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Welcome back to A+, English

I'm Adam

And I'm Elsie

And in our last episode we were talking about a very famous author that goes by the pen name O. Henry

Henry, yes

And today we're going to look at one of his short stories and kind of evaluate it and see what it all means

Now, everyone, our warm-up question is

What can you see when you look out of the window at home or school?

Oh, so what can we see when we look out the window?

I can see a highway

Yeah, you can see a highway at our home, right?

Trees

There's some trees

Yes, and other buildings

And other buildings

A lot of other buildings

What else?

Well, what about at school?

When you're teaching, do some of your students sometimes look out the window and

Yeah

Daze into the sky

I bet there are cars, trees

Yeah

People

Right

Pedestrians

Yeah

Well, I know when I was going to school

I used to look out the window and imagine

Oh, it's such a nice day

I wish I was outside probably

Rather than being inside

So, what do you guys see when you look out of the window at home or school?

O. Henry and the Last Leaf

Warm-up question

What can you see when you look out of the window at home or school?

Sue and Johnsy are young artists

They live together in Greenwich Village, New York City

Their neighbor, Berman, is an old artist

He's not a very good artist but he hopes to paint a masterpiece

In winter, Johnsy gets very sick with pneumonia and can only stay in bed

A doctor tells Sue

She has to want to live to get better

We're going to read one of O. Henry's short stories

Sue and Johnsy are young artists

Oh, they're artists

So, are you good at art?

Because I'm not

No, I'm not good at art

I can draw a little but not too well

Okay, but are there any artists that you like?

Oh, are there any artists I like?

Well, I do like this one artist and nobody knows who he is really

Nobody knows his identity or his real name

He goes by the name of Banksy and he's a street artist

Oh

But I really don't follow, honestly, the art scene

So, if you told me, oh, this art is very good or this art is very bad

I wouldn't really know the difference

So, I know Picasso

I know Andy Warhol

Okay, wow and maybe just these two

Okay

Okay

Well, these two people, they're artists and you might be wondering, well, where do artists live?

Well, our article says they live together in Greenwich Village in New York City

So, what kind of village is it?

Is it big, small, new or old?

Is it a village where artists live?

Yeah, it's kind of a little area in New York City where it's small

It also has the reputation where a lot of artists, actors and they all live there

It's a very kind of open community and, yeah, very free thinking, you could say, maybe

Cool

And finding out more about these two couples it says their neighbor, Behrman, is an old artist

Okay, so, what are the two people's names again?

Sue and Johnsy

Sue and Johnsy and they had a neighbor

Yeah whose name was

Behrman

Behrman, okay

Yeah, and he's, you know, he's an artist as well

They're all in this community in Greenwich, New York but our article says he's not a very good artist but he hopes to paint a masterpiece

Okay, so he wants to create something that's really big something that can amaze people

Yeah and we can call it a masterpiece

Very good, yeah

He hopes that, you know, this big painting maybe one day can make him famous and rich and get all the accolades that he wants or desires

Well, deep diving further into the article, everyone

It says, in winter, Johnsy gets very sick with pneumonia and can only stay in bed

Pneumonia?

What are some of the symptoms for pneumonia?

Like a lot of coughing?

Yeah, pneumonia is really not good

It's very bad

You get the chills, so you feel cold

You get the fever, so you're very hot and you're cold

You start to have trouble breathing and you're coughing a lot, like you said

So a lot of people, as they get older this can really, you know, hurt somebody's health and it could maybe even lead to death

Well, finding out more, a doctor tells Sue she has to want to live to get better

Okay, this is very important

Your mood and your strong will to live make a big difference

Right, yeah

So Sue herself needs to know for sure that she wants to continue to live

She needs to focus on herself, get enough rest, get better and try to actually not just give up, right?

Mm-hmm

Okay

Johnsy looks out the window at a tree next to a wall

She counts 12, 11, 10

Sue asks

What are you counting?

Johnsy says

The leaves are falling very fast now

When the last leaf falls, I have to go too

All right, so as we're looking at this article and this short story we realize, oh no, it's Johnsy that's very sick

Oh, Johnsy

Not Sue, it's Johnsy

He's the one that is feeling terrible and maybe is on death's doorstep, we could even say

Okay

Our article then says

Johnsy looks out the window at a tree next to a wall

So what's on that tree that she's looking at?

All right, well, we don't know yet but our article says she counts 12, 11, 10

Okay, what do you think he's counting?

Hmm, what do I think he's counting?

Maybe apples on the tree?

Yeah, or birds on the tree

Oh, good guess, but you're not quite right

Sue asks

What are you counting?

Johnsy says

The leaves are falling very fast now

Oh, so she's counting the leaves

Yeah, he's counting the leaves

She, Johnsy is a girl too

Sue is a girl

They're both girls

All right, bingo

Well, they are counting the leaves and they're falling down

So what does that mean?

It says

When the last leaf falls, I have to go too

Oh no, this is so sad, right?

It is, it's a little bit dramatic and very sad

So first we know that she's sick and she got pneumonia and the doctor told her that you need to want to live so that you can live

If you give up yourself, then you won't be able to live

Right

Have you ever gotten so sick where you thought that, oh, I can't go on another day or thought about dying?

Yeah, when I got COVID

Really?

Right, I was feeling really bad

Okay

Yeah, what about you?

Um, well, yeah, I had cancer once and so I was really looking out the window wondering if, you know, something worse sickness might happen to me and I was in a wheelchair for quite some time

So, yeah, you really do have to focus on yourself to try not to give up and that's kind of some of the message that we're learning in this story whereas, you know, even though you can be sick and even though they are artists and they're enjoying this life, you know some things, terrible things can happen but it's important not to give up

Yeah, and now we know that Johnson's counting the leaves on the tree and what did she say again?

Well, we don't know quite yet

We're going to guess maybe what those leaves mean in her mind

Oh, okay

So now we have to look at our vocabulary words 今天看到第一個單字是artist 這個名詞指的是藝術家 那你會發現喔 它是art 藝術 加上字尾的ist 組成的一個名詞 所以畫家啦 雕刻家 陶藝家 這些都是artists 那現在呢 連歌手啦 音樂人也會被稱作是artist 那你在某些形容詞或是名詞之後 加上ist 就會變成...的人 某種人 也就是art 加上ist artist science 後面你把字尾改成tist 那就會變成scientist 科學家 還有像是dentist 好,跟牙齒相關的牙醫 還有novelist 小說家 pianist 鋼琴家 好,這些都是這樣子的組成 那單字例句說到呢 這名藝術家在畫作的底部 簽上了他的名字 那第二個我們要看到的是動詞hope 指的是希望 期望

I hope that 後面加上主詞以及動詞 那就是我希望有這件事情發生 希望你可以打電話給我 那這個that

I hope that 的that是可以省略的喔 那另外如果你想要 直接加上一個原型動詞的話 也可以 那你要說 那還有一個用法是 我希望如此 我希望也是這樣發生 你可以說三個字 那就是 那另外呢 hope也可以當作名詞使用喔 那我們來看單字例句吧 單字例句說的是 那第三個是個動詞count 指的是數數 或是呢 點點點的數目 那這邊呢 他說 please count from 1 to 10 那就會是 要人家從1數到10 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 把它數完 那如果你看到 count後面加了人 或物品的話 那就是數那些人 或物品的數字 那如果你看到 count後面加了人 或物品的話 那就是數那些人 或物品的數量 代表老師呢 就去數了在教室裡面 學生的數量 那如果你看到 count字尾加上 able變成countable 那就是形容詞可以數的 所以我們都說 可數名詞就是 不可數名詞 那就是 這個形容詞 那就是不可數的 單字例句給的是呢

Wendy counts the eggs in the basket before she pays for them

Wendy結帳之前 先清點籃子裡面蛋的數量 那第四個單字是 名詞 指的就是葉子了 那單數是 負數怎麼辦呢 要去掉 f加上ves 變成leaves 那當我們說 正在掉落的葉子 那就是falling leaves 那如果是已經掉落 在地面上的 你可以說是 那單字例句給的是呢 秋天來臨的時候 樹上的葉子會轉紅 那最後到了 我們要講的是 現在進行式的 的問句 還有答句 也就是你用 一問詞放在句首 然後搭配現在進行式 你可以怎麼樣去問問題呢 比如說第一個 問的就是 你現在正在做什麼 那還有像是 你現在正在吃什麼 或者是 你現在正在看什麼 你都可以這樣問 那回答怎麼辦 當然就是主詞 加上be動詞 再加上bing就可以了 像是第一個問你 我正在學英文啊 第二個 我正在吃一個蘋果啊 我正在看一場電影啊 那最後 我們就要去 review time的地方囉 動詞屬數 或是點 點點點的數目 就是點多少個這樣 名詞葉子 drawing sing dancing yeah that's the thing right when we say art or artist it's not just about drawing or painting there's different formats of art like dancing hip-hop dancing and all those different yeah you can also call them artists exactly but would I want to be one no because I'm bad at art okay yeah me too

I probably wouldn't be the best at it okay number two do you hope to do something or achieve anything do I hope what is hope 喜歡 不是 no 希望 okay do I hope to do something or achieve something yes

I hope maybe one day we can buy a house in Taipei but that's a pretty big hope right alright number three oh can you count from one to twenty in Mandarin can you of course

I speak Chinese okay so do you want me to do it right now yeah okay at least one to ten how about that alright 一二三四五六七八九四 好不好 can you do eleven to twenty 十一十二十三十四 十五十六 yeah good job 十七十八十九 十 十二 十 what about twenty twenty you say two first and then 二十 二十 good job there we go and our fourth question to you is what can leaves do oh what can leaves do yeah what can leaves do leaves can fall leaves can fall leaves can make the tree more beautiful yeah and I know leaves can do something special for the air for the tree okay for the world easy like the color of your shirt right is what pink so what can leaves also do they can turn colors they can turn colors leaves can turn colors in fall right sometimes some green leaves turn into red leaves or brown leaves and so forth so leaves can turn colors okay okay alright 那我們今天的課文就講到這邊囉 那想知道今天的影片內容 可以如何運用在生活當中嗎 趕快來空中家家和老師一對一練習吧 那我們明天見囉 拜拜 by bwd6