墨尔本PTE素材库——Park Design

墨尔本PTE素材库——Park Design

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这段报道主要讲述了Marrickville Primary School的小朋友们，因不满学校目前的操场现状，而参加My Park Rules 这一比赛，并且最终靠创意取胜、获得了改造学校操场机会的故事。

墨尔本PTE素材库，旨在帮助各位PTE的烤鸭们在平时练习、复习备考的阶段，除了一些官方的练习题之外，还能有不少的素材可以练习听力、阅读、口语、写作，不同PTE的题型，例如re-tell lecture，例如summarize spoken test 都是各位考生们比较纠结的难点题型。

这段采访虽然不短，但主题内容和关键点非常清楚，大家都来试试把它当做PTE 的题型——Summarize spoken/written text的素材，看看能不能把它一句话总结出来吧。通过这大量的素材练习，大家在考场就能做到熟练作答，正常发挥！

【Key Vocabulary】

Playground n. 操场

surround by 被…包围

attempt v. 企图，试图

tough adj. 困难的，艰苦的

be marred by 被…困扰

landscape architect 园林设计师，景观设计师

contestant n. 竞争者，选手，参赛人

vine n. 葡萄藤

incredible adj. 惊人的，不可思议的，难以置信的

pay off 取得成功，得到好结果

Full Transcript

Some school kids in Sydney are about to get a serious playground upgrade. They won a competition called ‘My Park Rules’ which asked kids around the country to design their ultimate play area. Now their dreams are going to become a reality.

There’s nothing quite like an awesome playground, filled with exciting equipment and surrounded by plenty of grass, trees and shade! But not all Aussie school kids are lucky enough to have a space like this to play.

BOY: There’s nothing to play with on Singleton Oval.

GIRL: I don’t know what to do.

STUDENT: For over 40 weeks a year you can see the locals attempting to play here. The going is tough.

For many schools around Australia, this is what their yard looks like instead.

STUDENT: Running is a risky business and often the exhibition of skills is marred by the uneven surface.

The kids here at Marrickville Primary School wanted a change too so they decided to enter the My Park Rules competition.

GIRL: And we went off with our partners and said well let’s think, what could we make this place be a better place?

Around 100 schools around Australia entered the comp. It asked kids to design their ideal outdoor area and be as creative as possible. The winners would get to team up with a landscape architect to make their dream park come true!

The kids at Marrickville dressed up as contestants on a home improvement show.

BOYS: This is a boring playground, where’s the grass.

GIRL: Well don’t you worry, we’re going to put vines growing all up this wall and a big tree in this area over there. A grassy pathway all around here.

Once the videos were uploaded to the website, the public could vote on them and Marrickville, along with 7 other schools, were chosen as finalists! Then it came down to the final announcement and these kids couldn’t believe it when Marrickville was announced as the big winner!

COMPERE: The national jury has awarded Marrickville as the national winner.

BOY: It was incredible and I felt really happy.

GIRL: I thought when we won all our hard work paid off.

So with the help of an architect their school will be transformed into a playground paradise!

（Source: http://www.abc.net.au/btn/story/s4464766.htm）