墨尔本PTE素材库——Marine Science

墨尔本PTE素材库——Marine Science

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这篇报道主要讲解了科学家以及Orpheus Island的本地研究中心采取了一些措施来保护当地的海洋生物，连带新手记者也一起体验了一把保护海洋生物。这是一篇很好的听力练习材料，在看完视频之后，大家可以尝试Re-tell这篇报道的内容，主要关注，科学家及研究人员具体采取了哪些措施，来保护哪些海洋生物？

澳大利亚语言学院，定期会整理一定量的PTE Academic素材，以供大家整理、学习！那为什么要看这些呢？因为这些话题的种类基本都符合PTE官方所给出的Question Criteria，比如科技类，比如医学类, 再比如这篇文章的科学类。所以大家想要在平时练习自己的听力、阅读、口语的基本功，都可以借助这些素材哦！就这篇视频而言，完全是一个Re-tell Lecture/ Summarize spoken text的绝佳训练素材哦！而且生词也不多，也不难，属于easy-intermediate level~

【Key Vocabulary】

expert n. 专家

aquarium n. 海洋馆，水族馆，玻璃缸

interaction n. 互动，交互作用

nutrient n. 营养，养分

marine life 海洋生物

tag v. 给…做标记

turtle n. 海龟，乌龟

snorkeling n. 浮潜

awkward adj. 尴尬的，笨拙的，不合适的

Full Transcript

Marine scientists have started a new program to encourage Indigenous kids to take on their job in the future. The aim is to unlock traditional knowledge to help new research projects and as BtN Rookie reporters Jayde and Jermaine discovered it’s a pretty fun job too.

Our adventure all started here at James Cook Uni. It was pretty cool because we’d never been to uni before. We got to listen to a heap of different experts who told us what it’s like to be a scientist.

Next up, we visited the Institute of Marine Science. We learned about coral. We looked at them under the microscope and saw how they live in these big aquariums.

1. MATT KENWAY, SCIENTIST: We can see different interactions here that we can then say okay, when we’re designing experiments over here, we can take some of what we’ve learnt here up there, so it’s all learning.

Matt told us what kinds of things can damage coral.

1. MATT KENWAY: So their whole stomach goes over the coral and they digest it there and then they suck all the nutrients in and after one day, they leave a big dead patch of coral, then they go on to the next one.

All this coral research is important because it gives scientists an idea of how climate change might affect our oceans and marine life.

Then we went to see the Research Centre on Orpheus Island. We met traditional owners of the land who told us what they know about the local marine environment. One thing they do is tag turtles. That way they can keep track of where they’re going and if they’re healthy.

This wasn’t something we were expecting. We were taught how to measure, tag and record information about sharks. It was good to get an idea of what scientists do out in the field.

Here we got to see all kinds of sea animals when the tide went down. Some things were hard to see, others were weird and freakish. The mangrove trees were pretty interesting too!

But probably the coolest thing we did was definitely snorkelling! Most of us had never put on a wetsuit before or snorkelled.

JOE POLLACK, ATSIMS FOUNDER: Even if you felt like you were awkward at first or weird or like felt uncomfortable, I can tell you the truth, I’ve seen marine biology students who look so much more uncomfortable, who freak out and panic and can’t do it and you guys all did it and all took it like legends.

Everyone loved getting to go on this trip.

JERMAINE, STUDENT: My favourite part would have to be snorkelling, getting up close to the coral and all the fish.

SHANEIKA, STUDENT I think it was just standing around the touch tank and just talking about the different fishes and what they do.

DAISHA, STUDENT: I want to become a marine scientist now.

WILFRED, STUDENT: Before I came to Orpheus Island I didn’t want to know about marine science, but yeah I think this has changed my mind a bit.

SIERRA BROWN, STUDENT: It makes me what to look at marine science more.

And we all have these scientists to thank for teaching us what really goes on under the water.

(Source: http://www.abc.net.au/btn/story/s3953615.htm)