上海牛津初中英语九年级下--CHAPTER 2

CHAPTER TWO

[00:09.82]READING Page 19

[00:13.01]Educational visits

[00:12.01]Joyce wanted to have some articles in the school newspaper

[00:17.81]about educational visits to other countries.

[00:22.72]She asked some older students to write these articles.

[00:28.41]A wonderful year in New Zealand By Tammy Luo

[00:35.21]If I went to New Zea-land, would I be able to understand people

[00:41.66]This was the question which first worried me

[00:45.65]when the American Field Service pro-gramme accepted me

[00:49.63]I stayed with a New Zealand family in Auckland 1 for one year

[00:55.11]At first, I found that communicating was quite difficult.

[01:00.52]But my hosts were very patient,

[01:03.99]and they helped me to learn fast.

[01:06.42]As part of the pro-gramme,AFS students

[01:11.67]try to tell people about their own culture.

[01:15.30]I took many photos and postcards of China with me,

[01:20.11]as well as some simple Chinese books.

[01:24.03]I gave a talk about China to some classes in school

[01:28.60]and I even did some simple Chinese cooking It was a wonderful year.

[01:35.29]I learned 2 about a new culture,

[01:39.94]and I became more confident.

[01:42.66]Visiting the poor in Thailand By Edwin Su

[01:49.37]Last year I went to Thailand for ten days.

[01:53.76]The trip was funded by World Vision 3,

[01:58.12]which helps poor people throughout 4 the world.

[02:01.70]I went with another student and two reporters.

[02:05.62]The aim of the trip was to see the problems for ourselves

[02:10.72]We were deeply 5 affected 6 by what we saw.

[02:14.87]There is a big gap 7 be-tween the lives of the rich and the poor,

[02:20.67]in some areas we saw families living in ru-bbish dumps 8.

[02:25.71]However,the Thai Government is working hard to im-prove the situation

[02:32.21]The trip was actually quite hard work

[02:37.11]but it was a very valuable experience for me.

[02:40.64]It has shown me how fortunate most of us are here in China

[02:45.63]Scholarship 9 to Japan By Sylvia Wang

[02:51.71]This summer,I was for-tunate to win a Japan Airlines scholarship

[02:58.50]This enabled 10 me to visit Japan for six weeks.

[03:03.60]For five weeks,all the foreign students lived in a hotel

[03:09.97]and attended Japanese language classes.

[03:13.47]We also had classes on Japanese culture,

[03:18.96]including flower-arranging and the art of tea-making.

[03:24.37]We went on sightseeing tours and visited a television station

[03:30.48]After the first five weeks

[03:34.45]we visited Kyoto the old capital of Japan, and Yokohama.

[03:41.32]We stayed with friend-ly families in these cities

[03:45.60]I thought that,if I went abroad,

[03:49.57]I would make many new friends. This turned out to be true.

[03:55.11]I met and talked to students from Korea 11,

[03:59.16]Brazil and Australia,as well as many Japanese

[04:05.12]I left Japan three months ago and since then,

[04:10.60]I have kept in touch with my new friends by writing letters.

[04:16.14]LISTENING Page 21

[04:22.44]Form-filling Stanley has won a British Council 12 scholarship to Britain

[04:29.72]Listen to the conver-sation between Mrs Rixon and Stanley

[04:35.52]Pretend that you are Stanley.

[04:38.74]Fill in the information on the form below.