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1-- So Heidi, you are from Mongolia. Could you talk a little bit about what high school is like in Mongolia?
2-- Oh sure. In Mongolia, we don’t have elementary school, secondary school, or high school divided into three parts, but we have from 1st grade until 12th grade in one school so we don’t really call them like high school or secondary school or elementary school. And for the high school, like, from the 8th grade until 12th grade, well, they study what other students study in different countries but nowadays they are focusing on more, like, English studies or different language studies.
1-- How long is a typical class? Do you have, let’s say, six classes a day, each class is one hour?
2-- We start school at 8:00 in the morning until 1:00 in the [after] noon and we have about six classes a day. Each class has like 45 minutes. So we finish at 1:00.
1-- And then, what do you do in the afternoon?
2-- We go back.
1-- You go home?
2-- Yes, ‘cause in Mongolia we have two parts. In the morning, the high school students go to the school and from 1:30 the elementary school students go to the school so we share one class [between] two classes.
1-- Oh, so you split the school?
2-- Yes.
1-- So do teachers sometimes have to teach both levels?
2-- Yes.
1-- Wow! That’s tough.
2-- Yeah.
1-- So when you go home, do you usually...do have family there waiting or do usually both parents work?
2-- In Mongolia, the mother and father they usually work and when I finish my school I just go back and make my own food, because in Mongolia mothers’ work is not to, like, stay at home or do housework. Kids are taught to clean up the home and cook their food and wash their clothes and that’s your work and usually the mothers don’t do that kind of thing.
1-- Oh, so the children have to do all that work?
2-- Yes.
1-- Actually it’s quite similar I think in the US pretty much. So what about your study load? Do you have a really heavy study load? Like, do you have two hours of homework a night or...?
2-- It really depends on the school but for me, like, I was studying in an international school so I had to study quite hard to get the level still. So for me, I studied after school...I’d rather study at night, so I studied like 3 or 4 hours at night. So that’s my study habit.
1-- That’s a lot.
2-- Not really compared to other students.
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注解:
1.elementary school小學(xué)
2.typical典型的
3.depends on取決于
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譯文:
1-- Heidi,你來自蒙古,能講講蒙古的高中是什么樣子啊?
2--好啊,在蒙古,我們不是把學(xué)校分成小學(xué),初中,高中三個部分。我們一個學(xué)校就是一年級到十二年級,因此我們的學(xué)校不叫小學(xué),初中或者高中。比如像高中,從八年級到12年級,學(xué)生學(xué)習(xí)不同國家學(xué)生學(xué)習(xí)的東西?,F(xiàn)在學(xué)生的關(guān)注點更多了,比如英語學(xué)習(xí)以及不同語言的學(xué)習(xí)。
1-- 典型的一節(jié)課要多久呢?若有,比如一天六節(jié)課,每節(jié)課是一個小時嗎?
2--我們早上8點上課到下午1點,一天大約六節(jié)課。每節(jié)課就45分鐘。所以1點鐘放學(xué)。
1-- 那么下文你們做什么呢?
2-- 我們回家。
1-- 你們回家?
2-- 是的。因為在蒙古我們有兩部分,高中生早上去學(xué)校,1;30的時候,小學(xué)生上學(xué)。因此,班級是共享的。
1--哦,你們把學(xué)校分成了兩部分。
2-- 是的。
1--因此老師有時候教兩個階段的學(xué)生?
2--是的。
1-- 哇,太難了。
2--恩。
1-- 回家你通常有家人在等你還是父母不在家你要做家務(wù)活呢?
2--在蒙古,爸爸媽媽通常要外出工作。我放學(xué)回家就做自己的飯。蒙古的媽媽們的工作不是待在家里做家務(wù)活哦。小孩子從小就被教育打掃衛(wèi)生,做飯和洗衣服。那是你的工作,媽媽們不替你做那些事的。
1--哦,小孩子所有的家務(wù)活都要做?
2--是的。
1--實際上,和美國很相似。你的學(xué)習(xí)任務(wù)怎樣呢?學(xué)習(xí)負(fù)擔(dān)重嗎?比如說一個晚上要做兩小時的家庭作業(yè)或者...?
2--這取決于學(xué)校而不是我。比如,我就讀于一所國際學(xué)校,我必須努力取得相應(yīng)的水平。就我而言,放學(xué)后還是要學(xué)習(xí),我喜歡晚上學(xué)習(xí),晚上要學(xué)習(xí)3到4個小時。這是我的學(xué)習(xí)習(xí)慣。
1--太多了啊。
2--和其他學(xué)生比比真不多哦。