美語情景對話 第236期:Teaching 教學

Todd: Lois, when are you going back to London, or England?

託德：洛伊絲，你打算什麼時候回英國倫敦？

Lois: I'm going back on the 30th of July.

洛伊絲：我7月30日回去。

Todd: OK, that's coming up pretty soon.

託德：好，那馬上就要到了。

Lois: Just four more weeks. Four weeks from today, I'll be on the plane, on my way home.

洛伊絲：還有四周的時間。從今天開始算，還有四周的時間，我打算坐飛機回家。

Todd: OK, when you go home, what are you going to do?

託德：嗯，你回家以後，打算做什麼呢？

Lois: In September I'm going back to college because I want to be a primary school teacher in England, so I have to do a one year course to qualify and then hopefully I'll start teaching the next September back in England.

洛伊絲：我九月要回大學上課，因爲我想在英國當小學老師，所以我必須要念一年的課程，獲得教師資格，之後我希望可以在明年九月在英國開始教師生涯。

Todd: OK, and what are you going to teach?

託德：好的，你打算教什麼課程？

Lois: So, I'm teaching primary so that's all subjects. I'm teaching science and English and math and maybe some French and sports and music and any other subjects they do at eight years old.

洛伊絲：因爲我是教小學，所以應該會教授所有的課程。我會教科學、英語、數學，可能還會教一些法語還有體育、音樂和其他八歲孩子需要學習的課程。

Todd: So, how old will the students be?

託德：那學生都幾歲呢？

Lois: So I will be trained to teach from 5 to 11, and hopefully I will teach 7 or 8 year olds.

洛伊絲：我接受的培訓是教5歲至11歲的孩子，希望我能教7、8歲的孩子。

Todd: Mm, you like kids?

託德：嗯，你喜歡孩子？

Lois: I hope so. Yeah, when I worked in Prague I taught some children's classes and I really, really enjoyed them, so hopefully I will like it in England as well. Although it will be a bit different because I'll have maybe twenty five or thirty students in a class so it might be slightly different to the twelve when I was in Prague.

洛伊絲：是的。我在布拉格工作時教了一些兒童課程，我非常喜歡，所以我希望我也喜歡在英國教兒童課程。不過這會有些難度，因爲一個班裏可能會有25到30個學生，而我在布拉格時教的班級只有12名學生，所以情況可能會有些不同。

Todd: That's a lot. What made you decide to become a teacher?

託德：人數很多啊。你爲什麼決定當老師呢？

Lois: I'm not really sure because my mother was a teacher and she's trying really hard to convince me that I shouldn't do it because she thinks its too much work but I enjoy talking to people and being around children and teaching so hopefully it will be nice for me.

洛伊絲：我不太確定，我媽媽是老師，她一直試圖說服我，她認爲我不應該當老師，因爲她認爲老師的工作量太大了，不過我喜歡和人們談話，喜歡和孩子們在一起，也喜歡教學，所以我希望我能做得很好。

重點講解：
1. come up
即將發生；即將到來；
eg. Plan your activities so that you are rested and refreshed when something important is coming up.
做好日常規劃，這樣一旦發生大事，才能夠從容不迫。
eg. We do have elections coming up.
我們的確將要進行選舉。
2. be different to
不同於；與……不同的；
eg. My approach is totally different to his.
我的方法和他的完全不同。
eg. The town is different to how I expected it to be.
這個城鎮跟我期望的不一樣。
3. be around
在附近；周圍；
eg. The blackbird had a quick, wary look in case the cat was anywhere around.
這隻烏鶇迅速警惕地張望了一眼，以防那隻貓就在附近。
eg. He fawning manner whenever the boss is around just makes me curl up.
每當老闆在時，他那搖尾乞憐的樣子真使我噁心。
eg. From the time we were born, air is around us on every side.
從我們出生時起，空氣就在我們周圍各處。