VOA慢速英语听力 EDUCATION REPORT（WORD文本英汉互译）：0310A.doc

1、标题：voa慢速英语讲解附字幕:怎样让孩子发展国际化思维对应音频：0310a.mp3听力内容：Teaching Children How to Think InternationallyThis is the VOA Special English Education Report.The International Primary Curriculum is an idea that began in Britain eight years ago. Today this curriculum is taught in more than one thousand primary schoo

2、ls in fifty-eight countries, including the United States.Educator Martin Skelton co-wrote the International Primary Curriculum, or IPC. He says for children to learn and succeed, they need a program that permits them to learn individually.MARTIN SKELTON: Our view is the teachers should be thinking a

3、bout their kids in their class and why they are not learning and trying to work out what they are going to be doing tomorrow to help individual kids learn much better.He says the idea with the curriculum is to help todays children become good citizens of the world and twenty-first century leaders.MA

4、RTIN SKELTON: Most world problems are going to be solved internationally now. I mean no single country is going to solve the environment or terrorism. Its a multi-cooperational activity.Mr. Skelton says the curriculum has activities built around the development of international mindedness starting f

5、rom the age of five.MARTIN SKELTON: We encourage the kids to mingling with schools in other countries, and then of course things like Skype now make that fantastically easy to do.The British American School of Los Angeles is one of a few American private schools that teach the International Primary

6、Curriculum. Second grade teacher Alison Kerr says the main goal is to engage children in the learning process. This term, for example, her class is learning about people important in history.ALLISON KERR: I got the children to come in secret and dress up with several clues of a famous person. They h

7、ad to research and bring us ten written clues and the rest of the class had to guess who these significant people were. So the children do not simply just do the same worksheet type of format every single time.The British School in Boston held a fair for students and parents called Around the World

8、in a Day. Emma Northey, head of primary learning at the school, says fifty-one nationalities were represented. She described one activity designed to teach about similarities between different cultures.EMMA NORTHEY: The children were each given a passport. They basically knew that they were going ar

9、ound the world in a day and we said to them You have to come back with two similarities that you had seen between the different cultures. Even the three-year-olds came back to me saying Gosh, you know everybody writes. Some people write going down. Some people write from left to right, some from rig

10、ht to left.Another educator, Kate Foy of the British School in Washington, says the teachers role is to enable students to discover for themselves.KATE FOY: And you kind of have to sit back a little bit. You have to make sure youre asking the right questions. You maneuver yourself around the classro

11、om and enable the children to learn as opposed to telling them.这里是VOA特别英语教育报道。国际小学课程(International Primary Curriculum)是八年前英国开始的一个想法。今天，该课程在全球58个国家1,000多所小学授课，包括美国在内。教育家Martin Skelton合作编写了国际小学课程(International Primary Curriculum,IPC)。他表示，为了孩子们能够学习并成功，他们需要一个允许他们独立学习的项目。MARTIN SKELTON：“我们的观点是，教师在课堂上应该为学

12、生考虑，应该思考学生为什么不愿学习，制定出明天的学习计划，帮助每一个孩子更好的学习。”他表示，国际小学课程的想法是，帮助今天的孩子成为优秀的世界公民，成为二十一世纪的领袖。MARTIN SKELTON：“现在，大部分世界问题都应该在国际范围内解决。我的意思是，没有任何一个国家可以独立解决环境或恐怖主义问题。这应该是需要多国合作的活动。”Skelton表示，该课程包含一些活动，从五岁开始就培养孩子的“国际化思维”。MARTIN SKELTON：“我们鼓励孩子们与其他国家的孩子进行交流，当然，有Skype之类的网络通讯工具，这是非常简单的事情。”洛杉矶英国美国人学校是美国少数几个教授国际小学课程的

13、私立学校之一。二年级教师Alison Kerr说，该课程的主要目标是在让学生参与学习过程。例如，本学期，她的学生学习历史上比较重要的人物。MARTIN SKELTON：“我会让一些孩子秘密地准备，按照某个著名人物的几个特点进行装扮。他们必须进行研究，书写出十条线索，其他学生来猜这些著名的人物是谁。所以，学生们不需要每次都简单重复地做书面作业。”波士顿英国学校为学生和家长举办了“一天之内游览世界”的活动。该学校小学部负责人Emma Northey表示，他们共代表51个国籍。她说，其中一个活动是教给学生们不同文化之间的相似之处。Emma Northey：“我们发给每个孩子一本护照。学生们基本上都知

14、道他们将在一天之内游览世界。我们告诉他们，你回来的时候必须说出你所看到的不同文化的两个相似之处。即使是三岁的孩子回来的时候都会告诉我，你知道每个人都会写字，有些人是从上往下写，有的人从左往右，有的人从右往左书写。”另外一名教育家，华盛顿英国学校的Kate Foy表示，教师的作用是帮助学生自己发现问题。Kate Foy：“你必须放松一点，确保自己问了正确的问题。你必须在课堂上必须机动灵活，让学生自己去学习，而不是机械地将知识灌输给他们。”1.curriculum n.总课程，（学校等的）全部课程例句：Is German on your schools curriculum?你们学校有德语课吗?2

15、.permit vt.允许,容许例句：I would like to do it with you, but I am not sure whether my parents permit.我愿意和你一起做, 但不知我父母是否允许。allow，let，permit，leave，authorizeallow普通用词，侧重听任、默许或不加阻止。在正式场合可用来表客气的请求。这些动词均含“让、允许”之意。let常用词，用于各种非正式场合，语气最弱，指允许或无力阻止某事，暗示漠不关心或听之任之。permit正式用词，在多数场合可与allow换用，语义最强，指准许某人做某事，含权威或正式的意味。leav

16、e侧重不加干涉。authorize语气最强，指权威性的允许与认可。3.individually adv.分别地,各个地;各自地例句：Each apple was individually wrapped in paper.每个苹果都用纸单独包着。4.mingle vi.混进, 与…交往联系例句：The man and the woman mingled as everyone started to relax.当大家开始放松的时候, 这一男一女就开始交往了。5.fantastically adv.空想地， 捕风捉影地，非常好的例句：You did fantastically we

17、ll in the exam.你考得非常好。6.engage vt.使从事于,使忙着例句：The ship is engaged in pelagic fishery.这艘船从事远洋渔业。7.enable vt.使能够; 提供做…的权利措施; 使有机会例句：A majority vote enabled the passage of the resolution.多数人投赞成票使议案得以通过。8.maneuver vt.调遣,演习,用计1.Our view is the teachers should be thinking about their kids in their c

18、lass and why they are not learning and trying to work out what they are going to be doing tomorrow to help individual kids learn much better.work out作出; 制订出例句：It wasnt too long before we had worked out a plan acceptable to all.没多久我们就制订出一个大家都能接受的计划。The plan has already been worked out, and could be p

19、ut into operation at a moments notice.计划已经拟好并立即可以付诸实施。2.He says the idea with the curriculum is to help todays children become good citizens of the world and twenty-first century leaders.动词不定式作表语不定式作表语一般表示具体动作，特别是表示将来的动作。如：To do two things at a time is to do neither. 一次做两件事等于未做。What I would suggest

20、is to start work at once. 我的建议是立刻开始干。如果主语是不定式（表示条件），表语也是不定式（表示结果）。如：To see is to believe. 百闻不如一见。To work means to earn a living. 工作就是为了生活。如果主语是以aim，duty，hope，idea，happiness，job，plan，problem，thing，wish等为中心的名词，或以what引导的名词性从句，不定式作表语是对主语起补充说明作用。如：His wish is to buy a luxurious car in the near future. 他的

21、希望是在不远的将来买一辆豪华轿车。3.I got the children to come in secret and dress up with several clues of a famous person.dress up(使)装扮成另一种样子例句：He dressed himself up as Father Christmas.他打扮成圣诞老人。She was dressed up as a lady of high society.她把自己打扮成一位贵妇人。4.So the children do not simply just do the same worksheet type of format every single time.single在这里是形容词的意思，单身的，单纯的；唯一的，单一的。single还有动词的意思：挑选。例句：Why have you singled this out for criticism?你为什么单挑这件事批评啊? 作为动词一个常用的词组是：single out挑出,挑选出。例句：Why single him out for punishment? 为什么挑出他给予惩罚？