were following the laws. Other
Westerns were located in the small towns, where there were “dance halls” and
“saloons,” where people went to watch dancing girls and to drink liquor.
The most popular character in the Western is “cowboy” who moves from place to
place. The cowboy was usually a man who rides a horse and “makes a living”
(earned money) by working with “cattle” (cows). He usually wears a cowboy hat
and carried a “rifle” (a long gun).
The cowboys in movies and books are usually good characters who fight two
types of “villains” or bad guys. They fight “Indians” (Native Americans) who are
shown as wild and dangerous. They also fight “gunslingers,” who are men
known to be dangerous with a gun, and who are hired to kill other people.
Even though the Western is less popular today than before the 1970s, there are
still many Western movies made. For example, in 1992, the film Unforgiven won
the Academy Award (the highest prize for movies in the U.S.) for the best movie
for that year. This movie was about a “retired” (no longer working) gunslinger
who accepts one more job to kill for money.
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COMPLETE TRANSCRIPT
You're listening to ESL Podcast's English Café, number 69.
This is English as a Send Language Podcast's Café, episode 69. I'm your host,
Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development
in beautiful Los Angeles, California. I hope you are having a good week.
I want to remind you to visit our website at eslpod.com and download the
Learning Guide for this podcast. You'll get all of the vocabulary, definitions,
sample sentences, cultural notes and a complete transcript of this episode.
Our topics today on the Café include studying abroad, when American students
study college in other countries, as well as a controversial topic, gun control.
And as always, we'll answer a few of your questions. Let's get started!
Our first topic today is studying abroad. The word abroad, “abroad,” means in a
different or in another country. So, if someone says, “I'm traveling abroad,” they
mean “I'm going to a different country.” To Europe, to Asia, to Africa, to
Australia, South America and so forth, that would be traveling abroad.
I wanted to talk a little bit about American college students studying abroad and
study abroad programs at American universities. It's very popular in almost
every university to have students leave for some time and study in a program in a
different country.
There are a couple of different ways that students do that. One way is to spend
an entire academic year in another country. For example, there are many
students that spend their junior year abroad. The junior year is the third year of
the four year college experience; the first year is freshman, the second year is
sophomore, third year is junior, fourth year is senior.
Junior year abroad is an idea that students will study in a different country and
learn about different cultures; perhaps learn a different language by living in a
different country. Sometimes these programs are operated by the university, so
the university sends over their own professors and they teach the classes in
English to the students. In other programs, you study at a foreign or international
university where the classes are taught by professors at that university, often in
the language of the country if it's not English, and some programs are a
combination of these two things.
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The junior year abroad is one way of having students study in other countries.
The students will get credit for their time studying in another country, that is the
university of will give them academic credit so that they will be able to graduate in
the same amount of time. Another way of saying that is that their courses count.
When we say something counts, we mean that it is valid, that it is something that
you can use for, in this case, the requirements that you have a certain number of
classes to graduate with your Bachelor's degree.
Some students study in very short term programs. I remember when I was in the
university, I wanted to study a semester abroad - not a whole year but a half a
year. Other students study only a month or two in the summertime; some
universities in the United States have what's called a “J Term” - “J” stands for
January - and they have one month in January where they offer short courses -
three or four weeks - and students can sometimes study in another country just
for those three or four weeks.
Some of my nieces and nephews - my brother's children - have done this. I know
one of my nieces studied in Spain for a year; that was a junior year abroad
program. Another niece studied just for a month. So, there are different
programs that people can sign up for.
I, myself, was involved in a study abroad program. I had actually graduated with
my first Bachelor's degree back in 1986. I didn't know what I wanted to do with
my life - I still don't! So, I worked for a year and I saved up my money and then I
went to Mexico, and I lived in Mexico and studied Spanish there.
Well, I stayed there for about four months. I was studying on my own, that is I
wasn't studying at the university, I was studying language at a private school - a
private institute. And then I decided I would take some academic courses there,
so I took some courses at one of the local universities and was able to get
college credit at my own university, the University of Minnesota.
I think about this because that was twenty years ago that I did that, back in 1987
- in January of 1987. So, twenty years ago this month, I participated in a study
abroad program, and of course, it was a wonderful experience to be able to learn
about different cultures and learn a different language.
Some students study abroad, or go abroad, in order to do humanitarian work.
Humanitarian, “humanitarian,” is work that you do to help other people. Some
students will go on special programs. Usually these are two-three-four weeks,
sometimes in the summer, sometimes during a break in the school year when
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