时间:2018-12-31 作者:英语课 分类:新西兰英语


英语课

   First listen to November 12th 2012 and January 17th 2010 to hear about NCEA.


  More than 163,000 students received their NCEA results today. The results were available online and each student had their own password to see their own results.
  There are three levels of NCEA: level 1 (16 year olds), level 2 (17 year olds) and level 3 (18 year olds). At each level, there are three grades: achieved, merit 1, excellence 2.
  Under NCEA, there are standards for each subject. For example, English Level 1, students have to read and understand texts at that level. If they answer most questions well, they achieve the standard. If they write good answers, they receive a grade of merit and if they write very good answers, they receive excellence.
  It is quite hard for students and parents to understand how NCEA works 3 at first. In most subjects, answers are not multi-choice; they are written answers. The final result is not a percentage mark for correct answers.
  Many years ago, we had a different system of exam results. Students received a percentage mark and only 50% passed. The other 50% failed. People thought this was not fair. We didn’t want a system where so many students failed. We wanted students to show what they knew and what they could do.
  Grammar
  ?‘Each student had their own password’ – usually ‘each’ requires a singular 4 pronoun 5 but it’s too awkward 6 to use ‘his or her’ (this used to be acceptable 7 English) so we now use ‘their’.
  ?‘16 year olds’ not ‘16 years old’. Level 1 is for 16 year olds (n); most of these students are 16 years old (adj). This is a very difficult construction and is probably best learnt as an idiom.
  Vocabulary
  ?text – a piece of writing eg. a poem, story, essay
  ?multi-choice – students choose from 3 or 4 answers
  ?system – a way of doing things based on ideas or principles
  Questions
  ?What kind of assessment 8 system do you have in your country?
  ?What are the advantages and disadvantages of multi-choice answers?
  ?What are the advantages and disadvantages of written answers?

n.优点,价值,功绩,成绩;vt.值得
  • There is great merit in dealing fairly with your employees.公正地对待你的雇员有极大好处。
  • History affords us lessons that merit attention.历史给我们提供了值得注意的借鉴。
n.优秀,杰出,(pl.)优点,美德
  • His art has reached a high degree of excellence.他的艺术已达到炉火纯青的地步。
  • My performance is far below excellence.我的表演离优秀还差得远呢。
n.作品,著作;工厂,活动部件,机件
  • We expect writers to produce more and better works.我们期望作家们写出更多更好的作品。
  • The novel is regarded as one of the classic works.这篇小说被公认为是最优秀的作品之一。
adj.个人的,单数的,独一的,唯一的,非凡的;n.单数
  • The young man has a singular ear for music.这个年轻人对音乐有非凡的欣赏力。
  • The noun is in the singular.这个名词是单数形式。
n.代词
  • The relative pronoun is often dropped if it is the subject.关系代名词做受词时常被省略。
  • Here you should use plural pronoun.这里你应该用复数代词。
adj.笨拙的,尴尬的,使用不便的,难处理的
  • John is so shy and awkward that everyone notices him.约翰如此害羞狼狈,以至于大家都注意到了他。
  • I was the only man among the guests and felt rather awkward.作为客人中的唯一男性,我有些窘迫。
adj.可接受的,合意的,受欢迎的
  • The terms of the contract are acceptable to us.我们认为这个合同的条件可以接受。
  • Air pollution in the city had reached four times the acceptable levels.这座城市的空气污染程度曾高达可接受标准的四倍。
n.评价;评估;对财产的估价,被估定的金额
  • This is a very perceptive assessment of the situation.这是一个对该情况的极富洞察力的评价。
  • What is your assessment of the situation?你对时局的看法如何?
学英语单词
2-methylcortisol
aceraius grandis
Aconitum refracticarpum
allantois chorioidea
aquachloral
arsecheek
avant-gardists
back-channeled
be better of
bean tree
Biankouma
body-thrusts
buarques
bwe
C-Prolog
cable distribution point
Chattertonian
claisen para-rearrangement
coati-mundi
colour screw
Crookes' lens
cumulative error
cylinder cover bolt
date of clearance
dibutyryl
Diphyllobothrium erinacei
diplosomites
dome cap
drip gasoline
drywell ambient temperature
error locating
Euro share market
exhibition space
famale worker
fineberg
flunk
foam in hibitors
foreign exchange option
furnace transformer
gross out
half-bottles
heavy lorry
heterodyne repeater
household word
immanacled
income tax authority
intermodal freight terminal
johann maier ecks
josher
khanaqin
Kundsen-langmuir equation
Kutta-Joukowski airfoil
line broadening
linearly equivalence
lorente
lump salt
mating plug
melomelus
Middeldorpf's triangle
near-optimality
neurogenin
non-parametric cointegration
non-provisional
normal atmosphere
nucleus of the solitary tract
nurserygirl
Odawara
orbitosphenoids
Oto-Manguean
owner-like
phase contour
pig pile
plocamium telfairiae
Plutonian
positive vector
pressure-feed oiling
pullulatings
rabbet line
residual noise
reverse intergenerational influence
rodder
sael
sales record
sayan
scrambly
Silicon Wadi
single-action pressing
spongy brake pedal
structural basis
submolecule
sunk-in
Talodex
test harnesses
thunder thighs
torcious
transition state,transition complex
trimmed in bunker
unaccused
unbenzoled petrol
white mahogany
whitenest
zoocoenology