Hi, I'm Sarah, welcome to The Daily English Show. It's the first of July and today is the grand opening of The Daily English Show supporter's wall.You can see the wall on our site thedailyenglishshow.com. There are 100 bricks on the wall and as you can see, most of them are still empty.Next month, we're selling them for a fundraising project, but this month they're absolutely free, and our aim is to fill up all the bricks on the wall. So please help us out and claim a brick. You don't have to buy one next month, you can just have one this month. It's very easy, just send us an email (thedailyenglishshow@gmail.com) telling us what you'd like written on the brick, it can be just words or a logo or picture if you have one, and tell us the site you'd like the brick to link to. It can be your company or organisation's website, or a personal blog, YouTube channel, twitter account, whatever. Today we're studying a video made by StoryCorps – which is the organization I talked about yesterday. They record people's stories in America and this video is an animation that's been made to one of the interviews. It's a boy asking questions to his mother. The boy's name Joshua and he asks his mother questions like: Have you ever felt like life is hopeless? And: Have you ever lied to me? And I think the mother's answers are really thoughtful and honest. And I found the video quite moving. Near the end of the video, Joshua asks his mother: Did I turn out to be the son you wanted when I was born, like did I meet your expectations ...? And his mother says: You've exceeded my expectations, sweetie. To exceed means to go beyond. So she's telling him that he turned out to be an even greater son than she'd hoped for. STICK NEWS Kia ora in Stick News today Larry King is retiring. Larry King is a 76-year-old American broadcaster. He's worked on his current show since 1985 and has conducted more than 50,000 interviews. Yesterday he announced he would step down as host of the show. And that was Stick News for Thursday the 1st of July.Kia ora.
Word of the Day Today's word is cope . to deal successfully with sth difficult For example: He wasn't able to cope with the stresses and strains of the job. Many things can be hard to cope with: work, relationships, parenting, studying. In today's video Joshua asks his mum: Have you ever thought you couldn't cope with having a child? conversations with sarah #783 What's colic? Step 1: Repeat Joshua's lines .Step 2: Read Joshua's lines and talk to Sarah. Joshua: Have you ever thought you couldn't cope with having a child? Sarah: I remember when you were a baby, you had really bad colic so you would just cry and cry and I didn't know what … Joshua: What's colic? Sarah: It's when you get this stomachache and all you do is scream for like four hours and … Joshua: Even louder than Amy does? Sarah: You were pretty loud, but Amy's was more high-pitched. And that was the Daily English Show. Well see you tomorrow. Bye links Watch today's show at youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0DTF9cI-FM http://thedailyenglishshow.blogspot.com/2010/07/1228-tdes-wall-opens-storycorps-qa.html (you can find here a quiz of the lesson)
