原版英语口语情景对话第0335集：讲述愿望.doc

1、Todd一直有一个愿望，希望能唱好歌，可惜天不遂人愿，他没生一副好嗓子。Todd: OK, Im going to talk about my one wish. I think everybody has one or two things they wish they could change about themselves and for me I really wish I could sing. Unfortunately I have a terrible voice. I cannot sing at all, and in Japan, this is very embarr

2、assing because Japanese people love to go to karaoke, and karaoke is when you go with a bunch of friends to a place, a karaoke bar, I guess, or center, and you get a small room and inside the room there are TVs and songs are on the TVs. You can choose what songs to watch and then one person sings th

3、e song and everyone listens and its very popular in Japan and its a lot of fun but its really embarrassing because I cant sing and everybody always says, No, no, no, you sing. Oh, no, its OK. Its OK. Dont worry. Dont be embarrassed, but after I sing, my singing is so bad that everybody doesnt want m

4、e to sing anymore, so its also really hard for me because I teach children and I love teaching children and when you teach children you need to teach songs, and so I sing many, many songs with my students, for example, Itsy-Bitsy Spider or Row-Row-Row your boat! or many many songs, but I cant sing a

5、nd so luckily the kids really dont care so usually its alright that my voice is really bad but sometimes they tell me, they say, Sensei, Sensei! in Japanese, Youre singing is terrible! so its really embarrassing but I have to do it. Songs are very important for children when theyre little. I think t

6、he reason I cannot sing is because unfortunately in my country we dont sing as children and I really would like this to change. It really bothers me. Ive noticed in Thailand, in Japan, in other countries that I have taught, children sing in elementary school a lot and in the United States you dont d

7、o this and I thinks its terrible because you need to sing when youre little to train your voice so it can learn tones and so it can learn how to sing properly and because I never learned to sing when I was little its almost impossible to learn how to sing when youre older, so yeah, I really wish I could sing but I just dont think that its ever going to be a reality.