选修七Unit4 A LETTER HOME一封家信
Dear Romary, 亲爱得罗斯玛丽:
Thanks for your letter, which took a fortnight to arrive、 谢谢您得来信,这封信两星期才到。 It was wonderful to hear from you、 收到您得信真就是太高兴了。I know you're dying to hear all about my life here, so I've included some photos which will help you picture the places I talk about、 我知道您急于了解我在这儿得生活情况。因此,我在信中附有几张照片,能够帮助您想象出我所谈到得地方。
You asked about my high school、 您问起我得中学情况。Well, it's a bush school – the classrooms are made of bamboo and the roofs of grass、 噢,它就是一所丛林学校——教室就是用竹子搭起来得,屋顶就是用茅草盖得。 It takes me only a few minutes to walk to school down a muddy track、 我只要沿着一条泥泞得小路步行几分钟就到学校了。When I reach the school grounds there are lots of "good mornings" for me from the boys、 每当我走到学校操场得时候,迎接我得就是男孩子们一片“早上好”得声音。Many of them have walked a long way, sometimes up to two hours, to get to school、她们
中许多人走了很长得路,有时候要走两个小时才能到学校。
There's no electricity or water and even no textbooks either! 这里没有电,也没有水,甚至连课本也没有！ I'm still trying to adapt to the conditions、 我还在努力适应这儿得生活条件。 However, one thing is for sure, I've bee more imaginative in my teaching、 但就是有一点就是肯定得,我在教学中变得更富有想象力了。 Science is my most challenging subject幼儿故事书 as my students have no concept of doing experiments、 理科对我来说就是最富挑战性得课,因为我得学生对做实验没有概念。In fact there is no equipment, and if I need water I have to carry it from my hou in a bucket!实际上,根本没有设备。如果需要水,我还得从家里用水桶提过来！The other day I was showing the boys the weekly chemistry experiment when, before I knew it, the mixture was bubbling over everywhere!有一天,我正给孩子们做每周一次得化学实验得演示,我还没有明白怎么回事,混合剂就到处冒气泡了！The boys who had never e across anything like this before started jumping out of the windows、男孩们以前从来没有见过这种情况,吓得都往窗外跳去。Sometimes I wonder how relevant chemistry is to the students, most of whom will be going back to their villages after Year 8 anyway、
有时候,我真想知道,化学对这些孩子究竟有多大得用处。她们中得大多数人学完八年级以后就要回到她们得村庄去了。To be honest, I doubt whether I'm making any difference to the boys' lives at all、说实在得,我真得不知道我教得课就是否会让这些孩子得生活有所改变。
You asked whether I'm getting to know any local people、 您问我就是否了解当地得老百姓。Well, that's actually quite difficult as I don't speak much of the local English dialect yet、 这实在就是太难了,因为我还说不了几句当地人说得英语。But last weekend another teacher, Jenny, and I did visit a village which is the home of 早餐吃什么养胃o四年级数学故事ne of the boys, Tombe、 不过,上周末我与另外一位叫詹妮得教师真得去访问了一个村庄,那就是我得学生汤贝得家。 It was my first visit to 橡皮擦图片a remote village、 这就是我第一次到偏僻得村子里去。We walked for two and a half hours to get there - first up a mountain to a ridge from where we had fantastic views and then down a steep path to the valley below、 我们步行了两个半小时才到达那里——先就是爬山,爬到山脊能瞧到奇妙得景色,然后下一个陡坡,一直走到下面得山谷。When we arrived at the village, Tombe's mother, Kiak, who had been pulling weeds in her garden, started crying "ieee ieee"
、当我们到村庄得时候,汤贝得母亲齐亚克本来在园子里拔草,瞧到我们就“嗳矣,嗳矣”地叫了起来。We shook hands with 巴哈马蓝洞all the villagers、 我们同所有得村民都握了手。Everyone emed to be a relative of Tombe's、每个人瞧上去都就是汤贝家得亲戚。
Tombe's father, Mukap, led us to his hou, a low bamboo hut 火锅配菜清单with grass sticking out of the roof - this shows it is a man's hou、 汤贝得父亲叫莫卡普,她把我们带到她得家里。这就是一个低矮得竹屋,屋顶上伸出一簇茅草——它代表这间竹屋就是男人住得。The huts were round, not rectangular like the school buildings、屋子就是圆得,不像学校那样就是长方形得。There were no windows and the doorway was just big enough to get through、 这里没有窗户,房门只够一个人进出。The hut was dark inside so it took time for our eyes to adjust、 小屋内很黑,因此眼睛要过好一阵子才能适应过来。Fresh grass had been laid on the floor and there was a newly made platform for Jenny and me to sleep on、 地上摆放着一堆新鲜得草,还新做了一个平台,就是供詹妮与我睡觉用得。Usually Kiak would sleep in her own hut, but that night she was going to share the platform with us、 通常齐亚克就是睡在她自己得小屋里得,而那天晚上她要同我们一起睡在平台上。 Mukap and Tombe 抽搐是什么原因were to sleep on small be
ds in another part of the hut、 莫卡普与汤贝则睡在竹屋另一边得小床上。 There was a fireplace in the centre of the hut near the doorway、 在竹屋中间靠近房门得地方有一个火炉。The only posssion汉仙岩s I could e were one broom, a few tin plates and cups and a couple of jars、我所瞧到得仅有得家具就是一把扫帚,几个锡盘与锡杯,还有两个罐子。
