时间:2019-02-17 作者:英语课 分类:新西兰英语


英语课

  Thirty-four schools in Christchurch have a red sticker which means 1 the school is badly damaged and not safe. Nearly all schools are now open but for most of those 34, it means sharing with another school – one in the morning and one in the afternoon. The Ministry 2 of Education pays for buses to take students from the damaged school to another school. Some schools now start before 8am and finish around 1pm. They have a half-hour break in the middle of the morning. The next school uses the same buildings but starts after 1pm and finishes around 6pm. These are all high schools.

Students have four hours of lessons a day instead of five hours. Many schools were closed for four or five weeks after the earthquake. Parents and teachers are worried about how students can catch up the classes that were missed. Students will probably have more homework and teachers may use rooms like the library and music room to teach extra classes. Some schools are thinking about shorter school holidays.

Burnside High School is the biggest school in Christchurch with 2,200 students but it has room for 3,000 students. Avonside Girls’ High school, which has 1,200 students, is using their buildings in the afternoon but there is space for senior 3 students at both schools to have extra classes – Avonside seniors 4 in the morning and Burnside seniors in the afternoon.

Some intermediate 5 schools also have to share buildings. One school is sending Year 7 students to an intermediate school in the north and Year 8 to an intermediate school in the west.

Catholic 6 schools are sharing with other Catholic schools. In one case, a girls’ high school will share with a boys’ high school in the north. A co-ed high school is sharing with a boys’ high school in the west.

For some schools, this arrangement may only be for a few months. For other schools which need new classrooms and new sewer 7 pipes, the sharing may continue all year.

Questions

Although sharing school facilities is new to New Zealand, many countries are used to this. What are the advantages for the tax payer? Are there any advantages for students, teachers and families? What are the disadvantages?

What are the advantages and disadvantages of single-sex schools?

Vocabulary:

A school site is a piece of ground with school buildings on it. A building site is a piece of ground which will be used for a building.

Co-ed means co-educational – both boys and girls. Most high schools and primary schools are co-ed. The first high schools in Christchurch were single sex – Christchurch Girls’ High School (1877) and Christchurch Boys’ High Schools (1881) –but schools established more recently are co-ed.



n.方法,手段,折中点,物质财富
  • That man used artful means to find out secrets.那人使用狡猾的手段获取机密。
  • We must get it done by some means or other.我们总得想办法把它干完。
n.(政府的)部;牧师
  • They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
  • We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。
adj.年长的;资格较老的,地位较高的;n.年长者,前辈;大学高年级学生
  • My brother is senior to me by two years.我哥哥比我年长两岁。
  • They are senior students.他们是高年级学生。
n.高年级学生( senior的名词复数 );毕业班学生;较年长者;老资格者
  • We should not set light by the advice of our seniors. 对于长辈的规劝,我们不应轻视。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • The seniors are planning to have a gathering. 这些毕业班学生计划聚会一次。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adj.中间的,居间的,中级的;n.中间体,媒介物
  • This country is now at an intermediate stage of development.这个国家目前正处于发展的中间阶段。
  • Gray is intermediate between black and white.灰色介于黑色和白色之间。
adj.天主教的;n.天主教徒
  • The Pope is the supreme leader of the Roman Catholic Church.教皇是罗马天主教的最高领袖。
  • She was a devoutly Catholic.她是一个虔诚地天主教徒。
n.排水沟,下水道
  • They are tearing up the street to repair a sewer. 他们正挖开马路修下水道。
  • The boy kicked a stone into the sewer. 那个男孩把一石子踢进了下水道。
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automation of cargo handling
axis of figure
bainitic transformation
bibliotherapist
blind bombing zone
Bromus magnus
bullock hearts
butt-jointed shell ring
Bükkzsérc
cadence detection
Callicarpa kochiana
chable
chondrogen
columnwise
combined arms team
computer network
contrary intention
corpora liberum pericardii
crosslevel
dar pahn
diphasic titration
dislocation mucleation
equidecomposability
expendable drone
external selection
extreme ultraviolet
fictious person
flat called
Francisco Jose de Goya
Gafac surfactant
give dosage form
ground robin
Herford
hey
isolation between inputs
Jerseytown
jimmying
Kadavu Island
kidney essence
king matker
legal discipline
locator variable
madioxytheria formosana
menformon
metal fuelled
mucolic acids
non-convex quadratic programming
nondelivered
North-West Frontier Province
ordnance engineering
os pharyngeum inferius
Osmoxylon
outlay for liquidation
pain receptor
panting girder
Peacekeeper missile
pick-up coil
pill maker
ply strain
plywood-covered
Porto Grande
pottled
predicting relation
Proxylide
Quipar, R.
rafter
rashie
registro
reticulated vein
shoaib
single row ball bearing with ring seal
six panel door
SL-SD
slip of pen
smooth approach
spectral source density
spray decoration
stalking horses
starter nozzle
stratified one-stage cluster sampling
strepsigonia diluta takamukui
subcutaenous calcareous granuloma
surface of translation
tension-active element
Teza
threa
thump-thump
track balance
transient radiation damage
true fibre
V die
venin-antivenin
ventilating tube
waveshape
within-participants design
woman on the beach
Yedineniya, Ostrov
yellowfins
ymesurid
Zeddam