墨尔本PTE素材库——KIDS IN SYRIA

墨尔本PTE素材库——KIDS IN SYRIA

中文批注

这篇文章讲述的是关于Syria的孩子。前几周一张叙利亚孩子从炸弹袭击中幸存的照片，传遍了全球。在叙利亚最大的城市Aleppo，这些天已经不再像一个城市那样了。战争中的叙利亚，建筑都已经变为废石堆，在那里生活，已经非常危险了。视频中，医生在询问小男孩关于他的日常生活。听完看完整段视频，才发现战争中的孩子们过的非常凄惨。没有学上，大量的难民无处安置。

这段视频其实并不算特别难，除了一些相关的生词之外，其他几乎都能理解。如果大家在理解方面还存在问题，那么请参考下文中的transcript啦！难度适中，比较适合大家拿来做听力和复述的练习哦！澳大利亚语言学院会定期整理更新墨尔本PTE素材库，让大家在做题之余，复习之余，还能有不少听力和口语的素材可以练习、学习，不同的话题，不同的相关词汇，不同的英语表达，这样才能真正的提升大家的英语水平哦！

看完整个视频的同学们，尝试回答一下以下问题：

• 孩子们现在都在哪里上课？
• 为什么他们会逃去Turkey？
• 有多少叙利亚人离开了自己的国家？

回答不出的同学们，要努力背单词了哦！下面的key vocabulary，赶紧学起来！

【key Vocabulary】

Confront: 面对，对抗

Rubble: 碎石，粗石堆

Missile: 导弹，投射物

Mosque: 清真寺

Destroy: 破坏，消灭

Fled: flee的过去式，逃走

Refugee: 难民

Airstrike: 空袭

Mortar: 迫击炮

Launch: 发射（导弹，火箭等），发起，发动

Siege: 围攻，包围，围城

Shelter: 庇护，避难所

Full Transcript

Over the past couple of weeks a picture of a young Syrian boy who’d just survived a bombing spread across the world. The video was pretty confronting to see which is why we’re not going to show it to you here on BtN. But it made a lot of people worry about the kids in Syria and the dangers they face each and every day.

This is Aleppo, Syria’s largest city, and lots of kids call it home. But these days it’s not much of a city at all. There’s no power, or running water here, and buildings have been turned to rubble. Syria has been at war for more than five years now, and life here is really dangerous.

ABBAS: I was sitting in the room, didn’t feel anything, the missile fell on us. I was folding the clothes, folding the clothes, didn’t feel a thing.

This is eight year old Abbas. His home was hit, and some of his family were killed in the attack. He was badly injured, too. In this video, his doctor is asking him about his life outside the hospital.

DOCTOR: Do you go to school?

ABBAS: Not to a school, to a mosque.

DOCTOR: Isn’t there any schools now?

ABBAS: Right now there is nothing.

DOCTOR: Why?

ABBAS: They are all destroyed, they are all destroyed.

DOCTOR: Do you play outdoors in the park with your friends?

ABBAS: No not a single game. I wish we could play hide and seek. It’s all missiles, missiles, missiles.

Because of this fighting, many Syrian people have now fled the country as refugees. One of them is Hamsa.

HAMSA: There were airstrikes and mortars were launched at us, some of our relatives even died, and we couldn’t eat because the food prices in our area were too high.

Hamsa and his family went to Syria’s capital, Damascus, in the hope that they’d be safer there.

HAMSA: We saw the siege happen there, they launched airstrikes and there was a fire. Things got much worse, so we fled to Turkey.

These brothers, Ahmed and Abdul Rahman had to escape as well.

BROTHERS: It was very dangerous and difficult for children to go to school, the mosques used to do lessons for children, but it was dangerous because of the airstrikes.

They now live and go to school in Turkey. The United Nations says right now, there are around 13.5 million Syrians just like these kids, who need help with things like food, water, shelter and education. More than 4.8 million of those have already left the country as refugees and are searching for somewhere safe to settle. Aid groups say people in Syria need a lot more help but many kids here say they want the fighting to end so life can return to normal.

(Source: http://www.abc.net.au/btn/story/s4526306.htm)