타고난 영어로 A Natural at, 관심을 끌다 Grab an Attention
Power Warm-up: Foraging with Grandma: Every Part Is Edible: .할머니와 나물캐기
Travis’s grandmother shows him a plant he is familiar with but didn’t know was edible. He suggests that since it grows everywhere, they could harvest as much as they want.
Kristen: So maybe some of our listeners may know that I am also subbing for the evening special on Thursday. Serena from Easy Writing is on a very long holiday with her family. So I actually do the live show with Mayu 쌤.
Cameron: Yeah. Yeah, you have Thursdays with him and Fridays with me. And so…
Kristen: So we do this 영어표 with Grandma Kristen and grandson Mayu. And I’m always thinking, as a voice actor, when we say Grandma, the voice that we turn to is like 120 years old.– But listen. I know my mom doesn’t sound like that. She’s 86. So I’m like, okay, wait a second. I’m doing something wrong. But of course, the reason why we’re talking about grandma is because we’re forging with grandma. These days, grandmas are young. They don’t look like grandmas.
Cameron: Yeah, that is true.
Kristen: They really don’t.
Cameron: Compared to my idea of what a grandmother looks like.
Kristen: Yeah.
Cameron: That people who are grandmas now.
Kristen: Oh yeah.
Cameron: Maybe it’s the fashion.
Kristen: True. And they’re taking care of themselves.
Cameron: I think it’s a couple of things. Like, I mean, maybe it is taking care of themselves, but I think that they’re, think of like, for example, in Korea, you have the 아줌마 perm, right?
Kristen: Yeah.
Cameron: I used to get a certain age and it was like, okay, it’s time for me to get the perm.
Kristen: Not anymore.
Cameron: I think nowadays.
Kristen: Not anymore. Everyone’s.
Cameron: Just gonna like, you know, trying to still continue on with the trend.
Power Expressions
Kristen: Right. Okay. So foraging with grandma, this grandma may be young grandma, so we can’t do the, okay, honey. Okay. Every part is edible. Oh, okay. I like this word, edible, E-D-I-B-L-E. And it happens to be our power, actually, it’s not our power vocab, but what does this mean, edible?
Cameron: It means able to be eaten. Eat-able.
Kristen: Edible edible, but it’s not eatable but edible right. Okay how about this expression grab someone’s attention.
Cameron: This means that they were looking at something else and you pull their focus towards you.
Kristen: Okay. And eat one’s fill. F-I-L-L.
Cameron: This means eat until you’re full.
Kristen: Oh, okay. And if you are a natural at something?
Cameron: You have talent at something without even trying. .
Kristen: You’re born with it.
Cameron: Born with a talent.
Kristen: Okay, let’s go ahead and listen to our dialogue.
Power Dialog
Grandma: Can you guess what the edible plant is just by looking around?
Travis: The only things that are grabbing my attention are all these dandelions.
Grandma: That’s right. Every part of the dandelion is edible. The flower, the leaves, and the stem.
Travis: I didn’t know that. And since they grow everywhere, we can eat our fill. A lot of other plants aren’t as common, so we should only take a little bit.
Grandma: That’s right, Travis. You’re a natural at conserving nature.
Travis: I learned from the best. You and my parents.
Kristen: Let’s take a look. Grandma says, can you guess what the edible plant is just by looking around? So now when you’re in the forest or in the mountain, not all plants are edible. Some plants are poisonous, make you very sick. You can die. Okay. She’s saying, okay, just by looking at it, would you know if this is okay or not okay? And what does Travis say?
Cameron: The only things that are grabbing my attention are all these dandelions.
Kristen: Okay. Our power pattern today is the only things that. Okay. So what is, how is this used and what does this mean?
Cameron: The only things that… So grandma has opened up a lot of possibilities. Look around you. What do you see that you can eat?
Cameron: And Travis is like pulling every, looking at everything and saying, I don’t know. It’s too much stuff. So I’m going to take one example. The only thing’s that. So out of all the possibilities, Travis has decided to focus on one thing.
Kristen: Yeah. Now, here it’s things, but you can also say the only thing that. So, you could say it’s an emphasis. The only thing that I care about.
Cameron: Yeah, I’m gonna forget everything else.
Kristen: That’s it. That’s right. It’s used to emphasize that one thing is going to be very important. And in this case, the only things that are grabbing his attention are all the dandelions. If something grabs your attention,
Cameron: It’s making you focus on something. So, Travis is looking around the forest and he keeps seeing the dandelions. Maybe because of the color or the number. There’s just so many that you cannot not look at them. They are grabbing his attention.
Kristen: So the word grab is a good one because when you grab something with your hand, are you just kind of taking it? What is the action of grabbing?
Cameron: Yeah, it’s kind of forceful.
Kristen: Yeah.
Cameron: Mine!
Kristen: I’m gonna take it. That’s it.
Cameron: So you’re grabbing it, but then you’re putting your arms around, you’re putting your fingers around something, and then you’re turning it towards you.
Kristen: Yes, that’s right. Right? Yeah. If you like grab the last sale item, it’s not just like, oh, let me see. Like you just snatch it. You just, mine. It’s mine. So, grabbing your attention is that act of like something is really just saying, “Come here and look at this.” Dandelions, of course, is 민들레, and grandma says, that’s right. Every part of the dandelion is edible. The flower, the leaves, and the stem. Dandelions.
Cameron: Yeah.
Kristen: You can actually make kimchi with that.
Cameron: Like dandelions? I know you can make wine with it. Yeah? Dandelion wine.
Kristen: I’m pretty sure you can make 민들레 김치 Yeah. It’s a little bitter, but it is really good!
Cameron: It’s probably really good for you.
Kristen: It is, actually.
Cameron: Dandelions have a lot of good nutrients.
Kristen: They sure do. They’re big on detoxification. So dandelion tea is really good for you. Travis says, I didn’t know that. And since they grow everywhere, we can eat our fill. Okay, we can eat our fill. It’s a kind of strange expression. Please explain.
Cameron: Eat your fill means eat as much as you want, especially eat until you are full.
Kristen: Yes.
Cameron: Eat your fill. Eat until you do not want to eat anymore.
Kristen: That’s right. Okay. A lot of other plants aren’t as common, so we should only take a little bit. So because dandelions, there’s so many, it’s okay, you can have as much as you want. You can eat your fill.
Cameron: Right, yeah. There are, I have heard people that do foraging often, they say that you don’t take the entire plant for most things. So, because for a few reasons, A: you want to leave some for other people, B: sometimes it’s things like you need to leave some so the plant doesn’t die or that there are enough seeds so that next year the plant can come back. But dandelions are so common. Even if you took all of them.
Kristen: It’s okay.
Cameron: You’d probably find them again the next time.
Kristen: Everywhere, yeah. Okay, what does grandma say?
Cameron: That’s right, Travis. You’re a natural at conserving nature.
Kristen: Okay, if Travis is a natural at conserving nature, what is he?
Cameron: So he is naturally, he is born to save nature, essentially. So let’s start with conserve, which is our power vocab. So conserve means to not use a lot, try to save. But specifically in the context of nature, you’re talking about protecting nature, keeping nature as it is. Right?
Cameron: He’s a natural at it. It means he doesn’t have to learn he doesn’t have to practice he’s just he’s born that way.
Kristen: I learned from the best, you and my parents. Of course, conserving, we all need to conserve energy. So what we find in the wild is wonderful, but we don’t want to take at all…
Kristen: Right. We want to leave some behind.
Cameron: Yeah, use only what you– take only what you need.
Kristen: Yes. Yeah. Okay. So conservation is a very important thing. Let’s go ahead and listen to that one more time.
Power Dialog
Grandma: Can you guess what the edible plant is just by looking around?
Travis: The only things that are grabbing my attention are all these dandelions.
Grandma: That’s right. Every part of the dandelion is edible. The flower, the leaves, and the stem.
Travis: I didn’t know that. And since they grow everywhere, we can eat our fill. A lot of other plants aren’t as common, so we should only take a little bit.
Grandma: That’s right, Travis. You’re a natural at conserving nature.
Travis: I learned from the best. You and my parents.
Power Note
1. Grab someone’s attention: 의 관심을 끌다. 주의를 끌다.
Kristen: It’s time for our power note. We’re on pages 82 and 83. Grab someone’s attention means to get someone’s attention. But in a way that’s undeniable, like it’s kind of forceful.
Cameron: Yes.
Kristen: It’s not just like, Oh, look at this. It’s like, Look at this.
Cameron: Yeah, the visual would be like someone grabbing your chin and turning your head.
Kristen: That’s right. Hey, look at this. Yeah.
1)
A: I think that man is trying to grab your attention.
B: No, I’m pretty sure he’s waving at you.
Kristen: Right. So if someone’s like, hey, in front of you, obviously they’re trying to grab your attention.
2) A handsome man grabbed my attention as soon as he walked into the cafe, as I walked into the cafe.
So if someone grabs your attention because they’re so handsome or so tall or so beautiful,
Cameron: Right.
Kristen: It’s like your focus immediately went there.
Cameron: You’re just looking at them. You know, that’s true. Like whenever there’s someone you find attractive. In like a restaurant. Right. And like you’re with a friend.
Kristen: Yeah.
Cameron: So you’re talking to your friend,
Kristen: I keep looking.
Cameron: Looking over at the other place or like your your your thoughts your mind is just like over there. But you’re pretending to be cool. Uh-huh. And, like, you don’t know.
Kristen: Right. It’s so true.
Cameron: But they grab your attention.
Kristen: What else could grab your attention?
Cameron: Well, I mean, nowadays on things like social media, everyone’s trying to grab your attention. That’s true. We talk about the attention economy, right? So an advertisement or a post, they’re all looking for ways to make you look at that piece of content, read the commentary under, you know, like and subscribe. You know, even us, we try and grab people’s attention.
Kristen: We sure do.
Cameron: Interesting thing.
Kristen: Yeah, we try. Right. That’s what I think a lot of people are trying to do these days. Attention, getting people’s attention is business.
Cameron: Oh yeah.
Kristen: Big business.
Cameron: Well, they say, I don’t know what the number is, but they say that like every person’s attention has a monetary value. Wow. Like companies pay a certain amount.
Kristen: To get your attention.
Cameron: To get your attention. Yes,
2. Eat one’s fill: 마음껏 먹다. 실컷 먹다 (somewhat old expression)
Kristen: Okay, to eat one’s fill. And I feel this expression can seem a little old, to eat your fill. It’s not something that we would typically say, but at the appropriate time, it could be very useful. So, eat your fill just means eat as much as you want 마음껏 드세요~!.
1)
A: May I have another hamburger?
B: Eat your fill. We’ve got more than enough food.
Kristen: Yeah, eat your fill.
2) The bear stopped and ate their fill of blueberries.
Cameron: Yeah. So, both of these, again, they’re grammatically not wrong. They do feel old. I mean, this phrase, I feel like I only heard like from the Bible. There’s a phrase that’s like, yeah, eat your fill and never thirst again. There’s a phrase in there.
Kristen: Okay.
Cameron: Uh, that’s about the only time I’ve heard that naturally.
Kristen: Well, I think that, to be honest, for the younger folks, it’s not something that they would typically say. But I would think that the older generation, when they’re trying to feed you, it’s like, eat your fill. You can hear this expression.
Cameron: Yeah.
Kristen: So I think if you’re young and you’re around young people, they’ll be like, huh, I don’t say that. But you will definitely hear older people say it.
Cameron: Yeah, I agree.
Kristen: Yeah.
Cameron: Oh, did you eat your fill? Are you finished?
3. Be a natural at –: 을 타고났다. 소질이 있다. – have a knack for –
Kristen: If you are a natural at something, you have a talent at something where you are just born with it. Okay.
1)
A: I can’t believe you’ve only been playing piano for three years.
B: My piano teacher says that I’m a natural, but I also practice four hours a day.
Kristen: Sure, right. So you’re a natural with music means that you are just naturally good at music.
2) The young dancer was a natural at ballet.
Cameron: Some people, you know, they do just not, it’s not that they don’t have to practice, but certain things just come easier. So, for example, if we go back to the music example, I played the oboe for seven years.
Kristen: That’s a long time, Cameron.
Cameron: From middle school all the way through high school and a little bit of college. Um I was not a natural at the oboe. I struggled every like I worked hard because I didn’t want to be bad. But it just didn’t come naturally. My senior year of high school, we needed a bassoon player.
Kristen: A bassoon. Oh, bassoons. A bassoon, yeah. The bigger one.
Cameron: The bigger one. Pick that up. I should have been playing that the whole time.
Kristen: You’re kidding. You got the wrong instrument.
Cameron: Yeah, I picked the wrong… At the age of, I don’t know, 12, I picked the oboe.
Kristen: Oh dear.
Cameron: At the age of 18, I get the bassoon thrown into my hands. Oh, this is, it was a different world. I was a natural at the bassoon, considering, I only played for a year, but considering that one year, pretty good. I was just like, gosh, it’s so important to find something you’re naturally good at.
Kristen: Well, I mean, for a tall and big guy like you, the bassoon also physically was a natural fit.
Cameron: Yeah, the hand. Most people, the bassoon, the hand position is hardest part. And I was like oh thank God! It’s so easy! These big hands and buttons!
Kristen: You see? There you go. Now you see, so you don’t know if you’re natural unless it’s the right fit.
Cameron: What about you? Was there anything you would consider yourself a natural at?
Kristen: I guess like singing. Yeah, I mean I never took lessons. So, I feel like in that sense it was a bit of, you know, I’m a natural at it. But I can’t say that I’m like the best or like that good, but I can hit a decent note. It comes easy to you. It comes easy to me, right, exactly.
4. The only thing that –: –하는 유일한 것은
Okay, our power pattern is the only thing that… Yes. This is used to emphasize that one thing is important.
1) The only thing that’s different about this phone is the camera.
2) The only thing that’s bothering me is the noise from upstairs.
Kristen: Now, in this case, the text says the only things. Now, we should probably take out the S because it’s really just the noise.
Cameron: The only thing.
5. conserve: 보전하다. 보존하다.
Kristen: Okay um conserve on page 84 that’s our power vocab so very important word to know conserve water conservation all of those things it has uh in really in relation to our environment.
When one conserves something, they limit the consumption of it in order to make it last or live longer. Conserving natural resources is very important for the future of humans.