實(shí)戰(zhàn)口語情景對(duì)話：Best Ages to Teach 最喜歡的學(xué)生年齡

Aimee: So your favorite age group is the junior high school age.

艾米：你最喜歡的學(xué)生年齡層是初中生。

Katie: Yeah.

凱蒂：對(duì)。

Aimee: Do you have much experience teaching younger children?

艾米：在教育小孩方面，你經(jīng)驗(yàn)豐富嗎?

Katie: Younger children like toddler age?

凱蒂：多大的小孩，幼兒嗎?

Aimee: Well, how about elementary school?

艾米：比如，小學(xué)生?

Katie: Yeah, elementary school. I've been teaching for about five years, five or six years. They're fine. You just have to be a bit silly with those kids.

凱蒂：我有教育小學(xué)生的經(jīng)驗(yàn)。我在小學(xué)任教了五六年的時(shí)間。學(xué)生們很好。和這些孩子相處時(shí)，你要頑皮一些。

Aimee: Yes.

艾米：好。

Katie: Have a good time. Can't really be too serious when you're teaching young kids because they're still kids

.凱蒂：要玩得開心。在教小孩時(shí)不能對(duì)他們太嚴(yán)厲，因?yàn)樗麄冞€是孩子。

Aimee: That's true. So how about younger than that? How about the kindergarten age? How are they for you?

艾米：沒錯(cuò)。那再小一些的孩子呢?比如幼兒園的孩子?你怎么和他們相處?

Katie: They're probably my achilles heel. I'm not great with kindergarten students or younger than that because they don't respond to reason.

凱蒂：那可能是我的致命弱點(diǎn)。我不太擅長和幼兒園孩子或更小的孩子相處，因?yàn)樗麄儾粫?huì)做出反應(yīng)。

Aimee: Right.

艾米：對(duì)。

Katie: Yeah. So they – I mean, yeah. They're difficult for me to teach. I prefer teaching older students. How about you? What kind of age range do you like teaching?

凱蒂：嗯，就是這樣。對(duì)我來說，這么小的孩子很難教。我更喜歡教大一些的學(xué)生。你呢?你喜歡教哪個(gè)年齡段的學(xué)生?

Aimee: I think I appreciate all parts of all age groups. Every group has its pros and cons. Recently, I've been teaching university students, and I think I'm remembering how much I enjoy it because, you know, they are adults and you can teach them like adults. And you can still have a bit of silly, fun with them, too.

艾米：我想我喜歡所有年齡段的學(xué)生。每個(gè)年齡段都有其優(yōu)缺點(diǎn)。我最近在教大學(xué)生。我要記住我有多享受，因?yàn)檫@些學(xué)生已經(jīng)是成年人了，你可以像對(duì)待成年人一樣對(duì)待他們。你也可以和他們玩鬧。

Katie: Yeah.

凱蒂：對(duì)。

Aimee: So these days, I think I prefer teaching the older students, university age students. You can, you know, you can really go into topics quite deeply.

艾米：所以，最近我喜歡教大一些的學(xué)生，比如大學(xué)生。你知道，你可以和他們深入探討一些話題。

Katie: Yeah.

凱蒂：對(duì)。

Aimee: And you can get some interesting answers from some students. Other students, of course, you can't.

艾米：你可能會(huì)從有些學(xué)生那里得到有意思的回答。當(dāng)然，從其他學(xué)生那里得不到。

Katie: Everyone is different, right?

凱蒂：每個(gè)人都是不同的，對(duì)吧?

Aimee: Yes. You just have to find a way of teasing, teasing their potential, of all of them, I think.

艾米：對(duì)。我認(rèn)為你要找到激發(fā)所有人潛能的方法。

Katie: Is there a group that you don't like teaching?

凱蒂：你有沒有不喜歡教的年齡層?

Aimee: I'm not used to junior high school children, junior high school students. I don't have any experience with them. So that would make me nervous, I think.

艾米：我不太習(xí)慣教初中生。我沒有教初中生的經(jīng)驗(yàn)。我認(rèn)為那會(huì)讓我很緊張。

Katie: How do you think they would be different to university students?

凱蒂：你認(rèn)為初中生和大學(xué)生有什么不同?

Aimee: I think, from what I mentioned before, the teenagers, the hormones. I think that would be different. There's, you know, it's bubbling inside them, all of these changes of feelings and emotions. And they have so many things to deal with; pressure of growing up. And I think that can be more challenging. But I think it's important as a teacher to try to remember what it was like when you were that age.

艾米：我之前提到過，青少年荷爾蒙分泌旺盛。我認(rèn)為那就是不同點(diǎn)。他們體內(nèi)在沸騰，這會(huì)改變他們的感受和情感。他們有很多事情要處理，還有成長的壓力。那更具挑戰(zhàn)性。不過我認(rèn)為對(duì)老師來說，重要的是要盡力回憶起自己在那個(gè)年齡時(shí)的樣子。

Katie: Yeah.

凱蒂：對(duì)。

Aimee: I think that's the biggest thing that will help you.

艾米：我認(rèn)為這最能幫助你。

Katie: Absolutely. So what do you think about teaching younger children like babies? How are you with that?

凱蒂：完全正確。那你怎么看教育嬰兒?在這方面你做得怎么樣?

Aimee: I do really enjoy that. Babies are awesome. They have their own set of needs. But usually, the very young classes come with, you know, the parents are there, too. So it's kind of a group-led situation, teacher-led group. And yeah, it's good fun for me. They're very cute and squishy. And very – not uncontrollable – what's the word?

艾米：我很享受。嬰兒非常棒。他們有自己的需求。通常來說，在給嬰兒班上課的時(shí)候，家長會(huì)在一旁陪同。那有點(diǎn)兒像教師主導(dǎo)的課堂。對(duì)我來說那很有趣。嬰兒很可愛。不是無法控制……那個(gè)詞是什么來著?

Katie: UNPRedictable?

凱蒂：無法預(yù)測?

Aimee: That's it. Completely uNPRedictable. You know, one day they can be in the best mood ever, and then the next day, they're just a nightmare.

艾米：沒錯(cuò)。完全無法預(yù)測。你知道，前一天他們可能情緒很好，而第二天，他們可能就會(huì)成為你的噩夢。

Katie: I think that's why I'm terrified of them, because they're so uNPRedictable. I don't like it.

凱蒂：我認(rèn)為那就是我害怕教嬰兒班的原因，因?yàn)樗麄儫o法預(yù)測。我不喜歡這種感覺。

Aimee: Yeah. That's true. And the bodily functions too, you know.

艾米：對(duì)，沒錯(cuò)。還有身體機(jī)能問題。

Katie: Yeah, no thanks.

凱蒂：對(duì)，我不喜歡。

Aimee: There's all of that.

艾米：有各種情況。

Katie: Yeah. I'm not prepared to deal with that. No, thank you. No, thank you. No bodily functions

.凱蒂：對(duì)。我沒有為應(yīng)對(duì)這種情況做好準(zhǔn)備。謝謝，謝謝你，我不希望處理身體機(jī)能問題。