2019-11-29
6 分钟Hi there.
This is Harry.
And welcome back to our english podcast, where we try to help you to improve your spoken and conversational English and also the grammatical points around that.
So here's the third podcast for this particular week, and it's a sentence with some expressions.
First reading.
In an attempt to attract backpackers, the airline began a major advertising campaign in american newspapers.
Okay, so let's try it with a second reading.
In an attempt to attract backpackers, the airline began a major advertising campaign in american newspapers.
So a fairly standard sentence, except that we started with a slightly different wording to try and get people's attention.
So trying to put a little bit of emphasis in an attempt to attract.
Okay, so it's just trying to, as we use in some podcasts in the last few weeks, we've using this emphatic language.
So here we have.
In an attempt to attract.
Okay, so we have the infinitive to attract, okay, and an attempt to attract, in an attempt to attract backpackers, people who go on holidays, not necessarily booking hotels, but perhaps going to B and B's or Airbnb as it is now, or indeed, they might even be camping or clamping, whatever the new expression is, for people who are looking for low cost holidays.
But of course they have to fly somewhere so the airlines can benefit from it.
So in this case, the airline was trying to get backpackers to travel to America.
So in an attempt to attract backpackers, the airline began a major advertising campaign.
They began a major advertising campaign.
So it wasn't small, it was quite significant, it was continuous, perhaps, or big picture pages.
So a major, major being large, a major or long or costly advertising campaign in american newspapers.