英语选修七第四单元课 文及翻译.pdfVIP

Unit4 （A 篇 ） A LETTER HOME Dear Rosemary, Thanks for your letter, which took a fortnight to arrive. It was wonderful to hear from you. I know youre dying to hear all about my life here, so Ive included some photos which will help you picture the places I talk about. You asked about my high school. Well, its a bush school – the classrooms are made of bamboo and the roofs of grass. It takes me only a few minutes to walk to school down a muddy track. When I reach the school grounds there are lots of good mornings for me from the boys. Many of them have walked a long way, sometimes up to two hours, to get to school. Theres no electricity or water and even no textbooks either! Im still trying to adapt to these conditions. However, one thing is for sure, Ive become more imaginative in my teaching. Science is my most challenging subject as my students have no concept of doing experiments. In fact there is no equipment, and if I need water I have to carry it from my house in a bucket! The other day I was showing the boys the weekly chemistry experiment when, before I knew it, the mixture was bubbling over everywhere! The boys who had never come across anything like this before started jumping out of the windows. Sometimes I wonder how relevant chemistry is to these students, most of whom will be going back to their villages after Year 8 anyway. To be honest, I doubt whether Im making any difference to these boys lives at all. You asked whether Im getting to know any local people. Well, thats actually quite difficult as I dont speak much of the local English dialect yet. But last weekend another teacher, Jenny, and 1 did visit a village which is the home of one of the boys, Tombe. It was my first visit to a remote villag