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EDUCATION REPORT - Foreign High School Students Get a Free Lesson in American Life
By Nancy Steinbach


Broadcast: Thursday, June 23, 2005


I'm Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Education Report.


Hundreds of high school students from countries with large Muslim populations have learned 1 for themselves about American society. They spent ten months, one school year, studying in the United States through a State Department program.


More than four hundred fifty students just took part in the second year of the program. They attended high schools and lived with American families in twenty states.


The program is called Partnerships 2 for Learning 3 -- Youth Exchange and Study, or YES. It seeks to improve international understanding and security 4, and to teach about the rule of law.


Countries involved this year include Afghanistan, Algeria, Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait and Lebanon. Others on the list are Malaysia, Morocco, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, the Philippines, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey and Yemen.


Students from the West Bank, Gaza and Arab communities in Israel also took part.


 
President Bush, right, meets Ghizal (last name not given), 16, from Afghanistan, fourth from left, as other exchange students from The Partnerships for Learning, Youth Exchange, and Study Program look on in the Rose Garden of the White House Monday, June 13, 2005 in Washington. 
President Bush, right, meets Ghizal (last name not given), 16, from Afghanistan, fourth from left, as other exchange students from The Partnerships for Learning, Youth Exchange, and Study Program look on in the Rose Garden of the White House Monday, June 13, 2005 in Washington.


President Bush met with some of the students at the White House on June thirteenth. He urged them and their friends to think about going to an American university.


In a speech, the president described experiences of students over the past year. He noted 5 that some got involved in political work related 6 to the presidential election 7 last November. One student from Morocco, for example, helped voters in Oregon get rides to voting places.


The president thanked the students for sharing their cultures with Americans. He read comments written by a student from Syria named Abdul Rahman. In one of his classes, Abdul found signs everywhere wishing him a happy Ramadan on the first day of the holy month. Abdul had taken time to explain Ramadan to the other students. He says some students even tried to join him in not eating that day.


One hundred sixty high school students took part in the program in the first year. State Department officials say they expect six hundred fifty students for the next school year in the fall. More countries added to the program include India, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.


Once students are back home, they are supposed to form groups to work on service projects in their own countries.


More information about the program can be found on the Internet at exchanges.state.g-o-v. Again, exchanges.state.gov.


This VOA Special English Education Report was written by Nancy Steinbach.  I'm Gwen Outen.



adj.有学问的,博学的;learn的过去式和过去分词
  • He went into a rage when he learned about it.他听到这事后勃然大怒。
  • In this little village,he passed for a learned man.在这个小村子里,他被视为有学问的人。
n.伙伴关系( partnership的名词复数 );合伙人身份;合作关系
  • Partnerships suffer another major disadvantage: decision-making is shared. 合伙企业的另一主要缺点是决定要由大家来作。 来自英汉非文学 - 政府文件
  • It involved selling off limited partnerships. 它涉及到售出有限的合伙权。 来自辞典例句
n.学问,学识,学习;动词learn的现在分词
  • When you are learning to ride a bicycle,you often fall off.初学骑自行车时,常会从车上掉下来。
  • Learning languages isn't just a matter of remembering words.学习语言不仅仅是记些单词的事。
n.安全,安全感;防护措施;保证(金),抵押(品);债券,证券
  • A security guard brought him down with a flying tackle.一名保安人员飞身把他抱倒。
  • There was tight security at the airport when the President's plane landed.总统的专机降落时,机场的保安措施很严密。
adj.著名的,知名的
  • The local hotel is noted for its good table.当地的那家酒店以餐食精美而著称。
  • Jim is noted for arriving late for work.吉姆上班迟到出了名。
adj.有关系的,有关联的,叙述的,讲述的
  • I am not related to him in any way.我和他无任何关系。
  • We spent days going through all related reference material.我们花了好多天功夫查阅所有有关的参考资料。
n.选举,选择权;当选
  • There is no doubt but that he will win the election.毫无疑问,他将在竞选中获胜。
  • The government will probably fall at the coming election.在即将到来的大选中,该政府很可能要垮台。
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2'-phosphodiesterase
a cutie pie
abnormal focal length
aggregation of individual preferences
air inlet valve of dredger's deliving pipeline
air-guns
alcala de la selva
archeri
Ariquemes
assinie
Auberger blood group system
Banbayan Pt.
bar rack
be food for worms
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Brachypodium sylvaticum
calex
capon test
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catch copy
Central I.
chantha
chromophobic
couchful
day disk
deformational stress
detonation point
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echymose
Elephanta Island
expected yield
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fermentation inhibitor
floating point unit
folded and grooved seam
go hard or go home
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Higher bid
imperialls
insinuate
iris detachment
Jeans viscosity equation
lactocidin
lbgs
lead metasilicate
left atrium failure
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
lock cylinder
loi-cadre
M.H.R.
macromitrium ferriei
marie dolores eliza rosanna gilberts
membranogenesis
mesh side cutter
Minskian
nodes
nonitemized
normal congruence
observantially
order parameter
pachometers
papular pruritic gloves and socks syndrome
paroxysmal coliky pain
patent licence-agreement
Phulsāri
pioneering work
plain ashlar
plant ledger card
pork fillet
preconising
PSD (power spectral density)
ragtop
relish
residual valency
Santa Maria, I.
satish
scientific data processing
search and seizure
Seawater Quality Standards
sharpness of focusing
side-by-side
Simonart band
Sleepwell
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starch slurry
stop-and-direction-indicator-lamps
storage cathode ray tube
sweetkin
tabby-cats
teamkillers
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tip clearance area
Tossåsen
uppermost part
us sea
water ejection tube
you're a star