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TOPICS

Current Movies: Stomp the Yard and Dreamgirls , vibe, sick vs. ill. vs. cold, to

hold someone’s hand vs. to hold onto someone

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GLOSSARY

to stomp – to dance with heavy and noisy steps; to walk with loud, noisy steps

* When the music started playing, the dancers stomped across the stage one at

a time.

to clap – to hit the palms (inside) of your hands together to make a noise

* The musicians came back on stage to perform another piece when the

audience didn’t stop clapping and cheering.

dance steps – the movements with one’s feet that are part of a dance

* Trying to teach me dance steps is like trying to teach an elephant to dance!

cohesion – being a united group; members of a group being very friendly and

close together, making a strong group

* There is too much cohesion in some high school groups. Students feel a lot of

pressure to do the same things that everyone else does to be part of the group.

pride – feeling good and satisfied about one’s achievements

* The speaker at the college graduation told the students that they should feel

pride in their accomplishments.

to open – to premiere; to have the first performance of a movie or show

* When will the movie about Dr. Jeff McQuillan’s life as a singer and dancer open

at this theater?

Motown – short for Motor Town, a nickname the city of Detroit, Michigan; a type

of music popular in the 1960s

* Some of the most memorable and well-known music came out of Motown.

vibe – a general emotional feeling that is difficult to define; the atmosphere of a

place, such as a restaurant or a nightclub; one’s general feeling about a person

* I don’t know why but that I just don’t like that guy. He gives me a bad vibe.

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sick – having a physical (in the body) or mental (in the mind) illness; (a little less

formal and polite than “ill”)

* Call his parents to let them know that Dana is sick and needs to be picked up

from school and taken home to rest.

ill – having a physical (in the body) or mental (in the mind) sickness; (a little more

formal and polite than “sick”)

* The doctor asked him, “How long have you been feeling ill?”

cold – being sick because of an infection by a virus (germ) and causes one to

have a running nose and a sore throat, to sneeze, and other symptoms

* I’ve been trying to get over this cold for weeks, but I’m still coughing and I can’t

sleep at night.

to hold (someone’s) hand – to put your hand into someone else’s hand

* Do you think Becky will let me hold her hand during the concert?

to hold onto (someone) – to use your hands and arms to attach yourself firmly

and tightly to someone else’s body

* If you’re going to ride on the back of my motorcycle, make sure you hold onto

me as tightly as you can so you don’t fall off.

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WHAT INSIDERS KNOW

The Motown Sound

The Motown Sound is a “style” (type) of popular music that is associated with the

city of Detroit, Michigan, in the 1960s. It is called the Motown Sound because

many of the songs with this style came from “Motown Record Corporation”

located in Detroit, and the songs were written by this company’s “in-house”

(within the company) songwriters and “producers,” or the people who supervise

the making of music recordings. One of the most well known is the “founder”

(person who started the company), Berry Gordy, whose name is “synonymous”

(closely associated) with the Motown Sound.

What is the Motown Sound? It is a style of “soul” music that is a mixture of

rhythm and blues (called R&B – pronounced “R and B”) and “gospel” music, a

type of religious music found in some churches, most often attended by African

Americans. The “recording artists” (people who play and sing recorded music)

who first made the Motown Sound popular were African American.

Motown Records had an in-house band called “The Funk Brothers” and it had a

lot of influence on the Motown Sound. The Funk Brothers played the instruments

on the background “tracks” (recorded music) on most of the Motown “hits”

(successful popular music) from 1959 to 1972.

The most well known Motown group was “The Supremes,” an “all-female” (all

women) group with three members. The Supremes was the most successful

musical group in the 1960s. They had 12 number one hits between 1964 and

1969. Their hits include “Stop! In the Name of Love,” and “You Can’t Hurry

Love.” Today, most Americans will know at least the “tune” (music) of many of

their hits, if not the “lyrics” (words). The Motown Sound still influences popular

music today.

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COMPLETE TRANSCRIPT

You're listening to ESL Podcast's English Café, number 70.

This is English as a Second Language Podcast's English Café, episode 70. I'm

your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from the Center for Educational

Development in the beautiful City of Los Angeles, in the State of California.

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In today's Café, we're going to be talking about some popular movies in the

United States, two movies in particular. One is called “Dream Girls,” and the

other one is called “Stomp the Yard,” two very interesting movies which we'll talk

about, and both of these movies are very much about American culture, or one

part of American culture. As usual, we'll answer some of your questions as well.

Let's get started!

Every couple of months or so, I like to talk about some of the popular movies and

books in the United States. Today we're going to talk about movies, and two

movies in particular, both of which are among the most popular movies currently

showing in the United States, and both of them are related to African-American

or black American culture in some way.

The first movie is called “Stomp the Yard,” stomp, “stomp,” the yard, “yard.” The

verb to stomp means to put your feet down on the ground very quickly and

loudly. If you are trying to take a soda can and crush it so that it's flat, you would

take your foot and you would stomp on it. That's the normal use of this verb, to

stomp.

A yard, “yard,” has a couple of meanings. A yard is usually a part of a school

where kids can play, we would call that a schoolyard. You can also have a yard

in the back or front of your house - a place where there's grass and trees. A

schoolyard, however, often does not have grass and trees, at least in some of

our bigger cities.

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Now, the movie, “Stomp the yard,” is a movie about a type of dancing that was

created by African-Americans. It was started by African American college

students, who were members of fraternities and sororities.

These are like clubs or organizations that men and women in college - going to

the university - can join. Most people are not members of these groups, but

they're considered social groups and usually they have a name that uses some

of the Greek letters like kappa, delta, chi, epsilon, and so forth - the Greek

alphabet - and for that reason they are often called the Greek system. And, they

are organizations that are often very popular with some college students, and

they are, or at least have the reputation for being something of a party

organization - that they like to have lots of parties. In fact, one of the more

famous movies back in the 1970s - back when I was in high school - was called

“Animal House,” and that was about a fraternity at a college.

The stomping dance movement was begun by black college students, and it

involves, you can imagine, stomping your feet - putting your feet down very

loudly, making noise - as well as clapping. To clap, “clap,” is to do this (sound of

hands clapping). Thank you; thank you very much. That is part of the dance

routine or the dance steps. We talk about the dance steps, “steps,” we mean the

things that you do during the dance.

As I said, this stomping, which is sometimes called step dancing, was popular in

these Greek college organizations - the Greek system - of fraternities and

sororities, and is still very popular now. It is also something you can find

students doing in high schools and in junior high schools where there are a lot of

African-American students.

These stomp dance groups are, of course, an opportunity for the students have a

good time; there are also contests or competitions in this type of dance. One

person described stomping as a way of these groups to improve their cohesion

and their pride. Cohesion, “cohesion,” is being together - being very close to the

people around you. So, if someone says, “We have a very cohesive (that's the

adjective) group,” that means that we're very close - we know each other very

well - we think in the same manner.

Another thing that the stomping group does is help students with their own sense

of pride, “pride,” and pride can be a good thing; it can also be a bad thing. Here,

it's meant as a good description of people feeling happy and satisfied with their

own achievements - what they have been able to do.

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