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来自世界不同地方的六位学生在美国相遇。他们都是交换学生，到美国大学就读一个学期，学习英语，了解美国文化，同时修专业课程。英语“日常会话”
(Everyday Conversations)系列围绕这六位学生在美国的经历展开。这套材料适于中级或中级以上英语水平的学生使用。
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三个学生（Peter, Ajay and Lucía）交谈国际教育的重要作用。
Lucía: Great
news! I just got offered a summer
internship with a U.S. research
company.
Ajay:
That’s awesome. So you’ll stay in the U.S. this summer?
Lucía: No, I’ll
be working from my home country.
Ajay:
It’s amazing how connected the world is.
Lucía: Yeah,
I’m one of 10 summer interns to work for this U.S.-based company.
The 10 of us are from 10 different countries, and none of us will
be working in the U.S.
Peter: One of
my education classes here is focused
on global education. It’s
important for teachers to prepare students for
an interconnected world.
Ajay:
I agree. The number of multinational
companies continues to rise, and there
areglobal issues that affect
everyone in the world.
Lucía: That’s
why it’s so important to learn about different cultures.
Peter: We all
know firsthand how
important that is!
Ajay:
It really is.
Being immersed in
a different culture has expanded
my worldview. I feel like I’m now
ready to help solve the problems of the world with people from
different cultures and countries.
让我们来学习一些词语（也可阅读英文解释）：
A summer
internship：一份暑期实习工作。有些大学生申请在暑假期间去实习，即从事一份短期工作。有些实习工作付报酬，有些是无酬的。通过实习，实习生（intern）可以对相关领域获得一些现实具体的了解。
Global
education: 国际/全球教育，即对不同国家和文化以及与其相关问题的研究学习，旨在加深学生对世界相互关联性的认识，并了解自身行动对其他地方可能产生的影响。
Interconnected: 相互连接的，相互关联的
A multinational
company： 跨国公司，即在不只一个国家拥有或经营产品/服务业务的公司
A global
issue：全球问题 ，即对世界各地产生影响的问题，例如全球变暖。
To know
something firsthand：对某事有第一手/直接的了解
To
be immersed in
something：埋头/专心于某事
Worldview: 世界观
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“日常会话”由美国国务院教育与文化事务局英语语言项目处（Office of English Language
Programs, Bureau of Educational and Cultural
Affairs）资深项目官员海蒂·豪兰（Heidi Howland）编写。
Everyday conversations: The importance of global education
[audio]
Six students from around the world meet. What do they have in
common? They are all exchange students studying at a U.S.
university for a semester. Throughout the semester, they learn more
English, learn about U.S. culture, and learn more about their
fields of study. This series of Everyday
Conversations is
about these six students and their experiences during a semester at
a university in the U.S. These conversations are for
intermediate-level English-language learners or
higher.
Students
(Peter, Ajay and Lucía)
discuss the importance of global education.
Lucía: Great
news! I just got offered a summer
internship with a U.S. research
company.
Ajay:
That’s awesome. So you’ll stay in the U.S. this summer?
Lucía: No, I’ll
be working from my home country.
Ajay:
It’s amazing how connected the world is.
Lucía: Yeah,
I’m one of 10 summer interns to work for this U.S.-based company.
The 10 of us are from 10 different countries, and none of us will
be working in the U.S.
Peter: One of
my education classes here is focused
on global education. It’s
important for teachers to prepare students for
an interconnected world.
Ajay:
I agree. The number of multinational
companies continues to rise, and there
areglobal issues that affect
everyone in the world.
Lucía: That’s
why it’s so important to learn about different cultures.
Peter: We all
know firsthand how
important that is!
Ajay:
It really is.
Being immersed in
a different culture has expanded
my worldview. I feel like I’m now
ready to help solve the problems of the world with people from
different cultures and countries.
Now let’s review the vocabulary.
Some college students apply for and receive summer internships.
A summer
internship is a short-term work
experience during the summer. It can be paid or unpaid. During the
internship, the intern (the person doing the internship) gets an
idea of what it is like to work in a particular field.
Global education: education that
studies different cultures and countries and the issues that affect
them. Through global education, students become more aware of the
ways the world is interconnected and how actions impact others.
Interconnected: when two or more
things are connected or related to each other.
A multinational
company is a company that owns or
controls the production of products or services in one or more
countries than its home country.
A global
issue is an issue or problem that affects
people all over the world. Global warming is an example of a global
issue.
To know
something firsthand is
to know it because you have experienced it yourself.
To
be immersed in
something is to be completely and fully involved in it.
Worldview: the way someone thinks about the
world.
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English-language learners daily.
Everyday
Conversations are developed by the State Department’s Heidi
Howland, a senior program officer in the Office of English Language
Programs, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
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