外研社英语课文：Module 12 Summer in LA

Are you OK, Betty? Your hair looks nice! And you look smart, Daming.

My new trousers are a bit tight…

Everyone is watching us. The whole class is just behind us.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to our school prize-giving. Our special guest is the singer with Crazy Feet. The group is very popular --- everyone in my family is a huge fan! Please give a warm welcome to Becky Wang!

(Applause)

I'm pleased to present the prizes today. As a pupil, my time here was very important…

(Later)

…so finally, the New Standard team gets the special prize. You're flying…to Los Angeles!

(Cheers)

Your travel is free, your accommodation is with American families, and your pocket money is 100 dollars each. Lingling and Daming are doing an English course. It starts on 1st August and your host family is meeting you at the airport.

(Whisper)What about us? We speak English already!

Shh!

And Betty and Tony, the good news is … You're coming to watch Crazy Feet record its latest CD. We start work in the studio on 3rd August.

But I haven't got anything to wear! And my jeans are too small. My sunglasses are very old.

Don't be silly, Tony! It's a wonderful prize!

Thank you very much. It's been wonderful to be here.

English in Los Angeles

We provide summer English courses which are the best you can find. You will enjoy coming to Los Angeles to learn about American culture and improve your English at the same time. The courses last for four, six or eight weeks. They start at the beginning of July and August. Our teachers are well-trained and very experienced. They teach English classes for four hours a day. You can choose between small groups of two or three, or larger groups of up to 15. We provide weekly tests to see the progress you're making with your language skills of reading, writing, speaking and listening. We also provide books and other materials.

As well as learning English, we want you to experience life in the USA. You live with an American family, and you take part in American life. You have meals with an American family and do some activities with them, too. For many of our students this is the most interesting part of the course. Many families create friendships with the students which last a long time. Of course, if you prefer, we can arrange hotel accommodation.

Of course, there are many things to do in Los Angeles. Every day we have activities which take place after class. You can choose to take trips to Hollywood, Disneyland or the famous beaches around LA. You can also go to various shopping centers, sports centers, movies and concerts. There are also weekend visits organized to San Francisco and other places of interest in California.

We try to give our students the best possible experience of English and life in the USA. Just ask our students! They say our summer English Courses are fantastic! #p#分页标题#e#

We hope that you'll enjoy a course with us, too. If you're interested, please fill in our application form, where you will also find our list of prices. The course must be paid for one month before it begins.

The School of the Air

My name is Belinda Black.I'm13 years old and I come from Mount Elm Sheep Station in South Australia. I've got two sisters --- Jennifer is 11 and Lisa is 7. We're all pupils at the School of the Air.

The School of the Air is actually a school for children who live in the outback, and who are in a place which doesn't have a local school. So we have "air" lessons over the radio. Our teacher is at Port Augusta, a city which is about 160 kilometres away.

Most people in South Australia live in the big cities, but there are some people who live on farms in the outback. My mother lived in Melbourne before she met my father, so she knows about city life. She says she thinks it's safer here, because there's no traffic, no noise, no pollution, not many people and lots of space.

In the mornings, we go to our schoolroom at 8:45.It's really just a small wooden building. When we get there, we turn on the radio and listen to what we should do. And from then until 12, we just do our normal lessons. In the afternoons, our mum makes us do some homework ---- well, not homework, but extra work.

We send our exercise books to our teachers on Friday night and they mark them every Monday and Tuesday, and then they send them back again. We get them when the mail arrives every Wednesday. We also talk to our teacher once a week for 10 minutes. She tells us if we're making progress.

We also use the Internet and the telephone to contact our teachers more quickly, but it's still the radio which is the most important way of doing our lessons.

Next year I'll start my senior school in Port Augusta. I'll spend the week there, and come home at weekends. It'll be fun to be with girls of my age, but I'll miss my family, and I hope I'll be happy there.

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