VOA慢速英語:IB Program Aims to Form 'Students of the World'

This is the VOA Special English Education Report.

這里是美國之音慢速英語教育報道。

The International Baccalaureate Organization was founded in nineteen sixty-eight. It works with schools in one hundred forty-three countries to offer programs for students age three to nineteen. These programs, it says, "help develop the intellectual, personal, emotional and social skills to live, learn and work in a rapidly globalizing world."

國際文憑組織成立于1968年。它與143個國家的學(xué)校合作，向3到19歲的學(xué)生提供課程。據(jù)該組織說，這些課程“有助于開發(fā)在這樣一個快速全球化世界中生活、學(xué)習(xí)和工作的智力、個性、情感和社會技能。”

The organization says IB programs are in more than three thousand schools. The majority of these schools offer IB diploma programs.

該組織表示，超過3000所學(xué)校開設(shè)了IB課程。其中大多數(shù)學(xué)校提供IB文憑課程。

High school students have to complete six courses, pass exams and write a twenty-page paper to earn an IB diploma. The courses are in humanities, science, arts, math, a second language and their own language.

高中生們必須完成六門課程，通過考試，并撰寫20頁的論文才能獲得IB文憑。這些課程涉及人文、科學(xué)、藝術(shù)、數(shù)學(xué)、母語及第二外語。

Students can also attend special events. Recently more than three hundred IB diploma students from thirteen countries attended a conference at the University of British Columbia in Canada. The five-day conference was called "The New Sustainability: Making Things Better, Not Just Less Bad."

學(xué)生們還能參加特別活動。最近來自13個國家的三百多名IB文憑課程學(xué)生參加了在加拿大不列顛哥倫比亞大學(xué)舉行的一次會議。這次為期五天的會議被稱為“新可持續(xù)發(fā)展：讓一切更好，不只是不壞。”

The students heard from professors, graduate students, activists and others. One of the speakers was Drew Deutsch, director of IB Americas. He says the conference was meant as a way for students not only to learn about the environment, but also to develop lasting relationships.

學(xué)生們聆聽了教授、研究生、活動家和其它人的觀點(diǎn)。其中一名發(fā)言者是德魯·多伊奇(Drew Deutsch)，他是美國IB課程的負(fù)責(zé)人。他說這次會議對學(xué)生們來說不僅是了解環(huán)境，還是發(fā)展持久人際關(guān)系的一個途徑。

DREW DEUTSCH: "We want to send the students back to their schools to highlight issues surrounding protecting the environment, but also make sure these students become more students of the world, and that they form bonds with peers their own age from around the world. And, obviously, with social networking and the tools that are available to students today, we expect that they will have formed these bonds really for life."

多伊奇：“我們希望把這些學(xué)生送回他們的學(xué)校，凸顯保護(hù)環(huán)境周邊的一些問題，還要確保這些學(xué)生和世界各地的同齡人結(jié)成同盟，成為世界上的多數(shù)派。同時很顯然，通過社交網(wǎng)絡(luò)和現(xiàn)如今學(xué)生們可以獲得的一些工具，我們希望他們能夠造就終生的同盟。”

Seventeen-year-old Itzel Chavez is a student at the International School of Beaverton, in the American state of Oregon. She was one of twenty-one IB students who received scholarships to be able to attend the conference.

17歲的伊策爾·查韋斯(Itzel Chavez)是美國俄勒岡州比弗頓國際學(xué)校的一名學(xué)生。她是獲得獎學(xué)金得以出席這次會議的21名IB課程學(xué)生之一。

ITZEL CHAVEZ: "I really wanted to go. So I applied for a scholarship and I had to write an essay. And in my school they chose one person, and I got chosen for the scholarship. So I got to go."

查韋斯：“我真的很想去參加這次會議。所以我申請了獎學(xué)金，為此不得不寫了一篇論文。他們在我們學(xué)校挑選一人獲得獎學(xué)金，而我被選中了。所以我有了參加的機(jī)會。”

She says the main speakers would describe a sustainability program or tell how a special project improved the environment in their community. Then the students had to choose a project to present to the conference.

她說主發(fā)言人描述了一個可持續(xù)發(fā)展項目，或一個特殊項目如何改善他們社區(qū)的環(huán)境。然后學(xué)生們必須選擇一個項目向會議展示。

ITZEL CHAVEZ: "We would get into groups of about nineteen or twenty students and we would have to come up with a project for the end of the week that showed what we learned."

查韋斯：“我們加入了一個19或20人的學(xué)生群體，并不得不在該周結(jié)束前提出一個項目，來展示我們學(xué)到了什么。”

Itzel worked on a video. It asked students three questions about sustainability and how they would make it happen in their own communities. After showing it, the members of the group went on stage to tell what they themselves would do to protect the environment.

查韋斯參與了一個視頻。該視頻向?qū)W生提了三個有關(guān)可持續(xù)發(fā)展的問題，以及如何讓它在自己的社區(qū)中變成現(xiàn)實(shí)。展示完視頻之后，該組成員來到舞臺上講述了自己會如何保護(hù)環(huán)境。