时间:2018-12-25 作者:英语课 分类:情景英语口语100主题


英语课
050 studying abroad
Words
Visa passport application form interview IELTS TOEFL
Host family culture shock embassy destination insurance applicant 1 admission recommendation transcript 2 resume acceptance financial aid scholarship prestige Ivy 3 League advisor 4 room and board dorm
Phrases
Get a copy of one’s transcripts 5
Register for class
Choose elective
Fill in the application form
Defer 6 enrollment 7
Apply for financial aid
Be accepted/ admitted to a school
Apply to a school
Apply for a student visa

Beginner
A: excuse me, do you know where the visa office is?
B: yes, I do. I’ll walk you there.
A: thanks!
B: are you applying to study or work abroad?
A: I want to study abroad.
B: what do you want to study?
A; I hope to study English literature.
B; have you got your visa yet?
A; not yet. I have an interview with the visa official today.
B; I see. Is it your first interview?
A: I was denied a visa?
B: why?
A: like most students. I want to work in America after graduation.
B; I see. Well, good luck!

Intermediate
A: guess what came in the mail today?
B: what?
A: my acceptance letter to Yale!
B; wow! Congratulation! When do classes start?
A: freshman 8 orientation 9 is the last week of august, but I want to go two weeks before that to get settled in.
B: you’re so lucky! Do you have to do many things before you leave?
A; yes. I’ll be very busy! I have to get a visa, buy a plane ticket, and pack my things. But first, I want to register for class.
B; when can you do that?
A: well, they sent me their prospectus 10, so I can start looking now. do you want to help me decide which classed to take?
B: sure. What can you choose from?
A; well, I have to take all the fundamental course, plus a few from my major.
B; what is your major?
A; I hope to major in English literature, but the admissions counselor 11 told me that many people change their major times in their first year, so we’ll see.
B: what are the fundamental course?
A: in order to graduate, every student must take a certain amount of classed in history, math, English, philosophy, science and art.
B: interesting. That’s very different from the Chinese education system.
A: yes, it is . It’s also very different from the British education system.
B: really?
A: oh, sure. In British, students don’t have to take the foundation course.
B: why not?
A: maybe because they think they know everything already ! ha ha.

1 applicant
n.申请人,求职者,请求者
  • He was the hundredth applicant for the job. 他是第100个申请这项工作的人。
  • In my estimation, the applicant is well qualified for this job. 据我看, 这位应征者完全具备这项工作的条件。
2 transcript
n.抄本,誊本,副本,肄业证书
  • A transcript of the tapes was presented as evidence in court.一份录音带的文字本作为证据被呈交法庭。
  • They wouldn't let me have a transcript of the interview.他们拒绝给我一份采访的文字整理稿。
3 ivy
n.常青藤,常春藤
  • Her wedding bouquet consisted of roses and ivy.她的婚礼花篮包括玫瑰和长春藤。
  • The wall is covered all over with ivy.墙上爬满了常春藤。
4 advisor
n.顾问,指导老师,劝告者
  • They employed me as an advisor.他们聘请我当顾问。
  • The professor is engaged as a technical advisor.这位教授被聘请为技术顾问。
5 transcripts
n.抄本( transcript的名词复数 );转写本;文字本;副本
  • Like mRNA, both tRNA and rRNA are transcripts of chromosomal DNA. tRNA及rRNA同mRNA一样,都是染色体DNA的转录产物。 来自辞典例句
  • You can't take the transfer students'exam without your transcripts. 没有成绩证明书,你就不能参加转学考试。 来自辞典例句
6 defer
vt.推迟,拖延;vi.(to)遵从,听从,服从
  • We wish to defer our decision until next week.我们希望推迟到下星期再作出决定。
  • We will defer to whatever the committee decides.我们遵从委员会作出的任何决定。
7 enrollment
n.注册或登记的人数;登记
  • You will be given a reading list at enrollment.注册时你会收到一份阅读书目。
  • I just got the enrollment notice from Fudan University.我刚刚接到复旦大学的入学通知书。
8 freshman
n.大学一年级学生(可兼指男女)
  • Jack decided to live in during his freshman year at college.杰克决定大一时住校。
  • He is a freshman in the show business.他在演艺界是一名新手。
9 orientation
n.方向,目标;熟悉,适应,情况介绍
  • Children need some orientation when they go to school.小孩子上学时需要适应。
  • The traveller found his orientation with the aid of a good map.旅行者借助一幅好地图得知自己的方向。
10 prospectus
n.计划书;说明书;慕股书
  • An order form was included with the prospectus.订单附在说明书上。
  • The prospectus is the most important instrument of legal document.招股说明书是上市公司信息披露制度最重要法律文件。
11 counselor
n.顾问,法律顾问
  • The counselor gave us some disinterested advice.顾问给了我们一些无私的忠告。
  • Chinese commercial counselor's office in foreign countries.中国驻国外商务参赞处。
学英语单词
accounting technique
adjudging
airway traffic control centre
algebraicity
Anaflogisto
angleseys
applied decision theory
arsenic-
associated corpuscular emission
axial filling
azygous
Banach area
blast-furnace smelting
bottom case
brown trachoma
Chwachon-ni
condensatum
cow elephant
deductivists
derelictions
diamagnetic susecptibility
digeridoos
dribbled
Dutch door
engine braking
engrin
equivalent method
fasciculi fronto-occipitalis
feed-back of ovarian hormone
fermented feed
fiber particleboard
footbands
free-fall coring tube with piston
general demurrer
gravity-piston type corer
gripping tool
ha-tagged
haematocyte
heaveth
Heldrungen
impolarizable electrode
information for power system dispatching
initial environmental evaluation
isentropic wave
isomoodic
Kruzenshterna, Ostrova
kryotome
Kvorning
Labrouste
landloupers
Lascaux Caves
leveed
loop-the-loop
magnetic panel
magnetohydrodynamic compression wave
maze decision
McLeod gauge
Middelsluis
mortalit
mud flow hill
multiphase structure
nonconserved
numerically-controlled machine
okemah
on a level
overhead distillate
overstien
phase order
physical character
Pithomyces
platyrhine
protection of nature
protection relay
protective colouring
psychiatria
queyere
rat-free
resting transmembrane potential
Rhododendron cuneatum
riveria
salted salmon belly
schoeck
scrubber tower
sell up
semi-auto-tensioned catenary equipment
ship used
skim away
space medicines
Spillersboda
spline teeth
steerage mess
strip steaks
subscriptions receivable common
superheavy atom
taxonomist
tooltips
tortuosa
transannular polymerization
trinominal
unforcedly
vamosing