A sort of popular demand has triggered this post. The video on Orion and its legends!
Let's remember the questions to be answered here:
1. Check the pronunciation of "Orion" before you watch the video. My question here for the comments is going to be: where did you check that pronunciation? I hope you give different answers so we pool together a number of pronunciation resources.
2. Name an adverb+adjective collocation used in the video to describe Orion.
3. What are the legends of Orion according to a) the Egyptians, b) a native American tribe, and c) aborigines in Australia?
So, I'd be delighted to see your answers in the comments. Don't worry about being wrong or right, you're closer than you think to the right answer most of the time!
Enjoy the video!
Here are my answers, although I am not really sure about them...
ReplyDelete2- really recognized constallation
3- a) Egyptians: death and rebirth
b) a native American tribe: three stars of the belt
c) aboriginals in Australia: they call Orion, Conun (or something like this...)
Hi!
ReplyDelete1) When I was a child, I remember a lot of movies that started with a voice who said "Orion pictures presents..." with a picture of the constellation in the background of the screen. That the first time I heard "ORION".
My answers are:
2) really recognized constellation.
3) Egyptians: Osiris, god of death and rebirth.
Native-Am: three footprints of "flea god??".
Abo-Austr: The canoe.
Thank you Rebeca and David! We're getting closer...
ReplyDeleteI love the anecdote of "Orion Pictures". I found this logo from their films in the 80's : http://images.wikia.com/logopedia/images/a/a1/Orion_Pictures_intro_1984.jpg
Does it ring a bell? The only thing is, I don't see the constellation!
Thank you for commenting!
Hello!
ReplyDeleteI've found this video from the golden age of VHS. It has music but the voice doesn't appear...
Probably the voice appeared at the beginning of trailers...
It's a shame
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJSHCUMrvfU
Wow, David, thank you! That was really cool, a pity we can't hear them pronounce the word!
ReplyDeleteAnyway, as you know just a quick search in the monolingual dictionary to your right will allow you to listen to the word as well.
Thanks a lot!
I totally agree with David's answers except about the adjetive, that I think that is " very recognizable constellation".
ReplyDeleteAbout the native American tribe, I would add that is said "the three starts of the belt was the three..."
Thank you both for your answers, there was some words that I couldn`t understand without your help.
Hi everyone!
ReplyDeleteFinally! The stars are on my side again to have internet connection AND time to work on this. So, Here's the transcript of this video for you to check. Please note that I have corrected the word "aboriginals" in the entry, which should be "aborigines", pronunciation here:
http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/dictionary/aborigine
Thank you to you all for commenting, and sorry for the delay! I hope to catch up soon...
Dr. Marek Kukula: Well, it’s a really clear night, so you can see loads of stars. There’s Sirius over here, the brightest star in the night sky, and then, right here, (a) really recognizable constellation, which is Orion.
Prof. Marcus du Sautoy: So have people always picked out Orion as a significant pattern in the night sky?
Dr. Marek Kukula: Well, it seems like different cultures all picked out that group of stars as being a significant one, and they all have different legends about it. So, the Egyptians associated it with Osiris, their god of death and rebirth. Other cultures also grouped them together: a Native American tribe called the three stars of the belt The Three Footprints of the Flea God, and one group of aborigines in Australia called it The Canoe.
Prof. Marcus du Sautoy: Today, we don’t need legends to explain the patterns in the stars, because we know their precise positions in space. But we don’t just know where they are now. We know where they were yesterday, and where they’ll be millions of years into the future.
Dr. Marek Kukula: So, the Sun and all of the stars in our galaxy, including the stars of Orion, are all moving in orbits around the centre of the galaxy, but a bit like a swarm of bees, although they’re all moving in roughly the same direction, they all follow their own paths, and that means that their positions in the sky will start to change as thousands of years tick by. And now we’re two and a half million years into the future and the constellation of Orion has completely gone. And in fact, thousands of years ago our ancestors would have seen different patterns in the sky, and our descendants millions of years in the future will also see different patterns.