Peyton: when do most children start school in your country?
Thomas: In America, most children start primary school at the age of five.
P: How much time do primary school students usually spend at school every day?
T: Kindergarten students usually only go to school for about four hours every day, but after that, they spend about eight hours in school every day.
P: do they have to go to school on Saturdays?
T: no, most children in America only go to school Monday through Friday.
P: how many subjects do they have to study?
T: In most schools, they study about nine subjects.
P: do students have to wear uniforms in schools in America?
T: some private schools require their students to wear uniforms, but public schools don't.
P: did you go to a public school or a private school?
T: I went to a pricate school for elementary school and university, but went to a public school for high school. What about you?
P: I went to a boardinbg school from nursery school to senior high school.
T: did you have to wear uniforms?
P: yes, they were horrible. We had to wear green every day!
T: at least you didn't waste time thinking about what you were going to wear every day!
P: that's true!
你們國家的小孩一般都幾歲上學?
在美國,小孩通常都是5歲上小學.
小學生每天要在學校上多長時間的課?
幼兒園的小孩每天一般就在學校待4個小時.但是上了小學之后,他們得在學校待8個小時.
周六還要上課嗎?
不用,大多數美國小學生都是周一到周五上課.
他們要上幾門課?
一般都有9門課.
美國學生上學要穿校服嗎?
有些私立學校要求學生穿校服,公立學校就不要求.
你上的是公立學校還是私立學校?
我小學和大學都上的是私立學校,中學上的是公立學校.你呢?
我從幼兒園到高中上的都是寄宿制學校.
你們要求穿校服嗎?
要求啊,那校服難看極了.我們還得整天都穿著那身綠衣裳.
至少你不用每天花時間琢磨要穿什么去上學.
那倒是.
subject:an area of knowledge studied in a school, college, etc. 學科;科目;課程
Biology and English are my favourite subjects.
生物學和英語是我最喜歡的兩門課.
uniform:the special set of clothes worn by all members of an organization or a group at work, or by children at school 制服;校服
a military/police/nurse's uniform
軍裝;警服;護士制服
soldiers/sailors in uniform
穿制服的士兵/水手
The hat is part of the school uniform.
帽子是校服的一部份.
elementary school:小學
boarding school:寄宿學校