Voice Box TV

This week on the show we meet Miss Mongolia, the lovely Undarmaa. She’s very friendly and beautiful and she even taught Dave and Bolor how to walk like beauty queens. We really enjoyed having her on the show.

I’m very sorry, but we don’t have a new lesson for you yet, because we were celebrating Australia Day yesterday (Friday the 26th of Jan). Rest assured I do have something for you; a listening lesson to accompany the pictures that show the parts of the body. Look and listen here: http://voiceboxtv.org/index.php/2007/01/18/the-body/

Expect more listening lessons soon.

We had lots of fun for Australia Day. A group of us young Australians went to School #70 to play some games, sing some songs and talk to the kids about Australia. They were great! Then we went and played cricket in Sukhbaatar Square. Cricket is a very popular sport in Australia, and lots of people play cricket on Australia Day.

Thanks to everyone who’s joined the forum!

The following is a one page comic I made, which might be useful for learning some verbs (doing words). I have labeled the actions, or verbs in each picture.

Click to enlarge

Listen to the lesson here: action_movement.mp3 

Some other useful movement or action verbs include to walk (to places), to ride (a horse or a bicycle), to drive (a car), to skate (on ice), to climb (up or over things), to swim (in a pool) and to dance (to music).

I usually walk to work. If I’m in a hurry I sometimes run, but if I’m feeling very tired or lazy, I take a taxi. How do you travel to work or school? Do you walk? Do you ride the bus?

I like to run and to swim for excercise. I like to draw and paint and listen to music for fun. Movies and television are good for entertainment. What things do you like to do?

This week our special guest is Uuganaa, from Info Radio 105.5. We visited Uuganaa at his work and interviewed him about his work and his life. We had a great time.

We hope you enjoy the show. Check out the new lesson about inventions.

While you’re at it, look at last weeks’s lesson on parts of the body.

Don’t forget to register on our all new forum and say hello.

Because our special guest this week was Uugana, the radio DJ from Info Radio 105.5, and because radio was such an important invention, we thought this week’s lesson could be about inventions.

inventions.doc (64kb)

inventions.pdf (112kb)

You may remember from our last show, that we focused on parts of the body. Now we have a lesson for you, so you can remember what was taught on the show.

Listen along while you read the labels on the drawings: bodylesson1.mp3

Here is the script for episode 2. Our interview with Nomin was not scripted, so doesn’t appear in the script, but the rest is there. We hope you like it.

voicebox-episode-2_final.doc

And now you can read the Mongolian translation, thanks to Itgel.

episode-2_finaltranslation.doc

Hi everybody. I’m very pleased to announce that we have a new forum up and running for you join. Register yourself and get involved. Talk to us about the show. Ask us questions about learning English.

The address is simply http://voiceboxtv.org/forum/

Pop in and say hello.

We also hope you enjoyed the second episode of VoiceBox. We had a lot of fun making it. Thank you to everyone who emailed us with their comments.

Episode 2 will be on this Saturday, MNTV at 6:30. We are very excited because VoiceBox has a home now!

We’re all settled in now and you can look forward many more shows and lots of new things on this website. If you check out the lessons section, you will find a new lesson about greetings.

On the show this week, we met Nomin, a former contortionist, who told us all about contortion. She was great!

Dave also demonstrated his own contortion trick which you can learn to do at home by reading the tutorial in our Fun and Games section.

Now you can try Dave’s trick at home, by downloading and following the tutorial below. All you need is a long stick or pole (a broomstick or pool cue is ideal) and some courage. Just be careful to warm up first, because it can be quite hard.

davetrick.doc

davetrick.pdf

If you have trouble understanding the instructions, here they are in Mongolian:

davetricktrans.doc

In the first episode, some greeting were dicussed. Now you can learn some more greetings, both formal and casual, to use with your friends.

We hope you have fun with them.

GreetingsLesson.doc