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ENGLISH CAFÉ – 75
TOPICS
American Songs: Sound of Silence, Good for you! and Good for him!, realize vs.
recognize vs. notice, farther vs. further
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GLOSSARY
to creep – to move slowly and carefully
* Your father is asleep on the couch so let’s creep quietly upstairs so we don’t
wake him.
softly – quietly; in a slow and gentle way
* Ryan speaks so softly sometimes that it’s hard to understand him.
to plant a seed – to give someone an idea; to suggest or inspire someone to do
something
* During the meeting, Ginger planted a seed to give the employees a bonus this
year, instead of having a holiday party.
vision – dream; inspiration; a view of what the future will or should be like
* We need a leader who has a clear vision about how this organization can
expand.
cobblestone – a small round stone used in the past to cover roads
* On our vacation, we visited some cities that still have cobblestone roads that
horses and carriages once traveled on.
halo – a circle of light above a person’s head, usually seen in pictures with saints
or other holy people
* In the portrait you’re painting of Dr. Jeff McQuillan, make sure you add a halo
around his head.
to stab – to try to hit someone with a knife or a sharp object
* Be careful with that knife! If you’re not more careful, you’re going to stab
someone in the back.
flash – a bright shining light that is seen only briefly or suddenly
* We were outside looking at the stars when suddenly, we saw a flash of light
that we couldn’t explain.
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neon – a very bright type of light used in lamps and in business or store signs
* The restaurant has a big pink neon sign that says, “Dinner and Dancing.” You
can’t miss it.
Good for you! – a phrase that means “That’s great!”, “I’m very happy for you!”,
“I’m proud of you”
* You won a full scholarship to go to Lansing University? Good for you!
to realize – to understand clearly; to become aware of something as a fact or is
true
* I knew that I had forgotten something when I left the house this morning, but it
wasn’t until lunchtime that I realized I’d left my lunch at home.
to recognize – identify someone or something because you have seen or heard
them before; to formally say that something is true
* At the reunion party, I was able to recognize a lot of people I hadn’t seen in
over 10 years.
to notice – become aware of something, often used for things you see
* Did you notice that the man over there has been staring at you the entire
evening?
farther – at a greater distance
* The hotel clerk said that the store was only two blocks away, but we’ve been
walking a lot farther than that and I still don’t see it.
further – at a greater amount of space, time, or degree
* I don’t see why we have to discuss this issue any further. I thought we had
already made a decision last week.
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WHAT INSIDERS KNOW
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is an organization located in Cleveland, Ohio,
that recognizes and honors people who have been important in the rock music
industry. It also has a “museum,” a building with important “artifacts” (things from
history) where people can go to visit and learn about rock music. The museum
opened in 1995 and the building was designed by the famous architect I.M. Pei.
A “hall of fame” is any organization that recognizes the achievements or
accomplishments of any group of people. In sports, for example, there is a
“Baseball Hall of Fame,” which honors the most important players in baseball
history.
Each year, a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame committee “nominates” or proposes
people to be include in this organization. A person is “eligible” (meets the
requirements) to be nominated 25 years after they release their first record.
About 1000 people who are considered “experts” (people who have a lot of
knowledge in an area) in music vote on the people who are nominated. These
people include university researchers, “journalists” (news writers), producers, and
other people with a lot of experience in the music industry.
And, each year, this organization “inducts” (accepts) performers, producers, and
other people who have influenced the music industry in a major way. Simon and
Garfunkel who wrote and recorded Sound of Silence and many other well known
hit songs were inducted in 1990.
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COMPLETE TRANSCRIPT
You're listening to ESL Podcast's English Café number 75.
This is the English Café episode number 75. I'm your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan,
coming to you from the Center for Educational Development in the beautiful City
of Los Angeles, in the State of California, here in the United States of America. I
hope you are well - doing well.
On this Café, we're going to talk about American songs, one song in particular, a
very popular song from the 1960s called “Sound of Silence” by the singer, Paul
Simon. It was made famous by the group Simon and Garfunkel, two male
singers back in the 1960s and 70s, and we'll talk about a little bit about that song
because it's a very popular song and many people know it, and it gives us a
chance to talk about some different kinds of vocabulary. As always, we will
answer some of your questions as well. Let's get started.
Take a look at our website at eslpod.com. You'll want to download the Learning
Guide for this podcast as well as look at our new ESL Podcast Store and other
new things that we now have on our website. So, if you haven't visited in awhile,
take a look.
We're going to start by talking about a famous American song called “The Sound
of Silence.” Now, I can't play the music on the podcast because that would be
against the law in the United States. I don't have permission to play the music on
the podcast. If I did that, then they would probably come and - the police would
come and arrest me - take me to jail - take me to prison, and then we could do a
podcast on prison English. But, I would really rather not do that! So instead, I'm
just going to talk about the lyrics. The lyrics of a song, “lyrics,” are the words for
the song, or the words to the song we would probably say.
I'll talk a little bit about what the lyrics mean and some of the vocabulary in them,
and then you can go and listen to “The Sound of Silence.” Again, a very popular
song all throughout the world; I think many people know this song.
“The Sound of Silence” was written in 1964, and that's an important date
because 1964 is the year after the president of the United States, John F.
Kennedy, was killed. We would say he was assassinated. To assassinate,
“assassinate,” means to kill usually a famous person - a famous political person
or political leader.
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Well, Kennedy was assassinated on November 22nd, 1963, and Paul Simon, in
the early part of 1964, wrote this song about the loneliness that Americans felt,
about the fear, about the sadness that they felt. At least according to some
people, that was the reason for the song. So, the song is very much about
sadness; it's very much about being alone and being in the dark, and that's how
he felt Americans felt after the death of John F. Kennedy. I'm a little too young to
remember that; I was alive, but just barely! I was only about two months old
when that happened. I was born on September 24th, 1963, so it was just about
two months after I was born.
In the song, Paul Simon writes about this loneliness. He begins the song, what
we would say the first part of the song, or the first to stanza, “stanza.” A stanza
is like a paragraph or part of a song. Most songs are usually written as though
they were poetry, so they're written like poetry, and like poetry, it's not always
easy to understand what the song means. I'm going to give you my
interpretation, but another person could listen and read this lyrics and come up
with a different interpretation. So, this is my view of the song, and I’ll explain
some of the words in the song that you may not understand easily.
The song begins:
“Hello darkness, my old friend,
I've come to talk with you again.”
I read somewhere that Paul Simon liked to play the guitar in the dark when he
was composing songs or just to relax. Here, he's talking to darkness, and again,
that gives you this idea of being lonely - being by yourself. Darkness is his
friend.
He says:
“I've come to talk with you again,
Because a vision softly creeping,
Left its seeds while I was sleeping.”
A vision, here, is like a dream - it's like an inspiration that you get, and this vision
was “softly creeping.” To creep, “creep,” means to move very slowly - very
carefully - usually so that you won't be noticed. It's something that someone who
was going to steal money from a house - was going to rob a house - he would, or
she, would creep - would move very slowly and carefully so no one heard them.
To creep softly means to move without making a lot of noise.
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