教你怎么听3 Lesson20

Unit Twenty
[00:03.66]children
[00:05.80]1.A.You are going to listen to Bruee talking to two chirdren,Simon and Louisa.
[00:13.35]Below are some fo the topics they discuss.
[00:16.98]Number the order in which are they talking about.
[00:20.90]Bruce: Right now, Simon, how much pocket money do you get?
[00:27.04]Simon: ￡4.
[00:29.86]Bruce: What do you spend it on?
[00:32.57]Simon: Computer games. Things like pencils, pens, sweets.
[00:37.54]I buy cars and things like those, and footballs.
[00:41.59]Bruce: And how much money do you get, Louisa?
[00:44.93]Louisa: I get ￡1 a week.
[00:47.15]Bruce: Ah not so much. Louisa: No.
[00:50.39]Bruce: And what do you.spend it on?
[00:53.11]Louisa: Tapes and other things, records, and anything musical, really.
[00:57.23]Bruce: So you spend a lot of time listening to music?
[01:00.79]Louisa: Yes.Bruce: So what do you do in your spare time?
[01:04.52]louisa: Well, I clean out my guinea pig and play with her,
[01:07.76]and I play with the dogs and I swim and I play tennis
[01:11.71]and I play football with my younger brother.
[01:14.76]Bruce: What about you, Simon. What do you do after school?
[01:19.10]Simon: Well in the weekends I go to football training, I do the odd sport,
[01:25.34]I play on my computer, I watch the odd occasional television programme,
[01:29.97]I listen to the odd music ... odd piece of music,things like that.
[01:34.98]Bruce: How much television do you watch?
[01:38.43]Simon: Quite a lot,I'm a kind of tele-addict.
[01:42.77]Bruce: Do your parents allow you to stay up when you want?
[01:47.10]Simon: No. I have to go to bed very very early when it's on weekdays
[01:52.25]and when, on the weekends I'm allowed to go to bed quite late,
[01:56.48]about--the latest I'd be allowed to go up is about ten o'clock.
[02:01.63]Bruce: And during the week what time do you go to bed?
[02:06.35]Simon: About 8.
[02:08.99]Bruce: Are your parents strict in any other ways?
[02:12.94]Simon: Yes. (In what ways?) They make me eat all the food,and the stuff which I don't like.
[02:19.57]I don't like any vegetables, and I have to eat them, and other things,
[02:24.43]like I'm not allowed to play football in the back garden,
[02:27.98]cos I broke a window once,
[02:30.52]and I'm not allowed to leave my toys in the lounge and kitchen,
[02:34.46]only in my bedroom, and the playroom.
[02:38.30]Bruce: What about you, Louisa- do you have strict parents?
[02:42.14]Louisa: Well, I was sort of bom to like brown bread and brown rice.
[02:46.09]I mean, Mummy's always getting us all these good things
[02:50.03]and she hates sort of white bread and she's quite strict about that.
[02:54.37]She's strict about us going to bed --
[02:57.53]we go to bed at 8 o'clock and then we have our light out at haft past 8.
[03:02.39]Bruce: OK, Simon, have you ever been on holiday abroad?
[03:06.62]Simon: Yes. Austria,
[03:09.54]and er other places. We go to Austria every year, urn,
[03:13.67]since I was about ..
[03:16.00]since I was about two actually they've taken me to Austriabecause my mum's Austrian
[03:21.35]and she's got all of her family over in Austria.
[03:24.59]Bruce: Louisa, have you ever been abroad?
[03:28.64]Louisa: I normally go once a year, but to nowhere special,
[03:32.48]normally we go on skiing holidays with friends but we've been to Portugal,
[03:37.34]France and Italy and other places.
[03:40.58]I like going abroad because you find different places
[03:44.71]and you see how other people sort of live.
[03:48.26]2.Listen and answer the following questions.
[03:54.19]Students are expected to attend all classes in which they are enrolled 1.
[04:00.51]If a student is absent from school orarrives late,
[04:04.74]parents are usually required to send a written note to the school
[04:08.87]explaining the student's absence or lateness.
[04:12.50]In addition to work in class,
[04:15.74]students are expected to complete all assigned homework on time.
[04:20.70]Students who are late to class without a written excuse,
[04:25.14]or who are late in completing assignments are usually disciplined or punished.
[04:30.50]The discipline or punishment may vary.
[04:34.34]It could consist of additional work,
[04:37.79]of having to remain after school when the other students have left,
[04:41.91]of being denied permission to participate in certain activities,
[04:47.06]or of being scolded by the principal or other school official.
[04:52.08]Physical punishment is not permitted in most public schools in the US.
[04:57.33]Some private schools, however, may still use it.
[05:01.45]Students are expected to work, learn and take tests independently.
[05:07.70]Sharing answers or looking at another student's paper is considered dishonesty and eheating,
[05:14.85]unless the student is following the directions of the teacher in doing so.
[05:19.82]Students are expected to do their own original work.
[05:24.55]It is considered dishonest to copy froma book
[05:28.78]when writing a paper or assignment unless you give a proper reference.
[05:33.79]Dishonesty and cheating are usually punished quite severely 2.
[05:39.44]3.Listen and fill in the blanks.
[05:48.68]The Role of Parents
[05:52.52]Americans believe that parents should play an active role in the formal education of their children.
[05:58.95]Parents are occasionally invited to observe their children in school
[06:04.70]and to discuss their children's progress with the teacher.
[06:08.93]Some schools schedule regular parent teacher conferences several times a year to do this.
[06:16.48]A teacher sometimes calls parents to discuss how their child is doing.
[06:22.22]Parents may want to take an interpreter with them.
[06:27.08]These are good opportunities for you to meet your child's teachers
[06:32.72]and to learn something about the school system in the US.
[06:36.67]Schools usually send report cards home
[06:42.31]which tell parents how their children are doing in school.
[06:45.94]Parents may be asked to sign these.
[06:50.07]In addition, parents will be asked to sign a form giving their permission for their children
[06:56.00]to go on special trips
[06:58.93](field trips) sponsored by the school.
[07:02.16]Most schools also have a Parent-Teacher Association
[07:07.52](P.T.A)
[07:09.66]At regular scheduled meetings,
[07:13.21]parents and teachers may discuss school programmes and policies,
[07:17.34]ways of improving education at the school, and a variety of other topics.
[07:22.49]4.A.Listen an discuss what is the main aim of the school.
[07:29.70]Then tick the box
[07:32.34]Remembering My Schooldays
[07:35.97]I was born of a working-class father and er the aspirations 3 of many selfmade men
[07:43.52]is to send their children to private boarding schools,
[07:46.96]to give them the best education money can buy,
[07:50.52]and one of the best schools in the country is Harrow.
[07:54.36]Harrow is one of those institutions when I was there
[08:00.21]which at that time er were really geared to train an elite 4 ruling class,
[08:06.06]so that everything was geared to that,
[08:09.22]and so team spirit and team games were the thing
[08:12.96]and games were really more important than the acquisition of knowledge.
[08:17.08]If you were good at er games
[08:21.21]you were considered to be er one of the heroes of the school
[08:24.45]nd if you were good at work
[08:27.09]then the chances are you would be derided 5 and laughed at as a swot
[08:31.61]or somebody who worked hard and studied hard,
[08:35.06]and that was not the attribute of a gentleman.
[08:38.22]So there were some games, like tennis, golf,
[08:42.55]were frowned on and er you were not encouraged to pursue those games
[08:48.20]and Harrow football and so forth 6 because it was required a tea effort,
[08:53.55]you were one of a team you were not an individual,
[08:58.07]and it seemed to me that the public school system actually ground out the individual.
[09:03.43]You fitted into a mould, you learnt to accept certain standards.
[09:08.15]You never er showed pain, for example, you didn't er whinge about pain or discomfort
[09:14.19]and schools in my day were not comfortable places.
[09:18.13]I think tying in with the importance of games is the fact that also that you had to be a "man",
[09:25.05]and if people abroad think that the English gentleman is someone who is dean of limb,
[09:30.70]I can assure you he's not.
[09:33.52]I think most of us washed about once a week; in winter, we hsed to,
[09:39.16]it was a mark of a gentleman as well that,
[09:42.50]and being tough and hard,
[09:45.14]that you didn't wear an overcoat
[09:47.86]so this meant that in winter we would pull our clothes off and the whole lot came off,
[09:52.88]shirt, several pullovers and er vests and they all came off in one go.