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Gabrielle: Oh hi there. Welcome to the Voice Box show.
I’m Gabrielle and this is Steve. He is going to be the
“Guest Host” for the next few weeks.

Stephen: You are probably wondering what we are
doing…in fact, what are we doing?

Gabrielle: We are expressing ourselves through head
banging. Many people head bang when they are listening
to heavy metal, or heavy rock music.

Stephen: Heavy metal music is a genre of rock music.
Many people describe it as loud and thrashing.

Gabrielle: Heavy metal started some time around the
1960’s with famous bands such as Led Zeppelin, Black
Sabbath, and Deep Purple.

Stephen: One of the main charactarisations of the
heavy metal music is the sound of loud disorted
guitars…kind of like this.

Gabrielle: The main instruments used in Heavy Metal
music are the drums, guitars, and of course the
singers.

Stephen: And what about all the “sub genres” of Heavy
Metal. I’ve heard of Thrash Metal, Rock Metal, Death
Metal….

Gabrielle: Black Metal, Power Metal….the list goes on!
Point is it is a very diverse kind of music.

Stephen: What do you mean?

Gabrielle: Well diverse actually means various or
many. So Rock music, and Heavy Metal music have a wide
range of different types of music within that genre.
These are called Sub Genres.

Stephen: And to tell us more about the Heavy Metal
scene we have a Mongolian rock expert dropping by, so
be sure to stick around for that.

Gabrielle: The question this week is… “What
instruments are used in a Heavy Metal band?

Stephen: While you have a think about that, you can
check out this week’s English Bites episode.

Stephen: You are watching the Voice Box show.

Gabrielle: And today we are talking about Heavy Metal
music. I‘ll have to say my favourite Heavy Rock music
is Metallica…those guys really go crazy!

Stephen: I like more punk rock…kind of like “The
Lemons”. And we went out to see what type of Rock
music YOU enjoy listening to..

Voxpops: What type of rock music do you most enjoy?

Letter of the week

Gabrielle: Our letter this week comes from Nuka.

Stephen: Nuka writes….”I am heavily into Mongolia’s
Heavy Metal scene and have been for the past 2 years.
My favourite bands are ?? and a?? I love to go to
Heavy Metal music concerts. Some people don’t
understand heavy metal, they think it is just very
loud music. I think it is a unique way of expressing
yourself.”

Gabrielle: Thanks for sharing that with us Nuka, and
you can send us your thoughts to voiceboxtv@gmail.com

Interview: Mongolian Rock expert In Studio

Gabrielle: Who better to ask about the Heavy Metal
rock scene in Mongolia than someone who has managed
his own rock band.

Stephen: Welcome to the show Jamukha.
When did Rock and heavy metal music first begin in
Mongolia?

And how popular is it now? What are some of the more
popular bands?

How did heavy metal first evolve globally?

Who were some of the first “pioneers” of this music?

How would you describe heavy metal music to someone
who doesn’t completely appreciate it?

Take us through some of the sub genres of rock and
heavy metal music?
What are some more recent trends?

Tell us about the band you managed?

Tell us about the instruments of a typicsl heavy metal
band?

What sets it aside from other music?

Thanks for your time Jamukha

Stephen: Talking of music…it’s time for our Street
Karaoke.

Gabrielle: And it’s a little diffcult singing along to
heavy metal so we thought we would go for a good old
classic…called “Do Wah Diddy”.

Street Karaoke: Do Wah Diddy

Gabrielle: Well thanks for being our guest host on the
show this week Steve..

Stephen: And thanks for having me on Voice Box…it’s
been interesting learning all about Mongolia’s heavy
metal rock scene.

Gabrielle: And of course learning all about how to
become the best air guitarist! (Gab counts to
three…Gab and Steve break into an air guitar duo).

Steve: To check out info from today’s episode head to
www.voiceboxtv.org

Gabrielle: And everyone here at Voice Box hopes you
all have a great Tsaagan Tsaar..I know I’ll be eating
lots of Bortz in celebrations!

Stephen: And we will see you after then with an
exciting episode that could see YOU making your own
film.

Gabrielle/ Steve: See you then/ Bye

Batuka: Hi everyone. You are probably wondering what Gabrielle and myself are doing.

Gabrielle: This is called Morse Code. Well there are 2 types of Morse code. The first one is the sound of tapping that spies like James Bond use. This one we are using is a way of communicating from far distances. I learnt how to do this when I went out to become an honorary scout.

Batuka: What exactly is a scout?

Gabrielle: They are a group of people who get together for fun activities and survival games . There are young scouts, boy scouts, girl scouts, and even adult scouts. There are scout groups all around the world.

Batuka: So what did you have to do to become an honorary scout?

Gabrielle: How about I show you!

Scene Two: with the scouts

Voice over
There are scouts of all different ages here. This man is the Scout Leader. He is in charge of all the activities.

The first job of the day is to put up all the tents…and this is my first challenge in becoming an honorary scout.

Okay it didn’t go that well. But I have plenty more opportunities to prove myself as a top scout!

The scouts teach many survival skills such as tying knots, camping and cooking.

They also love to have singalongs around the campfire.

And some of the scouts just love singing!

Many of the activities are about fire safety. The kids here are trying to light a camp fire with a magnifying glass. The sun’s rays catch the light in the glass and burns hot enough to make a fire. Although it doesn’t seem to be working now!

They also play with fire balls…which, as I found out are hot hot hot!!

Okay it was now time to prove myself with a balancing game. Surely it can’t be that hard. I just have to balance some flour on my foot while taking my shoes off!

Nearing the end of the day I had one last chance to become an honorary scout…with the activity I know best…Morse Code! You can talk to people very far away with just these arm gestures. It started off a little shaky…but I finally got the hang of it.

The Scout Leader blows the whistle to signal the end of the activities and the scouts rush over to give attention.

At the end of each activity day the new scouts are sworn in, and other scouts get prizes for being outstanding sportsmen.

I was waiting nervously to see if I had made the cut …and I had!!

I was now an honorary scout.

Letter of the week

Gabrielle: Well It’s that time now…letter of the week (insert letter of the week graphic).

Batuka: This week it is from Chinbat and he writes… “I have been with the scouts for 2 years and they have changed my life. It is so fun to be part of a group that love to do the same things as me. My favourite part of scouts is learning how to do everything on my own.”

Thanks Chinbat!

Gabrielle: Please shoot us an email about anything at all to voiceboxtv@gmail.com

Goodbyes

Gabrielle: Well thanks for being with us and learning all about the scouts club.

Batuka: You can find all the information from today’s show, including how to become a scout, on our website www.voiceboxtv.org

Gabrielle: But before we go here is our street karaoke with the scouts doing what they do best…being wild!

Batuka: Oh my god, what are you doing?

Gabrielle: Well Ive heard about how great Mongolian Gers are. So I thought I would try and build one for myself (notices the camera) Oh hi there everyone.

Batuka: Hi everyone, and welcome to the Voice Box show. As you can see Gabrielle is trying to build a Mongolian Ger. But she is not doing it right, at all!

Gabrielle: Oh I didn’t’t think I was (drops the wood). So how do you build one then?

Batuka: Well I don’t know exactly… But I do know that Mongolian Gers date back almost 3000 years!!

Gabrielle: Wow and now they are everywhere. People build them because they are easy to build and take down, they aren’t’t too costly, and because they are part of the rich Mongolian heritage.

Batuka: They are Mongolia’s traditional type of housing. There are many other types of traditional housing too.

Gabrielle: That’s right like igloos! An igloo is a snow house that is constructed with blocks of snow. They are mostly used by Eskimos of Canada, the artic and the greenlands. Even though igloos are made of snow, they can actually become quite warm with just body heat. Some Igloos can also house up to 20 people!

Batuka: Wow. You know, in Indonesia and Thailand their traditional houses are built on stilts above the ground. This is because it gets very wet and muddy. If the houses are on stilts then they can avoid getting swept away if there is flooding.

Gabrielle: Oh and what about tepees. These were built by the Native American Indians and are even older than gers. And the reindeer people still live in Tepees. A Tepee is a tent in a cone like shape that is made with animal skin. Like Ger’s they are also easy to build and take down. These days many people use tepee tents when camping.

Gabrielle: And then there are the ancient Roman buildings. These were very extravagant, with marble floors and with large pillars. The most famous example of their building style is the colosseum. This was a large ampi-theatre where the Romans would go to watch live gladiator fights.

Batuka: Speaking of BIG house, what about all the castles in England! They were built during the ‘medieval’ time where there were knights in shining armor. Some even date back to the 13th Century!

Gabrielle: In Japan the traditional type of housing for most people was called the “minka”. You can still see heaps of Minka style houses around Japan even today. They have high peeked roofs to allow rain and snow to fall right off….Now that’s a smart idea!

Batuka: So all this talk about the traditional houses of the world…and we still don’t know how to build a Mongolian Ger!?

Gabrielle: Well, actually I went out to see how it was done! Let’s take a look.

Scene Two
Voice over:
There are around 10 men working on this ger, and they are hoping to have it built in just 40 minutes! The Ger consists of the Uni- which are like poles. The Tooho which are the wooden rings. The Hana which are the walls and the haalga which is the door.
The wooden frame is covered with felt layers made from animal hair. Although we don’t know an exact number it’s believed there are around 600 thousand Gers currently built in Mongolia. Well these guys did manage to finish this Ger in 39 minutes flat! But as Gaans tells me…it will probably take me 20 hours to build my first one…so I may just leave it to the experts.

Scene Three: Letter of the week

Gabrielle: It’s time now for our “Letter of the Week”. And this week it’s from EnkBold.

Batuka: He writes…“I have lived in a Ger all my life and I wouldn’t’t want it any other way! Our Ger is over 20 years old and we have had to replace the canvas on the outside just 3 times. I live with my Grandmother, my Mother and Father and my two sisters. Mongolian Gers are so good because they only take a couple of hours to build, but they seem to last a lifetime!”

Batuka: Thanks Enk Bold. If you would like your letter read out please email us voiceboxtv@gmail.com

Gabrielle: And now it’s time now for a great English series called English Bites!

Good bye

Batuka: Well I hope you enjoyed learning more about Mongolian Gers..

Gabrielle: And other traditional housing around the world! And if you want to check out the information from today’s show then head to www.voiceboxtv.org.
Oh and I almost forgot to tell you that Batuka’s sister has just had a baby girl! He is now a proud and happy uncle!

Batuka: I am so proud, and so happy!

Gabrielle: See you next week everyone.

Batuka: See you then!

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