The English program of the United States (hereinafter referred to as VOA), can be divided into two types: Standard English and Special English (Special English), and Special ENGLISH.
Special English is also called "Slow English", which is a simple, standardized English broadcast show for the audience of the world's non-English national beginners. The program founded in the end of the 1950s, and the VOA experts study how to communicate with English learners around the world. It was officially launched in October 1959. At that time, only for the European and Middle East, but because this program is suitable for many national English learners, its broadcast object has expanded to other parts of the world, and has produced extensive impacts around the world. Now this program broadcasts every night in Europe, Africa and Latin America, broadcasting a night in the Caribbean (except on Sunday), the number of people broadcasts in Southeast Asia, twice a day, three times in the evening.
For more than 30 years, VOA has conducted a large number of investigative research work in order to do a good SPECIAL ENGLISH program, which has made specific provisions on the scope of broadcast speed, content and terms. It is basically able to provide information that can provide information for English learners. Damage to the style of English itself, making it unique in VOA and has the largest audience.
US famous vocabulary S. B. Flexmer indicates three standards of Special English, which is where it is "special":
It is an American English that is composed of 1,500 basic words for Americans; it uses short, clear sentences and broadcasts; it takes 90 words per minute, 2/3 STANDARD ENGLISH ( Standard English) Speed broadcast.
Spectial English's program can be divided into two categories: one is a news program; a class is a topic program.
1. News program
VOA SPECIAL ENGLISH News Broadcasting provides information on politics, economy, military, diplomatic, international relations, religion, weather, military, diplomatic, international relations, religion, weather, and a variety of major events, etc., broadcasting five times a day. Two in the morning, three times in the evening, broadcast every half.
SPECIAL ENGLISH News Program is about ten minutes, mostly broadcasts about ten news, nearly 1,000 words, each news is more than one minute, but occasionally two minutes. In addition to headlines, each news is guided by a head, so that the structure is clear, clear, suitable for beginner English listening. Prior to the end of the show, the announcer often replayed three news from three or four sentences to deepen the audience's impression of the audience.
70% of the SPECIAL ENGLISH news is the same as the STANDARD ENGLISH news broadcast, but the order of the same news has changed. The beginning and end of each program is similar, and the format is fixed.
2. Topic program (1)
Special English, Feature Program, from time to time, can be divided into two categories: First, every five minutes, the second is the topic every fifteen minutes. This section describes the topic program for each five minutes.
SPECIAL ENGLISH One-minute special material program arranged after the Special English news program and (or) a special material program every 15 minutes before broadcasting seven times a week. According to the content, it can be divided into three small classes, namely, Science Report, Monday, Third, Five Available, broadcast six times a day; Agriculture Report (Agriculture Report), on Tuesday, Four Broadcasting, every day Six times; Words and their stories (Words Hands), broadcast on Saturdays and Sundays, broadcast each day. These three thematic materials have their own characteristics, with relatively independence, and the audience will get a complete impression every time you listen to a program. SCIENCE REPORT This feature program introduces three reports on the latest development of modern science and technology, involving physics, chemistry, astronomical, education, medicine and computers, etc. . Suitable science and engineering students and scientific and technological workers collect information, accumulate information, learn technology English.
Agriculture Report Agriculture Report is a topic for agricultural science and technology workers and producers. It specializes in the world, especially the latest development of modern agricultural production in the United States, and the research progress in the production of agricultural production, and their current analysis and research on a natural phenomenon affecting agricultural production. In addition, it often introduces some of the beneficial experience of developing countries in developing countries.
Words and their stories (Words Hand) This topic show this topic show to learn English-speaking listeners to explain their meaning in American English, and explain their integration from scientific research and popularity of generology. The background and its evolution in the process of use, etc. It explains every word by telling the form. This is one of the excellent programs in VOA SPECIAL ENGLISH, which is an excellent material to learn American English. By listening to this program, listeners can not only learn to listen to depends and authentic US English, but also increase the American social and cultural background knowledge, historical tradition and status quo.
In order to better run this show, VOA is easy to listen to the study. In 1978, I edited a book named Words and Their Stories, collecting one hundred stories, the author is Herbert Sutcliffe, Harold Bermen and VOA this program Part of the editor. In each actual broadcast, the announcer has a blueprint in this book, and then properly increases the original as needed. Calculate the two stories per week, one hundred stories of this book cannot meet the a year of broadcast needs. So the editors are to replay some of the words, they are constantly increasing many new words, and the latest research results of the phraseology and the increasing new word will be introduced to the audience. Listening to practice proves that beginners will inevitably encounter many people names, place names and some difficult sentences during listening, and sometimes even after listening, it is difficult to understand the exact meaning of the words and their Chinese meaning, for this, listener It can be found in the relevant part of the book published by the Chinese Foreign Translation Publishing Company in 1983.
3. Topic program (2)
VOA SPECIAL ENGLISH's topic, except for five minutes, there is also a programs every fifteen minutes to introduce this section. This type of program has seven different small topics, cycles in the week, a topic, but four times a day, but only three times per night, every night, about ten minutes each time, Follow the average of five minutes. The basic structure of such topic programs is to report the name of the sub-program in a particular alone and briefly introduce its main content, and then broadcast the text. Finally, report the program host and the name of the writer in the accompanying voice to invite the audience to continue to listen to the show next week.
People in America (American) This is a special program for American historical celebrities, broadcast every Sunday night. It introduces the audience to have a significant impact in the history of the United States and has played an important role, making a highly contributing science, literature, politics, or other historical figures. The program generally makes a brief narrative about their life, and has been awarded their contribution. Some important people have a lot of deeds, and they must be broadcast twice or several programs. It is necessary to adhere to such a program to get a complete impression.
THIS America This Is American introduces the lives, learning, work and entertainment of the American people to the audience, is a channel for English learners to solve the American society. The topic is a whole show, broadcast every Monday night.
SCIENCE IN THE NEWS This topic is mainly summarized or summarized for new scientific and technical news. To the audience, the world's countries are in natural, medical, disease, nuclear energy, space, and difficulties in the development of scientific research, achievements, breakthroughs and difficulties. It is involved in major problems in today's people, such as nuclear accidents, aerospace explosions, natural disasters, environmental pollution and AIDS. Every Tuesday broadcast, every time you broadcast a summary of the news.
Explorations (Natural Exploration) Every Wednesday night, the audience can listen to the topic program of Explorations. This topic involves both human hidden space, exploring atom, research itself, renovation of modern technology, also reported to develop new resources in developing countries, using new processes to improve people's lives, focus on various technological experiments and simple Practical technology. The program generally schedules a series of time, broadcasting a topic, so that the whole process of a new technology research and application is introduced to the audience, and the radio is willing to provide the desired word material for interested listeners.
The Making of A Nation This topic introduced the audience to the audience from the 13th colonial area to the modern industrial country, the birth, birth, and the historical process of forming a superpotechnical process, and with historical clues, the specific historical period is Unit, with significant historical events to describe the historical role and contributions of various parties, presidents and governments. This is the basic knowledge that each English learner should understand. The Making of a nation is broadcast on Thursday. This is a series of programs, insist on listening, helps the system to understand the historical profile of the United States.
American Mosaic (American Kaleidoscope) American Mosaic is a Radio Magazine program. The program has a wide range of content, and the content of the content is demonstrated. It has three to five small programs each time, involving music, books, technology and education, etc. We can appreciate the excellent songs of famous singing. We can find some vivid and interesting modern American social life knowledge. As the announcer's kindly, the sound is going into the American landscape picturesque river mountain. At the same time, I can also hear the problems and radio answers from the listeners from all over the world. AMERICAN Stories (American Story) This feature program is arranged in a weekly night. This will make the audience in learning and working, and it is easy to mind. We can pass this American literature "window", contact all kinds of geography, various famous literary works. Understand the characteristics of American English, appreciation, learn the skills of the American people's functions, and get art from those famous articles. The show takes a broadcast of a broadcast of a short story. In the middle, long novels, first abbreviate processing, and broadcast a total of several times. Before broadcasting the text, the announcer often introduces the main plot of the story. For the long articles that need to be broadcast several times, before the second or after each part, the host will first retrieve the story of the broadcast part, to evoke the recall of the audience, so that the story is even more coherent.
